Guild Wars 2

People may wish to know that the following in game mail seems to be going around, sent by “Telwyni”. The mail system notes that this was sent by another player and not part of the GW2 Team. If any actual staff want to examine this email, I’ll leave it in my mail inbox for 30 days.

Account Will be Shut Down

We are sorry to inform you that your login account will be shut down or partially limited within 72 hours due to currency transactions or abnormal login. If you want to remove restrictions, please click the following link to validate:
(LINK OMITTED FOR SAFETY SAKE)

Please keep in mind that Guild Wars 2 is a global game with hundreds of thousands of players. This means that standards of behavior must be upheld.

GM Telwyni

What’s sad is GW1 had a better system for managing instances and allowing players to transfer between them without hitching rides from friends. This system is definitely a large step backwards.

Megaservers have destroyed much of the RP community in GW2. But in addition to that, there’s the added bonus that other games have real housing systems, something that ANet discussed but never implemented.

Housing would help the RP community in GW2. It has done so in other games where players can create and control specific environments for themselves and other players. But more to the point, these housing systems become huge cash sinks. I know that in another game i play where housing has been added since August, that I have spent over $300 on housing related stuff in that game since August.

If there had been housing here, if GW2, that money would have been spent here. Instead, with megaservers destroying any sense of community, and with no real housing whatsoever to consider, I’ve moved on to another game except for one day a week I still play GW2, and that may be coming to a close soon as well.

If only a thousand players like myself would spend that much money on housing, it would gross $300,000. And in a game like this, which at one point had a large population, that number could have easily been 100,000, meaning $30,000,000 in lost revenue.

How much ANet has lost by failing to provide the very systems that players want (like housing) is truly mind boggling. Does ANet want my money? Show me! Bring me an innovative and robust housing system that allows players to create environments for themselves and their friends. Or, I can spend my dollars elsewhere. It’s your choice, ANet, but if I’d been given the chance, that money would have been spent here first.

I realize Arena Net doesn’t pay a lot of attention to RPers but I’ll guarantee that many RPers would willingly purchase special emotes, such as /sit emotes (/sit1, /sit2, etc.) if Arena Net made them available on the gem store.

I am aware of other games that successfully do this and it would be a nice small addition to the game. It also gives Arena Net financial incentive to provide such things. In fact, an entire array of custom emotes could be unlocked via the gem store that way, for those that want them.

Certain locations in Divinity’s Reach appear to be filled with animals, which was never the case previously. Two I’ve found so far are Minister Wi’s Mansion and the Busted Flagon Tavern.

My spouse was banned for botting and does not even know what botting is, does not own a programmable keyboard or a programmable mouse. I’ve submitted a support ticket as has my spouse but this over zealous banning has got to stop!