Guild Wars 2

Yeah but 1s is pocket change, and your kit will never run out of uses. That’s the convenience.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Andred.1087:

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Vol.7601:

You’re right, let’s just have everything in the game handed out for free or at vendor price and hope Anet someone ends up with millions of dollars in revenue from box sales to sustain itself

I wonder why you don’t want to understand that they don’t have lock every new skin behind a paywall. Not to mention that they could’ve pushed for an expansion to get new money.

Expansions are out in the MMO world. They’re a thing of the past, and ANet is not going to make any for GW2. And are you forgetting the entire set of skins that got released in Dry Top? Maybe you don’t like them. I don’t really, either. They’re still not locked behind paywall.

Expansions are out? GW1 did perfectly well with them

GW1 was 8 years ago. You have yet to present an argument that makes sense.

And by the way, it doesn’t matter what either of us think about expansions, ANet has already made very clear they are not making any for GW2, so I don’t know why people are still having this discussion.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Vol.7601:

You’re right, let’s just have everything in the game handed out for free or at vendor price and hope Anet someone ends up with millions of dollars in revenue from box sales to sustain itself

I wonder why you don’t want to understand that they don’t have lock every new skin behind a paywall. Not to mention that they could’ve pushed for an expansion to get new money.

Expansions are out in the MMO world. They’re a thing of the past, and ANet is not going to make any for GW2. And are you forgetting the entire set of skins that got released in Dry Top? Maybe you don’t like them. I don’t really, either. They’re still not locked behind paywall.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Vol.7601:

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Vol.7601:

Not sure why people are kittened at Anet. Key farming was here a lot longer than it was supposed to be. Anet was shooting themselves in the foot by having it in game for so long.

It’s about time we have weapon prices that are now in line with the risk of gambling on buying keys. It was a market inefficiency that had to be corrected.

Yeah, if you want to kill your game most effectively, you should lock all your new weapon skins and armor skins behind paywalls, that’s the perfect way to go.

I feel like I’m the only one around here who recognized that GW2 operated on a system where you would have to pay for extra vanity/skins. Thank goodness we don’t have to pay for extra stats.

And I guess we can completely ignore the currency exchange just to suit your argument

Oh yeah, wonderful argument. All players are completely capable of dumping 18g for one key. /sarcasm

18g is pretty easy to get… and if you don’t think it’s worth it, don’t buy. They’re just skins.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

We’ll keep monitoring the changes to kitten its affects.

Excellent

I suspect the downed state change is something they implemented for the Chinese release, as I would believe that many Chinese players were confused by it initially (not saying anything about their intelligence, I’ve just worked with a lot of Chinese people and I can see this happening), and since it works fine, and they’re already merging a bunch of other changes from the China release, that’s probably what it’s about.

They are making some pretty neat changes to the game. I do have to agree that I, as a veteran player, am feeling increasingly unimportant to them. But it is just a feature patch. Perhaps they do have plans to introduce significant, permanent content updates for veteran players to enjoy, and it’ll just take 3 more years because the Living Snoresville is super great and important and unique and it’s the only thing anybody wants right now, right?

Taygus.4571:

cesmode.4257:

Taygus.4571:

actually yeah, more living story seems to be what the majority of players want.

I also like that they’re still balancing current skills to remove any over powered ones, and trying to buff under powered ones.

The last thing we need is more over powered skills. or under powered skills.

I suppose I have to disagree. I see more people clamoring for skills, dungeons and dungeon fixes, pre cursor crafting, etc.

I don’t see people salivating for the next crumb of the story to be released.

That’s because people who are happy, are playing the game not complaining

“People who are happy haven’t reached max level yet”

Fixed that for ya

ZudetGambeous.9573:

You already bought the box, you don’t matter. They need to sell more boxes.

Surely they get much more from gem sales by now.

Good enough, key farming is stupid. Edited for accuracy.

What exactly do you mean by “easy to implement?”

More haircuts I imagine takes a lot of time, and besides, why not release them in the gem store for more money? A unique character voice for each face? They probably have fewer than 10 voice actors on staff, as do many, many games. And what, will they record all of the personal story dialogue again with dozens more voice actors? And new music? Jeremy Soule is long gone from GW2. You’ve got a lot of good ideas but this is far more a wish list than any set of feasible suggestions.

Not that it affects how much ANet will consider them at all, because that amount is zero. And yet so many “suggestion” threads every day. Perhaps “this would be really cool so let’s talk about how much we would like it, keep in mind though, it’s never happening” would be more accurate. A touch lengthy, I admit.

Sorry man, it’s 100% true. Do South Boats a few times and tell me the afk zergers who get feared at the boats don’t cause champs to spawn.

I’ve been doing Teq every day for a long time, and in all my experience this is the case. No, I’m not going to provide proof, as that would take far too much time to assemble. But yeah, this is pretty universally accepted to be true, so if you can’t prove otherwise, then you probably shouldn’t be going around telling people they’re wrong.

You seem to know a thing or two about standard video game graphics options, but I think you underestimate the amount of effort it would take to implement these features in a several years old graphics engine that may have been developed by people no longer at the company. They can’t just throw a slider in for view distance and call it a day if their engine can’t handle more view distance efficiently. They can’t just split up the post processing options if they didn’t design the engine for doing them independently. Etc.

Granted, I’m not a graphics programmer, but I’m quite certain the reason these features are not in the game is that ANet simply does not have the resources to invest any further in developing a perfectly acceptable graphics engine.

Still, they’re pretty good suggestions. I just don’t think they’re ever going to touch that part of the game again, and that’s probably for the best.

Belzebu.3912:

Most of those may not excite you

Indeed.

- PvP rewards… great on them, they need more love, but I don’t do PvP.
- Class balance changes… mostly pretty minor and no new build options since launch.
- Commander tag… I have taken advantage of this, at least.
- Minor crafting QoL feature… snoozeville. still nice I guess.
- New back pieces… already got one thanks. btw they appear to be designed to the benefit of players who are not yet max level crafting?(??) VagueNet strikes again
- New leveling items… explicitly for new players.
- Profession loot… useless to anybody who already has what they need or the means to get it.

Looking at what’s been announced so far, there’s a decent number of arguable features that are sparking a lot of debate, padded with a lot of overdue fixes and humdrum tweaks.

Maybe in future maps, but I really doubt they’re going to waste time going back and adding new event chains to starter zones (or any existing zones).

I don’t know if “going all out” is how I would describe what they are doing with this feature pack. But there’s always next week, where we get to see what “big changes” they have planned for collecting and trading (that will hopefully not need to be modified halfway through the week because they didn’t think about the consequences…)

As for the anniversary… yeah I don’t think they’re going to do anything but the gem store sales, which is pretty apropos for the ANet of today.

- 5 hours of content every 2 weeks that you’ll finish and never go back to
- Gem store sales

That said, you should come back, because you missed nothing you can’t read about and get caught up on.

I think we need a dedicated clarifier, someone who can come on here whenever an announcement is made and address the inevitable slew of player concerns that arises from ANet’s incorrigible vagueness and apparent lack of forethought.

Season 2 and the fight against Mordrey could have been an expansion, but it’s far too late for that now. And as Naus said above me, they’ve gotten themselves so deep into Living Story that they really just have to stick it out at this point.

Getting money is all about finding the right things to do. You have to be doing max level content. Leveling alts isn’t going to bring in the gold. And not all max level content is created equally. For instance, if you do a Fractal run every day, you get 1g in the bonus chest. Same for Tequatl. If you do both of those every day, that’s a minimum of 2g straight currency, in addition to whatever you can make from the drops you get.

Karka farming is a great way to get gold at the moment. 3-5g an hour, and you barely have to pay attention; if you have a second monitor or a TV within sight, you can watch something! I usually do it for about an hour, finishing up with karka queen, but if I had a lot more shows to watch, I’d probably do it several hours easy.

Today’s blog post was great. In the wake of many users complaining about the lack of new max level content, ANet responded by adding features only useful to non-max-level characters, continuing in their trend of completely missing the point.

I’m losing faith every day, and I’m not looking forward to tomorrow.. “A Fresh Start”
Could that possibly be anything good?

I want to keep playing, and I definitely will until I get my full ascended set. Here’s hoping ANet can prove me wrong about them before I do.

Awaiting raccoon tonic

Also, the living world isn’t pointless. If they didn’t have that, how would they advertise all these new cash shop items?

“Hey kid, wanna buy a katana?”

Welcome to the forums!

Dang I miss that login screen, why did they even change that? Also I had no idea about this area, and I played during beta. Perhaps I just don’t remember.

Predictions for Feature Patch 3 in 2015:

- Added Nomad stats to Mawdrey
- Fixed hammer bug in Cliffside Fractal
- Nerfed loot

Agreed. What’s worse, the story isn’t even very good. Good enough for the target audience, sure, but not worth neglecting gameplay expansion.

I was given some hope by the recent official responses to player agitation, but still, it does not appear they have sufficient resources allocated to gameplay to do anything other than nerf stuff they don’t want people doing.

There pretty much isn’t a line. You could kick someone because you don’t like the way they look, and as long as you had another person agree with you, they’re out. They can then report you, but for what? Using an in-game system in the way it is intended to be used? How would the moderators be able to distinguish that scenario from one in which the kick was warranted? If they can’t reliably do that, they will have to be reluctant to issue punishment. It reeks of futility.

Players: “we really need to know that we won’t be kicked for kittens and giggles by bad people”

ANet: “I know, what if we just put in log messages so you can report people when it does happen, and maybe it’ll get looked into?”

Kudos to the developer who’s trying to do something about this. Anti-kudos for the solution being completely not what people are asking for.

KOPPER.1458:

Also I probably wouldn’t expect to see, class, races, or skills added this time around.

I wouldn’t expect to see classes or races ever. I think if they wanted to do that, they would have by now.

Maybe within a couple more years we’ll see significant additions to skills, but doubt it will be soon.

Maybe tomorrow

Maybe

J/K it’s just more materials grind

I think maybe OP meant like in GW1

Unfortunately that ANet is long gone

Things that have been said way too many times:

1. “ANet can’t win no matter what they do” / “make up your minds”
Yeah this is called “people disagreeing with each other” and it happens literally all the time at any place where there are 2 or more people. This is not a reason for them to be quiet about potential upcoming features. Trying to avoid backlash is not only futile, but harmful, especially when you’re prone to miscalculation (see commander tags, instance ownership).

2. “The players are unhappy”
On the forum, which probably doesn’t even account for 1% of the player-base. While this is the main avenue for player communication with ANet staff, it is hardly a perfect representation of what the majority of players want.

3. “It’s not fair for someone to spend 2000g in the MF and get nothing when someone else spends 400g and gets Dusk”
If the forge had a sign posted “2000g for a precursor” then yes, this would be unfair. But look, it’s RNG, and it works as intended. You may not like it, but everybody rolls the same dice, and that’s fair.

“We can’t talk about that at this time” lol

moiraine.2753:

First people wanted owner of the party instance to be removed.Anet listened to that and made the needed changed.Now people don’t like the change and feel that the group will get abused.Oxxx come on decide what you want finaly.Anet can’t do everything.

Surely there are not this many people just now realizing that you can’t please everyone. Why does everyone act so surprised when some in the community disagree with a change? It’s going to happen every time, there is no need to say this.

Besides, this is a legitimate concern that has arisen from the fix. They may have solved one problem, but without the proper checks in place, there is now another problem. It’s not just black/white like/dislike.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

11. You will follow the instructions of authorized personnel while in Guild Wars 2 or on the official Guild Wars 2 website.”

Somehow I don’t think “move plz” was what they had in mind when they wrote that.

Don’t be nitpicky about the letter of the law. If anyone would use that rule to justify this alleged behavior, that is an equally distasteful abuse of power.

Vayne.8563:

Actually OP you don’t have any rights at all. Anet isn’t America. It’s Tyria.

I almost cried at how nonsensical this is. Is that seriously an argument against a blatant abuse of power (if that is indeed what happened)?

There is zero chance this is not against the rules, because I presume ANet has rules for their developers, and any decent human beings would include “don’t kittening boot players because they’re annoying you, that’s not cool.”

And the comparison to America is pretty laughable… we all know what happens if you get on the mods’ bad side in real life…

“Thanks for the awesome cake cannon that I didn’t have before, ANet, but I don’t play my 2 yr. character anymore so it’s useless”

Well, pretend you never got it then, and it’s like nothing even happened.

I have to agree with Romek, somebody wasted time and money paying for a blog post to be written up about overdue fixes presenting them like some long-awaited content updates. Honestly if I saw all of the things in today’s blog post in patch notes it would make perfect sense.

- Fixed issue where instance owner leaving dungeon kicks party
- Added ability to view subcomponent recipes in crafting UI without closing current recipe
- Lots of performance tweaks

Not to say I’m not happy that they’re fixing these things. Again, these changes have been needed for a long time.

I know we’ve been asking them to communicate more, and they are with these posts, all I’m saying is, hopefully tomorrow’s blog post will include actual features, and not just a bunch of things that don’t need a big announcement and probably should have been patched ages ago.

Turamarth.3248:

This shows just once more that regardless what Anet does it is just bad according to the opinion of a part of the community.

I don’t guess it’s taken you this long to realize that people disagree about things.

I dunno, it’s not that different than now, is it? Just the instance owner isn’t immune to that happening. Unless I misunderstand, I don’t feel like this will result in significantly more griefing in that regard than occurs now, and also, this change will prevent the other 4 players being booted if the instance owner leaves, which was an avenue for much greater griefing.

Boneheart.3561:

Andred.1087:

Per this interview I suppose Fractal is an option. But I believe it was made clear some time ago that they are not working on dungeons anymore.

What I took away from the interview is that they let slip they may be working on new dungeons.

He mentioned Fractals and the Acheivements from season two episodes, the former allowing them to create whatever they want (Aetherpath is a “rework”, which had to be designed around something that already existed and had to be preserved (i.e. difficult work)). The latter is a neat idea to incentivize repeat runs. But they didn’t want to create something like Hard Mode, which requires rework-effort, let alone a new path for existing dungeons.

In context of the question asked him, the eight dungeons we have now will not see any major changes.

Well, I’m all for new dungeon content. I just wouldn’t get my hopes up. Maybe, though.

Guhracie.3419:

Dusty Moon.4382:

cesmode.4257:

Im sorry, I dont visit these forums every single day to make sure I keep up on every topic. Ad Nausem for you, new to me.

It is called SEARCH – pretty easy to use actually.

ANET, when do we get a forum-user block feature? Will it be before or after the search function is fixed?

How exactly would that work? The post is hidden from your view, and any post quoting that post is… ? Nonsense request, that function is inappropriate for forum structure.

Yes, I’m aware you were just being passive aggressive and probably didn’t mean it.

Morsus.5106:

Play a dungeon with 5 bleed rifle warriors and then play it with 5 anything-other-than-condition warriors and tell me conditions are fine in group play.

What if bleed is maxed out, and burning, and poison, and vulnerability, etc. Would that not be effective?

Mfw 5 of the same build all relying on the same condition is obviously not a good idea and rightfully shouldn’t be.

Probably just a “tag party”

I wouldn’t worry about this becoming the norm. Then again I’m not on one of the highest population servers, so maybe this is the norm for those, in which case, I can see how it is annoying.

Per this interview I suppose Fractal is an option. But I believe it was made clear some time ago that they are not working on dungeons anymore.

I dunno but have you seen Hannibal? If that’s what Canach is gonna be, then by all means, let’s get some good writing in here for once.

Veltoss.9135:

I just really hope it’s a set and not a freaking outfit.

Keep dreaming.

fadeaway.2807:

Could these ideas be used in Dungeons going forward?

Yes, if there were anyone at ANet still working on dungeons.

sirflamesword.3896:

Andred.1087:

Well, I wouldn’t say there’s a remotely high chance at a precursor, but I think it’s more likely than regular mobs, and even if I’m wrong, it gives good loot otherwise, with a decent chance at some worthwhile drops.

Other world bosses don’t come close to Teq/Wurm (I assume, as I’ve never been in a Wurm map that was even close to success)

They don’t really reward better(other than karma). The chance for good drops is the same as every other world boss/boss in the game little to none unless you have extremely good luck.

I have to disagree. For the time investment, the rewards are much better. Karma is pretty important when you have loads of ascended mats to refine, or going for a legendary, etc. Also, last I checked other world bosses don’t drop ascended chests.

Edit: OK, they do drop exotic loot bags which have a chance at ascended chests. I do recall reading somewhere on the wiki that Teq has a higher chance for this (or perhaps it was something else?) than exotic bags, which would make sense to me, as his reward is once a day.

Anyway, I guess it’s just my opinion, but I would not compare the other world bosses to Teq and Wurm in any way, even loot. They’re in separate tiers.