Guild Wars 2

When I do talk about laziness then I do intend exactly that. Adding them in as a reward takes much more work, there needs to be achievements that need completing that aren’t already in use. They need to make sense, and actually relate to the living story, not doing this = less effort. As for it being a “Business move” I agree, it certainly is, its there to see if people are willing to spend that kind of money, which I certainly wouldn’t, not $5 for one piece of armor skin, and I imagine you agree since you didn’t say otherwise?

And when I talk about the decline of rewards, I mean exactly that. Flame & Frost did last four weeks, it was also the start of it all, so wasn’t perfect, but the rewards none-the-less did contain some skins, so did the southsun story, and the dragon festival. The last two stories started to lack in this, and now the rewards that you would’ve seen in the LS are being put onto the gem store.

I just dont see a use in having a node of power in my home instance any value. Like I said we both have separate opinions and can probably sit here listing our reasons for each.

Bottom line is this, are you willing to pay $5 for a single piece of skin?

Honestly, their living stories have so much potential, I know they can’t satisfy everyone and that one living story might not be what appeals to someone, but the next might…Yet their living stories have turned into nothing more than Farms, its a waste if you ask me… what happened to the actual story telling side of the living story.

Then theres the rewards, which have been slowly becoming less and less, used to be that a few skins where added and some nice items…now look, those items what might’ve been the rewards back then are simply tossed in the gem store at a whopping 400 gems per price… thats 30g currently (not too bad) or $5s if you bought the gems with real money.

I know we all have our opinions…but I really do hope we can agree that $5 for one piece of armor is NOT worth it…the models are nice and def had some work done to them…but why take the lazy route and throw them in the gem store? (yes lazy since theres no need to implement them as a reward / drop of some in game content).

I loved GW1, played it for years, Loved GW2… I even considered myself a bit of a fan… but what Anet just did, made me lose respect for the company by so much…and if they want it back, they’ll have to earn it. In a way its what broke the camels back.

Now again, I know this is my opinion and everyone has their own, speak it! But please, lets not bother trying to change each others opinions since thats how mindless fights start, since we both already have a made up mind.

I loved GW1 and played the game for many years, so naturally I got GW2 and also had a blast. I would consider myself a bit of a fan from the series so far and all thats been accomplished. That being said, what Im going to say is made so much harder. Its also an opinion and everyone is entitled to have their own! If you disagree please do post and explain. Now then,

I’ve noticed a slow decline in the apparent effort thats been put into actual “rewards” from living stories… a few skins here and there were always nice, some rare drops that might seem unreachable on a personal level. Yet it turned into a sort of “Farm” event style system, where Anet would do a update that would have a tremendous amount of potential, yet waste it on nothing more than go to A, kill stuff, then head to B, kill stuff, and eventually get a small reward and a lot of gold.

Yet with the recent Toxic story…its been just a farm, the reward is so minimal that I could care less, so was the Teq. revamp. Now I know that you all might not agree with this, but just look at whats in the gem store today…where as those shoulders and gloves might’ve been a reward for having done something in the past, they’ve been monetized to try and rake in a nice sum of cash.

Anet…I do hope you respond with an explanation of why you’d do something so seemingly lazy. The model of the two items is nice…but is it really justifiable to toss them in the gem store at 400 gems each? Just to put that in perspective thats roughly 30g currently, or $5 if you bought the gems with real money.

Please feel free to leave your opinion, I more than welcome it, just do not start to try and change my opinion since its been made up as soon as I logged in today.

You folks need to relax, just did the monthly again and you DO not get the Luerals…and the essence of luck (500xp) isnt even something to shout home about since salvaging a common blue can easily yield 10….So stop the kittening, you missed out on nothing.

And its obviously not as hard as everyone thinks since I managed to do it in about a few hours.

I know Elcorm was just kidding :P. And yea Measure is right, things like this happen very rarely, so don’t let it get you down.

we…we could always play I Spy while we wait on an ETA for a fix?

I agree with you all, It would definitely be nice if someone could respond with at least an ETA to this.

Ouch that sucks Vinetrix. Just don’t let it discourage you, trust me the game is well worth waiting on a resolution to this!

Yup, Naiad def hit it with his description of it. Only I’m more concerned about getting it resolved since I wanted to get my necromancer to 30 at least for tonights WvW since I’m planning on playing with friends.

Its not so much that I can’t log in (that works fine) its more so that I’m unable to create a character, because on the last step the error log in message appears (even though I could play on my other, already existing characters)

lol yea that is weird…I don’t know what it is with character creation atm.

Yea, mines the last slot as well. Never had a delay either, but now there’s a black screen short before I actually can select my race.

Ahh okay, then it must just be their servers for some reason. Heard a lot of people complaining about crashes, I didn’t run into those, but hey, instead I get this.

Wait, I just deleted one as well and tried taking the same name…either one of you two tried making a new character with a different name yet?

Good to know that it’s nothing on my end then at least, was still hoping on starting that character today so I could level him for WvW tonight.

I have no issue logging in and playing, but I recently deleted my necromancer and wanted to make a new one…upon the last step of the character creation an error message pops up telling me there was an issue reaching the server and that I should disable firewalls etc… then when i try again its telling me I have a network issue (Which I don’t)

Any ideas on what this is? Or am I not the only one?