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Why Did We Need Megaservers?

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WE didn’t. Anet did.

To expand: Anet wanted to avoid the term “server merge” so they came up with the all overflow all the time system they called megaserver. They also claimed it was because of server pride in wvw. So, they completely destroyed the concept of servers, and now they only matter to 500 people at a time, at most.

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Patch tomorrow; What is in it?

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There’s a patch tomorrow?

Edit: they don’t need to patch to add gem store stuff generally…

Actually, they do. It just doesn’t always go live on patch day. (old stuff, like the frost and flame dyes probably don’t, but new stuff does.)

WvW Tourney and Customer Support

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Yeah, I finished my meta early, then lots of my guildies get their boxes, I get nothing. Anet says very little. Why do we even bother?

Potentially Unnoticed Season 2 Information;

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He won’t die. He’s a major character in the personal story, and anet won’t destroy the “continuity” by having him die.

Dungeons, do they need to be fixed?

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Why should people kill mobs that don’t drop loot? Because you want them to have to? Hardly a good reason. People play games to have fun, not run some gauntlet because you think they should have to work harder for their reward.

[Feedback Thread] New Crown Pavilion First Impression [merged]

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I think I figured out why the pavilion has such crap drops: China. Anet, or rather, the company running Chinese GW2, doesn’t want a crap load of tier 6 mats flooding the market a week after the game goes live. So, loot was disabled. I think it’s fairly clear that China’s now running this game, and we’re second class citizens.

[Feedback Thread] New Crown Pavilion First Impression [merged]

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Hey all, just a quick note. Earning higher tiers of reward in the Boss Blitz in the Queen’s Pavilion is a great way to earn Festival Tokens, and Queen’s Gauntlet tickets – the rewards that the other activities within the festival give as well. If you check your inventory, you should see the tokens & tickets you have received.

Yeah, we know. We’re not idiots. We just don’t think gauntlet tickets, and tokens are a worthy reward.

Sanctum Sprint Glitchy-ness

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You need to understand this issue can’t really be fixed by ANet (other than redesigning the skills in some manner to make them less sensitive to lag). It is caused by latency across the internet that ANet has very little control over. ALL of the movement skills are effected by it, but long distance jumping skills that require a precise landing area are going to be VERY problematic.

While zone population may be a factor, your actual latency to and from the server you are connecting to is likely the real issue (which was why guesting to other servers could make the situation better). I’d say 80% of the player I recall having a horrific time last year were Pacific / Asiatic players….those that would have the highest latency to the NA or EU based servers.

Perhaps making events that require you to have pinpoint accurate timing in a game that has latency and lag is a bad idea?

Goodbye Queensdale Train!

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Of course, it did affect you. Kill a champ out of turn, and see how it affected you. Queensdale was a waste. Most of what you saw in map chat was “train?” That’s no way to build a game. This is absolutely a good change.

Guild mission changes in this patch

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This, quite frankly, is a HORRIBLE idea. Several of the guild challenges require coordination, and if anyone can come in and participate, this just gives them a chance to troll it. Like shatterstrike. Can they pick up charzookas, and destroy crystals? Or the quggan rescue? Can they release quaggans now? Some guilds like to manage how THEIR guild missions work, not just let anyone who’s on the map come and take part. It’s OUR influence that’s being spent. Why should it be open to anyone who wants to come along and grief us?

Welcome China! First time entire FOTM group

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Anet should release a server for SEA and Oceanic. I’m sick of playing with 400 ping regularly and get beaten in all the WvW fights that I should have won just because my skills take a few years to respond.

Say goodbye to WvW if they do that. or do you think there’s enough sea and oceanic players for 3 servers? You do realize that the lag in WvW will still be bad, even if your server’s in sea/oceanic, right? Cause you’d still have to connect to the NA servers to participate in WvW. And thus, the lag still remains.

Question about Guild and Megaserver.

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But remember kids, servers still count in WvW. Somehow. With the complete destruction of the concept of servers.

Patch Next Week!

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I don’t think there’ll be any living story content with this update. I think this is just to give us something to chew on. Else, why introduce them out of sequence. Queen’s gauntlet was june last year, and Zephyr was august (I think). I doubt there’ll be new bosses, they don’t even have time to be on the forums, why would they have time to balance test new bosses? I do wonder if there’ll be new achievements. Probably not.

They did say something about there being new stuff though, and hints towards S2.

I didn’t see any thing like that in the announcement.

Living world needs to stop

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LOL—snuck that mount issue in again-it’s a dead horse.

But I agree in theory permanent new content is needed (maps/quests/SOLOABLE dungeons—PvE content!!!!).
Raids/mounts/living quarters—meh!

One of the mounts could be a dead horse!

Patch Next Week!

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I don’t think there’ll be any living story content with this update. I think this is just to give us something to chew on. Else, why introduce them out of sequence. Queen’s gauntlet was june last year, and Zephyr was august (I think). I doubt there’ll be new bosses, they don’t even have time to be on the forums, why would they have time to balance test new bosses? I do wonder if there’ll be new achievements. Probably not.

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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Once again, our guild did Save Our Supplies Guild Challenge and succeeded only for it to give us no reward this weeks, our Guild Puzzle in Proxmics Labs was completed fully and ended up showing up as failed in the end. We have players in our guild that have not recieved any rewards from guild missions since the Megaserver roll out. It has been nearly a month with no fixes, whats going on?

China!

What sets the Gold->Gems price?

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There’s no way they’re leaving the price up to us. There’s NO way for us to set the price we want to pay for gems. How can it be up to the free market?

Individually, no, I cannot decide what the price for gems will be whether I be a seller or a buyer. But, as I make my buy/sell decisions at given prices, I am part of the “market.” The aggregate of all of our buy/sell decisions impacts the supply that sellers are willing to provide at any given price and the demand of buyers at any given price. So, individually we cannot, by ourselves, “set the price.” As an aggregate, though, we all set the price.

Sorry, no. Someone has to set the price in the first place. If you’re the only seller in town (And anet is) you can set whatever price you want. The gold to gems price is obviously manipulated, else why would it go up? Because the players want to pay more? No, it’s because it’s set to go up when demand is higher/there’s more gold in the economy (which is what I think the real answer is.) It’s hard to believe there’s more demand now than there was when the game started, and there were more players (and less gold).

What sets the Gold->Gems price?

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There’s no way they’re leaving the price up to us. There’s NO way for us to set the price we want to pay for gems. How can it be up to the free market?

Weapon Skins Going away!!

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I’m getting tired of this game. All what I’m doing there – it’s trying to save money in time to buy something that will soon be removed from the game. And hastily make achievements until they decided to remove too. It no longer brings pleasure. A game in which nothing is permanent. Everything is not for sure.

Do you even want a scelerite skin?

I want ALL skins. That’s the problem. This is my “style” of play. And the game (would seem to be) designet precisely betting on this, with all of these collection cells, minis, wardrobe, not necessary equipment grind etc.
Collect until you get tired…
However, developers are constantly rushed. Collect all is simply impossible. Need huge infusion of money (unaffordable for me (and I, let’s say so, pay much MUCH more than the cost of subscription in most games).
When you realize that developers destroy something that you aspire to, the game dramatically ceases to give pleasure. And this happens in GW2 almost every month.

Did you play guild wars 1? So, what you want is to eventually get all the skins, but you can’t afford to? How do you plan to get every skin in the game without spending a lot of gold?

What's the correct report option for this?

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That’s what I use, yes.

Weapon Skins Going away!!

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I’m getting tired of this game. All what I’m doing there – it’s trying to save money in time to buy something that will soon be removed from the game. And hastily make achievements until they decided to remove too. It no longer brings pleasure. A game in which nothing is permanent. Everything is not for sure.

Do you even want a scelerite skin?

Weapon Skins Going away!!

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Well, to be fair, the BL weapon traders will look pretty stupid with tons of bags on their merchant popup. They’re probably removing weapons that aren’t very popular. I mean, you had a long time to get them, and does anyone like the scelerite weapons so much that they’re willing to waste 3 tickets or 30 scraps on them? (the trading post says no)

Weapon Skins Going away!!

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Can you even get sclerite weapons with black lion tickets?

yes, they’re 3 tickets each

Oh, allright then.

Weapon Skins Going away!!

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Can you even get sclerite weapons with black lion tickets?

Remove Dredge Fractal 2014

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Anet knows about Dredge. They’ve known about dredge since forever. The only changes they’ve made are to make it more tedious. That’s your answer.

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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Generally I think the megaserver is a good change. It made the game alive again. All of the problems metioned here can be solve with just two things that were mentioned multiple times in this thread.

1. Somtheing like a megaserver selection similar to GW1
2. World Chat.

I sure hope Anet is listening…

They aren’t. China!

Fused Gauntlets?

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Good idea. Now, instead of doing living world content, I just wait around a while, and pick up all the rewards afterwards, when it’s fair easier to get them!

Wheres New Content?? (State of the Game) [merged]

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No, no. That argument doesn’t work. I never again want to hear “you don’t pay for it so shut up.” We DO pay for it. This game wouldn’t exist if people weren’t paying for it. We have every right to complain. And don’t use the “Well, if you don’t like it, don’t pay for it. And now that you’re not paying for it, shut up, because you’re not paying for it.” If I didn’t care, I would just stop playing. But I do care about the game. That’s why I come to the forums, and try to offer up constructive criticism, even if I fail at times. This game isn’t run by anet as a charity. They make a profit off of us, the players. If no one ever bought gems, how many updates do you think this game would get? Just one, to shut down the servers. (gw1 is cheaper to run, so it can exist in perpetuity). Players have the right, and the duty to bring up problems they have with the game. The devs don’t have to implement all of our suggestions, but they at least have to pretend like they’re listening, and right now, they don’t even give us that. What other company goes virtually silent after dropping a major feature patch?

Wheres New Content?? (State of the Game) [merged]

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The developers are heads-down working on the future content releases. We are also in the middle of launching the game in China. Launching a game in a new country is kind of a big deal. Because of the team’s focus on game development, they are not able to dedicate as much time out of their workday to posting on the forums. While they might have time to read the forums, they don’t necessarily have time to engage in discussion.

I know it’s hard to be patient in this down time between Living World seasons, but please bear with us. As much as you’re craving new content to play, the team is dying for you to play it.

Unfortunately, I can’t give you any information about future content, whether it’s plot spoilers or timeline. I can say that, as a player, I am very excited about the next season, and I cannot wait to see what you all think about it.

Please know that your feedback continues to be important, our devs are still reading (though they may not have time to respond), and we sincerely appreciate your support and you sharing all your thoughts with us (critical or otherwise).

Yes, but you were all excited about Season 1, and we all know how that turned out. Why has Anet seemingly decided that chasing potential players in China is worth turning off your current players by essentially going silent in terms of non customer service related posts? Your players are dying for information, and coming here, and saying, YET AGAIN (this was a constant theme in season 1), that you can’t tell us anything, but it’s going to be super awesome, doesn’t help. We feel like we’re talking into a black hole, and the company just doesn’t care about it’s current fanbase, because it seems millions of players in china. What are you going to do to counteract this feeling?

Unaccessible items of the living story

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Well, if all I have to do is wait for the LS to get to the flashback npc, and then I get all these neat stuff quite easily, why should I bother doing the living story? Just come back every so often, and do the flashback npc, and win! Would you like a free legendary, because you haven’t been playing since the start, and missed out on the opportunity to collect all the mats and gold and karma, like other people?

There's a minter out there making a killing

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Gold coin is 24k, gold ore and the gold ingots are much lower quality (MUCH lower)

So, uh, when we make gold jewelry, it’s made of crappy gold ore, and not smelted metal?

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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I just saw the front page. I give up. Clearly, we don’t matter.

speculation: Megaservers, transfer fees, WvW

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This would be a horrible idea. Server pride is more important in WvW than anywhere else in the game.

What servers? The ones that only exist for 500 people at a time, now?

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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Cursed Shore is now megaserver.

This megaserver “virus” is infecting at an alarming rate.

Finally, our last haven of temple is now screwed.

Good bye temples. You will be missed

Spreading? It’s already spread, and I’m afraid the patient’s terminal.

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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So, now all maps are megaserved. Apparently, “listening to the community” wasn’t on your list of criteria. Now we’ll never see the gates of arah event again, or grenth, or melandru. Goodbye, Sea of Sorrows. Good bye, jade quarry. Goodbye blackgate, and Magumma, and Crystal Desert, and Dragonbradnd. Good bye, henge of denravi, goodbye Fort Aspenwood. Goodbye to all the other servers. You no longer exist. It’s all mega server now.

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Question!

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I don’t think using gold to gems is technically “free” but allright.

Do you spend real life money on it? no. pretty sure thats what free means.

Well, you have to spend time earning the money. It’s not like you get it away as part of a quest.

Question!

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I don’t think using gold to gems is technically “free” but allright.

Question!

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No, there’s not. You get 5 to start, and you have to buy the rest. There are occasionally sales, but one just occurred, so it probably won’t be for a while more.

Megaserver isn't Guild Mission friendly.

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Guild bounties respawn right after being killed, I’m sure you know that.

Yeah, but then you have to find it, and that takes time.

Feedback/Questions: MegaServer

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I actually do have constructive criticism:

Can we revert Lion’s Arch back to being server specific? It’s the main gathering place (or will be, once it’s rebuilt) and can help us maintain a server identity, since we’ll be able to meet there, and rally people to WvW from there, recruit people to guilds, and so on.

Let's save Orr!

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Uh, because then, no one could get most of their new grandmaster traits?

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Why should we have to pay for a trait simply because it’s tied to an event that may never happen again?

There is currently no living story going on due to this everyone is at the area that they feel is best designed for what they are playing at the moment that is orr. As soon as there is another living story the event will fail. Eventually. Then you can take your friends and go do it with others that are planning on doing it at that time. Or you can play the area until the event fails and starts again.

If you can’t wait that long then you can pay.

And your proof that this will happen? Oh wait, there is none. Nice try tho.

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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Why should we have to pay for a trait simply because it’s tied to an event that may never happen again?

Feedback/Questions: MegaServer

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Guys…. read this list: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Megaserver-Rollout-Update/first#post3909472

The only place in Orr that has the mega-server rolled out onto is Straights of Devastation.

There are just more people then usual in Orr due to the fact that they want traits which is why all the temples are unlocked most of the time now.

Although admittedly waiting for a defend event to fail in order to unlock a grandmaster trait is still BS.

Wrong, it’s in malchor’s leap, too.

NEW World Bosses are crap

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You do know those don’t work anymore?

NEW World Bosses are crap

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Thank you so much for posting that, jktorres! I read that post when it came out, then totally forgot about it. Running the World Boss Circuit is one of my favorite things to do in-game, so I’m glad it’s still doable.

Heck, if the times are accurate and reliable, I might enjoy it more, personally. Logging in and never (or almost never) being more than 15 minutes away from a boss sounds like an improvement.

So long, Frostgorge Sound overflow.

So long, obnoxiously long spawn window for Frozen Maw.

You do know that Maw spawns every two hours, right? So….you have to wait as long as the maximum amount of time with his old spawn window, right?

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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From another thread, you say you’re getting feedback for the developers. How can you be, when you’ve implemented megaservers in virtually every map? What happened to taking in community feedback and metrics?

Game Updates: World Boss Synchronization

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I know I should read the patch notes more carefully, but can someone tell me if all the boss events start exactly on the timer now, so you know exactly when and where every boss will activate, or are these rolling “windows”?

Only mega bosses have a window. All others, whatever pre they still have starts at their allotted time.

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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They just updated the list. No Mount Maelstrom, which is absolutely megaservered. I just did golem, and there were people from every “server” there. I did do worm, and metrica wasn’t mega server. Whaat’s going on?

What happened to “metrics” and “community feedback?”

Game Updates: World Boss Synchronization

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The big problem is that no one’s read the patch notes. Karka queen isn’t spawnable till the timer comes up. Showing up at say, 6 pm server, and doing the settlements WILL NOT SPAWN HER. There’s is a THREE HOUR WINDOW after her time comes up when she can spawn. Isn’t that fun? As for maw, 90% of the time, brogan has NOTHING to do with spawning maw. Same with gamarian. He runs around and does nothing most of the time. The only time they spawn is when their timer is up. That’s the ONLY TIME. The apis are 90% worthless now. You’ll NEVER know when a temple event is active, because 2/3rds of them have been megaserved, thank you anet. So you’ll just have to park your kitten there, and wait till the zerg shows up.