Guild Wars 2

The citadel…
It’s the coolest environment I’ve ever seen in a game. And I’ve played them all.
But it is impossible to navigate. Surely there is a way to streamline it or at least give the user an idea as to how the hell one finds their next quest waypoint. I have spent 10 minutes this morning trying to find the next waypoint for my Charr storyline. Those are 10 minutes I would rather have spent watching the cutscenes for the actual storyline! I have gone into and out of zones, back and forth looking for the correct level. I have no idea where to go.

Until you streamline it and make it more obvious as to the level / area you are currently on and how to get to your quest goal, you will continue to have a large portion of the users who avoid it like the plague.

If you want to have something to compare it to, simply look at the Drenai race’s central city that came out with wow’s Burning Crusade expansion. I bring up that inferior game (wow) for comparison purposes only. The new capital city was shiny, cool, and interesting with all of its huge glowing monuments. But it wasn’t intuitive as to how to find the correct level for your next quest. Or a crafting trainer. Or anything at all. Everything was a level up or down, hidden above or underneath each other. It was confusing to many people. It sure was for me. By the time I figured it out, i noticed that I was the ONLY person in the entire city. This was the focal point for the entire expansion as far as starting zones went. It was obvious that the developers spent a lot of time making it look cool.

But because it wasn’t streamlined, intuitive, or easy to navigate, people avoided it at all cost. If you only have an hour to play a game, and 20% of that is spent walking around trying to find your next quest giver, you’re going to get impatient.

I only bring this up to help you understand the true reason no one goes there. I want more people to enjoy this beautiful Charr capital. I also want to be able to find my current quest without youtubing, wiki-ing, or googling it.

I’d just like to point out what a ridiculous topic this is. The standard litmus test to assess the ridiculousness of a series of posts is to read them using the voice of Bender from Futurama.
It works best on short snippets, like the these from the previous posts:

Can we get an adjustment somewhere to butter?
Also, why am I getting butter in bags from level 70+ zones?
(You do use a lot of butter).
I have so much freaking butter in my bank you would think that Paula Dean has my account info and secretly logs on every night after I go to bed. =\
If it was true that butter only sells at 2c due to inability to sell at 1c, then there would be sell orders up at 2c, not buy orders.
Are you trying to argue semantics or claiming that butter is half as abundant as the OP claims?
I 12th this.
I get that everyone wants to eat omnomberry bars and thats fine but the limiting factor should be the Tier 6 ingrediant ( the berries ) and NOT the Tier 1 ingrediant Vanilla.

THANK YOU ANET FOR PORTING THIS TO MAC!!!
I think this was the last impediment to luring over the lamecraft crowd.
I only played lamecraft because it was on the mac. Thank you again and please continue giving us things we wanted but never thought possible!

Late 2011 15" Pro model here:
Lion OS
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Looks great, already smoother and easier on the graphics card. Had a real problem with overheating using winblows on med-high settings.

Cheers!