Guild Wars 2

My problem is that there ever was consensus 3 greens was an acceptable reward.

“Okay, what’s the reward for completing the story.”
“How longs it take?”
“Full play through? At least a few solid days.”
“Three greens.”
“They’d should get at least that many during the last mission…”
“We don’t want people farming the story.”
“They can only get the reward once per character….”
“Farmings bad, man.”
“It doesn’t seem fruitful to delete level 80 characters just to start over the storyline. Especially since it can’t be easily botted.”
“Farmings really bad, man.”

Every step you’ve taken to curb inflation and botting leads to more inflation and botting.

2 million sales means nothing if 1.9 million quit by year’s end.

The novelty of your “paradigm shift” is drying up.

The only factor that matters in a game is fun.

Your game is less fun with every update.

You’re running out of time.

Stop failing.

DR is a simple-minded cure for economic inflation, not bots.

If you want DR to be removed, stop playing the game for six months. If enough people do that, DR will vanish.

Though if Anet continues to forget players set the tone not the developer, people will leave anyway. cough Diablo 3. cough

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There’s an easy solution: stop doing dungeons. I did AC at 30 and haven’t done any other dungeons because the experience was awful. The enemies were overpowered and the final boss was pathetic compared to the lovers. Also I received better rewards from the bosses leading up to the final if you don’t count the XP bonus, which I won’t get again on a second run.

“But I’m level 80… that’s all I can really do…” Stop playing the game if that’s all you can do. I’m not saying “go away, you’re stupid,” but if you can’t earn decent reward for your efforts, stop. That’s Life 101.

If Anet is paying attention, this will have 1000x more impact than talking about it here. Every post you make on this kind of thread buys them time to fart (1) around until their next work cycle. But if people stop doing the dungeons, and the endgamers leave the game completely, Anet will have to fix the issue (2) sooner rather than later. And if enough people abandon the dungeons and/or game, they will simply turn off DR because the cost is too high. That’s Economics 101.

If you play the game in a broken state, you are agreeing the broken state is acceptable by the virtue that you’re still playing. You can kitten about the brokenness all you want, but you’re still playing and as such your words have no effective weight (3). It’s like complaining about being repeatedly punched in the face, yet you haven’t moved away from the person punching you in the face.

I’m not returning to this thread because I have voiced my opinion and discourse on this particular matter is useless other than counting the volume of negative opinion over positive. Thus the following annotations:

(1) To Anet employees: don’t reply simply to assert you guys aren’t “farting” around. That’s a literal waste of time. Most people don’t believe you’re farting around. And those that do won’t be convinced otherwise by a forum post.
(2) Fix, as opposed to comprehensively testing alternatives.
(3) To Anet employees: don’t reply simply to assert you guys do care about the opinions of your players. That’s a literal waste of time. Most people do believe you care. And those that don’t won’t be convinced otherwise by a forum post.

It simplifies the overall strategy when dealing with the borderlands. And more importantly prevents one of the borderlands from becoming easily dominated due to terrain or fortuitous structure placement.

Necromania.7180:

I can log in now. All I did was to cancel my log in then re-try

This worked for me. I hit Login, then canceled. Then exited the login program. After relaunching, it logged in. Could be good timing, but I’m usually not that lucky.