Guild Wars 2

Harrier.9380:

You know what 3 years with this game taught me?
1. Don’t trust any hype Anet is trying to spin.
2. Until proven otherwise, expect new content to be mindless grind for some cosmetics.

Honestly, as a PvP player first I couldn’t care less for how big new zones are, gliding, masteries etc etc. Basically what I’m getting for 45€ is new class + elite specializations (since Stronghold is supposed to be included in vanilla). And I don’t find those anywhere near worth that price tag.

If I could get revenant + elite specs + general pvp stuff for 15-20€ I’ld totally pay that the second it became avaliable. 45€? Hell no.

This I can understand. You’re not interested in the PvE, and since expansions are largely based on PvE, it’s of no interest to you. However, part of the expansion is a new profession and specializations, which would affect PvP. Yeah, that can be frustrating. I can only hope on your behalf that they maybe add something to the gem store that maybe lets you buy the Revenant, though I doubt that they’d ever make the specializations a separate purchase.

I would have no issue with buying it on its own for $50. I just would expect new players to do what I did: buy BOTH the core game and the expansion.

But what you did was buy the game and played it for perhaps hundreds of hours. You’ve gotten your money’s worth since that initial purchase. Do new players get a better deal? Kind of. Keep in mind the game has been on sale many times, occasionally for only $10. No one seemed angry about that. People would pay $10 when you’ve paid at least $60 if you got it at launch, and you haven’t cared. This is also incentive for a larger player base, anyone that doesn’t have the game can get it bundled with the expansion now, which would ultimately liven up the game and make it a better experience.

Oh, and for those of you who have “supported” the game for 3 years. You haven’t been supporting them if you haven’t been buying gems regularly, and why would they create a separate price for the gamers that have been around since the start when there’s also players who may have actually bought gems and played more hours than you in the past year, and they may have only paid $10 during one of the sales. You want ArenaNet to distinguish between players based on when they bought the game, how much they paid for it at the time, how many gems they’ve bought, and how many hours they’ve played? I’m sorry, but your B.S. is in another castle. The only people I feel bad for are the ones who bought the game at launch, didn’t like it, and want to jump back in with the expansion now that there’s been tons of updates and this new bulk of content. That means if they want to try this MMO, they may throw down over $100, depending on which package they got at launch and which they’d get now. Even then, they still may not care for the game. Those are the only people who should be complaining about the price.

Holy crap, so many freaking whiners.
ArenaNet: “Okay, so the expansion is going to basically add at least double the amount of content that’s currently in the game. New maps that are super massive, each of these maps will also be about three times larger than they appear thanks to the 3 distinct biomes, it’s like you’re playing a completely different map depending on your altitude. Finally revealing guild halls, and we went all out for it. The whole shebang, decorations, your own map, gliding around, Guild vs Guild, everything worth adding is there. Not to mention a lot of the game-changing content is game-wide, so those who don’t get the expansion still get the new mastery system and specializations. We specifically hired new designers specifically for the sake of challenging group content since we haven’t been able to successfully create it in-house. All of this content and more has required tons of resources and effort. How much should we charge? Well, other MMOs charge $50 + sub fees, and you are basically buying a new game experience, so we’ll just charge the $50 (no sub fees). And as a nice little bonus, the expansion comes with the core game for those who don’t own Guild Wars 2. This should help boost the player base and prevent awkward situations where someone may accidentally just buy the expansion but not own the core game to play it. It would also prevent people from getting angry about having to buy both the game AND expansion, which would cost significantly more. Alright, I think that’s about a wrap. No one likes spending money, but I think we’ve shown that it’ll definitely be worth it.”

So quit your QQ’ing. The price is fine, though I do wish they would include an extra character slot with the base pack. It doesn’t necessarily affect me since I plan on getting the $100 pack anyways. But that slot should be allowed for existing (and new) players to try out and enjoy as many professions as possible, especially the new one.

That worked, thank you very much!

After this most recent patch (the feature pack), I wanted to finally be able to preview the finishers and select which one I want to use.

When I loaded up the Finishers tab, half of the icons were green and black checkerboards (assuming that this means they’re missing textures). I found this odd, and things didn’t improve when clicking on any of the icons, including the ones I own, did not show me any preview. I didn’t even get any form of rendering. Just the blank generic menu background.

A similar issue occurs for minis, though not as severe. Only two icons are missing and are replaced by a pink and white checkerboard. One more missing texture I’ve noticed so far is on the icon for the nearby events. The little orange icon thingy is visible, but it’s on top of a spinning white and pink checkerboard, which I found especially odd.

Some kind of response would be appreciated, and a fix would be even better. Yes, I’ve restarted my client 3 times already, so I’ll just wait for a bit and maybe pass the time with anime or something.