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Daboom.1987

First off there’s no issue with the chest in the dungeon. Saying its hard to get to is like saying its hard to sit on a chair because the cat is there.

As for the topic of jumping puzzles I really wish people would understand why they are in the game. It is content that is quick to make, imaginative and provides the vast majority with a challenge, some fun or both. Its free content and still people complain. If you dont like jumping puzzles dont do them! You get a silly achievement and (for all except Clocktower) a bunch of green loot so its not like those that can do them are somehow gaining a headstart. I get frustrated, I swear and curse at the screen and some are downright horrible to do…but overall im having a lot of fun. Took me 4 hours to do the Clocktower but I did it and the sense of achievement was awesome because I made up my mind that I was going to do it and wouldnt stop until I got through it. Its the same but on a smaller scale with the smaller puzzles.

In summary: why criticise free content? Personally I think the powers that be deserve a rather large pint of beer for their work up to and including the Halloween event. I have never seen this amount of detail and love put into free content in any game. Sure things havent been 100% perfect (IMO Clocktower should have an easy mode for example) but if this is the amount of effort put into every event…this game has very easily paid for itself and i’ll be happy to buy future expansions. Its pretty much at the “Shut up and take my money!” stage already….

1. They get 40k karma head start (cost of a exotic). 2. The content is not free. I payed 50 euro for my game.

1. Putting aside the fact that the item itself isn’t that great (power, condam, MF… all on a skin that’s already in the game for a hell of a lot less effort, not to mention it’s soulbound and can’t be salvaged), exotics are also easily found on the TP for as little as 1-2g a piece. You can’t just take the highest number you can come up with and apply it to your argument like it’s a binary decision (either you pay 40k karma, or you don’t get anything!). That’s disingenuous and misleading at best, and outright manipulative at worst.

2. The content is free. You paid 50 euro for the game, as it came in the box. Any additions made after the fact are free. You do not pay a monthly fee for this game, and any gems you buy are currency to purchase in-game items from the cash shop.

1. You stated that people who complete the tower don’t get any advantage. I proved you wrong.

2. Being a one-purchase game, implies that my money pays for all the content in the game accessible by the “version” of the game I bought without requirements for further payments. What else then my money do you think pays dev’s salary’s?

3. Tbh I’d rather pay a monthly fee for a more thought through content.
Besides jumping is far away from “imaginative”.

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Daboom.1987

First off there’s no issue with the chest in the dungeon. Saying its hard to get to is like saying its hard to sit on a chair because the cat is there.

As for the topic of jumping puzzles I really wish people would understand why they are in the game. It is content that is quick to make, imaginative and provides the vast majority with a challenge, some fun or both. Its free content and still people complain. If you dont like jumping puzzles dont do them! You get a silly achievement and (for all except Clocktower) a bunch of green loot so its not like those that can do them are somehow gaining a headstart. I get frustrated, I swear and curse at the screen and some are downright horrible to do…but overall im having a lot of fun. Took me 4 hours to do the Clocktower but I did it and the sense of achievement was awesome because I made up my mind that I was going to do it and wouldnt stop until I got through it. Its the same but on a smaller scale with the smaller puzzles.

In summary: why criticise free content? Personally I think the powers that be deserve a rather large pint of beer for their work up to and including the Halloween event. I have never seen this amount of detail and love put into free content in any game. Sure things havent been 100% perfect (IMO Clocktower should have an easy mode for example) but if this is the amount of effort put into every event…this game has very easily paid for itself and i’ll be happy to buy future expansions. Its pretty much at the “Shut up and take my money!” stage already….

1. They get 40k karma head start (cost of a exotic). 2. The content is not free. I payed 50 euro for my game.

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Daboom.1987

I enjoy jumping puzzles to an extent. They can be fun and they provide some much needed relief from all the failed parts of the game (WvW, Orr). I am worried about the way this game is slowly turning into some Super Mario with a sword game, though. That’s really not what it was advertised as, and if it had been advertised as such, I would not have bought it. I’d rather see some more genre specific end game content than a bunch more jumping puzzles.

Hey, could you elaborate little more on this " slowly turning into some Super Mario with a sword game" ?

I just meant that jumping puzzles are increasing in both their number and import exponentally when compared to more traditional content of this genre. Aside from the obvious Tower jumping puzzle we also got four(or was it three?) other jumping puzzles. That dwarfs the number of dungeons (0), mini dungeons (1), PvP maps (1), etc….

For this event (which was incredible!) the tower jumping puzzle also offers the only guaranteed chance of an exotic drop in the event. Why no guaranteed exotic for the more traditional content (or why have a guaranteed exotic at all for that matter)?

I don’t want to hate on jumping puzzles, because I like them also, but I didn’t buy a mainstream MMORPG to do jumping puzzles. If that’s what I want, I’ll dust off my Nintendo.

Exactly my point. Well put.

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Daboom.1987

I enjoy jumping puzzles to an extent. They can be fun and they provide some much needed relief from all the failed parts of the game (WvW, Orr). I am worried about the way this game is slowly turning into some Super Mario with a sword game, though. That’s really not what it was advertised as, and if it had been advertised as such, I would not have bought it. I’d rather see some more genre specific end game content than a bunch more jumping puzzles.

Hey, could you elaborate little more on this " slowly turning into some Super Mario with a sword game" ?

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Daboom.1987

OP, u dont understand. Jumping is a huge part of the gw2 content, is like a milestone! Do u want a content? Jumping puzzles! Do u want more conten? More jumping puzzles!

Completing a jumping puzzle shows ur real skills, and u can officially call urself "kitten"on the forums. An important note – Jumping puzzles are NOT for everyone to complete (it is a quote from an unknown fanboy on the forums). Only selected ones can complete a jumping puzzle! Also u should know that they are GREAT FUN, and u MUST enjoy them.

If I HATE jumping puzzles, then this game is not for me?

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Daboom.1987

@aliquis
I had my problems with arcophobia too (I came to grips with it due to shock treatment a few years ago) but it never was an issue in video games. I’m really sorry to hear that it’s different in your case. But about your motion sickness, where I’m from you can lose your driver license if you have that kind of sickness (if it’s bad enough), so my statement wasn’t that silly after all.

I get that there are people out there that have certain sicknesses or other issues (e.g. people with arachnophobia sometimes can’t fight spiders in video games), but they are a minority and Arena Net cannot design events and encounters based on their issues.

They should put more effort into making boss fights more fun instead of mandatorizing jumping.

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Daboom.1987

I never played GW1 so I cant say about lack of jumping there but generally the lack of jumping in other RPG’s like Dragon Age doesn’t bother me. However making jumping the focus of the whole event with things like MT and Clock Tower, which basically are the best loot sources for the event, is very, very low and shows very little regard given to the variety of mechanics in encounters.

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Daboom.1987

It takes more death to jump to the chest then to kill the boss and that is wrong

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Daboom.1987

I’m also talking about Mad King dungeon

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Daboom.1987

ArenaNet, is there really nothing better you can think up to harden the game then regular jumping?

Please, take your eyes of the money counter machine and get creative!
I’d really like to see something different in the next event.

Srsly yours
Dave