Guild Wars 2

Fernling.1729:

I’ve waited over 7 months and the only thing that has really improved are bugs, which were just replaced with new ones. The game constantly introduces grind after grind with each passing month and only seems to be getting worse. How am I suppose to act like the game is headed in the right direction? I’m sorry, but things are only getting worse.
P.S.
WTB the old ArenaNet.

I’m beginning to feel more and more that most everyone who made the first game the rousing success it was, the game that said “Hey, you don’t have to be WoW 2.0 to work!” have pretty much all been let go or have crumbled under the corporate boot.

I will not argue that people, myself included, can and do fixate on rather minor things and treat them like the world is ending. Even the really tragically stupid nerfs of this last patch are not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

That said, Guild Wars 2 is a worse game than it was at launch in several substantial ways. It is less balanced and offers less build diversity than it did back then. There is less room for creativity in building your character, fewer interesting choices in your weapons and traits, and fewer interesting choices in which gear to use.

I am not one to argue against patience, but I would expect to have seen some progress on these issues in the past seven months of the live game, and to watch it move backwards instead is…disappointing, to say the least.

I’ve waited over 7 months and the only thing that has really improved are bugs, which were just replaced with new ones. The game constantly introduces grind after grind with each passing month and only seems to be getting worse. How am I suppose to act like the game is headed in the right direction? I’m sorry, but things are only getting worse.
P.S.
WTB the old ArenaNet.

I have to agree with Gote on this been here since pre week and the game is really for me starting to go backwards.

I know its not me its the game and all the little things they are doing wrong i played EQ2 for just about 6 years and UO for more than that and the way Anet nerfs things over and over i dont know if i will make it 1 year with this game.

They are just way to fast to nerf things and not really think it thru and in the long run this will hurt them.

Just the way i feel sorry.

It’s hard to see the community as shortsighted when we just got yet another weapon-skin-in-chest.

Putting some weapon skins into actual gameplay would be nice, so maybe you should be talking to Anet about this?

Playing the game for 46 days (or roughly 1100/24) is not the same as being here the entire time. You talk about ‘wait and see’ when we have.

Sorry to say, the game keeps getting worse. You just need to get out of the honeymoon phase and realize it.

AlietteFaye.7316:

John Smith.4610:

Gasoline.2570:

Let’s see what the average will be

Statistically inaccurate

Surveying forums leads to massive biases including Sample Bias and Response Bias. In this case there are at least 3 other biases not being accounted for off the top of my head.

So why don’t you guys just release the “accurate” statistics, then? Stop people from having to guess and make these kinds of threads in the first place.

You mean tell people exactly what it is that they’re buying? But that would be, you know, an honest business practice which might cut into sales.

Welcome to the new, ethics-be-kittened world of video games. If you’re as disgusted with it as I am, vote with your wallet and save your money. Maybe someday enough of us will get fed up with it for something to change.

I get that bigger eyes = child appearance, however Rox doesn’t look like a cute young house cat, she looks like a poster anime child creature. It really does not fit with the style of GW2, it belongs in cute asian-themed games.

Shiren.9532:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anime about giant cat people. I’m sure it exists, but I wouldn’t think it was common enough to provoke this kind of hysterical reaction from the paranoid anime haters.

As someone who watches anime, I have no idea what any of you are talking about, she looks far more like she belongs in GW2 than any anime I’ve ever watched.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Well, first of all to the OP: thank you! People like you keep this game running. Sure, you have been lied to. Sure, you lost alot of money. But, it’s for the rgeater good!

Second… this is what gambling companies do: they don’t tell you the price, they just take as much money from you as possible. Making you think ‘hey, the NEXT time can be the good one’ is a know marketing trick.

Third: if you don’t know by now that the BL chests are basically a tax for dumb people, you will never get it.

Forth… posts likes yours are probably printed out by the marketing person at Anet and then shown to their boss, saying : ‘look at this, boss, I made this dude buy 100 chests, give me a raise, I’m the best in taking people’s money!’.

Should really just complain to the ESRB for not listing gambling on the games rating. Seems wrong its missing when a large quantity of items require you to gamble money to obtain them.

Ooshi.8607:

I guess I didn’t receive the mail ordering me to buy some keys, pretty sure I will as I don’t think Anet would force only a portion of their players.

Btw, for everyone that was forced already to buy them, how exactly do they make you do it?

Do they threaten to delete one of your characters? Do they threaten to delete your account? Do they limit you bandwidth and make the game unplayable?

What exactly is the method that those evil doers are using to force you to buy those keys?

Force: as in, if you want these items, you are forced to gamble for them. This is obvious what I meant, you know it is, yet you decided to make a stupid post claiming outlandish things that aren’t related to what I said. You know kitten well what I meant.

Adam.4103:

I just don’t understand why they didn’t do it the same way as the wintersday skins. At least you had the option to outright buy the weapon skins with gems, as well as several other methods.

Because they make more money forcing people to gamble. So long as the majority of these people don’t wise up and stop buying into the scam of Black Lion Chests, they’ll continue to use this method to drain money out of you. And who can blame them? It works. If people DID wise up, it wouldn’t work in the long term. But then again I think a lot of their business and development strategy doesn’t work in the long term.

sure they can make more money with the last one, but they should also think about customers that they’ll lose if they continue this for too long.
At some point players will have no more interest in this RNG or even stop playing the game completely

I have created a 1000 sided die simulation which I will start when the new expansion rolls out. I will pick one number out of 1000. If that number comes up when I roll, I will pay the expansion’s full price. I will also pick 9 other numbers. If they come up, I will buy the expansion at a severe discount. I intend to roll this die as many times as it usually takes me to get extremely bored of rewards with extremely kittenty odds – usually around 10.

Winning through this simulation will ensure that I will have FUN in the expansion, because moving forward, no amount of Molyneuxian hype will make me purchase anything without it having a foot in a gachapon box.

This is disgusting and should not be the way Arenanet runs it’s gem store. I don’t care if they get a huge chuckle when ever some poor schlub spends over $100 in pursuit of something like this, I also don’t care IF it’s a solid money maker, it’s just plain wrong and absolutely disgusting.

IMO, the moral compass of Arenanet has lost all bearing when they decide to indulge in this kind of practice.

They would probably make more money with a more fair, direct route of purchase for the skins, but apparently it’s just much more fun to gouge the suckers willing to play this long odds lottery.

Is using the utility to increase your cameras zoom range considered advantageous or anything of the sort? I can’t stand how depressingly close you have to hover over your shoulder at all times. During events like Jormag, the camera allows you too zoom out a bit more, which is nice, but it never stays that way.

I read here that:

ArenaNet cannot approve or review or “vet” any third-party programs. Our general policy is that anything that gives advantage is forbidden; anything that imbalances the game in favor of one player over another is strictly disallowed. With that said, we are aware that some utilities help players without impacting others, that is, they do not give anyone an advantage over someone else.

I don’t see how zooming out a bit more or zooming in a bit more would give me any more of an advantage than anyone else (considering that it is also programmed into the game, if only temporarily). If I am wrong. Please, tell me now.

tl;dr – Will i get banned for using Zoom Unlocker? I want a straight answer please. If I will, let me know and I won’t use it. If not, hellz yeah! I can finally see! And I can get screenshots in Firstperson mode!!

I continue to be surprised they don’t split the skills into PvE and PvP versions. Oh well, I still enjoy the game, just think it could be much easier on themselves and us if they did this, just as they have done it in Guild Wars 1.

If people don’t buy product X, then eventually they stop selling product X. They are still selling product X, so someone is buying product X. Then probably coming to the forums and crying about it.

Conncept.7638:

Beeca.9467:

Well how else are they suppose to make money as it has no monthly charge not that i bought any but just saying

They could just get rid of the stupid gold->gems conversion, and then sell things in the shop that people actually want to buy for real money, knowing that they will actually be bought with real money.

The idea behind gems to gold was that it would kill the gold-seller market, and it failed, abysmally; in fact it made gold-selling worse than I’ve ever seen it in any other game, because it literally gave the in-game currency a proportionate real-world value.

but then they wouldn’t (as much) make money.

Current price is 5 keys for 450 gems, so 3600 gems. That’s $45 I think.

To put it in perspective, that would buy you a whole expansion in WoW, or 3 months of game time.

Linnes.2678:

dinominator.9862:

Is 40 supposed to be a magic number or something?

No, it’s a joke on how the RNG from black lion chests for these new weapon skins is just a pathetic money-grubbing attempt from arena net.

NCSOFT, technically. Most anything having to do with monetization is handled by them (or more specifically, a monetization specialist placed by NCSOFT), while the remainder of the game design is handled by Anet.

dinominator.9862:

Is 40 supposed to be a magic number or something?

No, it’s a joke on how the RNG from black lion chests for these new weapon skins is just a pathetic money-grubbing attempt from arena net.

Because people are saps for gambling. People will want these skins, and won’t let loosing a lot of money stand in the way. As long as people do this, expect to see more of it…

you guys falling in anet trolling event, they are laughing of all of us now in the office. and to give you and example use this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4p5CcZvh4