Guild Wars 2

Personally, ive never met anybody who has issues with the auras being over-the-top. I do however, drop ~50 FPS when ever a Herald decides to use Facet of Chaos. Just so ya’ know.

All these effect nerfs are done in the interest of E-sports and making the game more spectatable, but now the game is just hard to play, because everything is more-or-less invisible. If a player can’t see the line around a player to signify the aura, what makes you think a spectator watching through a low-resolution Twitch stream can? Meanwhile Heralds are currently dominating the game by pressing 0 to lag their opponents, leaving them open to an Unrelenting Assault while they hit their computer with a fire extinguisher.

Facet of Chaos is literally the only visual effect in the game that causes my FPS to drop, yet everything else is getting nerfed to the point where I can’t figure out whats going on any more, because everybody is effectively stealth. I just see the players waving their hands around, then suddenly I take damage. I have no idea what skills im getting hit by, because theres no visual cue.

Bleh.

E-sport will kill guild wars 2’s soul. But you know, money money money.

Khyan.7039:

E-sport will kill guild wars 2’s soul. But you know, money money money.

They’re absolutely insane if they think this esports push will turn a profit. They have to put up the prize pool, pay ESL to run the tournament, pay Twitch to advertise it, and pay the code monkeys to design all the new systems they’ve decided to utilize. If they pull in less than half the viewers of a Dota pro’s stream, how do they expect the advertising to keep them from operating at a huge loss?

Daralii.8940:

Khyan.7039:

E-sport will kill guild wars 2’s soul. But you know, money money money.

They’re absolutely insane if they think this esports push will turn a profit. They have to put up the prize pool, pay ESL to run the tournament, pay Twitch to advertise it, and pay the code monkeys to design all the new systems they’ve decided to utilize. If they pull in less than half the viewers of a Dota pro’s stream, how do they expect the advertising to keep them from operating at a huge loss?

Because they already get 400 000 viewers and they want more, apparently.

I think they should do a backup. All these change are totally pointless even for their viewers. I guess someone is drunk and want to do some bullkitten with the game.