Guild Wars 2

I don’t understand why it has to be instanced? 1house per account, 2 million accounts atm divide among 40-50 servers, leaves50.000 houses per world. I don’t really see any difficulty in having 50.000 in this massive world, just don’t make it a cluster fk.

Yeah it’s better, it’s way better to be connected to the wildlife, an engineer could make his temporary vehicle, which would give him a speed bonus

I was checking the TP, does that not have all the gear on it ?

Speaking of Gear, there’s a hugh lack of it, I keep wearing the same gear throught lv.1-20, no real variety…
the guns are the same ( engineer )

That is how Besieged worked in FFXI, a game that is 11 years old. Besieged kept getting tougher until the monsters were beaten, once they were beaten it reset, steadily growing in difficulty.

Exactly, but the problem is how can we present this issue to ArenaNet, what are they actually prepared to change to satisfy customers like us?

How long did it take them for the Sleeper? Since the people in FFXI actually had to stop the fight cause of RL exhaustion. But please tell me how long it took them, despite that is not the issue here, the issue is that GW2 is TOO EASY, older games like EQ and FFXI presented more challenges.
Are people really so non persistent that they give up on a challenge if it proves to difficult is that the reason why ArenaNet delivered everything to their a..es?

There is no challenge in this game, if you want to look at challenge,
check out FFXI,
it has the officially hardest boss to beat, 36 people fighting it for 18 hours and had to stop due to real life exhaustion, the developer had to nerf the boss for it to be doable,
There is nothing difficult here, crafting is a joke and so are the quests, dynamic events do not punish you for failing, which they should.

They wont beat it, they are already lacking content for the powerplayers, there are no minigames worth playing no nothing, jumping puzzles are a joke, no real reward once you’ve completed one etc…
Subscription based MMOs are the way to go, just my opinion

Razamis.1062:

August.2678:

sandwitch.6159:

I could never play MMO, where:
1) Meeting another player in the same area is a nuisance to me, rather than a welcome sight
2) You have to pay monthly fee

These two I can agree on.
Monthly fees especially. I simply can’t see myself paying monthly again. That concept might have worked in the past when I played UO and with WoW in 2005, but not anymore.

10.2 million active subscribers on WoW and more when Mists of Pandaria comes out in 2 weeks, seems to completely disagree with you.

Just becuase you are either cheap or poor, doesnt mean everyone else is.

You get what you pay for in life, and GW2 being free certainly shows. When you are level 80 and there is nothing to do in PvE, and the broken SPVP system putting friends on other teams then other friends due to auto balancing, and WvW queue times being outrageous..

Yeah.. I will take the sub fee gladly. I pay for quality, and I get that with WoW, and others get that from other games. So dont act as if this Fail Wars 2 is some kind of revolution, when it really isnt.

I agree with Razamis, I doubt they will be able to produce enough content along the path to keep the power players satisfied, they have limited staff since they are not subscription based, with a subscription they could add 10 more dev 10 more of everything and dish out content everyweek if needed, people want stuff and getting more of that stuff is better, the best is getting more and more of the stuff in as little time as possible.

I think we all agree that mounts are essential, since the waypoints do not feel anywhere near natural. Giving money to a floating rock…

Just read the letter from the Producer for FFXIV and it seems I will be returning to FFXIV A Realm Reborn once it launches, I am sure GW2 will give me my money worth till then, but in the end its a game with no difficulty.
Cheers

Spot on Razamis, the game is too fast paces, the developers have promised free content updates, but with the speed of progress in this game, they better be quick at modeling and coding, since players are running out of things to do, it is going on way to fast, crafting especially, yesterday I crafted 100 salads, 100 marinated mushrooms and 100 cinamonn something and got 100 levels of cooking in return, no sense of achievement no nothing, since i did not have to gather the ingredients nor did I have to pass a test to become a cook etc…

No I went from 0-100, but I am pretty sure that if you use only recipes with 2 ingredients it will not cost a whole bunch more, btw I am doing cooking

I know people are lazy, but does that mean we have to encourage it? In FFXIV the crafting and gathering was like a whole MMO in itself, if you needed to craft something you went out there and got the mats and then crafted them on the spot.
And as far as the dmg, there would be a longer time through normal recovery like after combat

FFXI introduced crafting where you took dmg if you failed, similar to EQ2, so that would work great here aswell if you ask me

Yeah Daisako I agree, hopefully they add that, and like you said FFXI crafting is feasible here if we can grab ingredients from vendors or TPs OR vice versa

Why would they rage? They can still buy the end products from the TP, but if they want to craft let them put some effort in it

30 silver for 100 levels is a lot? I kind of doubt it

Like I said before if they atleast removed the option to get the ingredients from the TP, the crafting would be more immersive

I am really excited for ArcheAge

How is buying them from the BLTC hard? I mean I bought them in a minute, if the ingredients could only be gathered that would be A LOT better

Yeah, cause right now it does not present any reward, since it can be done in an hour to reach max rank…

I just want to point out this issue I am having, it took me 20 mins and 30 silver to get cooking from 0-101… The actual crafting took 3 minutes total, the other time was spent getting the ingredients from the BLTC.
I’d love crafting similar to either FFXI or FFXIV, crafting in FFXI was rewarding since it took a few moments per craft and you had the chance to fail, get normal result or produce a HQ item.
Cause this POWER Crafting is not very good in my opinion, what do you guys think?

I just want to point out this issue I am having, it took me 20 mins and 30 silver to get cooking from 0-101… The actual crafting took 3 minutes total, the other time was spent getting the ingredients from the BLTC.
I’d love crafting similar to either FFXI or FFXIV, crafting in FFXI was rewarding since it took a few moments per craft and you had the chance to fail, get normal result or produce a HQ item.
Cause this POWER Crafting is not very good in my opinion, what do you guys think?

They don’t really need to program them, just make up more strategies for the enemies for each event

Would you guys enjoy being able to use a glider after completing a jumping puzzle and ending up high up? Would give a unique view of the world, and it would be a little non material reward.

Would be interesting if not completing certain DE’s would have permanent consequences on the surrounding environment, but that’s practically impossible, it would be awesome if catapults shots could destroy trees, and after the players would have an event where they could plant the trees back.
Also since we have jumping puzzles it would be awesome if there would be a glider on top of the mountains and people could experience the world from a new point of view.

I know this isn’t a suggestion thread but how bout adding fishing, or bow practice, games in which people can compete, would be funny if you could play a form of ping-pong in an MMO or maybe just pong

Snaylor.2760:

Nyxx.8316:

Renegadeimp.8439:

ColinJohanson.2394:

No need to buy them, Gw2 will feature consistent free content updates and in-game events going forward. Our goal is to make it so you get more from Gw2 for free than you get from a game you pay a subscription for.

On top of a large amount of free bonus content, we will be expanding on offerings in the Black Lion Trading Company going forward, as well as be doing large-scale expansion content down the road.

We’ll cover a lot of the details on the kind of support and plans we have in place over the next month or so on the Gw2 blog and with our press partners.

We do appreciate that you’d like to buy lots of new content, but we’d prefer to give a lot of it to you for free, cause that’s what we think a responsible MMO company does!

Thats pretty much what ever modern MMO does though. It’s certainly not unique.

I’m sorry, but which ones? All the ones I know of make you pay a sub… and those that are F2P limit content until you start giving them money. (WoW, LOTR, SWTOR)

Same with this game in the form of yearly 40-60$ expansions. With Lotro I could have pretty much unlocked the entire game for 6 months with the 250 or so turbine points they give you for extra crap.

Anet is far from a saint, they have no sub fee because A) I highly doubt this game would be successful if it had one (I know I wouldn’t have bothered picking it up) and There are many other MMOs that are just as good as this one.

I’m sorry but which are actually as good? Which have such a compeling story and great visuals? I’d like to hear some ideas, and secondly why would this game not be successful if it had a sub fee? there are games like WoW and people pay subs for it and lets face it the time it takes them to model a piece of weapons is counted in seconds since everything is low poly, WoW requires less effort from the developers and it’s nothing but a grind fest, where as here you have DE’s and Quests and all in all A LIVE WORLD

I think few people actually realise this fact, apart from the ones who read the post, they should make an announcement?

He plays the game, reads the forums, all while having sand in his vodka…

ALIENS!

Indeed, great news If all companies had such strategies, the world would be a better place

Any other ways we can show support? Are there any online awards, where GW2 is nominated?

Wow! Thanks ColinJohanson, that is absolutely great news! I thank you for taking the time to read this thread, can you by any chance tell us if fishing would be viable?

Cheers to You!

I mean they could drastically lenghten the game if they added things like fishing and crafting that is done similarly to FFXIV, cause lets face it 1 click crafting is just not that inviting. Adding weddings and etc would be great, I for one would love to marry my RL fiancee ingame before I do in RL Such small things are great, people really take them on and explore them to their max potential, or reserving a bar in the city for their guild, stuff like that.

I did not say that anything was wrong with their current model, I was just worried how long it will take for them to bring out the first expansion, since some players are already practically finishing their endgame, there are videos with people on youtube with full achievements etc…

FISHING! If they add this you will see me doing nothing else but that, also if they could add portable crafting stations, I play FFXIV and you could have a small furnace with you and bake the fish, you could have a small anvil and a hammer and do blacksmithing, or make crafting stations in the small camps around the map.

I think a great idea for the forums would be giving the activate and wellbehaved and manered forum members some additional power, this would make for a better link to the developers, to the support, etc…
ArenaNet has a lot on their hands and people would be happy to help out and maybe receive a gem or two for their contributions.

Your Thoughts?

I actually find it too slow… Am I doing something wrong? I mean I only play 1-2 hours a day and in that time I kill everything I see and do every event and quest I can I am only lv.11 :P

Yeah I have a huge problem with this aswell, what bothers me even more is that the Ranger pets look the same as their monster counterparts …

I have some, incase they have not been said yet :
-Mounts
-Scuba Gear (with lamps ? )
-Housing
-Macros
-I’d love to see pets for Ranger be a bit different from the normal monsters

Thanks, worth every penny,
Wish you had any job openings I’d relocate in a heart beat

Indeed! Very well executed ArenaNet
I raise my glass to you mate, Cheers

I’m not sure how much I like my server, since it does seem pretty empty, deserted even… It’s quite strange, in my city ( Black Citadel ) I have not encountered a single human, sylvari, asura or norn. Do they not have access or do they just decide not to come to that specific area?

Yeah Oudo, any chance for the source of that information?

Ruins of Sumria for me, had some RL friends on it Too Bad tho, but we might be engaged in some WvWvW soon

Nyxx which server are you on? Seems we have the same vision for this game would be fun to play together a bit

It would be great, if they could push forward smaller updates, including new gear and smaller monsters and maybe ranger pets, etc, while the expansions would add whole worlds, dungeons, classes, skills, housing etc.
That would be the perfect business model if you ask me, as it would be great with the hardcore gamers, striving for the best gear aswell as the laidback, who have yet to even finish the first content.

Oh I agree with you Nyxx, I’d pay another 50$ just for that , for housing, growing crops, like a sandbox mmo minecraft sort of thingie