It just came to my attention tonight after pondering for month’s on end on wether I should prepurchase the expansion I decided to go ahead and buy it. Little did I know that the exchange rates at the moment are out the roof what would normally be a few dollars difference between USD to AUD conversion is no longer so. The standard edition which is priced at 49.99 USD is a whooping $71.00 AUD that’s just ridiculous and unheard of for a game expansion. ArenaNet has created a situation here by their refusal to produce physical copies of this upcoming expansion forcing countries like Australia to pay these outrageous exchange rates. I initially defended ArenaNet when the price was first announced and people said $50 was to much well now I regret that. This is unacceptable ArenaNet and demands you attention no one in their right mind should have to pay $70 for an expansion.
And what about people that have found their way only guild blacklists because they suck at the game and get their party killed all the time? How would you keep the system from auto joining them into someones party.
Look I can’t speak to that end each player has there preferred skill level
and in the grand truth of things you can never make everyone happy its impossible. I honestly think that if people can’t except that and not use that as a reason to make that person feel bad that may be falling behind the group then well its on that person having the issue not the one having a hard time keeping up etc.
When you begin to use something like player skill level as a reason to single someone out you only send a clear message to everyone else. I could use example’s to describe the type of person they may be by doing that but I am not going to go that far.
“once you have submitted that you wanted a group for a run through Ascolonian Catacombs the system would find the group for you.”
This would be a horrible idea because you would not be able to set requirements on what classes and builds you want in your group.
Why on earth would you want to set requirement’s this isn’t world of warcraft.
where there is set roles tank/dps/healer everyone’s equal and as far your build’s are concerned if you can’t make a good call on what build to bring for said dungeon prior well frankly that’s on the player not the system.
and on record I never said anything about taking away the option to post a group description for your group requirement’s on the LFG system you should be able to still do that.
But once that has been submitted the system should take that information and find a group automatically based on your group criteria that you submitted best case scenario have predefined tic box options to set your rules for your group requirement’s .
Okay for the most part the system is sound but I feel it could use a little work
here’s my list.
1. lose the name LFG.
I think people will find that most of the time it will be used to
get into dungeon run’s maybe fractal’s more then grouping up for living story etc.
Dungeon Finder or perhaps Dungeon Runner. out rightly I know you can do better then LFG.
2. I don’t know if the current UI for the (LFG) is a place holder or what but it looks tacky you did such great work with the WvW window and the PvP window that it makes the LFG a bit misplaced from the rest of the feature’s.
3. Automating the system more. Right now you have to do everything within it to form a group from merging etc. it would be so much more streamline if once you have submitted that you wanted a group for a run through Ascolonian Catacombs the system would find the group for you. Then once the group is formed the system transports the group to the selected dungeon or fractal etc. also finally one extra addition would be nice if you have someone drop out of the group the system automatically finds someone else to fill in that slot instead of having to relist your group and having you all kicked out of the Dungeon/Fractal.
You may or may not agree with my idea’s but I base all this off experiences playing other MMO’s and what works and doesn’t work in the long run. Please if your going to comment make it positive not negative I’m only trying to help ArenaNet.
And yes my gramma is bad but you can get over it :P
I’m not that big on the next update set for the September 17 release.
Yeah wow we finally get a looking for group system that may work :|
other then that I think the update lack’s anything really new.
A revamp of The Sunless isn’t really all that big in my eye.
It’s a lag fest now and it will still be a lag fest then ArenaNet stop creating situations that increases lag.
Fix the lag first and then maybe it might be worth investing time in improving something like dragon encounters.
I can not express how frustrating this is to collect pets in the game only
to have the name you have pick out for it revert back to its default name
when you swap back to it again from having a different pet out
now since I know for a fact that this has been mention before to ArenaNet in the bug section
and never fixed its safe to say there not going to fix it any time soon
so I’m bringing it up again but as
a possible suggestion to have this fixed.
Okay hear me out I hate WoW but one thing they did right and worked like a charm
is the dungeon finder
Now the reason why I think this game needs one badly
your looking for group system is horrible as it stands
everyone knows this but you don’t seem to do anything about it.
and since you have made it completely impossible for us preferred solo players
to enjoy something like this
so at the very least you can do is to make it easier for us to get a group
together and run the kitten thing with as little hassle as possible.
I would like to go into a lengthy talk about how you should design it
but your a smart company ArenaNet you just seem to lack motivation in the right direction.
you say you read our post’s Anet but you never show us you have listened
Please do the right thing do something for the game that is needed.
I think for the most part is that none of the loot i.e. sword’s etc. are unique looking in anyway and if you want the good looking stuff you have to dungeon run it or collect tokens that take forever to get what if that stuff isn’t your thing where’s your rewards for the time spent playing.
So yeah your idea is really good and I think its needed.
You know what your right.
I’ll vote for this anything to get more loot in the game other that generic crap we get.
The amount of loot in the game right now is sad so yeah I’m all for this.
Well I don’t think the land of tyria has any issues with same sex couples.
Take caith and her partner in the nightmare court what’s that girls name again I always forget.
Overall I think the idea is a good one
but I must point out that the overall amount of player’s in the PR’ing scene right now is very low compared to most MMO’s so I think this idea may take a back seat for awhile before it’s even looked at I really don’t think they did enough for the game for people that like to RP the game comes off more as PvP then anything else which is very sad when your someone that’s come from GW1/WoW
And while there at it they can fix the rest of ranger I’m totally upset by how compared to GW1 the ranger is by far the worst profession/class I have ever seen in an MMO you did it way better in Guild Wars 1 what happened ArenaNet did you have no love for the profession anymore.
I mean for one what happened to the taming system now its this lame point click walk away crap. I want to be able to fight for the right for that animal.
And also the lack of selection in tamable animals you can get is horrible also again GW1 had way more in most cases more then wow.
Oh and stop calling them juvenile it makes it seem like you were reaching for a way to hint at players “that animal” unlike the rest could be tamed.
A much better way of doing this would of been to mark all the ones you could tame in green like they are now and give them unique name’s this way even in a small way they seemed different from the last bear you walk by.
