Guild Wars 2

They didn’t listen to any of the feedback/concerns leading up to the patch, why would they listen after the patch?

They haven’t responded to anything yet since the patch went live. Just basic bug reports and closing tons of threads.

I’m hopeful that they’ll take the complaints into consideration. I might not be happy with what some of the things in this update, but I still generally like Anet and the people that work there, and I think they generally, genuinely want to make a good game and make players happy.

Making changes requires more than simply good will and good intentions, so I don’t expect to be 100% satisfied, but I think there are some clear areas for improvement that wouldn’t be crippling to implement. In no particular order, my realistic wishlist:

1) Restore the old naming system, where gear used the name of the item used for looks. If I’m asking another player what his crazy staff is (say, The Crossing,) it’s just confusing for his chat link to say “Knight’s Pearl Staff” or something like that. It still previews correctly, but it’s confusing and not nearly as cool.

2) Most, or at least some town clothes tonics converted into Outfits. I’ve said this in several other threads, but Outfits are dyeable, usable in combat, and usable across characters, while tonics..aren’t those things. And take up inventory space. And have a 15 minute time limit for no readily apparent reason. While there are reasonable technical reasons to keep from making things like hoodies into regular armor skins, I don’t see any reason the clumsy tonics can’t be outfits.

3) Fix outfit dye memory. Any time you swap outfits, the dye resets. While an outfit only has four dye channels, I’m never going to want to swap outfits often if I have to re-dye them every single time. If every single piece of spare armor I keep in my inventory (which is rather a lot) can remember its dye pattern, I don’t think remembering dye patterns for the outfit slot would be too demanding.

Honestly, those three things are all I really hope for. I know we can’t have everything and still progress the game; some things have just got to go as part of the trade-off. These three things, however, don’t seem unreasonable, and I think they’re doable while adding a lot of polish to the experience of using them.

Haven’t they learnt from 7 years of GW1 that it’s not a good idea to try to force players to play the way they don’t want to play!

I think it’s part of ANet’s plan to get players to experience both PvE and PvP. Personally, I think the new system is dumb. You have less options now and are forced to do things you may not like in order to complete your daily.

Sorry, but people will still laugh at your pvt gear. Nothing’s changed.

Zerk is still the best dps gear and best dps = best pve set.

Forums are a place for feedback. If no one complained, then Anet wouldn’t know what players wanted out of their game.

Most of these main threads are even created by Anet themselves to get feedback about the new features. They want to hear the complaints and concerns so they can “listen to our feedback”.

So telling people to stop “crying/complaining” completely goes against the whole purpose of these threads. If you don’t like it, go somewhere else. Your post contributes nothing to the feedback. Complaining about complainers is not very constructive and doesn’t provide any useful feedback for Anet.

Kurrilino.2706:

Guys calm down.
I understand that all these kiddies cry now with their dps toy gone.
Actually people should be forced to play 60 days GW1 before doing this crap to Gw2.
Now you guys are confronted with thinking about smart build and opponents armor actually matters again.

Great Job A-Net
This was exactly what we needed.
It keeps my hopes up for LS2

Thumbs up

Gw1 Is 10 times better than what will Gw2 ever be.

Gw1 had great pvp, great pve and GvG.

Gw2 has no GvG, has pve that keeps getting worse and Pvp (lets not talk about that one).

If you really want people to play Gw1, they will realise that Gw2 has nothing to do with Gw1.

Now there will be more zerker only LFGs because those zerker groups that previously had enough DPS to bring a non-zerker with them now won’t be able to.

Stormleaf.1769:

BloodFallsSilent.1703:

Instead, you’ve never gotten another dime from me, beyond the initial purchases. Every time I have been tempted to buy gems, I think about how greedy it felt during the 2012 halloween event when the BL Chest drop rate for the halloween weapons was stupendously low. I remember all the content that was removed. I think about all the minor (unvoiced by me, but pointed out many times here by others) complaints I’ve had that were never fixed, and the fact that there is not going to be any expansion any time soon, when it should have been here or have been announced, at the least.

Posts like this are always so bizarre and disingenuous, specifically for the argument here (which always seems to come about in some way or another). You’re saying you’ve been tempted to buy gems, but refrained because of a previous complaint, which ArenaNet has massively improved at this point? Gem store weapons like the Halloween set have been made hugely more accessible, yet you still refuse to buy any because they used to be a problem? Why should ArenaNet ever address any of your concerns, if you’re just going to cling to past issues as an excuse to criticize them in the future, even after those issues have been fixed and improved?

For all your complaints, you sound like the type of person who will never be satisfied, no matter how close ArenaNet manages to bring the game to your ideal fantasy.

Most of his critiques are about the game itself, not the gem store that you used the fanboi generic response on after focusing in on it.

A very good set of posts, Blood.

Frankly, now that season 1 of LS is over and the latest patch is out we are pretty much three steps back from where GW2 began.

The new wardrobe may add some convenience but it doesn’t really add any functionality to the game.

Role playing has been decimated by the megaserver move and the removal of functional town clothes.

At the end of the first living story we have no new dragon yet. No new areas opened up. Lions Arch totally empty. No significant changes to WvW. And the writing of LS was just really shallow. There was little to make you care about the characters other than maybe Rox and Braham.

Loyal guilds and alliances like TTS were totally ignored when they asked for the schedule to be altered to allow them to continue to do major bosses. I don’t know what will happen with the temple runs worlds like IoJ used to do now that world bosses spawn further apart.

We still have a grind for ascended gear, even if it can now be shared between toons.

Comparing how GW2 was on the day after release to how it is now, well, it just feels like we have less, not more. It really feels like they put out the info on the latest patch, asked opinions, and then proceeded to ignore every single thing their players said and every response we gave.

It just isn’t much fun now.

frankly, the new gemstore armor, which looks like rehashed versions of what we already have, is pretty much appropriate for this game. It is a badly rehashed version of what it was 12 months ago with less now than it had then.

I didn’t make it through the whole rant unfortunately but I agree on what I did read. This is a talented team hampered by poor direction.

Who ever is steering the ship has no clue whatsoever what the customers want and this game could be far more successful right now without them. How many people have asked for a way to re visit missed living story content and they just don’t give a kitten?

What is the rational exactly? temporary content actually alienates people. It doesn’t cause people to be “hooked” and tune into the next episode. Some people just cant do it due to real life obligations and then when they do get time its to late and so they are basically made to suffer. This has actually caused me to re evaluate even bothering with this game. Why bother coming back when there is still nothing to do because I “missed” it.

Where the hell is the expac as well. No one like running around the same zones over and over grinding 50 doors. 50 champs,50 of this. etc. etc.

I feel like this is one of the few sane posts on these forums. Everywhere else there are people praising arenanet for removing the ability to run champion trains, nerfing the already incredibly poor dungeon loot, and essentially charging you to reuse skins you’ve bought prior. And we can’t forget that nerf to the berserker armor that doesn’t change the game in any meaningful way, outside of making it so coordinated groups take slightly more time to complete a dungeon.

I think the comparison to “battered wife syndrome” is an clever one, considering the amount of people on these forums that are praising arenanet for such asinine, pointless changes in favor of actual balance and permanent content.

This update would’ve been mediocre if AT LEAST the wardrobe didn’t require you to purchase something to use skins you’ve already bought, but it’s worse than mediocre at this point.

Something tells me this thread will be removed either way. Can’t have anyone criticizing poor development choices or business practices, no siree.

Yeah I really think Living Story turned out to be a colossal waste of their time and could have been spent giving everyone a couple permanent zones, dungeons, jumping puzzles, armor skins, legendary weapons and maybe even a few new skills.

Instead, they spent months and months working on and rolling out story releases that lasted less than a month each and are no longer accessible to anyone.

I’m with the thread -starter here, what have you done anet? All items we transmuted before the patch now show the name of the item that delivered the stats instead of the skin-name.

If it was intended, pls change it! If it’s a bug, pls repair it!

10 months later….

I was part of the “alliance”, but when you, the leaders, started with your swearing at and insulting the random people that just happened to be at the chosen map, suspecting them of being ’taxi’ed’ by some of our members, I lost any respect towards you. “Only the members of the alliance can be here; otherwise, gtfo!”, were the words of some of you. How… mature.

I think it’d be healthy for the community if the TxS went away.

You know what would be a good fix to:

“Not to forget about: “Average population from the same guild as the player on joined map: +5%”. As mentioned before, we are not just one guild; we’re spread across four.”

Adding alliances, like the ones we had in Guild Wars 1. It could even fix the problem of not having enough merits and/or influence if we could ally with a guild that has merits/influence to spare (that is if merits/influence are shared between allied guild)
But still, this would only fix one minor problem and, as agent mentioned, there will be a lot of people who will stop playing because of these issues. (BTW +1 to map instances)

The mega-server is not going to be implemented world wide at the start no. It will be in stages. BUT, the spawn timers for the bosses IS being added. Why change Teq and Wurm from alternating every 2 hours? Its fine as it is! If its not broke do not fix it.

As for what we are hoping for? We are hoping our community remains intact with this patch and is not disjointed and fragmented, and then ultimately destroyed by it because we cannot get all 120+ of our members in teamspeak into the same map.

Nage.1520:

I think if Anet made the game you want, OP, most of the people playing the game would leave. The very stuff you see as “stuff to do”, I see as a waste of time.

It’s not the the game is bad or good. The game isn’t for everyone. It works for a whole lot of people and doesn’t work for other people.

Pretty much like every other MMO in existence.

You would stop playing if they fixed the PvE meta allowing for roles besides dps? If they made world events and bosses have a meaningful impact on the game word? If dungeons were fun and rewarding? If there was more armor skins to choose from that didn’t come from the gem store? If… give me a break

Everything in OP’s post are things that are really wrong with the game, and yet every post here is kissing anets kitten.

He didn’t ask for things like “oh I wish we had flying mounts” or “oh I wish we had open world PvP” or “oh I wish we could buy instant level 80 scrollls” etc…

Speedmann.5269:

Naz.2607:

Speedmann.5269:

Simplicity.7208:

Hate it. And here’s why: I’m part of Attuned, a guild focused on fighting those “Hardcore” mega bosses. While it’s nice we can start the boss whenever we want, it’s terrible that we can no longer commandeer a map for ourselves.

Let me explain. Fights like the Triple Headed Jungle Wurm require coordination by 120~160 people with at least 110 of which in the same teamspeak. To accomplish this, my guild has been guesting to empty servers or forcing an overflow for private use. This ensures that we have only people who we know we can count on in the map and furthermore ensures we can actually accomplish killing the Wurm on a regular basis.

With the changes to the current system, it sounds like there will be no such thing as overflows, and no such thing as “empty maps” to guest to. In this case, it seems impossible to purge our runs of PUGs who are either geared incorrectly or unable/unwilling to follow commander instruction. Thus, this system makes future endeavors at killing the wurm (or any future, more-difficult boss) futile and impossible. Our guild is very dismayed over the fact that there has been no considerations for this situation and are skeptical that when this patch hits we’ll be able to kill wurm at all anymore due to the excessive amount of incompetent PUGs that will always be inside our (now merged) Bloodtide Coast.

While reading this i’d like to puke all over you. People like you are the worst thing which could ever happen to a game!

wow, just wow. What a horrible way to talk to someone in a public format.

Just to be sure, i’d say it to his face too
Saying someone who is not playing “correct” is incompetent is as unfriendly as i was, so i think we are both fine.

Not really… playing inefficiently and causing an event to fail is pretty much the definition of incompetent… Your inability to comprehend that is not really his issue…

So, it seems that some people just simply can’t get enough of it – the “bobble heads” addition for 01 April – and, I don’t want to take any of that joy away from any of you: more power to you and I’m glad you’re amused.

Me, however. I do not enjoy having this forced upon me. Not giving me the option to remove it (and no, changing times/zones does NOT help me) is beyond the joke!

As stated, more power to those that enjoy it but, those that do not also have a valid point and wish to be able to flick this off in options.

NOTE Do not bother to exert your precious energy to try to tell me to cheer up – or some such nonsense as it would only be meaningless and judgmental drivel. Cheers.