Guild Wars 2

Not much of a forum activist me, but I want to add my protest voice against the current marketing strategy.

I noticed that GW2, when clicking on “buy”, only will feature HoT. Hence GW2 as we knew it is not longer available for purchase separately.

As many have said before : new players will get full package for an acceptable price whereas all those who already own the game are left with an expansion that does not even provide an extra slot to create a Revenant.

Bad marketing Anet, worst I’ve seen in years. You do know how to kitten off your community.

Reconsider your strategy. Offer the expansion to players who already own the game either at a reduced price

OR

throw in some extras : either an extra character slot or enough gems to buy one from TP, an extra bank slot wouldn’t hurt either.

Specs : Intel Core i7-920 , 2.67 Ghz, Nvidia Geforce 460, 12 Gb Ram, Win7 64bit, 100 Mbps internet connection. Latest official GPU driver installed but not tested the latest beta version yet. The system is now 3.5 years old, except for the video card which was replaced about a year ago. It’s therefore not the best available, but performs still well enough.

Until +/- 5 days ago, I had no problems at all running the game at maximum settings. Then, when mapping Black Citadel, major lag hit and FPS dropped to 10-16. When asking about, a guildie told me he had the same issue, with a better system than mine even. Turning off “reflections” had done the trick for him. Worked for me too. And no issues in other zones. Until yesterday.

I started a guardian in Queensdale and FPS went as low as 6. I dropped everything to the lowest possible settings but didn’t get anywhere over 10-12 FPS. I checked CPU and GPU performance and temperatures, they were all inside normal limits. I logged off and went to do something else, then came back for a guild event a few hours later only to find Caledon Forest wasn’t doing any better.

Eventually I jumped to LA, rebooted and after reboot I suddenly was up with 85 FPS again. At maxed settings. As soon as I started to move, FPS dropped to 30, which is good enough to play. Then I zoned to Queensdale and yay, 1 measly FPS. Dropped the settings again to a minimum, didn’t get a better result. So that’s when I ended up here. Finding out that I’m not the only one with issues, is some kind of relief, but I do hope Anet will undo whatever choking stuff they implemented in the last update.

I wonder how many of the people experiencing issues are on the same server. I play on EU Gandara.