Guild Wars 2

+1 I dare you guys!

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if they like so much this lvl, play it in streaming once every 2 days, so after 1 or 2 months u will tell us how do u feel play almost everyday those s****

Anyone else notice that the dredge also dont de-aggro? WTF?

I’ll volunteer if devs want some pug to go w/ them i got 55 ar!

I don’t know Anet logic behind making dredges even longer now. Add more random adds around the map just for kitten and giggle.

This is an idea I could really get behind,

I predict at least 3-4 hours of watching them fail before they give up or use super dev haxor stuff to make them invincible or something… then probably still fail.

Yes. i support this. I want to see it happen! Should be fun!

I want to see this too

eekzie.5640:

I’d rather see them do grawl on 43

But a definite yes to seeing developers/QA-people tackling their own challenges!

49 is actually the easiest from the 41 to 49 fractal instabilities in my opinion.
So I wouldnt be too interested in that one.

Well, we want them to be able to finish it. :P

Even better, Live stream dev with a pug group …

+1 for anybody that posts in here. keep this the #1 thread in section. 1 MILLION replies please.

I’d rather see them do grawl on 43

But a definite yes to seeing developers/QA-people tackling their own challenges!

49 is actually the easiest from the 41 to 49 fractal instabilities in my opinion.
So I wouldnt be too interested in that one.

Isn’t it obvious already?

Tyria really isn’t a land, its a dream world within Scarlet’s mind enhanced via inquest dream pumping ley lines. She’s still stuck in the machine! Each of these towers is a key ley-line conductor point of Scarlet’s cerebral cortex, you really aren’t real, your just a pawn in an illusive dream.

Look left, now right, now look into the mirror that just appeared before you. You were Scarlet this entire time!

Smash the towers Scarlet! smash them to end this insidious nightmare!!!!

MC Hammer is 6th elder dragon.

A totally wild guess, but: I think Scarlet may be behind this.

We deserve an apology for Scarlet’s existence and inclusion in / invasion of the Living Story all year long.

We payed for a game about the Elder Dragons.

We did not buy a game with Scarlet’s face on the cover, yet we may as well have.

I won’t be logging in again until we get a formal apology and are assured that Scarlet is done with or very soon to be done with. If she is all we have to look forward to for another year, I am so far past done. That is all.

Before I begin, let it be known…

… that for over a decade I was a fiercely loyal fan of Blizzard, one of your biggest competitors, Anet. They made quality products, without ever sacrificing the story or the continuity of their product. Even you guys have to admit that with Warcraft in particular, they did a phenomenal job re-envisioning the lore for Warcraft III, from a predecessor that was made back in 94 with pixels, elbow-grease and love. And again, in World of Warcraft at its beginning. But as WoW dragged on, and the story became increasingly more bizarre, less consistent, and cartoony in many cases, I lost my faith. The story was uninteresting anymore, the characters less relatable, even laughable, and the content of the game kept gravitating away from where they initially promised to go. That was when I swore off MMO’s, subscription or otherwise, because it was just not worth my time. I’ll leave their other titles aside, but let’s just say that WotLK was the last Blizzard product I purchased for myself.

…that after many years of wandering the gaming landscape, searching for something to fill the massive void left by my once-immense love for WoW, I found Guild Wars 2. I had always heard positive things of its predecessor, but seeing as my time and loyalty was already invested elsewhere during that game’s zenith, I never tried it myself. I watched the gameplay videos for this sequel, listened to the podcasts and the interviews with developers, and I found myself increasingly interested in playing an MMO again. When I finally installed it for myself, and played, and played, and played, and lost myself in it… After all this time, I thought I had finally found ‘the one’ again, that I could pledge my loyalty to another franchise again and really get into this game. I was already shelling out money in support through your gem store, voicing my support on the various forums, stretching my tendrils into the community and just soaking it all in. I found a new home.

So do not misconstrue what I’m about to write as purely hostile. Yes, it will be critical. Yes it will be brutally honest and blunt, but I must be. I’m just not happy with things anymore, and I want you guys to know why, and what I, and many many other players, believe is going wrong. You’ve crafted a wonderful product, a great game that has occupied almost ALL of my gaming time for the last year solid, but it has begun to unravel. And very, very quickly at that.

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Firstly, let’s touch on my biggest beef with the game right now: temporary content.

I do not believe in it. I do not feel inspired to participate in it. I struggled to keep up with it when it was new, and have all but given up hope of doing so now. You guys advertised this game as a “casual-friendly MMO with depth and challenge when you go looking for it”, with no obligation to the latter whatsoever. That people with rigorous schedules or infrequent playing time could still enjoy almost every facet of your game to its fullest, without worrying about dedication or regularity in their gaming. But temp content flies in the complete opposite direction of that. It is just that—-content that never gets reinstated, save seasonal stuff(which I’ve never minded, because it is what it is—holiday content). It is entirely unfair to the player who is as dedicated as any other, who buys gems to support more content, who devotes a great deal of their available free time to the game, to log in and be told “oh man you missed the best patch!”. To know that, unlike permanent content(implemented via expansion or otherwise), where it will always be there for them to go back and experience, they missed the boat. That’s just silly. That’s not taking care of your customers. And don’t get us started on the gamut of achievements for each Living Story patch which feel like a treadmill to get the best items and content out of the patch.

As a player with very irregular playing time, I feel cheated out of content that I COULD have enjoyed, WOULD have loved, but life got tough on me in the wrong spots. And unlike every other major online game I’ve played til now, that content is gone forever. It is not static and in place long-term for me to go back and experience with friends, and see what they were raving about. To enjoy when I can get to it, even if I’m late. I’m not talking years and years, but a few weeks, maybe months down the line, where I can go see where the game has progressed in my absence. I cannot even do that—four weeks and it’s gone. And what of new players? What are we to tell them? In other games, you can always backtrack, follow the trail all the way through the content that’s existing. See it for yourself. But not in GW2. I feel quite utterly robbed, Anet. I feel betrayed. What’s your answer going to be, that your business model doesn’t include casual players, or new players, like them? I’m honestly trying to think of reasons, and I cannot come up with any. I’m very VERY frustrated, guys.

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And now for the big hot button topic of the moment: Scarlet Briar

Scarlet: a deep shade of red.
Briar: Aha! That’s a plant word!

Just the name feels uninspired. Cliche. Does not bode well…

Okay guys—honest. You made a mistake. You thought you’d introduce a nice, clever arc about a character you believed we’d enjoy. But we didn’t. We REALLY didn’t. And I understand that this content has been in development for awhile, so there’s a bit of delay between that and release. But at a certain point you have to be in a position where you KNOW you’re just working on something that is going to hurt your player base, upset them, and just need to stop and perform some emergency surgery on it to save its life. Sometimes even cut the content altogether. Quality assurance, aye? Sometimes you have to know when enough is enough.

Look, you’re not bad people, I’m certain. Absolutely sure of this. You’re just as passionate about games as I am. I’d probably love to sit down at a burger joint and BS about retro gaming, and Star Trek vs Star Wars, and all sorts of gloriously geeky topics with you, for hours. You guys made a mistake, it’s okay, you’re human. It’s not the end of the world, the end of yours, or ours. Life will go on.

But we don’t want any more Scarlet. Even her fans are starting to get a little tired by how frequently she’s incorporated in every single thing in the game, to an absurd degree. It’s being force fed to us with every patch. Scarlet is involving herself in EVERYTHING, even things she literally could not have physically been involved in I’m guessing. Would she have traveled back in time in the Abbadon fractal, should that have won? Gone with Garrosh to tame Abbadon and ride him into the gates of Valhalla and toilet paper Odin’s drinking lodge? Races that cannot and will not ever work together, but they do. Impossible incongruencies with the established setting and lore(graduated all three colleges anyone? We haven’t forgotten that one, and what it originally said). And on top of it all? She doesn’t feel interesting.

From a player’s perspective, I am not motivated to participate in content involving her, even if it is pushed towards my face every time I log in. She does not interest me, she is not captivating or memorable, only infamous. I do not enjoy her character, I do not enjoy the content made for her, or altered for her, and I personally feel that she does not fit the setting at all. If you guys had implemented her in a separate game built around that character, she’d do fine. She would fit the setting of such a game! But she does not fit Tyria as the game existed at release. Her arc has spiraled out of control into, quite bluntly, saturday-morning-cartoon-villain fanfiction levels of absurdity. Because that’s what she is.

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The one thing I would want to see changed for a thief is for them to come out of stealth while spiking. Unless your class has a AOE knock back or move ability in the downed state a thief can spike you from stealth 100% and you can’t do anything about it.

My reasons are that when a thief goes into stealth they should not be able to do any damage. they are going into stealth to gain a situation advantage, then they come out of stealth to do the damage. stealth spiking just feels like cheating and I feel cheated when it happens to me.

People wanting content where Berserker sucks should remember that it needs be so hard that they will cry, not just a river, but a huge ocean.