Guild Wars 2

BillFreist.1527:

I just finished doing a trial run and verifying that we can now move forward. As of right now, I plan on briefly blocking access to affected accounts tomorrow morning between 8am and 12pm PST. If all goes well, the block to the affected accounts will only last around 15 minutes – if not, it could be up to an hour or so.

I tried to get this done within work hours to ensure we have everyone available if something goes wrong, but because I’m such a paranoid person my testing took much longer because of how thorough it was

We’ll send a warning to those affect in advance of disabling the account.

-Bill

So has this started yet? I haven’t received any email or had maps restored and it’s gone past the time slot posted.

Still missing my HOT maps after they disappeared yesterday. Can we get an update on this? Pretty discouraging to play the game when your progress can vanish like this.

De-incentivizing content after waving about comments in some of the streams about how great it is that content is always relevant because of scaling is pretty backwards but given this is Anet I’m not particularly surprised since they apparently don’t want us to grind either, but then have most of the game involve outrageous amounts of “optional” grind.

It’s just sad to see because it also seems to show a certain lack of pride in the work that was put into those dungeons, what about newer players(you know that massive wave you guys were so giddy about)? Getting help to do the dungeons when no one wants to do them for lack of reward is gonna suck for them.

[Edit] Just to add that I’m not saying removal of the gold is a bad idea, but removal without another form of reward with the goal of making people not want to do it is incredibly short sighted. Devs should never have to de-incentivize content, make the new content have more incentive in the first place. To be honest it’s disappointing as this is a terribly ham fisted approach to game design.