Guild Wars 2

Drow.2081:

No corp can deal with Steam without them trying to take over. Steam is a monopoly with greedy selfish business practices.

Did somebody from EA tell you that?

Albadaran.1283:

The ‘E’ in PvE stands for environment. Meaning the explorable world. Fractals are just a puzzle sideboard. Has nothing to do with the world map

Oh lord, people like you…trying to split tiny hairs. One could say that Fractals is set in an area that is in some ‘world’ and what you do is ‘explore’ it. Ta-dah! It’s an explorable world.

It would be simpler if you just outright said “I can’t do fractals, I shouldn’t have to do fractals for my dailies!”

To normal people PvE is just Players vs AI and PvP is player vs player. It’s that simple. Although if we wanted to be silly, PvE player vs environment, one could simply say ANYTHING around you is part of your ‘Environment’ even if you are in a PvP mode.

These forums…

Remove people from the game and let the golems play in peace. It’s better that way.

Johje Holan.4607:

No don’t nerf them. Eliminate them.

They are just one more addtion to the game that Anet made that gives even more advantage to the strong.

Anet did not understand their game mode and the problems inherent to it. They made all these additions that did nothing but make already existing issues worse.

Get rid of all superior siege in fact. You will see how much more fun the game becomes.

In fact I propose this to be one of their “tests”. Like getting rid of white swords and adding PPK. Have a month where superior siege is unusable and see what happens.

So you propose they remove a level of siege simply because you, personally are unable to deal with those attacking with siege? If you want player to player fights alone, your welcome to go play PvP or initiate battles in obsidian sanctum. I prefer the warlike aspects that WvW offers now, thanks. I prefer using strategic siege and counter siege, similarly to how battle is designed in this instance. All your doing is making claims, and demanding they redesign an already existing, fun game mode, to serve your personal desires, regardless of how it effect those who enjoy it.

If you want a with limited to no siege, then go offer that suggestion in the appropriate sub forums, and stop suggesting the ruin this one for you alone please.

Deli.1302:

Life isn’t meant to be fair. If you are not enjoying the WvW on your server, either you pay and transfer or suffer the consequences of not doing so. Anet is unlikely to do anything about “dead” servers for a very long time, especially with an expansion on the way.

This sums it up nicely.

Videles.6759:

A lot of there customers are leaving because of this. So if they don’t care then they shouldn’t cry when customers leave. I’m about to quitte and ask for a refund to. Having 4:1 imbalance all the time is something they should fix. You already paid for the game. A lot people i know are not gonna purchase the expansion and a lot stopped purchasing gems. I think they have no idea the amount of kittened of customers they have about this and that its costing them money.

Prove it. Gayle recently posted about the population surging for some time now. Yet you claim to have better population metrics the the game developers?

I think they know precisely where their customers stand. How do you expect folks to listen to your perspective, when you make such large claims, that has so much evidence supporting the contrary?

Lord Kuru.3685:

You prove it. Because there’s no way population is surging. Unless, of course, they’re including EotM karma trainers in the numbers — which they’ve done in the past. They’ve given themselves a pretty bad reputation when it comes to trustworthiness.

It already has been proven. You simply ignore it in the name of saltiness. Such as claiming they are not trust worthy. I have seen no evidence of that. All I have seen is aggressive posters, such as yourself, make accusation, forcing them to rein in on posting and communication, by aattacking, over analyzation, and twisting everything they share, in the name of your saltiness, as you do here.

I never realized that WoW gave you their old expansions for free.

I lolled at the comparison to WoW. To play wow you spend $20 for the base game and if paying long term subscription $155 per year. so 1 year cost of $175.

GW2 at $40 to buy then zero ongoing cost, even adding the LS purchase, you’d be at around $60.

Now if you’d been playing either game for 2 years, WoW cost of $330 and GW2 still $60…

Guildwars2 is a great value, that’s all there is to it. And the OP’s friends got the game on special for $10 to boot, so the complaints are just hilarious…

TL;DR

I made a choice to prioritize life over games, and now I’m sad I don’t have everything in the game.

Lobo Dela Noche.5127:

Are you trying to say that the store that was added years after it launched was the primary focus and that it made them more money then all the boxes sold? I remember when the store launched and all you could get was more character slots and the expansions. Then when they made it so you could have a pvp character with everything unlocked for balanced arena pvp they started selling skills in the store. I will agree that is an advantage for PVE but everything was on an even playing field for PVP. Are you saying there is not more in-game advantages in the current gemstore? Day one in Guild Wars I could not pull out my credit card and buy what ever I wanted including the best weapons in the game like I can in GW2. Trying to make Guild Wars sound pay to win when GW2 is 10x more pay to win is silly.

Years after? The in-game store in GW1 was released July 28, 2006 which was only a few months after Factions and only about 1,5 year after release of Prophecies, and before the release of the last campaign and the expansion.

And no, PvP in GW1 was not an even playing field. You still had to manually unlock the vast majority of skills, or you could take out your credit card and buy them all, thus bypassing the grind for either faction or in PvE-playing. A new account that just started playing had only a very basic skill-bar unlocked in PvP, not everything as you seem to imply.

How is being able to buy the best weapon in GW2 by trading gems for gold any more of an advantage than to be able to pay money to unlock the skills in GW1? You are also ignoring the fact that you could buy mercenary heroes in GW1, which basically made it possible to create AI-parties that were 100% impossible without paying.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Dear Anet,

Please get your head out of the clouds. This game is not an Esport and will never become one. The vast majority of people play this game for the PvE aspect of the game.

Over 3 million PvE players have been begging you for new ingame armor sets for almost 2 full years. We have gotten none.

Now you are implementing a PvP armor set that can only be obtained by winning tournaments in tPvP mode? There are currently <1000 players who actively participate in tPvP.

3,000,000 > 1000. Please re-evaluate your priorities.

Thank you.

Where did you pull those number from? Like usual, it’s always some self-entitled hardcore PvEr that moans when PvPers get something unique to them.

Azhure.1857:

It’s not all that odd if you think about it. ArenaNet is only interested in making money. Giving people a 2 week limitation forces people to buy, Buy, BUY! If they made it unlimited, yet kept the rarity the same, some people would still rush in to purchase keys – but nowhere near as many that will because its “2 weeks only”.

Oh no. A business wants to make money to pay their employees and keep the game actually running. How dreadful.

Eurhetemec.9052:

TheGaryTh.1649:

Does LS not count as content? Sure it’s only temporary, however I found that the LS updates every 2 weeks seemed like more content overall, compared with any other mmos. Also what about Teqautl, Triple Wurm, EOTM, and pvp revamp? Pretty sure these are fairly large bits of content added, on top of LS.

It doesn’t really count, because if you miss it, it’s pretty much gone without a trace. Completely unlike other MMOs, where much of the older content will still be accessible AND worth doing!

As I missed maybe 70% of the LS, that had zero value to me. Teq and Wurm are only for the serious elite/hardcore (by Anet design!), EotM is irrelevant unless you WvW, PvP unless you PvP (and they REMOVED content rather than adding it!). All the awesome new weapon and armor art are strictly only for pay. So yeah that’s pretty close to zero, sadly.

It doesn’t have to be that way. The LS could leave permanent changes, improvements, and additions. So far it has only left permanent harm – i.e. destroying LA and leaving us with a less-functional version in Gendarran (with full functionality paywalled for important paying people, of course, which is pretty pathetic. You could argue that in some ways GW2 has LESS content now than it did a year ago!

It just gave us new things and players apparently CAN’T accept anything new.
I would ask you in advance to save us from a wall of text becasue it is usually to try to argument about this specific points, it is a fact by this point: MMORPG players don’t like change, something proven from a philosophy standpoint, humanity in general don’t like change but also like to complain about what they have.

I see alot of people asking for content like WoW but did you know that WoW forums have the exact same threads about lack of content and tedious repeition?

Dark Catalyst.1028:

More gem shop content.

About as guaranteed as a post from you everyday bashing this game like an upset ex-boyfriend.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

More gem shop content.

What playable content was added to the gem shop?

eye floater.7140

I’m getting tired of people complaining about people complaining.

Wait, So your complaining about people complaining about people complaining?

My brain hurts trying to think about that.

The forums are mostly going to be people complaining. Thats the nature of forums. Those who don’t care and those happy with the changes and the way things work are GENERALLY not on the forums. They are happily in game doing things. So while it appears there is rampant discontent, the reality is, it’s a small fraction of the entire game population. You’ll find the complainers post multiple times in multiple threads, thus giving the appearance that there is a lot of traffic in those threads.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

More gem shop content.

Well, they have to make money to keep the game running somehow, don’t they?
Don’t like it, don’t buy it. It’s not P2W, so you’ll be fine without it.

cesmode.4257:

I have not logged into the game and really played in 1-2 months. I have it uninstalled. But I am curious…
If what the OP says is true, that the megaserver places you in areas with people not of your native tongue, this is kind of..odd. And as the poster following him stated, many people are having issues adapting to the 4/15 update.

My question to the community and arenanet is this:

Why is it that arenanet seems to be the only developer willing to shake things up at the core and foundation of their game so much that people remember the dates of these changes in infamy? Another example, the November 5th 2012(I think the 5th) patch lives in infamy due to the release of ascended gear. Why is it that these huge changes which have good intentions behind them, so critically received?

Only a small loud handful of people were pining for some sort of verticle progression. So arenanet claims that ascended gear was always planned(but never told to us even 3 months after release and after we had our exotic sets rolling) and released it spawning one of the biggest controversial topics you’ll see on the forums.

No one asked for Living Story, and yet with its release and gradual build up as the core of their content development, interlaced with themed updates, mini games, hard to come by skins, gem shop cash grabs, and temporary content, spawned yet another intensely hot topic. Infact, a lot of people had asked for traditional content updates and questioned when the first expansion would be prior to living story even beginning. But no one asked for living story.

No one asked for mega server technology. We did ask for arenanet to come up with a way to populate the “leveling” zones a bit more. I always thought that this would be a system that encourages us to play in these zones, any zone that we choose, even at level 80. Instead, they roll out mega server technology(TESO anyone?) and merge every speaking language together? Im assuming there are more blatant issues that go along with this. We asked for zones to be filled again, not to be merged with people from other countries.

A few examples…one has to wonder who is making these decisions and why? Do they read these forums?

While I’ll admit, my hype over Wildstar has not been as high as my hype for GW2, and maybe thats a good thing all things considered, and I have contemplated coming back to GW2 at some point in the near future, but questionable development direction keeps me away. It is what finally drove me away from WoW after 7 years. And its what finally drove me away from GW2, and keeping me away.

Aside from the ascended gear, there is a mixed bag when it comes to opinions regarding Living Story and Megaservers and while both have flaws the illusion that both are ‘’trash decisions’’ is as mentioned…an illusion.

It is unrealsitic that GW2 today is one of the most populated MMOs in the west if we check the negativity in the forums like how it is unrealistic to believe that WoW surived 10 years while according to its forums, the game have been ruined for 10 years.

Yes, there is flaws, yes, Anet do stuff differently anda ren’t scared at all of trying new stuff…but that’s how innovation happen, we have enough MMOs following the same old stuff. Yes, they fail sometimes…but I would rather see them get better than copying others.

For reference, GW2 have basically been a game where Anet literally experiemented with methods and strategies and yet the game is cosnidered by the majority of media and playerbase (even of other MMOs) to be one of the most impressing if not the most impressing title on the western MMO market, that can tell you how bad the genre is.

PS. Your ESO reference regarding the mega-server is ironic, consdiering how Anet used the same technology 8 years ago in the cities of GW1.