Guild Wars 2

I have enjoyed this game a lot and supported it from release. I feel the new events, although fun, have been badly implemented and alienate a large portion of players. Unable to join my main server I have to put up with overflow. I will always try my best wherever I am but a number of others do not. So overflow will always fail, which means I will not be able to complete these events. This causes and has caused a lot of frustration and I only play games for fun, not to be kittened off. So no more MONEY from me.

It’s bizarre how many people hold their money over ArenaNet’s head like some kind of carrot.

They want our money, and I am happy to pay but only when I enjoy the game. What is wrong with that?

ArenaNet won’t get a penny from me until they release an expansion. When I want something from the gem store, I farm the gold to buy it rather than using IRL cash. And thanks to Seraph Observers Waypoint in Brisban Wildlands, farming gold is pathetically easy. Who needs a champ train when you got a never ending supply of bandits that throw their lootable corpses upon your doorstep?

And for the record, I absolutely loathe open world raid content. I came to GW2 to get away from WoW. Please, ArenaNet, stop turning GW2 into WoW.

I personally cannot believe that after creating such server disparity from Boss week on by letting anyone bandwagon to a few servers, that they release content that compounds the problems created by this whole mess.
Many servers now seem desolate on almost every map & have a very hard time even completing the changes to events like Jormag just to cater for those few huge servers.This is having a real negative effect on those smaller servers in that a lot of people will just guest instead of trying it in their own server.I think it is time for Anet to admit that server transfers had a detrimental effect on the game as a whole.Its time to either merge/reroll servers or make the content diffulty server specific.

damash.8236:

Unable to join my main server I have to put up with overflow. I will always try my best wherever I am but a number of others do not. So overflow will always fail, which means I will not be able to complete these events.

Then the problem might ly with you. Personally I do the marionette battle on overflow srv’s constantly, and it has a higher success rate for me, probably because you aren’t robbed of players who have been afk’ing since forever, or others who are exploring. On the overflow servers one is pretty much guaranteed very few absent players.

What I wonder, are you one of the silent mass, that just complains before the event, or are you one of the few who explains how it works over and over? The trick to success is informing everyone, because there will always be ppl who still don’t know.
If you are one of the bystanders that just looks without the will to help his peers, then you have no reason to complain imo.

It’s a cooperative game, and it works better if you help others help you.

You can pretty much predict succes or failure from what is said in chat in the minutes before the timer starts. If nobody explains how it works and what is expected then it pretty much always fails. If enough ppl keep explaining it (yes, i know that can get on the nerves after a while), then usualy the event succeeds.

If however you do try to explain it over and over, then I do feel for you. Because you must be one of the few who keeps failing over and over in overflow. I have about a 2/3 succes rate in overflow. Which is good enough for me. If it would always succeed, then it would simply be too easy, and not worth playing.

Theundersigned.4761:

It’s bizarre how many people hold their money over ArenaNet’s head like some kind of carrot.

Video games are a business, and business needs money to thrive.

Theundersigned.4761:

It’s bizarre how many people hold their money over ArenaNet’s head like some kind of carrot.

You must be joking. What are you, 10? ANet sells a product, if their customers don’t want to buy said product, then ANet has no money.

I totally agree with you losbannanas. I like to think i am helpful and as i said before i will always try my best. 6 days into this event and i have been in nearly 30 (marionette) overflows all fail & none even close to completing. It is depressing and i will not pay/support a game that makes feel so.

damash.8236:

I have enjoyed this game a lot and supported it from release. I feel the new events, although fun, have been badly implemented and alienate a large portion of players. Unable to join my main server I have to put up with overflow. I will always try my best wherever I am but a number of others do not. So overflow will always fail, which means I will not be able to complete these events. This causes and has caused a lot of frustration and I only play games for fun, not to be kittened off. So no more MONEY from me.

I find it odd how for some reason I seem to be the only one who comes to these events an hour early, so I’m not stuck in an overflow. Is that such an odd solution to this problem? Or is it odd to ask for a taxi from someone who is in the main instance?

I’m not saying this problem shouldn’t be addressed (in fact, I already made a topic about it), but why do people keep pretending like this issue is completely out of their hands?

Iplaytokill.1674:

Theundersigned.4761:

It’s bizarre how many people hold their money over ArenaNet’s head like some kind of carrot.

You must be joking. What are you, 10? ANet sells a product, if their customers don’t want to buy said product, then ANet has no money.

The product is the $60 game which everyone here has already bought. For every person on the forums that says they aren’t giving Anet any money there are probably hundreds buying $10 gem cards. One person is small compared to the millions of people who bought the game

If your really believe that, I have a great bridge for sale for you. It doesn’t go anywhere but your gonna love it….

Heta.8629:

Iplaytokill.1674:

Theundersigned.4761:

It’s bizarre how many people hold their money over ArenaNet’s head like some kind of carrot.

You must be joking. What are you, 10? ANet sells a product, if their customers don’t want to buy said product, then ANet has no money.

The product is the $60 game which everyone here has already bought. For every person on the forums that says they aren’t giving Anet any money there are probably hundreds buying $10 gem cards. One person is small compared to the millions of people who bought the game

As far as explaining how to win, I’ve blocked 6 players so far who were “trying”. They all start out “HEY ALL YOU kittenS” or “OK MORONS YOU HAVE TO DO THIS…” They all failed.

Turning up early to events is not a solution as my main server is full throughout the day. As for taxiing, that rarely works and usually ends up in being dc. I have no wish to wait hours on any game. I play for fun not to be bored.

If the event is full at all times during the day on your server and you really dont want to play on overflows, the answer is simple – move to a less populated server.

People who insist on playing on the most populated servers, rather than spreading the population out, really have no room (literally) to complain about overflows in any part of the game. There are plenty of less populated server (mine included) who are downing the event consistently (and making progress on the worm) and who dont have bad overflow issues (and who desperately need the numbers).

As far as the money thing, it all balances out. Those of us really happy with the content will just spend more to make up for those who don’t.

This is what I’m mostly hearing from some people in this ‘discussion’: “C’mon, ANet! Jump to get your carrot! C’mon, boy! A little higher! Oh! Too slow! Ha. You fell on your face.”

Basically, a lot of ‘customers’ are acting like ArenaNet is their pet. Or slave. I don’t really see the difference here.

I’ve completed the Marionette event ONLY on overflows. There is no guarantee that you will win on your native server.

Also, what’s wrong with overflow? Instead of just playing with people from your own server, you are playing with a larger base of the GW2 community. I personally like that.

Delvoire.8930:

I’ve completed the Marionette event ONLY on overflows. There is no guarantee that you will win on your native server.

Also, what’s wrong with overflow? Instead of just playing with people from your own server, you are playing with a larger base of the GW2 community. I personally like that.

Yeah, I’ve seen better oh-so-close overflow runs than on Sanctum of Rall (which BOMBED the Marionette fight). Turns out, better commanders from the entire community can show up in overflow servers.