Guild Wars 2

Had to block 3 gold sellers this morning, each wispered me multiple times. Its pretty random – some days its zero, some days its continuous untill you leave the lobby.

People who have never seen a gold seller in pvp lobby, its probably a time of day thing, dont post with “its not a problem, your imagining it” as I can assure you this isnt true.

1. Its about time someone we report as a gold seller was automaticaly blocked, why do I have to click 4 times?
2. F2P accounts should not be allowed to wisper more than 1 person per min in the pvp lobby until they level up past pvp 20.

150% price, 50% product – that 200% total so awesome value! (heavy sarcasm)

The focus is raids now, which reminds me of why I quit WoW (elitest jerk qq about how noobs ruin raids, seen exactly the same **** in gw2 GC this last week, great here we go again).

GW2 may well die, you know im actualy pretty fine with that as I feel I have put in enough money and time already given what I havent got out of it.

It takes a lot of effort to add ledgendary weaps due to the “journeys” that have to be added, its great content but not for everyone so maybe more LS style content is a more efficent use of devs time, hope so, time will tell.

1 hour in DS, 2 mins before dragon kill and on 200% map contribution I get a DC (not the first time this has happened in DS on final fight) – log back in and cant get back into the map (was in squad of course but map was full).

Hour wasted, again, great.

Can we not have the server remember the map you were in for a short time? I mean you were disconnected so you have personaly contributed to the map, hell leave your space open for 2 mins so you can reconnect, then after 2 mins give it to whoever else is clicking join.

I hate the idea of paying (expansions are not cheap) for someone to waste my time!

This bug is still very much present, it can take many attempts for this achieve. From what people are saying if anyone uses cc on the abominaion it can cause the achive to not work and apperently its a thing now to do this in order to troll other players

Its “progression” and he is “progressing” more than you, you need to level something and do some grinding and unlock some stuff – how dare you think that playing the game is enough, PROGRESSION!

Its difficult to judge relative numbers of bugs, have I seen some, sure… have I seen more than other MMO releases? Not realy. Overall I wouldnt expect to get all $50 worth of play in 4 days, I hope to be playing for the next 2 years (assuming Anet dont ban me for saying they are not perfect on the Forums, actualy quite likley the way things are going).

This question has been asked many times and the answer is the same. You got 3 years of play out of the game, during a time when it was not free.

As far as Anet are concerned you got a good deal, giving away what you paid to create, for free, may seem lame however the game is not yours, all you paid for was access.

Yes if you want to progress in the game you have to pay again. You may be thinking that this is not what you thought you were buying into, and you would be right, unfortunatly nobody cares.

0/10 its all about “progression” which suits some gamers 100% and dosent care about anyone else. I just saw a player with 100 mastery points standing next to someone with 1, wasnt too sure who to feel sorry for the most. Personaly I think HoT is a move away from GW core values, people should feel like they can progress not like they have to.

I disagree with Lome.8239 who seems to be saying that you need to L2P (its classic troll mentantility to go through the forums and tell everyone who says anything negative that they are not good enough and its all their fault). That being said the hero points are intended to be given for the more difficult content i.e. not for killing boars in the forrest (south park joke incase you missed it). The fault rests with the whole idea of hero points which have basicaly become one of a number of bad attempts at leveling for max level chars. This is not about having fun, this is about giving you something to aim for so you dont get bored and leave the game, its called “progression” and you should probably get used to it.

The grind is real.

Its just nice ANet didnt raise the level cap for HoT, no wait, they just gave every char something else to level instead… Did this game suddenly become an enormous grind?

You are wrong Lome.8239, gated content does not “allow” progression, it “limits” it.

The idea of time gating is to stop people rushing and then QQing about how they have nothing to do. What should happen in a top level MMO is the content is relesed in stages, some people rush (and QQ but you give them other things to get on with like ultra hard mode raids that take months) while other people finish in a few weeks (rather than hours/days) and get on with things like fractles/dungeons/crafting etc…

I find the personaly story to be rather dull, like it should be over already and is just being drawn out because someone high up in Anet likes it rather than because its actualy a good idea.

Plenty of people play GW2 with a small number of friends (e.g. one or two who may or may not be online together every day/week). I get the impression that the idea is to use the building in LA as a base of operations. Personaly I dont think this is a good enough alternanitive and can understand why people feel left out.

This is probably just part of “progression” i.e. guilds are ment to “progress” by doing things as a guild. This game is a lot less casual than it used to be and im not impressed, I have nothing against “progression” hell I played WoW for 6 years but giving sheeple the choice of “play as or group of 5 or get effectivly nothing” and “capture a grand hall the size of a city or get no building of your own” seems to be either harsh or stupid, depending on your perspective.

The core game is now free, so you can get a discount for exactly $0 which is what ANet seem to think everything pre-HoT is worth. Personaly I find this rather insulting and would have prefered F2P to be limited to lvl 40 with unlocking lvl 80 costing about $10.

Basicaly as a veteran player you have had fun playing the game for 3 years so you have got your moneys worth, if you want to continue with more content then its time to pay again. There is still no subscription to GW2 but it seems very very likley that you will be forced to re-buy the game every year or two. ANet dont value you as a veteran player, get used to it.

An expansion for a regular game is never as expensive as the original game was, clearly Gw2 is an MMO and clearly people play it more than most games (buy a game, compelet it, never paly it again etc is NOT what you do with an MMO). Its perfectly logical to look at the price for HoT and say “that looks like a new game” – in a way it is a new game, just look at whats happening to the core game.

All the content we have helped to create over the last three years is now being given away for free, that means its worthless. HoT isnt an expansion for GW2, it is all GW2 will be from relese day and thereafter. Of course when the next expansion comes out HoT will be added to F2P and what you pay today will be as worthless as the core game.

This isnt a regular “expansion” like wow and its not an “expansion” in the way GW1 had “expansions”, this is a different concept where the “old” game is given away free to attract new players and the existing (new non-F2P) players are given new content and progression (make no mistake, masteries will be required, they are the new way to level your char) to keep them playing. This is somewhere between wow expansions and the original subscription-free GW1 concept.

From the official ANet Raid blog – "Raids will also tie into our new, advanced Mastery system of progression. "

Its hypocritical to say levels and gear are not being incresed so this means content is not being invalidated and at the same time introduce an entirely new system of progression.

Lightbringer was a single skill, masteries are much much more.

Ignoring the price of HoT and the fact that F2P accounts can now lvl to 80 and go anywhere (both of which I find insulting) I have a serious question with respect to the level cap.

lvl 80 is still “maximum” however it seems clear to me now that masteries are the new “maximum” and if your char does not have them (or cannot because you are F2P/have not bought HoT) then you are not done yet in terms of “getting your char to maximum”.

GW1 never raised the level cap during expansions, your older lvl 20 chars never became “underpowered” because the “maximum” stayed at lvl 20. Sure extra char classes and content was added but what you had was not de-valued.

I think ANet are being sneeky and de-valuing existing chars/accounts in order to force people to buy HoT, masteries are being sold as new-content when infact they are the new level 80.

Thoughts? (keep comments on-topic or take your worthless troll-opinion elsewhere :p)

I have seen a lot of talk ingame about the price of the HoT so those people who think this is not an issue are wrong/trolls/whatever – it is an issue and many more people would have pre-orded if it was cheaper. The reality is that we, the existing gamers, have paid to make GW2 what it is today and ANet have decided that ALL the existing contet (core game) should be free from HoT – frankly this is insulting, having a lvl 80 char should not be worthless. Is it worth paying for HoT, well if you dont you will have no more content than a F2P account so its up to you.

Can we do something about the gates of arah event chain pls, too many times in the last few weeks I have seen a small group of people who actually want to do this event chain stopped by people who want the event to fail on the champ after the escort to ancorage wp phase – today it was some “omg I have a commander tag and therefore have to yell orders at everyone around me in caps” COMMANDER telling everyone to stop dps because he wanted to farm the champ. About 10 out of 30 people continued to attack the champ (I assume they wanted to complete the event) while the rest held back – the timer ran out and the small group that wanted to play the game as intended were prevented.
This is lame, farming is fine but not when it prevents people actually playing the game.

Get rid of this champ pls, or make some other change to fix this.