Guild Wars 2

Sure they are I would just think that a lot of players requesting some alteration would be unhappy if they weren’t altered. IMO they need some altering, I hope that some adjustments are made to them as others have said. To flat out refuse or deny there’s faults with them and make the suggestion that no alterations are needed is harmful IMO as it alienates the majority that have called for various changes, with the way the mounts handle, to combat motion sickness etc. This isn’t a flame post, nor are my others, I want the best possible options available to all, not just to one section. I hope that the suggestions to make alterations are taken on board by Anet and a compromise is met. That’s all really.

That is why I offered a compromise, a slider option for those that like their mounts walking around with lead boots on and those that don’t. His suggestion was more a plea to stop any changes to the mounts as they currently stand when there are some changes that are desired if you look at other posts and requests that outnumber the requests not to make alterations. I agree with you, a compromise must be made, constructive suggestions shouldn’t be written off.

No they do need a little tweaking I’m afraid, when turning around in the idle pose. Only a minor tweak, or maybe a sensitivity option like with mouse sensitivity. For those that find it uncomfortable having to press hard and hold hard to turn your mount around is not ideal. Don’t just rule out tweaks, it’s not fair on other players that would like some alterations done. You no do that now!

I like the music that’s used in the new Elite Spec videos on the official website, is there a full version of this anywhere?

I have to agree with the majority ITT, very clunky, mentioned it a few times now in other posts. A little altering done to them so you don’t feel like your legs are encased in lead, compromise please. Thank you!

I said in another thread that there needs to be a bit more fluidity when your mount is turning around/lining up to make a jump across a bridge or something. It’s very stiff and “heavy”, I never got motion sickness in this game until that horrific spinning room they stuck in one of the personal story missions (please I’m begging you, never ever! Add anything like that in this game again!)

I love the mounts as well, my only problem and it’s minor is the turning on the raptor mount, so for example, as a human you turn your character around to align with a jump and it goes really smoothly and easily. With mounts when you turn around it’s like the raptors legs/feet are made of lead and it’s quite intense it’s almost like he doesn’t want to turn at all when it comes to standing still (on your mount) and turning to align yourself with a mount jump. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this or finds it slightly weird but imo it should be tuned down a bit more, instead of lead maybe something a bit lighter. I know I know it’s a mount and they weigh a lot and it’s immersion and all that but that’s just my only problem with them. Love them, want a springer asap!

The voice of Livia sounds like Nan Flanagan from True Blood. She dies very easily I had to heal spam her with my ranger and then res her, you keep doing it until the aspects start attacking. Livia’s toughness needs increasing as does her health bar. 100,000 billion zillion quadrillion health should do the trick!

If you were to introduce Heroes/Hench please don’t make them hog drops from mobs like what was done in GW1.

Rasimir.6239:

Zappix.7928:

we need some more flat maps just for a change

You mean maps like Lake Doric? Or Bitterfrost? Even Ember Bay was mostly flat (jp area excluded), and Bloodstone Fen, while having three layers, basically had three flat layers without interaction placed on top of each other. How much change do you need when one map out of five that’s catering to those of us who love to explore is too much?

Yes, more like that please!

To be fair it’s a good map but we need some more flat maps just for a change and no more ridiculously long JP’s. Something a little bit easier for the future please, the hardcore gamers that love the tougher stuff have had their share of goods, us softer players need some goods to!

Thank you

It’s a bit annoying when you’ve maxed out your HoT masteries and you need to do central Tyria ones but when you’re in LW it doesn’t allow you to pump the XP you earn into the central Tyria mastery’s. Needs a fix me thinks.

I support a hero system for dungeons/personal story and raids but it would be difficult to implement. There’s a lot of self reliance in this game and positioning/getting out of AOE etc. There was problems in GW1 with heroes positioning and having to manage them, whilst I would love heroes I can see a lot of issues with them in GW2. I am like some other players in this game and prefer to do things by myself.

Hi there, could you please introduce a new area to tame this pet? As it currently is Dragon Stand and Tangled Depths require an event to be finished for this pet to spawn, could you please place a static version of this pet that doesn’t require an event (like all the other pets) somewhere in one of the new maps? It would help a lot!

Thank you in advance!

I agree, Kudzu is awful and I don’t want it on my Ranger, can we have a less “flowery” longbow and get something that looks good and deadly? Ranger bows have lololol rainbows yay with unicorns, the awful new tiger one Chuka? And Kudzu, which has an annoying yellow arrow point on it.

We need something good, something darker and less silly, I love the Twilight but in a bow form. Make it happen anet, make it happen!

Baby crystal head is too cute, I want one.

The stun locking whilst collecting armor parts has got to stop. Other than that? Good job with the content.

It’s been doing this quite a lot to me this morning on my Revenant. It doesn’t matter if you hit walls or if you’re no where near any objects, it turns itself off very quickly, it’s not a double tap issue either.

It’s very strange, hopefully it gets fixed.

Thank you for recording the Tarir fight music!

I would love to know also Scrysis and David what the Tarir battle music is, along with the ending fight music is.

I am always checking the anet soundcloud to see if they’ve put it up but they haven’t yet.

Also kudos to the composer of the HoT music, it’s really really good!

Thank you for the responses, I will definitely keep my eyes glued to the Anet soundcloud, I also really love the music during the Modremoth fight, there’s been some really great music with HoT!

Not only that, Revenant has two underwater weapon slots yet can only wield a spear.

Is there some new underwater weapon I don’t know about? Is anyone else having this issue?

During the fight where you need to defend Tarir from the Modrem does anyone know what the audio track is and have arenanet released it? I cannot find it anywhere and I really like it.

Cheers :-)

My only gripe with the greatsword is the new noises that they introduced.

I hate the new sounds they introduced a while ago, I would love for a return of the original GS sounds.

Please bring back! PLEASE!! <3 XXX

I really like the Revenant but I would absolutely love for there to be a few more sounds when switching legends, like when you switch to Mallyx he says things from time to time but most of the time it’s just growls, the same with Jalis, Glint and Shiro. I want more vocals for them all and for the vocals to be more frequent and when you’re in the stance of your legend, I want them to actually talk to you. It was said that Mallyx form he would talk to you or you could hear him speak whilst you’re in the stance? I can’t, I don’t know if it’s a bug or if it was dropped?

Cheers!

It’s happened to me as well.

Got booted from the PvP match I was in and got that little grey pop up box on my desktop that asks you to submit the error to Arenanet.

:/

To add, I’m now encountering the same issue of being disconnected with the mission in which you have to defend Turai Ossa. It’s a long mission and it’s frustrating to be booted out and given an error code just before the dialogue finishes and you get your reward.

Can someone at anet please look into this and fix it, it gets extremely disheartening on the third try and you still get booted :/ Thank you!

I am having problems with all the living story content, I’m redoing it all on another character and basically at the end of each instance I keep being booted out of the game with an error code.

It happened on the Labyrinth instance and the seeds of truth where you dress up as Caithe.

I don’t know what’s going on but yeah it’s quite annoying. Hidden Arcana gave me issues as well, but after redoing it 3 times it worked. I didn’t do anything special either so unfortunately I can’t help in regards to your problem?

A response finally. Greatly appreciated but a decision needs to be made quickly in order to reverse some of the damage that has been done.

There’s 60 pages of suggestions and feedback. Most stem toward adding an extra character slot for the $50 version instead of a free (useless to us) copy of the core game.

Except for the fact that they gave extra slots for those professions.

5 core (Monk, Mesmer, Ele, Warrior and Ranger) plus 2 slots for Derv/Rit/Sin/Para.

You still ended up with 7 slots if you purchased Factions first or Nightfall first. The argument here is that it doesn’t matter if it’s an expansion or standalone campaign, they could very well have offered 1 slot for the price of $50 instead of giving away the core game free (which everyone already has and has no use for).

Yeah I’ve just explained that Will…

Eye of the North is an expansion, we’ve established that and yes it didn’t come with any slots. That’s because it didn’t come with new professions so there was no need for the slots..

anx.7549:

I was charged 69 UK pounds for it. I used PayPal and that was the cost with the exchange rate etc.

Should be £47 or at the most £50 when you take the conversion into account.

I doubt they’re going to reverse this decision. They did make a flashy video announcing all this.

lel…

Automaton.4926:

dragon.8071:

Will Lucky.8703:

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

• Saw that standard didn’t come with a character slot when every previous guild wars series expansion that added classes did, and I would also be paying for a base game account I don’t get, and literally logged out of game in disgust.

Technically wrong.

Only one expansion came out for Guild Wars 1 and that was Eye of the North. It did not come with Character slots.

Where have you been? GW1 had 3 expansions. The last one which was EotN was an expansion that was like $10 and precursor to GW2. The other 2 expansions all include character slots and an entirely whole new world and content that is equivalent to the original GW1 which you still need to purchase. It wasn’t given as a freebie.

Those are stand alone games that you can merge. You dont get free character slots with them, they just add all the slots you bought since you joined them all.GW1 had only one expansion and it didn’t come with a character slot. Don’t talk crap if you don’t know.

But that expansion also didn’t release a new profession. So here’s the confusion. Whenever there’s been new professions released in the previous games, they’ve given extra slots to accommodate that.

Will Lucky.8703:

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

• Saw that standard didn’t come with a character slot when every previous guild wars series expansion that added classes did, and I would also be paying for a base game account I don’t get, and literally logged out of game in disgust.

Technically wrong.

Only one expansion came out for Guild Wars 1 and that was Eye of the North. It did not come with Character slots.

That expansion also didn’t come with new professions.

People are talking about Factions (released 2 slots for Ritualist and Assassin) and Nightfall (2 slots for Paragon and Dervish).

Whilst this is an expansion, it’s releasing a new profession, the basic $50 version should come with at least 1 new slot as part of the package. It would fall in line with their previous way of releasing slots with the introduction of new profession/s. Regardless of if it’s a expansion or standalone.

That leaves the question:
Why do UK based players pay 111,52€ whilest the rest of the EU pays 100 flat rate?
If anyone has any answers to this, please enlighten me.

I have no idea, it could be our currency conversion currently to Euros.

It says that it costs £79.99 which translates to 111.5 Euros. If they charged us flat out 100 Euros they’d have to lower the £ cost which would make customers in Europe buy it in £’s rather than Euros.

We always get scammed in the UK, Australians also get scammed. Don’t worry too much about it.

Crise.9401:

Zappix.7928:

And this foolish move along with shafting the Vet players has most likely cost them and the share holders $$$$$$$$.

It might, but you don’t know that and neither do I…. the forums represent a small subset of the community, now if this subset represents the community as a whole then I don’t argue on the subject. However, ultimately only ArenaNet and NCSoft known how HoT is selling and/or if this community outcry is a vocal minority or something to actually pay attention to.

Of course, I’m looking at the long term here. This move has brought people to the forums that haven’t been on for a long time.

It’s a small sample for sure but it gives a good idea as to how the community is feeling about this.

Linnael.1069:

Zappix.7928:

Crise.9401:

InfinitytheSoulWarden.5963:

The only arguments supporting the price ive seen is

1. $50 is standard for MMO DLC

2. $50 is not that much

seriously those are the only 2 arguments and are easily beaten back by arguing logic.

Let’s add a third argument to that list then… ArenaNet and by extension NCSoft are businesses responsible first and foremost to their shareholders (and people who want to argue semantics, ANet is a subsidiary of NCSoft) and if you think for a second it is solely on ArenaNet’s discretion on how the Expansion Pack is priced and sold you are most likely pretty far off the mark.

And this foolish move along with shafting the Vet players has most likely cost them and the share holders $$$$$$$$.

Don’t bother arguing the price at all. Worth is subjective, the crazy shadow business nature of the marketing is not.

You’re right, worth is subjective and if you take a look through the forum you’ll see a lot of players are not happy. But that wasn’t my point. My point was that players that potentially spend in the gem store or were going to buy the xpac are now not going to.

This is harmful in the long term for potential short term gains.

But this thread isn’t about that.

Crise.9401:

InfinitytheSoulWarden.5963:

The only arguments supporting the price ive seen is

1. $50 is standard for MMO DLC

2. $50 is not that much

seriously those are the only 2 arguments and are easily beaten back by arguing logic.

Let’s add a third argument to that list then… ArenaNet and by extension NCSoft are businesses responsible first and foremost to their shareholders (and people who want to argue semantics, ANet is a subsidiary of NCSoft) and if you think for a second it is solely on ArenaNet’s discretion on how the Expansion Pack is priced and sold you are most likely pretty far off the mark.

And this foolish move along with shafting the Vet players has most likely cost them and the share holders $$$$$$$$.

Linnael.1069:

Apparently ANet is offering refunds to recent buyers. http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3a46s4/preorders_for_heart_of_thorns_are_now_live/cs96lfu

Whether or not this will stretch back to when the initial HoT announcements were made or whether anything at all will be done for players who are actual vets is still looking dubious.

Just reposting this.

Rylen.2147:

Zappix.7928:

Looking at the Dev Tracker it seems they’ve gone quiet on this issue, nice of them to announce the refunds on Reddit though.

Link?

Someone posted a Reddit link in this thread saying “at least they’re offering refunds”.

Looking at the Dev Tracker it seems they’ve gone quiet on this issue, nice of them to announce the refunds on Reddit though.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Anet-removes-FAQ-line-about-req-base-game/first#post5157119

Go here.

I wonder how they’ll spin this?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Anet-removes-FAQ-line-about-req-base-game/first#post5157026

Enjoy.

Wow… Just wow scummy move indeed.

lithiumwing.5493:

I hope I didn’t come off aggressive to you either, Zappix. I’m just hoping Anet looks at what their play base are saying and maybe do something like during the games release and ongoing living story. I’d hate to see this game fall.

No you didn’t, I too hope they read through the numerous complaint threads about this and fix it because I do genuinely love this game as I’m sure you do and many others that are on here complaining about this do and yes I share you fear that this move will drive more players away. Sure some new blood will come in but they’ll drip away fast.

It’s the old blood that keeps this game going, I’ll say it again. Short term gains have long term consequences. It’s a bad, bad move and I really don’t want this game to fall either.

Unfortunately our dedicated fanboys (all 3 of them) can’t see it from this perspective.

:/

lithiumwing.5493:

Zappix.7928:

lithiumwing.5493:

But it’s not $50 for the bundle, you’re buying the expansion for $50 and they’re throwing in the core game as a bonus. :/

We already know that. What use is the core game for Veteran players? We have no use for it, so instead of throwing in the core game free, why don’t they chuck in a free character slot instead? Or something that us Vets could actually benefit from?

But no, loyal customers have stayed with Anet since the beginning and have spent money on the game.

You harm your core and dedicated player base and you will see a massive drop in income.

Short term gains like this ploy have long term consequences in the form of loyal players that spend more in the long term than a few new players that give up after a couple of weeks will see Anet’s revenues in the form of microtransactions drop like bricks.

That is the concern, that is the upset. No one has a problem with the price, people have a problem with Vets being shafted yet again.

I was replying to someone who was saying what if the game was separate from core. I’m just as upset with this pricing. Look at Destiny: $60 for a game in which the content was distributed into paid dlc’s. It’s pretty much the same here. We’re paying for a full game, but with a fraction of actual content. Hell, atleast Blizzard’s expansion for WoW were pretty much standalone games with hours of content and updates.

I know I wasn’t having a go at you. There’s like 3 people in this thread defending this ploy.

3 out of what? 4 pages worth of complaints, not counting the other threads.

Alirya.2365:

I think it’s also worth noting that this means that literally the only people that will not have full access to HoT content when it drops are…well, veteran players. People who bought the game before this HoT pre-order outrage, and just decided that the xpac was not worth it to them. New players will have their HoT accounts. People who have the money to spend or who don’t feel that there’s anything wrong with the xpac packages (a completely valid opinion, I might add, just one that I can’t bring myself to agree with) will have the HoT game. And that’s a big deal when the new main progression system (masteries) is exclusive for HoT.

And if not many people buy HoT or there is a drop in microtransactions they’ll lower the price and add incentives to bring back the lost sheep.

The point is, they shouldn’t get into a state like this. It’s a bad move.

lithiumwing.5493:

But it’s not $50 for the bundle, you’re buying the expansion for $50 and they’re throwing in the core game as a bonus. :/

We already know that. What use is the core game for Veteran players? We have no use for it, so instead of throwing in the core game free, why don’t they chuck in a free character slot instead? Or something that us Vets could actually benefit from?

But no, loyal customers have stayed with Anet since the beginning and have spent money on the game.

You harm your core and dedicated player base and you will see a massive drop in income.

Short term gains like this ploy have long term consequences in the form of loyal players that spend more in the long term than a few new players that give up after a couple of weeks will see Anet’s revenues in the form of microtransactions drop like bricks.

That is the concern, that is the upset. No one has a problem with the price, people have a problem with Vets being shafted yet again.