Guild Wars 2

Having taken a couple of days off from the game, I just read earlier that the WvW Upgrade won’t even be ready for Beta until late 2016. It was a huge blow.

The only reason I purchased HoT was for WvW. I’ve probably got 3,800 hours in just that part of the game alone.

While I know that the WvW maps were available without purchasing HoT, I didn’t want to be a drag on the Guild that I’ve been running with for the last couple of years – a predominately WvW Guild – since I wouldn’t have access to an Elite Trait line.

Since Anet has now admitted that they’ve been working on an upgrade for over a year and that what they released isn’t even Beta, do you think asking for a refund is justifiable now? I feel that I bought the expansion under false pretenses.

I never completed the HoT Maps or Personal Story. I don’t do Fractals, PvP, Dungeons or Raids and I quit caring about Collections and/or HP’s about two months ago. I’ve at 23 HP’s since then. I could live with all that assuming that WvW would be “fixed” some time within 3 or 4 months of the HoT release.

I really feel like I’ve been cheated.

Lol – cheated. Nice.

Several games with similar play due out in ‘16. Do a bit of searching. Maybe one will catch your attention. I’d point out CU. They are the developers who created the format of play anyway. Will it be good, who knows.

A.net had 3 years to address WvW. I’d say people are done waiting and will slowly let it die. Only servers left standing will be the top 3. Rest will go play other things or consoles.

WvW never made it out of Beta. Welcome to the Eternal Betagrounds.

Crapgame.6519:

Lol – cheated. Nice.

Well, perhaps “fraud” is the more technical term.

Anet knew when they released the expansion that WvW would not be ready for Beta until sometime in the third or fourth quarter of 2016.

More like false advertising.

But even if you ask for a refund now, they will most likely close your entire account down; including the core game you bough 2-3 years ago.

Seems the only way to remove an expansion from an account will be to disable the entire account.
Then they will force you to buy an entirely new copy of the game if you wish to continue playing.

Just let it go really and move on. Maybe you do, maybe not, but I figured the PvE content I did do so far, HoT maps, done and fun. Money would have went to Starbucks or another coffee shop for me more or less. So this fine and will hold me over until CU comes out.

Just teasing on the cheated part – it did make me giggle. They really didn’t do anything like that. Just didn’t deliver to what some expected is all. No harm, no foul.

Crapgame.6519:

Just didn’t deliver to what some expected is all. No harm, no foul.

!!! You’ve just given me inspiration for more greeting cards to send in to ArenaNet !!!

;D

Edit: Gaile, your card was the only genuinely nice one I sent. You are appreciated by so many As for the rest of the ones I sent in, I hope you can appreciate the sarcasm at least.

Even though I’m an optimist at heart, and really want to enjoy WvW, what makes you think a Beta of the WvW overhaul will help? It didn’t before – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/So-why-the-HoT-WvW-Beta-ppl-didnt-complain Past experience tells us that the Beta doesn’t happen until things are almost finished at which point Anet don’t want to change anything major even when they are clearly told what will happen.

I really want to believe that Anet will get it right this time, but the stony silence does not inspire any more hope than the persistent “we’ve been working on WvW improvements for over a year” statements.

I’d rather see posts like this:
“Hi, I’m a WvW Dev and we want to make it easier to get around in a new bigger borderlands map. Which would you prefer:
a) A permanent way point in the keep nearest your spawn
b) Shrines that give a movement bonus when capped
c) Dolyaks that move twice as fast and grant a speed buff when you’re near them”

At least this way we could point out problems before the development gets to the point where they won’t change anything and we’d feel we had some choice (limited yes but a choice none the less).

Yuffi.2430:

Hi, I’m a WvW Dev

I think your scenario went off the rails right there.

Daddar.5971:

WvW never made it out of Beta. Welcome to the Eternal Betagrounds.

^ This, however it feels like its in Charlie now since they said they had to push overhaul into the “beta”.

At the very least they could’ve fixed the permanently closed WP on the BLs by now – they’re killing their own game once again as I bet the complaints about the new BL being too big would’ve been less if people were actually able to use the waypoints.