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Posted by: cillard.3986

cillard.3986

I am just glad I didn’t preorder the xpac.

The PvE requirement to unlock stuff was bad enough. The WvW changes, basically doing the exact opposite of what people in WvW had asked for, was horrible too. Taking away Friday reset and the affect it will have on the community is the final slap in the face.

Good luck to those of you trying to get your money back from the preorder. No luck so far with some of my guildies that are trying.

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Posted by: Elysia.5019

Elysia.5019

I mean, as much as we complain about changing Friday reset, Anet seems intent on changing it to Saturday night. It won’t change for a long time, if ever.

At worst, the game mode dies and we don’t have to deal with it. At best we get used to it. Either way, it’s not likely to change. Let’s all save our breaths for something that we can change.

You’re right, if we just stop talking about it they will never change it back, ever. Anet is counting on us “saving our breath” for something we can influence cha…. ok I can’t even finish that sentence it’s so ridiculous.

Show me one instance of Anet delivering something the WvW community has asked for. And no, fixing achievements so they don’t take a minimum 12 years to complete (3 years after launch) doesn’t count.

WvW won’t last another year let alone 3 for the next “fix”

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

Jayne.9251

Show me one instance of Anet delivering something the WvW community has asked for. And no, fixing achievements so they don’t take a minimum 12 years to complete (3 years after launch) doesn’t count.

  • They removed culling, which was a major change.
  • They adjusted fov after people complained that some players had three-screen setups that gave them an advantage
  • They changed siege despawn from 30 minutes to one hour
  • They removed the quaggans because they were buggy and affected the entire map
  • They added bloodlust to replace the quaggans because players asked for PPK effects.
  • They worked to fix the issues from allowing fov with siege, and are still in progress of actively finding a solution.

There`s more, but those are a few of the requested things that have transpired.

L’enfer, c’est les autres

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Posted by: Melanion.4892

Melanion.4892

I mean, as much as we complain about changing Friday reset, Anet seems intent on changing it to Saturday night. It won’t change for a long time, if ever.

At worst, the game mode dies and we don’t have to deal with it. At best we get used to it. Either way, it’s not likely to change. Let’s all save our breaths for something that we can change.

You’re right, if we just stop talking about it they will never change it back, ever. Anet is counting on us “saving our breath” for something we can influence cha…. ok I can’t even finish that sentence it’s so ridiculous.

Show me one instance of Anet delivering something the WvW community has asked for. And no, fixing achievements so they don’t take a minimum 12 years to complete (3 years after launch) doesn’t count.

WvW won’t last another year let alone 3 for the next “fix”

I’m not saying stop talking about it, I’m saying stop thinking we’re going to accomplish anything. It’s like when your parents would say something like “we’re going to dinner” and you try to negotiate with them and then you realize that you have no say in the matter. Anet are the parents here and talking with them isn’t going to solve anything. If the reset thing upsets us that much, don’t attend reset. Don’t play wvw. They want numbers, let’s give them numbers.

Realistically, most of you guys complaining in this thread will continue to wvw after the change has been implemented. Most will attend reset if they can. Most will continue to play the game. Anet knows this, so we have no chips to bargain with. We’ve seen it before, we’ll see it again. Since there’s no subscription to cancel, there’s really nothing else we can do.

Claude – Pink Fairy Mesmer

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Posted by: Puck.9612

Puck.9612

Show me one instance of Anet delivering something the WvW community has asked for. And no, fixing achievements so they don’t take a minimum 12 years to complete (3 years after launch) doesn’t count.

  • They removed culling, which was a major change.
  • They adjusted fov after people complained that some players had three-screen setups that gave them an advantage
  • They changed siege despawn from 30 minutes to one hour
  • They removed the quaggans because they were buggy and affected the entire map
  • They added bloodlust to replace the quaggans because players asked for PPK effects.
  • They worked to fix the issues from allowing fov with siege, and are still in progress of actively finding a solution.

There`s more, but those are a few of the requested things that have transpired.

Bringing back culling in the form of the SM stealth fountain. Now only the winning server gets to benefit from it.

Instead of fixing the way players interact with siege to prevent people from exploiting, they let everyone abuse the game mechanic leading to even more problems that they still haven’t fixed.

“Temporarily” removed the orb to figure out a way to stop hackers from abusing it….. added bloodlust ruins because that was less work than dealing with the hackers.

Jim Hunter when my other account isn’t suspended

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Posted by: Kanebrake.6192

Kanebrake.6192

Show me one instance of Anet delivering something the WvW community has asked for. And no, fixing achievements so they don’t take a minimum 12 years to complete (3 years after launch) doesn’t count.

  • They removed culling, which was a major change.
  • They adjusted fov after people complained that some players had three-screen setups that gave them an advantage
  • They changed siege despawn from 30 minutes to one hour
  • They removed the quaggans because they were buggy and affected the entire map
  • They added bloodlust to replace the quaggans because players asked for PPK effects.
  • They worked to fix the issues from allowing fov with siege, and are still in progress of actively finding a solution.

There`s more, but those are a few of the requested things that have transpired.

These are more bug and exploit fixes than they are new features.

BG

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

Jayne.9251

I love you all, even if you are cranky.

xox

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Posted by: Zera.8907

Zera.8907

Why do this? Why make stupid decisions the week before release? Are you guys purposely trying to kitten off your player base? Just……why? WTF!

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

Hi Anet,

At what time roughly would the servers be taken down on Thursday besides “morning” as middnight Thursday is 6pm in most east coast cities in Australia and would like to have a last fun rally. Also it seems from the post, WvW will be down until reset is meant to happen on Saturday to prepare the new maps?

Game will come down for HOT at 6pm AEDST. AFAIK WvW will be available again with the new maps once you download HOT but reset will occur on Sunday AEDST.

Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

Show me one instance of Anet delivering something the WvW community has asked for. And no, fixing achievements so they don’t take a minimum 12 years to complete (3 years after launch) doesn’t count.

  • They removed culling, which was a major change.

Culling still occurs depending on your settings its just on friendlies not on enemies. Its the reason why people always completely discount how many are in their own zerg compared to the enemy zerg.

Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

I am just glad I didn’t preorder the xpac.

The PvE requirement to unlock stuff was bad enough.

No PvE requirement now.

Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro

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Posted by: dancingmonkey.4902

dancingmonkey.4902

Show me one instance of Anet delivering something the WvW community has asked for. And no, fixing achievements so they don’t take a minimum 12 years to complete (3 years after launch) doesn’t count.

  • They removed culling, which was a major change.
  • They adjusted fov after people complained that some players had three-screen setups that gave them an advantage
  • They changed siege despawn from 30 minutes to one hour
  • They removed the quaggans because they were buggy and affected the entire map
  • They added bloodlust to replace the quaggans because players asked for PPK effects.
  • They worked to fix the issues from allowing fov with siege, and are still in progress of actively finding a solution.

There`s more, but those are a few of the requested things that have transpired.

These are more bug and exploit fixes than they are new features.

Such as?

Why are you going to bother making a statement like that if your not going to list it? This thread has the attention of the development team with topic of HoT release. If there are bugs and exploits, it might be wise to list them hear to discuss as fixes needing to be addressed for HoT or soon after. I feel if your going to use it as an argument to claim there are more issues then resolutions, you might as well list them. Both to support the claim your putting forth as an argument, and to be certain they are brought more into light in a constructive manner.

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Posted by: Dawdler.8521

Dawdler.8521

This thread has the attention of the development team with topic of HoT release.

And yet its getting filled with people listing past changes (what does that has to do with horrible HoT changes? We already know they’ve done stupid things in the past) or long posts listing how to fix WvW in every different, many of which deserve their own threads (and already have, some on the first page). I doubt you have their attention anymore, it was lost 10 pages ago or so.

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Posted by: darkangelseductions.3084

darkangelseductions.3084

Gaile Gray.6029 & John Corpening,

First off, I would like to say that I understand that you have been met with extreme hostility over the changes that you are making to our beloved WvW community. That being said, I feel that your changes have been made without regards to what the WvW players want nor have requested.

1. You claim that this is due to the HoT release. Ok, we all understand that this is a huge undertaking. We get that. We don’t have an issue with that.

2. Why did you drop this in our laps 1-2 weeks prior to the expansion release? And why have you not directly answered our questions with direct answers other than this is how it is going to be. Period.

3. WvW players are some of the most competitive players in GW2 and yes, we can be a hostile bunch. We are extremely competitive and VERY PASSIONATE about this aspect of the game. So in a way of expression, yes, you will be met with hostility since this information was literally dropped in our laps without much notice nor regard for the player base that plays this aspect of the game.

4. Can we get an HONEST answer and a direct, no B.S. answer to why you decided these changes were needed and why they were made. No more dancing around it, no more vague descriptions. Just an honest and true to form answer that would satisfy our understanding of your choices. Giving us vague and nonchalant answers that have been provided, have not given us a true understanding of this decision that ANet has come to.

5. Are you going to have a dedicated team that will work and ACTUALLY PLAY WvW and deal with our concerns in the same manner you deal with the PvE and sPvP aspects of the game? And yes, I mean actually play in WvW….in tier 1 all the way down to the bottom tier, since in essence, they can be wildly different. Are they going to look at ONLY the WvW populations and not megaserver populations? Since this is a server based part of the game, judging numbers and data on megaserver populations is not truly looking at the correct picture.

6. What are your future plans for the WvW aspect of the game? Are you going to put out the new borderlands, leave EB, and then abandon us? Are you going to listen to us as you do with the PvE’ers and the PvP’ers?

7. I understand that you want everyone in the game to experience the ENTIRE game to explore all of your hard work and dedication to this new expansion. But once we have been through the new content…..a few months/years down the road, what do you plan on doing for the end game? More raids? More content changes to PvP? More content changes to fractals/dungeons? More content changes to WvW? Tournaments? Seasons? Rewards? Loot changes? Or just release another expansion?

8. Are you honestly going to look at the WvW only numbers when you “evaluate” the changes that you have already made apparent that you are not wanting to budge from (aka Saturday resets)?

If you wouldn’t mind actually sitting down and answering these questions so that we, as the player base can fully understand why these changes have been forced on us and have been made, then we as the WvW community (or at least I would since I am only one of the many voices here) would better understand the changes and know what we mean to the ANet team.

Please I beg of you to give us some answers instead of pushing us aside or as I have felt that the previous reasons you have given has made me feel that as a WvW player has felt. I mean, I have been with this game since Beta of the GW2. I use to love this game and praised that ANet was always honorable in giving to the players and was open to conversations. My hope is that I can then trust ANet again and return to loving the game wholeheartedly with the passion that I had previously. These are my opinions and questions that I have. I do not want anyone to think that I am speaking for the whole community, but I feel that this would answer a lot of our questions and help us understand the reasons behind your choices in this aspect of the game. I sincerely hope that you change the reset back to Friday nights as it has been previously, but with solid answers to the questions I have presented, I could then decide if I can past my anger towards the changes.

I appreciate your time. Thank you for taking time to read this if you do….. I await your feedback.

Bella Valkari
[MUSA] – [CAIN]
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Posted by: Gotchaz.7865

Gotchaz.7865

Clearly they wanted to make sure everyone pre-purchased first before announcing something that may upset the community.

Beowulf-Defender of the JQ Realm and Warrior of the SF clan.

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Posted by: Ultimaistanza.4793

Ultimaistanza.4793

Thank you for taking the time to post John and Gaile.

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

4. Can we get an HONEST answer and a direct, no B.S. answer to why you decided these changes were needed and why they were made. No more dancing around it, no more vague descriptions. Just an honest and true to form answer that would satisfy our understanding of your choices. Giving us vague and nonchalant answers that have been provided, have not given us a true understanding of this decision that ANet has come to.

I think the answer about moving reset away from when critical patches might be required was exactly why they have done it.

Jade Quarry [SoX]
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Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro

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Posted by: Dawdler.8521

Dawdler.8521

4. Can we get an HONEST answer and a direct, no B.S. answer to why you decided these changes were needed and why they were made. No more dancing around it, no more vague descriptions. Just an honest and true to form answer that would satisfy our understanding of your choices. Giving us vague and nonchalant answers that have been provided, have not given us a true understanding of this decision that ANet has come to.

I think the answer about moving reset away from when critical patches might be required was exactly why they have done it.

Or in other words, PvE weekends take priority over second rate WvW weekends.

Anet doesnt patch on friday. They patch on tuesdays and usually spend 5+ patches and 2-3 days fixing that patch. The “critical patches” you speak about is only needed because they activate the broken weekend content. This is in relation to normal weeks of course, HoT release weekend is a special thing.

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Posted by: thebeaRRRRR.8640

thebeaRRRRR.8640

Here’s what the Heart of Thorns release will look like for WvW:

  1. On the morning of Thursday, October 22nd, WvW will be terminating without completing or updating Glicko ratings as normal. This will be the end of the classic (“Alpine”) Borderlands maps for the foreseeable future.
  2. On entering the build with the new Heart of Thorns content, all of your spent WvW Ability points will be refunded. Recall these can be spent differently per character, and spending them on one character doesn’t spend them on any others.
  3. WvW’s reset time will be changed to be 24 hours later in NA and EU. It will now occur on Saturdays instead of Fridays.
  4. At the moment Heart of Thorns content becomes available, WvW will prepare its maps. Including the new Desert Borderlands map. There’s no guarantee the matchups from earlier in the week will be the same as the new ones (or that they’ll be different).
  5. The new round will run until the new reset times on Saturday, then end and update Glicko ratings. After it comes up again, WvW will be running as “normal” except for the changed reset times and the new Desert Borderlands.

Good day anet, would like to know at exactly what time will we not be able to access wvw on the 22nd of oct. I don’t think it has been mentioned in this thread the exact time when it will happen.

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Ultimate Dominator

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Posted by: coglin.1867

coglin.1867

Or in other words, PvE weekends take priority over second rate WvW weekends

So?

PvE has a extremely larger core player base then WvW. It only stands to logic that it takes priority. As well, there are a large amount of solid WvW players who equally enjoy the PvE content. I do not see any rationale in being angry about the reasoning.

A video on what weak PvPer’s and WvWer’s want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q3em9s5I4c

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Posted by: Chaba.5410

Chaba.5410

Or in other words, PvE weekends take priority over second rate WvW weekends

So?

PvE has a extremely larger core player base then WvW. It only stands to logic that it takes priority. As well, there are a large amount of solid WvW players who equally enjoy the PvE content. I do not see any rationale in being angry about the reasoning.

It sounds logical.

I’d just like to point out that sPvP had a low core player base that has since grown a lot due to the development attention that sPvP has been given since the April 2014 Feature Pack. I think the same can be accomplished for WvW and that it is possible for all modes to find a happy medium of “priority”. It would be good to grow all parts of the game.

Chaba Tangnu
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Posted by: Dano.5298

Dano.5298

I was about to make a comment about ANET not necessarily making bad changes but doing them in a bad way. But then I thought about the changes they have made and realized that their changes are bad too.

Ev
[SQD]

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Posted by: Angel.6085

Angel.6085

Or in other words, PvE weekends take priority over second rate WvW weekends

So?

PvE has a extremely larger core player base then WvW. It only stands to logic that it takes priority. As well, there are a large amount of solid WvW players who equally enjoy the PvE content. I do not see any rationale in being angry about the reasoning.

It sounds logical.

I’d just like to point out that sPvP had a low core player base that has since grown a lot due to the development attention that sPvP has been given since the April 2014 Feature Pack. I think the same can be accomplished for WvW and that it is possible for all modes to find a happy medium of “priority”. It would be good to grow all parts of the game.

So much this.

I think it is also important to explain that a large part of the allure of the game on release marketing was dynamic PvE content and large scale server vs server competitive battle (WvW). This pulled a massive playerbase searching for a WoW alternative who yearned for the days of DAoC. GW2 fills that void nicely but has since all but abandoned this part of the community. Imagine how amazing WvW could be if Anet cared even a small amount about it. In my history of WvW I have seen ONLY 2 ANET EMPLOYEES REPPING ANET EVER in WvW… and one was only a screenshot posted on these forums because of a dispute. The other is the one who ran with JINX for a short time on BG/FA (iirc). Where is the representation?

With the hype strong with Camelot Unchained still (and I am not optimistic about that game), the draw is real. Anet needs to start showing some serious consideration to the WvW game-mode before other projects and attrition remove a large player base. I know you guys think we wouldn’t quit over WvW, which may be true for some players… but there are also a lot of players like me who log in, do PvE or whatever just so I have nice gear to take to WvW. Remove that aspect of the game and I have no drive to play any other game-modes.

I have posted twice in this thread so far in mostly sarcastic and negative manners because I am so far beyond disgusted at this change.

So my official official and concise opinion, since Gaile said they are reading this:

I am a leader of a WvW guild. We run about 20-30 a night, 5 nights a week. The highest attending night we have is Friday Night Reset, as per the atmosphere. If the Saturday change remains in effect, it is more than likely that DN has run their last reset on October 16th, 2015. This is a guild that has consistently ran reset in dark and bright simes since the end of 2013 when it was founded (and I personally have only missed a handful). This is coming from what I like to call a mid-grade WvW guild – we are not hardcore but we are not casual as we have strict rules about WvW raids. A lot of my players also do enjoy PvE but they do it in the daytime before we raid. Some of my players spend 90% or more of their time in game in WvW and have played across all timezones. This has been objected to by all but about 4 of my 63 man roster. Moving reset night to Saturday removes the ability for many of us to play how we want. It isn’t simply of the loss of culture and excitement that happens on Friday, but rather the shifting of entire matchups over a day…. as many have said before the end of the matchup is boring and already decided meaning not many people log in to fight or even cap. I have been in kitten, T5 and T4 on 5 or 6 different servers now and it’s been the same for all of them: beginning of the week is intense and the end of the week is boring, stale, and dead. Cutting in half the weekend playtime of intense play by making all of Friday and most of Saturday fall in that deadzone was very inconsiderate of Anet to the WvW community.

That being said, I understand the need for moving Reset temporarily. But if you fail to revisit this in a timely fashion (I think 8 weeks is pushing that envelope very far, but 2 may be too soon) then I would bet you will have a lot of angry people on here again, or still.

And Gaile, I have always felt that you have been a great example of how Anet employees should interact with the community. You’re one of the few who is not afraid to jump into an angry mob of people and TRY to solve problems and satiate our bloodlust. But you also need to understand what they did here is not okay for a lot of the reasons already stated (one of the biggest is changing a huge aspect of one game-mode’s culture after securing preorders from them by promising access to betas that affect that game-mode). I am disappointed by the “this is how it is, we aren’t asking for a poll” types of responses you’re giving, but I understand them. Please urge the rest of the team not to try to sweep this under the rug just because the pitchforks will disappear over the next couple of weeks.

I will be sharpening mine in that time period.

YB>DB>BG>SOR>TC>BG>FA>DB>SOS>BP Guardian
Formerly [rB], [OPED], [Choo]
Guild Leader [DN] Digital Nemesis

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Posted by: Queen Seravat.4217

Queen Seravat.4217

OMG can I get a Gift of Battle from anywhere right now? I worked all night to complete the remaining items for Twice Told Legend and WVW is the only place for the gift and now it’s CLOSED.

./seravat

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Posted by: Shukriyya.7629

Shukriyya.7629

bump

Any news?

RoF

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Posted by: saturn.4810

saturn.4810

Lol thanks for necro, a moment I thought the devs posted something.

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Posted by: Shukriyya.7629

Shukriyya.7629

Haha, sorry! I just want to make sure that they don’t forget to evaluate their data.

RoF

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Posted by: Buy Some Apples.6390

Buy Some Apples.6390

omg, didnt you read the old sticky?!

Attachments:

Complained about WvW before it became cool.
I used to be a PvE player like you, then I played Guild Wars 2

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Posted by: Shukriyya.7629

Shukriyya.7629

I’m fully aware of that. I chose to take the risk. But the dev post says “30 days since the last post” and this thread had the last post 29 days before mine, so it should be fine!

RoF

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Posted by: saturn.4810

saturn.4810

I’m fully aware of that. I chose to take the risk. But the dev post says “30 days since the last post” and this thread had the last post 29 days before mine, so it should be fine!

Good point!

I see why you had to act now

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Posted by: Jim Hunter.6821

Jim Hunter.6821

Lol thanks for necro, a moment I thought the devs posted something.

It got me too….

Also known as Puck when my account isn’t suspended
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Posted by: Offair.2563

Offair.2563

Time to dig up the good ole “Communicating with you” thread months ago. /startstodigwithshovel.

Big Babou, Ranger for life.
Madness Rises [Rise] – Banners Hold.
Don’t argue with idiots, they pull you down their level and own you with experience.

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

Jayne.9251

omg, didnt you read the old sticky?!

Shouldn’t that be stickied at the top of the forum?

I had no clue about this severe new rule.

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Posted by: erKo.9586

erKo.9586

When do we get the old maps back? this new maps are fail and all know it.

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Posted by: LetoII.3782

LetoII.3782

Or in other words, PvE weekends take priority over second rate WvW weekends

So?

PvE has a extremely larger core player base then WvW. It only stands to logic that it takes priority. As well, there are a large amount of solid WvW players who equally enjoy the PvE content. I do not see any rationale in being angry about the reasoning.

It sounds logical.

I’d just like to point out that sPvP had a low core player base that has since grown a lot due to the development attention that sPvP has been given since the April 2014 Feature Pack. I think the same can be accomplished for WvW and that it is possible for all modes to find a happy medium of “priority”. It would be good to grow all parts of the game.

Personally, I disagree with the last part.
I keep buying these games hoping for RvR to be a development focus, dozens now, only to find single-use PvE be the star of the show. While gw2 isn’t as dismissive of us as say Wildstar, I’d really hoped a game who’s name is synonymous with Team Fighting might focus quite a substantial share of it’s budget on specifically that.

After all, nobody would buy a game called Kill Computer-Generated Monsters Online expecting a PvP focus.

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Posted by: Krypto.2069

Krypto.2069

bump

Any news?

Haha, sorry! I just want to make sure that they don’t forget to evaluate their data.

I’m fully aware of that. I chose to take the risk. But the dev post says “30 days since the last post” and this thread had the last post 29 days before mine, so it should be fine!

Shukriyya, I’m proud to be part of a community where you roam!

29 days old and you rez’d a very important thread at the 11th hour 59 minute mark… WOW! This is especially timely since the Dev’s appear to be starting to make some adjustments to WvW (Nov 17th patch). Plus, they have been scarcely seen in the WvW forums since HoT’s release. Perhaps this mega-thread being kept alive will draw them out more!

Thank you very much, Shukriyya!

I bow to you, sir/ma’am! You’re a “BAD-KITTEN”!!! B-)
(And when I say – “bad-kitten”, I mean the kind of Pulp Fiction Samuel Jackson kind of bad-kitten! )

Moonlight [THRU]

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Posted by: Shukriyya.7629

Shukriyya.7629

Aww, thank you for your kind words!

RoF

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Posted by: Diku.2546

Diku.2546

Hello All,

Launching a game is an enormous undertaking and our teams need time to address any issues that come up. Therefore after launch we must move WvW reset to Saturday. We will keep resets on Saturday to address issues and once we are in the clear we will evaluate the best time for WvW reset both for us as a company as well as for our players.

Since it is clear that we cannot pick a time that will work for everyone, we will be maintaining our original plan of shifting reset by 24 hours, to Saturday evening. That time was based on data for when prime time occurs in each region.

Thank you,
John

John,

Thank you…

Can only hope the new data that is evaluated will show what will help the WvW Community grow.

Would you please share your evaluated data with the WvW Community in 1 month after HoT is released?

Let’s try the New Saturday Reset…and see if it really has a negative impact on the WvW Community…or…if it becomes a positive change…that we never knew about…until we tried it.


To the developers that are working hard to make HoT happen.

Heart-felt…Thank you…from a hard core WvW player.

Dear John,

Just a simple request & reminder about changes to Friday Night Reset.

Would you please share your evaluated data with the WvW Community?

Your truly,
Diku

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Posted by: Simonoly.4352

Simonoly.4352

I’ve spent a month now playing around in the new map and have some time to spare, so thought I’d try and give some constructive feedback if Anet happen to be monitoring this thread if any.

The good

1) New map looks gorgeous. Really beautiful and interesting to traverse. The varied terrain offers some interesting fights both for zerging and roaming. I’ve had some hilarious battles whilst roaming and have fallen to my death a lot.
2) The designs of each new tower are great. Interesting themes with different lords to mix things up. Nice work. I look forward to seeing what lords will be created for the future WvW maps.
3) Keep buffs are actually very fun to utilise. The stealth buff is probably the best designed of the three by creating a very much localised but very potent effect. It actually creates a very dangerous environment that you would be mad to walk through without first de-capping a shrine. The other two buffs are subtle but a nice addition.
4) Removal of gold sink in WvW was a great move. WvW players don’t have much gold really so this was the next step to making this game mode more approachable.

The not so good…

1) Removing the player interaction with base upgrades kind of removes a lot of the fun. There’s no satisfaction in capping a fully upgraded camp anymore because the enemy hasn’t allocated any time or resources to upgrading it. It’s now just a hollow PvE event that kind of just…happens.
2) Requiring absolutely no supply to eventually upgrade a keep also removes player interaction detrimentally. If you don’t get around to recapping a keep for a while, the players who eventually do are just massively inconvenienced with fully upgraded walls and such, where no enemy players having had any input in its strengthening. Again, just feels like a hollow PvE event now – like your fighting time instead of the enemy.
3) Guild WvW upgrades are buried under a mountain of time consuming PvE content. This just isn’t very fun – needs to be changed for the sanity of WvWers.
4) The big group event in the centre of the map just empowers karma trains/zergs and creates unfair scenarios. Whenever the event is up, enemy zergs just waypoint to the map for an easy, free -50% health to every door structure. It just doesn’t feel right that on the dot every hour or so you can just zerg this event as a preamble to karma training the rest of the map. It’s a disappointing event.

Gandara

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Posted by: Raf.1078

Raf.1078

Only thing I like about the expac is my Revenenant. Just a fun class. But not enough, you know?

But the Maguma & the Elite stuff?…nah, too much grind. Quit playing it after a few hours.

The new BL’s just make me sad. In T2 during NA Prime last night. Ran around FA & SoS’s new BL map for an hour and a half. Saw exactly one enemy in each map. And one was afk. Just Pvd….boring.

Of course, EB is queued.

I’m down to maybe 2 hrs a week in GW2 now. Playing other games again.

PF/ GOAT on Tarnished Coast (Semi-Retired)
Raf Longshanks-80 Norn Guardian / 9 more alts of various lvls / Charter Member Altaholics Anon

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Posted by: darkangelseductions.3084

darkangelseductions.3084

Supposedly…………per an announcement by ANet, that WvW changes will not happen until sometime in 2016. I guess we will not have any response from anyone on the ANet side of things.

Should we give up the fight? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Should they at least respond to us? YES! It would only be acceptable for those of us who are passionate about this aspect of the game. Until then….I guess we are expected to play the PvE side of the game.

Bella Valkari
[MUSA] – [CAIN]
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Posted by: darkangelseductions.3084

darkangelseductions.3084

Also the one thing that I find is still a gold sink is the upgrades for WvW by the scribing profession. IT IS EXPENSIVE!!!! Just my 2 cents.

Bella Valkari
[MUSA] – [CAIN]
Jade Quarry

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Posted by: LetoII.3782

LetoII.3782

2016 isn’t that far off though.
yes, yes.. I know <,<

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Posted by: Krypto.2069

Krypto.2069

2016 isn’t that far off though.
yes, yes.. I know <,<

Yeah, I hope this “Sometime in 2016” is January 1, 2016.
Hell, even 1st quarter wouldn’t be the end of the world. Plus, if they’d just Fix some of these kitten WvW bugs and revert Resets back to Friday nights in the interim, we might be placated.

Let’s hope (and pray) it’s not planned for December-ish, 2016 since/if they’ve been working on it a whole year already. But I’m not holding my breath.

Moonlight [THRU]

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Posted by: JediYoda.1275

JediYoda.1275

“If only ANet had some kind of forum they could use to communicate with us……”
“ANet. They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity to not mess up.”
Mod “Posts created to cause unrest with unfounded claims are not allowed” lmao

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Posted by: Swift.1930

Swift.1930

I still love the quote on the purchase page for HoT: “Experience combat on an epic scale in our new World vs. World’s Borderlands map.”

I’ve yet to see more than 2-3 people on Borderlands at once in mid-tier, and we used to have one of the most epic borderland-raid guilds in town. Now the guild is on EBG!

But at least we’ll always have the Guild Wars 2 store description to look back at. =)

Been there, punned that.

Ehmry Bay Guardian

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Posted by: Celtic Lady.3729

Celtic Lady.3729

omg, didnt you read the old sticky?!

I don’t get it. Make a new thread. Post in the old thread. Why is this a big deal?

I mean, who really cares which one it is?

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Posted by: xXBAKESXx.6731

xXBAKESXx.6731

+1 I don’t care what it is, I just want old WvW back, fights all the time, borderlands fights, not 500000 queues in EB because it’s so boring to go to bls to spend 25minutes recapping one keep because it’s been autoupgraded and takes so long to get anywhere because of the all this kitten I JSUT WANNA FIGHT

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Posted by: Swift.1930

Swift.1930

+1 I don’t care what it is, I just want old WvW back, fights all the time, borderlands fights, not 500000 queues in EB because it’s so boring to go to bls to spend 25minutes recapping one keep because it’s been autoupgraded and takes so long to get anywhere because of the all this kitten I JSUT WANNA FIGHT

More fights less blobs! Right? Yeah… EB has some really good borderland guilds, but they mostly fight in EBG now. =/

Been there, punned that.

Ehmry Bay Guardian

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

Hello All,

Launching a game is an enormous undertaking and our teams need time to address any issues that come up. Therefore after launch we must move WvW reset to Saturday. We will keep resets on Saturday to address issues and once we are in the clear we will evaluate the best time for WvW reset both for us as a company as well as for our players.

Just a reminder we’re still waiting on this evaluation and what you are going to do with WvW reset going forward.

Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro