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in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: ElectricGoat.8253
I think Anet should develop the next guild wars using OpenGL or Vulcan to better take advantage of open source and the performance capabilities. With Microsoft doing everything it can to go the way of the dodo, using cross platform software is the correct way to go.
Also a Linux client couldnt hurt.
I use Wine to play on my Fedora Linux. And on my windows PC, when I used to run windows, I barely had any sort of lag or issue. It’s a laptop from 2012, which means no graphics cards, only two processor cores and the game runs fine.
Even on wine it mostly runs fine, but cmon, I’m not expecting it to be on par with windows given it has to translate everything to linux language. I do have major lag on the mystic lounge, but look at all the players there.
On a map I can run around reasonably well, and complete events. I guess when it has to send out a bunch of network data AND do local processing, then thats the reason why it all goes haywire.
People like to sell 1 copper over the highest price, just cause it makes it slightly faster to buy and sell if you’re the #1 spot. Over time, this competition causes prices to equal out with the buy price.
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P2W looks bad because other mmo doesnt have SPVP MOBA ESPORT like gw2.
selling legendaries with more stats than regular exotic/ascended is some type of P2W too.
u pay and u win.
doesn’t matter the top tier gear has high different in term of power or low (like gw2 legendaries)
gw2 itself is P2W
Have you even played the game? Nowhere in the gemstore can you buy legendaries.
I’m going to assume you’re new, and please excuse me if I assume wrong, but
HINT: Most of the time you have to craft legendaries. If you pay, you get cool cosmetics and maybe some extra neat things.
I see that you don’t know too much about high gear, so again going out on a limb and assuming you’re new.
HINT: It’s a 10% difference between Exotic and Ascended and Ascended and Legendary. I’m not too sure about armor, but it would probably follow the same path. You also have to earn most of the currencies/items to craft the ascended item. Sure you could wait for it to drop, but then you could get the one you don’t want.Mods did I miss a page on the gemstore? I think my pw2 legendaries page is missing
P2W looks bad because games that DO have P2W end up dying and then people that want P2W come flooding into other games. It’s like a sickness. You know a game in the west has kicked the bucket when they rush out P2W, because at that point they are more worried about paying bills than the game itself and the game itself rapidly devaluates so they need to get money to bail on the game.
Actually plenty of mmos have that MOBA, even wow does at one point. I forgot what its called cause I no longer care or play. I’m not sure why you’re bringing this point up as this is beside your point of wanting a way to pay to win. In fact bringing this up makes your argument weaker because even there players earned what they had.
GW2 is not Pay to Win and you need to play the game, if you have not done so already. You really are missing out on an action packed, no $$$ needed adventure. I’d even go as far to say that Anet is under-pricing GW2. For as much fun as I’ve had I would’ve expected to pay $200, but all this for $50?! CRAZY. Technically I did pay that, if you count gems and all. And their business model seems to work, players like me buy gems. Also players in the west hate paywalls. You don’t understand how much they hate them. They will rage quit and tell all their gamer friends, who just so happen to be your target audience. I’ve done extensive research on MMOs and right now is not the time unless you have something truly groundbreaking. P2W out the wazoo is not groundbreaking.So you have 2 option to get legendary weapon.
1. Grind it.
2. Buy Gems and convert to gold. P2W.
Anet is genius, other company fail in P2W model because their product is overpriced. Anet, not, they are not a greedy company. Anet even very generous, they give plenty of golds reward ingame (chest items that can be converted to gold)
Let see why other top mmorpg fail in P2W model?
1. Archeage.
- Fail because no megaserver. GW2 were using megaserver, that is very genius!. Megaserver make the game look populated. Archeage divide the player using server and ban any communication in map chat until u reach lvl 15. That is so stupid.
- Fail because no SPVP ESPORT. SPVP will attract moba players that will populate the game. Like gw2 did with SPVP.
- Fail because the existence of Black desert online. bdo and archeage was very similar, hence pve grind. With advance bdo graphic, they beat all other mmo on the market today.
You seriously need to get in the game and start playing it and you’ll realize that gems won’t get you very far to a legendary weapon. The currencies you need, you have to EARN them to make the legendary.
So again, not P2W.
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P2W looks bad because other mmo doesnt have SPVP MOBA ESPORT like gw2.
selling legendaries with more stats than regular exotic/ascended is some type of P2W too.
u pay and u win.
doesn’t matter the top tier gear has high different in term of power or low (like gw2 legendaries)
gw2 itself is P2W
Have you even played the game? Nowhere in the gemstore can you buy legendaries.
I’m going to assume you’re new, and please excuse me if I assume wrong, but
HINT: Most of the time you have to craft legendaries. If you pay, you get cool cosmetics and maybe some extra neat things.
I see that you don’t know too much about high gear, so again going out on a limb and assuming you’re new.
HINT: It’s a 10% difference between Exotic and Ascended and Ascended and Legendary. I’m not too sure about armor, but it would probably follow the same path. You also have to earn most of the currencies/items to craft the ascended item. Sure you could wait for it to drop, but then you could get the one you don’t want.
Mods did I miss a page on the gemstore? I think my pw2 legendaries page is missing P2W looks bad because games that DO have P2W end up dying and then people that want P2W come flooding into other games. It’s like a sickness. You know a game in the west has kicked the bucket when they rush out P2W, because at that point they are more worried about paying bills than the game itself and the game itself rapidly devaluates so they need to get money to bail on the game.
Actually plenty of mmos have that MOBA, even wow does at one point. I forgot what its called cause I no longer care or play. I’m not sure why you’re bringing this point up as this is beside your point of wanting a way to pay to win. In fact bringing this up makes your argument weaker because even there players earned what they had.
GW2 is not Pay to Win and you need to play the game, if you have not done so already. You really are missing out on an action packed, no $$$ needed adventure. I’d even go as far to say that Anet is under-pricing GW2. For as much fun as I’ve had I would’ve expected to pay $200, but all this for $50?! CRAZY. Technically I did pay that, if you count gems and all. And their business model seems to work, players like me buy gems. Also players in the west hate paywalls. You don’t understand how much they hate them. They will rage quit and tell all their gamer friends, who just so happen to be your target audience. I’ve done extensive research on MMOs and right now is not the time unless you have something truly groundbreaking. P2W out the wazoo is not groundbreaking.
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Mount is not basic human need, most people at that time walked, just like you should in-game. Horses were and continue to be expensive. Right now Horses are only for rich horse-girls. Back then In Medieval times Horses were for Knights and those would can afford them. I’m not even sure why you’re mentioning this since GW2 is a fictional game where magic exists.
I sure would love some magic in this real world.
You didn’t say to get rid of some waypoints, but someone was going to regardless and I cut them off preemptively.
You didn’t hear of it cause the pay to win killed the game. It killed the game, and the publisher was punished for P2W. I don’t think you are understanding just how bad western players hate P2W. They hate it with a such passion that they will voice negatively how much they dislike it to anyone that also plays games. They hate it so much they will spend large amounts of time saying how much they hate it than play a different game. Game “Journalists” will also promote how bad the P2W is and further create bad press. For a market that hates P2W with a fury of 1000 suns, that spells trouble. Maybe it doesn’t in eastern markets, but for the west that’s the way it is. That game I referenced was supposed to sell tons and tons and was supposed to be a money printer. However, once word got out that it was P2W, the game went to the discount rack because nobody wanted to touch it. I returned my copy for full refund. That is how badly the western market reacts to P2W. Players will get tired of not being able to compete against P2W and leave. Eventually enough bad reputation will be generated due to P2W status that everyone knows not to play that game and the game closes. Unsurprisingly such games that have P2W come from eastern markets? Hmmm…
P2W is not fine, it might be fine in eastern markets, but in western markets they spell doom for games. Players in the west, just. will. not. submit. to. P2W. In eastern markets maybe it’s not death, but this is a different market and here people want fairness and for rewards to be earned. I hear the Chinese GW2 has all the pay to win your heart desires. Oh look it also is in an eastern market. (I’m putting smileys up so you don’t think im being hostile. Tone is very important these days.)
People in the west are not brainwashed, they understand pay to win is terrible. There’s even a term for P2W games, “Cash Grab”. P2W is only good for bad, and unskilled players who want to wallet to the top, but here, you have to earn your way up. Western markets value earning your way up over buying your way up. I say this as someone who has walleted their way to the top only to leave a few months later, and yes, very unskilled. Sub games like Wow are actually on their way out, I played WoW for a while and I cancelled my sub for this game. I’ll let that speak for itself as to which game is better. I even played some P2W games, I’m here which means those games did not captivate my attention after they were revealed to be a money grab hidden under a blanket of fake-fun. Old WoW was good, but they don’t understand the market the way Anet does. Which is why Anet holds strong and firm, while WoW wanes and depletes.
Actually free players provide a very valuable service to the game by being content in and of themselves. While this seems counter-intuitive let me explain, players like me who spend money for cosmetics want to play with other players. We want to show off our cool things, and want to show what we have earned. We also need to sell things to other players. So yes, a player influx is very good for the game as it leads to full game purchases, gem purchases, and more money for Anet. Otherwise those trials would just sit on the sidelines and not purchase anything, and it’s only buy game or no buy. For some players that’s a hard choice, for others it’s a simple option.
If something is free, maybe you are the product. For facebook the users are the product, and advertisers purchase access to the product. It just also accidentally happens to also be a social media site where literally everyone is, and provides a neat feature that lets you network with your friends. Google has a similar approach, provide people a place to view videos and let advertisers pay to advertise to the viewers.
So in sum Mounts bad, P2W bad. I seriously can’t wait for you to try your hand at an MMO. I’ll be here waiting for news of your grand success. Here’s to a new millionaire!