Guild Wars 2

That’s an impressive overhaul. Worth the one year you spent on it.

Someone had to be fired for the dlc flop. Seeing in the reddit thread that 250 devs are working at arenanet, it’s worrying about their competence given the low quality low quantity of work done since launch of GW2.

- Arenanet.

WwW players were wondering where were the people cause noone was on the new map. Some said they were on the pve maps and in spvp.
Spvp players complained about long queue time because of the lack of players, some said the players were in the new pve mini-maps.
Pve players complained that the new mini-maps were empty, arenanet said that it was a problem with mega-server, a problem caused by a tech they master and on going today.
Guess that answer the question, the dlc didn’t selll well and players left en masse, or players are stuck between the bridge of the servers.

It’s always sad to see scammed people defend the scam. Arenanet announced raids, there isn’t even an entire one, just a wing. Arenanet announced a region, they offered 4 mini-maps. Arenanet announced legendaries, since 2013, they offered near to none and a legendary grind instead of a journey. Arenanet announced a revamp of fractals, they offered no new fractals. Arenanet announced a new borderland map, they offered a pve map. Arenanet announced an expansion, they offered a dlc priced as an expansion.

sayori.4836:

LJMaster.6214:

Yet GW2 is still the 2nd most played MMO game.

lol, 2nd most played mmo – my kitten. According to who? Some site affiliated/partnered with NC$oft/EAnet? This game is not even in top 10 MMO’s, it’s jsut the reddit white knight army is very active in all kind of polls.

Also server pride is stupid. It’s a video game, who cares.

I’d like to know the source about it too. GW2 is not the least played, but is far from the most played at the same time.

Many of us warned on this forum about the scam that represented this dlc. Given the flop in all areas of the game and the poor sales, many chose to not buy it and to quit playing gw2.

What they didn’t finish for the dlc :
- raids wings
- revisit maps for gliding
- www changes
- new fractals
- set of legendaries
- balance
- new region consisted of real maps and no mini-maps
- a long story
All that miss, in an overpriced dlc + the shift to a f2p model mobile like.

Not really 4 maps, it’s 4 mini-maps. Something like 1.50/2 normal maps in total if you are generous with arenanet.

It’s not because of the nerfs that you already finished the dlc. It is because arenanet made ls 3 + feature pack and priced it at 45E. Don’t blame the players for the lack of work of arenanet. Your expectations were too high ; why did you think that several mini-maps coupled at their boring-stale meta event would take months to stop being entertaining ?

Kulvar.1239:

@HtFde :
No, EU do not let you ask for a refund because something do not match the hype around it.
Actually in EU, it’s very hard to get a refund for video games.
Some example with Steam refunds:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/sorry-europe-you-still-cant-get-refunds-on-your-steam-game-purchases/

I’m from EU and never had problems at getting refunds for digital goods, including from steam. You seems to definite the action of writing an e-mail “very hard”, it’s not for most of us.

They refused to beta test 90% of the dlc in order to scam more customers. Instead, they relied on their outsourced QA, known for doing an average job at best. That’s the result.

Could the moderators merge these whiteknight’s topics like they do for real posts ?

Yes, i mean that, like the job amateurs did for their better mods and shared them, in their off hours and because it’s cool. And without the whole studio behind them.

I don’t call that a full zone or a map, i call that a mini-map. They even gated by every mean their tiny work to pretend.

- No rebindable righ click.
- Can’t set left click to automatic.

Half done job as usual by arenanet. It’s sad that some amateurs mods made years ago are better than this.

Why I download this scam against my will ? I don’t want this parasite on my pc.

From last year : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Is-the-maize-balm-rat-farm-an-exploit/first

You authorized bug exploits in the game ; now you forbid them. Will you authorize them again in 3 months ? I can’t take you seriously.

Fyrebrand.4859:

I actually think I know more about HoT now than almost any other game before it released. The only exception might be the original release of GW2.

Or any game or expansion that had a complete beta test to ensure a smoother launch.

No mouse binding = no need for this native mode, i’ll continue to use an external one. Thanks for the effort at least.

A proper beta that lasted a month or two for all the dlc minus the story would have saved you load of work for the launch. But you chose to only show parts of the first pve map. I have my own guess of why you didn’t want to beta test the dlc by the customers.

I suggest that arenanet staff take a good look at their changes before hitting “implement” too.

There is no other parts than grind in this game. So yes it is the best part, and also the worst. It is the only part, and the dlc LS3 called hot follow this low quality low quantity standard.

The dev responsible of the daredevil/dragon hunter/tempest made a really bad job, chose bad weapons to be added and designed them baed, chose bad design for the new skills. Maybe arenanet should consider if he is the right person at that place.

They did this because the mini-maps are so tiny and didn’t want players to realise it too soon after they enter it. The dlc is a scam, they try to gate their so little work.

1. Reset changed to saturday.
2. PVE map replace borderland.

RIP wvw. Thanks for nothing as usual arenanet.

They say that they focus on fractals, but the changes on them is only easy done fluff stuff. A real work on fractal would be to double or triple their numbers, they were cretaed this way because it could have been easy to make many more . Instead, as usual, they create a half broken system and let it down because it demand work to fix or upgrade. Lazy way since lauch is arenanet’s strandard.

It took them 3 years to come with this legendary grind route, and they only come with 3 new legendaries. The masteries are here to gate the content of the mini-maps by parts, like the maps of LS2 were gated by time/part. They managed to lower their already low quality low quantity standard of work. I wonder how deep they will dig, I guess we will see when the dlc is released and that the mini-maps will be disappointing.

Daredevil.

When you know that they didn’t even beta test the entirety of the first mini-map, the other 3 mini-maps, the raid’s wing minus the first 3 trashs, yes you can be worried when the launch of the dlc is 20 days ahead.

Don’t we have to fear the balance patch ? If they are more frequent, it means the nerfs will come faster and will be more numerous.

That was short and very generic. The usual low quality low quantity work by arenanet.

Could i be a ranged pet please ? I would obey him even if i’m not as powerful as their original pet, i would be affectuous.

If at least we could carry bombs, we would be able to be NPC.

It’s so sad to see the druid presentation, the caster keep saying “there is more” and show it. Meanwhile, thief got one additional dodge. It’s like the daredevil is in pre-alpha, just a concept thrown and no work done on it.

Given that the tempest and dragonhunter are not well received too, be it with the skills or the new weapon, I’d like that the Game Designer responsible for it leave this place and that someone with talent and interested in the game take it. I don’t think daredevil is salvageable because the devs that worked on it dared presented that as an elite line, but maybe the successor will begin to work on the thief as a whole.

I hope all your team followed his example and reported you for such irrespect. I’m sure it’s written in the code of conduct that you signed.

One time i was fighting a mesmer, and after a hard battle i got him down. I thought it was the happiest day in my life before i realise it was just a clone. I’m a thief.

Nor you or me know what the 3 other mini maps are. We only know that given the parts of the first mini maps they showed, it is small. But when you say "4 of the biggest maps ever done in an MMO to this date ", we know that you are not here to discuss, just lie to us and make us buy the scammy dlc. If you want to see bigger maps, you can already do it in this game, most of them are way bigger.

The new eotm is already done and will remplace the borderlands maps.

Beta took place only in a part of the first mini-map. Nothing has been shown for the other 3 mini-maps, although they would need an intense beta test for bug fixes, given the results of the first parts of the first mini-map. That smells like a scam.

I still had the slight hope that this elite specialisation was a sort of late april fool joke ; it seems not. As usual, thanks for nothing arenanet devs.

Solution to alleviate this hard fail : mail 500 blooms to each account. You have the tech to do it only using a server restart, and you don’t have to touch at the event. It would take 10 mins of work, the time to translate your apologies in the letter in the different languages ; could you give me a reason why you don’t do it ?

Why can’t you extend the event for 2 weeks, do you have something else after this ? A chain of event that will lead us without a day out to the release of the dlc ? And if so, why can’t you reduce the required blooms to buy items by 10, or increase rewards by 10 ?

GW2 is not korean and is only about grind, even the dlc is only grind gated behind grind. But you play it.

- Make the event last 2 weeks.
- Make blooms drop from mobs.

I don’t know where exactly, it’s just a statement made by many reviewers at glassdoor. Arenanet outsource his QA, and it’s been a while now.

Loxias.2375:

How about posting a screenshot of devs testing content “before” it’s dumped into game first? =P

Their QA team is outsourced. There are no testers in the arenanet studios, so they can’t take screenshots of them. They don’t exist.

When you see major bugs for a little event like that, and a rehashed one with many time to work on, you can be afraid for the dlc where 3 of the mini-maps were not even beta-tested., and the one we saw was never the whole. The more i see their promotional beta, the more i smell the scam. I wouldn’t be surprised if at launch, 2 of their dlc’s mini-maps are completely broken, and last of it not released.

So the non-reward is a bug, but the 5 blooms/event is legit ?

12 stacks and nothing. Event is boring, the lucky ones got 5 blooms and most of us nothing. 5 poor things if you are lucky, and you have to grind hundred of them. You only had 8 months to do this little thing, poor arenanet devs. That’s so sad to see your work since launch, i expect nothing from you and you manage to disapoint me nevertheless.