Guild Wars 2

In all seriousness tho, JQ has plenty of “smaller” guilds running in smaller groups (20 or less) quite productively, I hear DA (Divisive Action) is one such guild that gathers around 8-9pm EST. You might want to look into them.

TC has the most AC to offer

What if, even if it is a bug, Anet runs with this, they let us keep spamming this little guys everywhere. I mean tons of them, they never despawn and just sit there, waiting, watching, in all our favorite gathering places. Then one day, we log in, and BAM, all these little guys are going nuts with there little rifles (use engi skills or warrior skills or both) and are tearing these places apart, it’s all our fault, we gave them the foothold, created the numbers, and now the second golem uprising is upon us…

In germany, think I’m on a US server. Haven’t played in awhile came back to error code 42:9001:4110. I’ve forwarded ports and all that but still can’t connect

There is a petition here for official support of WINE, while I do not think this is the best option, and that a native version of GW2 for linux would be FAR better, this is better than nothing

http://www.change.org/petitions/arenanet-inc-consider-development-alongside-the-wine-project-3

JuremoPakwim.8392:

rebelkhaotic.7329

Only problem is there’s no gem store or trading post. So if they could make a way to have this for us, OR let us buy stuff on the gem store / trading post on a website online, outside of the game, that would help a lot.

Works like a charm over here.
Try PlayOnLinux, it has a package with all patches you need and it will install everything automaticaly without touching your normal Wine installation.

odd I didn’t say that, yet it shows my name?

John: I was not using “monolithic” in this way, by monolithic I meant the giant heap of code that is windows which is simply something more like a jenga tower, very little is ever removed or changed, just more crap thrown on top (although windows 7 was a step in the right direction, who knows where they’re headed with windows I am aware of how the kernels differ, but regardless this thread is not for debating windows vs. Linux, it’s for suggesting a native Linux client of this excellent game.

Also I still stand by my point that using a compatibility layer to make it “work” isn’t the way to go, and I’m surprised that Anet even decided to do this with the Mac client as it would be much more effective to simply make a native client that performs much better. But time is money I guess and shortcuts save time. Anet devs could try putting the idea up on Kickstarter and see just how much Linux users would be willing to contribute toward the effort (with an announcement here that it was put up so that we actually know and can go donate) or simply put a donation or preferably a “I pledge to buy” link here if it reaches X amount of pledges, then the project moves forward, if it doesn’t well then tough, the money just wasn’t there.

I would LOVE to see a linux port of Guild Wars 2, even a native version of GW would be nice too! Sure GW runs great in Wine, but to me that’s really not a good thing, we shouldn’t strive to make Linux more compatible with windows, that’s just bogging down a VASTLY superior system with a pile of monolithic junk (windows code).
There is also proof that there’s a decent and noticeable performance increase when running a game natively in linux vs. windows (check valve’s linux blog “steamed Penguins” under the article “Faster Zombies!”) also the linux community is getting huge! I remember when I first started with ubuntu in 2014 there was a very small (but wonderful) community, now the community is huge, there are forums everywhere, for any distro, to do anything!
Right now I have a windows 7 partition JUST big enough for the OS and GW2 (imagine my surprise when I found out my copy of Windows 7 was 19GB alone and still had NONE of my drivers) I would love to get rid of this partition and be able to do my daily tasks on the same partition I play GW2 on! Also there are computer manufacturers that offer linux as an option (dell used to offer ubuntu, not sure if they do anymore) HP still offers linux, and there’s system76

really here’s the simple thing that needs to be done, a petition, with a pledge to pay for a linux client as SOON as it’s released, and hell maybe even a small donation up front to get the project going, I know I would do that and so would ALOT of linux users (look at humble bundle, the largest average donation by OS is ALWAYS from the linux side, we get most of the software that is needed for normal task for free so we’re willing to pay for things like quality native games!)