Guild Wars 2

You can do the promotion stuff, or you can just vendor/delete them.

Rest assured that the very Tuesday after you’ve gotten rid of them, Anet will do something that rockets their price to 3 or 4 silver a piece.

*edit: yeah, some personal experience there may have tainted my response. lol

I’ve died for the third time in less than half an hour now not due to my own skills, armor issues or other crap, but due to targeting bugs, and an incredible amount of lag.

There shouldn’t be a 20second delay when pressing a key, be it a utility, skill, or health. I shouldn’t jump off a cliff side and take 2x the fall damage because I hit the ground, only to then watch myself jump off again and again take falling damage.
When I left click on a target to select it, and said target is selected, if I hit 1, I should start shooting at that target, NOT THE MOB STANDING BEHIND ME. Not the target that is well out of target range and off to the side either!
Shooting at a targeted monster should continue to do so while the monster is in range. Not just randomly switch and decide to start shooting something else.

This is making the game anything but fun, and nearly unplayable.

I’m sure whatever they do will likely fit in with every other overhyped change. If you look at the hype from last summer about the big massive exciting can’t-wait change, you’d think it was an expansion. Because most game company’s put that much hype into a full expansion. We got a revamped dragon fight.

Anet: Hype to 10, delivery to 1.

Civilis.2547:

The Temple of Lyssa event, which requires the defense to fail, frequently is griefed, and annoys me to no end. It is not fun to be blocked by other players.

Anet really cannot seem to get it through their heads that this sort of mechanic invites greifing to no end.

Any time you lock content behind gates that other players can willingly open or close, griefers will do exactly that.

Maybe someday Anet will learn this.

I tried the cheapest option twice for fun. Lost out both times, haven’t looked back.

No thank you.

Endless Soul.5178:

46 here.

Technically I’ve been a gamer since my mom brought home PONG in the 1970s.

44 here and pretty much the same story, though my affinity for being a ranger in MMO’s finds it’s roots in D&D.

Tekoneiric.6817:

How many people find it offensive when people fall back on the “go play another game” to end game related discussions. It’s like saying that they are right; the other person is wrong and they should go away. I’ve seen this loosely thrown around on multiple forums.

Am I the only person who finds this insulting?

In my experience, the users here on the forum, even some with whom I am at odds with constantly, have only suggested such things when the person it is directed at has displayed a rude, condescending “I’m right” attitude. Often times such people make a statement and then degrade anyone that disagrees with them as weak, unintelligent, unskilled, and then writes them off as an “entitled snowflake”.

Under these circumstances telling the person to go play another game is perfectly acceptable because they have proven by that point without a doubt that regardless of the merit of their original statement, they are a toxic entity within the community.

The people here on the forum, and to a lesser extent on Reddit, are comprised of many different opinions, but the majority, by far, are of the same general consensus on how the game should be. On top of that, often times the most repeated requests are met not only with general opposition, but with opposition based purely on the issue of how much development time would be needed to add/include a feature that is superfluous at best (specifically in this case: mounts. I’d love to have mounts, but because we have zones so tightly packed with waypoints, it is simply not productive to add another system of travel.)

Finally, in the end, if you feel that someone’s comment of “go play another game” was offensive, insulting, or otherwise against the forum rules of conduct, report the post and let Anet decide if it was out of line.

Do you really have an issue with this, or are you actually just using this thread to sell bots? Because it sure sounds like the latter.

Blaeys.3102:

Its called inflation and it is a natural evolution of any trade based economy. Ten gold the day the game came out is no where near the same as 10 gold today (its like saying I could buy a new car for $1000 30 years ago. Why cant I buy one for that today?). Comparing the two the way you do is fallacious at best – misleading at worst.

The knee jerk reactions are unwarranted on this particular topic. They arent trying to do anything malicious or underhanded as alot of the conspiracy theorists on these forums claim. It isnt in their best interest to do so and I am sure they know that.

Arenanet has absolute control over the in-game economy. Inflation happens at their discretion, and in the case that Mungrul pointed out, just so happens to be hugely in their favor.

Anet is too busy programming gemstore items to bother with actual armor and checking that the pieces don’t clip with each other, so we get outfits (not to mention that they are more precious gemstore items).

The biggest problem are the people buying the outfits with cash>gems. They are out there in large enough quantity that Anet doesn’t have to give a kitten about what people complain about on the forums. So we’re stuck with outfits.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Neural.1824:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It hurts my sense of fair play, but it doesn’t hurt me financially.

All about you is it? “Doesn’t hurt me, so the everyone else should be fine with it.”

It’s a good thing most of society in RL doesn’t have that attitude.

Most of society in RL does have that attitude. People (on the whole) vote with their pocket books, not with mine.

Regardless, that’s a misstatement of my opinion by taking the quote out of context — I’m not fine with people cheating. I hate it.

What I’m saying is that despite my frustration, there’s no long term, practical impact on the vast majority of gamers. There’s always someone in every economy (RL or game) that stretches the rules or exploits a mechanic to gain an advantage not available to everyone else. But the GW2 economy is so huge that it dwarfs the effects of folks using insider information to make lucrative trades.

Ok, so let’s go with that for a bit. When do we start allowing other things to slip through? Where is the line then drawn? People will scream “why are you punishing us for x when insider trading is allowed?”.
It needs to be stopped. If anyong was making thousands of gold off an unfair advantage ANY other way, Anet would permanently ban them in a heartbeat.

“Regular, fine, masterwork, rare, and exotic equipment merits as trash to be salvaged”

Fixed that for you. Once you’ve played long enough, you realize that Truth, Rockspire, Stardust, Arc, and a couple others are just about the only exotics on the general loot table.

Obviously Anet can not be trusted with any product offering that is cosmetic only, since they’ve no proven they will change it however they see fit, even if it was marketed completely different

No more cash from me at this point. I might buy bank slots, but Anet can forget me ever buying another cosmetic item.

Mjolnir with Legendary stats is something that I’d find attractive enough to go for. Better than the lamp-post.

That is a fantastic idea, however I can’t see Arenanet ever putting something like this in the game primarily due to montization.
There are so many things in this game vying for taking up space in your bank it isn’t even funny, and things you buy through the gem store are just part of that. All of it seems designed to move players to open their wallets and buy an extra bank tab.

You don’t understand, OP.

GW2 will be an “esport” at any cost. Probably even as far as losing their business entirely. Someone at Anet is obsessed with esports, that’s for sure.

Yes, more tiers! I mean, it’s not like Arenanet hasn’t been getting a kittenstorm of hate from the player base already over ascended gear, let’s make it worse!

/sarc

I’d prefer that they fix the current ones and get them all into a working state before tackling anything new, which seems to be what they are doing for once.
Tired of old broken content remaining old and broken becuase “new shiny and broken” came along.

You’d probably be best off either A) contacting support and asking for a refund, or just live with it.
I can’t think of one point in the past 4 years that Anet has ever changed the dye channels on any item they’ve released.

Sky.7610:

mrauls.6519:

This game better not go F2P… Why do you care about their revenue? As players all we should care about is the content

Imagine all the crazies that would flood this game if it was F2P… Sweet Jesus

well, what kind of craziness would bother you from an increase in playerbase?

For starters, trolls who deliberately start controversial threads because they get their jollies from conflict and argument.

This exact thread exists on every single non f2p MMO forum in existence, and generally pops up within the first week.

Nice try.

Katran.9186:

PVE – Zergfest.

This. A thousand times.

This latest patch caters only to the elite “hardcore” players. If you are not one of the people who have map completion, voice software (in any of god knows how many flavors), and top end gear, you can pretty much forget these map events. You will break your bank trying to teleport to waypoints (if you are lucky enough to have all of them) and if you aren’t within melee range of the person leading the zerg, you will miss out on a huge percentage of the loot.

Three times now I’ve lost champ loot because I arrived about 10 seconds after the main group did and spent another 15 trying to get the kittening targeting system to actually target the champ, which it never did.
The last Scarlet event I never even made it to because I was stuck “in combat” with a champion that everyone just up and left to go kill Scarlett.

If you aren’t “uber” at GW2, this patch will net you nothing but loss.

Funny thing is, if you finished the map and got 2x the rewards (due to a bug), it would have been fixed within a day.

Ohoni.6057:

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Are you one of those people that thinks a burger flipper should make the same amount of money per year that an executive in charge of running a multi-billion dollar business does? Because it sure sounds like it.

While we’re on the stack thing, it would be nice to alt-click an item in a store and get the stack window so you can buy an amount entered. I’m looking at you Obsidian Shards.

The latest LS installment is looking great so far, but I’m seeing some of the issues that have turned me away from large scale events. Specifically too much coordination is needed.

For events like Teq I can see this being a great feature, but much like the Marrionette, the Knights in LA didn’t take but minutes until there were people going apoplectic in map chat over there being too many players at one site or another. I don’t know where Anet got their information from, but “Go away noob! We don’t need you here!” is not generally the best method of retaining players or creating a good community. People want to feel included, not excluded.

On top of that, before reading too deeply into all of it, the first battle I came across was the red Knight, at which people were basically telling CondiNecros to get lost because condition damage wasn’t welcome. Great way to create community Anet.

Again, all in all, it looks like this will be fun, but I think they hit things right with the citizens rescue and the map-wide event and awards. Especially when it comes to fighting the zerging tendencies. Creating situations where players are telling others to go away though, is a major hindrance to growth.

Hamfast.8719:

Hey, the answer is going on 6 months old. I am asking politely for an update. Maybe the answer will be “sorry – never coming back!” But I would still like to hear something.

I’d like to know the truth about what happened, and who was behind it. The whole thing stinks like a fish that’s been left in the sun for a few days.

Gaile Gray.6029:

In the meantime, I can’t help but think that in-game reports are good. They usually are easy to make and in most cases they do the trick.

This is not true. If it is so burdensome for your game team to have tickets with more than a couple marks for type, maybe they should at least add the options on the player side.

Example: Reporting a name/guild-tag combination that is offensive. There is no option for that, and using “inappropriate character name” does nothing to indicate that anyone at Anet will so much as raise a pinky finger to look any further than at the characters name.
Sometimes it’s the perceived value that is the best for the players. I’m shocked that Anet can’t see it when it comes to something this basic. They sure do work perceived value over and over when it comes to loot, etc.

Maybe I’m on my own with this, but it would be nice to see more personal story stuff added to the game.
The addition of a quartz node to the players home instance via activities through living story touches on a huge possibility for this game as well.

I initially was excited about the personal story aspect of the game, because it built a story behind the character I was playing. Along the way, however, a few things happened that dampened that and eventually ruined it, for me.

With all the focus on the Living Story stuff, it would be nice to see some more personal story intertwined with that. Specific interactions with NPC’s that are unique to each player based on their personal story line, all of which can continue to make changes to their home district.

tl;dr: the personal story idea is great, but came up a bit short on delivery, but it would be nice to see more, deeper, personal story stuff developed beyond the final story missions. It doesn’t need to be epic, but it needs to be deep and intriguing.

Gaile Gray.6029:

The Living World Season 2 Complete Pack was available for a very short time before we discovered a modest issue that required that we pull it from the store. This known issue will be addressed because naturally we do not intend to continue to sell the item while it is not working as intended.

The Complete Package will be added back just as soon as possible!

Note: You can continue to purchase individual episodes, but you will not get a discount. If you wish to get the discount, please check back a bit later.

[Edited for clarity]

And how much money did your company rake in during the short time it was available for sale even though KNOWN issues had been clearly brought up on the forum in the past? It’s not like these bugs are new, Gaile.

Actually, I have one thing that would make a big difference for everyone if it was added to material storage.

Any future crafting materials that are introduced to the game, so we don’t have to have a thread like this again 2 years down the road.

Hexyn.8462:

…because a large proportion of the community would like it as a feature.

Source please.

Tspatula.9086:

I bet not. This was just tossed our as a quicky for the new players. I can’t imagine ANET spending an additional minute of dev time on this. They are working on China!! Spoon

Fixed it for you.

Not a real long list, just some buttons I’d like to see.

In the upper left, to the right of the PvP icon, i’d like to see another icon that is a quick access to four toggle options:
-hide/show helm
-hide/show shoulders
-hide/show backpiece
-wear/remove current outfit

to the right of the Elite Utility skill, two smaller icons (about the size of the special attack skill icon):
-Food item
-Utility item
(function: like utilities, you click an up arrow and it shows you food/utilities in inventory, and you select the one you want to use. Border turns red when food/utility runs out).

I don’t buy keys from the gemstore. I’ve had a few drop, plus the ones from the personal stories, and every single last one of them has resulted in complete crap. BL Chests are a joke.

Define “highest”?
To figure out the hightest, we must first define what constitutes altitude. Are you talking about highest altitude compared to sea level? Or highest altitude in terms of how far you could fall/glide down before hitting “bottom”?

The fall in Drydock Scratch is pretty darn far.

Also, are you looking for the highest point you can get without void jumping?

OriOri.8724:

moonstarmac.4603:

Patches are the worst addition to this game for armor crafting. Before we just had to make the Insignia, now we need 5 patches per insignia…that’s ridiculous.

I agree. The patches were a horrible addition to the crafting system in this game.

The patches were not that bad as ideas go, it’s just their requirements that are off the charts. Anet had a leather problem, and decided to fix it, but instead of making small adjustments, they just went “YOLO!” and threw everything at it all at once. Result: Anet has a leather problem.
They should have done things in phases to see how the players and economy reacted. Start with increasing the T5 refining amounts, and then see what happens. Then, if things haven’t changed a few months later, add in patches with lower quantity requirements.

But no, they had to do all the things, all at once.

The stubbornness that Anet has on this issue makes me wonder how many of the devs and current staff were spawn campers when they were teenagers.

Anet’s Patch-note policy isn’t much better than their overall communication policy. I’m surprised we get patch notes at all.

Celtic Lady.3729:

It’s been 19 days.

No, the bugs aren’t all fixed, not even some of the major ones.

I just wonder in another 19 days which ones will be fixed, if any, or if they’re too busy rolling out raids to work on anything else.

This is a recurring theme. They are always “too busy working on <the next big thing>” to deal with current issues.

Targeting in GW2 has been, and continues to be a complete disaster.

“Target nearest” for example, simply doesn’t. Nearest non-aggresive non-aggroed mob that’s off in the distance? definitely. But that aggroed mob that is eating your face? not so much.
Obstructions happen right and left when there is a clear line of sight.
Tab is nothing but trouble. It is more likely to target a non-aggressive creature sitting nearby than it is to go to an aggressive mob.

However, I don’t think that the targeting of non-aggressive mobs is broken code as much as immature “pranking” of the players. It makes our characters look stupid, as if they would randomly suddenly decide, as pact commander, to randomly shoot a non-aggressive critter off to the side.

My predictions

The Art of Combat: Changes to the graphical appearance of fights (maybe we’ll finally be able to see the boss in the middle of the zerg?)
Critical!: details the introduction of ferocity
A new way to explore the looks: Armor gallery
A colorful outlook: implementation of gems for dye assessment
Looking for Group?: more changes to the LFG tool
Removing restrictions: No clue on this. It seems contrary to Anet’s methods
Account bound: Not even going to dream that this is about Legendary weapons
A solid foundation: new noob zone tutorials to help players learn to dodge, etc. (it would be a plus)
Facilitating Friendly Play: Implementation of game changes to force people to not play solo

I’ll call a spade a spade.

“hardcore” is a term most often used by individuals who feel the need to assert some sort of superiority over others in an effort to prove to themselves that they are smart, faster, or just “more manly” than others.
“Hardcore” is “I PvP, you don’t, therefore I am better than you in RL”,
and of course there’s the large segment of the gaming community that thinks “hardcore” is forcing PvP on people who do not want to PvP.

This past month has been a deluge of threads on this forum trying to water that down and blurr it with what is actually dedication.

“Hardcore” has always been about the ego and self glorification.

Such a shame that OP is forced daily to participate in content that he doesn’t like instead of doing any of they myriad of things there are to do in GW2 that don’t involve zergs.

I play for a couple hours a day sometimes, and the only “zerg” I have run into is doing the so-called “NASCAR Track” in Dragon Stand. Beyond that, I’m rarely with more than 2 other people, and usually solo. I’m still obtaining my goals when it comes to gold and items, I still advance my characters at a steady rate, and so on. Guild Wars 2 is quite adaptable to various play styles.

If you don’t like a certain play style, perhaps don’t engage in it?

The lack of emotes really makes GW2 feel like there was some point during the development process where some money grubbing executive threw a tantrum about developing anything that wasn’t money related.

Greymelken.1892:

because they have recieves 3 years of endless rewards for $60 already ohsnapwhydoievenbothernevermind

So you think GW2 should have a subscription fee.

Examine skins? Yes.
Examine stats/build? No (and before you suggest it, “no” to duels as well)

Devilman.1532:

… its a pathetic gemstore cashgrab.

Pretty much that. If you want to play the cosmetics end game, you have to have cash in RL.

I sincerely hope that Arenanet also has someone that, at the least, occasionally goes through and actually buys gold from these sellers in order to get a handle on what new methods they are using to circumvent the myriad of protocols that are already in place.
While I would never engage in it myself, I know people outside of GW2 that have in other games, and it shocked me the lengths the sellers go to in order to get around the usual checks and balances.

So my guild now has a stash, a treasure trove, and a deep cave.

What is the status on the deep cave? It appears I cannot add deposit/withdrawl rights to it for different roles like I can with the stash or trove.

Is it considered part of the Treasure Trove, or is it unrestricted?