Guild Wars 2

Yeah, because Athene is SUPER serious and definitely comparable. Gather the “kittens!”
Ah well. Cheers for the link anyway Krit, was an interesting watch!

Thanks for the reply, Allie. I was a bit of a wally and forgot to check back on this thread.

For me, it seems to be sorting itself out a bit, but it’s still not perfect..

I play on Gunner’s Hold – and regularly (try to!) play with four friends. However, all of their portraits are blacked (even if in the same ‘area’) and there is no ‘join in xx’ option. It simply isn’t there. One time it WAS there, and I clicked it, and it told me to check my internet connection. I can’t remember the specific error for that one now since it hasn’t happened since, but it would’ve been funny if it wasn’t so annoying!

It’s still happening though.. here’s an example.

Two days ago, myself and two friends decided to try and do a jumping puzzle together. Not strictly necessary, I know, but it’s fun to laugh at failure. :P One friend and I were on one overflow, and the third was on a different overflow. So when his queue popped for the main server (we were on skype – the queue popped at the same time for all of us) we agreed to hit ‘join’ and try and get on the same server together. Big mistake. :P Black portraits for all three of us, again. No one could see one another despite the fact I had been stood next to one of them seconds before, and there was no ‘Join’ option available. We ended up co-ordinating a relog, and by pure chance got onto the same overflow server together. Have to say though, instancing seems to have been fixed. Haven’t had an issue with that for a while. Just the ‘main world’.

Thank you so much for looking into this. For me, it’s my biggest peeve. I’ll come back and include some screenshots when it happens again.

Agreed with the above – isn’t the main team. And ‘They are good but not so great as they say’ is a somewhat silly thing to say when they literally haven’t lost a single game yet, but haters gonna hate.

I was about to try and post about this as well, but since it’s technically not a ‘bug’ according to ArenaNet, I wasn’t sure where to post about it.

Thing is, I think it IS a bug, and a very significant one. It’s affecting thousands of GW2 players.. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE how Arenanet encourages you to level with one another, to play with one another.. I love how your character downscales so you can play with someone who has freshly rerolled or made a new character, and there’s so many other fresh ideas in place that make it thoroughly fun. BUT! In this same breath, Guild Wars 2 makes it SO difficult to accomplish those ideas. I tried to introduce my boyfriend to the game yesterday, and after 20 minutes of us both trying to get into the same server, he gave up.

“I’m only playing to play with you.. and if I can’t do that, what’s the point?”

And he’s absolutely right. An MMO involves being able to play with one another, and if you can’t do this most primitive of things, ie, playing with your friends/etc, surely you’re better off in a single player?

I understand ArenaNet have a LOT on their plate right now, are a much smaller company than many other MMO creators and are dealing with things as fast as they can.. but I personally think this should be a priority issue. They’re going to lose a LOT of people if individuals are unable to join up ingame with the people that are the reason they bought the game to play with. I love Gw2, but have found my interest starting to slack PURELY because I can’t play with my friends.

Please sort this. I know it’s a tricky one, but tens of thousands of people will be very grateful for it!