Guild Wars 2

So, I’m pretty hopeless at trying to make an argument valid but I’ll give it my best shot if any other people want to chime in and help out.

Anet, can we please get our WxP account bound earlier than said, I don’t speak for everyone but to me it seems disappointing that WvW was overlooked again in a patch.
I think it’s safe to say that WxP being account bound would keep alot of us happy for a while.

I have some reasons why it might be a good idea to allow this to happen, although they may be wrong reasons.

1: With the PS4 and Xbox One released and personally having one of them on preorder already I can safely say that if WvW is still being neglected like it has been I don’t see myself comin back to play this game, I am one gamer, but I doubt I’m the only gamer in this position.

WvW is the only game mode I can get from Guild Wars 2 that I can’t get from another game. (that I know of.)

2. From a business point of view: Your living story most likely makes money from time to time, with people buying gems for various things, now the people who Living story a lot don’t actually need to buy gems because they run dungeons alot and do various PvE activities that provide a decent amount of gold income for them to exchange to gems, BUT, the WvW community makes next to nothing on gold income and are FORCED to buy gems to transfer servers, if you keep neglecting the WvW community so hard then you lose more and more potential customers who think it’s worth it to change servers at the 1800 gems price, leagues was such a great example of how much money alone you made off gem sales and guilds transferring around from the WvW community.

Unless people on this thread wanna back me up or not but all myself and maybe others are asking for is some sort of love towards our end game, with new games, new systems and months to wait for something good to happen with this game, naturally I’m sure a few people are losing interest in playing your game anymore, less people playing your game = less potential $$$ to be made.

I can safely say coming from a WvW focused guild, more and more guildies have decided to stop playing and started playing A realm Reborn among other things, some even went back to League Of Legends of all things.

Trying to suggest things to anet is like flogging a dead horse.

Anet have shot themselves int the foot several times already for several different reasons, and if they carry on then as you said, players will move on to other games.

A lot of players have already left due to the less than engaging PvE, i dont PvP so cant say much about that, and then we have the black sheep of the GW2 game modes, WvW, which is ignored and is only talked about at family meetups.

So many people have put forward that if they put more effort into WvW than trying to make PvP a failed esport, they would attract more players. But time and again anet have ignored 99% of what has been suggested to them.

Devon claimed not to expect anything for WvW until after Dec 31st 2013, then we find out that they arent gonna do much until they finish this season of the LS, which pushes it to April now! What next? Season 2 of WvW leagues starting in April pushing it back another 7 weeks?! Or some other excuse.

A lot of people already agree that GW2 is dead, and like me only continue playing it because they like to play with their guild. If the guild moves to another game they wont play.

Yes in their attempts to simplify their development they have actually made it worse because some long term developments like this have been caught up with it. In reality they should have done a feature patch now, and start with a clean slate.

Although one wonders about the timing of the feature patch being right on when a certain other game starts. Problem from anet’s POV is that more and more players simply don’t care because of the poor development.

They are going to push living story until the death, to hell with WvWvW. Half my guild is already only logging in for reset night, everyone is burnt out after the end of season 1 (with its UBER rewards) and WvWvW has had zero in terms of updates. All very predictable. All very bread today, jam tomorrow.

Anet will push the new features out (and push them hard) when a certain other game launches. Which is twisted logic, by the time March comes along I probably won’t be logging in at all and by the time that other game comes out I’ll probably have forgotten all about GW2 (no matter how many emails Anet might send me).

I know, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s truly disheartening to think that we’ll have to wait 2 months or so for account bound WvW XP, I mean, honestly, they should never have even said anything if they weren’t going to deliver soon thereafter. kittening kittenes me off. I mean how kittening hard is it to just get account bound xp?? I understand Edge of the Mists is more difficult, so I get that being a long haul, but they need to hurry up and focus WvW. kitten Scarlet. 70% of players don’t give a kitten about Scarlet. This all falls on deaf ears though.

ItsAdamParker.5192:

I know, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s truly disheartening to think that we’ll have to wait 2 months or so for account bound WvW XP, I mean, honestly, they should never have even said anything if they weren’t going to deliver soon thereafter. kittening kittenes me off. I mean how kittening hard is it to just get account bound xp?? I understand Edge of the Mists is more difficult, so I get that being a long haul, but they need to hurry up and focus WvW. kitten Scarlet. 70% of players don’t give a kitten about Scarlet. This all falls on deaf ears though.

The account bound topic was dominating the front page of the WvW forums which is why they changed it and announced it. Course now they are going to have to contend with several weeks of people complaining that it isn’t here. Not sure which was worse.

ItsAdamParker.5192:

I know, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s truly disheartening to think that we’ll have to wait 2 months or so for account bound WvW XP, I mean, honestly, they should never have even said anything if they weren’t going to deliver soon thereafter. kittening kittenes me off. I mean how kittening hard is it to just get account bound xp?? I understand Edge of the Mists is more difficult,

User testing for EOTM finished 2 weeks ago so it must be almost finished.

morrolan.9608:

ItsAdamParker.5192:

I know, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s truly disheartening to think that we’ll have to wait 2 months or so for account bound WvW XP, I mean, honestly, they should never have even said anything if they weren’t going to deliver soon thereafter. kittening kittenes me off. I mean how kittening hard is it to just get account bound xp?? I understand Edge of the Mists is more difficult,

User testing for EOTM finished 2 weeks ago so it must be almost finished.

Last testing, it was far from being finnished…

Now, for those complaining about WxP not yet being account-bound, it’s not like as if it was an “insert line of code here” thing…
Any line of code inserted can have effects on the whole game, which is why it needs testing… I’d rather wait and have a nice product than get it now and get an half-working/half broken thing…

Like all the points being attributed to all characters in the same way
or
some players had their progression lost
or
for some unexpected reason, we can’t log in anymore
or
any other thing that can get messed up when something is not well implemented…

Jocksy.3415:

morrolan.9608:

ItsAdamParker.5192:

I know, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s truly disheartening to think that we’ll have to wait 2 months or so for account bound WvW XP, I mean, honestly, they should never have even said anything if they weren’t going to deliver soon thereafter. kittening kittenes me off. I mean how kittening hard is it to just get account bound xp?? I understand Edge of the Mists is more difficult,

User testing for EOTM finished 2 weeks ago so it must be almost finished.

Last testing, it was far from being finnished…

What do you mean? That they may have more testing? Thats not according to what I know which is that user testing for it is completely done.

I mean there was still lot to do to make the map really playable (played the last satuday test – there were two more left):
POI disappearing when discovered, still some placeholders on the map, QOL bugs, game-breaker bugs… some balance between buffs…

Still lot of work – I don’t expect it to be perfect and bug free on release… but I expect that only solving a quarter of discovered bugs is going to be quite time-consuming…

An annoying example is some pathing issues, where pets won’t cross a bridge, teleports won’t work on it, etc… Or you fall off some place and your armor is broken, fall off other places, and it is not…

Some changes were demanded, but not sure if they would get implemented – like more “secured” paths, change to mini-map, etc…

Depending on how finnished they’ll make it, there is more or less work to do, but still a lot needs to be done, as I see it…

I don’t really care when it goes account bound. I have peace of mind just knowing it will. So, now I know that at some point in the future every level of WxP I gain will eventually count.

That said, I don’t really understand why it would take so long. In terms of development and resources, it should be pretty easy to do.

Is WXP account bound on the EOTM test map? If not, guess what, you’re correct – more testing.

Account bound wxp isn’t even a feature. It’s a fix. Why delay it?

MarzAttakz.9608:

Is WXP account bound on the EOTM test map? If not, guess what, you’re correct – more testing.

It was supposed to be tested in Eotm, but I didn’t see it tested (only played 2 characters, and only got two levels on one) – didn’t looked if it was transfered to the other, but a guildie told me it didn’t.

Tbh its not just wxp. The queue system is shocking and always has been and the are numerous other glitches like LV gates that have been raised so many times over the last year or so. Account wxp would be nice, keeping a few people interested due to being able to play alts but also so would a fix for these other long standing issues that seem to get ignored for more pve content.

We won’t see any WvW changes until end of march because Elder Scrolls Online arrives at 2014/4/4.

Q.E.D.

teg.1340:

We won’t see any WvW changes until end of march because Elder Scrolls Online arrives at 2014/4/4.

Q.E.D.

See that just makes me more determined that I will move to TESO.

Jocksy.3415:

morrolan.9608:

ItsAdamParker.5192:

I know, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s truly disheartening to think that we’ll have to wait 2 months or so for account bound WvW XP, I mean, honestly, they should never have even said anything if they weren’t going to deliver soon thereafter. kittening kittenes me off. I mean how kittening hard is it to just get account bound xp?? I understand Edge of the Mists is more difficult,

User testing for EOTM finished 2 weeks ago so it must be almost finished.

Last testing, it was far from being finnished…

Now, for those complaining about WxP not yet being account-bound, it’s not like as if it was an “insert line of code here” thing…
Any line of code inserted can have effects on the whole game, which is why it needs testing… I’d rather wait and have a nice product than get it now and get an half-working/half broken thing…

Like all the points being attributed to all characters in the same way
or
some players had their progression lost
or
for some unexpected reason, we can’t log in anymore
or
any other thing that can get messed up when something is not well implemented…

whoa whoa whoa
They said they were testing account bound wxp WHILE they were testing EotM
That’s 3 months PLUS that they’ve had to get this right already….