Guild Wars 2

More maps is a given. I’d say most people want that.
Fix/rework of underwater combat. Removing it entirely is just lazy.
WvW stuff, including better rewards (tracks?) map and bug fixes, commander controls/panel, too much to name for WvW really.
I like the idea of gw1 weapon/armour packs someone above mentioned. I would love to be able to get a hold of those. 15k plate, Luxon, kurz, vabbian, too many to name.
Pet and minion AI fix.
I know we’re getting guild halls but are we getting Gvg?
A new race would be nice, but not a top priority.

And my most desired feature; build and gear templates like in gw1.

adding my name to the list with noticeable fps drops sin the 47,232 patch.
used to get between 50 – 60. now I get 5-8 in any area, populated or empty.

i7 2600 (octo) @3.4ghz
8Bg RAM
AMD radeon 6970 2GB

ColinJohanson.2394:

all I can answer is I hope when we’re able to show you what all we’ve been doing in total someday in the future – you’re as excited as we are about it.

I’m sorry but this kind of response just reinforces to me that the devs just don’t quite understand why the playerbase is upset.

You have stuff in development and you cant talk about it? okay. But there’s nothing for us to be “excited about” (if I see that phrase a few more times I might actually be sick) if we don’t know what we’re supposed to be excited for.

Would you say to predicate our excitement on trust in the devs? If so, then that’s unfortunate for you. that ship has sailed. For 2 years large and vocal sections of the community have been going on about some set of changes or another. Most of this is ignored, and fair enough, you can’t be expected to cater to every demand or whim. But every now and then the devs step up and say “yes, this is a good idea” and run with it. The bad part is that we have always gotten the most cynical interpretation possible of the changes asked for. If I could pick 3 examples;

1. The wardrobe system.
Players thought it was a great move that you did this. however you also simultaneously ruined the town clothes system and removed the cheaper sub lvl80 gear transmutations. perhaps an effort to push more gem sales?

2. SAB
I loved SAB. A lot of other people did too. World 1 was a fantastic bit of content out of nowhere. But it was only around for a short while, but it was at least expected to return at some point. Then World 2 came out. And people were happy about that too. But you had upped the difficulty curve massively and monetized a convenience item for it (the continue coin). The worst part is that it now appears we either wont see SAB again, or wont see it for quite a long time, which makes having monetized it in the first place that much more insulting.

3. Commander Tags
I’m aware this one isn’t implemented yet, but I’ll be going off the blogpost located here. The WvWvW community has wanted changes to the commander tags pretty well since the game went live. Colouring the tags was the most basic thing asked for. It’s taken 2 years to get you around to coloured tags (and no other functionality whatsoever) which is fine. That’s a step in the right direction. But then you had to go and button it by upping to cost to 300g. Which is hilarious considering that WvWvW rewards are not good, and most hardcore wvwers would be unable to afford it. Again, it feels like another attempt to push people into buying gems. Especially when a number of recent blog posts on the site have been going on about converting your gems to gold. (examples here here here and here)

People understand that it’s a business and that Anet is a profit making entity. But it seems to be the only objective now. Make as much money for as little genuine effort as possible.

How can you realistically expect your players to stick around to see those changes you want us to be so thrilled about when we don’t know what they are or even have the tiniest hint of what they might possibly be? And even if we did there’s very little faith remaining about your capacity to deliver something or anything at all without it being barricaded behind a giant wall of gems.

I’m sure some people will disagree, and that’s fair enough. But people are abandoning the game because it’s become stale, and increasingly greedy. I’ll keep playing for now, because I enjoy playing with my guild. But it’s the people I play for, not the game.

I imagine losing a few players probably doesn’t bother you much, but you’re losing the battle to keep people interested, and once apathy sets in it’s pretty much the death knell for any MMO.

(incidentally, I’m not saying you should change your approach or offering any thoughts on how to do so. just my 2 cents. I’d say something about getting a response but I know I wont bother coming back to check)

geekanerd.4123:

Not that I blame SoS, really: They have a tasty carrot of second place dangling in front of them. Yummy. So what if it costs a little integrity, right?

This from the server that teamed up with SBI against us a few weeks ago?

Don’t pretend like SoR hasn’t done the same thing.

To the Ebay asuran ranger who had a 1v1 with me behind redvale, that was a good fight. hope to see you around again for more.

Seigfried.5938:

@ All the whiny SoS posts, what exactly do we want?
…snipped the rest…

You’ve absolutely got a point. we were bored with pvdoor before, and we’re not happy getting stomped round the clock. I think the real issue is that we’ve been matched up with servers with far more coverage 5 weeks out of 5 (TC for 4 of those). Maybe it’d be nice if we got a match where we at least have a good shot at winning. Nobody wants to just roll over the top of lower ranked servers (well, some might), we just want an even matchup occasionally.

Looks less likely to happen anytime soon given we’re trending up to rank6 on MOS. Hopefully that’ll even itself out in a day or two though.

Sea Of Sorrows

1. Maguuma/Yaks/or Kaineng (any of these is fine)

2. Ehmry Bay (just for the simple fact that you seem really keen to match up with us, should lead to a good fight)