Its just slick advertising speak to make you think you are saving more than you really are. This game is going to put cash shops in all video games under regulatory scrutiny by the time they get done with it.
That’s ok though they are still to expensive at 1,560 per 25. $19.50…
I bought Guild Wars 2 as it was sold as a PvP oriented, non grind mmo. WvW is PvP whether Anet cares to admit it or not.
To ignore it would be foolish. If they want to make this a PvE game and focus on the tedious, gimmicky, non-rewarding dungeons and rip people off with their RNG chest cash grab business model then please let us know now so we don’t have to keep hoping for them to pull their heads out of the sand.
“Each Consortium chest is guaranteed to contain new items like shoulder skins, weapon skins, or exclusive lost shore minis!”
To an educated person, that statement is akin to the predatory lending practices of credit card companies. No one should be able to use the word “guaranteed” in regards to these chests. Very deceptive cash grab this is becoming.
I’m finding it harder and harder to spend gems on any items. The dollar cost just doesnt make it worthwhile
I bought a 10 pack of these chests.. basically spent $22.50 and got…nothing exciting .. at all. Probably 2 gold worth of stuff if I were to sell it ALL on the exchange. To tell us that there is a small chance of getting some super duper rare item thats worth a lot is a total sham.
I’m a value kind of guy and there are a LOT of other things I could have spent $22.50 on and gotten a lot more enjoyment out of it.
Boosters? Extremely expensive.
edit: the more i do the math, the more angry i get. Do you honestly expect people to spend hundreds of dollars a month on your game for random crap to hope they get an item? I’m sure theres some well off people out there buying up keys like crazy but a fool and their money are soon parted.
Why buy a Magic find booster? If you just exchange the gems for in game currency it would net you more than whatever extra magic items you found because of the booster.
Play 10 times harder than them and hope they make a mistake.. and you don’t
They will be fixed eventually (has to happen), we just don’t know when.
Once it is fixed all the roflcopter fotm noobs will move on to some other class
Smashing your keys harder and screaming in vent doesn’t mean you play harder. Go play TPvP maybe you’ll learn a thing or two.
Nah, I am completely right. To beat anyone you have to play better than them. Thieves have a severe advantage over nearly all of the classes, requiring that much more skill from an opponent to be defeated. But then again, I see a Thief in your sig so I see you are nervous about your ezmode going away. You might want to grab a box of tissues.
edit: an update! Rolled a brand new thief, went straight to sPvP and proceeded to own the other team in my first match! 6 kills no deaths. dual daggers..preset build. I doubt the entire team I was fighting was so bad that this was possible. Definitely can’t say I’m any good with a Thief either, its just pure imbalance at its finest. Ah well, back to a real class.
the part i love is how when I finally get close to killing a thief 1v1 in WvW, they just stealth and there is next to nothing I can do except hope I hit the right spot and somehow knock em down. I had to play better than them just to get them to that point and with the flick of a button , poof. ezmode noobs imo
I agree with making it cost a substantial amount of influence and each guild can only have one. If you want to change to another person as Commander it should be another substantial influence cost.
Theres a few different ways to do this I guess but with the current system I fear we may end up with 30+ commanders on a map at some point lol. Hopefully I’m wrong
wow never really noticed anyone using cheesy work around tactics until tonight with Anvil Rock. people hiding in walls, finding invulnerable spots to stand in walls, placing catapults in “interesting” places that manage to hit half of a tower. Very dissappointing to see such dishonorable shenanigans from such a large group of people.
Best match for me since the game’s release. It is coming down to the wire and it looks like Borlis is going to win but the tally is split almost exactly 3 ways and there are good fights everywhere at the moment
wow i stand corrected. this morning was a trainwreck but at least there are some good fights now. we went a full week without seeing that so I wasn’t expecting much
subsciptions or not, losing players means less micro transactions, less people playing means dead servers at some point. People will also be less likely to buy the next expansion either. It’s all relative.
I keep hearing that it will balance itself out, its self correcting, blahblahblah
That’s all well and good but if something is going to take over 2 months to self correct you can count on losing a lot of players in the process. A lot of people probably quit logging in as opposed to transfering. The ones continually transfering will quit when thats fixed.
I log in for about a half hour now before I have had enough of the BS. I play this game for the WvW if its not going to be even remotely fun, I’ll just go do something else. I dont feel like hopping servers to have fun.
I think every single guild that had a commander left GoM. Was just some random people shouting different things in Map chat last night.
The match is already getting away from us for the week. (GoM) If we had 3 day matches I probably wouldnt mind as much. But its still 7 day and I’m willing to bet the server transfer steamroll starts tomorrow or tonight.
This is getting pretty frustrating. I would like to organize something but unfortunately I just don’t have the time to devote to do it properly anymore.
Zerging the crap out of anything that is taken within 5 seconds and then proceeding to spawn camp is bad form. Can’t even finish a good 1v1 in the wilderness without 4 or 5 more showing up.
just tried to do stuff in EB. I do one productive thing and get zerged 5 seconds later. Not wasting any more of my time with this rubbish. Just logged….WvW is such a joke in its current state.
I’m in! 3 Days would be perfect. As it is I don’t really log in for any length of time monday through thursday. Battle is always over by Sunday night in my book.
Thanks for the updates but I’m still wondering about the following
1. Are free server transfers going to be addressed?
2. Are you looking at shortening the 7 day battle length?
3. What is going to be done about night capping?
I agree with Kanikani, it doesn’t seem like things are going in the right direction
Just an update. YB/GoM/SF matchup did not even last 3 days. It was already over by this morning. Less than 24 hours.
This self correcting business is going to make a lot of people quit before it actually corrects. I definitely don’t feel like getting spawn camped until Friday.
was a great 3 way battle on all fronts last night. GoM ,vs Yak’s vs SF. But as usual Yak’s just night capped the entire map very late and now its a blowout. It has nothing at all to do with tactics… nothing to do with skill, nothing (dare I say to do with server transfers..yet) It’s a joke really. Would have been such a good matchup. Now let the fairweather crotch stains all flock to Yak’s and create another 300k + win.
was a great 3 way battle on all fronts last night. GoM ,vs Yak’s vs SF. But as usual Yak’s just night capped the entire map very late and now its a blowout. It has nothing at all to do with tactics… nothing to do with skill, nothing (dare I say to do with server transfers..yet) It’s a joke really. Would have been such a good matchup. Now let the fairweather crotch stains all flock to Yak’s and create another 300k + win.
Yak’s was leading for a bit but it was clear that SoR was gaining ground fast. I might have been 1 day off. My point is that there would have been (and probably still would be now) good fights to be had and MUCH closer scores. Perhaps Yak’s and SoR would have flipped scores a couple more times…maybe GoM would have pulled into second… who knows? The massive amount of band wagoners you got ruined any hope of that.
I don’t think server transfers determined this week’s outcome. SoR was in the lead from day 1 if I recall. All the transfers did was completely ruin this week by creating a total steamroll zergfest.
Now you get stupid queue times on SoR and 2 other completely demoralized enemies who don’t even want to bother by the end of the week.
If transfers were under control SoR may still have won but I think all 3 sides would be enjoying some good fights and these posts would look a lot different.
I’m sure this has been discussed on this forum but I just wanted to really make it a point.
7 Days is entirely to long with WvW in its current state.
I am on Gate of Madness and we have been losing since day 1 of this week’s matchup but more importantly, losing horribly since Monday.
Oddly enough I play this game for WvW…it reminds me of the DAOC of old and no game has been able to match that until GW2. I have barely logged any game time this week since Sunday night simply because we can’t do anything productive without getting zerged by 200 people.
I don’t know if shortening the battles to 3 days duration is the answer but in its current state, it cannot be healthy for the game. I have yet to see a WvW that changes drastically from what the order is on Monday. It seems like Tuesday through Friday until reset is just “dead” time.
