Guild Wars 2

What I’m seeing in this thread is a lot of people who don’t understand what’s going on here.

Arena Net is completely 100% owned by NCsoft and has been since BEFORE Guild Wars 1 launched. NCsoft owns Arena Net. Every possession owned by Arena Net is the property of NCsoft and always has been.

So, NCsoft doesn’t get ANY of the sales from the sales shop directly because NCsoft gets them even if Anet gets them. That’s how corporations and parent corporations work.

Anet has bills to pay. They have employees to pay. They have expenses. NCsoft hopes that Anet will be a self perpetuating property than can keep going and making them more money. There’s zero reason for NCsoft to remove money from the cash shop. It’s theirs anyway.

Xuro.5861:

ahuba.6430:

Xuro.5861:

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drama queen much?

Thank you for your major contribution to my thread, your outstanding intelligence as shown by your post is very impressive.

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I didn’t miss the statement about also unlocking a group mode but my point still stands, a solo instance shouldn’t even exist in a MMORPG. Why play one if you can solo everything? Seems pretty pointless to me.

I was hoping that after the enormous complaints on the Personal Story (I dislike the fact that this is all singleplayer too), they wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes again with future content.

I want to play a MMORPG, not a singleplayer game.

Oh, this tired old horse. I have no idea why certain people insist on resurrecting this poor beast. As such, I will not belabor a point, and discussion, that has been going on for years. The onus is not on anyone here to make you understand. ANET made the design decision to have options rather than follow a linear path, as a welcome response to lengthy customer feedback.

For myself, I am very thankful the community was listened to. I am rather pleasantly surprised the dev team has made changes so quickly to affect this next installment of the Living Story. Thumbs up guys!

Perhaps this is a sign that options, reflecting the spectrum of playstlyes, will be given in other areas as well. Maybe we will see changes to the Personal Story ending, and even perhaps to dungeon scaling. Regardless, this change to the LS renews some faith that our feedback does get listened to.

ColinJohanson.2394:

kissofthehell.3720:

Is there time when the event will start or its going to repeat for the whole day of 28th?

There is no one time only content in the May releases, it’s all available for week(s) or in some cases, will be available permanently.

Thank Dwayna!

It’s great to see ArenaNet continuing to move GW2 to be an MMO where people don’t have to reschedule their lives. I love the game but it is still a game, it should fit to my schedule not the other way around.

Again ArenaNet is proving that they learn from their past missteps, and that’s will only make GW2 better and better. I hope more MMO developers are watching what ArenaNet is doing.

i always thought that karka looks like those giant bug monster from starship trooper..

I would not hesitate prepurchasing any expansion in a second.
I love this game, I love playing it and I have so much fun, regardless of the bugs and problems this game has. They aren’t so important for me if there is more content that I enjoy than I dislike. I believe in ArenaNet getting the job done and making guild wars 2 even better, it just needs time, and I’m a patient person. In the meantime I have fun with mostly everything in the game.

Yep, I will buy is as soon as it is available for pre-order.

Absolutely not. Why? Because I’d buy two, that’s why. I have two accounts.

If you found your account suddenly on a French server, you should contact Customer Support because your account has most likely been compromised. You should also immediately change the passwords to your game account and the email associated with it. No servers have been shut down, whatsoever; in fact, not long ago the server population caps were increased.

Quote from Colin Johanson: ‘Due to a number of servers approaching full with a recent influx of new players from the sale on Gw2 that just ended, the server capacity was recently increased for a number of servers yes.’

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/ColinJohanson-2394/showposts

support.guildwars2.com
‘Ask a Question’

Good luck. =)

SkylightMoon.1980:

No it wouldnt. Because quests/missions whatever, would be instanced, and one-time only for your char. The difference between quest lines and DE’s are that quests are not repeatable, they are one time only, and meant to tell a story. There could be some detailed quest-line telling the story of this child murdering vilnia shadowsong.

Instanced? So you basically want to turn this into a single player game. This is an MMO. Questing shouldn’t be instanced.

And if they are one-time only quests (like traditional MMOs), then what would be the incentive to go back to that area again once you finish all the quests? It would be a dead area once players do all the quests and move on. Zones would end up like they are in other MMOs. Dead. Since you did all the quests there, there is no reason to go back there.

In GW2, events will always be there. If you don’t want to move onto the next area yet, you can stay in the zone you are and keep doing events you’ve already done and be rewarded level appropriate experience for them. So if you love a certain area, you can level up in just that area if you wanted. You can’t do that with quests. You have to move onto another area once you do all the quests.

Most DE’s have a story behind them. It just takes a little talking to learn it. Talk to NPCs in the area, talk to Scouts, talk to the Heart NPCs or the person who comes running up to you to tell you about a DE going on nearby. They will tell you about what is going on in the area and give you a backstory so you are not lost. But a lot of people don’t do that and then they complain that there is no story to anything. There is, you just have to talk to people to learn it.

Don’t see an expansion pack coming this soon.. but if there was one in the future..

Optimized engine, clearer smoother graphics.
Huge bug fixes, several hundred little/quirky/annoying/tiny issues.
20+ new character options in creation. Faces, hair, colors etc.
New gem store skins, wide variety.
Revamped dungeon content, several new dungeons with unique mechanics.
Revamped dragon bosses as well as several new dragons.
2 new continents to explore.
Combat fixes acrossed the board.
Balancing fixes.
Entirely underwater area discoverable with quests and underwater city.
New weapons, armor, weapon types-2 handed and more.
Class skills updated, new skills swapping ability in the main 1-5 bar.
Combo fields revamped, made more interesting.
Skills revamp- skill animations overhaul to look more unique and fluid.
New boosts in gem store- XP boost for ALL xp gained. Influence Boost individual boost.
New guild missions involving new content.
Guilds UI enhanced to show last log in, as well as various calendar options and events UI.
Performance fixes, no culling, optimized for smoother gaming.
Enhanced character models.
Better “Nighttime” enhancements, night will now look more interesting and amazing.
All clipping fixed of models, also moving textures like flags, armor etc will now flow naturally instead of looking stuff or hardened.
sPvP balancing/wvw balancing additional content added- lands/areas/special monsters.
Named monsters added to every zone, made interesting(not impossible) and fun to kill with decent and unique reward.
More bank tabs added to gem store.
Guild rename ticket.
Creator names on legendary weapons.
Legendary armor + ^.
Hundreds of new in game skins added, Tier 1 v2, Tier 2 v2, Tier 3 v2, added to cultural sets.
New dungeon armor added with new skins.
You can now transmute PVP skins onto PVE skins.
In game surveys, sometimes with small rewards. For feedback and events.
New quests added for new fun consumables.
The guy who says “I’m rich you know.” Can now be mugged once every 20 minutes per server for 5 silver.

Thats all I got so far.

Not gonna ask for a sketch, since you’re a bit busy, but I wanted to bump this thread and tell you YOU’RE AWESOME, SNOWZOMBIE!!!

Lol +1 to everyone who can turn ANY topic into a “RNG box” discussion and completely derail it. /golf clap

I don’t think we can EVER have mounts now. People have beaten these horses to death. ;-)

I’m of the same mind — I’ve never bought any of the previous RNG chests, nor will I buy any of the new ones. I’m fine with having a cash shop for aesthetic items, but I’d have to say I intensely dislike the cash for RNG thing. When I go to the hardware store to buy a hammer, I want to walk out with a hammer — not a box with a “slight chance” to contain a hammer.

You may want to change to a whiter shade, as it’s quite warm in Southsun and Spring is here…pick up a copy of Elle or Vogue for your up-to-date fashion tips. Remember, even armor can be stylish. You don’t want to leave an ugly corpse. Especially if the Karka eat you. That leftover shell should be current & chic.

If Vayne was part of the ArenaNet team, I would think the forum-users would be thrilled to death! Are not the forum-users always asking for more communication with those on the ArenaNet team? If Vayne was part of the team, then there is all the communication you could wish for, and then some! ; )

Charr warrior in CoF armor, in all black dye.
And with a twilight.

YAWN.

Exactly, imo MMO = might meet others rather then mandatory multiplayer organizing.

Tachenon.5270:

Vayne.8563:

The problem is they delivered the game that some of us wanted, just not the game YOU wanted. There is a portion of the player base who feels just like you and a portion who feels just like me. So when you say stuff like they’ll be showing the game we all want but never see, maybe you should remove the word all…because you’re not talking for all of us.

It would seem that the people who got the game they wanted wouldn’t have got the game they wanted if not for those who got the game they didn’t want.

News flash:

In this world of imperfection, you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

My, Vayne, and I gather the bulk of both our guilds are quite happy. The people I PUG with seem happy – and when I do that they are different people every day. The people in map chat where I go when I game are mostly happy too.

I’m just glad some folks stick to the forums and don’t get their brand of peanut butter into the chocolate of my game.

To Vayne:

lol, I’m not missing your point. Your point is you think it’s not a problem, and my point is I believe it is a problem.

Here is my statement based on my opinion: (wall of text inbound)
World population has taken a hit with the introduction of chests to easily farmable world events. People like to farm these events because it’s an easy way to get rares which can give ectos or to just use them for the Mystic Forge or to make money from them. Because these events are such an easy way to farm for mats, it pulls people out of the open world and into small clusters who waypoint from boss to boss and do little of consequence between. As more and more of the player population hits level cap and is searching for ways to make money or create legendaries, more and more people either choose to do these events or go to farm pent/shelt. While there will always be places where players will accumulate naturally, these places were created artificially. These groups can number from between fifteen to the upper limit of server capacity.

This in turn concentrates more and more of the population in these areas, leaving leveling areas where new players are first experiencing the game lightly populated (not starting zones, these are generally full due to events or players looking for easy daily completions). As there are less people in these areas, it creates a “less fun”, less immersive experience for some new players. Especially ones who may have chosen a server which is not as highly populated as others, either because they did not understand the way Anet labels server activity or for some other unknown to me reason. As time has progressed, more and more unique posters have posted on the forums asking why the world seems dead. They are greeted with derision by other posters who choose to ignore the problem or they are offered ideas to alleviate the symptoms instead of discussing what may be the cause of the perceived lack of population in the first place, at worst they are labeled trolls and written off.

It is my opinion that in order to alleviate these situations of perceived lack of population that rewards should not be put into easily farmable events and that vets and champs have loot tables that directly reflect their challenge. That each zone should have a chest event that is tied to a meta chain that spans the zone entirely, not just a small area, and that rewards should be tied to a percentage of meta completion much the way events are now. Also a look must be taken at the downscaling of level 80’s, not the upscaling of events. Either a greater removal of attributes or special debuffs applied as the way 80’s are now downscaled is not effective and trivializes most events. An 80 in Queensdale should be just as vulnerable as a level 15.

The perceived loss of population of servers and zones can also be addressed with cheaper realm transfer prices, perhaps free in some cases, and a buff system akin to wvw now. This population loss will not be seen across all servers, especially due to some servers being unofficially known for this or that. Or possibly a server merge, although none of these actually serve to distribute the population. While a population will never be truly equal across all zones, avoiding population concentrations if possible are the ideal, not the exception.

I have included my opinion and various fixes. In previous posts on this thread I have stated my opinion on why the checklists are not a good fix to this problem, please see for more info.

I had to wait in a queue for WvW last night so i really don’t know what everyone’s talking about. Maybe things are different on NA servers, i dunno..

Because they need people to buy some gem. One people hit 80, the only thing you need is:
1. Equipment: exotic
2. Looks (as you will throw a lot of time in maximum level, of course you want make your character looks beautiful)
While you are leveling from 1 to 79, you don’t need this (especially 2), as every 5 lvl, you will throw your old equipment and change to new one. Except you love a certain skin, and you will transmute it over until lvl 80. But this case is so rare.

Suggestion to Anet:
Anet should make transmutation stone can be forged to fine transmutation stone by mystic forge. Let say:
10 transmutation stone + 5 mystic coin + 1 elonian wine + 5 something which you can buy with skill point = 1 fine transmutation stone