Guild Wars 2

No thank you.

One of the major things I love about GW2 is that they’ve captured the action element of combat without resorting to an action-style combat system. The main thing that kept me away from Tera is the FPS style aiming and combat system

Releasing for console would effectively triple development time of any content and features. nopls

Would love to see mounts in the game. Was one of the few things that disappointed me about GW2 when I picked it up (The others being lack of guild bases and lack of personal housing)

Legerdemain.1365:

rapthorne, I’m not discussing items offered through the actual Living World Season 2 content. What I’m making mention of is the items offered through limited-time events, such as the Christmas one, which offered an additional home instance node as well as the Star of Gratitude, which I explicitly mentioned. These items are just as unavailable as those that were offered in Season 1; gems are not a factor in any way, shape, or form.

Seasonal content will return, I’m certain, during the appropriate season. For example the candy corn node returned last year when it was previously believed to be only available for the Halloween content of 2013

Expecting content based on annual events to be exclusive is kind of silly.

Raids should absolutely not be guild content. This forces the idea that to successfully complete an event, you HAVE NO CHOICE but to join a huge guild.

There’s already some element of this with tequatl/triple trouble, in that it’s very difficult to get credit/even get on a map without joining a specific guild that only does these two events..

Should raiding guilds be viable? Absolutely. Should they be mandatory? No.

This is a bad article for several reasons.

It takes broad, sweeping generalisations of negative feedback about certain areas of game development, and just supplies the PR from the game company that is designed to reduce the impact of such criticism.

Every game company is different, every game suffers from it’s own issues, every development studio does things in a different way. The issues of one studio (EA: Greed, poor QA, constant DRM pushes) are not universal (ANet: Lack of decent developer/community interaction until the HoT lead up), so getting some random PR response to generalised criticism/misconceptions about game development really doesn’t do anything useful.

But then that’s why I pay no attention to anything Kotaku publishes

A war torn world faces moral dilemma every single day. The choice is in your hands. Do you take the easy yet brutal route, or the route that requires more effort, but is kinder?

In war, black and white is more often than not just shades of grey.

I’ll forgive your high expectations as you said GW2 is your first MMO, but I’ll say this.

As someone who has been playing F2P games for over a decade, I can easily and without hesitation say that GW2 is by far the highest quality MMO on the market today.

Go check out some other MMORPG’s around, and you’ll be able to see just how good we have it here.

You think the crafting grind is bad? Check out other games where every aspect of them is a grind.

Crafting above 400 (ie, ascended) is designed to be a long term goal, not something achievable in a matter of weeks.

I will agree with you on the game’s lack of guidance and help, this is probably GW2’s major flaw (and the thing the NPE should have, but did not, fix).

What I think you’ve done here is burned yourself out on GW2. Played it too intensively over a period of time.

Take a break from things, chill out a bit (go play some other games for comparison’s sake – you’ll appreciate GW2 a hell of a lot more) and try to just take things slow

A lot of people seem to assume it has to be an either/or thing, the point of this topic is “why not both?”

I myself really enjoy the outfits, How else would my necro be able to look like a truly terrifying undead knight, or my Ranger me able to wear something other than a kittenty trench coat

ProtoGunner.4953:

Of course they won’t release any statistics be cause they would show how abysmal the game performes compared to the first year. Even the first year numbers were presented in a shady way (max players who played at one moment in this year, oh btw it was something with 400k people, compare this to Destiny: 3.4 million).

Fact is: WoW still holds 6 million people who pay monthly while GW2 is free and is played by a couple of 100k people.

WoW has always had the resources of a major game developer at hand, a staff of several thousand, and worldwide brand recognition/loyalty to keep players in. GW2 is supported by a small team crushed under the boots of NCSoft’s demands.

Destiny is also a cross platform game, which allows it to reach an incredibly large audience (The vast majority of Destiny players are console players, I believe), whereas GW2 is pc-exclusive. On top of being an FPS (one of the most popular next-gen game genres)

If ArenaNet had a larger team and NCSoft was not a part of the picture, the game would be a booming success and likely dwarf other F2P games.

That’s the other aspect of GW2 that affects it. GW2 is in it’s own niche of Buy to Play. Once you have the game, it’s yours for good. No subs, just gaming. Games likw WoW compel you to play them to get your money’s worth from the sub, whereas GW2 seems to be more aimed at a casual experience. This also keeps away the F2P gamers who may not be willing to invest in the game before being able to try it out (one of the reasons WoW implemented a perm free account option to allow players to play up to level 20 under restrictions)

EU communities often have several languages spoken and are smaller, leading to quite a fractured community, this is why I always go to NA servers where I can though I’m in the UK, as NA communities have far less communication barriers and tend to be more talkative and less “clique” based.

GW1 and GW2 are very different beasts.

GW1 was essentially an RPG with multiplayer lobbies, whereas GW2 is a full scale MMO. with that MMO transition, there’s always going to be a loss in personalisation and character importance (I mean let’s face it, in the GW2 storyline, you’re not even the star, just a supporting character)

Orpheal.8263:

Fits for both theoretically, but Saboteurs are very sneaky. They don’t want to be seen while they sabotage stuff, so thats the plus for the high stealthy thief for me .

Tell that to the bandits. they just run at you and drop powder kegs at your feet. About as stealthy as a trumpeting elephant

Tomes of knowledge still exist, and if you tome yourself to 80 (thereby avoiding the “repetitive grind” you seem to dislike) you will have enough HP to unlock absolutely everything in the core class. every skill, every trait, just by being level 80.

This is vastly superior to the old system, where you could tome to 80 and have nothing unlocked at all, and still have to shell out gold and skill points for traits.

Now just by virtue of being level 80, you can get everything currently available to your class at no extra cost.

TL;DR of OP:

QQ wah GW2 isn’t a boring as hell generic rpg with lacklustre story and forgettable npc’s

This is the successor to Guild Wars, but there’s no guild bases. no guild capes?

D:

Almost everyone when they talk about PvE survivability are talking about berserker stats.

A lot of people forget about the fact that berserker is only one of many ways to build and play, and not the be all and end all of PvE content

Andred.1087:

Everyone talking about modern engines seems to be forgetting that GW2 was built on a modified version of the GW1 engine. Obviously it will not have the features of more recent engines, and to suggest that ANet should invest exorbitant time and money in completely replacing a satisfactory engine is ridiculous.

But ANet have clearly shown that they are willing and able to add new features to the game engine, as can be seen with several revenant skills and the hang glider mechanic, among other things.

ANet developed the engine themselves, after all. thinking they can’t/won’t expand and update it as the game grows is a bit silly

Dulfy is a datamining and guide site, if you don’t want spoilers, don’t go to the website.

Many people greatly appreciate the sheer time and effort dulfy puts in to making her guides and mining posts, and she’s always respectful of spoiler tagging on the subreddit, so I don’t see your issue

Yes, they will return. the original advert for the 24 hour sales stated that they are releasing future content early for a limited time, implying they will return at some point. When and at what price, though, I do not know

ranger is incredibly flexible and can survive very well in pvp… not sure where you get that they’re handicapped vs other classes, because it’s really not true.

As for revenant, right now they outdo every class in pvp, but they’re in very early beta phase and will be balanced out by the time the expansion is ready for release, trying to strategise against a class that will inevitably see major balance changes before it’s released is a bit poiintless

trying to sell crafting mats on the TP and every 5 sales or so I’m having to wait because of the selling too fast error. this is way, way more often than normal. Was the threshold lowered? if so, why? it was already irritating as it was before.

Did people go insane and claw the walls when they merged the original GW trilogy in to one pack for a lower cost?

Did they go mad and scream scam when WoW merged it’s first three expansions in to the base game cost?

I really fail to see what the big deal is.

Ah, the typical MMO problem of the girls getting all the cool clothes. boo

I love Verdant Brink, it’s beautiful, but as it stands it just appears to be a very aimless event farm map. There’s no meaningful progression on the map beyond the day/night cycle meta, and there’s no direction through the various areas of the map, you just get dumped at the VB entrance and left to your own devices.

I’m hoping this is due to it not being finished yet, but if this is reflective of the finished product, I’m not very pleased

I much prefer these sounds to the old, much less obnoxious, but could still be improved.

hazenvirus.8154:

Eclio.3197:

You want proper physics in a fantasy game? I can only suggest you look elsewhere for that one, as it’s the equivalent of asking for spell casting in Call of Duty, and is irrelevant unless you are a game designer (and can give the developers programming tips, rather than outrageous suggestions like “make magic more realistic”).

Lol, that is terrible logic (could be trolling?). The whole of the game, weapons, and combat are rooted in reality to begin with

I was unaware shooting lasers out of a greatsword was rooted in reality

Or anything an elementalist can do

Or necromancer

etc

All the quirks on the low level maps before they genericised them all with the NPE

I feel the weakness is PvE is 90% attributed to various boss buffs negating a large portion of what necro is designed to do

unidentified dyes are pretty common in champion bags, and you can unlocked the full range of common dyes for a little under 8g if you buy direct from the TP.

Some dyes are very expensive either because they are very rare or very desirable (For example shadow abyss is so expensive because it is the only dye in the game that appears pure black on every single armour material variant).

Given that GW2 dyes are account wide, permanent unlocks, I feel their pricing and availability is very reasonable. Other games would have you pay $5 or much more for a single use customisation

A commander prefix in maps would be helpful, too. mentors get one when their tag requires 0 effort to actually get, and commanders have to dump a significant amount of gold for their dorito (which still needs black and white flavours, by the way).

But yes, a way to describing exactly what I’m using my tag for on a map that someone could see at a glance would actually be a great help

I have no issues with lag or disconnects and I connect to NA from the UK. I suggest getting a better router or ISP, rather than blaming ANet for your issues.

Warcry.1596:

What overhaul does it need? Everything is organized and neat.

Search function doesn’t work, lacks basic features found in even freely hosted boards like avatars, user groups and so on, the forum exposes your account name rather than lets you utilise a forum pseudonym, no easy way to read the first ANet post in a thread without going via the dev tracker, poor attachment implementation. I could go on and on.

About the only good thing about the current forum is the design looks pretty sleek, but the actual functionality is abysmal when you take in to account the fact that free hosted forums have many times more features and functions than a professional B2P game forum that requires game purchase to even participate in.I mean heck, GW2Guru has an infinitely better forum in terms of ease of use and functionality and it’s a fansite.

eh, balancing raids around the opinions of people that only adhere to the metagame is going to result in incredibly crap raids.

one of every class, all level 80. See no reason to have any more than one of each.

GW2 has none of the pay to win item mall attractions of 99% of F2P MMORPG’s. Making GW2 free to play without a huge gem store overhaul would mean a massive net loss in income from game sales

And kitten , it was fun as heck.

Please give us more “epic scale” content like this, ANet, it’s so much more fun than the DPS-fest that all the other world bosses boil down to

The game has gone F2P, so there will be a much harder push for gem store content than there was before.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I myself love alts.

One thing I really, really, REALLY hate about alts is keeping track of my account wide gem store purchases, specifically my salvage-o-matics and perm harvesting tools.

I suggest adding a “Gem Store” wardrobe section, where we can withdraw infinite amounts of our gem store account purchases, rather than have to hunt around and shuffle them between alts constantly

I’m utterly baffled by the sheer number of people who think new customer incentives are an alien concept.

I can’t think of a single company that offers a service that does not offer deals exclusive to new customers to incentivise purchase.

Where’s the demonisation of them? You’re acting like ANet have done something unprecedented and morally wrong when in fact they’re doing what almost every service providing company has been doing since they existed.

ShadowKain.9410:

Assuming we can use Southsun Cove as an example (as, in regards to Anet creating content that is specifically designed for grind, it is rather similar) the answer is: No.

This ship is sinking and most of the players that loved Guild Wars left a long time ago. The rest of us will be leaving soon as well. I’d say the rats should flee the sinking ship, but Anet has them all hooked up to Skinner Boxes.

That seems overly negative. GW2 is consistently rated as one of the top MMORPG’s in the world and has a good population.

My point was mainly aimed at the natural progression of the player population. Sooner or later people will move on to other maps and the champion hero points are pretty much impossible to solo, as are many of the events in HoT

DarkSyze.8627:

(from a player post)

Here is what a expansion is:

When GW2 starts charging a subscription fee as a mandatory requirement for playing the game that comparison will be relevant. Until then it’s meaningless.

All my beta characters are sylvari, and I’ve heard Mordremoth issuing commands to his subordinates, threatening the pact survivors and responding to his subordinates requests for help dealing with us.

I just got my first character ever to 80 (started the game a week ago or so) and I have to express how utterly disappointed I am in the levelling experience. The lack of direction and sheer monotony of map grind to fill the massive level jumps between personal story quests (most dynamic events/heart quest things involve kill this, kill that, defend x, etc – always the same thing) lead to me simply running laps in the WvW map Edge of the Mists. What’s most disappointing is that this non-stop follow the leader is the leveling method pretty much everyone has recommended to me as the main way to reach 80.

I can’t help but feel disheartened and disappointed by this. I’m hoping that now I’m 80, the game will fully open up, and I sincerely hope that the leveling revamp coming at some point soon will make the grind up to 80 far less monotonous and mind-numbing, as I aim to create a necromancer after it has been implemented

Except elementalist attunements mean that ele has all bases covered by swapping attunements. no other class can do so much with a single weapon (or even with weapon swap) as ele can with attunement swap.

Revenant actually needed weapon swap to even be worth playing due to how locked to each legend the weapons are.

yes, they did and I’m hoping it is a bug that will be fixed, because I really do not enjoy having to open my world map just to get a bearing on party member locations on the same map

It saddens me to see how many people are split on this issue of treating people as equal to one another.

Perhaps society hasn’t advanced all too much in the past century, after all. Everyone should have the right to have their love and relationship recognised by society and now, at least in America, that will happen. About bloody time, I say.

As for this being about politics: it isn’t. It’s about narrow religious beliefs and, fundamentally, Church and State are supposed to be separate so let’s be real here; this is not about politics, it’s about people of specific religious views being offended that something that goes against their religious belief system (regardless of how biggoted and narrow minded it is) has been recognised by society and is being supported across the country by a multitude of companies and corporations. Even facebook and twitter are letting you publicly show your support for this great victory in the battle for equality for all.

Now if ANet had tweeted something to do with confederate flag, that’s something I’d be entirely against. As it is, Anet simply tweeted their support of equality for all. Good on them

I want a mini rabbit. it’s not fair that Snrif gets to horde them all