Guild Wars 2

Came back after a long period of time… Realised I’ve missed a lot of the Lore and Story Quests while I was away, and there’s no way to play through it anymore. /sadpanda

Hmmm, where to start lol. NPE made me feel like I was 6 all over again with all that hand holding and all the flashies (too bad it didn’t take my cynicism and jadedness away too ;P).

So as I veteran player, I didn’t like it. And for a new player to GW2, I still had to explain some things. And that quest arrow was acting up too. Overall implementation is a bit clunky, with some seemingly missing info – I feel it could do with some more design work, maybe also some Usability testing by people that haven’t played MMO’s before (if that’s indeed their target audience)?

Ja, that quest arrow… It really doesn’t help when someone has min patience and gets lost easily when the arrow itself is confused.

Truth be told, I couldn’t take it anymore so used one of the birthday scrolls and just helped out when she died, got lost, or stuck lol – I also realised we’re going to have to grind areas out WoW style before moving forward. It’s limiting for me but fine if you never knew I guess. Mainly have to do it so you don’t get owned as a lvl 9 trying to kill 11’s or the like lol.

For the record, I kept my mouth shut and didn’t poison hahaha. The main thing is she’s enjoying herself which is great as it means I don’t have to ‘watch’ Sex in the City (again) ;D . I really did have to restrain myself though when she picked an Ele haha.

Still need to get to traits though, but will shush and cross that bridge when we get there.

EDIT: Regarding catering to the lowest common denominator… Fine, hold some hands and show people how to play, but test it out first so it’s done/designed/implemented properly, and include an opt in/out – that way you also don’t insult the people that know whats going on by treating everyone like they’ve never played a PC game before.

Ashen.2907:

Astral Projections.7320:

If you aren’t negative about the way it is different, it’s quite possible your wife won’t even notice or it might not bother her if she does.

This.

Try to not poison it for her.

Lol Ashen, don’t worry I won’t =P

“Broken forums are broken.”

Lol yeah

But ja, we’ll test it out ourselves to see if the fuss is indeed warranted. (Not just the NPE fuss, I also mean level-gating and, the to be ‘fixed’ trait issues, backtracking and ‘quest markers/arrows’.)

I can’t help but feel that this could have all been avoided if it was all optional.

Lol/oops – double post

@Ashen: I won’t and don’t decide for her. But I will be expected to play with her and lvl a new char as she hasn’t got one, so I will experience this NPE non-sense too. And if I don’t play, she probably won’t either as I’m the one trying to get her to play a PC game with me as opposed to watching series.

Stop being a shill! And what has BB got to do with anything? It’s a POS, and yes while it was popular, it doesn’t mean that it was good at all… (And I personally disliked it a lot too, amongst other things it just showed off and rewarded negative/backstabbing behavior.)

“the overall response on reddit is more reasonable than here.”

I’ve been there and had a good look around, and is why I actually came here… The feeling seems to be much of the same as I’ve seen here. But if it’s you saying otherwise, it must be true hey?

But as I said, I’ll go try it out myself and see what it’s all about – with an open mind, I might add. If it’s all nice and playable I’ll be pleasantly surprised! But if not and I don’t have the freedom to play as I once used to, I’ll be validated for feeling righteous indignation when I see/read how things that were never broken have been ‘fixed’.

And please, you really don’t need to speak for the masses as they are speaking for themselves, if you care to look around. (RE: seen too many views from too many people that are completely contrary to my own experience.)

At the end of the day, and you can’t even deny this, where there is smoke, there is fire.

“Anyway, I can’t imagine why anyone would judge games based on forum comments.”

Lol… Really?

So you’ve never based any decision/thing on what someone else thinks? So much for reviews hahaha. It feels like you also need to try stretch your imagination and try some lateral thinking as there are MANY reasons why “anyone would judge games based on forum comments.” My opinion btw, not a statement of fact.

But you know what, I’ll give it a go, show her the ropes on my account and maybe even go as far as I can w/o violating any ANet guidelines and getting banned, and then decide… If it’s still poop, like the majority of players are saying it is (as opposed to you, and I’ve seen a lot of your recent posts (seems like you’re an Anet employee btw but I digress)), I’ll go play something else and spend my money elsewhere.

EDIT: You also seem to always skirt around the fact that this system is/was unilaterally handed down to all, regardless of how experienced we are. Handing down a mandatory system like this is something you do if you want to alienate older players and I’ve seen it happen enough times in my experience of gaming, and also where I work.

And I’m sure that even you can’t deny, where there’s smoke, there’s a fire…

Anyway I’m out, I didn’t come here to change my mind or debate, I came here to weigh in and add my voice to the growing masses of displeased gamers. Hope this mess gets resolved in a timely fashion and the game gets restored to it’s former, ‘choose how you want to play the game’, glory.

So after stopping GW2 for maybe a year…. I bought GW2 for my wife a week ago, and I was over the moon as I thought I may be able to entice her into playing a PC game with me again (she played GW1 ages ago though, but never tried GW2 out yet), and then patched about 7gigs last night…

But that was until I came to the forum to get an idea of the state of the game…

I’ll probably be selling her, unused, copy of the game and will go back to ‘something else’, tyvm. Mainly because I don’t think I’ll be able to stomach making a new char at all… By the looks of it, I’d prefer getting kitten drilled in my head than play GW2 at the moment.

WTH ANet, wth… Are you a bunch of sadists? lol

EDIT: Found another thread where the trait system will be unlocked, which is a relief. What about the NPE system, will we be able to toggle it off (why is it mandatory anyway?)? What the hell drove you to implementing something as draconian and silly in the first place though? And why does it take so long for you to actually acknowledge it?

Hahahahaha lol, EricGORE, you made me almost pmsl xD

But yeah, I have a similar issue as I used my sister’s (real) name for the Display name (this was going to be her (unwanted, so I took it) account and I had noooo clue display names were, well, going to be displayed as they are…. lol). Needless to say, a guy using a girls name leads to some unwanted embarrassment… So here’s to hoping ANet deem my request worthy of a display name change =D

Same thing happening to me as the OP. The position is set on the mid-section of my character too.