Guild Wars 2

Dagins.5163:

Who needs patch notes, when we have so good scouts, who can discover a ninja nerf like 3 minutes after introducing it?

+1
You’re clearly all GW2 ninjas. Maybe we should all bow to your ultimate prowess in this fantasy, made-up, play-time, VIRTUAL reality.

ZLE.8293:

@Zeroin,you bought the game few days ago and quickly become the experienced player telling us to GTFO…
We don’t need to remind us ,that we don’t pay subscriptions.Subscription is not a way you measure the game quality?We like ANet,but that doesn’t mean that we cannot criticize them.

I said nothing about being an experienced player, just that you need to get over yourselves. ANet doesn’t have to provide us with any patch notes OR on-going live updates to the game. I’m not judging the quality of the game on the quality of service, I’m saying that the service you so readily expect and presume will be available doesn’t actually have to be provided. Instead of taking things for granted why not enjoy the things you are fortunate enough to have?

On top of this, you are not just criticising, this topic is a slag-fest. All everyone is doing is sitting on their kitten ripping into ANet. I’d like to see them coordinate the drop of a patch or 2 before they all give ANet grief. Prime example below;

Zeveross.4320:

Seriously, patch notes are a big deal. ANet has an unfortunate habit of conveniently “forgetting” to include unpopular nerfs not just for thieves but for multiple classes (Ranger’s 7% SB nerf anyone?). This is unacceptable and defeats the whole purpose of patch notes.

People would be far less angry if these stealth nerfs were transparent as they should be rather than trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

They have released how many patches since release? I don’t know but it’s gotta be less than 5, certainly less than 10, and already they are developing “habits” about leaving things out?
These people are under pressure to try and perform so they keep players interested from the start and compete with “certain other fantasy MMOs” that have a huge head start on them and you can’t cut them just a little slack, a few hiccups, a few mistakes?

If this is the worst and biggest deal in your life, and you have time to sit here and complain about it, you’ve got a kushty life my friend and can we trade?

Nuff said I think now.

Here’s a concept for you; the game’s new and lots of changes/tweaks/nerfs are needed at first. Maybe they actually just forgot or missed out the info? They are, in fact, only human. Gamers wonder why we are ridiculed about being over-zealous about games and why we get so much stick about being “nerds” and yet you all blow a gasket when a game (that may I remind you, you aren’t even paying a monthly subscription for) gets changed and tweaked slightly and/or the devs/team forget to tell us one little change.

The majority of us got this game and play it because we are fans of how ANet ran GW. If you aren’t why are you here? If you’re new, why are you slagging off ANet without any experience of them. I think they ran a good “shop” with GW and am willing to play GW2 because of it. The game is well thought out and fun and different from the ever increasing crowd of generic MMOs.

Stop whining and play the game or GTFO if you ask me.

ZLE.8293:

@deriven,i am sure now that you don’t play thief.Your proposal is stupid.
You are talking about total rebuild of the thief class.It is not about damage and HP at all.We are talking about whole traits reworked.While in Stealth Thief can stack might,regenerate initiative faster,clear conditions,regenerate health,move faster e.t.c.Also it will need rework/remove of many UI skills.Also rework/remove of many weapon skills.Are you sure that total rework is a less headache that a single ele care to defend himself from insta backstab?And again never draw conclusions from WvW.
As far as “the other game”,last time i checked in Cata,rogue was moving faster in stealth than out of stealth.I can’t talk about the Pandas expansion,i don’t play it,because obviously i play the better game.

Wow you didn’t read a thing that deriven said did you? Completely unnecessary opening to your post as well.

@deriven I’ve only been playing thief a little while now but I am enjoying how nimble the thief’s abilities make him. I haven’t got high enough to experience perma stealth yet and I’m not that interested in jumping straight into PvP but I would be put off by a longer stealth in trade for slower movement just to accommodate people who may be less competent at playing the class. I think for GW2 the game hits against nearly all preconceptions of a traditional mmo and the thief is one of the best examples I feel and think it would be best served within the game sticking to this rather than bringing it in-line with “other” mmos.

I hope that’s a slightly more agreeable reply from a fellow gamer

I bought the game and installed it on the day of the Halloween update (biggest mistake EVER, took an age to get the game patched and running) and am suffering the same problem. If I have AVG firewall running the client launcher will not download a thing and says there are connection issues (I have checked and GW2client.exe is allowed through my firewall with full access).

However, disabling the firewall I have no issues and a very reasonable download speed so it’s not port issues.

Maybe those without AVG should try disabling their firewall/AV too and see if this works? Hardly a desirable solution though!