Guild Wars 2

“The most successful method of player to player trading in MMOs is and has been having an auction house (aka centralized 24/7 all trading availability).”

Thanks for the opinion.

Options were removed from the franchise. “I can’t be be bothered to find prices or teach my daughter how to find prices or protect ourselves from fraud” is not a legit reason. People used f2f and cod for good reasons and not to fraud other people and do not appreciate the limitations.

Kaizer.7135:

I’d definitely want this instead of the launcher, if they want people to see the latest updates and stuff, they could just do what they did with the dynamic log-in screen in GW1.

I agree, it worked fine in GW1.

I don’t see how that’s a problem. Unless of course the system is bugged (it is) and it constantly asks you to verify your log-in even though you’ve done it five times in the past before from the same IP.

The title-screen is not responsible for inconveniencing players, it’s the people who designed the game and it’s systems.

Yeah, the first time I saw the “report” option for fake identities, i was shocked. It really is appalling.

Does anyone else have any input on this?

Again the other day, my guildy had an item that I wanted and was going to sell it to me. I trust my guildies to do honest item exchanges but I don’t trust everyone to do the same.

Direct trade has been a basic functionality of all MMOs for YEARS~

Hopefully someone from Anet will see this and send it up to the team.

Dicellol.4153:

Your account does not even have to be your name. You can make a facebook account called “Guild WarsFan” for all they care.

Ignoring the rest of your fallacious and rude post, here is some real information for you to chew on;

Facebook has a “real person” policy. If your account does not represent a real person it’s deleted, and the userbase is encouraged to find and report such accounts. So no, you cannot make an account called “Guild WarsFan”

“Yes the lack of trading is annoying but they need to make money also.”

Are you really, honestly, SERIOUSLY justifying the gutted trade infrastructure with the business excuse?

That doesn’t even make sense. How are they making money by not letting people trade?

I wish Arenanet would start putting relevant game news and information on the game’s actual website. It wouldn’t take a wizard to create categories or tags for news posts on the website, and it would help people filter out things they don’t want to see, while allowing ALL of the players in this community to stay completely up to date.

As it is now, a bunch of game news and information is being posted on Facebook. This morning I found out that I can no longer even access facebook pages without a pop-up covering the screen and telling me to log-in. Usually all I have to do when this happens is refresh the page. But I refreshed numerous times today and it persisted.

Not everyone in this community is going to have facebook. And now that facebook has decided to become an exclusive service, I think this is a problem that should be corrected.

I also liked the password-hash, another feature that is mysteriously gone.

Erasculio.2914:

I’m very happy face to face trading and cash-on-delivery mailing are not in the game. The Trading House is considerably harder to use as a way to exploit other people or as a way to play the market; not to mention how it removes the WTS spam from the game.

This was a great idea, and I hope ArenaNet sticks with it.

No mate, sorry.

It’s the player’s responsibility not to get scammed. And in GW1 trade spam was easily managed with a separate trade channel in the chat.

Trade posts have a long history in gaming as a means to exploit markets and get rich quickly, it makes it easier for people to do so.

“Most people don’t like being irritated by their forms of entertainment.”

Most people need to admit that this is not the hobby for them. Back in GW1 they had Dishonor which punished casual idiots that would leave a PvP match and ruin the game for everyone else. This is not a football game on television, it’s a world with human interaction, you’re going to get irritated from time to time. Commit or go away.

HotM “detouring” will be nerfed, as Amon said, mark our words.

And to these people telling others to just “start running” … you can safely stay out of this discussion… please. It is stupid to say that fast-travel is 100% optional in a world this size, with dynamic player interactions and events occurring all over it.

Enjoy explaining to your guild or parties every time that you’re running across the world to get to the dungeon they want to run. You’re not going to be running that dungeon.

There are real problems with this game, so please stop being dismissive jerks to the people who want to discuss them.

I’m not sure why these were forsaken for Guild Wars 2, but I’d like to start a discussion about it and maybe we can convince Anet to rethink this. Personal trading is a staple of all MMOs, in fact GW2 is the only MMO I’ve EVER played that doesn’t have some form of personal trading.

The other day my guildy and I had mistakenly WPd to each other in Hoelbrek because I was looking to buy an item and he had it for me at a discount. Obviously the trade didn’t happen because the economic infrastructure of this game has been gutted. Players are entirely dependent on the trading post, and as convenient and useful as the TP can be (when it’s working correctly …), auction houses are not the end-all, be-all of trading.

Gone are the days of guild discounts, friend discounts, bartering, item-for-item trading… OPTIONS. The simple concept of selling an item to the person you want to, buying an item from a preferred service provider, the chance to get to meet other people through trading, it’s all gone.

AlpineFlame.7058:

I have scrubbed these boards for an hour now, and the only response about it was the old “you’ll use the new one and like it”. At least a decent answer would be nice. Not knocking the hard working people at A net of course, but that PC canned answer was a bit of a cop out.

I asked for an answer and that’s what I got, so I’m glad for at least that, but you’re right; it’s not much of a response. People want it. Isn’t that what capitalism is all about? People want things, you provide them, make money. I don’t see how giving players this option will hurt anything. At the very least it will leave a lasting impression on the community that Anet really cares about their consumers and that we’re not just units sold to them.

Detahmaio.2014:

coffeemancer.2450:

“Try play some WvW and you will see how fast your money will drop (repair bills)”

… dying in WvW breaks your armor?

Yes it does.

Well umm… wow. Unbelievable. Hopefully this gets patched out fast.

HoH may have been a good format, but it suffered from elitism that was really out of touch with it’s casual pick-up structure.

“they are planing more PvP stuff with a fairly large amount of e-sport in mind”

We’ll see what they actually manage to accomplish… They just put out that “clay woman” trailer that has nothing to do with the game it’s supposed to be advertising… so I’m not sure what their priorities are or what they’re thinking. At the moment I’m not holding my breath for anything, it’s a very different company from when they were working on GW1. I know it sounds silly, but go compare the trailers. You won’t be seeing any pointless clay women or ham-fisted social commentary in the factions trailer

GW1 started with a solid e-sport spirit and there were quite a few championships for big prizes, until Anet eventually stopped caring and just automated the system with some silly trophies.

“Try play some WvW and you will see how fast your money will drop (repair bills)”

… dying in WvW breaks your armor?

In fact many other games have both launchers and title screens. The launcher handles patching, and maybe log-ins, then it sends you to the title screen. It’s an important part of the presentation of a game…

It makes more sense to give rifles to the warrior. Warriors are about war, rifles are tools of war. You can’t craft a rifle out in the woods with only basic survival supplies and resources.

Rifles are also pretty loud and would not be helpful in a survival situation where stealth is important.

Another step backward from the first game …

SIGNED.

Thanks, I imagine a lot of people do.

There are already too many gold sinks;

At lvl 50 it costs over 1 silver just to TP across a single map, within the same map. Repair costs also start adding up. Gold2Gems is going to suck up huge amounts of wealth. Trait books, salvage kits, gathering tools, tin/coal/thread/etc, guild armor, etc. etc.

GW1 at present has several different PvP formats, including true-structured, organized Deathmatch PvP; casual Deathmatch; casual AND organized capture point & objective based PvP; and even novelties such as Sealed Deck (stupid, but it counts). It even toyed with RTS style PvP using controllable NPCs.

GW2 only has capture point PvP in two iterations and they are both casual and impossible to organize (hot-join mass pvp is not organized, sorry).

This is a clear step backward and not something we should be seeing in the SEQUEL. Competetive multiplayer games typically include multiple formats, among them being Deathmatch.

Regardless of how you feel about World of Warcraft; these are the facts compared to just the first game, not WoW, not even any other multiplayer or MMO game.

Please, argue about ideas and thoughts, not someone’s brand loyalty.

Disclaimer: This is a well thought out suggestion, posted in the correct sub-forum. It’s not a demand for attention or a petition.

My suggestion is that Anet should reconsider having a title screen for their video game.

Rationale:

First, please read this response from Regina;

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Show-your-Support-for-the-Title-Screen/first#post57172

1) Before launch, having the -useoldlauncher command gave players the option of using the title screen, without impacting a player’s ability to use the launcher. They could go back to using the new launcher at any time.

2) players have many options to find news and information about the game, using the launcher for this purpose is not necessary and will not inhibit the flow of news or information

3) Guild Wars 1 had a title screen with news and information about the game.

4) There have been no reported technical issues with having both options available.

5) options are good

Am I the only one left who still wants the Chronomancer race / profession?

I think the mechanics of magic find should be changed to something like;

“it doesn’t exist”

Why do you want to see influence contribution? You’re aware it’s going to turn into a nother faction-farming craze, aren’t you?

Katie Feathermoore.5031:

Remove/Severely reduce waypoint costs, it kills the games social aspect which is everything for me.

Yeah, I agree with this. I think there are already plenty of gold sinks without having transport costs. I’m only lvl 46 and WPing across just a couple maps already costs silver pieces.

I ran a dungeon and all of the profit I made from it was burned trying to keep up with guildies and meet up with people / attend events, etc.

I’d like to add that legitimate threads are already being infracted and deleted by Anet based on some pretty rigid “user agreements” (read: click accept or gtfo). The last thing we need is the user-base censoring itself and ganging up on people based on group-think and bandwagoning hysteria.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Show-your-Support-for-the-Title-Screen/57172

“The old launcher was always intended to be a placeholder for such time that we could get a full-featured launcher on which the team could include news and information. There are no plans to go back to the old launcher.”

This is ridiculous. You had a WORKING OPTION. There is no “going back” since both existed at the same time. You can still have your fancy launcher and at the same time let people search for the obscure code to use the old launcher. What is with this aversion to options?

Let’s not forget that GW1 had a full-featured title screen that also showed news and information.

Please reconsider this, as well as face-to-face trading and CoD mail.

“Town Clothes

Please add an option we can toggle so that our character always appears in town clothes while in cities.
Make it so that falling damage no longer switches us from town clothes to armor.
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I agree with both of these, except I would add to allow us to wear town clothes anywhere, at any time. We paid REAL MONEY for it, but got less value than we got in GW1 when we paid real money for cosmetics.

“As a guild leader I would like to be able to see how much each individual guild member has contributed to the guild’s reputation points.”

Measure your guild mate’s performance by actually playing with them and getting to know them, like a human being.

Editing note: I have edited this post as some of its contents would provoke some flaming reactions from other users. The suggestion has not been touched though.

I don’t think it would tax their manpower to explain why it’s missing. Ask someone at the office why and they can answer that in like 10 seconds and get back to coding the Guild Halls or something.

The only two weapons that really deserve a place in this game are the 1h throwing javelin and the scythe.

the javelin for the guardian / ele / ranger – ranged, with a bit less reach than a bow or rifle.

scythe for the warrior / necromancer – no max-target limit and a wider, slightly longer reach

There are two purposes for this thread.

1) people who enjoyed the title screen can give their support and show Anet that they want it to return

2) to urge anet to explain why it’s gone or why they can’t have it in the game.

Whether it’s -useoldlauncher or some other option, it would be nice to have it back. Post here if you agree. If you don’t care, you don’t need to post. If you want to be rude, you don’t need to post.

If you’re going to lock / delete the thread, then please ask someone at Anet to answer the simple question of why the title screen was removed before doing so.

More PvP formats – not everyone is a fan of the Alliance Battle style of PvP. Structured PvP is really just AB/JQ/FA stripped down into a much simpler format. And WvW is really just AB/JQ/FA built up into a much more complicated and obnoxious format. Death match is gone; organized team play is gone. The precedents set in GW1 have been gutted and we’re left with practically nothing.

No Dishonor – in fact sPvP is hot-joinable and you can leave at any time to the detriment of your team, no equipment creation screen, no variety of pvp gameplay, no free organized team format (lol Tournament Tickets in the cash shop… wow), you can’t use your PvE gear in PvP – it’s literally impossible. No more ghostly hero announcer, instead we have this obnoxious Halo 3 Call of Duty guy that quickly becomes annoying, babying the players and narrating every little thing that happens in a match.

But PvP isn’t the only thing. The whole game feels a lot like WoW and only a little like Guild Wars.

1) return -useoldlauncher or give us some option to see the in-game login screen

2) first person camera

3) more economic infrastructure (face-to-face trading, cash-on-delivery mailing, ridiculou why we don’t have these in the first place)

4) optimized world-raid events, ie. shatterer, taquatl, whatever. people are dropping to terrible FPS on modern PCs here.

Thanks for these posts… Camera control and functionality is absolutely core to any game, and needs to be done right.

I’m not much of a tech buff, so the only real problems I noticed are missing camera features from the first game – INCREDIBLY annoying not to have these anymore;

1) no first-person view as you said.
2) smooth zoom by holding down MouseWheel

I’ve seen this happen once in story-mode Ascalon Catacombs. I was also playing warrior.

Disclaimer: The value of things differs from person to person. If you do not feel this is something important, you need not respond to it. To some people, it’s important. To others, it’s not. Please be respectful.

For years, ever since the first game footage was shown at game-shows, I was really excited about the in-game log-in screen; it just looked really cool, coupled with Jeremy Soule’s amazing music, it was rather epic actually.

Well, it’s gone now. During beta 3 I thought my problems would be solved when I found the command for -useoldlauncher. It’s nice to have options, right?

Well, that’s gone now, too.

I cannot understand why they have removed this option, apart from some technical issues that Anet is not sharing with us. I can’t even manage to get to the login screen at all, manually or accidentally. I saw it once during beta 3 when I was disconnected for some reason. After launch, whenever I get disconnected it just brings me back to my character screen.

Ideally, I would like it if you could please put the login screen back and give players the option of using either the new launcher or the old launcher. If you can’t do that, at least show some transparency and let us know why you can’t.

For some reason, your track record with login screens has been less than accommodating. After 7 years of development, I don’t know how honest it is to say it was impossible to let players choose the campaign login they wanted for GW1. I hope today that you will be honest and just tell us why we can’t -useoldlauncher, especially since it was working previously.

It is really a part of the image of Guild Wars 2, and I think many fans would love to have it back.