Guild Wars 2

I feel like an area that is closed off containing all merchant amenities, an Asura gate, and a mystic forge is something that we have been asking for for a while—not in an exclusive gem-gated area, but guild halls. I feel like after this event the Royal Terrace could serve as a decent placeholder for a guild hall and give members of my guild somewhere to have guaranteed face time with other guildies.

It’s already made. We’re tired of sitting in the culling disaster that is Lion’s Arch. There has been zero rumor or mention of this feature and we want a place to hangout together as a guild. This could be the “temporary content” we’re all looking for before you implement the real guild hall system.

Please bring back Cantha. It was a very special place for a big chunk of original Guild Wars 2 players.

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

As for being over dramatic? Am I really? If the problems this game are directly facing wasn’t that serious – I would agree with you. But, the problems right now are that serious, shall I start posting famously bad ideas that have appeared in MMos since the early days? One thing I’ve learned from playing so many different MMos, being a member of so many different and varied communities over the years – one thing that I’ve learned is that you have alot of arrogant and self centered players, but you also have alot of arrogant and self centered developers too. Sure, I might be a little arrogant at the moment, but I’m 100% behind this game being an open, balanced and fair game for every type of player – can you say the same?

There have been many silly statements and this has got to be the most over the top. Fight Arenanet? Fight them on what? Start a petition to block the patch? What exactly would this do for you? If the patch comes it seems as though you won’t be playing this content. Your attempts at “blocking” this patch are only blocking it for other members of the community because you don’t think it’s fair that your small guild can’t immediately partake in a new feature. Don’t you think that’s a bit selfish?

I shouldn’t really be talking because my guild is fairly large, we have gotten every upgrade possible, and have hundreds of thousands of influence to spare. So let me give you my point of view of someone who leads one of these blasphemous “super guilds.” (Might I add as a side point – “superguilds” are talked about in this thread like they are some n00Bf3sT, unfun, not friendly, and generally negative experience. I am here to attest that they can be just as close knit as your small guilds, and even more. If you brand your guild and add to your playerbase over multiple years you can have a great community of like-minded players, and have a great guild experience. These guilds are out there!)

It is very hard to find something that a large number of our guild members can participate in together and actually feel like we’re accomplishing something. Yes, we can get together and go storm the Hirathi event, but there comes a point where sheer mass numbers can blow through it in a matter of minutes. We can go into WvW and wreak havoc, but as far as largescale things to do as a guild stop there. Guild missions seem to add more flavor and options for bigger events in the game which is desperately needed.

Where you would argue that the new content is “unfair” because your small guild can’t participate, I would argue the opposite. A typical “small guild” I would say has max of 50 members, and probably 1-5 (maybe more, I don’t know) online at a time. You can get your entire guild to go and do a dungeon, you can go get your entire guild to go quest, do events, havoc squad in WvW, dungeons, or do anything almost 95% of the game is designed to do.

We don’t have that luxury. We don’t have the luxury of choosing from a multitude of things. Right now, we get one thing and that thing is WvW if we want to content together as a whole guild. This gives us more options.

I have talked to several smaller guilds since the announcement and they are as happy as can be. I haven’t met one person in-game who isn’t totally psyched for the new guild content. I hate to say that the people that are posting rage on this forum are likely in the vocal minority when it comes to this. Do you know what would be a good idea? Try to contact some other guilds. Our guild knows and plays with various guilds on our server, and the leaders keep in contact for this very thing. I’ve already been in contact with a few guilds who want to join together to tackle this new content because they are a smaller guild who might not get it right away. Do you understand how this can bolster the community? If you look around I’m sure that you can find some guilds to team up with on your server until you unlock it yourselves, and if that doesn’t work I would invite you and your guildies to guest on Stormbluff Isle and join us when we do some of the events.

I honestly think that these events are designed at a large scale, and require quite a few people to complete. It just seems silly for a smaller guild who can only field a few people to gain access to content instantly that they can’t even complete because it requires 20+ people.

I just hope Arenanet realizes that these forums really bring out the vocal minority to come and complain. It’s hard to read anything on these forums and hear things completely opposite to my experience in game and with guild members or just random people I meet in Tyria. I guess that’s what game discussion boards have evolved into though, right?

Haha, great fights at Pangloss tonight and good job SBI in EB during NA primetime!

Looks like last week really did SBI in. How come we were able to field a decent amount of people during the impossible match of SoR, but now we can’t field 10 people in a borderlands? Hopefully people come to their senses and start playing with us again in WvW soon! This can be a great match!

Great battles in SBIBL tonight everyone!