Guild Wars 2

Now that ANet has done this twice, we’re establishing a pattern. Clearly, the pattern is that those dastardly minds at ANet occasionally give evil thank you gifts to those that have continued to support ANet NCSoft after the initial purchase. Considered yourself warned. If you don’t want the underhanded, “gifts,” you best not buy any more gems.

@Elothar, couldn’t have said it better myself.

I love the Kite as well, but most of all, I love that you guys appreciate the way your players support the game, and surprise us like this!

Cheers!

I have my doubts about the Living Story, but here is the difference between how ArenaNet deals with content updates and how other MMOs deal with content updates:

Guild Wars 2: Every 2 weeks I can log in to the game and have something new to do. It may not be a whole lot, but it is fresh content.

Other MMOs: Once a patch hits I get a lot of new content. But after perhaps three weeks, maybe even less than two, I have already experienced all that content.
Now I have to wait about 5 months before having anything new to do.

Perhaps you don’t like how ArenaNet has dealt with the Living Story so far, but they are just getting started.
And since you aren’t paying for the game I think it is reasonable for you to be a little patient.

I tried TERA out for 3 days and came back to GW2. No shared loot, no dodging, the need to constantly turn in quests and backtrack, a vertical progression system.. All of the characteristics of a WoW clone, essentially. People claim that Guild Wars 2 has boring and stale combat, but I’d beg to disagree. Try Dark Age or GW1 out now. Both games had extremely good combat back in the day and helped pave he way for many games even now. When you go back to those games and play similar games today with similar stand-and-hack-and-slash RNG-based combat it’s boring. No fight between two people will ever be the same due to the mobility and unique situations every fight entails, yet people still complain that it’s “stale” and “bad”.

Call me a fanboy, but GW2 still outshines the majority if not allof modern MMOs of its kind.

Well, 10.000 dollars for the tournament they just announced:p

From a design standpoint, having slower movement in combat versus out of combat creates an environment where players are encouraged to engage in the fight versus rush past everything.

Also, by limiting the speed of movement, areas designated as high combat zones (pvp maps) can be smaller while still giving the feel of distance to objectives, which creates map control.

Lastly, by creating an incombat/out of combat dynamic you create a mechanic that will cause atrophy to a large zerg group to lose numbers over time in a mobile environment where you want to weaken or delay the combat force that is marching to an objective (wvw).

The downside to these mechanics is that while you may be in combat, others may not be in combat, and they are running at full speed. This makes it feels impossible to ever run away if you have one person tagging, then the rest can catch up with ease.

Also, game play slows down making it feel sluggish as a side effect. This is good and bad, because slower combat should result in more room to make decisions for a broader demographic of people.

Is this the only mechanic that can generate these things? No, and I don’t think it is “needed” per say. I understand why they use it, but I’m sure there are better ways around it.

You guys don’t understand. You don’t want WvW to be too profitable, or it’d be filled with people that are only doing it for money, making it even harder to get together decent pugs.

I like the chatter personally. Some of them make me laugh out loud every time. I can suspend my disbelief for the repatitions, maybe some of them could be put on a longer loop to reduce the chance that a character hears them more then once in the visit to the area.

“BY OGDONS HAMMER WHAT SAVINGS!”

would you prefer a totally silent city? if anything, id love to hear more diverse chatter like maybe someone buying apples from some one handed charr merchant in lions arch or people discussing living story events, that’d be cool

My toon updated his Facebook status to: In a relationship with the ground.

Hello All

As the title says I was shocked in a good way lol. I am one of those players that just dives in and out the game. I haven’t reached max level. I really only played the game when I was bored.

I never really gave it a chance tbh because I am use to the ways of WoW

So the past couple of nights I have been logging in and trying out this living story content and I have been REALLY!!! enjoying it.

I have been playing through it and started leveling again. I am seeing the game in a whole different way. Now I am thinking “dam I missed all the other temp content” like that 8 bit world thingy, Can’t remember what it’s called.

So just wanted to post this and well done Anet. Sorry I miss judged the game.

Vayne.8563:

I never left, and still enjoy the game. But mostly I’m looking forward to what the game will be in two years time. It’s going to be amazing.

This.

This game is potential heaven, and while they aren’t even remotely close to what they can be, they are actively striving to be the best they can (unlike most other MMO’s)!

I never left, and still enjoy the game. But mostly I’m looking forward to what the game will be in two years time. It’s going to be amazing.

and i’m falling in love with this game all over again. The achievements, balance changes that make new types of builds viable I love it. This living world system is awesome achievements always have you coming back for more. Anyone else?

Srsly this is best content patch since launch. New zone is design masterpiece especialy crystal jumping was most fun achiev ever. Sanctum Sprint is simply something amazing. Reworked achievments are also well designed. Simply great job this time Anet. Thx:-)

btw.. MOAR CANTHAAAAAAA!

I hate jumping puzzles.

I love the sky crystals hunt.

I hate sPvP. I despised Dragon Ball.

I played the sprint event several times and had SO MUCH FUN.

Whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it right.

Arkham Creed.7358:

My advice is to ignore this thread and just play the game. You really need to make up your own mind here, rather than relying on the countless conflicting opinions you’re about to receive. Fun is a subjective thing, and no one can tell you you’re having fun but you.

^ This

Stay away from the general forums bro…

Wooden Potatoes is a flip-flopper. I stopped watching his videos when he couldn’t decide week to week whether or not he hated or loved the game. Used to be great – especially his lore videos. But he lost me as a viewer.

I just bought GW2 last week and I am absolutley nuts about it. I should’ve bought this game the day it came out! A game hasn’t enthralled me like this since WoW itself, back in 2004. Since then, WoW has been the only game that has ever held my fickle attention long enough to bring a character to max. I now intend to make GW2 my second. Thanks, ArenaNet, for making a fantastic game!

Everyone got some achievement points they didn’t have earlier. No need to be spiteful about it.

I suppose it’s less annoying for people that absolutely want to do everything they see.

My first impressions… love the new achievement based rewards, new zone is freaking awesome, and the race is fun as hell. Great job on this one Anet. Really well done in my opinion.

WIll be a big shame, love the area and music! They should keep it ingame.

Please don’t take it away! T.T

It reminds me of the RPGs I grew up on, Legend of Zelda is a big one for this (it reminds me of Wind Waker on so many levels)

Area is designed beautifully, scavenger hunt is enjoyable, the movement abilities make everything more interesting in terms of jumping puzzles.

The freedom of movement (go where you want) is such an amazing tool to an explorer type such as myself

Please….please let it stay

The title probably sounds pretentious, but I’m being honest here. Every monthly “content” update we’ve had had no sense of wonder or discovery. (imo, mind you) It felt like nothing but a poorly made area/story just created to sell some RNG chests. But this.. this is beautiful. I haven’t even done any of the event, but I’m absorbed in the area which feels like a true “living story”, a real village/merch port. It might just be my adoration for cantha, but the landscape, NPCs, villages, stalls, everything feels crafted. It feels like they actually put effort with this one. And for that, I’m glad to be satisfied for the first time with one of their content updates. Thank you, Anet, and please stick with the team who designed this (if it’s any different), and if they’re the same, give them a big pat on the back for making some real progress in this whole “living story” thing.

“Claypool adds, “People who have played this map already have been more excited about playing PvP. Skyhammer has a really dynamic, old-school feel; like a Quake map.””

IIts good to see, that thedevs think actually the same way like i do.
The word “quake” like came to my mind exacly when i first played the first 3 pvp maps, and realized, why Warsong gulch sux so extremely in WoW….
The map design is perfect and i am happy to be able to write a positive feedback finally.
Well done good design, keep thinking this way for a sucsessive game.
Gl hf all and meet you on the map.

Temporary content will only make GW2 refreshing, exciting, and thrive. It can’t hurt the game at all.

If this had a sub, it would be a different story.