Guild Wars 2

Jerus.4350:

kitten .5714:

Even though i’m a sucker for all the shiny laser swords I never the less think this sword is very nicely done (reminds me of something from the Souls series).

Good job.

It’s a dagger…

tricked me too initially.

Duped by the wiki. Let me change my statement to “laser daggers” (still works!), then.

Even though i’m a sucker for all the shiny laser swords I never the less think this sword is very nicely done (reminds me of something from the Souls series).

Good job.

chemiclord.3978:

I am honestly shocked that they’re being allowed to revert this change (because I am convinced it was a higher-up decision).

I’m pretty shocked too. Though I doubt they’d retract something they said to a major gaming outlet (I hope I don’t have to eat my own words).

There are some things we can take away from all this if the change does make it through.

The positives:

1. We are still somewhat empowered, and ANet does listen to us…though only after some substantial uproar(see negatives).

2. ANet still responds to bad PR, which means there is still hope for this game and NC/Nexon won’t just milk it for all its worth and let it die.

Negatives:

1. There were no communication with us on the official forums, and communication only came when Mike at Kotaku got involved (and he, not us was notified first).

2. It took a PR nightmare and multiple gaming sites calling them out to retract this change.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Shen Slayer.3058:

Wasbunny.6531:

Not sure if this has already been posted but here is the TenTonHammer article covering what is now being referred to as ‘GemGate’:

http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-gemgate

Good…let everyone know how sleazy they can be.

And what good exactly will come out of this? *sigh.

Google moral hazard.

The necessary improvements are obvious. For instance, allow us to enable the old gem conversion UI from game options. Or, hell, just level gate it since that’s your thing.

Sadly Anet (or whoever makes these kinds of decisions for them) is in a no win situation. The bad publicity is out and the game’s image is already (further) tarnished even if by some miracle they do decide to mend the UI or revert it.

Well this mess is now on Kotaku’s front page now. Anet is going to get publicity for this whether they like it or not.

http://kotaku.com/guild-wars-2-players-angry-over-currency-exchange-chang-1649519173

One year from now?

This game is going where all games that pull this kind of blatant monetization gimmick goes. It doesn’t matter to NC or Nexon in the long run though. They’ve got tons of IPs to milk.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

I’d like to respond to concerns players have raised about ascended items. Please keep in mind that we’re releasing this as one portion of a massive November update that introduces and improves many aspects of challenge, progression, and rewards. With this and upcoming updates, we view ourselves as introducing large amounts of content with supporting systems and features, akin to an expansion pack, building on Guild Wars 2 through a series of live releases. So it’s important for us to be able to add an expansion pack’s worth of progression and rewards to support that content.

Our goal is not to create a gear treadmill. Our goal is to ensure we have a proper progression for players from exotic up to legendary without a massive jump in reward between the two. We will slowly add the remaining ascended gear items and legendary items in future updates to allow people time to acquire them as we add exciting new content that deserves exciting rewards. We will not be adding a new tier of gear every 3 months that we expect everyone to chase after and then get the next set and so on.

Ascended and infusion rewards will be available in both PvE and WvW over time, and be made available through all sorts of content around the world including existing content. PvP will remain unaffected to ensure our intended PvP balance going forward. We are also working on other reward and progression systems for the game that tie into current and new content and features. As you know we care very much about your support and opinion and are listening intently to what you say.

Finally we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the upcoming content, and we will ensure we share our thoughts with you on the experiences we share in the Lost Shores.

Chris Whiteside – Studio Design Director

Thank you Chris for confirming that ANet did indeed lie here:

http://www.arena.net/blog/is-it-fun-colin-johanson-on-how-arenanet-measures-success

And that:

“The rarest items in the game are not more powerful than other items, so you don’t need them to be the best. The rarest items have unique looks to help your character feel that sense of accomplishment, but it’s not required to play the game. We don’t need to make mandatory gear treadmills, we make all of it optional, so those who find it fun to chase this prestigious gear can do so, but those who don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too.”

does not describe the actual product I’ve purchased. I’m glad that your business model is built with the option for me to not support your game further with my money to be able to continue playing, and I am certainly not going to support a company that sold me a product based on the above lie.

Heh. I’ve been playing gw1 since release, and bought this game and supported their game through gemstore largely because they’ve promised a progression model akin to gw1. “Hurt feelings” aside, if I wanted this kind of game I would still be raiding in WoW, which provides a far superior gear treadmill experience.

Not a penny more from me ANet.

I really hope these “ascended” type of items don’t have better stats than Exotics. No gear treadmill is one of the major reasons why I kept playing gw1 for all these years and one of the major reasons I am playing gw2. If this is indeed the shape of things to come expect not a dime out of me for expansions and in the gem store.

Large battles in WvWvW are unplayable for me with this sound bug. If it occurs (fairly often), I either have to restart my client (re-queue for map, not to mention 1 less person for the fight) or it just crashes in a few minutes anyway.

As some have mentioned before, the water reflection is buggy with the new FoV. Not only are reflections off when rotating the camera, but it’s not handling critical angles well (e.g. camera pointed near parallel to the water produces what looks like screen tears).

There is also a noticeable performance drop (about a 10% fps drop on average), though this feels like a reasonable thing.

mongolianmisfit.8350

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Someone else posted this earlier. Does anyone know the original skin of the gloves, chest, and shoulder pieces? Thanks.

Those are all a part of the Conjurer set (rare). Dyes are Celestial/White Gold/Sapphire.

This bug is now associated with crash bugs. This has happened a few times already where the game will just randomly lock up or lock up when I try to exit the game. This has not happened before the recent patch.

This is absurd. The patch notes about Forging the Pact being fixed is just plain wrong. This quest still bugs at the exact same place as before the patch, blocking progress. Here is a screen shot. This is the exact same reported progress block as before the patch.

What’s especially irritating is how long it takes just to get to this point, and I was not going to try this again until a patch fixes it. How wonderful it is to find that it is still bugged, and to add to the insult, it bugs at the exact same place.

My two favorite sets so far.

Here is the normal torso size for contrast. No other armor so far has had this effect.

The exalted coat seems unusually “wide” on the torso. In fact it seems to distort body proportions. I know this kinda stuff is probably bottom of the pecking order as far as bug fixes go but, not sure if this is a bug or not. Can anyone confirm?

-Human/Female/Mesmer
-Exalted coat, Exalted pants, Exalted boots, feathered gloves, feathered mantle, feathered helm.
-Acquired from trading post.

Note the noticeable increasing in torso size.

I hope not. All the trainers near her wear actual armors that exist in the game…here’s to hoping it exists!

I think this is the one we’re all talking about.

I’m dying to know as well!

LinseyMurdock.4165:

Orichalcum and Ancient wood nodes are intentionally very rare. They have a longer respawn timer than regular nodes (hours not days). Also, remember, nodes are not always static. Most should change positions and Orichalcum and Ancient wood spawns have a large number of locations they could respawn at within the map.

Thank you so much for the reply! With these zones still being patched I wasn’t sure what is or isn’t intended behavior.

I have experienced this as well. I’ve seen almost no Orichalcum nodes (meaning I’ve seen only 1) in the Orr 75-80 and 80 zones since I’ve mined them empty this weekend.

Hello. I’ve had two separate profits disappear today when using the pick up tab in the trading post. First was about 40 silvers, the second about 25 silvers. I clicked on take all profit, but the coin simply never arrived in my bag while the amount in the pick up tab disappeared.

Has anyone else experienced this?