Guild Wars 2

I kindly request from ArenaNet to modify the software client of GuildWars2 game, to introduce more valid information for the user, about time until download will complete.

Problem:
The percentage of download is not related to total download space (from patches and fixes and new content) but from “Files remaining” of download. Now, files have different size in bytes, some are much larger, some are smaller. Calculating the percentage of download based on “Files remaining” is wrong. It provides no important information for the user, so the player can not estimate when download will complete.

Solution:
Modify that percentage based on: total space to download, and what was downloaded so far. If you wish to make things better, add some form of calculation based on current speed, just like Windows OS makes estimation of complete when you copy/paste a large file from one location to another. That way we can have an automatic estimate of “Time remaining”, and not “Files remaining”. For ArenaNet staff and designers “Files remaining” is much more important, but for the consumer that variable has no value, “Time remaining” being a more important info, meaning when this process gets finished and we can play the game with all fixes and features installed.

Why is this important:
During the download I can make a tea, or prepare some other non-alcoholic drink (because kids are not allowed alcohol). I can also notify friends on phone or Teamspeak about the time when download will complete and I can join their match. I can do whatever while waiting for download, because I know when, in time, game will be ready.

Thank you for understanding.

Kuya.6495:

The lesson they learned from you guys is to not risk their investments in a new game mode only to have the players refuse to play on it. It’s safer for them to just make new conquest maps. Less recourses and less risk.

Are you serious?! Where is that failed attempt? Where is the failed try?!

In 4 years players received only 1 (one) new game mode: Stronghold. And that is not for players, but just a small attempt to access and try MOBA market with an MMO. However, it’s still a game mode and, believe it or not, many players actually liked it and still play it (if you do not believe me, activate it and see it’s queue time for yourself).

@Kuya.6495, our argument is not valid. There is no history of such a high risk put into PvP. As for rewards, everything they thrown… players liked it and consumed everything (even old Skyhammer or old Capricorn).

What is a cele ami?

Xillllix.3485:

I’ve been wanting a 10v10 or 15v15 GvG mode since launch, not more conquest. We need something new and game changing.

Indeed. We need something game changing. But… concerning 4 years of silence (since release) anything is better than nothing, even if that means broken and unbalanced. We can chill, relax and have fun. Sometimes I think consumers have more passion for virtual products than creators.

In my opinion this game is still a game because consumers love it, just like a moldy bread is still a bread if consumer is hungry.

I kindly request from Anet a very slow motion streaming of World Tournament Series, with comments in real time.

Everything happens so fast, it’s hard to watch combos (what everybody casts), stomps and crowd control casted on that stomp, resurrecting with defending, and so on. On a big fight everything gets lost so fast and it’s so hard to watch and think the information fast enough (yes, I am a slow thinker, probably kittened).

When it comes to positioning, we have to correlate spells with positioning on that specific moment, and everything happens extremely fast. Spells, area of effects, fields and finishers are thrown all over the place rapidly (with low cast times such as 1/4 of second). I can’t learn anything. It’s not fun to watch at all, not to mention play the match with all that pressure on character’s shoulders.

So, a slow motion with comments and explaining of what is going on and why… I think would help a lot.

Yes, I know I can download the stream in HD format and watch it in slow motion, but even then, combos and spells and positioning of characters are not explained or commented.

Why do people consider the players toxic? What if the product is toxic? What if players try to have good impression about the game, and offend the players with false assumptions.

What if:
- devs are not wright (because top players and testing teams are paid);
- game is not awesome (because of marketing campaigns),
- players are not all noobs (because they try to think out of the box).
- PvP game is flawed (simply because it has overpowered PvE concepts integrated)

Please stop all this nonsense hype.

Please note they did not manage to even introduce the new map properly. In WTS top players were set at the tables (in random order) to try the new map, then they set up 2 breaks of a about 7 minutes each to prepare for fight, and then out of nowhere they announced the trial will no longer take place because of technical difficulties in servers. And all that in a pre-announced and prepared official PVP streaming, with top players at the table, 2 days before official map release.

Now… let’s see the hype. Do you really think it will be that awesome?!

There is no risk in this game, and that is normal. This is a game. You should not even be able to risk your health, family, job, or fun here, because this is a game designed for entertainment. So I do not think we will ever see any risk in this game.

Regarding reward that is a big understandable problem in my opinion, as it is channeled with marketing, and from a designer point of view… that is normal. Some professions and builds are better, faster, and easier, to balance the game or make the game sell; while other professions are harder, more complex with many spells to combine, making rewards harder to get, but more stable with time and experience. Sometimes PvP is more rewarding (see PvP legendary backpack), other times WvW is promoted (see Mistforged Hero’s weapons), while PvE is constantly promoted as most players love it more (see all other items).

1c is such a high value. How can you possibly consider it low cost?
Players nowadays forgot the value of gaming and fun.

Thank you for feedback and for keeping this topic alive. However, there is still no official answer, and anything related to bans for macros can be considered as speculation at this point. So far I personally never heard of anyone being banned for using macros in this game.

Because there is no official answer about macros as being forbidden, I can assume it is allowed. It seems many things are allowed in this game, for entertainment, as long as they bring happiness to consumers, and income to developers.

No official answer. I am taking the answer is YES and this is a noob question not deserving an answer. I will start using macros too. Thank you Anet.

I am using this topic to warn ArenaNet about many people using software to create macros and instant cast immediately the traps of guardian. Softwares such as AutoHotKey are used to create 4 key combination, instantly casting all the traps at once, in less than a quarter of a second. It would have taken a lot more time to cast them all by hand.

I know this is in the gray area because it’s not really an exploit, as players use software that do not alter game functions and features, but this is an unfair advantage.

I kindly ask ArenaNet for an official response and make this clear.
Am I allowed to use macros too (like many guardians already using them for traps)?
Are these allowed only for instant cast spells (such as traps)?
Are these allowed or not in PvP?
What is ArenaNet doing if this is not allowed?

Please ArenaNet make this clear, because this is getting out of control (in PvP at least, I do not know about other areas of the game). I also wish to take benefits of other players tactics and advantages.

EDIT: Thank you in advance.

Changes are not made during seasons. We will have to wait the end of this season to see more features added to guardian. So far everything is speculation.

PvP is the best place for noobs. It requires no boss/dungeon tactics whatsoever, just stay on a point and defend it.

Simple instructions: make a guardian, or thief, or mesmer, or whatever easy profession with as few spells as possible; choose a build from metabattle.com; and destroy your enemy in a 123 combination. It’s extremely simple. Do not worry about teamwork, positioning, combining abilities in combos, etc; just do that 123 as instructed in metabattle.com. You do not even have to be on a team, just go alone with your guardian and reach legend and grab your rewards along the way. Simple.

Everybody plays what they like. What is toxic for one, it’s a treasure for another; and the other way around.

Some people do not like dirty talking, others love it and are talking really dirty in their guild.

Most people do not like loosing at all, while others love loosing and have absolutely no care whatsoever about pips and loosing.

Others do PvP for winning with meta builds and getting legend, others do it for fun and not do even care about what builds they have.

People get angry in game about what others are doing, while those others just want to kill something in 1v1 (because they come from more balanced games).

Some people play ranked for rewards of reward-tracks while many people play ranked just for their daily and 2 gold reward.

A few people choose complex professions with many spells to combine and even try to use combos, while most people do not even know what a combo is and just wish to kill their target fast in 123.

Conclusion: what is toxic for you, is fun for another person; and what is fun for another person, can be toxic to you. It’s just a matter of opinion and view because we are all different.

I stopped caring today, after 4 years. I was easy kill for a guardian far from me, with traps in the middle of a road.

Anet killed the fun. Game is too easy and it’s promoting grind and crowd control with cheesy mechanics. From start to present day this has become just another kiddie game with nothing complex to it (such as teamwork, positioning, combos, etc.); and as a player I am truly sorry about this.

I wish a lot of fun to all players. I hope most players will be reaching legend (alone, because they like it), get whatever items they want and be happy about it.

@Anet: watch Blizz how they lost old players with singleplayer promoting, cheesy mechanics, lots of crowd control and poor design, because they listened to children and their simplistic feedback with requests for more CC. They even created a movie in hopes for getting old players back, and proved to be a bad investment because they lost trust in many years.

Best wishes to all.

Anet can not shut down this. They are not allowed. There is no official information that players are forced to play and they must win, otherwise winning is also a “match manipulation”.

What if a team has fun loosing? What if players want to explore the maps, while teleporting as up as they can? What if players like to chat and socialize? What if players like to do banking while PvP-ing?

Matches are not meant for winning, and if you do not believe me… just look at the all new and many full-featured maps introduced over the last 3 months; combine that with thousands of PvP balance patches in 4 years and hundreds of concept changes, while listening to old players feedback.

Challenge: YOU win 10 games in a row with a premade team in 4v5 against new players randomly, and show us all how skill matters. If you do this, the game is balanced because skill matters/

Nobody forces nobody to play PvP. Anyone is free to choose PvE and have much more fun there with new dynamic content (unlike same maps and easy 123 in a weird balance).

No. Do not buy HoT for PvP because it offers only more DPS and access to meta builds. I would personally recommend not playing PvP at all.

However, I would recommend you to play PvE. It’s fun and beautiful (unlike PvP with same old maps and cheesy mechanics). Create as many character as you like and do PvE with them. You will manage to equip them fast and get much more gold than in PvP.

Another solution is WvW, but for that make sure you select a fun specific server, for example a server with many players from your country.

So you think guardian is too good?

Solution: make a new character (Guardian), it’s simple and free.

Zynt.5769:

It’s not fair that teams sometimes end up 4v5, but I also don’t think it’s fair to make someone else suffer, by forcing them into observer mode if an enemy player is D/Ced.

I actually like the idea of forcing in observer mode. We can settle this the old way: my best player, against your best player. Winner brings victory to the team.

This is not a bug and not a technical issue. Traps work perfectly fine, exactly as intended. For more official information, have a look here

Enjoy the traps.

PvP is not dying. Look at the championship. It has 1120 viewers at this moment. PvP is really awesome and players love it.

I can not say “you are welcome” because I do not know you.
Anyway… I am glad you enjoy the game community.

This topic has too many suppositions and too much anxiety for a gift that will be given to us by courtesy.

I will take it and enjoy it while appreciating the gesture. In fact… I thank you ArenaNet right now, for more than 4 years of entertainment (since beta).

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Gives people a chance to try out each location before buying whichever version is available now.

Recommended: offer this in the store one week before any/each of the permanent passes are offered.

+1 on this.

I would love to see those passes available more often, not just a few times a year. We should also have the option to try them, but I think this is a different and much more difficult story, since they do not even want to put the permanent passes in Gem Store at least every month.

Sometimes I think they simply do not want my money, but this is just my opinion.

I think it does not require so much programming to make it run as return to previous location. However it is strange how they design them regarding this feature.

All passes (except Royal Terrace ones) seem to teleport character in a special instance. This means extra content in a loading screen, while also pulling out of PvP queue, WvW position or instance location.

I do not get it, the added on offer Royal Terrace Pass – 2 weeks version, but not the Royal Terrace Pass – permanent version.

Is this some bug or error from marketing team, or why they did not put offers together?

Thank you very much for replies. So far many questions were answered in this post.

Thank you for the information provided so far.

As for returning to previous location… that is normal. It was asked many times in the past, but this idea was never set in game, never knew why. However, it was implemented in some other form to Heart of the Mists, after many requests and feedback on official forum. We have bank, trading-post, and laurel-merchant there for clearing bags, and after that with EXIT button character is returned to previous place in PvE.

So there are questions to be answered. I am glad that I’m not the only one curious about how this item functions, and it’s loading screens.

All pass-es are only one way.

However, I have my own questions.

1. In notes it states “Quick travel to all cities” but in presentation Youtube video from Dulfy there is no portal. So this might be a bug. Anyone with this item can please clarify?

2. Entrance to the area can pe reached from outside? I just can not find it.

3. On exit is there a loading screen (important information for people in PvP queue because loading screens gets players out of queue).

4. When double-click-ing on pass on other areas, does it teleport the person there, or the pass can be used only when going in through some specific entrance?

Thank you in advance.

Last year it was a dye of choice (account bound) and they regulated dye market a bit. My guess this year will be precursor of choice (account bound) with same target.

GW2 will soon reach 4 years.

Where are the price gem reduction offers? Where are the offers on historical items, seasonal items, and many other items no longer in gem store?

This map is awesome. I like it. Great job ArenaNet, players like new things like this. Thank you.

I consider this the best modification for the game. It makes players think and play, both at the same time. Now positioning matters, having the first hit matters, fast combinations matter, because everybody is glasscannon.

We are all equal. We are all dps using our abilities for dmg, cc and positioning. That is all there is now.

In PvP you can now get old PvP gear from Legacy Reward Track which provides as reward Legacy Armor Box

Only old PvP players could receive that gear before, because some items there were unobtainable, making old PvP players feel more important. Now… everybody can get them.

Is it just me, or ArenaNet needs to learn how to make some old items unavailable so old players can feel valued?

(If you are a new players, please think in a few years you will see yourself as old player, and you would want to feel special)

Guild Wars 2 has that feature. If you prefer a player instead of that player, just make a full premade team with players you like (from real life friends to ingame friends or guild mates). This works better than setting from Overwatch, because you have better control of who you desire, you can make friends and use even voice chat with them.

Sorel.4870:

Most of the replies on this thread are ridiculous. They are either

1) Talking about something completely different
2) Comparing 2500 viewers to other games or GW2 total playerbase
3) Making unfounded claims about the number of players in the game

Here are the facts. The immense majority of the viewership, on any game that is not new or incredibly popular, is constituted of its own active playerbase. In December 2014, about 25k players were registered on the leaderboards in EU (I jumped from 96% to top 1000, meaning 1000 players = 4%). This can be considered the active playerbase at that time. Compared to that, 2500 viewers is huge (10%)!

Of course, that reasoning is not true, because a lot more players are playing pvp since the F2P transition. But I consider that the order of magnitude remains unchanged, otherwise Anet would have bragged even more. Counting also the NA players watching the stream, I guess it’s fair to say that about 2-5% of the active pvp player base watched the pro-league on Monday. So yeah, 2500 viewers is a lot, if you think about it.

I’ve wrote it a couple of times already, but the problem with GW2 as an esport is the size of the player base itself, not the interest of the players in watching the Pro league. It appears that in fact, a significant portion of the active player base do enjoy watching the streams.

This topic will soon hit 2500 viewers. This means we also have an active community on forums, not only Twitch.

Can not find a guild? Create one. Easy.

odstninja.1468:

Lots of scrubs in ruby and lots of decent players who were ruby and diamond before now stuck in lower tiers b/c of bad luck with pugs lol. fun times.

Stop playing solo friend.
This is an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). If you want to have fun play whatever you want, however you want. But if you wish to win, embrace the concepts, tactics, subtleties, and enjoy together with others in premade teams using voice chat. That is how you win in a multiplayer game.

runeblade.7514:

Where should the marketing budget go to?

I think this is a hard question to answer. It depends on the budget for marketing how much is it; and from that budget it depends what is established for PvP marketing; and from that PvP marketing budget it depends how much is for e-sports tournaments and monetary rewards. Not all marketing budget goes to PvP, tournaments, or viewers on Twitch, so we can not know numbers, because all those numbers are secrets within the company.

What we do know however, is what we get from Twitch, around 2500 viewers in live broadcast of Pro League tournament. No matter what others say, I still like to think this is a very high number. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” (Elbert Hubbard).

Answers to topic:

1. ArenaNet has a very good Match Making Rating promoting awesome play.
2. Players have lots of time at their disposal, and they love this game so much.
3. Customers love this game and great players constantly have a positive attitude, so they get lucky most of the times (Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat).

Yes. We have Stronghold with first expansion, after more than 3 years since first release. We will have new type of sPvP again. History tends to repeat itself, and business needs to evolve. So yes, we will get a new type of sPvP.

FirehawkDAR.9021:

Alin.2468:

Matchmaking is not broken. The game is just very balanced. Metabattle shows 8/9 professions in meta. Game is finally balanced.

How much did Anet pay you to say this?

Nothing. See for yourself. Here is a link as proof: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Conquest

Matchmaking is not broken. The game is just very balanced. Metabattle shows 8/9 professions in meta. Game is finally balanced.

Everything works great this season.

1.) Have you checked Twitch today? 2500 viewers were watching Pro League. That is a high number of people. In the past there were even more viewers but now there were 2500 viewers. Sure, some of them were for precursors or miniature rewards, but still this high number of viewers shows the game is in a good position and we should all keep a positive atitude.

2.) Have you checked Metabattle? Sure you did, because most players copy builds from that website. 8 professions out of 9 are considered meta. This has to be the best season ever just for this reason. It’s a balance, finally it’s a huge balance! There are no 1 or 2 professions dominating the game (like Necro last season), but we have 8 of 9 professions/classes holding the meta.

I joined Twitch and watched Pro League. It’s so awesome. It has about 2500 viewers. I love all this enthusiasm players have for PvP ingame.

Thank you ArenaNet, thank you. These high numbers shows the world we are many players loving PvP in this game.

I request a command to make announcement to all guilds a character is in. For a guild the commands are: /g1 /g2 /g3 and so on.
I request a command to be able and write something in all guilds, let’s say: /ga {text}.
example: /ga PvP 2/5 with TS
Thank you.

Now this is anwesome post. Thank you. You made me smile.