Guild Wars 2

I’ve already quit and bought / moved on to another game. I wish I never bought HoT and I wish Anet would give me a refund. Was primarily a WvW player, and actually only check the forums to see if there’s any reason to think of coming back. Here’s why:

Too many big changes to WvW, none for the better:
1. Changing Reset Night.. no one wants reset on Saturday, and Friday set the stage for the week. There’s literally zero incentive to play.
2. Locking abilities we had behind time/gold sink (aka guild halls). I’m sorry but you should never ever LOSE progress in an MMO. Huge mistake, I should be able to do everything I did before the expansion.
3. New Borderlands – Think everyone has explained the problems here 100 times, I won’t do it again.

EBG – Everyone goes there, and it’s so laggy it’s unplayable
Borderlands – No one goes there, it’s so dead it’s unplayable

Sure, I went into PvE for a couple weeks. Gliding is fun, but Masteries are a HUGE grind. I am bored to death with PvE already. I don’t find it challenging, just can’t solo everything anymore (which makes it even more of a grind).

WvW Ded

BassHunteR.7246:

To summarise:
FA deserves the full status
BG does not deserve the open status
YK does not deserve the open status
TC deserves the open status
SOS does not deserve the full status

Agreed. Whatever calculations Anet is using these days are severely broken. I seem to remember a red post claiming they would monitor/adjust (or implement) the calculations but I kinda doubt that’s ever going to happen.

It wasn’t too clear on if they manually locked things down or if they actually went live with a new calculation system.

The way the status is set right now it does seem like one of their staff members/interns is taking their best guess at setting the server status each week based on movement.

Auric Basin is fine. Completed it yesterday with a handful of us willing to teach and coordinate the map. It’s not that hard, and as people learn the mechanics and increase their mastery it will succeed more often. Just give it time – it’s a really fun and challenging event.

Melanion.4892:

I mean, as much as we complain about changing Friday reset, Anet seems intent on changing it to Saturday night. It won’t change for a long time, if ever.

At worst, the game mode dies and we don’t have to deal with it. At best we get used to it. Either way, it’s not likely to change. Let’s all save our breaths for something that we can change.

You’re right, if we just stop talking about it they will never change it back, ever. Anet is counting on us “saving our breath” for something we can influence cha…. ok I can’t even finish that sentence it’s so ridiculous.

Show me one instance of Anet delivering something the WvW community has asked for. And no, fixing achievements so they don’t take a minimum 12 years to complete (3 years after launch) doesn’t count.

WvW won’t last another year let alone 3 for the next “fix”

My suggestion: Offer refunds to people who pre-ordered HoT who are now unable to enjoy the most important aspect of the game for them.

This announcement never should have been made in a forum, it should have been a major topic in the news months ago. “Hey we’re introducing new maps and changing reset night to Saturday evenings”. Not a week before launch – btw we’re going to screw up you’re entire weekend in WvW, deal with it.

I think the biggest mistake that Anet makes is that they look at this “data” across the game and not at WvW specifically. You have two distinct player bases with different wants and needs. What works for the PvE population may be different than what works for WvW. PvE players aren’t going to suddenly transform into WvW players (Trust US – We’ve tried) Saturday nights in my experience are pretty dead for WvW, at least in T1/T2. I think this community has been pretty clear what they want, and Anet’s response is that they are going to do what’s best for them.

If this is necessary to give time to address issues with the expansion that’s fine, but I honestly hope Anet will consider moving it back to Friday nights once things are sorted out. People have built their lives around this time for years, it works for people across the world. Friday resets are the highlight of the entire game for so many people – to announce a change that literally destroys resets a week before launch understandably has made a lot of people angry.

Adding to the issues… can be running with no enemies around and just randomly drop dead. This is ridiculous.

It is impossible to play tonight. Everyone keeps having all players (friendly and enemy) disappear except for party members. Server is slowing down to a crawl and then speeding up / teleporting all over the map. Sometimes we have no skills on the bar.

Currently on BlackGate BL and everyone in our group is reporting the same issues. Please fix ASAP.

Trebs, Balistas, and ACs that I built an hour before the patch, and were ticked several times within the hour before the patch have all disappeared. This used to only happen to Golems. Please FIX! We have had numerous patches this week and it is very expensive to keep rebuilding.

I feel like this isn’t getting the priority attention it deserves. This is a serious game breaking problem.

Keeps have waypoints contested non stop. The guards take out oil, cannons, seige, gates. Why do we keep getting patches and NO communication?

Zaoda.1653:

Here’s a suggestion for Anet: Fix the gem store.

We still can’t buy gems with credit cards.

Yours sincerely,
everyone

Submit a ticket. It seems they flagged accounts to not allow credit card payments (likely by mistake). After a couple rounds with customer support someone eventually figured out how to clear it on mine.

I have to agree with some of the comments made early on in this thread. RNG should be used for low-mid level items and it is probably fine as it is. Using RNG for top tier items, in my opinion, is just a lazy excuse not to develop meaningful long term content.

I want the option that allows me the freedom to work towards the item I want and not have to rely on winning the lottery to get it, or save up hundreds / thousands of gold to get it from the person who was lucky enough to win. I’m not saying tokens are the answer either. I really like the way you create a backpack in Living Story Season 2. Do the quests, get the items – travel the world, combine some mats, etc. More content like that would be my preference when it comes to obtaining top tier items.