GW2 was advertised as the MMO for those who don’t want to grind, so there’s that.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
And this is happening despite an unknown number of players boycotting the event. Just think what it would be like if everyone had shown up.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Anyway, just hoping that you will look into this matter and review it in the future. But definitely not now, definitely, we’re already having a lot of ‘see-saw’ nerfs and buffs every week it’s hard to keep track, and the extremely controversial Ascended, it’s enough for now!
I think I started my post in a very very friendly and thoughtful manner to everyone. I am not ‘demanding’ changes while banging the tables here…and I specifically used the word ‘review’. So then what pops out?
“why not play a game that offers that option?”
“And I’m (almost) serious ; I don’t see myself playing this game anymore with the ascended crap. Let’s cater to your true core audience and change Guild Wars 2 into Generic Wars 2.”
Not hostile? Moderator, can you lock this topic? I’m out and sorry to bother.
Can you not see how insensitive your timing is, if nothing else? Arenanet JUST broke one of their core promises regarding the game and while we’re suffering through the fallout of that decision, you ask them to consider breaking another? Don’t go pouring salt into peoples wounds and then act like you’re the injured party when they scream.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
I saw something on Kotaku where Isaiah Cartwright was doing a live Q&A. Someone asked a direct question about vertical progression which he neatly avoided answering properly.
Q: how important for you is vertical progression in GW2?
A: All progression is important to us, we want to make sure our rewards and progression systems hit a spectrum of players and makes everyone feel excited to play the game.
Was hoping to see more on the session but actually it was a pretty lame affair.
Link here: http://kotaku.com/5960951/the-lead-designer-of-guild-wars-2-is-answering-your-questions-right-now?tag=kotaku-q%26a
How is that avoiding the question? Unless you must be very paranoid. (which may or may not be logical) It’s obvious that they will have vertical progression in the future by the looks of that answer, as well as all other progression.
So how important is vertical progression? Just as important as all other progression.
Try to throw more controversy out of nowhere. Geez
He managed to answer that question without actually saying anything. Yes, that is an information in itself (namely, he didn’t deny that there will be a further vertical progression ).
It really seem that they decided on introducing EQ treadmill after all, but they don’t want to admit it. Perhaps because they know it would mean he end of this game.
if it is so they’re just postponing the inevitable /cry
Anyone who still thinks this isn’t the beginning of a gear grind is fooling themselves at this point. We were fooled by Anet the first time around, but the situation ought to be clear to everyone by now.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
I am happy for you, I truly am. But your happiness was paid for by making others miserable.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
The ranger mistreatement must be part of their anti-botter strategy.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
I love how NPC’s and Besties DO NOT GO INVULNERABLE after they are almost dead and restore their hit points, to turn around and continue to attack you, to go INVULNERABLE again when they are almost dead.
Oh yes, I’ve said this many, many times. Especially when fighting veterans 
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Yes, this would be great. I don’t do dungeons because of the grouping requirement but if I could do them solo, I would.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Requiring vistas for map completion makes perfect sense, they’re a part of the map. There are maybe 2 vista’s that are actually difficult.
How about this, you don’t need vista’s for map completion, and I wont need hearts for map completion? Ridiculous? I thought so too.
Figures. I said nothing about vistas, I said jumping. There was no need to turn Vistas into Mario Brothers AND make that a requirement for map completions. They could have just made a hard to find way to walk to them.
And while we’re at it, it would make perfect sense to require a reading comprehension test before posting on the forums, so why don’t we have one of those?
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Thanks to all that replied. I have taken into consideration what has been suggested and as such I will ONLY hire a mesmer after I have tried for at least a half an hour on the tougher ones. I just won’t concede the point of having an 85 percentile being considered a fail and although it isn’t 90% it would still be a passing grade anywhere.
Please don’t torture yourself based on some rude responses here.
Making jumping a requirement, doesn’t make any more sense than making a PhD level math test a requirement for 100% map.
And I would like to apologize for the awful comments on behalf on those who won’t apologize for themselves.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
One of the reasons people play such games (and in general) is so that they can strive to achieve set goals/tasks – which ends with a feeling of fullfilment and joy. Whether be it reaching lv80, getting best armor stats/looks or completing all of the achievement challenges.
At some point, however, a person(s) may feel that the conent is running dry. IMO the introduction of ‘ascended’ quality items just adds a fresh perspective to this game.
I really would like to hear someone give legitimate reason(s) on ‘How can this have a negative impact on the persons gameplay experience?’
I’m just curious…
Why do you ask for “legitimate” reasons, rather than personal ones? Is a legitimate reason only one that you agree with?
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Creating fun for some while ruining it for others. Interesting strategy there, Arenanet.
Are you currently having fun ingame? Because as far as I have seen not a single thing that is ingame now is going away. So just keep doing what your doing and ignore the new stuff its that simple.
I really dont get all the negative at all. Trust me I understand not liking the gear treadmill, but no one is forcing you to do it either. Just continue to do exactly what you were doing 2 weeks ago for the next 2 or so years it will all still be there.
With this update, I will get demoted from top geared to second class. That is not my idea of fun. No sir.
Bro that happens in every game no matter what. You have to regain your dominance thats par for the course.
I’ve played plenty of games like that and will again in the future. But I bought this one only because it promised to be different. So this is a deal breaker for me, not even going to debate it.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
this kitten storm could have been, and could still be, easily averted : keep the patch the same, with the ascented gear, and just remove the stat increase.
SOLVED. now everyone can get excited about the patch content !
i’ll take the job, thank you.
You’ve got the job, you’re welcome.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
To answer the thread title’s question: No.
I confess that when I played that other MMO, I did exactly this. I felt obligated to log on and do a dungeon every single day, just so I could fit in with the rest of the community and the rest of my guild that was also doing so.
It’s a shame that the other MMO has completely and absolutely codified MMOs like it has. Even if that other MMO was absolutely perfect, (It’s not.) the rest of the genre has no chance at survival. Any attempts to deviate from that other MMO will be instantly compared to that other MMO and denounced for being different, the result of something as simple as peer pressure. Any attempts to copy that other MMO will be laughed at and ignored. If they wanted mechanics similar to that other MMO, they would play that other MMO.
This leaves that other MMO with an effective monopoly over the genre. Any sort of MMORPG today has no choice but to be compared to that other MMO, with its veterans, fanboys and the like bringing the influence of that other MMO over to a game like GW2, intentionally or not.
You are right, of course. But for Arenanet to go all out and market their game as THE ONE that dares to be different, getting millions of people to buy into that promise, only to betray them 3 months later, that’s downright comical.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Creating fun for some while ruining it for others. Interesting strategy there, Arenanet.
Are you currently having fun ingame? Because as far as I have seen not a single thing that is ingame now is going away. So just keep doing what your doing and ignore the new stuff its that simple.
I really dont get all the negative at all. Trust me I understand not liking the gear treadmill, but no one is forcing you to do it either. Just continue to do exactly what you were doing 2 weeks ago for the next 2 or so years it will all still be there.
With this update, I will get demoted from top geared to second class. That is not my idea of fun. No sir.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
This would be breaking another of their promises, I suppose, but it would make more sense than requiring everyone to do the friggin dungeon.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Some people will be happy to get a gear advantage. Don’t expect them to give it up without a fight.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
The way GW2 was marketed was very powerful and compelling. If Arenanet doesn’t deliver on the vision they sold to people, then they’ll have to improvise. I can’t imagine what that would look like, though.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
It’s going to make me not play at all. I’m simply not interested in gearing up again. I’ve been fully geared for some time and was enjoying being done with it and being able to do what I wanted in game.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
New stuff to do. New challanges etc.
People who start playing GW2 in the next year´s don´t know it better. it is just content for them.
I´m very happy about this and i played GW1 since 2005 (7 years).
Thank you Arenanet.
i´m serios.
New content? Why should people care about exotics and runes if they can grind ascension stuff? The old dungeons will be dead, because everyone rushes to the ascension dungeon.
Not everyone. Some of us rush out the door.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Am I ready for it? Yea, I came to terms with what’s going to happen, and what I’m going to do during the event is stand in LA and /cry like there’s no tomorrow, which funnily enough holds some metaphorical truth for me and my time with this franchise.
Now there’s an idea. I may do that as well.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Trahearne is ok. He lack a little charisma, but that’s not his fault cause he’s a plant.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Creating fun for some while ruining it for others. Interesting strategy there, Arenanet.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
If anyone thinks is was a decision made over people claiming they were bored or needed more to do is utterly naive.
This dungeon and these decisions have been on thier roadmap for quite some time
Well, that’s what Arenanet stated, so if you are right, that’s another lie from them.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Full exotics here with best runes and sigils. Also have 680k karma sitting there if I wanted more. Over 1k hours played. And I’d rather quit this game than get the new crap. So there.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
On the left corner, we have elitist complain no endgame, on right corner we have casual complain about gear treadmill. Sigh, I guess it IMPOSSIBLE to make everyone happy
Certainly not when you market a game to casuals, because you know that’s where the big money is, and 3 months later go “psych” and turn the game over to the elitists.
This is an honest question, as a casual player why would they be worried about getting +15 more stats and an Infusion that only negates Agony at the absolute hardest end of a dungeon that can be happily played without requiring any ascended gear at all?
Casual players already have an absolute boat full of things to do in this game, this is something for the “hardcore” players to strive for.
Well, I don’t speak for casuals, nor do I consider myself one, but I don’t think it’s about a couple of points on some armor. It’s being relegated to second class, just so some others get to feel superior. This is what almost every other game does, and GW2 wasn’t supposed to.
The problem is that casual players can run the dungeon just fine. The only thing they couldn’t do, based on the assumption they’d somehow be prevented from getting ascended gear (which is more than likely not the case) and thus Agony resistance, is get to the soul crushing levels of deep difficulty from numerous chained runs of the dungeon. Other than this infinite difficulty scaling everything the dungeon has to offer would be available to them. How is that regulating casuals to “second class?”
That’s the problem you run into when you lump ‘casuals’ into a single group. Casuals are casual for a wide variety of reasons. That’s why Arenanet marketed the game as accomodating a wide variety of playstyles. Until now, you didn’t have to dungeons at all to get your gear. You could craft it, you could do DE’s, you could WvW, you could buy it on the TP, etc. When you offer so many choices, nearly everyone can find a way that works for them. That approach has now changed drastically.
First off, one of the new item types is acquired through the Mystic Forge, not the dungeon. That would be the back piece.
Second you have no idea how difficult the beginner levels of the dungeon are. For all we know they’re easier than Story Modes. Hell maybe the rings can be gained through other means in the new zone they’re adding. Don’t go jumping to conclusions and screaming about how persecuted you are based on incomplete information.
First of all, I already said I was not speaking for casuals, nor did I consider myself one. I was not jumping to any conclusion, nor was I screaming about persecution.
Second, I thought I was having a nice discussion with someone civilized. I was mistaken. Since you just want to flame, I’m out.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
On the left corner, we have elitist complain no endgame, on right corner we have casual complain about gear treadmill. Sigh, I guess it IMPOSSIBLE to make everyone happy
Certainly not when you market a game to casuals, because you know that’s where the big money is, and 3 months later go “psych” and turn the game over to the elitists.
This is an honest question, as a casual player why would they be worried about getting +15 more stats and an Infusion that only negates Agony at the absolute hardest end of a dungeon that can be happily played without requiring any ascended gear at all?
Casual players already have an absolute boat full of things to do in this game, this is something for the “hardcore” players to strive for.
Well, I don’t speak for casuals, nor do I consider myself one, but I don’t think it’s about a couple of points on some armor. It’s being relegated to second class, just so some others get to feel superior. This is what almost every other game does, and GW2 wasn’t supposed to.
The problem is that casual players can run the dungeon just fine. The only thing they couldn’t do, based on the assumption they’d somehow be prevented from getting ascended gear (which is more than likely not the case) and thus Agony resistance, is get to the soul crushing levels of deep difficulty from numerous chained runs of the dungeon. Other than this infinite difficulty scaling everything the dungeon has to offer would be available to them. How is that regulating casuals to “second class?”
That’s the problem you run into when you lump ‘casuals’ into a single group. Casuals are casual for a wide variety of reasons. That’s why Arenanet marketed the game as accomodating a wide variety of playstyles. Until now, you didn’t have to dungeons at all to get your gear. You could craft it, you could do DE’s, you could WvW, you could buy it on the TP, etc. When you offer so many choices, nearly everyone can find a way that works for them. That approach has now changed drastically.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
On the left corner, we have elitist complain no endgame, on right corner we have casual complain about gear treadmill. Sigh, I guess it IMPOSSIBLE to make everyone happy
Certainly not when you market a game to casuals, because you know that’s where the big money is, and 3 months later go “psych” and turn the game over to the elitists.
This is an honest question, as a casual player why would they be worried about getting +15 more stats and an Infusion that only negates Agony at the absolute hardest end of a dungeon that can be happily played without requiring any ascended gear at all?
Casual players already have an absolute boat full of things to do in this game, this is something for the “hardcore” players to strive for.
Well, I don’t speak for casuals, nor do I consider myself one, but I don’t think it’s about a couple of points on some armor. It’s being relegated to second class, just so some others get to feel superior. This is what almost every other game does, and GW2 wasn’t supposed to.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
On the left corner, we have elitist complain no endgame, on right corner we have casual complain about gear treadmill. Sigh, I guess it IMPOSSIBLE to make everyone happy
Certainly not when you market a game to casuals, because you know that’s where the big money is, and 3 months later go “psych” and turn the game over to the elitists.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
I find it slightly ironic is that the “farm for looks” crowd with the announcement of a miniscule stat increase on ascended armor now all the sudden turns into the “all gear is obsolete” crowd.
I find it ironic how so many people who made a big deal about demanding gear progression and now that they got their wish, are trying to convince those who were against it that it doesn’t matter after all.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Some people have enough experience with other games to know what they like and what they don’t like. “Try it before you knock it” is only for people who don’t know any better.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Arenanet seem to think so, otherwise they wouldn’t have put it there.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
This IS NOT Arenanet’s fault. This is THE COMMUNITY’s fault. All arenanet wants to do is make the community happy. The community starts QQing 1 month after release saying there is no progression. Arenanet gives them progression. Community QQ’s that they broke a “promise.” Open your eyes, they are trying to make your experience better since you wanted progression. All they did was listen to everyone.
I don’t think you can blame this on the community. The community wasn’t QQing, they were happily playing the game. A small but very vocal group is NOT the community and it’s up to Arenanet to know the difference.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Maybe I’m missing something because I haven’t been to WvW yet, but how would everyone getting 10 points more on their armor make it less pointless to you?
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
What would be the point? If you promise a game without a gear treadmill, then you have to keep that promise even if a majority votes to break it. Wouldn’t you say so?
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Yes, you can have the trinity back. And raids. And mounts. And whatever else I forgot. If Arenanet is going to betray their principles and their customers, they might as well go all the way.
You might want to see a doctor about that kneejerk you got.
Seriously. I don’t understand why people can’t wait for official info before QQing. If it does turn out to be a gear treadmill, then QQ.
You might want to pay attention to that IF in my post. Furthermore, read the title of this thread. If a premature assumption was made, it was there. Seriously, I don’t know why people don’t read before attacking others mindlessly.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Yes, you can have the trinity back. And raids. And mounts. And whatever else I forgot. If Arenanet is going to betray their principles and their customers, they might as well go all the way.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
“What happens if they introduce a new massive expansion and push the level cap? I cannot even begin to imagine the QQ rage.”
I could imagine you’d see a lot of WoWonites and the freebie asian MMO players jump onto GW2, and their current playerbase leaving.
Wouldn’t the lvl 80’s like to have something to do? How long can you coast on your lvl 80 exotics really, it has to get boring sometime.
That is something for Arenanet to figure out BEFORE they market a game as being based on certain PRINCIPLES. They don’t get to betray all their customers and their game philosophy for a few bored loudmouths. Otherwise they should expect a backlash. We will see how this shakes out and if the price Anet pays for this will have been worth it.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
They better provide multiple ways of obtaining that new armor, like crafting, karma, etc. That’s all I’ve got to say.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
This is how bad the result of showing ears can be. I have worn this helmet for weeks, without the ears showing until a few days ago, when they suddenly started poking through.
The spikes on the helmet that are going from front to back are cut in half by the ears and the back portion of the spikes look like they are growing out of the ears.
I am upset every day when I look at this. It couldn’t look any dumber and it ruins the whole style.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
The aggro transfer griefing is the real problem here, which happens everywhere, not just around nodes.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Yes, I’m serious. Yes, I said they need to be funtional. Yes, I said they wouldn’t be functional in Orr. What is silly about all that to you?
If you expect Anet to change the whole concept of Orr to accomodate your wish for mounts, then you’ve traded in the request for mounts to a request to change a large portion of the game. Good luck with that.
What if , mount cant be discounted easily , but their speed buff is at most equivalent to swiftness (and including the battle speed reduction).
Mounts will be functional , but would not be anything classes could not get already by using one skill. All that they would need it like , 3/4 hits to dismount , instead of having a damage cap that allowed them to fall in one hit.
No need to change a whole region at all to include mounts.
Rightly or wrongly, Anet designed Orr to be a very dangerous (some people would say, down right miserable) place. There are a lot of mobs, they are usually grouped, and they pull you, knock you off your feet, immobilize you and do all kinds of other nasty things to you. Repeatedly. You can’t ride through that.
To make riding possible you would have to introduce, like you said, some sort of limited immunity that allows you to stay mounted for some reasonable amount of time. But as soon as you do that, you have made Orr a much less dangerous place. Now you can get from point A to point B without much fear of getting killed. And that would be a very different place from what we have today.
I’m not even saying that this shouldn’t happen. But this is what it would take to put mounts into the game. And as much as I love mounts personally, I have accepted the fact that Anet is unlikely to do a 180 on their whole game design to accomodate them.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
This is a perfect example of why the design for GW2 economy is trash. The only reason the listing fees act that way is so that trading can be “realistic”, with realistic meaning akin to real-life markets, which themselves are anything but realistic.
So we have a normal guy just trying to play a video game getting punished for his synthetic ignorance. All economic markets are essentially based on synthetic ignorance that is constructed so that the average person can be taken advantage of.
No.
It is a listing fee. A listing fee, is a fee you must pay to be able to list the item. I don’t get how this is so hard to understand. You have now listed the item, and payed for that ability. It does not matter if you remove the object, you have payed for the ability to list it there.
I don’t understand why people assume things without researching and then blame the system. If you don’t know how something works, perhaps you should ask instead. Wouldn’t that make more sense?
There was a guy in America who bought a caravan and was driving down a freeway. He turned on the cruise control, and went to the back to make a coffee. The thing crashed and he SUED the company because the manual did not say that when on cruise control the car cannot drive itself, it merely maintains a set speed.
We do not need more people like this. You need to learn your harsh lesson and then be smarter for the rest of your life, rather then the world dumbing everything down and making a stupid society who can’t do anything without step by step instructions.
Im sorry if this post is a little harsh, but i am just sick and tired of people blaming others because they were not smart enough to ask how something works when they didnt know.
You’re right about people needing to be better informed, but that applies to you, too. The story about the cruise control is an urban legend, better known as the Stella Awards.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Mounts are incredible beautiful things. People here only think of their uses and forget how fun simple getting that one mount you think it is cool can be.
Will never forget how many days non stop i farmed in my WoW days to get a pretty mount. Really , having a mount for speed buff only is pointless , the speed buff itself can be taken out actually.
What really matter is finding and using that cool mount you want.
Agreed, mounts are beautiful and fun. But they also have to be functional. Now, can you imagine all the complaints Anet would get if they put mounts into the game and once people get to Orr, they realize they can’t stay mounted more than 2 seconds anywhere, because there are mobs EVERYWHERE. I’m sure you’d be reasonable, and wouldn’t complain, but about a million other people would. Then what?
Urrrrm, are you serious? You just said they need to be functional, and then you clearly made it seem as if they wouldn’t be functional by using that awful Orr example, how very silly that was. Obviously, they wouldn’t make it like that in the first place! Jeez…
Yes, I’m serious. Yes, I said they need to be funtional. Yes, I said they wouldn’t be functional in Orr. What is silly about all that to you?
If you expect Anet to change the whole concept of Orr to accomodate your wish for mounts, then you’ve traded in the request for mounts to a request to change a large portion of the game. Good luck with that.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Mounts are incredible beautiful things. People here only think of their uses and forget how fun simple getting that one mount you think it is cool can be.
Will never forget how many days non stop i farmed in my WoW days to get a pretty mount. Really , having a mount for speed buff only is pointless , the speed buff itself can be taken out actually.
What really matter is finding and using that cool mount you want.
Agreed, mounts are beautiful and fun. But they also have to be functional. Now, can you imagine all the complaints Anet would get if they put mounts into the game and once people get to Orr, they realize they can’t stay mounted more than 2 seconds anywhere, because there are mobs EVERYWHERE. I’m sure you’d be reasonable, and wouldn’t complain, but about a million other people would. Then what?
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
That would indeed be awesome.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
I consider anything I can buy with gems (purchasable with gold I can earn just playing the game) a heck of a good deal.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
I love mounts and I bet Anet would make the most awesome looking mounts ever. However, I don’t think they would fit into this game because in the high level areas, there are way too many mobs to ride past. You would get knocked off non-stop.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
The targeting system needs a lot of improvement. The selection of tab targets is often bizarre, to say the least. And targets dropping or changing randomly is also a problem.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
Yes, I’d love to have a choice of dances and I’d be willing to buy them in the shop.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
