Guild Wars 2

But thank you for making the Fervid Censer and Sclerite Shell account bound and not soul bound!!!

You’re witnessing selection bias!

People who are enjoying themselves in-game are likely to stay in-game and help others enjoy themselves too.

People who are enjoying themselves so little that they exit the game are likely to come to the forums to voice their dissatisfaction with whatever is bugging them.

Aside; my server’s been really great so far this month in-game too. It’s been a blast

Just remember it only takes about 30 people to turn a forums into a mess and that there are certain :ahem: vested parties that are less than thrilled with this game’s success.

Someone set us up the bomb!

I guess Anet should check your schedule for the coming months to see if it suits you…

Yargesh.4965:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Astral Projections.7320:

ANet needs to put pasties in the gem shop for the female Asura and the Charr, as well as for the males wearing this armor. Only this way can the game be saved.

I want small flower pasties for my Sylvari

You do know what flowers are right? I always blush when I go past a flower shop. Can’t believe how brazen and disgusting some people can be. I mean right there out in the open!

My female Sylvari has a giant flower now on her shoulder with pollen floating around her and bees flying around pollinating it.

I can only describe it as….. XXX.

Forget the Asura nipples. What was ANet thinking to allow blatant plant sex in the game?

I am EXTREMELY offended by this.

I am offended by OP’s choice of dyes.

The problem is, Guild Wars 1 was instanced and Guild Wars 2 is open world. So the more interested stuff has to be in dungeons. You can’t have mixed mobs respawning in the open world, no matter what players want, because far more players will be annoyed by it than players who want it.

Take a look at the krait. Anet made the krait harder and afterwards people complained. Look at AC. Anet made the dungeon harder and people stopped running it.

In an instanced game, you could make stuff hard, because first of all, no one was ever alone. You had henchmen with you and later heroes. And so you always fought in a group against groups.

You can’t really give everyone five or six henchmen in the open world, because if you do, you could end up with 12 guys together and you have an army of sixty. It wouldn’t work. You can’t have different professions healing each other in the open world, because one guy might not be able to do much against that, and how is that fair to him. Maybe someone plays at 3 am and there’s no one around. You were never alone in Guild Wars 1.

Guild Wars 1, in the later years, was far easier than Guild Wars 2 is now. It was complete yawn mode. People don’t remember, but things usually appeared in the same place. You pretty much knew exactly there this group was going to be and pretty much knew exactly how to tackle it.

Sure there were challenging runs in Guild Wars 1 (like the Droks run). Except it’s not challenging at all with a full party once you know it and have the right build. It’s only fun/challenging with a smaller party. You’ve changed the rules of the game.

So do the same thing here. Test yourself. Take off half your armor and then try the Cursed Shore. Try to solo a veteran karka. Try to run the Grawl tunnel in Frostgorge.

The last many years of Guild Wars 1, the game was so easy as to be unplayable. Those who fondly remember the Droks run, or the hydras in the crystal desert, are remembering a point in time.

Very often there are harder creatures and groups in dungeons in this game…but people don’t want to run the hard paths. They’d much rather repeat CoF path 1.

You already own the game, so hop in and try it. You’re not behind on anything, and it doesn’t cost you anything. Give it a try and see if you like it.

FIXED as of may 17th patch.
Thanks anonymous Arenanet developers!

Actually stock price is never a decent indicator of profit. It’s an indicator of confidence in the company and many factors other than profit can affect that.

Wait you’re nerfed 100%, in other words, you don’t get any drops at all?

And hopefully this marketing scheme will stop. But until then like a smart user said. Vote with your wallets boys.

(Reposted from a thread in the General section.)

Ever been in a convenience store and watched someone who, frankly, looks like their money would be better spent on the basic necessities rather than the state lottery buy scratch ticket after scratch ticket after scratch ticket?

I get the same sort of vaguely sick feeling every time I hear people throw money at these keys.

If people stopped doing it, maybe things would change, but as it stands right now it seems like every time they come out with a new set of chests with a “rare chance for something cool!” people can’t get their credit cards out of their wallets fast enough despite months worth of evidence showing that the odds of actually getting something are vastly skewed again them.

And lest you think this an anti-cash shop rant, I’d be more than happy to pay $10 for an outfit or a cool weapon skin I couldn’t otherwise get. But to gamble for it? No way.

(Well, ok, maybe not “more than happy to”, but certainly willing to.)

Um, you’ve been able to report bugs using the /bug command since beta, and this didn’t change on release.

Latinkuro.9420:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

yeah, you’ll get scaled up to level 80 for the duration of the story.

What is the point of leveling a toon to 80 in this game than ? if you’ll get upleveled to 80 anyway !!!

A true level 80 performs multiple times better than an upscaled. Gear, traits and experience.

To make a nemesis that everyone in the game hates just do the following:

Step 1: create a cut scene with said nemesis.
Step 2: In said cut scene have said nemesis kill 1 baby quaggan
Step 3: After killing said baby quaggan, have the nemesis exclaim: “I Balance the classes in GW2”

Step 4: Watch as the player base attempts to disembowel the nemesis and make continuous death threats against her.

It’s gonna be a lich Livia wielding the Scepter of Orr here to wreak havoc in Tyria once more mmmwwwhahah!!!!

Hahahahaha XD
At least you now know that she is safe to be around since she’s not Inquest.

timidobserver.7925:

MMOs have to make money. Either you pay monthly or you deal with little money making schemes. RNG items will garner more profit by increasing the chances that those that did not get them will buy gems in order to convert them to gold and buy the item.

If that was the case then why would Anet not just sell the jetpack or any other reward in the gem store like Braham and Rox’s weapon skins. Seems an awfully roundabout way of getting players to buy gems: farm dungeon chest > buy gems > convert to gold > buy off TP at a price not set by Anet, but the players rich enough to be able to flip them.

Wondering why the F&F rewards came in the form of RNG drops as opposed to say the Southshore event (amulet, 20slot bag), Mad King Jumping Puzzle (exotic boots), Super Adventure Box (weapon skins) which rewarded players for completing the content and not just purely RNG.

With Fractals and Guild missions you are rewarded tokens for the amount of effort put in, and yes you might get lucky and receive ascended items and weapons skins too, but that’s seen more as a bonus imo.

However, with F&F Anet has changed tack and made the jetpack, mini and tonic (completely cosmetic) only obtainable via RNG. Will this be the new route Anet takes for future content rewards? (Not to mention the whole fused skins debate)

Personally I would have preferred these items rewarded on the effort put in by the player. Whether it be a token style system such as SAB or even like the early on F&F rewards which were account bound and mailed to you upon completion of certain achievements, titles, etc.

Would be interesting what everyone else thinks about this issue. Should content rewards be based entirely on RNG?

Edit: 16 jetpacks, 15 minis on TP as of right now…

Farm gold, buy minipet in future. At least you’re not 100% shafted like some were with christmas miniatures.

Kaiem.8297:

Translated out of corporate speak that reads “we plan to do an expansion pack at some point but currently haven’t started but you’ll give me kitten if I say that so ill just tell you we have started and give a load of vague reasons for not having a scheduled release”.

I read it to say “we’re going to release an expansion when it’s in our best financial interest to do so.”

Edit: I personally take the fact that they aren’t rushing an expansion out the door asap as a good sign that the game is doing well.