Guild Wars 2

Dudes,

None of you have the right to QQ anymore.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

They again confirmed the intention to hold even critical fixes like the healing signet and ranger elite spirit fix till the big feature patch around May.

Their “teasers” which always include “but there is much more” are just a con. Those “more changes” are ALWAYS just nothing whatsoever except tooltip changes.

The defenders of this (unfinished and yet £50) game will say other games only get rare balance patches.

But that isn’t the point. People generally don’t want balance changes so much as just changes to fix all the broken things…look at the traits and skills. Most classes have a ton which are just totally useless in all forms of the game. Ranger shouts are comical. The ranger condition removal is comical meaning they all have to go 30 points into a line for Emphatic bond. Necro has several trait lines which are simply unfinished. There is 1 (one, ONLY ONE) game mode 2 years into a £50 “finished” game. There is essentially no leaderboards, as they are broken to the point of being irrelevant in solo and team q (no I am not saying this because I am kitten because I’ve been at the top of solo q on multiple accounts many times and relatively high in team q). Hotjoin is an unfinished mess which really doesn’t make much sense. It works in COD for reasons of game mechanics, anet don’t seem to understand that I guess. They don’t even have damage numbers in pvp, which even beta games and 10 year old games managed to have.

This game was released unfinished from a pvp perspective. That is basically all that matters. The devs can consider the forums an nonconstructive “Mordor” type area. But at the end of the day, arenanet the company released an unfinished game and have been moving at a snail’s pace to fix it for 2 years now.

Anet don’t get it. They think they made a good game which they have served us well by consistently supporting and adding features/changes. In reality they released a pvp game so lacking in features that I wouldn’t even call it a beta game, and their changes have been so slow and pointless whilst they won’t even make hotfixes to fix things like healing signet. The reason they won’t do this is because their “big patch” needs to have as much in it as possible or they will lose their players to wildstar or ESO.

It is no coincidence that they decide on this big feature patch for at the same time as two big competitors release. They will market it to steal the hype of the new games. They will hold back the features for this patch because they care only about the money (as a company) and not about the players (although I am sure the devs care – probs not their choice).

And anyone who is waiting on the “big patch”. You really are delluded bro. They had stuff “we cant talk about” about 15 months ago. It turned out all that stuff was half baked and terrible (like leaderboards). Don’t let them fool you again. You will just end up gutted again because even new game modes will be a fail because it will be custom arenas only just so they can sell more of those things.

Also, buying a custom arena and then it times out and you have to buy it again is a complete and utter money-grabbing disgrace and whoever thought up that “plan” was obviously given the job of leeching as much money off the community for the company.

You people should wake up and not QQ because you just embarrass yourself when you do

Lol fixes around May. Nailed it

My only quibble is that when you mention unless traits you sure as he’ll better not be talking about my overpowered retaliatory demise trait….. Or so help you w/e god you pray to I will rain hell back on you in my downed state…..should you choose to attack

I’m very disheartened with the lack of love pvp is getting. I mean major updates like new modes, new traits etc I could deal with waiting for, but balance is disgusting atm. Hardcounter traits, zeroskill 1man tank setups, lyssalol troll builds. It’s the main thing putting me off the game atm.

Some of my favourite weaponsets are just totally pushed out of the meta because they are overlooked, totally rolled by the specs dominating the scene and just flat out dont compete for effectiveness. It’s very poo thinking that we are waiting months for a tiny shave to healing signet when there are traits and weapons which need drastic attention – but how many years will it be if an 8% shave to a steaming pile of dump skill took nearly a year from last summer.

I don’t QQ anymore I just don’t join pvp as much as I used to. People have been around since before there even were leaderboards and got nothing compared to people who played 1-2months during the skyhammer craze.

Waiting for devs to post cat gifs….

Wait, is anyone still caring about the game? People still play this?

I quit when I read about this april big feature patch. They have promised so many big patchs already, and I can’t remember a single one that was good.

As lordsoricky said, they only care about the money and they prefer to hold back all content instead of having a playable game. They are afraid of Wildstar and TESO stealing all their playerbase, because they know their own game is really bad.

If GW2 was enjoyable at all you wouldn’t see such decisions.

They had two options:
A) Hey let’s make the game as good as possible to keep our players happy and involved with gw2
B) Let’s have an unplayable game for a whole year and then announce a huge patch
when competitors release their games

They don’t care about the player experience, so why should we care about their unfinished game?

Just forget about gw2 and maybe in 10 years or more it’s actually playable and you can reinstall it.

edit: This “plan” can’t come from NCsoft because they are publishing wildstar, so it’s all Anet’s fault

Lordrosicky.5813:

You people should wake up and not QQ because you just embarrass yourself when you do

kinda ironic, you made such a large QQ thread with the aim to tell people that they look like idiots for QQing. XD

Couldn’t have said it better myself. There are arrogant people here that act like this game is DnD and we are all “weird” for not liking it. This is literally one of the worst games in history.

Divinity.8041:

This is, to me, literally one of the worst games in history.

Fixed that for you.

I like the game, even though it is not my perfect game.

I like this game too, BUT i will not buy an expansion ( the only way to spent money on GW because im playing only pvp.)
I feel like i’m not “important” enough, like the game “does not care” about me.
The ridiculous bugs that i’m encountering every day, the weird lags that i have frequently ( when with a tracert in anet servers i have max 100ms ping !! ), the monotony of playing the same mode again and again,
the incredible cheesy builds that make my experience poorer ( and frustrating ).
I really liked this game and i still do but when wild star is out i will give it a try and if
its good, i will not play GW2 again.
That is not QQ its my opinion as a customer and a romantic too who sees his dream crumble! :P

The closest you can get to high-end PvP in this game without joining one of the (non-existant) E-sports teams is playing tournament games. Either TeamQ or SoloQ.

However, both of those queues are plagued by simple flaws like games starting with only 4 players in one team, and disturbing lack of proper matchmaking.

Anet have said they’re working on fixing those problems. They’ve been saying that since launch. Stop QQing everyone, 4v5 is here to stay.

@Lordrosicky.5813 lol, suffer in silence type, is we? dignity and grace :chest_beat:

Lord, I like your posts when they are critical and in depth, but this thread is one of your worst.

Let me start by saying I agree with many of your insights for example spvp needed to have multiple game modes, or that some skills are OP (although all mmos I have played share this).

However, this game is absolutely cheap for $60. It has three very fleshed out game modes, any of which you can spend hundreds or thousands of hours in. It all runs so smoothly, the graphics are awesome, the animations are fantastic, there is so much good in this game and I can have everything for $60. No paytowin gear, no endless grinding to pvp, no box+monthly sub.

To say/imply that this game is not worth $60 boggles my mind. I spent that before I could even play wow, I spent that on a basic set up for Neverwinter, I spent that on Rift before monthly subs, and same for Tera. And all of those games basically suck dogs’ balls compared to GW2 (well not Tera-but the others are kittened in comparison).

Yeah maybe the balance and pvp is better in COD or unreal tournament or lol, but those are not mmos.