Guild Wars 2

Not only did they clear it first thanks to their weeks of testing and bragged about it on their website/twitter/reddit but they also took advantage of it by being able to sell the specific loot from the raid first, therefore setting their own price.

What a bunch of doochebags.

Thanks for the tip.

No thanks, Anet…

Anybody have the same bug?
I beat the champions and the icon still says “Earn hero points” and I never get the points.

I tried disconnecting/reconnecting. Doesn’t change a thing.

I they want us to grind that much, they need to give us more ways to earn XP. Right now I’m spending way too much time finding something to do.

The dev in charge of the DH doesn’t know anything about guardians.

Leo G.4501:

Bring more reflects? Does no one use them anymore?

Generally people reflect things that they see are coming. With this skill it’s actually really hard to tell when it’s gonna be used.

As a veteran I either already have those rewards or I do not care for them. Once again, this is catering to new players.

I hope that there is actually gonna be enough content to justify the price which is almost as high as the full core game when it came out.

Ayrilana.1396:

This issue doesn’t matter anymore since the entire core game is free to play.

Not retroactively.
So yes, veterans will have paid for the core game + the expansion, whereas new players will only pay for the expansion. Veterans paid for all the development during those 3 years by buying the core game + buying gems. But somehow, only new players get a preferential treatment.

Make outfits that people pay money for or make armors that people get for free? Hum, such a dilemma…

- A new race doesn’t add new gameplay.
- A new race requires a huge amount of work to re-adjust the armors and outfits.

I would love to see other races but honestly I don’t see ArenaNet doing all that work. They’ll probably prefer to focus on their living story.

We’ve seen it countless times in their videos: devs do not care about guardians. They do not play them. They look bored every time they talk about them. The specialization does not make sense. The name does not make sense. During their meeting they probably spent 2 minutes finding a “gimmick” for the guardian specialization and then moved on to the other classes.

Missing this greatsword:

The problem with the black lion chests is that they contain things that we do not want. Since we actually pay money for the keys, I would have expected the chests to only contain things that we want, of course with varying chances of loot.

It’s heartbreaking to receive boosters that you know you’ll never use when you’ve actually paid for the keys…

Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365:

Archeage have? (had) character collision. It was hell. People blocking everything, it was so chaotic to fight in large scaled battles, you couldn’t position yourself well at all.

It wasn’t so much a problem during fights because it was part of it. You had to strategically position yourself so as to not get blocked by your own allies in case of retreat. No, the problem was with people trolling others by using their carts to block bridges, doors, NPC’s…

SMAA uses more resources than FXAA.
I personally don’t feel like the game uses more resources right now.

Supposedly they increased the drop rate of scraps. Personally I’m actually getting less scraps, so meh…

Because it’s easier to do than legendary armors.

If they haven’t said anything about being open to changing the name by now, then it’s obvious they don’t want to change it.

warbignime.4610:

I can not believe someone saying they are not going to get 50$ of entertainment out of a MMORPG, really?

Still missing the point.

What’s wrong with waiting to see how much content there actually is before buying the expac? Some people like to blindly believe what they’re told, some like to wait until they have real concrete information.

I’m sure their reasoning was “Veterans will buy the expansion anyway, even if they get mad at first”.

What kittenes me off the most is people who haven’t spent a dime on the gem store calling veterans who have spent hundreds/thousands of dollars “entitled” and saying they shouldn’t complain because the game is free.

Mosharn.8357:

Im pretty sure things are going apekitten at Anet so that’s why there hasn’t been much.

True. Also Anet is owned by NCSoft, which means that every decision they want to make, they have to submit to NCSoft first.

But like every big company, they should have a way to accelerate decisions when in crisis. So it seems to me this is not a crisis for them. It’s just a bunch of old players ranting, like they always do. We have already milked them for 3 years, why should we care if they buy the expansion or not?

As most veterans will tell you, it is not about the price. As of now, it is more about respect.

From their actions it seems Anet are mostly trying to please newcomers.
What about veterans who have supported their game the last 3 years? What about veterans who have spent hundreds (sometimes thousands) of dollars on their cash shop to pay for their salaries? Do they want to keep them?

As a company, I would have thought Anet would want to keep their veterans (at least those who do buy gems). So why the lack of respect? From our perspective, here’s what it seems they are thinking: “Well, they are going to buy the expansion anyway, no need to cater to them, let’s just focus on potential new players”. This is not the way to treat loyal customers…

This thread = In North Korea every citizen must be very happy because you never hear them complain.

Greymelken.1892:

GW2 is so cheap for the content it offers.

It’s cheap because you are cheap and don’t buy anything. And you’re only thinking from your cheap player perspective . Do you know why you had the right to play for free and got content for free? Because somebody else paid for you.

IMO, you don’t have any right to criticize anybody who actually supported the game by buying gems from ArenaNet.

Some people don’t buy anything on the cash shop. Obviously these people are pretty happy to “only” pay 50$ now.

For veterans like me who have actually supported the game by buying hundreds of dollars worth of gems during those last 3 years (so basically the people Anet should be trying to keep), it is pretty disheartening to see how they just seem to not care about us.

We’re not mad at the people who do the art, the modeling, the level design, etc… We’re mad at the people who came up with the pricing and the 3 packs. We’re mad at the people who decided to include the core game after people already bought it a week ago and then went and changed the FAQ silently hoping nobody would notice.

After the hundreds of dollars I paid for gems, no I can’t say I forgot this game is B2P…

Mightylink.3816:

I don’t know why everyone is freaking out about the price, look at all the money we saved by not having to buy a subscription for the last 3 years, how dare they sell an expansion to a b2p game >:D

Do you know why they don’t ask for a subscription? Because they actually get more money with the cash shop. Sure, maybe you’re one of those cheap guys who never pay for anything but others actually do pay.

For me the problem of the 50$ is that they’re asking for pretty much the same price as for the core game when it came out and yet Hot seems to have way less content.

Agreed. When doing guild activities, groups of 5 are sometimes too small.

yakuza snowdragon.4639:

understatement! gems are ridiculously over priced!

And yet people still buy them, so that must mean they are not that overpriced.

For someone who has a job, 10-20$ is nothing. For the same amount of gems in gold you would need to farm the game for hours.

At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself: Do I prefer to spend an hour of my work time on that outfit or 6-8 hours farming the gold?

yakuza snowdragon.4639:

As an armour yes as an outfit imo no. I mean who even wants outfits?

Outfits do sell well. Otherwise Anet wouldn’t continue doing them.

I did small batches of 20-30 and never got one.
The one time I decided to save several hundreds of gold to do a big batch, I got Dusk after like 5 tries…

RNG is RNG. You could spend 10000 gold and never get your precursor.

Surely this must be a troll thread.
You basically want GW2 to not be GW2…

You want a MMO like that? You’re gonna have to go try something like Archeage or any other korean MMO.

This is an activity players came up with, not ArenaNet. There’s no reason for ArenaNet to give support for this. On the contrary, if by doing this activity you hassle people who are just there doing a heart or a daily, you should be the ones being reported.

Is Anet even open to a name change? I personally don’t think so, therefore arguing about it is just a waste of time.

We’ve actually seen quite a few people who bought the game because of the coming expansion. HoT is end-game content. They’re starting now to be ready when HoT comes out.

Do it with your guild and make the best jumpers bring mesmers.

Because boobs…

It’s maaaaagic.

Killing undeads.

Stack up on superior runes of the nightmare, guys. Or maybe undead.

Reanne.5462:

But will there be any reason, in PVE, to use any skill other that 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1

I don’t know about you but in PvE I never only spam 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.

lordkrall.7241:

And yet I can already see how Guardians in for example WvW might prefer to stay as regular Guardians based on what we have been shown.

I don’t know. Against a zerg, several guardians laying “traps” (urgh, I hate that name) like a minefield could be pretty awesome.

Guys. The guardian is in a good place right now.

Think about it. They made a crappy specialization so that we don’t specialize and stay guardians.

I’m neutral.

On one hand it doesn’t have anything to do with the guardian. There’s no link with what the guardian does or stands for.

On the other hand, the name doesn’t matter. It’s the class/skills that matter.

One more proof that the devs don’t play guardians and don’t care about guardians.

Just passed by Iron Marches and saw these mordrem bosses (champion mordrem thrasher, veteran mordrem wolf) totally ignored players around them.

It seems it’s been bugged for months but it’s still not fixed. Which means some achievements cannot be done (bottoms up for instance).