Guild Wars 2

I’m posting to an older thread because I had to google to get help with this vista, and this thread came up in a top hit, so I wanted to add info to it for others that have the same issues.

I play a Charr on my main. These characters are, as you know, quite large – amongst the largest in the game.

It seems that while the devs were designing the game, they forgot in a great many places to account for the large size of the Charr, especially when it comes to jumping puzzles and underground locations. In many underground areas, it is almost impossible for me to see my surroundings from many vantage points because the design is so poorly done, and in jumping puzzles, it’s often extremely difficult to get past certain corners or objects or parts of the design to get to the goal.

In this case, the marionette was so incredibly poorly designed for the larger characters that it just took me over an HOUR to get this vista, and that’s with me knowing exactly how to reach it. I watched as more than a dozen different non-Charr players made this vista easily, and I also watched as six or eight Charr characters tried, and tried, and tried, and tried, and were unable to do it without spending a good amount of time getting past the hilt of the sword or whatever it is that you’re supposed to jump on.

I eventually googled because I was having such a difficult time that I thought perhaps I was mistaken, but I wasn’t. Between the googling, the watching other players, and the videos describing how to make the vista, I knew I was right and that the design was simply so bad that it was impossible to make the jump without the greatest difficulty.

Note to the devs: If you create a character that is designed to be a large character, make sure that they actually fit into your environments in the world you’re building. And when you make this kind of puzzle, please ensure that all your players can make it without becoming so unbelievably frustrated at your lazy design that they sign out of the game and dont feel like playing it anymore because it’s so irritating.

I love this game and I love the Charr, but the fact that the Charr simply do not fit well into the game world is inexcusable.

At any rate, I made it and the secret is to stand on the gear, face the point where the crossbar meets the hilt, and jump. Once you finally manage to get up onto the crossbar, be EXTREMELY careful when you inch your way up the hilt, because my Charr slipped off countless times as it’s on something of an angle that you dont see very well until you find yourself slipping off it again and again as smaller characters run past you without the slightest difficulty.

This is a messed-up jumping puzzle badly in need of fixing. Get on it. There’s no excuse for this. And yes, I’m very annoyed that it took me this long to get a simple vista that every single other character type has no trouble with whatsoever. I used up almost all the time I had allotted for game play because of this sloppy, shoddy excuse for design.

To my fellow Charr – keep at it, because it’s doable eventually, with a lot of patience. Or come back to it if you dont have the time to waste and you dont want to get irritated by the fact that the only reason you can’t make this jump is because the devs couldn’t be bothered to design it correctly bearing the size of the Charr in mind.

Ha-ha. Joke is just hilarious. Wet my pants laughing.

Now, can you please make it so that we can opt out of this stupidity?

P.S.: I lied: It’s not funny. It’s idiotic, it’s annoying, it’s completely devoid of any humour, and it makes it hard to play the game, or even want to stay logged in.

Devs, your mothers should have told you that forcing people to play games the way YOU want them to play games is not very nice. Shame on you. Bad devs. No biscuit.

Now please make it so that those of us who want to play the game and actually have real fun can do so without being frustrated and irritated by this stupid April Fool’s nonsense.

Thank you,

A paying customer who buys gems regularly and doesnt think you’re funny at all.

Edited to add: A little background: I am recovering from very serious surgery and have more surgery to look forward to in the near future. I have been feeling incredibly unwell all day, and looked forward to being able to get a few hours’ of game time in to take my mind off it.

Thanks to you forcing this nonsense on your players, I can’t do that. Just so you know, your decisions affect people in ways you cannot fathom. Always, always, always include an opt-out. You have no right to make these choices for everyone else, and you never know who or how you affect people when you do stuff like this.

I completely agree that this should absolutely have an opt-out option. This is not only not funny, but it’s downright stupid and to have it persist throughout the entire game world for a full day – or two – is absurd.

This is idiotic and kills any desire I have to play the game – or continue playing it in the future, actually. I dont like being forced to play the way someone else wants me to play. Especially when their sense of humour sucks.

I would have thought that people would have taken a hint from the U2 “free album” fiasco that people dont like being told what to do in this regard. I guess not everybody cares about letting other people make their own decisions.

This has me angry.

This little stunt is idiotic. It’s fine if it’s in a home city or something, but to have it persistent through the entire game world? No. The old-timey film effect is nice, it’s a cute reminder to a bug back from beta, but it’s implemented incredibly poorly and frankly it’s not funny or cute or amusing. It’s stupid and it gets old very, very quickly.

I loathe April 1st, and this is one of the reasons why: People who think things that aren’t in the least funny are so hilarious that they force their senses of humour on everyone else.

And you’re a day early.

Not cute.