Guild Wars 2

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Heya guys,

Just installed new patch I can’t log in on a few characters and some make me crash after like 3-5 seconds. Anyone else with this problem? HELP?!

Sincerely,

Blue

I was the commander of the Crimson team. I’d like to say to all of my members that they did an excellent job in both phases. Everyone did what they were told and kept that pressure on. It was a great effort by everyone involved, including those who guested from other servers.

Thank you, again. Those who listened. Those who stayed. Those who stepped up. Everyone came together and contributed.

Also, thank you to Desolation and TTS for working with us in a lot of instances and offering their perspectives and input.

<3 you Blackgate. See you at the next kill!

Treborlavok.3504:

[…] ppl like goals.

I never have a lot of faith when a post opens with a fallacy.

When has goal-oriented stuff ever been mutually inclusive of grind? I’ll bring up Saints Row IV again — I completed that easily, and I had fun with it. My “goal” was experiencing more of the story, and seeing what fun toys they’d throw at me next. Grind is an excuse for proper content.

Yes, people like goals, but only poor, brainwashed sots think they genuinely enjoy grind. With a quality game, you can have goal-oriented gameplay with no grind at all. The grind in Guild Wars 2 is just to disguise the copy-pasted content. It’s a known scientific fact that operant conditioning works on us, so it’s a pretty cheap shot to use it in place of actually making your game fun. And that it works so successfully that it’ll have people like you defending it?

That’s depressing.

Treborlavok.3504:

Vertical progression is how the big games have survived this long.

Then explain why many ancient FPS games, even older than WoW, have gotten by without it. This is a fallacy, because you’re assuming that grind is essential to an MMO having a long life. Correlation does not equal causation.

Treborlavok.3504:

You don’t need to be a basement dweller to succeed in gw2.

That was never the argument. You’re creating a straw-man here because you’re building constructs to argue against which are easier for you to combat.

The argument is that ArenaNet claims that casual players can be on equal footing with everyone else. Yet the reality of the matter is that in order to grind for Ascended, you would have to be a no-lifer, a basement dweller with nothing else to do other than play the game. In the sporadic periods a normal person would play Guild Wars 2, they’d probably not see an Ascended weapon before 2015, and that’s being generous.

This means that there’s content that’s locked out from them, just because they don’t have the time to grind that a basement dweller does. And the content is designed in such a way that it’s inaccessible unless you have the key to pass it, the cheat, as I described. And instead of just obtaining the cheat, you have to spend a nontrivial portion of your life grinding for it. You have to grind for a cheat to bypass an otherwise impossible segment of the game.

If the game was skill-based, then you wouldn’t have sections that would be impossible to bypass without a cheat (gear).

You know, it’s funny. Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum was never completed, so there was a room you could never get past. Up until that point, you could play the game with your wits and skills alone. What if you had to replay the game 500,000 times before you could get a cheat to move onto other sections of the game?

That’s what MMOs (including GW2) are doing, and it’s unacceptable.

Treborlavok.3504:

Noone is forcing us to get ascended/legendary items/weapons.

Except for the content that requires it, you mean? Do you like shooting yourself in the foot?

Treborlavok.3504:

It still comes down to skill level, not stats.

If that’s true, then please enlighten me, what non-gear related skills are involved in playing GW2? I’m very interested. Please elaborate!

You were probably hoping that this would be a throwaway point that wouldn’t be picked up on, but I’m calling you out. I want you to tell me exactly what skills you’re talking about.

Treborlavok.3504:

I highly doubt gw2 would’ve kept even half it’s player base if they never introduced ascended items and new content.

So, grinding and new content are mutually inclusive, now?

That explains why the content of most single player games is riddled with grind that takes months upon months to even come near to completing! …oh, wait. Single player games aren’t like that at all!

Now, let’s drop the silly inclusive comments, shall we?

Treborlavok.3504:

Ppl woildve gotten bored having nothing to strive for in a game.

You’re turning a video game, a source of entertainment, into work. Oh, you poor thing, you actually believe what you’re saying, don’t you?

Then this must mean that I need to ‘strive for’ something when I sit down to watch a movie, or read a book, or listen to music. Perhaps I need to push a button on my TV 5,000 times before I can watch a show. That’s how it should be, right?

That’s what GW2 is, pushing a button on your TV 5,000 times before you can sit down to enjoy a show.

Treborlavok.3504:

You max out and then your at a level playing field… Then what…

Then new content is brought out to justify money being put into the game. Most games do that with DLCs. You might have heard of them.

Guild Wars 1 did just fine doing that, and it’s still alive, kicking, and healthy.

theyre billing themselves as the fastest selling mmo so unless they have some sever cognitive dissonance im assuming that means money

As I’ve said in another post:
The game tells one thing and shows completely another.
Says: World in peril, Shows: Partying. There’s nothing to support that Tyria is in danger.
Says: Humanity on verge of extinction, Shows: few centaur attacks here and there. Besides humans have exactly the same everything as other races – big capital, smaller towns. And the rest isn’t supposedly on the edge…
Says: invasions, Shows: Mobs teleporting in swamps doing nothing.
Says: Dragons awoke. Shows: Zhaitan. That’s a dragon, not dragons.

Presentation is horrible. We have beautiful festivals full of details, but one important detail is ALWAYS missing – that we are in Tyria on which dragons are real and deadly threat, that humanity is fighting for survival, that other races are enduring dragon corruption.
Instead “baaash the dragon, baash the dragon, bla bla bla bla”. We have Karka, we have pirates (yarr!), we have Flame Legion and Dredge, we have Zephyrites, we have Kiel, we had Evon. We are full of everything but it’s like different road on the crossroad which is distant from the road we were taking.
Why even one trailer didn’t show Scarlet, invasions, dredge, Karka? It’s always been dragons. Dragons with the power of enslaving all. Instead we have miss pseudo-genius aka “diediediediediediediedie”. And pirates (yarr!).

But …they’re wiggly! =o

@ Marcus.

WOW dude. That was one impressive post. I agree on the temp content, I REALLY want it to be permanent and I’m impressed by your solutions for it. Thank you very much for the quotes and the link to that article about Cantha and Elona, you really lifted my spirits. You seem very well informed and I’m more than satisfied by your response. I just hope we dont have to wait too long for it! xD Thanks again for putting so much time into your post and comforting a weary old man…. (I’m actually only 23, but it sounded appropriate)

No Walking.6349:

The only place in the ENTIRE GAME where we can have REAL gank PvP because all the QQers and carebears forced it out of this game…..and you want to change this too???? Go away and run dungeons.

The pinnacle of PvP is killing people in loading screens and spawn camping.

Rosen Myst.7641:

At this point in time I highly doubt we’ll ever see the Crystal Desert. GW2 is being developed in a completely different direction. They have no reason to revisit old areas including Cantha and Elona. If they did open up the Crystal Desert, I’m sure it wouldn’t look anything like what we remember. So it’d just be a disappointment.

Such melodrama.

There’s no carrot on an ever increasing in length stick.

Because there are a zillion games out there, and X number of hours in the day. Because people have real lives that take time. Because people are frustrated with some of the bugs and don’t have patience for bug fixes (they think ten months is a long time in programming terms). Because some people exhausted all the content. Because some people like other games better. Because some people stopped gaming. Because some people have friends that play other games. Because other MMOs have gone free to play. Because new MMOs have come out and they want to try them.

I’ve seen a number of people leave the game and I’ve seen quite a few return to the game as well.

In the end, people leave for all different reasons, not just one.

It’s entirely possible this is a niche game and those who find this niche stay and those who don’t like this niche go to find another one.

I’d say with the possible exception of WoW, every single other MMO is a niche game. There are bigger niches and smaller niches. Guild Wars 2 is actually a bigger niche because it offers an experience most other games don’t. Other games tend to be smaller niches, because they’re all trying to appeal to the exact same type of player.

But you don’t need 10 million people to have a successful MMO. Eve is successful and has half a million.

The days of 10 million player MMOs are pretty much gone, at least until a decent MMO comes out for consoles (because so many people play console games).

My wife got a fused weapon ticket and I didn’t. I am NOT telling you where I buried the body. lol

Theftwind.8976:

The rng Gods hate me with a passion. So far I have dumped well over 250 rare Greatswords and probably close to 100 exotic Greatswords down the Mystic Toilet with no success at all at a precursor. Today, while doing her daily, the better half (not sure how long I will still call her that now) dumped 4 totally random rares on the Toilet and got the Tooth of Frostfang. So if you do not see me in game for awhile it is because I will be occupied beating my head against the nearest brick wall.

She can be the better half
You can be the bitter half.

I was like oh dear god what happened to my account lol.. Then came to forums to see:

“We’re aware of the login issues and we’re working on it. Don’t worry, we didn’t just convert all of you to free trial players!”

And lol’d :P Now THAT would have been a funny april fools :P

I don’t get it… you do know that GW2 isn’t a charity right? They need to pay their bills. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing you want in the gem store. What you don’t want are ascended weapons and armor or 500% PvP damage boosts.

Daddy.1825:

necros should get a condition thats like bleed but better

TWO BLEEDS

It may not work in WvW. Try it on your server instead…or use the /unblock character name command.

Aeonblade.8709:

Naqaj.6219:

Aeonblade.8709:

It’s actually 26, so he isn’t far off. Us video gamers will be a dying breed eventually at this rate!

Quite the opposite, the audience is growing steadily. The constant marketing focus on the male, white late teens/early 20ies gamer is just utterly disproportionate to the actual distribution of demographics. Take a minute or two to read through http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp for some interesting numbers.

Cool, thanks for the link, will check it out. I had heard a few months ago VG’s were having trouble attracting a new audience, at least on the mmo side of things. Good to know I’ll have some people to play with even when I’m sitting in a rocking chair with an old laptop :p

Screw that. I’m having my rocking chair be manufactured by Alienware.

How can a topic like this not turn off-topic:D
Tou I find it funny:) I kill the critters in-game, not real life.. And guess what my small cousins do the same .. In-game.. Not real life.. Very different.. Like seeing a man get hit by a car in a game/movie/w/e.. And real life.. Very different..
Kinda opposite here, watching blood, wounds or surgery in telly doesn’t make me sick, but I don’t like to watch it.. Real life it is fair game.

Teach kids to be responseble and act rational, don’t put a sack over their head:)

Gaile Gray.6028:

Changing a password is a tiny thing that takes just a couple of minutes, at most, and it can make all the difference.

Actually, it’s only trivial like that for those who don’t take their password security seriously, for those of us that do it’s a PITA.

I have a way of deriving a site’s password based on the name of the site and a small pool of 4-digit numbers which I combine with a special character is a deterministic way so I don’t have to remember it; I can derive it from first principles.

I have two GW2 accounts so I have now to have two different passwords: a pain.

This means I need to derive two passwords using these rules and the remember which I attached to which account: a pain.

So I have to use a password manager, because otherwise I’ll likely get locked out of an account if I use the ‘wrong’ password more than a couple of times: a pain.

If you really must pander to those too inept to secure themselves, at least provide an option to those of us who DO know what they’re doing and provide a opt-out.

That article by O’Brien is long on waffle, light on real content and well-argued security aspects: as Bruce Schneier says (and if you don’t know who he is perhaps it’d be worth researching him) about many things in the security world, it’s largely “security theater”.

Oh, BTW, a company that uses e-mail addresses as login names to web forums and on-line games really shouldn’t be lecturing others on the subject of account security.

Given an e-mail address is the key to account security, forcing users to enter it every time they log in (thus providing keyloggers and wire sniffers more opportunities to grab them) isn’t a great idea, is it?

Just saying.

This entire thread is proof of a failure in customer service. In this “age of the internet” word of mouth is an even greater form of advertisement than ever.
One complaint is a normal day, two complaints a problem, but three is a failure that will cost money. Should have never got this far and could have been avoided with a simple “Smile and a ’We are working to resolve this problem.” In the end people don’t generally care about results, what they care about is feeling like someone is listening to them, communication costs very little compared to the alternative. I hope that the issue of “perceived strange drops behavior” does get fixed, but this thread shows that for some atleast it is already too little too late.

Heya.

I can’t understand at all, why in the new Event, people that talk “hay this event was awesome” nothing is done but if someone gives negative feedback over this event (constructive feedback also), the thread is usually closed?

I Just see this message alot “Hello everybody,
thanks for all your comments and feedback.” And then it’s closed.

Why? Just can’t get why not letting some topics from getting discussed over the new events…

This game will be dead before they get around to what they actually promised us to get us to buy the game. They are too busy throwing everything new and progressive out the window in an effort to quickly WoW it up.

Elricht Kaltwind.8796:

The addition of a few new items that aren’t even as good as other items that already exist in the game. I mean are you joking?

You either have no clue about any of this or you are literally playing a different game.