Guild Wars 2

I’ve been up to this point quiet lenient with ANet’s decisions, and also very understanding. But today I ran into this:

One or more of your party members is too low to participate in this game mode.

This was in PVP. Why in the hell is this system changing. Before, I could play PVP with all of my friends, and we could play all the game modes. I am level 34 PVP, my friend is like 27, and my gf is 5, because she just started PVP, last week we all played together. Now today, we get this error message. I end up googling and finding out you have to be level 10 to do Conquest and Courtyard and are forced to play Stronghold until you are level 10.

Now this just really doesn’t make any sense to me. My gf was doing perfectly fine in Conquest and Courtyard. Why do you now have to be level 10? Please, please, please, change this. This really will discourage people from playing PvP with guildees when they realize some of their guild members aren’t the required level and have to play Stronghold.

On a positive note, you at least made one of the guild missions for Stronghold, so at least that is still completable. But why time gate conquest by a level requirement. Just doesn’t make much sense to me :/

Oh yea, it’s incredibly annoying.

We were going to use Guild Missions to get people interested in PvP, and yet they have to get to rank 10 or they couldn’t join a UNRANKED game unless it was Stronghold? So what, tell them to grind hotjoin dailies or something? Yea, that’s going to be engaging.

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

IEatCabbage.1907:

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

How can you possible know that? Honestly, F2P is Anet’s future, one they deem worth driving Veterans away for. They are gambling that F2P will buy Hot in greater numbers than the vets walking away from a 180 degree turn in design philosophy.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

IEatCabbage.1907:

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

How can you possible know that? Honestly, F2P is Anet’s future, one they deem worth driving Veterans away for. They are gambling that F2P will buy Hot in greater numbers than the vets walking away from a 180 degree turn in design philosophy.

Yes, because the 200 vets in my guild didn’t all buy HoT. lol What an imagination.

Vayne.8563:

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

IEatCabbage.1907:

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

How can you possible know that? Honestly, F2P is Anet’s future, one they deem worth driving Veterans away for. They are gambling that F2P will buy Hot in greater numbers than the vets walking away from a 180 degree turn in design philosophy.

Yes, because the 200 vets in my guild didn’t all buy HoT. lol What an imagination.

You forgot to add “and everyone I talk to” Kudos for remembering the snide comment at the end though. I see you haven’t slipped much, Vain.

I really really hope it isn’t stalking time again.

Why Stronghold should be the first thing you can play is beyond me. It’s far more confusing and more difficult to get a hang of than Conquest or Courtyard.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Vayne.8563:

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

IEatCabbage.1907:

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

How can you possible know that? Honestly, F2P is Anet’s future, one they deem worth driving Veterans away for. They are gambling that F2P will buy Hot in greater numbers than the vets walking away from a 180 degree turn in design philosophy.

Yes, because the 200 vets in my guild didn’t all buy HoT. lol What an imagination.

You forgot to add “and everyone I talk to” Kudos for remembering the snide comment at the end though. I see you haven’t slipped much, Vain.

I really really hope it isn’t stalking time again.

I agree with OP that this indeed bad. Why have a R10 requirement for “normal” gamemodes but Stroghold wich requires more knowladge about the game doesn’t? No this is just bad. As long as it is unranked it shouldn’t matter if F2P goes in there… Still the MMR should make it so veterans don’t play against new players… Right?

Anyway about the quote wich is about another topic I am just going to say this ‘In game the tone is alot different than on the forums, there are alot of veterans who have bought HoT and are realy happy with the experience. Just as you claim Vayne and me can’t say that alot veteran buys HoT you can’t say that alot veterans has been driven away. Why did Anet even bother to do lvl 80 content if they didn’t care about veterans?

IEatCabbage.1907:

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

If that’s the case then make free players have to be level 10.

….how long does it take to get to level 10 now-a-days?

IEatCabbage.1907:

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

And making them play Stronghold is going to be better? :O

Then make it so that it only applies to F2p accounts only… like most aspects of the game. WvW, for example doesn’t let f2p enter until level 60.

Chuo.4238:

IEatCabbage.1907:

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

If that’s the case then make free players have to be level 10.

Exactly F2p users already have restrictions placed on them so any idea that these changes were put into place because of F2p is invalid.