Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet,
Tonight something terrible happened to me! I was trying to put to a good use all those badges of honor we have been receiving… I decided I wanted to buy a new armor set for my warrior (my main char) and took all my badges with my necro (a low lvl char that I was just “visiting”) to Eternal. After contemplating the skins, I decided to go for the invader armor for the warrior, as he was needing a facelift. I bought all the armor set, placed the armor set in the bank and, happily changed to my main alt to get his new armor on!
I was first surprised I couldn’t pick up the armor and then… Shocked! Shocked that the armor is soulbound to my necro! This is horrible and silly… I should have seen that the armor would be soulbound… but probably this should be more obvious! On top of all, what is the point of soulbinding and not only account binding? Soulbinding an heavy armor to a light armor wearer?
Anyway… Is there any way to revert this? That would be super! Otherwise, this has been the worst transaction in my GW2 history!
Please help….

Gaile Gray.6028:

Eddie Van Grog.7095:

Hello,
I had my GW2 account since Beta times and I enjoy this game immensely!
Given the new added importance achievements gained these past days, I am contacting you with a strange problem that I can’t understand.

I have the Hint Completion achievement blocked at 98%. This is because one of the social items of the hint completion is not ticked. This is the “Your mailbox is full” item. This is very odd, as I have had my mailbox full PLENTY of times! So I really don’t get it…
Given its 10 achievement points, this is something that I would like to have solved.

Could you please help me solving this problem? That would be great.
Best wishes,
M.

This isn’t something we can address via the forums. Please contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page.

Thank you for your answer Gayle!
Well, I have asked my guildies to fill my mailbox with spam… I started deleting all emails that were not sent by real people and, magically, it eventually worked!!! Yeah…

Thank you again,
M

Hello,
I had my GW2 account since Beta times and I enjoy this game immensely!
Given the new added importance achievements gained these past days, I am contacting you with a strange problem that I can’t understand.

I have the Hint Completion achievement blocked at 98%. This is because one of the social items of the hint completion is not ticked. This is the “Your mailbox is full” item. This is very odd, as I have had my mailbox full PLENTY of times! So I really don’t get it…
Given its 10 achievement points, this is something that I would like to have solved.

Could you please help me solving this problem? That would be great.
Best wishes,
M.

Men… This is serious art! Well done, you did great and your work is nothing short of amazing! Being able to arrange most of the melody with such a limited instrument requires a mastery that you don’t see that often! You are a star… Thank you for such a creative and amazing job!

My point is just that these forums are filled with negative posts that help achieving nothing! Just that…
I respect your post, but I think that its intentions are obscure to me and I think it is not constructive! That’s all… Thus my ironic post!

Just a quick post to share my opinions/experience!
I did 3 PUG runs in FotM. Obviously, these were low level runs and I guess you can imagine people are not very demanding at these levels. Nevertheless, it was never too difficult to find a group to join (15 minutes looking for it, at the most).
Two things people should consider:
1- As the levels are per character, people shouldn’t worry too much about people over-leveled. There will always be low level people running the dungeons. Otherwise, try doing it with guildies or friends (as suggested)
2- (And most important) The success of your party and your runs starts with YOU! Be positive, friendly, and communicate. The only time my group didn’t work out well was because NO ONE would reply (many non-english speakers I think) and I just left as there was no point! Besides that, my experience has always been quite good! I go in the chat, ask questions, tell people I don’t know this or that thing, help when I can help… Like this things go fairly well!

So that’s about it. Be a bit patient and, never forget… YOU are the first person responsible for making a party successful.

Good luck and have fun!

Oh noooo… They are selling stuff for 50% less their price!!! I am furious… They should never have done that! They never told it on their manifesto… I am going to quit this game!

Playing more and more, with patches, added content, added gear, etc, etc… This game is so good I could practically live inside of it! It is fun and there are far too many things! Even if people keep complaining too much and enjoying too little… This game is GREAT!

What strikes me is how much effort people make not to have fun! The lengths people will go to, just to make sure they prevent themselves of enjoying something is beyond me!

Bottom line… This game is amazing and I play it more and more!

It is indeed amazing!
Not perfect, not even by a long stretch… Filled with bugs, problems, lag, etc…
But in the end of the day, it provides an amazing time and a great experience! And what is so obvious is that, the experience will just improve! Either by the fixing of problems/bugs, either by improving present concepts (PvP, dungeons, etc…), either by adding new content!

People sometimes forget that this game is around 3months old and already saw a huge amount of content added in. On top of all, besides the content that was added (which lots of people trash by saying it was not enough… I disagree, with new areas, nem maps, new dungeons, new puzzles, new crafting components, new upgrade components, etc, etc…)… The form the new content was added is unbelievable! Anet could have chose to add a new area and send you all an email saying “The consortium are a handful of pricks and they released the karka! Help us protecting our land… blah blah”! Instead, they create a whole story in which people got involved in making them commune with the evolving world!!!

Yes, because that is what Tyria and GW2 are… A virtual world that we are part of and that is constantly evolving! People get their eyes glued to a single detail and dig on it until there is nothing left but a rotting bone! Open your eyes and look at the big picture… It is not as gray and dark as so many are trying to paint it!

I don’t want to censor anyone… Everyone is entitled to their opinion! And they SHOULD share it…

But making a thread “Your game is dead and I am quiting it”, is completely pointless! And it should not have space here…

I am not telling not to be critic… Go ahead, say you don’t like it, but do it constructively! That is all… I don’t like everything! I write in the suggestions and give my opinions… I try to be useful and helpful! CONSTRUCTIVE… that is all!

Please Anet, make the rules for posting more strict!
It pains me to come to the forum looking to share ideas/impressions, just to be assaulted with the sea of negative, destructive, hollow, nonsense crap!

Please Anet, every post that goes like “I am leaving because I don’t like that I have to play for…”, please delete them! Sane people can’t cope with it anymore…

Ahhhh… bye!?
It is sickening the amount of threads like this!!!
“I don’t have my goldies and shinies… I want them!!! And I want everything to be easy and for me to have it all!”

Look, I played GW1 for 6 years and never managed to have enough money to buy an obsidian armor! AND??? Are we all imature spoiled brats here? Yes, as you say… Let the flaming begin!

Because with all this pointless threads, this game will not improve!!!

I think that this is great and I hope they implement a system that continues promoting team play…
These dungeons should be about TEAM PLAY! So it is great that there are no way points… Probably this was not intended, but think about it! Dungeons and PUG parties lack team play, strategy, tactics! If they would take a step further and promote coordination, discussion… how can that be bad? Today, I die in a dungeon, run back to way point! No single word I share (unless I am doing it with guildies)! That should NOT BE like this!

So… find more ways of encouraging people to coordinate (the swamp map is a good example! Everyone should have a role to play in the mechanics), to talk and to play with the notion they are just not someone in the middle of someone else and that, whatever happens, you will get there!

Couldn’t stop myself of coming here to post a big THANK YOU to ANet!
Just finished my first 3 fractals and they are AMAZING! Honestly… I am over the top! Me and the guildies were completely taken by surprise! The dungeons, the scenarios, the amazing mechanics in all the fractals! Uau… Really, where did you guys pull this of?

Congrats… I knew you would make me happy! I could never predict you would make me feel like a little kid opening a big present!!! I mean… during the last boss fight, the scenario, the music… I got goosebumps!!!!

IT IS THAT GOOD… THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CJAncients.6907:

Eddie Van Grog.7095:

What will kill GW2 is, most likely, a negative, deconstructive, irrational, petty and tiring outcry of so many people!

Do you really want GW2 to succeed and do well, or you would love to see it fail? Very often I think most of the people posting in these threads belong to the second group of people!

If you want it to do well, be positive and constructive! That is the ONLY way to make things go further and develop. Try to be mature, try to give a meaningful contribution and try to enjoy! Don’t just try with all your guts to hate everything and then something more!

I LOVE this game. I don’t like everything about it, but I don’t like everything about most of everything in life! What do I do? I can choose to destroy, to corrupt, to undermine and implode… or I can do what I would think a decent human being would do… Try to contribute, look at things positively and make CONSTRUCTIVE comments!

Your comments are creating a catastrophic vision/reality of a game that is not perfect, but its really good and has enormous potential! GW2 could be much more, no doubt… But no one wants to give it time! Everyone starts running around shouting, like a crazy chicken… Most of the times, not really knowing why they shout! But if everyone around shouts… Why shouldn’t they?

So that’s it… What will kill my loved GW2 is most of you and your comments! And that is just sad…

ps: and all this hate, dark hanger, destructive rage for what? For a bloody computer game? Oh well…

I would still be very forgiving of the game’s shortcomings if ArenaNet hadn’t introduced the gear treadmill. And as long as gear treadmill remains, I will only want this game to fail in the most spectacular way.

Look, I also am not super excited about gear and stats improvement either… But I try to see the positive aspects of it!
1- No one is really certain how this “increase” is going to give a competitive advantage.
2- Including “infusions” or more upgrades for gears is great! Hell, when GW1 started we couldn’t add inscriptions to gear! Did the game change that much to break it when they introduced these? It did change… It made it better and more tactical and interesting
3- On the infusion and other upgrade business, this can also be seen as increasing diversity of content! Dealing with certain content will require you use different strategies! Similar to the Mursaat. No one really knows the plans of Anet on this! I am confident that they have realized by now that people don’t want gear progression.

Finally, if someone says “I want it to fail in the most spectacular way”, what can I say? I am sure that every argument we trade is going to be met with the irrational resolve of a fundamentalist!

Amulrei.4973:

Eddie Van Grog.7095:

If you want it to do well, be positive and constructive! That is the ONLY way to make things go further and develop. Try to be mature, try to give a meaningful contribution and try to enjoy! Don’t just try with all your guts to hate everything and then something more!

We tried that in beta. We tried that post-launch.

Short version? It didn’t work.

And what if you think about it as an eternal beta? An ever changing experience of a virtual world? That is what happens in the world… Everything always changes! Most of the times we eat the ground and eat earth and what? We pull ourselves together and we try to make it better!

Look, GW2 has had already two world changing events! In three months… That is unbelievable! And if you guys would man up and contribute in rebuilding what is broken (good metaphorical comparison with the event coming soon, in which we will have to rebuild Lion’s Arch), maybe you would enjoy your game more and see how deep your contribution can go in it!

Tyria gets screwed… We stand up united and we help in reconstructing it. And like this, GW2 is not only Anet anymore, its ours!

What will kill GW2 is, most likely, a negative, deconstructive, irrational, petty and tiring outcry of so many people!

Do you really want GW2 to succeed and do well, or you would love to see it fail? Very often I think most of the people posting in these threads belong to the second group of people!

If you want it to do well, be positive and constructive! That is the ONLY way to make things go further and develop. Try to be mature, try to give a meaningful contribution and try to enjoy! Don’t just try with all your guts to hate everything and then something more!

I LOVE this game. I don’t like everything about it, but I don’t like everything about most of everything in life! What do I do? I can choose to destroy, to corrupt, to undermine and implode… or I can do what I would think a decent human being would do… Try to contribute, look at things positively and make CONSTRUCTIVE comments!

Your comments are creating a catastrophic vision/reality of a game that is not perfect, but its really good and has enormous potential! GW2 could be much more, no doubt… But no one wants to give it time! Everyone starts running around shouting, like a crazy chicken… Most of the times, not really knowing why they shout! But if everyone around shouts… Why shouldn’t they?

So that’s it… What will kill my loved GW2 is most of you and your comments! And that is just sad…

ps: and all this hate, dark hanger, destructive rage for what? For a bloody computer game? Oh well…

Great idea, do not even faintly understand what is the OP complaining, to be honest! I think that giving some weight to the PvP side of the game is a VERY IMPORTANT matter for the game and its survival!

Instead of solo, Anet should develop better tools to find people to join you on dungeons! Either by finding groups or just filling spots randomly on teams of people doing the same dungeon (across all servers). Dungeons should be about team play and should reward that…
GW1 was never meant to be solo. It was the declining population that led Anet to introduce heroes and allow solo gameplay. Maybe when GW2 becomes older that would be justified, nowadays I think it defeats the purpose of the game.
This is not a solo game… Even though you can make lots of it on your own, certain areas should maintain the team cooperation aspect of it! You want to solo… Solo jumping puzzles that give you good drops. Not dungeons that are supposed to be hard and challenging and require teamplay! No… please, no!

I love GW2! I assume the OP does as well! We have been around this game for 6-7 years… Amazing years! In which I was proud of being part of a game like no other! In which I was playing a game of a company that delivered what they promised!
Today, GW2 still is an amazing game, still makes me feel amazed at any corner, doing pretty much any activity…

But today, things are changing! The Manifesto, the “it will be ready when it is ready”, the inspirational, motivating, exciting speech that we have heard about a new game that was being born, set on similar concepts that made our loved GW1 keep alive for such a long time… Today, all these words start to feel hollow! And loving this game as much as I do, I can’t help to sigh and say I feel that the project I once thought I was part of, has long left the house!

Here’s hoping that Anet will realize that setting their name, strengthening the confidence on a brand and cherishing their more devoted player base… that’s what kept GW alive! And this is what will keep them alive in a sustainable manner…

No! Just NO! This is a social game and this aspect should remain and be reinforced…
You don’t find someone? Join an active guild, interacts, make friends! This is what the game is supposed to be! Want to play a solo game? You are on the wrong place…

Constructive comment to an “intelligent” idea…

Most silly “intelligent” idea EVER! You win…

IT’S NEW CONTENT mate!!!! Just play it, enjoy it and keep your other uninspired (sheep) ideas to yourself! Don’t just repeat what everyone is saying! Yes, we got it… We don’t agree with different tiers of items! That is one thing… Not wanting new content, that is just silly! Play it and maybe you will be surprised… and even change your mind!

Although I am sure that many that will play and love it, will still (out of pride) keep bashing GW2. Such is life and all is well…

Have fun

PvP should be an epic endgame and something to keep us entertained while waiting for new PvE content! WvW is, in principle, a fantastic concept… Just imagine being part of a great army, laying siege (or defending) your lands, your castles! Imagine if they improve that, by for instance creating mounts for cavalry, flying machines, more siege weapons, etc… I mean, you have to give it it has the potential to be the Thing!

For PvE endgame, dungeons, the never ending dungeon being added and further dungeons/areas that I am sure will arrive soon!

I am not worried… GW2 has a LOT still to offer! People do exaggerate a lot and some get tired but hey, such is life!

I think this is purely a financial decision, does not affect gameplay and is important for the ingame market as well as Anet’s finances! I don’t think it is a deal breaker or a problem!

You get better by understanding gaming mechanics and working on builds and party formation! This is how you get better… The ONLY way to get better! If you bring a Ferrari and a Skoda to race on a straight line, you can be the best bloody pilot in the world, if I am driving the Ferrari I will still beat you! Am I better than you? No? Do some people (specially immature and unbalanced people) strive on this false sense of being better? Yes! Does that make them right? No…

Improve gameplay, increase number of skills, build composition, stats etc, etc… There is a WORLD of gameplay to play with! Increase content, everyone is happy with that! Do not increase the gap between players that have no life and players that play GW2 more casually! That defeats ALL the purpose of this game… As many said it already, there are TONS of other games out there for that!

PS: I am a GW fanboy and I will defend them! But I am not blind… And no one should be! If they want to listen to their costumers… Listen to them! Have mechanisms ingame to ask for people’s opinions on developing the game!

Yes, I agree that ingame would be the best place to do this! The important thing would be to give small “payments” (even in the form of titles, Like “Royal Advisor” or something like that) to encourage all the player base to make their voice heard!

Look, I really think you had a very good idea!

But the forum is already so filled up with populistic bs (I am not really sure this is the right word… Well, everyone jumping a moving wagon) and sensationalist crap, that stimulating this in another pool is deleterious! That is my point…

I think you had an amazing idea, but you compromise it with a pool that just feeds the irrational beasts that live inside of each of us!

Try a pool like this: http://poll.pollcode.com/fr744l
Simpler, and meaningful… And actually helpful!

Having a category saying “I will leave blah blah” (which everyone that is overreacting is voting on) serves who? You have 3 NO and 1 Yes. This is no pool mate!
Anyway… I REALLY believe a pool like the one I presented is much more useful! But that’s just me…

I have an opinion! I am against it (as I think the majority is). And I tried to vote reflecting that… I would have appreciated to have an option saying “No!”.

I am just giving you an advise. The pool sounds too “impulsive” and passional!
The pool shouldn’t show what you think… This is no pool, it is suggestive pool!

I think that having a pool with the options I gave you would be much more useful and rational/mature!
And that’s that…

Dude, if you want to make a serious pool, make a serious pool!
Just make a pool with yes or no! why complicate with your passionate interpretion of things like “I am going to cry and leave”?
Just make a mature pool like this:
Do you agree with the ascended gear being introduced?
1- Yes
2- No
3- No opinion

And that is all. This is the only way you can make an unbiased and valuable pool.
Good luck with it

Maybe this has already been suggested, but well… Given I am slightly concerned with the way Guild Wars is evolving, I would just like to drop a line and give ANet a suggestion on how to improve the game, their relationship with the customers and the faithful user base that will keep their accountants happy.

Every month or so, send your costumers a link where people can vote on what should be developed further. To make sure everyone votes and not only the ones that are upset with a particular issue with the game, give a small amount of gems (or gold, or whatever) as a compensation. Hopefully like this you will have a large number of people voting and, most importantly, a good representation of every single player type.

Like this you can see what people really would like to see developed and/or improved. Be it PvP, PvE, content, gear, whatever… The consequence of this? You will make much more people happy, more people will be willing to keep supporting you guys financially and everyone would profit from this.

Why change things that the majority do not want/need? Example… Ascended items… I am almost sure that the majority do not want them in the way they have been designed and on the “problems” it opens. So why make it?

Another thing you can also have is a voting system for users suggestions. For example, a specific subforum with projects/ideas/suggestions for introducing into GW2 that gets voted (up or down) by GW2 users. The ones most voted are considered by Anet team to be developed and introduced in the game. The person that submited the idea, gets a prize in the form of a mini, or some item in game.

I mean, there are thousands of ways to strengthen GW2’s user community and make it more faithful to Guild Wars. Because I do like to think that this is OUR game and that we built it together! This is indeed, what makes (at least in my perspective) GW different from everything else. Please, make an effort to keep it this way…

Cheers,
A passionate Guild Wars fan

NO item progression! PERIOD!

If Anet thought that it was important to hear to the people complaining about lack of item progression… How it is going to cope with the rest of us, the old GW1 players and more faithful player base? Anet, do you really want to alienate all your more long time player? The players that supported you for the past 7 years or so? Do you want to forget those to favor the WoW and other MMOs’ players?
We want Guild Wars to be Guild Wars, not something else!!! Stop this nonsense…

Bring new endgame, by actually increasing content, improve PvP, legendaries, etc… It is that simple!

Dear ANet,

I love GW2 (and I loved GW1)! I dedicated a big portion of my life to these games… Sometimes neglecting urgent matters on my “real life”. I have been a faithful “client”, got every possible game made by you (well, all GW1 games and expansions, GW2) and spent quite a lot of money on your Gems… Because I think you guys are special and are really interested in making something different.

I will keep playing GW2 for a while longer, but I have to admit that your increasing changes and deviations from what was first promised, start to be a bit “tiring” and disappointing. GW was and should always be, about skill! Not about grind and living for the game… I want to have fun with the game, not to live in it! This was what I paid for and what I support. I want to login one hour every other day and be able to play against everyone!

Unfortunately, we have watched to an increasing amount of people complaining about no endgame and how they wanted stronger stuff, to feel stronger and more special and be able to be the best in the world and beat everyone! Well… this is wrong! It is completely against all your ideology! At least the ideology I was led to believe you guys defended! I defend GW (and very often criticized WoW and the “sheep” playing it), but please do not make us all be sheep… I want a special game, a different game! I don’t care if some spoiled kids that love to be stronger than anyone else leave the game!

Please, be faithful to what you were… so that you can keep people that believed in you, faithful to OUR cause! Please!?

This game is like a virtual life, given the never ending possibilities. If you are bored… Just go and play something else! I am bored of eating chicken at my local… I don’t go and shout it all across the restaurant! Why? Because it is pointless…
This game is AMAZING and super fun and I LOVE IT! There you go… Do I go and make a post about it?

Sorry for reviving this old thread… Mike, the same exact thing happens to me! Exactly…
I also noticed that at the same time, the clocks on my GPU crash down (I haven’t really looked at CPU, but I would assume the same). I am not sure why this happens… Maybe the CPU is bottlenecking the system? I have no clue… But the problem is definitely there!

In Guild Wars, you don’t need to grind to get top tier items… That was the way it was initially designed and I hope it will still be like this in the times to come! In GW1, people payed more for skins… In GW2, it should be the same! Skill makes the difference!
If you like the way WoW was… Well, you can always go back and play those kind of games! I find them profoundly unfair. I don’t have a lifetime to spend in front of a computer game and I think that I shouldn’t be discriminated because of that!
Bottom line… Skins and rarity should be the ONLY reason why they are so expensive! Period…

ANet has profoundly shaken my perception of game companies and how much importance they give to their players. A 2 month (and a bit) old game that has radically changed its face for a few days event! And what a change… You guys amaze me! GW2 is not perfect, but its nevertheless an amazing sight and inspirational work!

Keep up the good work and an honest and “deep” Thank You!

There is only one game I enjoyed as much as GW2… GW1! GW2 has better graphics though!
Love GW2 and Anet and you guys made a pearl of a game!

This is the most hilarious post in the story of mankind…

I read lots of threads and I wasn’t specifically mentioning the BLC issue. Which I also think was completely blown out of proportion… I spent quite a bit of money and got no rare skin! And? But this has been discussed to lengths elsewhere and I have no intention on doing that here.

Anyway… I am a quite casual player (I just made it to Lvl60 and I had the game since the beginning) and I think this event is SUPER fun! It is an extra to what was already giving me so much fun. People assume they are entitled to get things out of it… I also assume a lot! But I only assume that I want to be surprised and have some funny moments! Which I DO… Since day one! And NON-STOP!

Bottom line… I will keep posting positive happy threads saying “I love everything about this game” “I love the colour of the grass in the human’s starting area” “I love how the water flows in rivers” “I love how the whales look in the open sea” and other threads such as that! Useful like the threads “I am bored of the way the the hay dances to the wind” “I am bored of how swords look pointy” and such other pearls of wisdom and fine examples of positive constructive remarks.

Given the surplus of negative threads flying left and right, I thought I would balance this negativity out a bit, by just making a positive thread!

Don’t want to add it much substance, but to say that I love GW2 as much (actually more) as I did day 1. I have been happily spending money on Gems and using them for whatever reasons (keys, upgrades to accounts and characters) and will continue to do so, because I think Anet deserves and I know they will put the money to good use.

Obviously they have turned more profit orientated, but how do people expect Anet to survive against giants like Bioware, Blizzard, etc? It’s time to stop being hypocritical and realize that their goals are: 1- Make profit; 2- Give players a great experience. And that’s about it…

People keep complaining about content, bugs, whatever blah blah blah… It is fine, we are all entitled to opinions and if we expose them in a constructive way they are super useful! But the truth is, this game is great, halloween is super fun… It all looks like a surreal circus! Even the zerging around doors is funny… Not to mention the quests looking for info on the Mad King and all the little details spread around Tyria.
In any case, whatever you might or might not fancy, this is not what defines the game though, and it seems people are reducing GW2 to the Mad King Returns.

And while this thread doesn’t add anything, neither the majority of the threads complaining. Saying “I hate this and I am going in the corner and not look back at you”… really, does not help in ANY WAY! I swear, I saw threads complaining about the most surreal things… I love the ones saying “I am bored of GW2”… Who cares? Don’t play! I am bored of my car! Do I go and blame the company that produced it? No… I blame on humanity and the fact that we do get bored of things! Blame it in the Human brain and life itself… And then I take the bus or cycle to work! It is that simple…

There is so much negativity that I can only think the world gone crazy! It’s like no one can see any positive thing anywhere! Dudes… Life is too short! So just enjoy it! And if you want to make it more enjoyable, then do something positive and constructive about it! Random rants will take you nowhere and will prove that life will just be what you are putting your effort in… a huge pile of crap!

Anyway… Long story short, I love GW2 to bits, I love the Halloween Event, I love the Gem Store and I pretty much love everything else that ANet has done and put into the game.

A mature, happy, positive human being and GW2 player,
M.