Guild Wars 2

As the title says, theres been around countless off reports from players on game and on the foruns about the new Outnumbered. Not sure what you guys have done but for sure aint working as it should…it seens there some bug that came with the last patch that some accounts aint getting Outnumbered anymore…had this last night during reset, and also today when after playing for a while in EB, I went to the DBL, and i noticed that most people had outnumbered on…but after playing for a whole hour on it, i didnt get it.
Dont know why you guys actually made this changes, since outnumbered pip farming was never a problem in the first place…people asked for the nerf on Outnumbered buff, but its points should be spread out between the other things…this way to just made even harder for legit players get rewards.
So in conclusion, its clear that you guys cant fix your own game, in the process of doing one thing right you end up making 2 or 3 wrongs, so dont even bother trying anymore, just revert it back and call it a day.

fat servers became jealous about the outnumbered buff
they wish to remove it because they don’t know what it is

“Every man is afraid of something…….”
-they don’t know

I think only have of the change was misguided, and we’ll probably have to wait a few weeks for ArenaNET to collect some analytics on the change before making another adjustment to it.

What it means to me is that I’ve given up on my 175/tickets/week and will probably get to enjoy more time this summer away from my desk and the smell of Dolyak butt ;D

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

I think only have of the change was misguided, and we’ll probably have to wait a few weeks for ArenaNET to collect some analytics on the change before making another adjustment to it.

Analytics on what? Enraged players?

The outnumbered bug needed to be fixed yesterday. The participation system has already ruined the free form feeling of WvW – breaking outnumbered on top makes it infuriating.

Anet should give everyone 5 free chests this week as compensation. Well, assuming they fix it tomorrow. Come friday we are probably looking at 2-3 full tiers some people will have lost.

Dawdler.8521:

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

I think only have of the change was misguided, and we’ll probably have to wait a few weeks for ArenaNET to collect some analytics on the change before making another adjustment to it.

Analytics on what? Enraged players?

The outnumbered bug needed to be fixed yesterday. The participation system has already ruined the free form feeling of WvW – breaking outnumbered on top makes it infuriating.

Anet should give everyone 5 free chests this week as compensation. Well, assuming they fix it tomorrow. Come friday we are probably looking at 2-3 full tiers some people will have lost.

Yeah, Anet kittened up this time…wonder if they even test this kind of stuff before lauching in the game…honestly I wouldnt even bother that i cant get Outnumbered anymore if the reward system was activite based and not time based…but like this i have to play this game allmost like a second job, even with the outnumbered buff on…without it theres no point to aim for the diamond chest…they probably wont even look at this till tomorrow, and during the rest of the week i will have little to no time to play, even if I go full hardcore I will probably get at max to plat chest…
The right thing to do would be Anet give to every player that got affected by this bug the full chest rewards…but for this to happen Anet would need to be actual professionals

Felipe.1807:

Dawdler.8521:

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

I think only have of the change was misguided, and we’ll probably have to wait a few weeks for ArenaNET to collect some analytics on the change before making another adjustment to it.

Analytics on what? Enraged players?

The outnumbered bug needed to be fixed yesterday. The participation system has already ruined the free form feeling of WvW – breaking outnumbered on top makes it infuriating.

Anet should give everyone 5 free chests this week as compensation. Well, assuming they fix it tomorrow. Come friday we are probably looking at 2-3 full tiers some people will have lost.

Yeah, Anet kittened up this time…wonder if they even test this kind of stuff before lauching in the game…honestly I wouldnt even bother that i cant get Outnumbered anymore if the reward system was activite based and not time based…but like this i have to play this game allmost like a second job, even with the outnumbered buff on…without it theres no point to aim for the diamond chest…they probably wont even look at this till tomorrow, and during the rest of the week i will have little to no time to play, even if I go full hardcore I will probably get at max to plat chest…
The right thing to do would be Anet give to every player that got affected by this bug the full chest rewards…but for this to happen Anet would need to be actual professionals

I doubt they can test this kind of stuff, they can ensure it works but not how well, they simply don’t have the player numbers to test it; that would require test servers. The lack of any real ability to test this kind of thing leads to them balancing after it goes live, which isn’t necessarily good or bad but it can lead to frustration as they tend to nerf and buff quite slowly from a player perspective.

Personally, I feel that their stinginess when it comes to reward systems puts me off both WvW and sPvP. WvW rewards are already as grindy as hell, a tiny trickle compared to PvE, and are especially punishing for new players who do not realistically have a chance at getting the later Skirmish Reward Chests (and Tickets) even with the Outnumbered buff.

My own server is usually 3rd place and so I get about 2 pips. Meaning it takes 50 ticks just to get Wood each week (heh-heh, etc). That’s 4 hours of active WvW for 10 tickets. I’ll be lucky to get to the end of silver in a week of frequent playing. Which would get me 45 tickets. You need either 175 or 350 for any piece of armour, 350 for weapons.

That’s one or two months of dedicated playing to get the first piece. I’m sure it’s completely intentional as this is intended as a long term reward and it will speed up as you gain levels etc, it just seems so… miserly at the early stages – especially with the changes to decay – that it’s off-putting.

I actually like the changes. They have benefited my play style very well. Sorry you do not like it.