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A fractured Tale
A little boy goes into a Toystore.
Boy: “Hello sir, I’d like to buy this red ball.”
Toystore Clerk: “Here you go little fella, that’d be 30 bucks.”The boy pays the clerk and gets the ball. He plays ball with his friends a lot and is happy.
Some time has passed and the little boy still enjoys playing with his ball.
Suddenly the Toystore Guy appears.T: “Hey little fella. We’re making updates on all our balls.”
B: “Umm. Ok, I guess?”He hands out the ball to the toystore Guy. The toystore guy changes the color of the ball to green, deflates it a bit and hands it out to the little boy.
T: “Here you go, little fella.”
B: “Why is my ball missing air now?”
T: "Because now you can get the new full inflated Ball of Thorns which is all flashy ‘n stuff. That’d be 40 bucks. We have costs, you know … "
B: “40 bucks is a lot of money for me.”
WhiteKnightDude: “Hey just give him the 40 bucks. You already played hundreds of hours with your ball. Don’t you think it’s worth more? Don’t be a cheap kitten.”
B: “…”
Well said.
Imagine if GW2 just offered a new weapon called “payforwin Greatsword” and you can pay $20 for this greatsword that is way better than anything this game offers. How would that make you feel?
But with HoT it’s different because ooh, new classes, new maps, yay.
Expansions are a staple of MMO’s and in most cases come with increase in character level increase in item level etc. This game is quite different in that you don’t have to grind off an extra 10 levels but in order to keep things fresh there are new specs people can use once they get the expansion. In many cases the elite specs are upgrades over the base profession but the reality is even if they perfectly balanced every elite with the base prof the player with the expansion will still have an advantage over you as they have more options available.
If your not willing to fork out 50 or so dollars for hundreds of hours of entertainment you mustn’t be really interested in the game in which case why does it matter to you how competitive you are in pvp?
I don’t want to spend hundreds of hours playing this game. You’re completely right though, if I were a die hard GW2 player, that played every day, and was grinding hard for a legendary, buying the expansion would be crucial.
However, I’m not a die hard fan, and when I do play, I like to have the same advantages in PvP as other players.
Why should I be at a disadvantage just because I don’t want to pay $50.
Don’t get me wrong I’ve been playing a long time but still, $50 is a lot of money to just throw around for some new skills
Kitten, now you make me have to play the role of supporter and I am irritated at some recent changes.
You say you have been playing for a long time, so how long? Take that and divide the number of hours playing by the 50. Now, compare that to any consumable that you use today. Did you get that much value from a single soda? One packet of sugar?
Compare apples to apples..a XBX1 or PS4 game that provides only 8 hours of materials runs 60 dollars.
How many hours of work did the upgrade cost you versus the time you spent in game?
How much would have a game with a sub cost you based on your on GW2 play time?
Food for thought…
I love your analysis of opportunity cost. However, money is still money. If I don’t have to spend it, I would prefer not too. You’re talking to a broke college student, so legit I barely buy any consumables.
I don’t invest in HoT because I already paid money buying this game originally. I don’t want to be pouring more money in this game, especially when I don’t know how much I love this game.
Don’t get me wrong I’ve been playing a long time but still, $50 is a lot of money to just throw around for some new skills
Much like Call of Duty, and the hundreds of other games that offer DLC’s, console games separate players who have paid for the DLC from accessing new maps, new gear, etc.
Now GW2 needs to either:
1. Disable the Heart of Thorns special builds from PvP
or
2. Separate players who have paid for Heart of Thorns and people who have not.
Preferably, PvP adjusts all the armor and weapons so nobody has advantages, GW2 needs to block these special builds, why?
Because it’s simply UNFAIR.
Ok I know what you’re thinking, yeah this kid is complaining so what we’ve been hearing this for months, just get better…
Doesn’t it bother anyone that you have to PAY for be better?
1. It’s discouraging playing PvP with the Heart of Thorns build.
2. It makes me feel like I’m not valued as a player.
3. I feel like it ruins the overall competitive spirit of the game.
Thoughts?
PVP has one game type….so true it’s so boring playing the same game type hundreds of times..you would think by now they would introduce something new, instead there huge big announcement is solo arena, which is like the same exact thing nothing different at all
Path 2, Detha gets glitched, and i tried looking up a solution and tried it and it was still bugged, when you bring her to the hall of champions she will just stand there and no event triggers.
Apparently tons of other players were having this same problem…even worse it seems they’ve had this problem from over 10 months ago.
It’s still not fixed?
I’m starting to get really tired of getting near the end of a dungeon (like AC) and having it be bugged out, what makes it worse is these problems such as Detha, have been going on for months and it’s still not fixed.
Why make new content when there’s already content out there that doesn’t even work?
Fix what you got now i’m sure lots of players will appreciate it
I think it would be cool if somewhere on the main page or news section it would show how many support tickets have been turned in for each candidate, and let us see in real time which candidate is currently winning and by how much.
It could show evon has like 13,457 votes, and kiel has 27,312 or something like that
I won’t be fighting anything for like 30 seconds, I won’t be near any enemies sometimes, and it still thinks i’m in combat, then finally after what feels like 3 minutes it will let me change armor.
This is especially annoying when i’m in pvp and i’m trying to compare different weapons on the robots and ill run far far away from any combat and still have to wait forever before it will let me switch or use a waypoint.
Shorten the time.
My suggestion is, once you complete every area 100% in a certain region for example Ascalon, every waypoint in that region will become free.
Which means you will have to complete all hearts, skill challenges, etc. along with earning the “Ascalon explorer” achievement.
I feel this is a good idea because you have become completely familiar with the area and it is a nice reward for your hard work and will motivate people to continue exploring areas even after reaching level 80.
Of course this will only work for the character you did it on, if you gather all hearts, skill challenges, etc. on another character then waypoints will become free for them as well.
I like this idea, and I think I have a solution to the problem of personal stories between races. Once you fully complete your personal story for a certain race, your account will remember you completed it, and you can only switch your characters race to ones that you’ve completed the personal story for.
Example: Your a charr, you’ve completed the norn personal story on some other account, so therefore you can switch between it as long as you completed the charr personal story as well, however if you haven’t completed the story for human on some other account your charr can’t switch to it yet until you finish it.
yeah actually what if the penalty was like a one day restriction from joining any tournament matches or something like that, that would stop the afk problem I feel, as long as it wasn’t a problem with their internet connection that caused them to afk, which wouldn’t because it would log them out.
I have a few suggestions on how we can balance the teams in tournament PvP when one teammate leaves the match in order to keep the game fair for everyone, if you have any ideas yourself feel free to leave them in the comments.
1. Kick one player on the opposite team (whoever has the lowest score).
2. Players who are currently looking for a tournament match can take the place of the missing teammate instead of joining a group of 5, however they would receive slightly lower glory depending on how long the match has been going for, players would have the option to either decline or accept if they wanted to join a game immediately to take a missing teammates place.
3. Give a small bonus to the team with less players, maybe +12 for neutral/capturing, and +7 for a kill, just a few little points to make up for not having a teammate.
4. Give a temporary boon every minute that lasts 5 seconds to the team with a missing player.
Overall what I’m trying to say is just give the team that’s missing a player a little helping hand so it’s not such a complete waste of time and they don’t totally get owned.
yeah that would be a cool game mode to have
It seems like everything in PvP is pretty repetitive, I think that there should be new game modes other than simply domination.
Team ideas:
Simple team deathmatch
Capture the flag
1 life sudden death
Free for all could even be added maybe
I’m just getting tired of running to capture point to capture point every single time, the only thing that makes PvP exciting is obviously killing other players, and also working for new skins.
I just think that PvP is a little dull right now, and there could easily be cool new updates that could brighten it up.
Also, another guy is having the same problem, he even tried doing it in a different world
note: I was alone when doing this, he just showed up while i was trying to find and answer to this problem
So I correctly placed the stones to get the two torches lit, then I set the new patterns once the skull changed, however it would not work, i tried it 3 times, made sure the stones were in the very center, still didn’t work.
Logged out, did it over again twice, still wouldn’t work
restarted computer tried it twice again still wouldn’t work, the patterns are correct the game just wont recognize it, I made sure all the stones were off before starting, etc, I don’t know what do, any help?