Guild Wars 2

The core game is included as a “free bonus?” Well, that’s amazing. No really, that’s great. I’m glad to know that I won’t have to buy the core game in order to purchase HoT. Especially since I already have it. Especially since there are three core games in my home (mine, my fiancee’s, and my stepdaughter’s). So glad to know I’m getting such amazing bonus content for $150. Plus another 20 bucks, since my fiancee and I already have 8 character slots and will need another one for the Revenant. I was at least expecting $30 for each, you know, like pretty much every other expansion for every other game out there. But $50 each for the standard expansion? Times three? I know what we’re not getting for Christmas this year.

Congrats, ArenaNet. You put the competition to shame for so long, only to do the same kind of raw deal we expect from EA when it comes to expansions. And now that I know what to expect in future expansions (we still have 4 more elder dragons to take on, after all), maybe it’s time to start shopping around for a different MMOm since ANet seems to have stopped caring about the things that set them apart from other developers.

EA-Net.

Still the same thing for me. Launcher sticks on Initializing, I click where “Play” should be, it blips, and then the program closes itself. It simply will not load at all if the SweetFX files are in my GW2 ‘bin’ folder. I keep thinking I’m doing something wrong, since it seems to be working for everyone but me, but I’ve re-checked everything a dozen times and it just doesn’t work.

-Edit-

Trashed my ‘bin’ folder, completely removed all SweetFX files and then extracted them back into my GW2 file, and it’s finally working. Weird.

Tried both fixes and I get the same result. The screen goes black for about half a second like it’s going to launch the game, and then nothing. I’ll just have to wait for the next patch I guess :/

The main problem I have noticed is that this game rewards cooperation and there are too many people who think teamwork is nothing more than nerfing a boss with massive auto-attack. There are those of us who are trying to work together and figure out what it takes to get him down, but there are far too many people running around not listening to what anyone is trying to tell them and then throwing fits about how the event is impossible because there’s not enough time, he has too much HP, we don’t have enough DPS to take him down, or just that it’s too hard. The event has been up for one day, and kudos to those who have managed to succeed. Once the strategy is well-known, I don’t think there will be any issues, but until then we have to deal with mass amounts of players charging in, dying, and giving up because Teq doesn’t just sit back and take damage like he used to. Just get back up, dust off, keep trying, and we’ll get him