Well, since so many seem to have a bone to pick with Anet about all the various problems and misconceived additions with the game (ya I know they have positive kudos too)—-they really had to make one.
Yep, purchased pic,axe and harvesting tools for all my characters(with purchased Gem cards from Amazon). Not willing to do it again unless they can allow you to unbind what you have but leave it usable and account bound for future use. Now that I think about it they should also revert to account bound if/when you delete the character currently using it.
Leave them soulbound until you replace it with a new version of the same tool, then the old one becomes account bound until it is used again. I used purchased gem cards —ie real $$ to get these tools and now to buy them again--geez—not well thought out. Anything you buy with real money shouldn’t be rendered ‘virtually’ useless. It is quite the ripoff scheme they got going.
Sorry but 2 thumbs down for me. The technical problems should have been solved before release, as well as the event itself—it’s not fun for a number of people :-(
They should have opened a new area on the map, made a new dragon, called it for what it is—a guild type event that works with 100 people working together using their 100 slot teamspeak.
Always in overflow on my home server, doesn’t matter when I join, crummy overflow.
Not a lot of chance that I’m going to do it.
Loads of dead people can’t be bothered to wp back.
Contested WP is the one of the many dumb things added to the Teq fight that will turn this into another event that few will participate in and may actually be the game breaker if the so called new content/changes continues to evolve as it is while ignoring fundemental issues that have yet to be adressed (some still exist and reported on when the game was 1st released).
No thank you. You should change the title to ’ Let Anet Know That I Want more’. There are some that want more and some that don’t.
The time sink, the failure rate and the crap drops puts me in ‘I don’t want to see more
of this’ camp.
Well got my tittle and ascended drop rate seems to be so bad that probably won’t do it anymore. This game is like WoW, but bosses don’t drop anything fun.
Exactly :-D They dont want this game be like wow (Yes they never said it officially, but it is clear, after all lof of them are former employees of Blizzard as far as i know). So they think that if we instead of forming big groups ourselves group up with just every random ,,someone" and not getting good loot from boss is better?
Or gearing one character for mounths by crafting and farming materials and gold instead getting whole gear in dungeons should better too?
Do they really think we will consider this game to be best just becouse they dont add new tier of gear every 3 mounths?
WoW is total grindfest game but at least its style is working.
Two patches were enough to change this game from something unique and fun to gringfest that is not even worth of participating.
I am not agains hard content but the way Anet is doing it is total fail.
I agree, hard content is fine but Anets’ last few patches have had a similar affect on my perception of the game, so much so that I have stopped buying gem cards and likely won’t resume. Getting real tired of giant zergs too.
A couple of overflows and failures put this whole event on ignore for me.
Tried it a few times—not worth the time or effort. The rewards(actually lack of) make it even more so. Like Dragonball—Anet has to do something about the AFKs. Kicking them woud be nice with an unable to retry the event for 48hrs tacked on.
BTW—already ignoring this event.
Like mentioned before, most people come to forums to complain, so majority of opinions you’ll read here, won’t reflect the actual state of the game.
Whatever trolls say,
GW2 is undeniably the best MMO out there, so you might as well give it another go.
Don’t forget that trolling works both ways. Those that are GW2 is the best game ever fan types who slam those the bring up the games’ short comings and well as those that like the game but chose to explain/expose flaws.
What incompetent programming, poor testing and lack of concern for the players. Nothing to do with the build.Really bunned off that I have to redo them when I was at 99.9. I spent a lot of time yesterday to get to that lvl of completion.
Last Night/earlier today (sept 1,2,3) I had 3/4 completed. Log in tonight and only have 1 of 4 done and new stuff to do? Where did my completions go?
I had to complete 1 more set of dailies to have 4/4 anf my monthly was done. Now I have to do it all again with different dailies. OMG—talk about be screwed over by Anet.
Hate contested WPs. Cheap way to make it harder. Oh well, ’ll have to pull all my revive orbs out of the bank account. Maybe the devs could add extra loot/ exp whatever for every revive ya do.
I think most of the people in this thread complaining never played anything in the 8bit generation or earlier. Not everyone thinks candyland-easy games are fun. That’s why ultra-hard games exist in the first place.
Absolutely true, and I have played a few. That being said, the problem for me is that I didn’t purchase the game (and a few Gem Cards) to play a ‘candyland’ game. I bought it to play a fantasy mmo. If I wanted such a game I would get one or pull out the old DS. If you like that sort of game that’s great. It has no place in the GW2 world imho.
Well, you have a point. I don’t know how long you’ve been here but platformer content has been extremely popular with the community and the first SAB received nothing but accolades from reviewers and players. So, naturally, ANET builds on that foundation.
CJohansen has said that SAB is part of their seasonal rotation they’ve defined after the first year. I take that to mean permanent fantasy content is on the way. These mini-games are just seasonal things done by very small teams.
Note: I grew up in the 8-bit era and am a huge fan of games like Super Meat Boy (that’s a newer game) so I’m a sucker for this. If they even make it remotely as hard as the games in that genre—but translated to 3D successfully—I’ll be very impressed.
I’ll guess I date myself—-I started playing when PONG was in on Magnavox Odyssey
and have played just about every system since then . I hve been playing GW2 from just about day1 as well GW1.
Have fun with it, I was hoping for new content that was actually related to game genre. (and game fixes that have been ignored or put on the back burner).
I think you missed the important part of his post…the part that mentions that this is a smaller team doing the seasonal event stuff. Meaning the game fixes and new permanent content that deals with the game itself are 2 other departments.
Didn’t miss that at all. My only response is that their priorities are mixed up. Some things (like clipping, optimising, targeting, camera when jumping) among other things have been around for months if not longer and still not addressed or they are ignored. And sure they have different depts. but as to their budget and number of people working in them— I would imagine limited and much less staff.
But as I have said—if you enjoy it—have fun. It’s just not for me.
I think most of the people in this thread complaining never played anything in the 8bit generation or earlier. Not everyone thinks candyland-easy games are fun. That’s why ultra-hard games exist in the first place.
Absolutely true, and I have played a few. That being said, the problem for me is that I didn’t purchase the game (and a few Gem Cards) to play a ‘candyland’ game. I bought it to play a fantasy mmo. If I wanted such a game I would get one or pull out the old DS. If you like that sort of game that’s great. It has no place in the GW2 world imho.
Well, you have a point. I don’t know how long you’ve been here but platformer content has been extremely popular with the community and the first SAB received nothing but accolades from reviewers and players. So, naturally, ANET builds on that foundation.
CJohansen has said that SAB is part of their seasonal rotation they’ve defined after the first year. I take that to mean permanent fantasy content is on the way. These mini-games are just seasonal things done by very small teams.
Note: I grew up in the 8-bit era and am a huge fan of games like Super Meat Boy (that’s a newer game) so I’m a sucker for this. If they even make it remotely as hard as the games in that genre—but translated to 3D successfully—I’ll be very impressed.
I’ll guess I date myself—-I started playing when PONG was in on Magnavox Odyssey
and have played just about every system since then . I hve been playing GW2 from just about day1 as well GW1.
Have fun with it, I was hoping for new content that was actually related to game genre. (and game fixes that have been ignored or put on the back burner).
I think most of the people in this thread complaining never played anything in the 8bit generation or earlier. Not everyone thinks candyland-easy games are fun. That’s why ultra-hard games exist in the first place.
Absolutely true, and I have played a few. That being said, the problem for me is that I didn’t purchase the game (and a few Gem Cards) to play a ‘candyland’ game. I bought it to play a fantasy mmo. If I wanted such a game I would get one or pull out the old DS. If you like that sort of game that’s great. It has no place in the GW2 world imho.
I’m off to the dentist Tuesday, so no I’m not looking forward to it.
You never know Trog….. A dentist visit might be wonderful, compared to the patch notes. :-)
Jeez—-I am going to the dentist too. Never look forward to that. But out off the two options—-at least the visit will be something new, but the the patch and SAB will be the more painful of the two.
I was surprised as you were given how much hate the rangers get when they are kicked from dungeons or even are not even allowed to join a dungeon group. Ranger is my number one toon. But with all the hate and outright mean discrimination by groups that is piled on to the class when it comes to running dungeons makes me wonder if the stat is number of how many of the profession that have been created, vs. how many are actually playing the profession
PS. reposted the link since I got a 404 from OPs link.
A simple NO is the only option. They can’t change their model this far into the game without it causing a number of problems including loss of players.
Very soon you will have your sub based MMO, that not only charges full retail for the program, with a monthly subscription, but has a cash shop as well. Although a fan of all things elder—-I am going to scroll right by that game and model.
To the op—if you want to read them, go there, if you dont—-then don’t go there. But trying to force Anet to change their ways so all must play the way YOU want is not only selfish but misguided. If you want a game like that-or rules like that, then form a company and design a game. If not, play the game and accept that it is your choice—but don’t try to ram YOUR WAY down others throats. And who cares when it is posted, a few hrs before or just after a patch. Every game has them, it’s your choice. Let MY choice be.
Should have been 1 or 2 gold a day since you registered your account/game when you purchased it. Simple and easy to administer. If you had the game for year—sweet!! If you’ve had the game for 10 days—still sweet.
People—stop buying keys—Anet will change them—very simple. But can’t do much when, as P.T. Barnum supposedly said, “There’s a sucker born every minute”.
I am talking about the support tickets (the one use to get Kiel elected) not the gaunlet crap. Those that hoarded them and didn’t vote made $$$ after the election——-turned in their support tickets and got money—while those that did particpate,those that played and voted as intended—nothing.
If Anet had any sort of reliable and competent form of testing these patches before just tossing them to the wind, we wouldn’t have to deal with this kitten every two weeks. They have some of the worst QA I’ve ever seen in a AAA MMO developer.
A lot of this could fix if they had test servers for players but they won’t because they don’t want people telling people the “secrets” of the upcoming Living World content. This is absolutely a stupid reason not to have a test server. I don’t care if I ruin the experience by beta testing the update. I just want to do everything I can to make these updates as smooth as possible. Releasing this on a community as big as GW2 without testing it with a community as least half the size is a horrible decision.
That is a crap reason—someone posted the entire speech this morning hrs before the update was released(mods got rid of it pretty quick). Many can and know how to get this info regardless of not having a test server—so that excuse about content being passed on has no credibility. I get a picture of a bunch of interns with no one overseeing them or caring about paying customers making decisions that have a negative affect on people,paying customers, that play the game.
So far, with the karma, the overflow, the updates that ruin an event as well as mess it up after an update patch—big failure. If I can’t play because of ANET, not because I don’t want to, what’s the point.
After the update, the game tells me to fight the invasion in Iron Marches, get there and it says no event as well as no overflow message, go back to arches and it say go to Iron Marches—holy moly—deja vu—-I Give up——-dropped the ball here DEVS.
You can easily see the fanboys anet can do no wrong posts in this thread. Sorry but a patch that really does nothiong but interfere with a timed event that they can work around—no real excuse for that lack of understanding from Anet.
The fanboys will have you over a fire pit here. Those that horded the voting tickets got a great reward for not playing the game and voting—those that did use the tickets—got screwed over. Anet is not consistent,fair and in most cases unapologetic when create this type of confusion.
These devs are really dropping the ball. Now I see the message about the Karma mess. I had a bunch save up tp use with a boost, then the update that says no, not the update the says sorry, but I consummed all my Karma, now they say they will fix that too.
Sorry, but ANET is a mess, their commnication of FACTS is lacking. I really dont’ TRUST them at all to make good on the compensation (for use karma based on lack of or misleading info from the devs).
How sad. I have hit the overflows late and nothing. It is truely frustrating. I actually believed Anet couldn’t find another way to slow progress and achievements. How wrong I was. Hopefully this will improve as more people complete some of the events and they will open up for others without having to wait.
Clarification: You need to get to the overflow within 10 minutes of the invasion starting or you will need to wait about 45 minutes for the next one to begin.
You ought to do something about that—how frustrating for some players.
Yep—just found out about this, went to Frost as directed, put in overflow and do access to the achievement—incredibly shortsighted design decision. 2nd time in and unable to participate.
@Colin : as long as you will not fix your rotten camera system in JP, they will never be fun to do.
Bingo, I like jumping puzzles, but not in this game. The mechanics as well as the camera needs a complete revamp.
You can do exactly the same movement, at the same place in a puzzle, and get a different result. Solving a puzzle is one thing, fighting the camera and mechanics is quite another.
Use the link Radee gave—-you can see the rankings,avoid the bottom ones—- (I’m on ET and being in the bottom 3 all the time is no fun for WvW and world completion is next to impossible). NA will be english.
