Guild Wars 2

Nightshade.2570:

People did not blink at the digital Expansions of Diablo 3 that was originally set at 60$ and it came with nothing else. Nothing, no betas, no character slots, it was just a story line expansion really. Not only that but you still had to buy the original Diablo three Seperately. Which was really new player unfriendly.

Let us look at what Archeage charged with thier 200 dollar preaccess to Alpha. and it 99 for thier access for beta.

Correction: many people blinked at Diablo 3 in its entirety, on account of it sucked. Your other factual errors have already been addressed.

Just because Archeage’s preaccess was also not worth the price tag, does not make this expansion any less overpriced. It’s wonderful that people paid $200 for Archeage, it really is; I did not, nor will I pay for this at any of the currently offered amounts.

As far as your advice not to buy it, I believe that is precisely our intention. We are voicing our reasons why we are choosing not to buy it, in case Anet opts to come around. It’s a case of Capitalism vs. Sanity and is one of, if not the primary point(s) of this thread.

Provost.6210:

I love how everyone immediately assumes that:
a) OP has a long block list
b) OP is unskilled on the grounds of having a long block list

I regularly have top points and several other top player awards when I play PvP (hotjoin and unranked), and I happen to have a lot of people on my block list. So many, actually, that I can’t remember all their names. It sounds like OP has a number of specific people (s)he really doesn’t want to play with… possibly because they are the ones to instigate fights, possibly because they are the kittenty player and blame the rest of the team.

I foresee too many problems with OP’s suggestion, but it’s extremely immature and uncalled for that everyone is making a number of scathing indictments against OP based on their own impressions of his/her motives. Grow up.

Yep on all counts.

My partner and I have been having that problem as well, fairly severely for 3-4 days now.

Not to mention every solo PVP match some team has at least one DC now. The last match I was in, the opposing team only had 3 players

Edit: in NA btw (specifically Oregon). Erratic connectivity occurs at all times.

Jamais vu.5284:

Vladeemer.5076:

So, we can infer that “loyal player”=“I play your game for free and demand to be rewarded for doing so.”

How could Anet not bend before such a compelling argument?

So player loyalty is only defined by pulling out your credit card and buying cash shop fluff.
Wow.
I’m at a loss for words.

Not at all. But it is certainly not defined by not paying for their product. His argument (and, presumably, yours) boils down to “Anet should give a kitten about the portion of the player base that never gives them a dime” and this is patently illogical.

Use your grey matter: the free-to-play model still accounts for and relies upon a certain amount of player support. If one defines loyalty as showing up and enjoying their product without supporting them, and furthermore demands to be rewarded for doing so, one isn’t loyal, one is merely entitled.

While the good news is that Anet does not specifically only reward those individuals who have given them $$ (and thus create the pay-to-win scenario that you would apparently respect more than the current one), this doesn’t change the definitions of entitlement. Thus the argument I quoted in my original post is absurd and lacking any foundation whatsoever.

Master Togo.4281:

Well i have never buyed any gems with real cash or ingame gold.

Master Togo.4281:

Lets troll anet like they do to us loyal players.

So, we can infer that “loyal player”=“I play your game for free and demand to be rewarded for doing so.”

How could Anet not bend before such a compelling argument?

Hyperion.4638:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Hey everybody, the team has a lead they are working on. Please hang tight. We haven’t forgotten about you. We will post more information when things are more certain.

Wait what?? A “lead” ? I thought this issue is almost fixed….wow

Yelling at them for updating us = a) a good/constructive idea, b) a bad/not constructive idea, or c) a bag of potatoes.

Lord of Rings.5371:

Two Hyperions. 38 vs 04

There is a point here.

Hyperion.4638:

Wow so many people are missing the point here….

We are angry because not only that we didn’t receive our rewards in time, but also because we didn’t receive them on the 2nd date which was 3th of June, if Anet would announce before the tournament that the rewards would come in September 2014 everyone would have been ok with it, but the anouace a date than they don’t deliver than they announce a 2nd date and they still didn’t deliver and you ask me why are we upset, its because we are being lied that is why, don’t make promise you cannot keep.

Yeah, edited my post. I’d intended that last bit to be towards the naysayers (wasn’t even aware of the other Hyperion post, lol), but forgot to type it.

Hyperion.9704:

While I’m at work, some lunatic in my town walks down a populated area, carrying two rifles and picks a fight with the RCMP (police). He kills three of them, injures two more and gets away.

So right now, there’s a nutter running around my city with rifles, the city is locked down, highways are shut down and nearly every public area is closed indefinitely while they look for him. No buses, the hospitals are heavily restricted, everyone I know is scared and overall, it’s a pretty awful experience.

Some of my fellow Americans are upset when they see countries that work better than their own. Sorry you guys have to deal with that, and I hope they put that kittenbag down posthaste.

To everyone else: So far as rewards go, they’ll get here. It’s silly that there’s even an issue, but it’s sillier to think that it’ll prevent them from arriving at all, or that S1 is not an apples/oranges argument.

This seems a fine opportunity to shamelessly plug the “Badges of Honor for Tomes of Knowledge” thread, since it’s not a bad idea (and has been acknowledged as such by a red post), and doing so irritates the more toxic element:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Badges-for-Tomes-of-Knowledge/page/3

Akachi.1352:

I dont know how you’re gonna differentiate between people who have got the reward and who haven’t as I know some people, myself included, have the completed achievement, i.e. the “x place in season” achievement in WvW panel, but have not received the reward chest

You are, by definition, one of those who haven’t received the reward. There’s nothing complicated about that. Those who didn’t received the reward because they didn’t earn it are a non-issue. So don’t fret.

Yarlyn Zinc.6801:

Why is everyone getting all jumpy over this reward which will be more than likely crap.

There there. Those familiar with the internet already know what the rewards are, since they were posted some time ago. And people have been waiting for them because they are different than you. It happens.

Or we could thank the troll for keeping the thread on the first page, where it belongs. Keep up the good work, because logic! ^^

I heartily concur/+1 this.

And feel free to add Bloodstone Dust to the cost, just for the kitten of it. I think I’ve got one or two stacks floating around somewhere.

Lord Kuru.3685:

rich.3901:

ICEing.9237:

You clearly have no idea what you’re typing.

and clearly, you haven’t tried to do the Northern Shiverpeaks daily temple zerg. An hour wasted trying to get a map with contested temples and we still havent finished the run. Nice one Anet, kill it for us, we’ve only been doing it every day for 18 months.
Wherever you decide to put it, it needs a choice adding “go megaserver for this map, or stay on my homeworld”

That’s too bad. The temple zerg was one of the few things that brought people together every day. I can see it dissolving if it gets too frustrating.

As for the choice to go to megaserver or stay on homeworld — that’ll never happen. The whole point of the megaservers is to save money on server resources (fewer map instances means less resources needed). Homeworld instances aren’t going to be in this game for much longer.

This is really the thing I hate the most about the whole server-merging. Going so far as to include high-pop servers with established, friendly communities wasn’t worth whatever money they’re saving.

I miss my server already, dangit. TC, I hardly knew ye!

Wanderer.3248:

Amok Threeohthree.8501:

YES! Megaserver in Orr is exactly the right thing to do! Finally Orr won’t be a ghost town anymore!

And settle down, you’ll be able to unlock the traits soon enough… its been 1 day for kittens sake

^This. For the 90% of players who weren’t in the daily temple-run clique, this is a good thing.

Now there’s actually a chance to play in Orr (and by play, I don’t mean farm the same event over and over).

Thanks to all of those people, you won’t be able to do the events at all. The only thing that’s changed is you get to be in Orr with a bunch of folks, without having to bother looking at a timer first. Meanwhile, all those spiffy people are swarming like zombies to every defend event that shows up, squealing collectively “we’re doing Orr woot-woot!”

Some of us don’t see this as outweighing the cost, the cost being no more actual temple runs. But maybe peeps will get bored or something.

Hide Pants option also, please!

Aveneo.2068:

Some suggestions because things are still not working as they should.

• Cap boss scaling at 50. Currently they have no cap and keep scaling if more than 50 players are present.
• Fix Menders so they don’t heal Blue Knight to full in an instant if they manage to get to it.
• Review your balance changes as everyone suddenly deals ~50% less damage compared to before this patch!

All of this. Also what other players have mentioned regarding adjusting loot to match the number of knights that went down, instead of just the one you’re at. Currently this method punishes players for playing the events the way the devs wanted us to vs. the more lucrative zergfest.

This current system suggests a disregard for the longstanding community desire for a rewards=time invested formula. I shouldn’t have to spend ~five hours a day fighting to get into blue group (since those cores are the most lucrative) because the event will not reward me for supporting my server by going to another knight. All drops should be available to all participants.

Forgotten Legend.9281:

just before the evening patch (which fixed the prime holo bug) i got 2/3 on overflow… after the patch 0/6 on TC.

This pre-/post-patch behavior exactly describes my experience, except that I gave up at 0/4. Also on TC.

+1
Also unable to log in, also feeling sadness.