Guild Wars 2

MrFlump.8725:

I thought it would of been a better idea if Anet just uped the 7 day wait (2 weeks or maybe even a month between transfers) and made it if you wanted to transfer again before the wait was over you had to pay the £17.

Great answer!

Or at least allow us different characters on different servers, instead of tying your account down and refusing to let you delete it!

TheDaiBish.9735:

Von Adder.2487:

@Indoles @moirane @TheDaiBish

Yes this is a complaint thread, it’s also an idea on a support forum!

Charging people to move between realms is wrong! Anet never charged a penny on GW1 and did just fine, the seven day transfer wait was good enough!

GW1 didn’t have WvW. That’s why their charging. Why do you think they reset the ranks?

Because it wasn’t indicative of the servers community, rather than people who’d hop from winning server to winning server.

This is irelevant, we got by perfectly fine before the paid transfers, an easy solution would be to just cap the server pop!

Mirta.5029:

Von Adder.2487:

@Indoles @moirane @TheDaiBish

Yes this is a complaint thread, it’s also an idea on a support forum!

Charging people to move between realms is wrong! Anet never charged a penny on GW1 and did just fine, the seven day transfer wait was good enough!

If a genuine mistake was made (as in my part) then looking into the games internals would show that and surely leniency is better for public relations than strict adherence to the rules!

I was told to post here by support, initially i refused, because i knew the thread would be full of people saying “ha tough luck” etc.

If a player in my situation asks for help then help should be granted, grinding is not the answer and as i mentioned i do not have the money! (please understand this)

Any thread containing material about a persons dilema is not necessarily a whining thread either (please understand this)

I agree rules are rules but like in real life there are extenuating circumstances!

1. They gave a long and fair warning
2. transferring accounts costs them work force. It’s only fair that that work force gets payed somehow.
3. It would have been a mistake if the server glitched and transfered you without you choosing to transfer. You chose to transfer.

1. A warning i missed, it happens! (see above)
2. And you honestly believe this!
3. i’m assuming English isn’t your first language, as i really don’t understand this!

@Doomguard

This is indeed an idea!

@Indoles @moirane @TheDaiBish

Yes this is a complaint thread, it’s also an idea on a support forum!

Charging people to move between realms is wrong! Anet never charged a penny on GW1 and did just fine, the seven day transfer wait was good enough!

If a genuine mistake was made (as in my part) then looking into the games internals would show that and surely leniency is better for public relations than strict adherence to the rules!

I was told to post here by support, initially i refused, because i knew the thread would be full of people saying “ha tough luck” etc.

If a player in my situation asks for help then help should be granted, grinding is not the answer and as i mentioned i do not have the money! (please understand this)

Any thread containing material about a persons dilema is not necessarily a whining thread either (please understand this)

I agree rules are rules but like in real life there are extenuating circumstances!

Money grabs eh? Don’t ya just hate ’em?

Recently i have made a terrible mistake, being a semi casual player and not someone who spends all their time playing GW2, i unfortunately missed the bit about paid for world transfers!

On Desolation there was a bug, only a tiny bug but a bug none the less, a bug that i had come across time after time until it began to gnaw at my insides like some kind of digital cancer! So imagine my surprise upon creating a new character only to find the same bug, still in place and still causing grief!

In a fit of rage i decided once and for all enough was enough and this stupid bug wasn’t gonna get the better of me this time…..oh how i should of just moved on!

I logged out and immediately jumped to the nearest server and lo and behold no bug! Completing the challenge i made all preparations to move back to Desolation only to find i now had to wait seven days, well ok i thought np i can live with that all the while my guildies chortling and laughing at my grave mistake!

“Grave mistake,” i answered

“Yes you idiot, on the 28th Anet are bringing in paid transfers and if i’m correct that’s exactly one day before you could have moved back to Desolation for free!”

Stunned silence my end! What the kitten had i done! All my guildies and friends were on Desolation and we always had been, i was now stuck on Fissure Of Woe!

Quickly logging out i made all the relevant searches and lo and behold there it was, paid transfers starting on the 28th…kitten kitten kitten kitten!!! I immediately got onto Anet and explained my position, as mentioned i’m no hardcore player but have been playing Guild Wars since the beta on Guild Wars 1, it’s my favorite MMO. Upon checking the new transfer rules it would cost me more than £17 to return to Desolation, £17 I DON’T HAVE!

“Never mind” my guildy chums guffawed “you can use gems!”

“I don’t have any gems” i cried.

“best get grinding then” some wag typed in the chatbox!

For me to earn enough gems too get back onto Desolation would take years at my rate of play!

“Never mind” cry Anet “you can guest!”

Well thank you very much, guesting does not allow you to be involved in WvW something me and the guild are particulary big on, plus you gotta guest everytime you log in etc etc, this is no solution!

So here i am…digitally homeless unless i cough up nearly £20, more expensive i believe than Blizzard charge on a subscription model!

Once upon a time you could transfer between countrys without penalty, Americans could play with Europeans and Eskimos could play with Australians (you get the picture) this was fabulous on GW1 and why it has been changed for GW2 is beyond me…..

Actually no it isn’t, it’s for profit, pure and simple, i understand that running an MMO isn’t cheap but nickel and diming your playerbase is just low!

Dear Anet, please alter your transfer model for bonafide guild members, i’m useless to my guild now and in a game based around player and guild interaction that makes me obsolete!

TLDR: learn to read!

Ellieanna.5027:

January 28th is when paid transfers will start so it might be easier to transfer after that. Also, it’s been 7 days between transfers for a while. Once the 6 days are up, you’ll be Abe to track when it’s lower. Usually the best to try is early early mornings, but that is the US servers.

I think i have made a dreadful mistake tbh, i moved in anger because the bugs in Desolation were really beginning to **** me off!

If i have to pay too move back, i’ll not be a happy bunny!!

Sick of all the bugs in Desolation i decided to enough was enough and transfered to another realm just to grab a skill point that was continually broken!

Imagine my surprise when i’m told i can’t go back for SIX DAYS!!

Desolation is full! What are the chances of me getting back in? All my guild mates are there and it has been my home since the launch!

This is all very well and good, but is enough action really being taken and do certain countries and servers have priority?

As has been mentioned in this very thread, how difficult can it be to set up and police individual servers?

On Desolation EU there are three bots working the Harathi hinterlands, these bots are STILL THERE! Even though they were reported two days after the games release in the EU.

I have a particular dislike of bots and RMT’s, which goes all the way back to FFXI and the near complete destruction of our server because of these parasites!
SE bought in GM’s who would appear ingame and remove the bots and RMT’s on the spot once they had been reported and identified, why is this so difficult to implement in GW2? Needless to say once these measures were taken bots and RMT’s practically disappeared from the server.

Enough is enough Anet, GW1 was plagued with bots right up to the release of GW2 and still is, i did some pvp yesterday and over half the players were bots, we need action not words, i for one do not want to see this vile plague destroy GW2!

Pull your fingers out! Bot’s and RMT’s should be priority number one!

Moderater on every closed bot thread!

“Hello,
If you think a player is breaking the in-game Code of Conduct, please use the in-game report feature or contact customer support.
I will now close this thread.
Thank you.”

Which parts of those threads detailing the fact that reported bots are not being removed do you not understand?

The game is flooded with bots at the moment and we have not heard a peep from Anet about what they are doing about it!

Bots that have been reported by both me and friends from the opening few days are still doing their automated things all over and as of yet i have not seen a single reported bot removed.

Guild Wars 1 was flooded with bots right up till the release of Guild Wars 2, about 80% of the “players” in pvp were in fact bots, this has me worried for GW2’s future, if Anet are not curtailing this infection now then the situation is going to get worse and worse!

The inclusion of a ingame “shop” will only cause the situation to escalate and if the problems lie within the game engine and infastructure of Anet itself….well!

To reiterate, bots were a common site throughout the lifespan of GW1 and i don’t think they will be going away in GW2 anytime soon!

My take on this is that the names have been used, but the mechanic in place to warn new players is broken!

There are three bots working the Ourobore Caves on Desolation, these three bots have been in place since day two of launch!

They have been reported over and over again, yet they remain!

What these bots are doing i have no idea as they just teleport thoughout the caves killing skritt!

Other guildies and players tell me that there are similiar situations all over Tyria!

What are you doing about it ArenaNet?

DusK.3849:

Von Adder.2487:

knightblaster.8027:

Using the forums as a standard for what the playerbase thinks is ridiculous, because forums are always overwhelmingly filled with complaints. Most of the content players don’t ever bother to come to the forums for any game. So, yes, you get more complainers like you on the forums, but that in no way can be extrapolated to the playerbase as a whole — forums are simply not representative of anything other than what the whiny minority thinks.

And can you imagine the state everything would be in if nobody complained or offered advice!

It’s called democracy!

And it’s a good thing the whiners and their flawed opinions are vastly outnumbered. Yay, democracy!

Heaven forbid we all have different opinions!

knightblaster.8027:

Using the forums as a standard for what the playerbase thinks is ridiculous, because forums are always overwhelmingly filled with complaints. Most of the content players don’t ever bother to come to the forums for any game. So, yes, you get more complainers like you on the forums, but that in no way can be extrapolated to the playerbase as a whole — forums are simply not representative of anything other than what the whiny minority thinks.

And can you imagine the state everything would be in if nobody complained or offered advice!

It’s called democracy!

@Petrol

Interesting!

So there is a possibility that it is a damage mechanic. If that is the case i wonder just how much damage a level 45 -50 warrior and guardian group have to put out before they actually “score”

A mechanic in place that rewards damage over gameplay is an absolute joke, it also encourages botting (which we have seen lots of in many DE areas) and means any lower level players would lose out to better geared and higher level players, making the whole thing pointless.

Over to you Anet?

@WSQ

Across all these zone bosses the story is beginning to sound the same, some people do get loot others do not, regardless of damage done or participation!

I just put out a few messages in map chat on Desolation asking people for their experiences with these events, from the replies i would say it’s about 50/50 on whether your lucky enough to roll a seven or eleven!

If this is true and the drop rate is randomised amongst the participants then i’m afraid that’s very very poor design, you have to consider my group never even earned XP, even though the fight lasted ten mins.

Still waiting Anet?

@Lianesse

It does look like it’s completely random then!

Would someone from Anet like to clarify?

@petrol

Yep i stopped playing immediately after and havn’t been back on since.

From now on when the whole zone get’s excited in map chat over these events i will make sure they all realise it’s probably not worth it!

Out of six guild members not one of us got a single thing not even exp yet others participating walked away with rares of every shape and description..how is this fair?

I’m not a whiner but the mechanic in place for these events is either broken or flawed and people need to know about it, the more i play GW2 the more i’m beginning to miss GW1.

So me and a few guildies level 45 to 50 waited for the event that spawns Shatterer, we waited two hours and took part in the build up, after fighting him for nearly 10 mins we were all rewarded with…ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Can some explain to me how this works? Did we do something wrong or is the whole thing just completely random!

I’m sorry but this is completely out of control now!

Logging in at 1: 00 AM GMT this morning 16th Sept, i found four messages in my mailbox offering gold and the map chat was an endless stream of spam for several different gold selling websites for about 60 seconds!

My love for GW2 is beginning to wane, i’ve seen RMT’s practically destroy MMO’s in the past, the damage done to the economy in the long run can be devastating and to say it’s an immersion killer is an understatement!

FFXI was practically bought to it’s knees because of RMT’s and it looks like GW2 is going the same way, yes i know we are all reporting but that doesn’t help when Anet refuse to comment on the ongoing measures being taken to stop these people. (link please if there is one)

Some of the messages are offering amounts of gold that could only have been procured through exploits/cheats or other nefarious activities, clearly there is a major problem going on in the background somewhere.

I don’t care about buffs/lag/balancing or even the trading post working properly….Stop the RMT’s!

@OP

Hear hear!

This problem needs addressing now! Not next wednesday! (to coin a phrase)

Some info from Anet on this would be nice!

On logging in this afternoon i had six messages in my mailbox from gold spammers….SIX!

How is this possible? When i logged out at 3 AM last night hardly anyone was playing in my zone and i recieved no messages!

How are these people getting our names?

No my account has not been compromised i have done umpteen password changes and swapped several brand new email addresses!

What’s going on Anet?

Warrior+Rifle = The Terminator!

Love it!

Rukia.4802:

zogrim.6925:

As a GW1 veteran do you remember what GW1 looked like when it first came out?

Yes, amazing. Or are you talking alpha?

It still looks amazing imo!

I agree on the bring back announcements though, now i see more about gold sellers in the chatbox than who won what in where!

Bring back downlevelling and experience loss!

That sorted the men from the boys!

@ickytwerp

Well you you have kind of answered your own question there, yes Anet are the poor man compared to Blizz and that’s exactly why a mechanic to stop the RMT should have been in place from the start.

For a possible solution see my third post, though not perfect by any means it did work for LOTRO if i remember rightly.

@holotype

Indeed!

But sadly hunting down these wretches legally costs more in the long run than just installing an ingame barrier.

@Amigo

Well exactly!

The problem lies in the fact that the mechanic allowing these creatures into the game should not have been there from the onset, Anet knew that without a subscription model they could get away with a lacklustre support base…this is wrong!

The game actively supports the RMT with the inclusion of an online store, from the very start restrictions should have been in place on new account creation and chat and mail options (yes it’s draconic but it keeps the scum out) these restriction are then lifted after a certain amount of gameplay and trust is built.

Sitting back and “getting used to it” is not an option imo, if enough people get on the case then Anet will have to listen!

Turning off map chat helps but when i start recieving ingame mail…that’s when i start having “kittens” :P

@Amigo

The sad thing is you never get used to it!

I put up with it for five years in FFXI and seven years in WoW, one of the best things about Guild Wars was the non exsistance of RMT’s. Blizzard seems to have taken care of majority of the problem in the latest incarnations of WoW (it’s not even a quarter as bad as it used to be) and this is a problem i would love to see Anet also address, not only does it kill immersion it also kills the economy!

RMT’s and gold spammers are the bane of the modern MMO, the mechanic that allows them in should never have been there in the first place!

Are getting worse and worse!

On logging into Desolation this morning i found five letters in my postbox all offering to sell me gold and power levelling! Not only that but map chat was full of RMT’s (Real Money Traders) who kept appearing even when blocked!

The amount of gold these scum were offering was ludicrous and obviously highlights a game exploit somewhere, for the love Tyria Anet sort this out!

Over the last few days, this has been getting worse and worse, last night i dropped dead (of a heart attack i thought initially :P) and had four centaurs decloak three seconds later!

A response from Anet please?

Yes it’s bugged!

It was the only dynamic i could not finish on Desolation last night, bug report sent in!

This was a major issue with LOTRO when it first went live, respawn rates made some areas unplayable for solo and small groups, i believe it was a fault with the game engine and not deliberate!

After many many posts, codies (yes before it was sold) fixed the issue and the game became playable and fun again. It looks to me like Anet are experiencing the same problems. I have personally stood and killed the same mob six times within 30 seconds and come across numerous botters completely taking advantage of the super fast respawns in a small cave up at the Harathi Highlands.

Still! Early days and all that.

Input lag during peak times can be gamebreaking! On Desolation between 5 and 10 pm some of the zones can be unplayable (some of the zones and not always..granted)

Me and several guildees have died thanks to input lag and game freezes, last night was particulary bad for game freezing..why? No idea!

All i know is the last time i saw similiar freezes was on early release LOTRO.

This will take forever to sort out, practically every piece of armour and weapon i have used has a clipping issue somewhere!

Poor show Anet!

“I routinely run into a problem where I hit tab expecting it to target the closest mob only to find it locked me on to something 50 yards away. So if I do not pay close attention I attack and accidentally aggro that mob and everything in between. Just seems counter-intuitive to me. Unless I am misunderstanding how the tab key is definied in this game.”

This ^

The engine targetting distant and not nearest enemies is a constant headache, especially in large group fights!

Guild upgrades have stopped and will not restart!

Desolation EU

Using the guild promoter in divinity’s reach has not resulted in any increase in guild influence!
Time: 12 hours ago. Money spent: 60 silver. Influence gained: 0

Desolation EU

Still waiting for a reply on this issue, i know it’s not a critical bug, but it’s still a bug and i’m still down 60 silver!

As of yet the the guild influence has still not increased!

Using the guild promoter in divinity’s reach has not resulted in any increase in guild influence!

Time: 12 hours ago. Money spent: 60 silver. Influence gained: 0

Desolation EU

Mesmer without doubt!

Nobody plays a mesmer, not only is the class incredibly fun and tactical to play it is also the best looking and the most helpful in the spell department imo, in pvp the right build will own anything thrown at it and in pve the gameplay is sublime!

Put down your generic warrs, guardians and elementals, man up and play a mesmer!

On Desolation during a major event, of the 30 or so people taking part in the event i was the only mesmer, and this happens all the time!…says it all really.

At last!

I knew i couldn’t be the only one, the BLTC screen is pretty much unreadable on my screen with pixels missing all over the place, i first thought it was my pc but it seems i no longer need to panic now!

It’s incredibly difficult to read prices and descriptions unless i mouse over the actual content.