Guild Wars 2

The infrastructure for all of Guild Wars 2 was built around Lion’s Arch. Note that the only Asura gates in any ’home’ city that go anywhere except to regional destinations go to Lion’s Arch and that Lion’s Arch is the only location where gates to all home cities are located in one place. Lion’s Arch was designed as the transportation hub for the entire game. It allowed any player to transport from any city to Lion’s Arch and from there to any other city and then to a reasonably priced way point in the area. Now, the only way to get from, for example, Divinity’s Reach to the Field’s of Ruin is to either run there (which would take almost an hour without using way points) or spend the money to used the already overpriced way points. Nice way of creating a new drain on the already depressed GW2 economy. Of course, there will probably be a nice pass to a central Asura gate portal similar to the Captain’s pass to Havoc’s Air Airship (only with access to multiple Asura gates instead of an exit) for sale soon in the Gem store.

Arenanet designed GW2 with a reasonable transportation system and when it became clogged because they created their own bottleneck, rather than creating a distributed transportation system that would make it convenient to keep characters at their home city (i.e., provide Asura gates to all the other home cities in each home city) they opted to destroy their infrastructure rather than spend the money to reduce the need to upgrade their physical server and bandwidth to accommodate the traffic pattern that their own design created.

Who benefits from the destruction of Lion’s Arch? Not the players. If players end-up leaving in droves due to the frustration from being forced into an expensive and/or lengthy transportation problem, Arenanet has no one to blame but themselves. I will probably be looking for another game unless they provide an alternative method of transportation that doesn’t suck either huge amounts or time or huge amounts of in-game cash (which is hard enough to come by already). I just dont have the time to spend most of my playtime traveling or spending a significant portion of my session’s income on travel. One would think Arenanet has been studying the oil companies for tips on how to make money.

Wait… there’s people who don’t already just waypoint everywhere?

I take it you haven’t actually logged in to look at the changes?

The gates in all the cities (and the Heart of the Mists) still work, they just take you to the Vigil Keep instead.

All the game features, services etc. that were in LA have been preserved.

Sherburne.2874:

…or spend the money to used the already overpriced way points. Nice way of creating a new drain on the already depressed GW2 economy.

They cost about 3 silver at max. The WP costs are dirt cheap in this game.

The gate hub is now located in Vigil Keep. It works exactly the same as before, except now you connect through Vigil Keep instead of Lion’s.

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My goodness – if you find waypont fees expensive enough to make a convoluted rant, then…

I have never understood the people who whine and complain about waypoint prices.

That was, afterall, the main selling point for Ellen Kiel, right? A waypoint discount. Did this even happen? Did anyone at all notice? Would anyone at all notice? Of course not, it doesn’t cost enough to matter. Do an event, waypoint cost covered. Wait you waypointed from Orr to Frostgorge? Ok, do two events, still covered.

If you actually play the game at all there is no reason to complain about the cost of anything. And even if they did remove the central gate hub from the game it would not have a realistic effect on the economy.

Saint.5647:

Sherburne.2874:

…or spend the money to used the already overpriced way points. Nice way of creating a new drain on the already depressed GW2 economy.

They cost about 3 silver at max. The WP costs are dirt cheap in this game.

I don’t use waypoints if I can avoid it. I can afford to, but given the choice I’d rather not spend the money. So I usually only use them if I’m asked to join a dungeon at short notice or something. Or when doing invasions because then I know I’ll make the money back.

That’s how I know the gates are still working. I’ve been using them a lot. I think I actually prefer the new layout in Vigil Keep because they’re all closer together.

That moment when you write a thousand-word essay based on total misinformation.

If your concern about WP costs then I’d assume you avoid fights to save on armor repair costs also?

Vol.7601:

My goodness – if you find waypont fees expensive enough to make a convoluted rant, then…

Agreed. I get that not everyone makes passable coinage in this game but c’mon now…2, 3 silver at the most?

Maybe there are still folks using the gates to travel but I don’t think I’ve done so since launch. WPs are very reasonable imo.