Guild Wars 2

Hawkmoon.5849:

As the game stands now? No, I would not consider buying any kind of expansion. There are far too many features missing from the game right now, common sense features that shouldn’t need an “expansion” to be delivered to the players.

For those of you asking, “what common sense features?” I submit:

Guild Halls, meaningful PvP (this would include ladders and actual structure), a LFG tool (in-game, not on a 3rd party website), useful guild management tools…. I could go on for what feels like days.

There are many aspects of GW1 that worked well and should have been carried over, not abandoned. Alliances? Worked great- now, we get a guild system that actually makes guild loyalty a joke. How about a gripping story? Because let’s be honest: you playing as Trahearne’s sidekick and taking the story focus away from the player, placing it on an NPC… fail move.

And for kitten’s sake, could we get some combat variety? press 1, dodge, press 2, dodge, press 4, then 3, then dodge… every class is DPS- it’s simply a matter of what animation I want to see when I press said key that determines what class I roll. there’s no support, no dedicated healers (probably the biggest disappointment IMO), no real boss mechanics.

Loot tables are a disaster right now…unless you ask ANet, and then it’s all in our heads.

Again, the list could go on. Point being, why would I pay a company so I could be even more frustrated with the product I already have? Same reason why I refuse to spend money in the Gem Store. I’d happily throw money at a good game: hell, I did it for over a year with Rift- paid my subscription and bought extra fluff too. At this rate, I’ll probably be headed back that way soon.

Not only do I agree with you but I would like to add to this.

They really destroyed the whole environment of GW with this game.

They reduced the amount of people in a party from 8 to 5 and reduced the roles to everyone the same. This went from having a LOTR style quest to destroy the ring with a menagerie of skilled heroes, toooooooo….killing stuff with the guys. The roles were the most important part because it promoted unity and working together. (I really never minded the (lfg 2m SIN only) type of messages. I never had trouble finding a group or getting my guild involved.

That brings me to guilds. Guilds now are a travesty to any organized multi-user game. ESPECIALLY to the administrators of guilds. Lets take away the fact that guilds are hemorrhaging members due to Anet fixing things by dropping the loot drops, producing unplayable content, or just not sticking to what they had said they were making before the game. There is no way to tell who is inactive except by screenshotting your guild list regularly, there is no way to tell who is guesting and who has moved to another server (server specific guilds don’t benefit from moves), no real organization to the “logs” really and the retention period for the messages is crazy low. There is also absolutely no benefit to having guild loyalty OR a lot of the upgrades you can get such as guild armorer. Now that the ascended backs came out there is no reason to have a guild backpack. Also no efficient way to communicate to your guild except a SHORT message of the day (or of course 3rd party options like TS3 and forums). Finally there is no GvG or similar guild competition. There is sPvP (get to that next) or WvW but no mid-ranged Guild Battling system.

sPvP- keep releasing new maps and everything like that. It’s ok, nobody will still play sPvP until you make the lobby more usable with the ability to select teams, private rooms, etc. Anet keeps saying they are improving sPvP. I don’t see it

I wholeheartedly agree about your story complaints. Guild Wars, you LIVED the story. You saw progression through the story. I really kind of miss GW instances because it was a part of the story. Here, there is no reason to party up for story quests. My first character soloed all of them (sometimes painfully) and the story was so boring and uneventful I skipped through it.

Anet wants us to just get things as we play the game progressively. But there are so many money sinks and so little progression, obtaining something is nigh impossible except doing fractals.

Fractals is not casual friendly no matter how many times Anet says it. 3 dungeons back to back that you have to complete all three then and there to advance? That would work if you had a system like 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 where the .x was a placeholder for the last time you were there.

Just a few things on my mind about all this. But my answer is no. Anet gets no money from me anymore

Wrinn.1802:

Aha. You say you got experience and yet still you condone behaviour as the one that is most frequently seen in this forum ?Im sorry but since when is “I need them all!!!WAAA” mentality excusable ? Yes, if people want something they either can buy it or earn it. You can already see that in the fact that the minis (the Tixx ones) can be bought with gems. Could the mini situation had been done differently ?Yes, but that doesn’t excuse the utter ridiculous rage that people have been having. Of all things to get annoyed about, really.

If you actually READ my post I was not condoning any behavior. There are a lot of threads out there that are legitimate complaints and or constructive criticisms. Most threads about jumping puzzles include a great many players that offer solutions to make it better. In the mini pets complaint threads, most people are telling ANet “Hey look, just make them not account bound or let us buy the packaged sets.”

We have grown into a society that is very goal oriented. Most people are already thinking about the next step before they are finished with the first step. If there is an achievement it needs to be achieved. ANet has constantly put out goals then have taken away the means to obtain those goals. I have seen the progress towards fixing these issues and I thank ANet for taking those steps. But the damage has been done across most of the game.

You are generalizing ALL the complaining as whining. That isn’t true. If ANet truly wants a successful game they need to hear these complaints and criticisms so that they know where to improve. Yeah there are a few whiners out there that make all the complainers look bad but most have something valid to bring to the front.

Wrinn.1802:

CrusaderRabbit, I do actually understand the issues. What you are saying there is 50% Q.Q for little reason. I’ve been in every event from start to finish from day 1 so I can tell you that the people that complain about JP just aren’t good at that. Good. Some people didn’t get the prerequisite in the karka event (i was among them). Again good.
Also, you throw arround the term “money grubbing” like you know what it means. Please… if people are so weak that they think they “need” an item, they are sadly mistaken and the money that they spent is of their own choise, even if they didn’t get it. No one is forcing you to get those items, no one is forcing you to spend money. Yes, they are QQing for no reason.

P.S. If you think that a game is made for everyone to get everything, you are 12 years old and never played Mario or Contra. Get a NES, get those games and THEN get back here and tell me how difficult this game actually is on it’s JP’s.

Actually I am a sales manager for a large IT firm in a major city, so no I am not 12. I do understand a bit about marketing and milking money from people as a lot of game companies these days do (Such as Electronic Arts).

I am actually very good at the jumping puzzles in the game. I have almost all of them completed. The ONLY reason I cannot do the festival ones is the timed mechanic in them. Again, timed jump puzzles = bad. jumping puzzles requiring timing= good. And you are very narrow minded if you can’t understand the collectors want for a full collection. Their complaints aren’t for getting them for free. In fact most would be perfect with them just not being account bound (that way the ones that get 7 extra copies of a mini can sell the excess on the TP). There is a lot of wasted money for ANet’s buying clientele that just is burnt money. They have NO use for an extra 7 account bound minis. They are punishing the money spenders by making it a gamble for account bound collectibles that you may or may not get.

And for your information, my gaming experience goes all the way back to the Atari 2600. So lets stop making assumptions.

Deathful Dante, I did give kudos for having much fewer bugs and yes for the achievement, the jump puzzle is necessary

Sativo.9754:

People complained about halloween skins being too hard to obtain – they made crappy looking skins but easily obtainable.

People complained about the clocktower being too hard – they made a kitten easy one and yet people still complaining about it.

People complained about not getting rewarded for the karka event – they gave everyone who was present during the event a chest.

People complain because there is a lot that is wrong with the game. Who’s the minority Sentinel? I don’t care about this new content, done with it all and bored of it already along with many many others.

1. The thing that makes the jp hard in both is the time element. That would fix 90% of the jump puzzle complaints. Most people that are complaining either don’t have the hand/eye coordination, don’t want to feel rushed, or miss the first two steps from loading in. Both would be manageable if they let the ones that take time on JPs take their time.

2. Karka event- They should not have included precursors in that but they felt they needed to inject them in there for a minor deflation in price. I spent 3 hours doing that tedious event (not a single other event worked for me), for literally nothing. I have all 18 slot bags so even the 20 slot karka box wasn’t good for me. They gave the boxes to those that disconnected during the event and “didn’t get the chest.” Problem is that a lot of people got 2 chest rewards.

3. Halloween skins were bearable to get. There were only a couple decent skins. The skins here are cooler imho and you can buy outright, that is cool. The problem is the minis. They are account bound and random from a chest unlike Halloween where you can buy the pack of them outright. There are people ending up with 8 copies of one mini that they have to trash 7 of them or just hold onto them in hopes that one day ANet makes them sellable, and others are not getting any at all. Also the 5 minis you can make from the event, you can only make 2/5 according to an ANet rep that posted on another thread. That means the other three non gem shop minis you have to go to the gem shop in order to purchase.

Most of the complaints about the event are valid in one way or another. Anet keeps putting out content that is super buggy/laggy/unplayable (Much fewer in Wintersday, good sign guys), and are money grubbing the new content at the same time. After Halloween and Karka, you would think they would have lightened their money grabbing grip and given something to the gamers that continue to stick by them. They probably would have made more money making a 800 gem packaged mini deal than throwing them in the chest. I know I would have spent 1600 gems on a mini pack. I bought two packs plus chests during Halloween.

Don’t call people Q.Q without actually understanding the issues

Yes. You can only use the gem store minis to get it. This means you have to get 2 of each gem shop mini.

Ansultares.1567:

CrusaderRabbit.7460:

Maybe a gauntlet style jump puzzle.

You could handle that any better than timed jump puzzles, Munson?

Yes I can. Because I can get lined up, I can get prepared for it. This jump puzzle is- load in later than others, have two seconds to get on and off first couple snowflakes, oh didn’t make it? wait a minute before you can start again. There is a major difference between gauntlet style jumping and timed jumping

Account.9832:

CrusaderRabbit.7460:

I paid for this game, I invested in their product,

I’m sure they will gladly return all the money you paid for the Wintersday patch.

why should I not be able to participate because they aren’t creative enough to come up with a jump puzzle that is challenging and people like me don’t have to redo it 7,000 times

You are able to participate. This JP is perfectly doable with one hand, and games shouldn’t be designed for the lowest common denominator anyway. Maybe you think every dungeon encounter or dynamic event should be nerfed until it can be done by the least skilled player on the planet?

If there’s something you can’t do, go do something else. I doubt you’ve already finished every other jumping puzzle, dungeon and event in the game. And, if you have, I’d say you got your $60’ worth.

Such a narrow mindset. I can do everything else, just when I am forced to speed through a jump puzzle, I can’t do it. It’s easy for you, you have the mobility. Timed jump puzzles bad idea, jump puzzles where you need timing, better idea.

ProxyDamage.9826:

Rainfall.4017:

The entire of GW2 should not be designed around a minority of players who have trouble. Pretty silly thing to say.

Nor should it be designed around bad design. Timed jumping puzzles on a 3D game with an unstable camera. Timed jumping puzzles in general are just a cheap way to inflate difficulty without adding any actual intellectual difficulty to it. Like the limited lives/insert coin to continue system of old arcade games.

Couldn’t agree more. It was said on another post:

Timed jump puzzles are a bad idea. Jump puzzles that you must time your jumps, good idea

Biscuithammer.8615:

1. Takes too long to start.

2. Timed puzzles aren’t fun. (But puzzles with timing ARE fun.)

3. We need difficulty levels for these jumping puzzles.

THIS

I don’t mind puzzles that you have to time your jumps just right, but forcing players to progress forward at a rate some (if not many) can move? Bad form

Really, make them harder? REALLY? No thank you.

“Don’t listen to the people who say they are too hard. They are just not putting in the time or effort and solely want the rewards for it so they can get their weapon/armor skins.”

Really narrow minded thought pattern there bud

Vortex, it’s not even that. Why not make jump puzzles that have walls that close and traps that spring etc.

I paid for this game, I invested in their product, why should I not be able to participate because they aren’t creative enough to come up with a jump puzzle that is challenging and people like me don’t have to redo it 7,000 times

The one on the southsun cove can be bipassed. And you can’t tell me there are not more creative ways to make them more difficult. Maybe a gauntlet style jump puzzle.

No that is as intended, you have to restart every time you fall. It’s the same as the clocktower at halloween

Anet, why? Why do you feel we need timed jump puzzles? What is the point in making them timed? I only have one hand and I can do most jump puzzles but the clock tower and the Wintersday jump puzzle I am not able to participate because I can’t/couldn’t get past the first two steps. I have to take my time with jump puzzles, but looks like another event I don’t get to enjoy.

Horrorscope.7632:

Hunny Bunny.3506:

Horrorscope.7632:

Sounds like luck won the day here. Next question.

How do you feel about the guy who won 100 million real dollars for making a $1 bet?

Also am I supposed to feel a bit robbed because I had to play on a over-flow server while others were able to play it through on their official server? I feel a little dirty right now.

You fail to see the point.
It would be a matter of luck if EVERYONE had a chance to participate in this and some got the rewards, some not…

Now it was just punishing the players who couldn’t be online the 3 particular hours of the month.

There are lotteries out there I cannot participate in due to the area I live. I think that is wrong. I see the point, if I’m going to worry about petty jealousy, it makes more sense putting efforts in the real world and unbalanced rules for some vs others. I don’t like the kids that never did squat that get to globe-trot from top night club to night club kittening all the beautiful people.

In some ways everyone did have the chance to participate. You could move to a country with an internet connection, buy the game, take the time off and be awake for the event.

I could be one complaining as I didn’t get a precursor, while the guy next to me did. But I wasn’t born last night, that’s how it goes. I just let stuff like this roll cleanly off me. Who’s better adjusted, the person that can accept it or the other that asks for a congressional investigation over such heresy? Figuratively speaking.

I understand your point but you can also see how disheartening it would be to log hundreds of hours on this game and someone that most likely won’t stick around (none of my invites did after the lost shores flop), could get two precursors when most of us have been fighting to get just one since the game opened. Hind sight suggest should have spent some real $ on the gem store gold conversion while precursors were worth silver/low gold

Eh, I’ve just kind of given up. A_Net’s RNG continues to shaft me. My exotics AND the two rares combined were worth about 1 gold. But I gave up after everyone else was getting 2 ectos or 40 orichalcum from cursed shore map completion, and I got 20 lemon grass. A_Net, please; I have logged 600 hours on just ONE of my characters. Please stop trolling me

our event most people are probably still fighting. Karka got glitched in the wall and the health kept/keeps resetting

Gave up, missing content because of this, kittens be kittens

And I think its glitched into the rock now so even if we can kite it back, it won’t

Tundra.5269:

1) They posted on here the status of the event.
2) They extended the event and you do not need to complete it for anything
3) If you do complete it, you get a jug of karma. That’s it. Get over it.

Their post on the forums did not reflect the update on twitter. They never mentioned the time for the Noll update And aside from that their fixes didn’t hold. It’s still broken for a great number of people.

Also, I don’t care if its a jug of karma, a legendary sword, or a white pair of boots. I wanted to experience the events

Apparently they twittered this evening

They kitten fixed Fahd by opening the chest

graceangel.3618:

Well, my feedback on this event is that I firstly really like the idea of event weekends like this. It has a BWE feel; especially with all the free refer a friend trial codes. it feels reminiscent of beta entirely which was really fun.

however, my issue is this. I’m sure it was done close to christmas to possibly generate some holiday sales. let people try the game for free, and possibly get a few $$ out of it. I get that. However, because my main job is in retail, I won’t be able to be here for the rolling out of ANY of the acts. I’m missing out on pretty much 90% of this event just because of the time of year, i have to be at work a lot this weekend.

I really hope you guys do something like this in january or february when I will have a lot more time for gaming.

also, for the refer a friend codes 3 were awesome, but so far I have one person who said they wanted to play; i sent them a code, but they didn’t show up yet. Maybe she’ll play while i’m at work but meh. Then I had people asking me if i still had codes after I ran out. I’d like to suggest next time we can have 5 or 6?

You actually are kind of lucky. The actual events are more frustrating than missing them.

I’m done. We were in Fractals and one member got booted because of a bug, then we went on to part two which was one of the harder ones with just 4 people. Get past the HARDEST part, then all of our games crash. I’d rather play an mmo that is of lesser quality and is playable.

I haven’t been able to get past level 1 with as hard as they are and all the bugs

Donari, Conche isn’t responding after beaten, and Fahd isn’t spawning

Canache not working as of this point on Borlis Pass. SOME people get the reward but very few

come join Randomly Angry White Rabbits on the Borlis Pass server. We try keeping a wide range of players from multiple time zones and constantly have at least 15 players on (though it peaks during night-time at 40-60). We have 140+ members and make sure that we don’t specialize in only one of the games features but all of them. Just let me know if you are interested.

long, come join Randomly Angry White Rabbits on the Borlis Pass server. We try keeping a wide range of players from multiple time zones and constantly have at least 15 players on (though it peaks during night-time at 40-60). We have 140+ members and make sure that we don’t specialize in only one of the games features but all of them. Just let me know if you are interested.

Bistouri need an invite?

Come join Randomly Angry White Rabbits on the Borlis Pass server. We try keeping a wide range of players from multiple time zones and constantly have at least 15 players on (though it peaks during night-time at 40-60). We have 140+ members and make sure that we don’t specialize in only one of the games features but all of them. Just let me know if you are interested.

We are very newbie friendly and willing to help in a multitude of ways

Hastur, come join Randomly Angry White Rabbits on the Borlis Pass server. We try keeping a wide range of players from multiple time zones and constantly have at least 15 players on (though it peaks during night-time at 40-60). We have 140+ members and make sure that we don’t specialize in only one of the games features but all of them. Just let me know if you are interested.

Angelopoulol, Come join Randomly Angry White Rabbits on the Borlis Pass server. We try keeping a wide range of players from multiple time zones and constantly have at least 15 players on (though it peaks during night-time at 40-60). We have 140+ members and make sure that we don’t specialize in only one of the games features but all of them. Just let me know if you are interested.

Monkey, Come join Randomly Angry White Rabbits on the Borlis Pass server. We try keeping a wide range of players from multiple time zones and constantly have at least 15 players on (though it peaks during night-time at 40-60). We have 140+ members and make sure that we don’t specialize in only one of the games features but all of them. Just let me know if you are interested.

Still wanted to be a part of it

Thank you so much, a great many of us couldn’t make it. Is that the only thing to go to the “one time event?”

Eh better than my wife, she will get home 3 hours after the one time events each night. I’m only missing the opening and if the ending is any way I think it is, I’m going to have to play both our accounts at the same time so she doesn’t miss out.

Really disappointed with the way the events are starting to play out for this game.

Join us before Lost Shores event so we can work together to explore all the new features!

I am the guild leader and would like to point out that our numbers have grown slightly (now 140+) and we are very active, friendly, and helpful. We also don’t limit ourselves to one type of event or another. Wether it is WvW, sPvP, PvE, Dungeons, etc.; we like to do it all. Another thing to look forward to is that we keep guild buffs on all the time.

Come visit us or message me in game (Rotarx) if you are on the Borlis Pass server