Guild Wars 2

Thank you kittening jesus finally i can’t

@Arthedain, no not at all! In fact, Good Boys [GBP], my GvG guild, is one of those first seven. ^^ I also know of a WvW/GvG guild in EU that also got theirs today.

I’ve tweeted about this, but going ahead and writing a forum post about it anyway.

This is, to state as bluntly as possible, a terrible decision, although I can understand some of the reasoning behind it. TL;DR to start off with, if you really must change the time for reset, make it Friday morning.

The issue with occasional bug fixes during Friday night reset is frustrating, but understandable and so rarely happens that although we may grumble, it’s really not worth changing the time entirely to save the community that frustration. I do understand the developers wanting that extra time to be able to work – if you really want reset to be within office hours where someone can monitor it, then make it Friday morning/early afternoon.

First, this may actually fix the queue struggles that we deal with on Friday night, and will undoubtedly also deal with no matter what time on Saturday. Although it hasn’t happened in quite some time, we frequently had issues with the frantic, chaotic clicking at the portals and in the WvW tab that occasionally actually broke the queue system temporarily, making it impossible to enter WvW. Making it earlier on Friday would mean guilds can still plan for that impactful Friday night, but players can trickle in throughout the day. OCX/EU, which generally have smaller communities on the NA timezone, will still be around for the big reset time, but undoubtedly it’ll be much less stress on the servers. Queue times will likely go down while the population will stay stable, as people will always be available and willing to play on Friday night.

Pushing things back to Saturday can and likely will eventually kill out a big percentage of the WvW population. Hear me out. Despite the fact that WvW is based around objectives, I would say the vast majority of large guilds – the ones that bring in the WvW population – do not play with the sole mindset of PPT. I’ve been on a lot of servers over three years, and can safely say the attitudes towards grinding out capping things has changed drastically. Yes, objectives are still a focus, keeps and towers are still taken, but with the focus on doing these things to get the fights.

This is why you see a lot more steady population throughout Saturday and Sunday. Guilds in particular do come out on Friday, but it is to make that big impact crucial to setting the pace for the rest of the week, leaving the rest of the weekend open for, yes, still objectives-capping, but also more relaxed fights-oriented guilds to come out to play, and for the actually truly epic fights to happen. Now, Friday will be dead, much like Thursday is now, and although Saturday will have time to cool down into the evening, that full day will be mostly wasted and spent on the intensive objectives goals normally done on Friday. Guilds still do raid on Sunday, but far less so than Saturday, and by Monday, it’s back to the office grind and WvW if there’s time.

You want players in WvW, don’t you? This change in time literally cuts into the available time we have to play, leaving you with fewer numbers in WvW to show your stakeholders. Less and less time will be invested in WvW as this decision has made it less profitable, as you’ve cut into the playerbase’s available time.

It’s Friday night football for a reason. By all means, make reset earlier on Friday if the dev team needs that time to watch over WvW and keep it functional, but the idea that this is going to bring more players into the game is wildly unrealistic. In fact, it pushes a good deal of us out, and not by choice.

maddie lmaoooooo

IT’S ON, BOYS. BRINGING OUT THE BIG GUNS.

I AM SO EXCITED.

To everyone else that’s commenting as such in this thread, “sexy” is subjective. One person may find super long hair attractive while another person may not, so to definitively say female human & norn toons don’t have bald options because “it’s not sexy” is fairly sexist, but I digress.

Either way, I agree with you. The good news is, although it’s not entirely bald, if you buy the hair style kit, you do get access to a VERY cute pixie cut hairstyle for human females. Also you are incorrect on one fact – female norns DO have a bald option as a base character hairstyle.

Also, we DO have chubby body types. They’re definitely more muscular than CHUBBY chubby, but there is an option for both norn and human female characters that are on the thicker side.

ALSO also, OP, you might try unchecking your helmet in the Hero’s Tab, to hide her helmet until you find an armor skin that you like better.

This is like, really basic. The option in chat for “Game Messages” includes notifications of what items you receive when looting, as well as when your friends log in and out, and probably various other stuff.

I would LOVE to have a split feature where I could see my friends login status, but not have to also see floods and floods of every single item I receive in game. If I’m waiting for someone to sign in to message, it’s tedious to have to keep checking and re-checking my friends list (not to mention having to search quite a bit to find their name in the first place).

Okay yeah that’s all.

I think I would actually get more into PvE if they had more depth to the factions and various effects in-game. Not necessarily skill-based things as that adds just more complication to things, but it would be really neat to have LS events, for instance, where you require coordination between players in different factions that can do/activate different things.

I totally agree, I’ve always wanted a legit charr mane. The newer hairstyles have been funky and interesting, but I couldn’t really take them seriously.

The thing you’ve got to realize is these are datamined, not publicly released by Anet. It means there’s a huge likelihood of it being released, but it’s not 100% guaranteed, and it certainly doesn’t have a set in stone release date. Anet likes to surprise people with gemstore items instead of announcing them ahead of time. They do look fancy, though! Be patient!

My game INSTANTLY freezes when I hit the queue button for PvP. I can queue up with a team, but they have to set it up. However, I freeze again (and thus have to manually crash and restart the client) after map selection is done. Reloading the client does put me into the match. So far I do not seem to freeze going to WvW or PvE maps. Multiple client resets do not work.

My game INSTANTLY freezes when I hit the queue button for PvP. I can queue up with a team, but they have to set it up. However, I crash again after map selection is done. Reloading the client does put me into the match. So far I do not seem to freeze going to WvW or PvE maps. Multiple client resets do not work.

There are discussions about soon having PugQuest in EU. Don’t worry!

As much as it would seem fair to replay 3rd/1st place, it’s unreasonable to assume that SALT has a chance against oRNG tbh.

Laraley.7695:

xantosnightwish.5438:

Cant cheat. Consequences inc.

True, but we still don’t know what happened :/

trust me, i’m sure details will come out soon enough. we all know how gw2 drama works, everybody knows everybody else’s business. kitten actions always see the light of day, LOL.

ronpierce.2760:

Ristillath.6745:

ronpierce.2760:

This is the drama you were talking about in that conference? I like it.

popcorns up

Exactly the thing I thought first too.

seineith.7048:

http://i.imgur.com/pauHQuZ.gif

Everyone’s so focused on getting popcorn that there’s going to be nothing to watch.

i’m hungry tho!!!

http://i.imgur.com/pauHQuZ.gif

thanks for the votes, guys! that was amazing good fun.

ps I BEAT THE ABJURED.

this actually sounds nice gg boys no re

O BOYS IT’S HYPE TIME THE DEVS HAVE ARRIVED

choo choo signing up, seineith.7048 / Ice Ti

Can’t buy traits, only one shows up.
MASSIVE amounts of slow loading, especially in HoTM.
Odd, because I was playing this morning post-patch and literally everything was fine until I loaded the client again this afternoon.

Actually, this is a pretty great suggestion. I don’t really have much interest in LS or grinding for whatever, but I do take time to do my dailies. An additional maybe more exploratory “mini quest” or something for a daily achievement/loot might be pretty cool, and it’d certainly get me off of wvw and into the main maps more often.

Lishtenbird.2814:

There have been several posts about it throughout the thread. There’s a theory that the 400 gems minimum caused the currency exchange (prediction) system to go crazy because of all the useless gem overhead and to boost the rate.

plausible, but considering the gem cutoff limit is conveniently just above and-or unequal with items in the gem store, plus no visibility on exactly how the gems are fluctuating, i’m sure anet had something up their sleeve.

Likewise, I will not be purchasing gems either, and I encourage everyone who has big issues with this new system to do the same. It is difficult, because in the past, I’ve enjoyed supporting this game. I like giving back to things I love, but preying on my wallet and giving me the excuse that it’s not my money they want, it’s to simplify it for “confused players” is an absolute black mark in my book.

Also, is no one talking about the blatant spike in gem prices, inconsistent with the actual in-game economy (not to mention them hiding this price spike at an incredibly convenient time).

edit: yes, i get it, there’s a handful of posts thrown in with the 25 pages that i’m actually not going to read all the way through.

Gaile Gray, it’s pathetic to see that our criticisms will be ignored unless we have the knowhow to develop a monetary system in-game that will work for the entire player base. I may not know exactly how to re-code and create something that works for everyone, but I’m not stupid, and I can point out big problems when I see them. We all can. Pushing this off on the fact that, “Well, you haven’t given us suggestions” is, frankly, a load of bull. This is your job to fix, not ours. We are not whining, we are pointing out the exact reasons why this does not work. Furthermore, as seen countless times before, generally any time we DO give suggestions, they’re consistently ignored in favor of something the dev team came up with (or, you know, just flat out silence and two years of literally nothing), but if you’re so desperate, here’s a suggestion: stop screwing around with your player base. Yes, it may be management that’s in control of this, but the development team is the face of your business, and the players can see right through these cheap, moneygrubbing actions, and we’re not cool with it.

Agreed @Behellagh. Although an ideal goal would be choosing the exact number of gems you want, and paying accordingly, I feel these changes would have gone SO much better had it been in simple increments of 100. Don’t put things on the gem store that cost far less than the base purchase of 400 gems if you’re not going to give players the option to buy the only thing they want.

It’s sad, but it’s a clear sign that Anet has no respect for their player base. The simple UI is eye-catching, but beneath the pretty outer layer is an almost predatory moneygrab. It makes me seriously uncomfortable that I have to keep grabbing for excuses to continue to support this game, despite the fact that almost every single action they make in this game is a lie: they have no desire to build a game to actually be played and enjoyed, they only seek to pinch pennies. It’s pathetic, and I won’t be making the mistake of purchasing gems again.

I know you stated you’re looking for T2 but like you, I transferred off of JQ two months ago. I was frustrated with a lot of things and just needed a better fit for what I was looking for. I picked BG, and honestly? I’ve never been happier. I came to realize that a lot of what people said about BG really wasn’t true at all. I was pretty much welcomed into the community with open arms, especially after they saw I really wasn’t there to spy (for either side), I was just trying to have a good time and enjoy the game I paid for.

There’s a LOT of friendly guilds – OnS, ZEN, KnT, ICoA. In fact, if you’re looking for small havoc, I would definitely suggest ZEN, super friendly bunch that essentially solely does small group work and kicks kitten , and then I know of APEX that does highly organized runs, and verrry selective if that’s your kind of thing.

And yes, it’s definitely a family vibe here. I’ve seen squabbling but just about everybody and every guild gets along really well, and you can always go and talk and run with other people outside your guild if you’re feeling social. But yeah. Hope you find what you’re looking for, I understand your sentiments 100%.

i swear i’ve got a twitch now from the incredibly annoying noise during changing skins in the hero tab. is there an option to turn that off without muting all the other sound effects? it is breathtakingly horrific.

zortek.9607:

seineith.7048:

Had I been physically blocked out from day one that I transferred, I would not have the issues that I have now. HOWEVER that is not the case – now, /all of a sudden/ I am locked out.

Apparently, your day one access was a bug — a bug that is not no longer exploitable.

Your frustration is understandable. I presume it can generate substantial angst when one has been enjoying the fruits of a bug and that bug is mitigated.

Respectfully, other than the fear and doubt-based crisis-of-fantasy that you are manufacturing, there is nothing to resolve. If you do not have access (on or about Friday) as expected, grieve it with customer support.

Unless and until there is a real issue, in truth, you are asking for resolution to a hypothetical.

I, too, love to use large words to assert my authority.

Khalic.3561:

Being locked out of WvW after transferring during the season is understandable. What is confusing is that a number of people who transferred during the season were able to enter WvW immediately, and are only now being restricted.

Thank you. Kitten on a stick, people are so caustic here.

kitten I READ THE INSTRUCTIONS THE DAY THEY WERE POSTED ON THE BLOG.

Had I been physically blocked out from day one that I transferred, I would not have the issues that I have now. HOWEVER that is not the case – now, /all of a sudden/ I am locked out. /Again/ my assumptions are that I will be allowed in on Friday, /however/ because of the sudden change all I am doing is questioning whether or not the probation resets or whether my original transfer date holds over. Stop being so rude. It’s a simple question.

azizul.8469:

seineith.7048:

For the people who are complaining about OP, this isn’t about being blocked from WvW. You are right, the stipulations that we would not be allowed to participate in the tournament were made early on. HOWEVER, we are upset because now these regulations are being put in NOW. When I first transferred over on April 1st, it told me that I could be IN WvW, but I would not be receiving my new server’s prizes – which is perfectly fine. I assumed that’s what they meant, and perhaps I would receive them after the “holding period” if I continued fighting for my current server.

Now, all of a sudden, I’m completely blocked from WvW. If this was broken, I understand why it’s fixed, but now we have questions that come up. Because I transferred over on the 1st, does this mean I’ll be let back in to WvW on Friday, where the date for my “probation period” should be over, or because it’s fixed TODAY, does this mean it’s completely reset and I’ll not only have to wait out the rest of this week, but next week as well?

It’s very confusing and frustrating, because I’ve been playing for this server for a week now, actively participating every day, and now I’m locked out for I have no idea how long. That’s all.

EDIT :

answering the bold part

you transferred on 1st april which is last week, tuesday.

the rule says : anyone transferring after 28th march will be locked out of WvW for the remaining of their current match up AND also in the whole of next match up.

in your case you’ll be locked out until the end of this match up (this week), because you are already locked out the in the remaining of last week’s, and the whole of this week’s.

you can join your current server’s WvW next match up.

not hard to understand , right ?

.. and yes i still believe the implementation is to prevent spying and sabotage

I’m not trying to be hateful here, so there’s no reason to be stuffy about it. All I’m saying is, the correction was made very suddenly with no word about it, or clarification made to those who have already transferred over. I would assume that ANet would allow me into WvW this Friday, but who knows? All I’m saying is the sudden change is confusing.

For the people who are complaining about OP, this isn’t about being blocked from WvW. You are right, the stipulations that we would not be allowed to participate in the tournament were made early on. HOWEVER, we are upset because now these regulations are being put in NOW. When I first transferred over on April 1st, it told me that I could be IN WvW, but I would not be receiving my new server’s prizes – which is perfectly fine. I assumed that’s what they meant, and perhaps I would receive them after the “holding period” if I continued fighting for my current server.

Now, all of a sudden, I’m completely blocked from WvW. If this was broken, I understand why it’s fixed, but now we have questions that come up. Because I transferred over on the 1st, does this mean I’ll be let back in to WvW on Friday, where the date for my “probation period” should be over, or because it’s fixed TODAY, does this mean it’s completely reset and I’ll not only have to wait out the rest of this week, but next week as well?

It’s very confusing and frustrating, because I’ve been playing for this server for a week now, actively participating every day, and now I’m locked out for I have no idea how long. That’s all.

Reslinal.2359:

Pyroathiest.4168:

Ulion.5476:

Normal reset: http://i.imgur.com/5mUg1uK.jpg
50-100 man queues
WvW Season 2 reset: http://i.imgur.com/BAX8Hi5.jpg
Obsidian sanctum queued and 125-250 queues

Poor guy on BG. Must suck to have queues all the time. Again, only yourself to blame. I’m on FA. We have a 90 person queue into EBG. You chose blackgate, you get to have the consequences.

This guy can’t even tell the guy is from TC from his right open signature before starts his hate on BG, man you really have to wonder about the quality of some of those BG haters…..

hey man, at least the rest of us haven’t bought all our wvw guilds to queuepack. but, ya know.

TYPES

• Essentially all of the above – skill lag, rubber-banding, chat lag.

I’m on Jade Quarry. As far as I know, when I experience it, everyone on the map is experiencing it.

The times for lag is weird. I can get it very early on in the morning with not much going on, or at prime time. It doesn’t even seem to matter the size of the zerg – we’ve sometimes fought massive 2v1s and I don’t experience much lag all. It seems to go through random spikes that seem to correlate with larger zergs (at least 50+, but is not necessarily the case), but when the spikes happen, they last for upwards of an hour or longer, making the game essentially unplayable.

THANK YOU for addressing this finally. We’ve mostly noticed it happening since the most recent patch last Friday, and it has been extremely, extremely bad.