Guild Wars 2

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Kript.3291:

we should ask Colin and his team to form a 30+ zerg and do these Orr temple event…maybe they will see how ridiculous these events has became since the patch.

It is very unlikely they actually tested these changes before implementing them. Especially considering how unskilled at the game the QA testers are… some of their highlights were:

1. Before launch they couldn’t successfully complete explorable mode dungeons. They said they were tuned to be super difficult and they weren’t good enough to complete them.
2. More recently, they stated they were unable to successfully complete some of the guild challenges because they were so challenging and required perfect coordination and teamwork.

So yeah… it is almost a certainty that they did not test these changes because they aren’t skilled enough to complete them.

Source please, although these claims do sound fairly possible.

GW2 really just needs a test live server, like nearly every other MMO has for fairly significant reasons. And don’t give me the b******t response of they can’t afford it because not pay2play, because they darn well can afford it, or if they wanted to be stingy they could convert a server from each data center into a test live server.

This will probably be a rehash of what has been said but it’s my opinion.

First off addressing the concept of ‘Living World’. The concept is a good one on paper but in it’s current implentation its quite lacking. I found myself breezing through the recent ‘Living World’ content in about an hour or less which is very underwhelming. I also found the characters lacking, unengaging, and quite frankly boring. There wasn’t enough backstory, content, or time to emotionally connect to any new characters. Heck I’ve forgotten their names a few times already.
The fact is the content needs to be more substantial. For example in Part 2 of FLame and Frost suddenly these guys were attacking the refuges; which is in my opinion a silly thing. There should of been a slow progression of a storyline towards part 2. Like audio logs maybe appearing saying someone saw someone kidnapped by something that looks like something. And this could appear in week 2 of the update or something along those lines on a greater scale. Basically it needs foreshadowing.
Having the same situation for 4 weeks then suddenly change over and over is not a living world. And by doing this you would be expanding the content greatly without needing to make much because it would mean more devoted fans would constantly be checking back every day for ‘x’ items or ‘y’ new speech lines.

That’s just my opinion on living story, it doesn’t feel alive at all, and there is a lack of content for the most part (hopefully part 4 will be some great patch with heaps of content). There really needs to be more progressive changes during the course of the living story for it to feel alive.
Bit off topic but I would love to see the living story used to lead up to expansion packs. Way cooler then suddenly ‘Hey look new content and stuff that wasn’t there a second ago’. Maybe even have cool features like helping in the living story to build whatever the expansion uses, like a server effort to get wood to build a ship to go to cantha or something silly but cool.

Lastly there needs to be a way to go back and play through old content like the invasion of Lions Arch and the conquest of Suncove. The best way in my opinion would be to have some crazy Asuran make some time portal. But of course this would be extremely difficult to code in relation to servers but if you plan on doing alot of one time content then it’s something worth investing in.

Okay so I’ve found the one near the waterfall at the start. Then the spider nest in area 2 and the shop, then nothing in area 3 other then getting to the spider nest, then in area 4 the shop with the light, and then the drop down tricky one. Then nothing in area 5.
I’m still missing one so any help?

I too stopped playing my 80 ranger because of this/

Dogblaster.6713:

Angry Angus.2187:

Dogblaster.6713:

Angry Angus.2187:

ITT People assuming the worst based off a very small trickle of information

THIS IS AREANETS PR problem. They should give us full detailed information before spreading such a rumor … Not ours fault.

This is up to Anets PR to fix. Dont blame players for freaking out, how would you freak if someone from your government said someting about your contry becomming communism after new election ..

And what will the players freaking out do? I do blame both. ANet should answer some of the player’s questions but also the players need to calm down before making assumptious opinions on the update and just wait for the update then say “I think x could be y” and so on. Complaining about what we don’t know is worthless at this point because the update will still go ahead as planned, and complaining without knowing all means that if ANet does listen to us the players in this thread then they could be getting the wrong idea of what we think because we might change our opinions on content release.

Also the government analogy is a different situation and does not work well with this. As the old saying goes its like comparing apples to oranges.

The analogy is the same. Both are changes of system

capitalism and communsim
horizontal progresion vs vertical progression

It may seem I cannot sway your opinion but in the least I disagree and will leave it at that.

Dogblaster.6713:

Angry Angus.2187:

ITT People assuming the worst based off a very small trickle of information

THIS IS AREANETS PR problem. They should give us full detailed information before spreading such a rumor … Not ours fault.

This is up to Anets PR to fix. Dont blame players for freaking out, how would you freak if someone from your government said someting about your contry becomming communism after new election ..

And what will the players freaking out do? I do blame both. ANet should answer some of the player’s questions but also the players need to calm down before making assumptious opinions on the update and just wait for the update then say “I think x could be y” and so on. Complaining about what we don’t know is worthless at this point because the update will still go ahead as planned, and complaining without knowing all means that if ANet does listen to us the players in this thread then they could be getting the wrong idea of what we think because we might change our opinions on content release.

Also the government analogy is a different situation and does not work well with this. As the old saying goes its like comparing apples to oranges.

ITT People assuming the worst based off a very small trickle of information

Already there @psy

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lost-Shores-Eeeeeeeeeee/page/2#post613587

Juris Doctor.9842:

There’s also a warning sign on the beach below the diving rock in LA that I can’t find any prior reference to. It has a picture of a guy running away from something and a lot of New Krytan on it.

The larger text says DANGER! “Board at your own risk”

Great event, great update. Far better then GW1 sitting in the city typing /laugh /dance.