Guild Wars 2

I guess that’s so they don’t actually have to show any game-play… That way people don’t see how crappy the graphics in WoW is compared to a lot of the newer game are. (GW2 I’m looking at you).

But yes It is a total GW2 Cinematic RIP!

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. =)

Well done. That final match was just awesome. I cant wait to see all your guys streams later #streamhyyype

Gotta say today was the best day doing Hotjoin yet. I never even thought about crafting a legendary till this. Just happend to open one of my reward track boxes from some Hotjoin matches and found Dawn. Had no idea what it was either till my guild started flipping out about it. I play an Engi, so to me it was just another sword, till I saw what it sold for at least. So at the advice of a guildie, I sold it and biught The Hunter and will now be working on getting The Predator.

Edit: And due to the price difference in the precursors too, also made 200 gold profit! Awesome day for GW2 overall.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Huzzah!

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Chris

unfortunately this isn’t yet possible in current technology, even though there are games that ‘claim’ a seamless world, they are in fact not! They just use clever ways to disguise that they are not, some doing a better job at it than others… f/e:

- WoW, used small gateways or large viewpoints to disguise crossing a loading point, in other places there was basically a big portal…

- Mortal Online, if you have anything but a beast of a computer you will notice lag spikes when you cross from one section to the next, they also use corridors, and while you can see beyond corridors, you can not see players in that corridor ‘on the other side’ of the loading, so they just pop up (same as wow basically)

- Rift, also used mountains to keep maps apart, but they used them to also disguise crossing them, as an ‘far view’ of your surroundings was quickly loaded, it felt like seamless, as far as crossing roads, the same ‘thunnel’ or corridor approach was taken, so that on initial loading you didn’t have to load up a lot of details and models.

All these worlds are said to be ‘seamless’ but they are not, they just disguise where the seems are… And almost any game has to function like that, or normal computers just cant handle them…

Only exceptions, ‘MineCraft’, which uses (from what I can tell) a different technology, as it only renders the world ‘in view’, while keeping the rest to simple coordinates. The low resolution helps there as well to keep resource usage low. Also not a true multiplayer, from what I understand, as in it’s multiplayer there are still limits to what can be handled, so perhaps ‘coop’ game is best to describe it.

The other would be Far Cry, I’m not sure how that handles worlds/maps, but I’m also not sure if it actually has a multi player environment, besides ‘coop’ 30-player or so maps. Also needs a pretty decent computer, just for playing the actual single player game (from memory, might be ok in recent computer terms). But seeing I hardly know this game & engine it’s hard for me to be definitive…

So yeah, while that would be really cool, and Anet could have used a different approach as to handling zone crossing, using this approach they were able to spend more attention to detail elsewhere (as you have to design each zone crossing specifically to create a smooth experience). Also sticking to the way they did it in GW1 sort of gives this GW vibe to it, I certainly don’t mind

Personally I hope the whole MineCraft approach to loading worlds (at least if I understand it right) will eventually make it’s way into MMO design, as loading the world based upon your location in the world makes for a truly open world experience. Seeing that it isn’t yet, might be a bit of a clue as to how hard that is to accomplish when your world consist out of more complicated artefacts than just squares.

neneza.6954:

To much fanboyism here… Ok. guys, the game is perfect, there is nothing to fix. There is no grind, nothing like in other “generic” mmorpgs like WOW or so. This is the best mmorpg ever made.

Fanboyism? Fanboyism?!

Is it “fanboyism” to point out your obvious mistake? People like you read only what they like or tend to put up with what favors them and end up not fully understanding things.

Just man up and admit you missed the part Vayne put up. Nothing wrong nor degrading with it.

neneza.6954:

To much fanboyism here… Ok. guys, the game is perfect, there is nothing to fix. There is no grind, nothing like in other “generic” mmorpgs like WOW or so. This is the best mmorpg ever made.

Actually when you use words like false promises (which are demonstrably untrue), I don’t know why you’d expect ANYONE to agree with you.

If someone says Look we’ll go to the movies, unless something comes up, and then we can’t go to the movies, it’s not a false promise.

They specifically said it’s subject to change for a reason. You can’t just pick out the sentence you want from a document and ignore the rest of it. That’s called taking it out of context.

There are many reasonable posts and complaints on these forums. Yours happens not to be one of them.

I don’t know about the company but posts like this have been floating up every week for the last 2 years in this game and for years in every other game I have played. So pretty much business as usual.

In this tournament you can’t share the pot. Every week the #1 gets the most tickets and thats it. So the 2v1 guys have to eventually consentrate on each others to ensure the win for themselves.

And what comes to the 2v1 its a fair strategy. It’s usually the two weaker servers ganging up against big mean server, because the two weaker ones are just trying to ensure the victory to themselves.

And in the end, no matter how you put it, it’s 1v1v1. The two gangers will fight each other as well, it might not be as visible to the ganged one because they are busy with two sides hitting them already.

you’ll shoot your eye out, Kid!

Apples T_T

I’m bringing cider with me to the mists!

/join squad will get rid of every tag except the one you joined.

All that raging, and that “I don’t like it, so it is stupid” reasoning …

This is a change, and of course it will affect the gameplay. What’s the point of a change that doesn’t ? It will introduce new ways of playing & strategies. People will have to learn to reflect those, spread siege ; scouts will be made more useful an actually able to try and keep their tower while waiting for assistance ; being able to use loads of rams to reset a T3 tower in a matter of seconds while the enemy is away will not be a 100% successful strategy anymore (and it’s a good thing. Odd we never saw people complaining on how ram stacking is OP ?) ; unlike what you say the use of this will not be infinite, because of the supply cost (I see messages about "resupply the tower/rinse/repeat to defend it for a long time while allies are coming back. Are you serious ? How do you resupply a tower while an enemy zerg is at the door ? A single guy throwing several of these on spread catapults will need to use the supply of the tower !)

So before coming here, cry, and call dev stupids, please try to think a bit more about all the consequences of this addition, both good and bad ; and wait to see how it behaves IG after a few weeks of people adapting strategies.

The most incredible part about you guys, is that when things are done, that don’t really change ho WvW works, you all complain on how Anet doesn’t care about WvW. When something is done, that may actually shift the meta of WvW gameplay, you all come here and cry about how it … is a change.

I just want to thank Anet as a whole here and especially those responsible for changing the colors to free. I had been pretty annoyed about the charge per color and lost pretty much all faith in you guys but you’ve changed my mind and proved that you do still listen. Though there are many things I’d like to see changed for the better but I do have to admit I spend a LOT of my time on GW2 so you must all be doing some things right

Many of our commanders have friend lists filled with other commanders, when there’s a 911 on the home BL or whatever, they’ll spam a help message to everyone on the list. It’s more annoying that just sending someone to LA to spam in chat used to be but it basically works.

John Corpening.9847:

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to clarify that we did indeed change our plans based on your feedback. What was said during the interviews at Gamescom was correct at the time but after listening to what you had to say we decided to make a change to the feature be in line with what you felt was a more balanced approach to the change.

Thank you very much for your feedback and we hope that you enjoy this upcoming change.

Thanks,
John

thanks for listening to our feedback!

Thanks for reconsidering and listening to the community.
Hopefully you will bring more changes to the Commander System in the near future.

Thank you for taking the feedback from the community on this one. Good will goes a long ways. Good hunting!

Serophous.9085:

John Corpening.9847:

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to clarify that we did indeed change our plans based on your feedback. What was said during the interviews at Gamescom was correct at the time but after listening to what you had to say we decided to make a change to the feature be in line with what you felt was a more balanced approach to the change.

Thank you very much for your feedback and we hope that you enjoy this upcoming change.

Thanks,
John

Wait for it, some minds are gonna implode on the thought that anet listened to feedback

^ This!!!
I hated the idea that it was going to be 300g per colour. Having really only recently got a tag, the thought of possibly getting another colour was gone for me. Thank you for changing this! – a first post in forum for me in 2year, so much love!

All is not vain.

I would like to thank you for listening to our feedback and thank everyone who worked overtime at weekend (while i was chilling with friends at the seaside) and make this possible.

Thank you folks.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Ragnar.4257:

Ragnar.4257:

Inb4 this was a calculated ‘leak’ so they can then ‘generously’ change the decision to show how ‘in touch’ they are with WvW players.

Say what

I’m just going to squash this rumor right now. Before the strong negative feedback received after the interview at gamescom, every intention was for each color to cost 300g. Pending QA, that version was ready to ship for the feature pack.

When the flood of feedback came in, there was a flurry of emails working out the best course of action, and in the end Zach and Tyler worked the weekend to make sure this change could be made on time for 9/9.

Thanks Mark. We NEED more posts like this so squash rumors and keep the community informed.

John Corpening.9847:

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to clarify that we did indeed change our plans based on your feedback. What was said during the interviews at Gamescom was correct at the time but after listening to what you had to say we decided to make a change to the feature be in line with what you felt was a more balanced approach to the change.

Thank you very much for your feedback and we hope that you enjoy this upcoming change.

Thanks,
John

Thank you for listening to us.