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So Stronghold will be 5v5.....

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Some companies think if they copy WoW, they will be successful. Other thinks if they make some moba style game they will become some kings of esports and swim in cash(NC$oft)
Anyway, they obviously listen to us!

First Forum Specialist chosen

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Is the WvW “specialist” real? I mean…by any chance is not an account handled by Anet? So they picked up a guy without any WvW posts until today? It’s like to apply for a job without absolutely any experience. I’m not saying that being a forum hero means you are experienced but you get the idea.
I see Anet is too afraid to get in touch with the WvW “community”. But whatever, do whatever you want, there’s no hope for this game mode.

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Extreme Clipping: ImperialOutfit, FemAsura

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The year is 2015 already. You had enough time to fix the existing issues and try to better in the future, Anet.
It’s sad and embarrassing(for you) to see this after the constant bragging how Anet has one of the most talented people in the industry.
I can go and find older and even f2p games with no clipping issues.
GW2 claims to be AAA, yet such clipping passes QA? Nah, just kidding,why QA, people will buy it anyway.

That made me laugh.

What, are you talking about those games where the armor is just a texture overlay on the character? Or those with a vast collection of… what, 6 armor models at most? Is it one of those games where the races vary between humans, long-eared humans and green humans?

See, I haven’t played a single MMO that did it better, and I’ve played a lot of ‘em. And yeah, it’s super easy to criticize, but are clipping issues that big of a deal considering the vast amount of customization available in Guild Wars 2?

In the modern gaming industry, rigorous testing has become extremely rare. Devs are being given extremely tight deadlines at all time and for no reason whatsoever, and they aren’t the ones making the decisions. I highly doubt they have the time to test every new armor with every possible body type, hairstyle, horns, ears and whatever else, that’s thousands of combinations for each race and sex.

So yeah, it’s 2015, but no company has an AI capable of creating perfect quality games in their stead. So we’re using the exact same techniques we were using 10 years ago, but with better technology. You can be condescending all you want, it won’t make you right. Y’know, unless you can do better.

This is why I weep for humanity – because people like you, white knights, and big corporation apologists, fanboys.
I’ve played probably most of the MMOs in the western market so I’m very aware of other games and clipping. I can safely say GW2 is one of the worst cases.
Deadlines and no time to test? Top of keks were had.
What kind of ridiculous excuse is that? It’s a business, respect your customers. Do you think car manufacturers are going to release a car with major flaw because a “deadline”? It doesn’t matter if it’s a virtual good or real one. Business is business, sadly the new generation of gamers are not very smart.
Can I do it better is not even a question to be asked. I’m not a 3d designer, neither I own game company, but if it was I was surely going to test stuff because you know… decency and stuff.

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Extreme Clipping: ImperialOutfit, FemAsura

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The year is 2015 already. You had enough time to fix the existing issues and try to better in the future, Anet.
It’s sad and embarrassing(for you) to see this after the constant bragging how Anet has one of the most talented people in the industry.
I can go and find older and even f2p games with no clipping issues.
GW2 claims to be AAA, yet such clipping passes QA? Nah, just kidding,why QA, people will buy it anyway.

Signed,
a charr who is tired of clipping.

vabbian armor

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/signed
/charrdance

Bugged Borderlands [EU]

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Watched that video before reset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMaqOSE1Kx8
Clearly the dev time takes long because they strife to be working properly!
Anyway, looks like resets are not automatic? Someone needs to trigger something or what? It’s 2015…

11K dmg eviscerate

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OP, with NPE they added some “learn to dodge” areas in the low-level zones. There are few outside the Citadel. Go check them out, maybe next time you won’t be a slowpoke who can’t dodge one of the slowest burst in the game and cry on the forums.

Teeny Tiny Expansion

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Their AI consultant made a tweet ~3 months ago he has been working on something with Anet for past 6 months. So it’s about 9 now. I can add maybe 3 more months preparation work before he was hired. An year. This time-frame really fits what they have shown. And when they release it it will be close to the 3rd anniversary. Just lol.

WvW Community gets another EotM

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I appreciate that you are interested in finding out more of what will be in the new map, but we didn’t show anything about it in the trailer that could lead you to the conclusions here. We’ll be talking about it a lot more and showing it off soon. At the least I’d hope you can reserve judgement until then.

May I ask what is going on with the Alliances idea the devs liked most from whole CDI thread? It has been months. One would have expected today to finally hear a thing about WvW balance. But nope.(not surprised myself).

Oh btw…. WvW achievement adjustment. Just a reminder.

My disappointment with this announcement

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1) They have promised hard group content for the hard core player since the game was first conceived. They have yet to deliver on it nor seemed to truly attempt to deliver on it. Everything about their releases has been centered around the casual-average player area.

2) Edge of the Mists is not a WvW map. Edge of the Mists is, and has always been, something entirely separate from WvW.

I would love to see you take a group of casual-average players and finish the Triple Trouble Wurm or Tequatl.

Edge of the Mists was a map developed based on WvW-players suggestions, with the help of WvW-players beta-testing and released for the benefit of WvW.

You might not like it, but claiming that it is not a map for WvW is completely false.

Teq is easy, every pug group does it today, no need of ts3 even.
And as it was said, EotM is not a WvW map, it’s not based on WvW-players suggestions, and the majority of the testers were PvE players. The result is evident.

I have my fears, that new map will be yet another karma train.

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For people moaning there is no new race.

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A new race is something more than a cosmetic toy. It’s a new racial city. A few new storylines. New hearts, new lore.

Yep, too much real content and work for Anet. You can’t expect much from probably 30-50 euro XP. Lets just stick to rehashing and what we already have on the table.

Live Heart of Thorns Pax forum thread

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I feel sorry for all WvW players who had any hope. No deathmatch GvG, no deathmatch for sPvP.
#ppt4life

Anet, I'm really dissapointed.

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They will fix this when they fix the warrior’s reckless dodge in stealth => never.

I lost the count how many times I got revealed just because I’m trying to dodge aoes and all random attacks around me. Great choice – don’t dodge and die, or dodge, get revealed and die. gg

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Shadow of the dragon armor in gemstore

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What a joke….
300 gems for each piece, that will be 1800 gems for the full set over time? And as people said not even fully dyeable. If I look back in the history(specially in the first year) there were many complete outfits and armor sets released for 800 gems.
Once again the usual Bait-and-switch tactic from NCSoft strikes again.
"Micro"transactions.

Will not be buying the XP, definitely.

Can we hold you to your word when the XP releases?

Yes, you can.
Black desert, EQ Next, CU, FFXIV, WoW.
I will be fine, don’t worry about me. xoxo

Shadow of the dragon armor in gemstore

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What a joke….
300 gems for each piece, that will be 1800 gems for the full set over time? And as people said not even fully dyeable. If I look back in the history(specially in the first year) there were many complete outfits and armor sets released for 800 gems.
Once again the usual Bait-and-switch tactic from NCSoft strikes again.
"Micro"transactions.

Will not be buying the XP, definitely.

GW2 Sneak Peek @ PAX South.

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“The Living World was just the beginning.”
Yes, 2 years we are only in the beginning. To be precise – beta stage.

Just another hype train. I will go get popcorn, can’t wait for another massive fail like in Gamescon. kek

I'm quitting gw2

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If I had a gold for every self-important gamer who posts a whiny “I’m quitting” thread, I’d probably be close to making my first million by now.

says the guy who can’t handle a duel and a gank.
Run to your zerg, run! ^ ^

I'm quitting gw2

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Wait, you’re saying medi guard is OP?

Wat?

^ Bad player spotted.

(when a skill on 8s cd can burst 2.6k armor target – yes, it’s op. Also so many blocks.)

Cheese Builds poisoning GW2

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Remove the Dire stat from the game and just let all those fools die.
It’s unbelievable how bad they are, only thing that keeps them alive to spam condis is their 3k+ armor.
And no, Dire is not like PVT.

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Game Updates: Traits

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Well, hello there.
Another day, another negative post.

So recently made a thief, bought what traits I could while on it and since they are account-bound I assumed perhaps I can buy the rest with my main(warrior) and just transfer them. But nope. Can’t buy other professions traits. So why on earth are they even account bound? Maybe if I make duplicating class…? lol, what a joke.
gg, never have been more dissapointed in a mmorpg dev than I’m in Anet.
It just screams BAD from everywhere.

Cheating Dev

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its the only way they can test things in a real enviroment without closing the servers and hiring many testers or doing other closed test , without being facerolled.

also it could do with visual evidence of the no white swords collecting real information.

I hope you are sarcastic.

Also waiting for a red spot(if thread doesn’t get deleted even).

I saved it just in case though – https://archive.today/OcNP3

Guild Wars 2 Needs Your Vote

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Thanks for letting me know, OP.
Voted for The Secret World.

Removing White Sword : Good or Bad?

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Awesome. Just awesome.
Nothing better than being outnumbered 3:1 or 4:1 and not having white sword. Yees, we are going to split our “zerg” of 10 people on EB
People told you already – keep the swords on for servers who are outnumbered but as usual Anet doesn’t listen cos they obviously are so knowledgeable about WvW, they had to sent employees to learn stuff. Not only that but it’s so hard to read the map, find your enemies and wipe them.
At least we got some decent blob on home border to fight against two enemy bigger blobs. How wonderful we have to reduce our main attacking force by putting scouts. Way to give even less disadvantage to the already weaker servers.
Have you ever heard about PTS? You can’t just throw stuff in a live version…
And yeah, rewards for defending? It’s not like blobbing is that much rewarding, but you want people to sit in towers for some karma after successful defending?

The New Dailies -- Feedback welcome

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Guess which game’s expansion I will buy?
(hint: not yours)

Of course. After all, there will be no expansion to GW2.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they do some bug fixing and add basic features that are still missing since launch and wrap it as an XP.
They know well that the established playerbase of fanbois will keep playing no matter what. All they need to do is to throw 1 hour long “go here, click here and watch cutscenes” content every once in awhile.

The New Dailies -- Feedback welcome

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gg, Anet, no re.
So if I need one laurel to get my ascended weapon done I may end up wait for few more days, because you know… ascended crafting is not time-gated at all already.
Does anyone in Anet ever think how “a change” would affect the rest of the game? But from what I’ve seen for 2 years- nope..nobody is able to think. This is like 4th or 5th iteration of daily system, I never had issues with it until now.
If you really wanted to give us better rewards you could just add them to the existing system. But nooo, you have to make overly complicated system(not in the good way). And of course it’s not for our own good. All you care is the gem store, so you try so hard to make people log-in everyday and hope they see an item they want even if they don’t need it.
Thanks for making the game even more grindy.
Also I’m calling it now – chance to get laurels from BL chest!

Guess which game’s expansion I will buy?
(hint: not yours)

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Oh... for kittens sake!

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Bump because I’m also not happy with yet another incompetent “security” implementation. Setting up some kitten limit without any monitoring before to decide whether or not is needed it’s stupid.
Can’t even even transfer the ridiculous amount of 15g from my other account and it’s 2+ weeks old with level 80. It will be unlocked “as a play more”. Wth does that even mean???
gg anet. gg!

There is "probably" no expansion, its a myth

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I am going to assume you have no experience in development by this theory. Well let me tell you why what you’re suggesting would not work.

In order to add / change code on a project you need to understand that project. Failing that whatever you do is likely to break a million things you didnt know depended on something you changed. That’s not a couple lines of code, its generally millions of lines. That getting familiar with a project generally takes 6 months – 1 year just to get to a point where you start being productive. Its much worst when you get no proper handover.

That alone is a bad idea for NCSoft cause lets assume they force Anet developers to switch over for a couple of years, they’re only going to take 1 year of actual production value and loose 2 years minimum (1 year for the anet developer to get up to speed + 1 year for the new developer coming in to replace the anet developer after they go back)

Also Anet is in Washington area, Carbine is in California so okey Ncsoft is going to ask a bunch of Anet developers to go work for carbine for a while … well that means spending a ton of money to move those devs to california only to move them back when the time comes.

But perhaps the biggest reason why NCsoft would never even consider such a move has got to be what they understand best… MONEY. Such a move would cost them colossal amounts of money.

1. Employee + family relocation – TWICE
2. 2 years of downtime on wildstar development that really can be cut in 1/2 if you hire new full time staff.
3. damaging your 2nd most profitable product in lieu of a product that’s unfortunately 2nd worst product and thats the quarter after release. why would they do that? there is no guarantee the problem with wildstar is one of development and even if that can be fixed its by a team you’re going to loose what if the one that comes after isnt going to be able to deliver either?

Sorry to burst your bubble of convince but I do in fact have an idea of development. And moving onto new project is not really that hard when you are seasoned developer. 6 months is more than enough, that’s not some NASA spaceship…
Aside GW2 has been out for 2+ years.
And of course you missed the part where I mentioned the possibility of work from distance.
Do you know how many big game companies outsource work to 3rd parties? Mostly assets, not code, but there are devs who do that and it’s not hard.
There’s nothing new.

Here’s an example for you
http://www.liquiddevelopment.com/about.php

edit: and btw GW2 as a product is beyond damaged already. Wonder why…

There is "probably" no expansion, its a myth

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We all know about those “big” things that came in the past. Nothing but hype. Usually it involves fixing tooltips and some tiny content update.
So the background project and where is Anet with their ~300 employees? Obviously they are not doing anything on GW2, because what we see is not a work from 300 people.
Most of the team has been deployed to Wildstar. Both studios, Carbine and Anet are owned by NCSoft. And WS was so bad at launch, needed lots of work. And now they fired 60 people from Carbine. Things just connect.
It’s very likely there’s no expansion, just trying to hold the leaving players as long as possible, to milk what they can. If there’s XP, don’t get your hopes, it won’t be anything Big™
Here are some fresh news from Korea – NCSoft has lost the trust of the players there. So I’d expect Q1-Q2 2015 significant drop in revenues there.

Anet and Carbine are both owned by NCSoft but they’re still separate companies. NCSoft can’t move staff between them like that. (Which is not to say individual people can’t move from one company to the other, but it would be a case of leaving one job and applying for, and getting, another. Not simply being told "this week you’re working for this company.)

Sure they are separate companies, but with the same owner… And yes, they can. I didn’t say they just move them “like that” though. Of course there are contracts etc. And the work probably is remote, because the studios are in different states of U.S. Maybe some people even moved to California even. You will be asked nicely if you would like to transfer onto other project. You can say no and get fired.
But so far from what I’ve seen I’m convinced Anet is doing work for Wildstar.
Not going to believe all those people just sit all day, getting paid do nothing. And haven’t seen any real indications that something indeed big is coming up.

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There is "probably" no expansion, its a myth

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We all know about those “big” things that came in the past. Nothing but hype. Usually it involves fixing tooltips and some tiny content update.
So the background project and where is Anet with their ~300 employees? Obviously they are not doing anything on GW2, because what we see is not a work from 300 people.
Most of the team has been deployed to Wildstar. Both studios, Carbine and Anet are owned by NCSoft. And WS was so bad at launch, needed lots of work. And now they fired 60 people from Carbine. Things just connect.
It’s very likely there’s no expansion, just trying to hold the leaving players as long as possible, to milk what they can. If there’s XP, don’t get your hopes, it won’t be anything Big™
Here are some fresh news from Korea – NCSoft has lost the trust of the players there. So I’d expect Q1-Q2 2015 significant drop in revenues there.

The Forgotten Realm of WvW

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…why don’t you take a break from posting about it and play the game and see what happens down the road? you might end up happy. but to sit there and post constantly about it, they are a company and will do whatever they want. the small WvW group can’t exactly force them into much.

and why don’t you shut the kitten up?! We have been sitting and waiting for 2 years. No real improvements. Commander tags doesn’t really solve the biggest problems.
man, the gw2 fanbois are even worse than the wow drones from back then.
People like you are like tumours for the gaming “community”, and true blessing for the big companies. With people like you, they can just get away with anything, always.
/trade wtb a brain for that guy…someone? please?
If Anet doesn’t want to provide support for WvW – fine. But say so and stop make everyone wait and waste their time. And don’t ask us to send you videos which you can use to advertise your game so you can sell it.

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It was a good year.

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. … With EotM and 2 new areas to explore, the last one of which is going to get even bigger makes things even better….
The Marrionette was awesome and the battle for LA being the most hardcore gameplay… The new PvP system and all the cool QoL updates are good as well.

Obviously the communication with devs works most of the time Kudos to the team that listened to us.
… Some love for the FotM rewards will be much appreciated. …

Picked up the most absurd things you managed to come with.
EotM is the biggest waste of resources. But what else can happen when you invite PvE guilds to test and give feedback for PvP zone? And you want better rewards? For what exactly?
LA and Marionette hardcore events? Did you just come from mobile gaming or something?
There’s barely any communication with devs.
New maps are 1/4 the size of the vanilla maps.
Most of the QoL updates were bug fixes and features that had to be there on launch.
sPvP is still dead. And don’t even tell me about those tournaments. GvGs get more views.
GW2 must be your first PC game.

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Free transfers to Bronze and Silver from Gold

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Hi Anet. WvW player here. WvW is a game mode you may or may not be aware of its existence but nevermind.
Good to see CDI threads about scoring and population imbalance fixes but we had a CDI 1.5 years ago and nothing has come out of it.
Not sure if you even realize the the bad state of WvW in Bronze in Silver because you sent all your devs in Gold and top SIlver.
So while you are working on fixes(supposedly) why don’t you enable free transfers from Gold to #14-27 maybe? I know nothing will change but at least the community will see you are trying to do something. And lock the transfers to gold or double/triple the price . Stop encouraging people to stack…
There’s no reason what-so-ever to not give us free transfers(aside from gem, but with dead game there wont be any income at all). Wildstar already did it, WoW did it.
The clock is ticking, nobody is going to wait for you forever to fix your game.
Also fix already how transfer price is defined. You already have WvW rankings, use them. It’s one hour work.

hyperbole causes global warming and world hunger

On a serious note: I don’t think free transfers will cause the population to spread out. There’s no real incentive to do so. Something needs to change with WvW first so that there is incentive.

I actually said it’s probably not going to help because people won’t just give up their blob kingdom. However, it’s worth trying. At this point it doesn’t matter, you only can get those top servers kittenhurt. And again as I said this is meant only as temp. fix.
Of course we all know nothing will be improved. Or it will in a year when there’s nobody to play.

Free transfers to Bronze and Silver from Gold

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It’s not about merging servers or closing some then force people to pickup new. Those are extreme fixes.
All I want is Anet to encourage people to move around and don’t stack on top servers while working on a proper solution…don’t have high hopes for it though. Even if they are really going to do something it’s going to take ages knowing how fast they are. By that time there won’t be many of us left around.
Another thing is some guilds go in gold so they get more GvG. If we had gvg system which doesn’t rely on current matchups rather than EotM karma train map it would have been a little better.

Free transfers to Bronze and Silver from Gold

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I see now TC is #1. Not surprised by your response. lol
Your opinion is duly noted.

I am at Eredon Terrace (almost 2 years at bottom) and I also do not aprove this idea. Where is your god now?

Lowering the prices based on server placement would be good, but giving free transfer to other servers would just promote people to stack on the said server for a easy win like happened to Henge of Denravi on Season 2. (Why would i go to 24th if i can go to 13th for free aswell?)

I’m a Charr. We killed our gods, so don’t ask where are they.
ET has been winning for the past few weeks, maybe you just got lucky and got transfers or maybe the enemy was less. I play on EU.
It doesn’t have to be free transfer to every server in Bronze/Silver. Anet can do it with waves and control the migration.
Example:
Get the top 3 servers, and select few guilds(there must be a way to tell they are wvw players) where you send every their member a ticket that gives free transfer to bottom 3 servers(#25-27 EU). If you transfer then you get some kind of reward.
Repeat it next week with #4-6 to #22-24.
Just a rough idea, it needs smoothing because there are many national servers.

And like I said even if guilds decide to all stack on new X server who cares. WvW is so damaged it doesn’t matter anymore. People will get new matchups.

Also mind that it’s not even a fix, it’s more of a temporary solution while they working on better one(for which I doubt they do… >.> )

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Free transfers to Bronze and Silver from Gold

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Meh…
Unlikely someone is going to leave their nicely stacked server. Low-populated servers can only win.
And even if causes havoc so what? Afraid that your server won’t be able to roflstomp every enemy again? A nice shift in the top is welcome. It will add new variety of match-ups.

edit:
I see now TC is #1. Not surprised by your response. lol
Your opinion is duly noted.

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Free transfers to Bronze and Silver from Gold

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Hi Anet. WvW player here. WvW is a game mode you may or may not be aware of its existence but nevermind.
Good to see CDI threads about scoring and population imbalance fixes but we had a CDI 1.5 years ago and nothing has come out of it.
Not sure if you even realize the the bad state of WvW in Bronze in Silver because you sent all your devs in Gold and top SIlver.
So while you are working on fixes(supposedly) why don’t you enable free transfers from Gold to #14-27 maybe? I know nothing will change but at least the community will see you are trying to do something. And lock the transfers to gold or double/triple the price . Stop encouraging people to stack…
There’s no reason what-so-ever to not give us free transfers(aside from gem, but with dead game there wont be any income at all). Wildstar already did it, WoW did it.
The clock is ticking, nobody is going to wait for you forever to fix your game.
Also fix already how transfer price is defined. You already have WvW rankings, use them. It’s one hour work.

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Game Updates: Traits

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Terrible system.
Leveled up a necro to 80 last week. Yesterday decided I should get the boring job done and get the traits I need but I quickly gave up.
I was shown a waypoint in Harathi and that I have to help X to kill Y. Great… I went there and that was all. I had no idea what to do, where exactly the event was.
Do I really have to alt-tab and open wiki to get REAL useful information?
Not going to mention how boring the trait system is after 4k+ hours played.
Well, gg for you I guess. I bought the traits. You made me waste some precious gold I really need.

Lets talk about the new Gem conversion [Merged]

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Hey there,

Here are a few tidbits from the team:

  • A lot of newer players had trouble with the interface. That doesn’t apply to you, you’re veterans who have been around the conversion block a time or two. But newer players will benefit from the updated system.
  • The goal was to make the Gem Store more like other shopping experiences, and if you think about it, there is more of that feel to it now.
  • You may be surprised to know this (I know I was) but very few people bought gems at smaller denominations than the first one offered in the new system. That’s not to say they never did, nor that there wouldn’t be the desire to do so. But overall, the current options were selected based on player purchases in the past.
  • The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.

So please keep your thoughts coming on the new system. Feel free to make suggestions but please, keeping them constructive would be very much appreciated.

lolwut.
What did I just read…my mind can’t even comprehend the amount of kittens.
You claim you have made it for the newer players because it was confusing? Fine.
What was the problem to add “Custom amount” link in bottom of window though?
I was new player once, never had issues with gem store.
Why do you still think majority of people will buy that bs PR dropped from the suit guys in 2014?

Will PPK reduce fights

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I doubt anything to change in Silver aside from the german and french servers who already prefer to hide in towers. Just another reason for them to PvD and waypoint fast.
It would be fun to see how it would affect Gold though since they blob each other 24/7 almost.

Adopt-a-Dev for the WvW Fall Tournament

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Hello!
Removing white swords from objectives to give defenders a stronger role in alerting their team as well as giving attackers more of a chance to get through having their siege disabled.
John

Is this some kind of a joke? There are some servers(cough, germans) who build bunch of superior rams even for wooden towers. I can clearly see what this is going to lead to.
A keep with building wp or nearly t3 tower will be gone before we even realize because simply there was no alert, neither we can afford scouts in every tower.
Whose idea was that???
This is only encourages people to sit and sleep in towers and not go outside to fight.

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Fix the lag - it's getting worse

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It wasn’t that bad even when they were getting DDOS’d so it’s either insufficient hardware or some change they have made to the server software that causes it.
They progressively reduce the server capacity with the declining player base, perhaps a bit too much than it’s needed.
Can’t think of NCSoft game that doesn’t have lag problems.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag )

Remove Champion Bags!

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This game has many problems right now, and most of them stem from the concept of champion bags. Before champion bags, the community was one of the best in any MMO I’ve ever played (and I’ve played a lot). People would do events just for the sake of doing them, and help others out. Farming was largely a solo affair.

Then champion bags arrived. First there was the Queensdale champion train – a starter zone transformed into a place of hate, greed and anger. Then Edge of the Mists, Boss Blitz, Blix and Coiled Watch, amongst others.

Just lol.
In the most casual MMO, with no real challenges and no rewards, players have been doing the stupid “toggle on/off” events for the sake of them?
Long before champion bags and the new “luck” system, players had their MF gear and food on and spamming AoE in Cursed Shores or the other high-level zones for the sake of LOOT and nothing else.

Back in WoW, I was doing dungeons and raids all the time but it was fun and rewards were nice.
There’s something very ,very wrong with the loot in this game. It’s not even the RNG because I’m sure they Anet controls the RNG.

I highly doubt you have played any other MMOs.

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Hey Thanks...

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QoL patch?
It’s 95% bug fixes.

Coil Event Fail Toxicity

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Where is the toxicity???
I’m doing it as well and it’s very chill, just now and then there’s “that guy” who comes to “complete” his story for 1024th time to ruin the farm and troll, then post screenshots showing no toxicity at all.

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Solution to fix the population imbalance

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No easy and viable solution, it’s many-sided problem.
Setting up caps it’s no good solution, so neither is when you don’t allow people to blob even if they wish (Char’s solution https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Solution-to-fix-the-population-imbalance/4438862).
1) EOTM model – at the end you sum the scores from all X colour servers then divide it by the their number and get average result for X colour.

2) Anti blob/Outmanned mechanic – health of doors, walls and npcs around the objective scales with the number of people in X radius like it does in PvE. I realize people will eventually find tricks to attack gates/doors from outside the radius but everyone wants wxp and karma so it’s unlikely people not to rush in lord’s room where the lord will be like one of those insanely scaled up mobs that 1 shots you.

3) No PPT, gain X points when you cap, and take X/3 points away from the server who failed to prevent the cap. Or maybe don’t take points away at all. Just a rough idea.

There are many other nice solutions in the thread too. I feel like merging servers would be the best idea and most easy. It will not hurt the communities, but the people who run ts/website will have to work together.

But lets be honest, in 6 months we will be still here talking about the same issue. WvW players and devs = Carrot and the stick idiom.

Equipment bugged for 4+ days already....

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So suddenly after some late-night patch 4-5 days ago Equipment got bugged.
Try to click any slot and it doesn’t filter the type of items at all. Have to manually drag-n-drop every time.
How is it possible such bugs to even come in live version and why are they not fixed after so many days. It’s a major bug.

Adopt-a-Dev for the WvW Fall Tournament

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I’ll be joining Strike Force [SF] on JQ and Driven by Fury [dF] on FSP!

LET’S DO THIS!

This is somewhat ironic. If I mention why I will probably get infracted or banned.

Looks like all devs go in gold and top silver. Why guys don’t you go to Vabbi or Underworld ???

Misconceptions regarding Level gating.

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- Not all of these changes were made as ways to teach the game, some of them are to provide a better sense of pacing, reward and progression. Early on we want to give a sense that you’re rapidly gaining new abilities, rewards, and learning new things as you level up. We added the level up reward messages, and the actual rewards themselves, and took abilities you’d usually use around that point in total game hours and presented them as unlocks (or things we teach that are already unlocked) to help give a better sense of pacing and progression.

Good sir, this system makes me want to never make an alt again.
Prior Feature Patch 2, I had to grind for XP, then to grind more XP for skill points to unlock them. Do the math how many skill points you need to unlock everything. I don’t want to explore the whole map just for kitten traits. So now I’ve unlocked only what I need for the build, nothing else. Fun times! Who even wants to experiment and make new builds..nah.
It was bad, you just managed to make it even worse. Just stop it already.
You say it’s a win for all because we need more people to play it. This is true, but this system turns off players. It doesn’t help at all but regardless all the negative feedback Anet gets, you prefer again to ignore everything and only re-adjust rather than re-work it.

Misconceptions regarding Level gating.

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It’s not an error, it’s not miscommunication. It’s a badly designed system and now trying to save your faces with such a lame excuse. And if it’s really miscommunication I have to questions Anet staff competency really.
Awful system, just awful. Even locking dyes. Seriously what ?! gg for the RPers.

Just rollback.

Your constant changes that turn the game into some kind of mausoleum of communism is the reason I will never recommend GW2 to a friend.

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"Leveling as a Reward" Experience Crippling!

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