Guild Wars 2

ok, since then.
I clearly have apologized and sincerely.

I can’t imagine having to be the community manager and try to make sense out of any of this. I mean there are some great posts here. But it seems to me that there could be a better way to help streamline this feedback. Is there anyone that has any suggestions ?

Also, I completely agree about RIFT.

That used to be the goto game, and where I was hardcore in. Like as in 18 hours straight playing. When It went to crap, I was disappointed at first, guild fell apart, raids fell apart, etc. But the best part… was that I had a real life again. I did things, I went outside, I had BBQ’s, I spent time with family, my son more. I have pictures to prove it.

I feel there is a danger, especially for me with my conditions mentally – that keep people like me glued to the keyboard and mouse spending countless hours playing. Because of mental health issues that keep me from trying to rebuild my personal life.

After a while, you get sick of building and rebuilding, only to see it fall apart again.
When you have the obstacles like this in your life, it tends to make a person bitter quickly. I am certain there are many others like me with the same or even more limitations in their lives that play GW2. I feel it is important to include this personal information in this post, because it makes me intimately associated and familiar with this game and experience it in a whole different way.

I can’t excuse my outbursts, because they just are. They just happen. I can only explain why they happen, or what their source is. Perhaps this is the same for the other folks that are negative on these forums ? Who knows. I have painfully learned many times in my life, that you get better results with honey, than you do with vinegar. I have a real knack for pushing everyone in my life away. I am working on that though. I really am.

I guess my question now leads me to think, where do we go from here ?
Is there some type of forum that we can create to put in the type of feedback that really needs addressing in regards to the game ?

Is there a community manager here that weeds thru these posts 1 by 1 in hopes that they find some sort of relevance ?

THIS is the type of post that gets the devs attention, REAL feedback.
I was kittened last night, I come to forum and see nothing BUT trolling, and folks just being generally ungrateful. Nothing is going to be perfect, but if you look at what you DO have, you will see that it is 500 % better than anything you have EVER played before.

Be kind to the devs, stick up for them, encouraging folks to add positivity was something lacking in my original post, and that is because I was kittened. ( NAMI )
So, I apologize for that. But, please, please, report bugs, talk to devs, create rather than the other. Because it is far harder to live, than it is to do the other.

I will work on my wording in future posts.

Thanks

ledernierrempart.6871:

lets be clear,

gw2 is for me the best mmo/rpg i have played. i haven’t enjoyed starting playing others mmo/rpg like i did when i started gw2.
the art is wonderfull, the maps are all great, well designed and feels very differents.
quests system and living event is a very good idea and was very well implemented (i am not talking about HOT here).
the combat system is one of my favourite (my favourite being tera’s one). the class and builds diversity is very nice, maked me theory craft for hours because you could do so many different things with only one class. pvp was simple but fun back in time, we were happy with what we had. WvW was very alive + obsidian sanctuary giving me hours of fun gameplay when buses fought over the jumping.
the living story was amazing + the events of the living story like the nightmare tower, super adventure box, all about scarlet etc…
the fact you can choose how to start your principale quests was very appealing forcing me to create lots of character to test them out. i had a wonderful time on gw2.
i could go on with lots of other pros but today there is so many cons that kill the game for us, old players. (i have nearly 3 years of playing).

whats wrong with gw2?
well first anet has a communication problem, they seem to not listen properly to the community.
WvW became lame and boring because of the lack of new things and of the HOT downgrade. pvp became even worst with the new op classes and tank meta.
anet, instead of balancing the game little by little they just do nothing until their big patch. balacing every 3 months when you try to make a competitive game (e-sport duh) is rubbish. their new pvp game, stronghold, is lame and boring (i wont go in the details here but feel free to ask). the new pve was refreshing… for 1 to 2 months. then it became boring and repetitive. mordremoth gave us a better fight than zaitan but was still disappointing and boring. (the best story/bosses to fight was in the season2 of the living story. it gave me hope for the HOT story. i was really disappointed).
anet waited to launch HOT to resolve some issues on some class skills that were there since launch… dungeon history mod is very well done, dungeons are nice overall… they killed dungeons with HOT. i don’t mind farming dungeons, but i mind opening chests mindlessly in a desert. they took their time to get rid of some problems in dungeons that let people rush bosses like their were a moa. the comunity loved the dungeons, they asked for more difficulty, and better reward. anet maked dungeons easier and divided by 3 the gold you earn without any up in loot or special reward.
people wanted less blob fight in WvW and more groupe fights all over the place. stab change and HOT favourised blob fights. WvW still got kittenty rewards, only WvW is affected by server changing. (if you pve or spvp you don’t care on what server you are).
NO GVG. guild wars cough cough…
super adventure box not coming back (i know they had a problem with it so they couldn’t release it again but hey, how long has it been since the last time we had an event like this?) raid rewards are for a legendary armor… who cares. i ll be glad to try hard to get a special reward… but for only legendary armor i ll just not waste my time and energy to try to beat the raid. (tho the raid are very good!!)
loot in fractals are a joke. i dreamed one day i could drop the fractal endless tonic… sure come back in 10 years. tonics are a very nice addition. some use them for wandering around while others for some RP. so far, no special tonics or special furnitures giving us the opportunity to sit on chairs. no duels (at least im ok with it. but we needed to wait for HOT to be able to fight who you wanted with your pve/wvw gear). guilds hall upgrades are a joke. its a ressource sinkhole. only big active guilds can have the opportunity to get op WvW stuff (banners, airstrike, etc…) and customize nicely their hall. huge grind wall for too little. (the guilds hall are nice tho).
they did a wonderfull wvw map (edge of the mist) and didn’t added it to the actuall wvw competition. instead they gave us a wonderfull and epic new desert bordeland where no one want to play because its too big.
there is less and less events in gw2.
in HOT they added the enrage state to mobs… which only give more damage to the mobs. where in tera it not only give more damage while recieving more, it speed up the mobs animations and reactivity letting no dead time between each skills which felt like you were actually fighting mobs controlled by players.
…
i think you get why people are disappointed.
they could have done so much with this game. (ex: being able to fight other playes in the pve maps would be awesome like in the beta events. instead they gave us only a hunger game gamemod (which is nice but too much restrictive)).
giving us gliding in wvw for exemple? creating player mobs fight? creating an airship fight between 2 airships in eotm?(with players on them obviously). making an event where you need to find and chase a particular shy mob in some pve map where the mob will always escape until you kill/capture it? (an event where players can transform into mobs to fight other players none transformed? XD lets dream).
some 20v20 game mod with a little part of a WvW map for a special game mod?
better world boss (anet is currently working on them, the shatterer being the new reworked world boss)(just wtf why anet did nerf the fire elemental? it was so much fun before, now its plain trash). (tho tquatl and jungle wurm are nice, bosses to do. its sad there is no so good reward unless you are very lucky).
why do anet not give a test phase to their spvp where they rebalance everything every days, week for one or two months accordingly to what the playerbase tested?
why don’t they change the tic system in wvw to defavourise mono blob?
why isn’t there a 1v1 or special 3v3 in spvp (go and take a look at blade n soul 3v3 or other mmo/rpg.)
they might had all those ideas before but didn’t implemented them becasue of server issues, bugs, budget pb or it didn’t got approved. (if its the case that sucks).
then i know its not a monthly subscription. you just by the game and play. id say gw2 is worth the price given the amount of time i have spent on it but sadly i feel like gw2 is getting worse with time to the point where HOT killed a bit the game. (tho HOT was necessary but they didn’t do it right .)

thats how i feel about the game right now.

I would suggest to the original poster, that he not want to the best at everything.
You cannot be the best in life at everything you maintain. If you try to, you will fail and one of them will become your master.

You can just NOT play the game.
Take up your other hobbies for a while if you do not like HoT.

Either way, I see it as no excuse for you to try to defame / put down the game / devs whom have worked so hard to get the game to its current state.

You sir, need to lead, follow or get out of the way.

I think that instead of simply doing the simplest thing possible (complain)
why not take the time to invest in actually helping people, perhaps create a youtube channel, or a wiki, this just seems to be another trolling, requesting admin to lock / delete.

I want to thank you devs personally for taking the time to listen to the customers and implement some of the recent changes. I have not been playing GW2 long, but it is the best there is at this point and time, thus the reason I am here.

I am so happy that you allowed gliding and also the show all interact objects.

With just these two things, I played my head off today. I actually was able to sit back, relax, and enjoy the game without having to think too much about anything, accept that fact that I was having fun. THAT is what a good game is about !

Thank you.