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it is good that we have found a workaround of sorts, but it is still unacceptable that it seems to be a necessity. I have called Comcast before about issues like these and unless you have a business comcast line you get the trained monkey squad. All they do is test against their servers with basic ping/packet tests and line signal/noise meters all of which come back clean. We all need to complain together if we hope for any resolution. If comcast wasn’t messing with the traffic, then the VPN workaround would not make any difference. The fact that a VPN immediately solves the issue is a dead giveaway that the issue is in comcast’s network
I didn’t mention it in my first post, but i am also in the chicago area, and also on bleep bleep BLEEEEEEEPING Comcast. Once again today’s patch also won’t patch. In fact i haven’t been able to reliably patch since the 2nd of december.
The only way i have gotten patched was by using a VPN and then patching, but i shouldn’t need to VPN just to patch the game.
ANet, i know this issue isn’t in all likelihood directly your fault, but if you can do three things, it would be appreciated:
1) Maybe come up with a patch system that doesn’t involve patching the launcher before patching the game every time.
2) If the patcher says its “retrying”, actually have it retry (or at least let me gracefully cancel and not have to kill the task)
3) Perhaps you can open a dialogue with comcast and find out why/how your traffic is getting blocked/throttled/whatever. Sadly, comcast is the largest ISP in the US, and deserved or not (mostly “not”) they wield a LOT of clout.
Yea… I still can’t update with the exact same issue of the updater update timing out. It says it is going to retry the connection but it never does. In fact i can’t even quit the launcher cleanly, i have to end the task.
It seems like every patch ANet has put out lately has had these issues in one form or another. Are your update servers just over-taxed or what? Now that the monthly achievements are going to be decided by logging in each day, you need to have your updates run smoother. If ANet’s update fails cost me a monthly becuase i couldn’t update and login (i’m lookin’ at you February) I’m gonna be super upset.
I’m sure this has already been suggested, but (i’ll be honest) I’m not going to read through 24 pages of posts to find it and reply. All this new systems REALLY needs is an option to say i want to buy X gems or sell X gems. Use the same UI elements you use everywhere else where you can either type in a number or use the little up/down arrows.
YES, the old system was confusing and more importantly annoying. If you wanted to buy gems for gold you couldn’t just say i want to buy 27 gems, you had to trial and error type in gold/silver/copper amounts until you got the right amount without overpaying. All i really wanted out of the old system was to say I want to buy X gems, and tell me the cost.
Some people here are going on about the market graph, but lets be honest, it was fluff. It was useless because it a) didn’t show you the buy and sell graphs at the same time, b) only went back 5(?) days (why not a week?), and c) had no sort of fine gain view or ability to zoom. If anyone really wanted to get more information than “huh, the marget really spiked sometime on tuesday”, we went somewhere online like gw2tp or gw2spidy. Power users are fine with that. It was neat, but lets face it, it was just a thing ANet used to fill space in a fixed size window and to “promote” the market driven nature of the gem exchange.
I’m fine with the new setup for the most part, it is “clearer” for sure, but the preset gem options should really be something like 25,100,400,1000. That is still 4 options, and with the exception of the 3 random items that are oddly priced at 35 gems, you can reach (i think) every other price point by 4 purchases. I am welcoming to new players, but I don’t think asking for the most basic of arithmetic skills is too much (i.e. that outfit costs 700 gems, that’s a total of 400+100+100+100)
TL;DR: adjusting preset gem amounts to 25, 100, 400, and 1000 will help, but all we really want is an adjustable amount for the number of gems we want to buy as wel as sell (since gems cannot be subdivided but gold can)
I’m going to have to back up everything that everyone has said here already. This is about to get ranty, fair warning it also goes off the rails a bit.
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This is not a misunderstanding on players parts; this is a bald faced middle finger from ANet. JakHammer is right, no one— NO ONE who bought a piece of MF find gear didn’t equip it. Personally i have two medium armor wearers, and both had a combat set and an MF set of armor. I was admittedly upset about this change but what could i do. I thought that maybe i would roll a theif and eventually give them a set of my now blanked out MF armor… NOPE! so now i have two full sets of armor and weapons that i have exactly ZERO use for, oh and don’t forget my acended amulet that still has A GOD DARN MF INFUSION IN IT!!! I’m not about to waste an infusion slot on MF if thats the only MF boost i have, i’d have chosen an amulet with an offensive infusion slot… OH WAIT i did thats why i have two amulets. one that will now be redundant. If you had given us dual-specs for our traits maybe, maybe, this would work, but you didn’t. now i am stuck carrying around a bunch of useless gear because my bank is full, which means i see my useless gear every time i open my inventory, which makes me mad everytime i open my inventory, which makes me go play another game.
Oh and as long as i am on a tear here are a few more things i don’t like 1) super adventure box was not good the first time, i have no desire to play it again; 2) i don’t like missions where you screw with my action bar. don’t put me in a robot, don’t turn me into a mongoose, just don’t; 3) i don’t like simulated PvP. I don’t like real PvP so i don’t, so don’t make me mock-PvP an NPC, THATS NOT FUN; 4)WvW is a form of PvP, so keep the stupid WvW dailies in the PvP section, i don’t need to see them, i don’t want to see them, i’m not going to do them, see point three above, i don’t PvP
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If you are going to screw with us just be up front about it, don’t spin half truths and then try to put the blame for misunderstanding on on us.
I like your game, i like how you run it, i like that it is always fresh, but crummy customer service will drive me away in seconds flat.
And Noll vanished in Caledon Forest. So it appears that ANet’s promis of being able to finish the bugged steps in phase one was a lie.
gg anet
GRRR!!! I was on ferguson’s crossing overflow. the event never happened. about 2:40 (CST) my connection dropped momentarily, i came RIGHT BACK! (back to the overflow) and now the catapult is done, and it looks like i missed the event!
This is B.S. I was planning my day around seeing the event live and appearantly it only took place in some pocket universe. Great, just great, i guess i will be looking for the event on youtube now.
He is also bugged on Ferguson’s Crossing. Just floats there, no escort, no item.
yep, i have completed 5 achievements but its only counting 4. It would just be nice if the tool tips would spell out these things like “this achievement does not count towards the emissary of the mad king meta-achievement”.