Guild Wars 2

I love the open world stuff but do not care for the instanced content and it has nothing to do with being social/anti social it is more about playstyle and preference vs “forced” grouping without a LFG tool for instanced dungeons..

Others may love doing the instanced holiday content and i hope they enjoy it but i prefer being “genuinely” social without being forced so i stay and play in the big beautiful non instanced world anet has given us..

I am disappointed that anet has decided to use forced group instancing almost exclusively for anything and everything they have added thusfar and would love to see more open world stuff added to the game..

Wasnt this game suppose to be as much if not more about natural grouping than forced?

There are a ton of mmo game forums to express your concerns on that wont close or over moderate your concerns/opinions..

Since the devs at anet actually read and even respond to player concerns we need to keep this in mind and try to be diligent in the way we word things..
The devs have feelings to..

I think we have to wait until arenanet rolls out the “alternative” ways to acquire the ascended gear before we will really know if to much grind is involved or not..

All i know is the way they released ascended gear via fractals only has hurt the game overall in the sense that there is not as much going on in the world because everyone is doing the fractals..

However i can see in the games current direction that casual players may fall somewhat behind..

Nevertheless i still have a blast playing this game and appreciate the many things that anet did well in the original release but the sometimes the heavy handed nerfing and new additions to the game have to make one wonder if they have any idea what their fanbase/players want..

Been seeing them in droves under water at frostgorge sound farming barracudas 24/7 unhindered for over a week now..

All we can do is confirm they are bots and keep reporting new ones as they appear..

Forced grouping imho is always wrong but especially in a “personal story” which is suppose to be and should be solo capable from beginning to end..

I had to bring a few friends on more than a few occasions to complete my personal story..

You should not have posted that you are having fun with the warrior you have invited anet to nerf it! J/K!

I have played since the beta and have always thought GW2 is an incredible game despite anets best attempts on ruining everything that is fun about it..

I am usually grouped with 3 RL friends even though we are often doing our own thing with alts or what not and we leave 1 spot open for a few casual friends should they happen to pop on for a bit.

Otherwise i enjoy the solo challenge of taking on more than most players can handle with a group..

Personally i think the in game community on our server is outstanding most players are extremely helpful and friendly however there are always occasionally those that are not but they are by far only a very small minority..

I do agree the fractals have damaged the game overall but that has more to do with anets lack of foresight and heavy handed kneejerk nerfing than the playerbase..

Fact of the matter is that we appear to get hit with DR so fast that magic find is a waste of time and coin beyond 15 to 20 minutes..
Anet seems to have stealth nerfed the drops again or have created yet another bug…

I seem to have equal if not better results with only a 26% lemon tart magic find as i had with 119% full magic gear with an omniberry bar..

Orr is suppose to be tough however imho a combination of over nerfing orr combined with the fotm dungeon have indeed completely killed orr, the temples/waypoints are always contested and the temple gear is unavailable to most new fresh level 80s..

I love the original game as released but do not think well of the new content or anets heavy handed nerfs and stealth nerfs on DE timers, continued DR and stealth reduced drop rates on loot in general its a confusing direction which is heading the opposite direction of the original games feel good and have fun approach..

Being the game is only 3 months old we need to cut anet some slack as they try to cut their newbie teeth on a project that is obviously bigger and tougher than they can chew without the help of making bitter and angry kneejerk reactions that complicate simple problems that need softer thoughtful simple solutions….

I do not like or utilize the new content but i certainly dont mind it being added for those that do like it..
Anet simply screwed up by delivering the ascended gear intentionally only by FOTM dungeon instead of multiple means from the get go and have owned up to it and they have stated it will not happen again, and thats good enough for me..

I do not personally like the new dungeon content as it does not cater to my open world solo/small group playstyle and i do not like restrictive instanced dungeons at all but many players do and i believe in what anet is trying to do by creating content for many different playstyles so i am good with it..

Even a horizontal progress based game like gw2 needs some vertical progress on occasion to keep it fresh or in this case to fill in a missing medium tier between exotic and legendary..

The implementation of this content was poor and due to the ascended gear only being available through FOTM has left other areas like orr a little short handed and always contested so now they need to address these issues and consider these issues before going forward with new content releases in the future….

This game is only 3 months old and anet is going to make a few mistakes along the way and as long as they learn from it and try to avoid the pitfalls we cant ask for more than that.

Anet made a huge mistake by letting the ascended gear release only in a fotm dungeon which can and obviously is being viewed by many as a direct violation of the manifesto..

However anet has admitted regret and owned up to that fact and has said it will not happen again..

So I chalk this up as a blunder made by anet and i do not view it as anet going back on their word but rather a mistake intentional or not that they will correct..

Many are making a mountain out of a mole hill imho..

Truth be known this PPS (player punishment system) is probably responsible for half or more of whats broke in this game..

I love this game and its design but this DR system violates everything the game stood for..
There has to be a better option available to deal with exploiters and bots anet needs to drop this DR system like the bad idea it is and seek a technique that takes out the bots and exploiters while letting the players play without having to worry about getting punished for killing 50 incoming mobs while trying to get from one point to another..

Mr. Peters your 2 cents worth means very little to those that regularly get punished for playing as we see your DR system as a failure you wont let go of..

Anet is obviously bent on using this extremely flawed player punishing system and until they drop it(preferred) or get it right to where “no legit player” is punished i am completely bent on not using the CS..

Yes anet players can retaliate for un-fun gaming experiences caused by this ridiculous and poor decision to stick by a completely flawed/bugged/broken/unfair system.

Its anets reputation as a competent and trustworthy game maker on the line so do what you will with it..
This issue is getting popular on major gaming forums..

Yesterday after the patch i logged in and intentionally tried to reproduce why this was happening to me as i dont cheat, use known exploits or leave DEs mid course to do another DE that just popped..

I went from logging in and doing the pertinent point DE circuit one time to going to sparkfly fen to play with my lower level wife..
I tried for hours to get this anet induced ridiculous game ruining annoyance to occur without success by doing the 2 main DEs repeatedly and even leaving one midway through to do the other one in the gorge in order to attempt to trigger this penalty but it didnt trigger..

However later on i did trigger the diminishing garbage but because of a set of circumstances i had absolutely no control over..
What happened was i protected the asura base..
Then went and cleared the gorge as usual..
However this time i somehow got a gold for protecting the quaggan dudes that i wasnt aware had even occured..
This still did not trigger the penalty however the sunless popped within seconds of the quaggan DE completion and it was after downing the dragon the penalty kicked in..

This code in my honest opinion is very flawed due to the awesome sometimes spontaneous nature of this game and the fact anet wont come clean adds insult to injury and leaves us trying to figure out how to avoid it on our own instead of just playing and enjoying this remarkable game as we should be able to..

At this point in time im not worried about the bots ruining this game as anet is doing a far better butcher job on their own games concepts and freedoms than the bots ever could..
Stopping exploits is a necessary function but anet needs to re-evaluate the people they have left in charge and rekindle the question..
If we do this to the game will it still be fun for our players?
Because there is nothing fun about being penalized/punished for simply playing the game as it unfolds in front of you with no word or explanation from anet as to why..

I was also getting this message yesterday in sparkfly fen nearly everytime we killed a risen grub in the “clear the risen from the gorge” DE so its not just in orr..

An exploit is an exploit i have not had this happen and understand that exploits need to be fixed but couldnt anet have just nerfed the loot drops on the worms rather than display a message like that?
Its just wrong..
Amateur hour at arenanet?
This game is going the way of diablo 3 and that is permanently off my hard drive very soon..

I guess i sit somewhere in the middle as i do adore this game and think it was a fantastic game but on the otherhand i do not like the way anet is handling things by limiting/diminishing everything..

The game seems like it was made by someone other than those that are marring it up patch after patch, just one month later its not the same game i bought and has lost much by making players feel like the criminals while the botters and exploiters move on to new tricks..
Anet is in self destruct mode imho..

I have enjoyed this game immensely up until anet started “limiting” drops and even the amount of experience/karma/copper you get from DEs..

I am losing interest in not only this game but from any future anet products, getting on my “funcom” list of failed devs is hard but getting off of it is impossible..

I would like to point out that i have never once used any exploits yet im being treated like a botter or even worse a cheater, i hope anet wins the battle against bots because they are losing the war to keep loyal fans in the process..
They promise fun but deliver a criminal sentence of limited service and its just cheezy..

As if the event rewards are not already small enough compared to the big picture it seems some of us are getting diminishing returns on DEs..

I am trying to be patient but i think anet owes us an explanation if not an immediate fix..
Its rather insulting to only get to play 20-30 minutes before having to log off for an hour so the dimishing returns reset..

Anet is to busy punishing me for loving to play the game…
20-30 minutes of play then total diminishing of rewards and even loot drops then i get to leave the game for about an hour so my diminishing returns reset..

Just a bad way to to do things in any game let alone a so called mmo….

wolonggong.3469:

My suggestion would be to stop trying to protect us because it is getting to the point where it is greatly interferring with gameplay.

First you wont give us P2P trading because 1 out of 10,000 people may get scammed because they cannot bother to look at either the items or the amount of money in a trade window basically forcing us to only use your trading post. This not only forced us to continually run back to a trader for every single item we wanted…but it opened far more people to being scammed by…also not allowing people to send items in mail with a COD payment option…just because they dont want to have to run back to town and are wanting to trade with someone.

MMOs are supposed to be about VARIETY, not LIMITATIONS…and I sure as heck dont want to have to run to a trader just for one stinking item that I should be able to get right away.

Then you take it upon yourselves to try to stop gold sellers by limiting the amount of money they can either give to the guild bank or send to other players…thinking that somehow if you make people play their accounts to increase the amount of money they can donate/send…it would be OK. Instead it created a BOT FEST for gold sellers to get around.

So now, not only do I get a ton of gold seller spam and a lot of BOTS running around, I cant even give a gold piece to a fellow guild member so he can get guild armor, nor can I aid any friends that are just starting by giving them a leg up

Now…now you are limiting the amount of crafting materials that can either be sent or deposited into guildbanks?!?

What is this going to do other than hurt guilds that have guild crafters?

Sure wish I had known you were going to do this cause then I wouldnt have bothered to train up 3 characters with crafting skills that I am going to be limited with to make items for guildmates

Please stop trying to play big brother and protect us because all you are doing is slapping those of us playing by the rules in the face and limiting our gameplay…im starting to regret buying this game and even spending a few extra bucks to unlock a 6th character slot.

This would be a grade A game, if you would just drop the crazy BS you are doing trying to protect us…and failing at in a big way BTW.

You forgot to add they have also apparently limited the amount of loot you can drop over time and diminish the experience/karma/copper you receive after completing just a couple or few DEs..

I agree completely that GW2 was an incredible and bold game but it appears anet wasnt ready to put on the big boy pants when it comes to running the game right..

I wouldnt say i am getting bored with the game as much as i am getting frustrated with the diminishing returns that keep me from enjoying the game…

I dont understand why the players that are being so harshly punished for killing what is in front of us from events diminishing down to nothing and the loot becoming near non existent..
Both this game and its players deserve better than very limited fun for a very limited time before having to quit the game for an hour so some false gate can reset..

I believe gw2 is the greatest game ever made by an awesome company in anet however diminishing anything that treads on players in a game to where constant killing, holding and conquering is the norm while bots roam free is not fair or right..

This diminishing anything and everything is getting long in the tooth as it effects how i play this game in a very non fun fashion..
At first i thought maybe its a bug or error but it seems it may not be which is a real sham if not a bait and switch because it just ruins what this game was prior to diminishing everything in a kneejerk way…

PS the bots are still having fun after being reported by over 100 people but i am not as i have to let the diminishing effect wear off for an hour to get decent loot or the appropriate experience/karma for my efforts..

Good luck getting any loot after tagging a butt load of mobs as it appears anet wants to punish us with diminishing loot and experience/karma for our valiant efforts, meanwhile the bots bot on while i retire from play until this is fixed..

I really hope this is just a bug or an oversight by anet as it is disrupting honest players far more than it is the reported bots that seem to never get banned.

Bots have no manned timesink into this game honest players do and shouldnt be punished for it.