Guild Wars 2

3 days have passed, not an official response. Just a confirm "the whole team will read your opinions" from a supporter and the kittening "You Rang?".

My friends just pull me back to FF14 after i tried it for 2 months. They give good deal for coming back and catch up everyone. But i said to my friends that i would wait for the response in 1 more week. And after that .......

To all guys and gals said that “everyone is angry about the price”. No we-the majority of angry existing players- are not angry about the price. Most of us bought a full price ~2 3 years ago, we are not scrimp for paying 50$ for an expansion. If 50$ is the expansion’s price, I’ll pay for that; I won’t complain about the price i’ll just buy it.

But as an existing player, I do feel hurt, i feel like being penalized for bought and played the game in the last 3 year. We are not selfish to new player, we want the game to expand, growing player base for more friends, companions, guildmates. They – the new player can have there HoT 50$ with free core game. If there was another option 50$ HoT with a character slot and a little silly thing like: a costume, a skin , some lion chest keys….anything , just a little gift instead of the core game, that little thing isn’t “big” and doesn’t have to “big” (really ~8$ costume and the core game put those on the table man). There weren’t this situation, there wasn’t riot like this.

BUT No, Anet don’t want that, Anet do not care about old player base. SO WHAT THE HELL ON EARTH I WILL DO WITH ONE MORE FREAKING CORE GAME ????
make another option don’t have the core game and included something else.

And If i do what they want, buy the HoT. I have that usless core game, i may be give away for my friend or my relative, right?? NO ! you know why? Because he/she will have to spend another 50 bucks for the expansion, that’s ok but , WHAT THE HELL ON EARTH WE WILL DO WITH ONE MORE FREAKING CORE GAME AGAIN ???? Give away again and repeat the process.
Great plan anet!!! Great plan!!!

I have commented like this in several threads about this issue. And YES Anet i’ll say it again.

Do you guy even try bro ?

Someone here brought to the discussion a Kor MMO, but i will bring an AAA MMO to be “FARE”: Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn.
FF14 used to have an old engine, worse gaming experiences than GW1 in their original FF14. Then they tore down the whole game, rework the story, engine and gameplay; FF14ARR came out. Since the first day, FF14ARR standard setting have better graphic with better performance than our beloved GW2, i can have average 58 fps with very high settings in high pop place when it’s freaking 20ish fps in Divinity Reach and guest what? They use a DX9 engine. SE also said something like Anet about “considering dx11 later after launch”, did SE ignore that? No, on June 19th 2015, FF14 arr will have their expansion with a dx11 client that provide more beautiful graphic with good performance, and SE will keep optimize it for better performance like they had done with the old client before.

I know that SE have more money than Anet. But Anet should have done something about the game client. Just optimize it.

Ps1: If FF14 ARR had better PvP contents than GW2, i hadn’t logged in this game since 2013. Bad english from an Asean sorry.
Ps2: just in case i don’t have a superior PC, newest things on it is a 3 years old GPU. yeah anet my old timer GPU fully compliant with dx11 and supporting dx12.

locx.6412:

The easiest way to test if your CPU is bottlenecking (which it most likely is in this case) is to run the game in windowed fullscreen, open Task Manager and monitor it when you’re in LA. If any of the cores hit near 100% that’s the cause. If they aren’t however, there could be an issue with your GPU, which would do perfectly fine in a normal case. You can download a program called GPU-Z and monitor it’s usage there, if it’s getting near 100% there’s a problem. Let’s talk about how to fix that only if it happens to be the case.

@Omaris: yeah, GW2 is built on a modified version of GW1 engine, which was started to develop over 10 years ago. Bad decision for us indeed, however I’ve heard ANet is trying to break into Chinese and other Asian markets as well, where most of the hardware is noticeably older than in EU/US (In China the most used OS is still Win XP I think), and doing that with a Dx11 game wouldn’t make sense. I don’t know all the facts here, this is just what I’ve heard, but I guess we just have to wait and see if there’s going to be some optimization updates along the way.

I’m not Chinese, i’m VietNamese from “other Asian market”. Even a small country like us , but i and all my gaming friends use at least Hd6000/GTX500 graphic cards ( mine is HD7750); and for now, all of us use Win7/8/8.1. So i don’t think that we are the reason for Arenanet still uses Dx9, we’re not outdated. Futhermore, when a new PC hardware is released , we have it after US several weeks in black market.
Sorry for my english.

You’re right. Now it has 10gbs downloaded & files remaining : 130k for 50%.

Thanks for helping me .

I didn’t play the game since last month. Today I have a little free time so I log in for some pvp. But the updater just keep running , it downloads 400MBs and still 1%. A small calculates right away, 40GBs for this update :| I check my game client , It’s just around 17GBs. Is that a problem or an GIANT update ???

sobe.4157:

What hardware are you running?

AMD x3 445 3.1 GHz
6Gb ram
AMD-ATI HD7750

Some offline games is quite fine and result of benmark FF14 ARR : standard quality 77 fps average, high is 56. all in resolution 1360*768

I didn’t play this game for 2 months . Back then , my FPS usually is around 30-40 in town or train lvl, 20-30 in PvP; some Medium some High native sample , res 1360*768. However , when i logged in today , my FPS is 6-10 in Town with the lowest setting – lowest resolution either , i can’t even move, that’s terrible. I really disappointed in the tech team.