Guild Wars 2

Don’t mind playing WvW, or PvP. I like the whole game so it’s no big deal to me if the devs change how you get the GoB. However, as a person who has put the game down, and picked it back up several times since 2012, the implementation sucks. Had a RL friend quit the game, because he had a char set up with MF gear, took a couple month break for work and family, then came back to have his MF gear stripped off of him, and told he has to farm luck now. He /uninstalled and never played again. Now I have another friend quit over the GoB thing. I would have kept one vendor, and anyone who had been absent since before the change would have gotten an in game letter stating what the change was, and told that the BoH could be taken to the vendor but only once per account. Everyone is happy, and your changes don’t have to wait to be rolled out.

DEATH TO QUAGGANS! :-(

Greatest Guild EVAH!

Woot! I launched the game today after not playing for awhile. It did it’s normal patching and stuff, and then I started it up. Voila! I can play fullscreen again. Thanks the folks at anet for getting this fixed. Appreciate the work guys and gals.

I hear ya, I feel the same way. What he says is helpful however, if you weren’t able to play at all. It would at least get you back online. What bothers me is the lack of priority we seem to be getting. Based on what Ive read in other posts, people seem to think if a person is running XP on their machine that you’re asking for it. I’m planning on upgrading my system within the month, but what if I couldn’t? Hope they get it fixed soon.

I got this response today from my support ticket.

Thank you for bringing this issue to my attention today.

I just wanted to take a moment of your time and let you know that we are aware of this issue with the recent update to Guild Wars 2 and Windows XP and have reported the problem to development and QA. While we do not currently have an ETA for a resolution, it does appear using the launch command -Windowed allows you to play without issue. At this time I can only advise continuing to play in Windowed mode until we have more information to provide. You can find those instructions below:

First, please navigate to your Guild Wars 2 folder. By default, this will be C:\Program Files(x86)\Guild Wars 2.

Right-click on “GW2.exe” and select “Create Shortcut.”
Rename this shortcut to “Guild Wars 2 Windowed.”
Right-click on this shortcut and select “Properties.”
Edit the “Target” line to include -windowed at the end. Note: Please make sure -windowed is outside of the quotes -- Correctly Formatted Example: " C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe" -windowed -- Incorrectly Formatted Example: " C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe -windowed "
Once completed, click “Ok” to save your changes.

If you get an error trying to save, your target line may not have the correct format. Please try Step 5 again.

Once completed, try starting Guild Wars 2 again by using this new shortcut. If you are able to play once modifying the game to run in windowed mode, you will want to continue to play the game in this mode until a fix has been released. I would suggest keeping an eye on the official forums for further updates regarding this issue.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any additional issues, questions or concerns.

Regards,

Brian S.
Guild Wars 2 Support Team

At least they know there’s a problem, though it doesn’t look like it’s any closer to getting fixed.

Same issue here. As an additional “bonus” I can no longer play in fullscreen. It’s getting to the point where the game won’t be playable for me any longer, as I keep getting wrecked by the patches.

ok i give up lol. basically can we hear from the devs saying “we know there’s a problem and we’re working on it”. Or, “we know there’s a problem, and we’re not going to fix it.” either way it would be nice.

“okittennowledgement”

no idea why it said okittennowledgement, it was supposed to say “okittennowledgement”

Bump. No word from devs means no fix yet. Can we at least get some kind okittennowledgment from anet?

Would love some kind of info on whether this particular problem has a workaround, or a fix coming.

i have the same problem exactly. XP here as well.

Same thing here, game borders blink when trying to run in fullscreen, pointer flashes and lurches around screen. Ctrl/alt/delete doesn’t help, have to reset the computer. Running XP as well.

After the patch released earlier today, whenever i start the game it starts in windowed mode. Upon trying to switch to fullscreen, the game borders flicker, and my system freezes. ctrl/alt/del, will not work as the pointer remains a game pointer, and lurches around the screen pretty much in time with the flickering. Game was working perfectly before patch, and now this. I have seen other people talking about having the same problem. Game works fine in windowed mode.

The statue of Melandru is active and doing aoe damage when I try to get skill challenge. However, the Temple of Melandru is under pact control, and says all statues are disabled. Is this normal, or a known issue? That skill point is the last one left to me for map completion, so any help is appreciated.

I’m waiting for the yaks to arrive right now, still no luck, still bugged.

I was wondering the same thing as the OP, but I guess I should have known better than to think that any new info would be forthcoming.

Anet isn’t going to fix the precursor issue. They are making too much $$$ the way it is. When you have to come up with 1450 gold for the legend, there are people willing to drop 100’s of $$$ for the gems to convert so they don’t have to use the mystic toilet, or farm for gold. If anet makes precursors craftable, the price will drop by half, and that is $$$ out of anet’s pocket. End of story. I know this is an old topic, but as absolutely nothing has changed since the inception of the game on this issue, it’s still a relevant topic.

Well this is the company that waited 8 years between GW1 and GW2. I feel like a lot of people apparently, that this is more political jargon, devised to keep people from jumping ship from their game. I mean there is no expansion coming, there is no precursor crafting coming. So no new races, professions, world maps, cities, skills, weapon types (I’m talking about dagger, sword, staff etc.) Just more grind, more mending fences quests, gem store, living story bs. What’s to keep people playing? GVG? LOL!

Cool, I couldn’t find anything about expansions, and then I found this thread. Sorry for the other thread I started. So no expansion huh? The living story is about 15% permanent, and 85% temporary. Sorry but if there is no expansion coming, then how are they going to flesh out the other 65 to 70 percent of the map? How will they introduce new races, professions, or the other 3 dragons? LS? Sounds like a fail plan if so, and if they don’t plan on giving us more professions, more map, or more races, then why are we still playing? I’m sorry but after beating zhaitan 5 times with different characters, play the zerg in WvW, and do some SPvP, you’re done. That’s where expansions come in, giving us new map area with new cities and events, new races that will force balancing across all races, professions that do the same. In addition generally there are new ultimate bad guys to fight against. New weapons, armor, trinkets, and other things. All of which would be permanent. The LS is more like a band aid on a broken arm when it comes to keeping people interested, or bringing in new players. Just my humble opinion.

Firstly I’d like to say that I enjoy the LS, and have been impressed overall with the content that we have seen in 2013. However, I (and many in my guild) have been wondering why we haven’t heard of a true expansion in the near future? I like the idea of opening up more map, introducing more races, professions, and cities. I understand that the LS takes up a lot of time, but that is the whole point. With all the time going into the LS, will we see an expansion at all? Many of the people that started the game in beta with me, have left the game to play other MMOs that have since been released, or that have been given expansions. Several of our guild mates have been heard to say to new people, “yeah the LS is ok, but it’s mostly just mending fences and stuff”. Even though I know that to be false, I also know that the idea is prevalent among many of those who may be looking at GW2 as a possible purchase around christmas. So if anyone has information that could illuminate whether or not an expansion is coming or not, I would appreciate the info. Thanks.

Still bugged, Wow, over a year, and still this hasn’t been fixed. Just wow. Will someone PLEASE fix this, stuck for about an hour now. Unattackable mobs stuck in the graphics.

Me too, same thing 3 tries, 3 times she froze up right before opening door to fight Mai. This content is non completable currently.

This same thing happened to me too. I did the dungeon 3 times in a row, always got to the last part right before fighting mai trin. Basically right before i got to finish the dungeon. Not once, not twice but thrice. So I’m giving up on this content as being horribly buggy, and non completable. She freezes up right before the console to open the last fight with mai. tried talking to her, doing a whole team wipe, waypointing, nothing helps. You’re just basically screwed.

Same bug for me, she’s stuck right before interacting with the console for the last fight
this is really annoying, ive done this 3 times now, and she’s stuck every time. I want credit for this dungeon, but im not going to bang my head into a brick wall. FIX THIS! In fact I think you should give everyone on this thread credit for the dungeon anet. After all its YOUR screw up.