Guild Wars 2

This anti-botting code is a lot like DRM. Ultimately it will only punish honest gamers.

I’d be happy with random dynamic events. Like the Shadow Behemoth in Queensdale. Spawns quite rarely, drops a chest with random good/decent gear and some money. That’s all that is needed really. A few level 80 areas with big bosses that spawn from time to time, challenging bosses that really take some effort to kill.

Yep. In Queensdale and Kessex Hills I can find an event every 3 or 4 minutes with loads of people doing them. Go to the human 25-35 area after Kessex (forgot its name) and it’s absolutely dead. I spent 2 days there leveling up, exploring, filling the hearts and hardly saw another soul. I think I did the dog event twice, where you have to kill the dogs that the Tamini are training to make them turn against their masters, and one escort quest. That was it in 2 days. It got so dire that by the time I finished the area and was level 37 I actually had no karma left as I was using it to buy gear from the quest givers but earning none whatsoever because there were no events.

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I like how anyone that proves that the complainers didn’t know what kind of game they were buying is suddenly a fanboy.

Ah, well, guilty as charged. Enjoy your pandas and gear treadmills. Us “fanboys” will be in GW2 having fun.

At least a gear “treadmill” is something to work towards, a reward you have to work for. What is there here to satisfy at max level? I keep asking this and people keep saying there’s lots of things, but all I can tell from their posts is that the only thing to do at max level is farm karma.

Well I started playing WoW about 6 months before the first expansion, and quit about 6 months after WotLK, then I tried LOTRO which I loved but it was like a carbon copy of WoW just with different class names so I couldn’t really put too much effort in to it and quit after 3 or 4 months. Then I played EVE for about a year in 2009/10, enjoyed it but quit because I realized there was an elite that controlled the game whose level of experience and wealth I could never even hope to come close to, also the GM’s all played the game and many were members of GoonSwarm, a corporation highly favoured by the GM’s who regularly got reimbursed for the destruction of massively expensive ships whilst other corporations didn’t get reimbursed, proving to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that the developers were favouring certain players.

Then for about a year I didn’t play any MMO’s at all because nothing could equal the wonder and amazement that vanilla/BC WoW could (still can’t, not even GW2), then I played SWTOR for a month, got to level 50 but hated the fact that the game is so heavily instanced and not open-world at all, hardly any PvP between Sith and Jedi unless you join an actual arena, I wanted open-world, random PvP.

Now I’m playing GW2 and loving it, but to be honest I’m a bit nervous about reaching max level. I like more content once you reach max level in an MMO. If there is none… why continue?

I’m thinking I agree on the endgame thing. There always needs to be an endgame in an MMORPG, otherwise it’s pointless to be an open-world multiplayer game, it may as well just be single player. Today, whilst leveling on my 18 Warrior, a level 80 warrior spent around an hour following me and mimicking my every action. After 30 minutes or so I said to him “Endgame must be really boring if this is what you’re doing at level 80” and his response was “This is all there is to do at level 80.”

Pandas.

No I’m joking. I’m actually happy with the races we have now. There’s enough.

Well, as a paid-up member of the guild of chronic cynics, there’s only one explanation for it. GW2 may have sold 2 million copies and may even sell a million more before the end of the year. GW2 is expensive to buy, so they’ve made an absolute fortune. BUT! There’s no subscription, and much of that money will go straight to investors, to the taxman and to making expansions.

What’s left over to pay for the servers? Nothing, or not much. They NEED to make money from that gem store and without selling power they are going to have to push and prod you to use it in other ways. If that means completely kittening your ability to make money without spending money in the gem store first, they’ll do it.

I agree. I was just saying like an hour ago how it sucks that it’s always raining in south-east Queensdale, but never raining anywhere else. Ever. Random weather is awesome. It adds a touch of realism and a lot of atmosphere. Random rainstorms with lightning and thunder would be just dandy. I’d pay for it even.

It’s a hobbiction. I just invented that word because for some people it is more than a hobby it’s like a way of life, but I don’t think gaming can ever become an addiction. For example I’m 24-years old now and have been gaming since 3. It is a part of my life, something I do every day and something I wouldn’t want to live without because I love it. I find that I game less nowadays than I did 8 years ago. Not because I have less time to game but because I realized that spending 16 hours a day playing World of Warcraft would eventually destroy what “life” I have, so it’s more of a restraint.

However, even when I was 19-years old and spending 16 hours a day playing WoW I was never addicted, I just preferred to play games than do other stuff. Some people sit reading all day. Are they addicted to books? Nope. If I had been forced to quit gaming altogether when I was at the peak of spending almost the entire day playing, what side effects would there have been? None. I’d miss it, sure, but I’d watch TV, read, go out, do stuff around the house, etc. I’d pass time in other ways.

Compare that to when I was forced to stop taking prescription painkillers that I got for a back injury, where, thanks to withdrawal, I spent a week curled up in a foetal position, drooling, shaking, shivering, in agony and regularly kitten my pants, then you get a good perspective of what addiction really is and the consequences of withdrawing from it.

There’s a report button on the mail when you read it. It doesn’t seem to appear in the picture the OP posted, which must mean he’s already used the report function for that particular mail.

I actually ended up far higher than each area, probably because I just can’t resist doing every single dynamic event I come across even if I’ve already done it 30 times before. If you’re too low to start the next area, why not go back to Queensdale and farm copper/aspen wood for your proffessions? Or sell stacks of them. Kill everything and do every event as you go. You level up surprisingly quick doing that. I went from 36-37 in about 2 hours of farming in Queensdale. Or you could go to the other race’s starter areas and explore. Go to the Charr area and check out their city, it’s easily the best looking city in any MMO, ever.

Try EVE Online bro. It has everything you described except in SPACE!

I could easily go back to WoW the way it was before the expansions. I loved how difficult it was, I loved how each new area was very different to the last like one was just a regular grassland with forests, the next was a very dark forest with fog and broken old houses, the next a tropical rainforest or a caribean(sp) style port, a ghost town, a volcano and so on. The music was amazing and fitted each area perfectly. I loved the random PvP when you’d be doing a quest and you’d see horde/alliance and in place like Stranglethorn there’d be constant tension because of it. I loved how almost every area had its own instance you could do as you leveled up and I loved that reaching level 40 was a milestone because you got your mount, and level 60 was only the beginning. If you wanted to you could really perfect your character through hard work by doing the level 60 raids which were extremely challenging.

Most of that is gone now and that’s why I don’t play it anymore, but in many ways it was even better than GW2 is, especially the stark difference in each new area as opposed to GW2 where I’ve done 4 areas now up to level 37 and each one is identical to the last. It also had an atmosphere that GW2 can’t match and I don’t think the music is quite as good.

Yeah, I could go back to that easy.

Not much, I’d imagine. Whilst there’s nothing stopping you, you shouldn’t really rush straight to max level in an MMO. They’re always unfinished when released and lacking in content. Same with SWTOR. I hit max level in about 1 month. I was enjoying the story so much I just couldn’t stop playing, then had to quit because there just wasn’t enough to do. I’ve heard people in GW2 who are max level say there’s nothing to do except PvP and farm karma.

Also if you’re level 80 already, you rushed. Don’t say you played normally because I’ll tell you you’re full of crap. I’ve been playing this game since day after release for between 5-10 hours a day, constantly doing quests and exploring each map 100% as I go, and I’ve only got to level 35 and 100% explored 3 maps. If you got to level 80 already then you rushed like hell or found exploits. You did it on purpose and have no right to moan about lack of content.

It’s not just your server OP, I’m on Gunnar’s Hold and it’s exactly the same. I’ve reached the point now where I don’t even use the Trading Post. For the week (and more) that it wasn’t working after release I saved lots of level 15-25 greens. They had a vendor price of between 30-60 copper but I thought “I’ll get a silver each for these easy once the TP opens.” No such luck. People are idiots. They’re listing a green with a vendor price of 58c on the TP for 58 copper, LOSING 4c due to the service charge.

Now you have to list items at least 1c higher than vendor price. Nothing has changed. They’re listing a green with a vendor price of 58 copper for 59 copper at the TP, still losing 3c on the service charge. I just vendor everything, including stacks of 250 wood which I don’t use. I’ll check the TP again in a few weeks to see if people have wised up a bit.