Guild Wars 2

I just started playing again (on DH) since I stopped playing January. I hope that matchups like the one we are having continue every week…it’s a lot of fun I love close matchups…something that was absent half the weeks I played WvW since launch.

I’m LOVING this event so far. Been having a blast. I’m sorry you aren’t though.

Agreed, it rocks

I would also like to say thank you as well. You guys do deserve to make money for such a fine game and I have no problem giving it to you so long as I don’t need to play some crazy lottery with little chance of success. I’m going to buy some gems this time around instead of skipping it as I disliked the chests (Halloweeen)

No, they lost my trust in regards to chests perhaps permanently. That said if they offer costumes I can buy, chances are I will buy them because that’s what I thought the purpose of the cash shop was (not a stupid lottery). Sell costumes on the shop = I’ll buy them.

Put costumes in chest = I’ll never buy a chest.

Yup, love it and have been playing since Beta Weekend 1 and early access. I don’t always agree with the decisions this team makes, and I wish they’d focus more on WvW sooner, but overall I’m very satisfied and have sunken many hours into the game and hope to sink many more in.

I can only see things getting better and better, particularly if the team is as dedicated as they claim in regards to adding new content. They’ve been doing a great job so far (bar a few gripes like lack of game modes in sPvP, little attention to WvW, and slow pace at fixing bugs), and as weird as it sounds I don’t mind the nerfs because I’ve been playing MMOs since EQ and 9 / 10 times the dev teams know what they are doing.

It’s the only MMO since WoW that’s kept me for more then a month and I’ve tried virtually all of them since then. Not perfect, but neither was WoW when it came out. Actually, in a lot of ways this reminds me of early WoW which isn’t a bad thing imo. Not the same game naturally, but the same types of issues were going on there.

Generally you have a solid and fun game with a lot of content (bar stuff to do endgame), with a few classes that need some serious help despite being fun to play (remember druids and the 31 pt. hurricane talent or POUNCE at 31 feral…how long did we have to suffer through that in WoW :P Now think of weak classes here).

I’m rambling a bit all over the place, but this game makes me get that fuzzy mmo feeling I haven’t had since EQ and WoW, two games that Iv’e stuck with for years in the past. Watching it mature into an amazing game is what makes these types of games so fun for me. I look forward to being able to look back several years after playing GW2 and recounting some of the “early days” that we’re in now…that is of course if they keep it up and don’t drop the ball!

XenusTEHG.1965:

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Furthermore, some of my friends also couldnt be at event due to work and studies.
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Highlighted the relevant part of your post to comment further. Two of my friends haven’t played since about 1.5 months into the game. They were told by me that there was a cool one time event and to make sure to log on Sunday so they don’t miss it. They did, but after the event’s conclusion (they had a family function to go to I guess) expecting, like myself, that the event was all day. Net result?

They pretty much said it was kitten that the event wasn’t repeating as they were busy earlier and will resume not playing again :\

The new area is cool and all, but when you are expecting to take part in some cool event (especially when I told them how awesome the Halloween event was) only to found out it’s too late and it can never happen again, well to a player that lost interest it certainly doesn’t help get it back.

EDIT: To those saying they should take out one-time events. I don’t many here are asking this, only we are asking that they make them at least repeat all day or something. It’s not fair to people from different time zones (Aussies and New Zealand players had to get up at 8AM on a Monday due to time zones to play…what the kitten!) and people who have work. Those same people in different time zones I’m sure would have been happy to play 9 hours from then when their shifts were up but oh well, too late for them I guess.

Salacious.7358:

Ferum Flamebender.5910:

Salacious.7358:

were not paying customers. yes we bought the game, no we don’t pay monthly. if we paid monthly then id sign.

Sooo we BUY the game but are not PAYING costumers? Did you get it for free?
Or can’t I just follow tht logic?

We payed for the game, so we are paying costumers.

/signed

your an idiot. we dont pay in the sense of wow. we pay once. anet owes us kitten.

Actually, they owe us more then kitten if they want us to keep buying gems, giving good word of mouth advertising, and playing the game so their servers aren’t a ghost town

A one time event is fine if it occurs all day in my opinion, which is what I thought would happen like Halloween.

I often have to work Sunday (usually during the afternoon) for a half-day so I unfortunately had no choice to miss the event. I wasn’t about to do something foolish like call out sick or take the day off. I get a very nice amount of OT on Sunday, not taking it particularly before the Holiday season would have a negative effect on not on my job but my finances. I was able to log in both before and after this small window of time, but in both instances the event had either not started or was over.

Despite attempts to find overflow servers, I was unable. I was basically locked out of the event because I had to choose a game over my livelihood. I’ve been very supportive of ANET since the start but this is starting to all leave a bad taste in my mouth.

First the halloween chest fiasco, then this. It feels like two strikes in a row…I’ll give you until next month to get a hit with the Christmas event. Please don’t keep letting me down, I really want to like your game and play it for a long time but you keep doing things that just boggle the mind.

I really don’t get what people’s issue is. There is a certain core of people from wow that feel this is lacking (friends of mine have left due to it not being present). They created a special tier for them and a special stat so they could have fun grinding their dungeons over and over.

For the rest of us we can kinda just get legendaries as normal since they are still better then this new tier of crap. Only when they introduce gear that’s better then legandaries will I be annoyed. Really…who cares? If I chose not to play this content and just go to get a legendary I could do that.

ANet, I LOVE the custom soundtrack feature, it’s so awesome. I used this in WoW via an addon called soundtrack and it totally changed my experiences. Being able to set my own music has created a level of immersion that has really been unparalleled in an MMO until now. Including this feature in your game is like the icing on the cake BUT it’s a bit buggy.

The main menu music doesn’t seem to randomize nor does the crafting music seem to play. With a few bug fixes (i.e. just making the lists more random / work when they should play) and perhaps adding a bit more in game support via menus and this feature will be even better!

If Anet resolves this in a fair way and never treads down this path, I’d say all is forgiven. I know they want to make money but a better way to make it from someone like me is to just sell the five rare items for gems. I’d pay money for them, but after the whole key thing I’d never buy another key.

Bought 5 keys, 0 unique. Just crappy boosters. I was 90% sure this was going to happen. I don’t like it and won’t be buying any more keys. This was the first and last time.

Yup, here’s a screenshot:

It almost looks photoshopped but I’m not an expert :P

It sucks BUT I feel it’s needed. I play on Anvil Rock and we’re losing compared to Darkhaven (yes poster above me, to you guys who are being spawn camped supposedly) and Yak’s Bend BUT it’s been some crazy fun.

I belong to a good guild and we’re able to cap towers and keeps, and supply camps naturally :P. Sure, we suck compared to Yak’s but oh well.

I feel like the 24 hour thing was there to get a rough idea on where all the servers stand. The reason why we can’t go back to that format imo is that it’s not represnative of what a whole week entails. Tues – Thursday last week we were dominating on Anvil, only to get OWNED all weekend. We need a full 7 day cycle to hone the rankings a bit more. Maybe we’ll do better and end up somewhere in the middle by Friday? Who knows.

Simple solution, IMO:

Have a 100 second timer when you die. Every second the screen gets 1% darker until it turns black completely black at 100 seconds. You can still lie there for as long as you want AND see the map. When an ally begins to resurrect you, each second they spent would add 10 seconds / 10% to this timer until you are rezzed, or until it goes black again. That way you can stay down as long as you like, but cannot spy for more then 100 seconds (just under two minutes).

I really feel that we are ready for one week matches and these sadly are just the growing pains we need to endure for the first week (though if I’m wrong after this week I’ll probably be complaining :P).

The way I feel is that one day for most servers is NOT a good indicator at how best to match your server. For example, my server Anvil Rock dominated I think it was Tuesday – Thursday but now is getting destroyed on the weekend. As a result we got bumped up in the rankings (due to the one day thing) and now are getting floored by Yak’s bend. I think they need this week to see how each server performs for the duration of an entire week and then we’ll see some better matchups.

The problem is that since this is the first week…well it’s going to be horrible for some of us.

I still have a great time on WvW with Anvil rock, though we are losing atm by a huge margin, we can work as a team and do succeed in securing objectives and making progress. It’s not lasting due to the huge disparity in our opponent (Yak’s bend) but the other server (Darkhaven) is only beating us by about 5,000 so our other opponent is pretty dead on.

Again, this first week is gonna be painful I think, but after the matchups should be better.

Think of the one server a day thing as a broad range match maker, this a more fine adjustment before we settle in to two weeks once we’ve had maybe a month or so of these one week matches. Just my two cents (and if I’m wrong after this week I’m wrong)

I saw a post recently about allowing us to see the statistics of our battle in a match and it gave me an idea.

Now we all know (or I assume most of us know) the reason why our names are not displayed above our heads and instead we receive the name “invader” or “defender”. This is cool and all but for some reason I’d like an optional tab letting me know of various kills:

“Soandso has been killed by a well-timed mortar round from BlahBlah”

To allow this however, we would need a different nickname then our character name. I propose an NPC at the entrance to each WvW zone that would allow us to set a callsign for our character. This name couldn’t be the same as our character name (or any character name on our account) and would be subject to standard naming rules. This would be optional and talking to the NPC would allow us to remove it. The name could appear after our player name in quotes or above them, wherever would be appropriate. To our enemies, it would read: <servername> Defender/Invader “Callsign”

Again, this would be 100% optional, just a fun addition to those who want to personalize their WvW experience a bit and perhaps add an element of that dreaded “Soandso” from the Anvil Rock server or something :P

I throw in my vote for allowing us to make a separate chat window that is NOT just another tab if that’s what you’re asking

My worst match was a match where the entire match it was virtually neck and neck for the first 350 points (red was winning with something like 352 and blue was losing with something like 348) when all of a sudden it said: “Autobalancing…”

Right after teams balanced Red won with 500 to something like 400. Left me really confused as to what needed balancing :P

Thanks so much guys I really appreciate it ^_

Has anyone figured out what this option does? I would love it if a developer answered this question. By it’s name, it clearly somehow has some sort of effect on the interval music is played, but I can’t figure out what long / short means in regards to this option. There is NO tooltip help provided with this option.