Guild Wars 2

Last few patches sucked my enthusiasm for this game glad I’m not here to see this one. I’ll come back in a few months maybe when ANet have woken up to how harmful they are being to the community.

Arson.4189:

they cant fix it.

thread will now be locked/moved/swept under the rug

I fear this is true, it’s inherent with the engine and poor optimization within it. Sad because this game will have no longevity for me in its current state.

We shouldn’t have to use 3rd party sites to see the fees we are given. I’ve known about this for a long time but it’s disgusting to see Arena Net treating its customers this way and hiding fees.

I’m guessing it’s so they can manipulate it behind the scenes to stabilize the markets without people knowing at first sight. Pretty bad business practices if you ask me, not what I was expecting here.

Same for underworld plus alot of the Temples are bugged too… Fun.

This Canadian / French thing is killing the game for me (we are matched against 2 FR servers this week). I’m here to WvW but no matter how much we build or try in the day when the Canadians come on at night we are outnumbered 10-1 easily… what do we get to compensate 20% magic find, 33% exp and karma… Really.

I’m pretty much done with this game, the balance isn’t here in WvW and it’s not worth sinking my time into. Don’t even get me started on the PvE that made me lose the will
to play the game a long time ago.

The game should just be region locked and this would fix the issue, with the freedom of movement its also killing the community as people are just skipping to the flavor of the week server. Overall its a pretty sad state to see this “flagship” game in, luckily alot of other good stuff has come out recently.

Still bugged here too pretty laughable. I guess I will have to wait for a server reset and try to catch it in the few hours before it bugs again… What fun!

Hippocampus.8470:

Trevien.9236:

people just blindly put things up for minimum amount as a form of storage while out doing other things.

I don’t believe this actually ever happens. While people are out doing other things, they might dump stuff at the minimum value to get it out of their inventory and eventually get some copper later (though less than if they sold it to a vendor). I highly doubt anyone is using it as a bank (with the intent of using those items later), and I definitely refuse to believe that’s what the one-copper-over-vendor-price listers are doing, seeing as their items will sell first.

Wrong I use it as a bank for all my greens which then get put into the forge if not sold, also if I’m far away from a vendor doing content and my bag fills up I’ll make space by listing stuff instead of running to the vendor, simple efficiency I imagine many do it.

Mesmer is the best all-rounder and arguably one of the best duel classes (thief), You have many tools to stay away and fend off enemies plus awesome condition damage. Talking like they are kittened in PvP is pretty funny, I do agree though the target thing is a little harsh on Mesmers but with everything you have going for the class you can hardly complain.

People paying real money and not getting anything in return is sad news, especially when its due to developers faults. Arena Net really don’t care about their paying customers it seems. This will only lead to a severe lack of confidence in the BLTP and ANet in general and you can say goodbye to those long term profits you were looking for.

I for one am not willing to spend anymore money on this game with its current buggy state and nonexistent CS. Most likely all future content releases will be the same until this is a recognized issue and adequate CS is put in place.

I have to say I’m in the same boat. But what I don’t want them to do is use their heavy handed tactic that has been deployed so far and just bring out the nerf bat. You should get rewarded just as much for being in Orr as your favorite zones at level 80. If they want you to explore the world, make me want to explore the world, as stated very well above you are not doing at the moment.

Still no word on what they are going to do to optimize this mess. WvW is horrible, large events are horrible, even town is horrible, all full of invisible people popping in and out of being rendered right on top of me.

Please remove or re-work the rendering restrictions you added it’s killing the game for me, at the very least some acknowledgment would be nice.

Yeah the CS is nonexistent, I have has a few issues like this and just get a canned response usually not even to do with my issue.

Pretty disgrace for a AAA title (its not launch anymore) and definitely won’t be sinking more money here unless they step it up CS wise.

Yeah there is biggs but have you tried to do events in those areas too? They are almost as bad as Cursed Shore and most are blocked or very slow when I try. Temple of Balthazar for example hasn’t been working since launch as far as I know.

I go to Cursed Shore, Malchor Leap, Straits of Devastation and then Frostgorge occasionally for the Dragon event and all areas have their problems.

Yeah to be fair after the first one or two I stopped looking as I thought it would all be the same, that treb I can see the issue with. Haven’t actually tried to place stuff there except carts / Batista / catapults on the edge, which can easily be hit. I’ll test it out now and see if I can do it too.

The 15% tax should not go but I do agree that hiding information like charges from a customer is extremely bad business practice and cannot believe ANet have had the cheek to do this and let it go on for so long.

I picked up on it faily quick but it is like me getting paid and my boss taking £50 out my paycheck without even informing me. That kitten is not cool!

Although this seems to be a policy somewhat, don’t inform the consumer. We have anti farm code we are not informed of, karma diminishes we are not informed of, patch changes we are not informed of. It’s like the gaming Illuminati I tell you.

Not exactly smart you just place the siege like anywhere else, this has been possible since release and don’t see what the problem is, it can still be dpsed down from the hill that is easily accessible, on my server this happens all the time.

I agree until the many hours have been put in to fix all this mess they should implement daily resets, this won’t completely fix the issue as many things bug before 24 hours is up but at least we have a chance each day.

IMSOMANIAC.8954:

Re-logging resets DR. Common knowledge in Isle where zerging is popular on Sorrows Furnace.

Thanks this works, still breaking my immersion but at least I can play how I want now and see event chains to the end.

I second this wanting Melandru pieces also and it is always bugged (Gunnars Hold EU). It was only reset yesterday and is already bugged again with an npc stuck on the corner of a wall not moving on.

Allow us to get the gear elsewhere or just plain fix this content it’s getting old fast.

It only got reset this morning but its already bugged and the karma vendor is now unavailable again. I saw a red post saying that this content has been thoroughly tested and that it was due to how long and how many times they are repeated that they are breaking. Well its bugged again after less than 24 hours, I bet if you reset it again many things would bug again within 24 hours… So how was this thoroughly tested?

Anyway I would really like to at least get to the karma vendors so if these are going to fail so often how about giving us another option to get the gear?

Other thread here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Stealth-Patch-More-diminishing-returns-for-DE

Zones effected in, Cursed Shore, Malchor Leap, Shattered Straits. But I’m guessing this will happen in all areas, this is just where I have been.

1) Kicks in after about 30 mins of farming DE, didnt stay much longer after that, about 8 events before it kicked in.

2) Rewards were halved continuously down to pretty much nothing. Just got 18 karma for an event in Malchor Leap because it diminished so much.

3) Pretty dire, this is feeling more like travel wars and how can I be social when I’m only in a zone for 30 mins then hop to another.

Yeah key word there being rewards i.e the karma and silver.

I’m a fully exotic geared warrior and would have mentioned above if I was not getting gold. I clearly see the gold medal display when the event completes with diminishing returns. If I carry on in that area it gets halved each time untill I’m basically getting nothing.

I’m pretty much continuously doing them running from one to another with a karma booster up as i want the toughness/vit/power gear from the karma vendors. I enjoy checking out each areas main chain of DEs and seeing how they unfold but being nerfed before I get to the end and having to move kind of breaks my immersion.

OK well I have trawled through the updates in the news section and see no mention of this, so I can only think it’s a bug, or ANet just telling me how to play the game again.

Since I have patched this morning the diminishing rewards I get from DEs have increased greatly, also it is not just for repeating DEs its for doing any DE in a said area. Example, I started to play today and do events in Cursed Shore. I work from North to South and repeat one or 2 events that re-spawn quickly but before I’m even half way through and doing an event I haven’t even done today I start to get less than gold medal rewards. So I move to another zone do about 7 DE there and the same happens.

Stop forcing me to move around all the time with your ridiculous travelling costs and a million cc mobs if you walk it, its not fun. I want to play the game how I want and actually do all the event progression in one area and see how it plays out without getting nerfed to the ground, seriously.

If I could have some confirmation that you have done this and your reasoning it would be appreciated.

lol it’s ground targeting, just hover your mouse over the ground on the island and press fire. Not rocket science.

The whole of Orr is broken on Gunnar’s Hold EU to the point of all temples progress being blocked, and now Arah so people cannot even run the dungeon or complete their story mode.

The other 80 zones are just as bad, extremely disappointing that nothing after the first few zones was tested properly. This game is pretty much unplayable in its current state.

This is really becoming a farce now, is there anything to do at 80 that actually works in your game? Arah has been unavailable for more than a day and looks like it will be unavailable all today too. This is due to the events that open up the area are bugged and have stopped progress.

75% of the level 80 areas are broken to a point where no events happen. It has been like this since launch and yet nothing has been changed, in fact its just gotten worse to the point of me no longer having fun playing on my 80.

Both Temples and Arah have been bugged all day (Grenth for almost 4 days now) not allowing progress, how are we meant to get the Karma merchants? If the DEs are so broken (have seen about one bug free day since launch) then you should really allow some other way to get the vendors.

People cannot even run Arah today, a whole dungeons content is blocked because of DE problems. Is is really so hard to reset the DE system each day to cut down on these glitches? From red posts it appears to be them being left running for a long time that is causing the problems in your code, so why not reset them regularly?

This is a major issue for me, along with the fun being taken out of WvW by invisible zergs thanks to excessive rendering restrictions I cannot turn of my side. Please fix some of these issues as I’m wondering why I would log into 80 anymore already.

Just fought an army of ghosts yet again and for the last time. WvWvW is meant to be a massive part of this game but atm it’s a running joke. Fix invisible zergs please or I’m done with WvW.

This secret anti farming code policy has pretty much killed this game for me… Play how you want they said, yeah and get your loot nerfed to the ground. The game is ALL about loot and you fail at it. Hopefully Torchlight 2 will do a better job, and no money grabbing gem store either.

That’s what this all comes down to, you want people to buy more of your gems, and yeah I understand you need to make money and we have no monthly fee but having it covertly pushed on me like this is disagreeable.

Also I swear the code also effects salvaging which is a massive pain. I go to grind the magic find Sigil up to 25 stacks, usually hit the loot nerf, and if I try to salvage then I get disgraceful returns.

This reeks of Diablo 3 all over again but at-least the game is passable, although what should I expect from a company who came from Blizzard.

Our server is already dying, Ring of Fire EU has literally 5 people in cursed shore after about 2-3am, there were too many to count a week or so ago.

I think i need to bail to a high pop server before they start to charge for it _

With the severe lack of endgame here, TP was practically the only thing keeping me going.

1) Dungeons are under-awing eye candy, buggy and being exploited mainly. I’ve been severely disappointing by all of them so far.

2) Invisible zergs in WvWvW. That as end game is out of the window atm. Dying to 80 invisible people because you put on such harsh rendering restrictions is a joke.

3) Cursed Shore and other end game DE bugged and blocking progress 90% of the time

And now trade has gone down pretty much the only thing that was keeping me logging into my 80s… What to do now? I feel little enthusiasm to play tonight am I burning out on GW already? Or is this just not “done” yet?

Yeah Prophet I agree it’s not good customer service at all, but this is how ANet works.

Oh hey, here is a bug in our game and you lost out on lots of your hard earned gold / karma / whatever….. tough luck.

Oh look, here is a bug where you actually managed to profit somewhat… We should really perma-ban these guys.

…Great way to deal with paying customers.

EDIT

For extra info I have lost out on about 40k karma that I used legit not during any bugs to buy green items from Cursed Shore to use in the Mystic Forge. They gave me nothing in return and I got an automated response telling me they cannot refund in game items / currency.

Got to love it just got zone completion for Cursed Shore to see I get 2 level 76 exotics. What a joke, I guess my story completion reward of 5 level 20-30 greens wasn’t a big enough kick in the teeth. At least give 80 gearkitten

Finally a decent official response, thanks for alleviating some concerns.

Sad to see this has been neglected. I’m stood in Cursed Shore atm and not even in a WvWvW worth blob and watching players and NPCs phase in and out feet away from me. Groups of people will simply disappear even though they are still there hitting the mobs. I know the path of these mobs too as I’ve done this event alot, yet the mobs just appear right on top of me.

Seriously game breaking stuff when it comes to wvw and you suddenly get ganked by 80 invisible people and generally annoying and disappointing throughout.

I also had this problem, spent about 30k karma on greens in Cursed Shore to use in the magic forge. Got nothing back, don’t expect a refund I sent a ticket. ANet really don’t care.

This community is full of babies who cry exploit at anything, although can you really blame them with ANets previous policy? It’s taking gaming down a slippery slope I don’t want to see the end of.

RoRo.8270:

This is turning into diablo3

This… Like father like son.

Gotta love ANets idea of maintenance, over 9 hours with no info or anything, this is not maintenance it’s failure!

…sort it out already its not launch anymore

Eochaidh.4106:

Don’t overclick your orders.

Your coin will probably be available to pick up with a Black Lion employee.

…Just LoL at this. Yeah I’m sure everyone lost gold and the TP has been down over 8 hours because everyone was spam clicking their orders /sarcasm

Same issue here, started seeing it really late last night at about 01:00 GMT. Woke up this morning and had hardly been playing for 30 mins when I disconnect. Now stuck at log in with error 42:0:9001:3928. But my internet is working fine, that really isn’t the issue here.

Re-rolled a Norn today. Almost every first line of Storyline cut scenes has no voice acting, sometimes it randomly happens mid cut scene. Very disappointing.

Not a question…

Same situation here, have been playing the game since the 28th very well at a decent FPS. For the last 3 days I have has excessive stuttering in large scale PvE and WvW and also have this issue of mobs and players appearing way after they should do.

I have static IP with all ports forwarded. My packet loss is 0% and my ping and DL speed are way in excess of what is needed to play modern games well.

My Specs:

AMD FX 4100 (4GB overclocked)
8GB ddr3 ram
AMD Radeon HD 6670

What makes this even worse is the few 80 areas there are have tonnes of risen. It really is a joke I change area to try and get drops back and bam another sea of risen events and no drops.

The mob variety in end game areas is rather lacking, makes for a pretty sterile experience.

Join the club, Ring of Fire was an absolute bug fest. Cursed shore was unplayable pretty much every day due to events grinding to a halt from all the bugs. I moved to Far Shiverpeaks yesterday and guess what… Exactly the same here, buggy and pretty much unplayable.

Really stupid way to discourage botting… if the countermeasure you put in place effects people playing the game they way you are encouraging (i.e clearing cursed shore event chain) then you should really look at it.

Hurting normal players because of a malicious minority is just bad business practice and if they are doing it just to keep the gem market where they want it that’s disgusting profiteering, both would not surprise me to be honest.

Its also fun to see how this “feature” has been kept very quiet by ANet. I’m sure they understand if this gets out they will lose alot of customers. I’m already considering my future with this game, as I’m so heavily restricted in how I’m allowed to play it by ANet and actually get results.

MattChernicky.2945:

Hey all,

The servers should be back up at this time.

Still can’t even get into Character Selection (Ring of Fire EU), when I do manage to finally I cannot start the game, then disconnect back to launcher with error 42:0:9001:3927:101

Kirri Malo.4395:

kraziefox.5697:

I cannot get back in, 42:0:9001:3927:101
:-(

thats your firewall rofl

I love how you believe this :P Yeah they love to tell you it’s your fault and to do X tech solutions so you will just give up and leave them alone.

I get the 42 string error every time THEY mess the server up. It has nothing to do with my router settings or firewall.