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I have not played Runescape so I can not answer if it is a WOW clone. My wife and I were Beta testers for GW2 and it was the lack of the trinity and raiding that made it different and enjoyable. If you want to have raiding then fine but it needs to be fair for those that do not raid. No epic gear should be dropped that cannot be gotten another way. If you want different gear drops for raids then make it gear that you can only use in raids.
It would seem that Arena net is forgetting what they set out to do. To make a different type of MMO, at least, that was what they said during the beta and release. Now, they seem to be moving towards being like other MMO’s and not different.
Thank you for stating this. I came to GW2 to escape elitists and show-offs, although there were a few raiders without that attitude. I used to be one myself, but after I only had time to participate as a casual gamer, I was able to truly see it from the other point of view. The majority of the blame is not the players, but rather the developers that make it possible for certain personality types to rub the noses of casual gamers in it. The message imparted becomes, “I am better than you, you will never attain this, and I will always look better than you.” It does not make one feel good, and it’s not fun at all to be the target audience of it.
Let me be clear, I am not voicing my displeasure at the possibility of Raids in GW2. This message is my warning to ArenaNet to be very careful with how it is implemented. So much brilliant work was done to attract one of the most helpful and good-natured groups of players I have ever seen in my MMO experience since the 1990’s. This plan places all that in jeopardy, which is my cause for concern. If this game turns sour, I won’t post that I’ll be leaving. I’ll just silently take all my marbles, move somewhere else, and patiently wait for the next great MMO, just like I did when I found GW2.
My message to those wanting EQ2/WoW style raids is please try to be understanding to the Casuals. There is another point of view here, and it is very frightening to those that have invested their precious time in this game. Many of those people, like Freywstrider, are only asking for something simple and easy as stated in his last two sentences.
My message to the casual gamers is to have a little faith in ArenaNet. There were similar concerns raised about PvP before, but I believe they handled that fairly. Let us see if they can impress us in this endeavor as well.
The same thing is happening with the Sylvari stories as well. It mostly seems to be the first part spoken by the NPC, but subsequent parts by the same NPC can be heard. I tried changing Sound Quality in Audio Options, but that did not help.
It’s still happening. I wonder if they plan on fixing it, or if they regard it merely as a cosmetic flaw with a low priority. It’s still a severe nuisance to me for reasons which I mentioned previously.
This started happening to me also after the most recent update. The bug window disappears suddenly, so I can’t even read what it says.
I understand it might not matter to you, but it is still a crash, so I feel that I have to restart my computer so I won’t have to worry about losing my work outside of the game after I finish playing. It’s not satisfying, instead becoming a chore and a waste of time.
Same thing happened to me on two different characters in Lion’s Arch on Maguuma server. I logged completely out and back in to fail a third time. I hope we all get credit for this.