This keeps happening to me and it’s annoying. I just started playing the game. I have no idea why it keeps doing this. I have like 30 items to sell and I have to sit here for 10 minutes to sell items
I believe Arenanet replied to a thread like this at release saying there’s an internal system that blocks you from selling a massive number of items so the trade post doesn’t lagg (at release the trade post would crash from sheer number of sales so they implemented this apparently) but they never did add a correct message so people know what’s going on.
All you have to do and what I do is when it says that just wait 5 minutes or so and you can sell a bunch more items, it’s kind of like a cooldown they have on it I think. Where you can only list a certain number of items in a certain period of time.
ArenaNet would lose out on money if they allowed everyone to buy one armour set, and then have access to it on every character for free.
Questions:
How many % of the player base buy 1 particular set of gem store armor?
How many % of the player base buy 2 sets of the same gem store armor?
How many % of the player base would buy gem store armor if it had “replay value”?
If the #3 > #2, which I strongly suspect, then ANet would gain, not lose, money.
Indeed. I don’t ever hear of 1 person buying the same exact armor set for ALL of their characters, or even more than 1 of their characters. In fact most the people I know won’t buy anything unless they are account unlocks (including me). I know they would benefit from making these cosmetics account unlocks. Then they are happy, and we are happy as well. It’s a win-win.
i would be interested to see how many style-items are sold more than once to one person, i would not think it is that often.
One thing i have seen people say often is that the gem-store stuff is all too expensive and recent earning statistics seem to support that.
Soo why not make a cheaper versions of all the items in the gem store as a 1-time skin and keep current prices for the the new infinite skins? this might solve both problems.
I don’t see how they would make more money doing it the way you describe. Most people will either buy the gems because they really want something or they won’t at all. I can’t see there being a large group of people that won’t spend money because they can’t buy a smaller amount of gems.
Also, it really does work as a marketing strategy to sell “x” number of gems, but have a lot of things in the store that don’t equal that amount. That way people will end up with an odd amount and need to buy more, thus creating a cycle of spending money so gems aren’t “going to waste”.
You can always buy gems with gold for small purchases. That way you can get the exact amount you want/need.
Let’s say someone wants to buy a black lion key, but they don’t want to spend their gold or do not have enough gold to convert. That’s just 1 scenario of many that it would incline someone to pay the 2 or 5 dollars instead of 10 dollars for 1 small purchase. People in this thread are saying “THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE CREDIT CARD COMPANIES CHARGE 9 DOLLARS!” not true considering games like.. team fortress 2 or neverwinter have actual microtransactions where you can pay less than a dollar for items and they do just fine.
They’re losing my money because I refuse to buy an armor set unless I can put it on all my characters. Then, and only then, will I ever consider buying an armor set (thankfully the armor sets they’ve made are uninteresting to me). I have only bought a masque (which annoyed me that I can’t use it in PvP, also) and a Staff (which also annoyed me that I can’t use it in PvP, also). I also validated buying them for one character as they were rather Mesmer-y in style.
I bought a cosmetic outfit in GW1 because I could use it on all my characters.
Exactly, I won’t really buy anything on GW2 since it’s mostly 1 character only. And even then most of them are a 1 time use that you could lose or upgrade from then it would be a waste. I WOULD however start purchasing if the outfits were “unlocked” just like the achievement cosmetics. I really would like to see an Arenanet Response on this.
They could make it so that people who buy the skin with real money to have them as a 1 time purchase and then added to the achievement tab, and people that buy the skin with gold converted to gems not.
That would be nice as well, when I pay IRL money for something I would like it to be an account unlock.
Some creditcard merchants charge a flat rate fee + % on the transaction. When you offer things for small amounts (like $2.50), there’s a bigger hit to your bottom line than with larger amounts.
For instance, the merchant may charge Anet 50 cents + 2.5% of the transaction (not including tax). Without considering the percentage they take off, 50 cents off of $2.50 is a much large chunk than 50 cents off of $10.
You may see this at stores at the mall. Some businesses will have a “minimum charge” in order to use your creditcard.
There are f2p games that charge 25 cents for items.
I was thinking that the Gem Shop should have 2.50$ and 5 dollar purchases that you would get the equal or less amount if you divided the current amount of gems you get from 10 dollars (for example, 800 gems for 10 dollars, you could get 400 gems for 5 dollars and 200 gems for 2.50 I believe) I think this would encourage people to make more purchases, such as paying 2.50 just to get 1 black lion key and such. I would really like to see a real micro-transaction model of this sort added to the game. I already know people will argue “well they won’t make money that way!” keep in mind they WILL make money as it is not free, and the gems being sold are the exact equivalent of what they already cost, they could perhaps even lower the amount given (such as give people 350 gems instead of 400 with 5 dollars, or 150 instead of 200 for 2.50, still giving 800 for paying 10 dollars so you get extra by spending 10 dollars but you do still have the option of paying less.)
Please read the entire thread before criticizing thank you
It was an idea on how to revamp how gem store skins work, making them unlimited use but adding another method for ANET to redistribute what would be a loss of revenue, into another revenue generator therefore balancing it out.
Was hoping SOMEONE would give some thoughts/feedback/ideas on it lol.
I think another thing that could be done that would be reasonable is like lower the prices of outfits. 20 dollars for an ingame virtual outfit is a bit extreme, if we can’t get it account-wide then we should at least pay less for it.
20?
don’t you mean 10?
Alot of the outfits are 20, since the lowest purchasing amount is 10 dollars for 800 and some outfits are 1000 gems. This is only due to them not having a 5 dollar or so purchase option.
hey sounds interesting, I guess I could be implemented as a side functionality, while retaining the current system as the main. Although I’m not exactly sure how effective it will be. There’s several dungeons people just don’t really do, you might random one of them, then everyone leaves and the system starts working against the initial intent.
That’s why I would suggest extra rewards for using the random dungeon finder.
It was an idea on how to revamp how gem store skins work, making them unlimited use but adding another method for ANET to redistribute what would be a loss of revenue, into another revenue generator therefore balancing it out.
Was hoping SOMEONE would give some thoughts/feedback/ideas on it lol.
I think another thing that could be done that would be reasonable is like lower the prices of outfits. 20 dollars for an ingame virtual outfit is a bit extreme, if we can’t get it account-wide then we should at least pay less for it.
I know the present system loses money from me not purchasing like I did in the other game. In Guild Wars 2 I bought every single costume they put out because they had unlimited use for all characters, were wearable in combat and an NPC stored them for you so you never had to worry about losing them. In this game I’ve bought zero costumes and only 2 armors. They have lost the sales of the costumes and the other armors because of how rigid and alt unfriendly their cosmetic system is.
You must mean Guild Wars 1, but yea you are totally right I agree.
No. I’d rather be able to pick my dungeons and people I play with rather than have e everything randomized.
I also question your progress within the game as you mentioned tanks, healers, etc which this game does not have.
You are aware that the OP stated that the system wouldn’t have to care about tanks and healers because GW2 doesn’t have those? Just to adress your last point.
As for your first point, I’m with you on that, I prefer to have a choice in what I do.
@ OP:
Another problem with a randomized dungeons election would be the time availlable for people.
Sometimes you just want to grab a quick dungeon run because your schedule doesn’t allow for a longer one. So you pick one that is fast as opposed to one that can take 3 times the time. If you only have the randomized version, that wouldn’t be possible anymore.
If you are advocating the randomized version in addition to the current system that would eliminate this problem. But I honestly have no idea how bit the demand/interest for those runs would be.
Since it’s a personal preference however, I can’t really argue for or against the idea. The developement team would have to gauge the interest in something like that beforehand to deicde wether to allocate the necessary resources. But since there is no longer a dungeon developement team as far as we know, I don’t think that is something that’s going to happen anytime soon.
Edit: Typos.
Random dungeon finders are alot faster than looking for a group, I have tried looking for a group on this game and it takes AGES.. in fact the last one I tried we were waiting for like 4 hours and decided to not try anymore. A random finder would instantly match you up and you’d be placed in a dungeon INSTANTLY since of course guild wars 2 does not have healers, tanks, etc it’d just match you up with 5 players quick
Also I NEVER suggested that the current party system be removed, you would still be able to make your own groups if you wanted to but you would have the OPTION of a faster, random dungeon finder that would get you a group faster.
No. I’d rather be able to pick my dungeons and people I play with rather than have e everything randomized.
I also question your progress within the game as you mentioned tanks, healers, etc which this game does not have.
You obviously did not read the entire post, I said this game would be great with a random group finder because we do NOT HAVE tanks/healers/etc, that would make the matches faster. And just because I suggest a random group finder does not mean you will be COMPLETELY UNABLE to form groups yourself still. Please read an ENTIRE POST before critisizing it, thank you.
I think it would be only fair, just think about how much money they make from each set
20dls for 800 gems right?
100.000 sets sold would be 2.000.000dls, and 100.000 is a pretty conservative estimate… I’d say they are making easily 4MM dls for each new set on its launch period… then you have all the weapons, convenience items, bank/bag slots and the game itself
Yea most other f2p games don’t charge this much for an outfit, and if they do it’s always definitely an account unlock. It’s a real life money purchase they should be rewarding us with an account unlock. Satisfied consumers leads to success with any business.
Though, I would be reasonably happy to swallow this cost for the benefit of having an account-wide permanent access to the skins from now on. And would happily pay 1200 in future for each account-wide permanent access skin.
It´s already cross-server. if the lfg is empty is because there is none on the whole Gw2 continent dong that instance.
And with exception of CM i rarely have trouble getting ppl to group with.
You misunderstand, I meant like a random groupfinder that puts your group into a random dungeon. It would match you up faster so you would not have the issue of 1 dungeon asking for a ton of people then the others being completely empty. I am sure they could improve upon what they have to encourage more people to do dungeons because right now.. I don’t think it can get any worse :P
We need a random cross-server group finder that will match you up instantly for dungeons. The current LFG system is the worst on the face of this planet, with Guild Wars 2 a random group finder would be awesome because we’d be matched up INSTANTLY (since it would not need to find healers, tanks, etc just match people up and bam) so I believe that they should implement a system like this it would make people want to do dungeons more and make dungeons more playable (since it always takes ages to find a group anyways).
One way we could also populate the group finder(if it’s implemented) is to give people a daily bonus to doing a dungeon, since right now if you look at the group finder there is like barely anyone on any of the categories. However cross-server would fix that problem I am quite sure, alot could be done with this group finder system and I would love if something like this was implemented. Thank You for reading
To all of those arguing against OP’s suggestion, may I point out the Guild Wars 1 cosmetic system did essentially what he suggested.
In Guild Wars 1 if you bought a costume from the cash shop it was then available to all your characters for unlimited use. You spoke to a NPC to get the costume at any time. If you deleted it, nbd. Speak to the NPC again and get another copy.
If Guild Wars 1 could use this system for all the years it had costumes, why not Guild Wars 2?
Thank you for responding with a mature response unlike these other people flaming me. They don’t seem to realize that the highest sellers are account-wide unlocks. Didn’t you notice that the account wide unlocks (bank tabs, character slots, etc) are the highest sellers? I can guarantee you if outfits were account wide they’d have alot more people buying them.
I also want to respond to those people that paying 20 dollars for an outfit in the first place is outrageous, and if you were to add up the cost of all the outfits it would come to over 800 dollars real life money if you unlocked every cosmetic piece. They would not lose money if they made purchases account-wide considering people would still unlock extra outfits, it’s not like I am suggesting that 100% of ALL outfits be unlocked with 1 purchase, I am suggesting if you pay for something (especially 20 dollars for a virtual outfit) that you should at least be sure that if you lose 1 piece or something you can retrieve it. I don’t see how that is unreasonable in any way shape or form since there are many better things to spend 20 dollars on. Such as.. account unlocks.
So let’s summarize that: Someone would still have to spend more than 800 dollars just to “unlock” every cosmetic outfit for their whole account with this feature I am suggesting. I know for a fact that more people will spend their money on outfits if they know it’s account-wide (as I said before, the best sellers are the account wide unlocks such as bank tabs, and character slots). Not to mention a company should look to satisfy the paying customer, not punish them. And those who say punishing paying customers is the best way to make money obviously know nothing about business. Thank you.
The thing is, though, everything in the gem store can be bought with in-game gold. You don’t need to spend actual money. It may take longer to be able to convert that gold into enough gems, but the option is there.
Also, it would be free, seeing as you’ve bought it once, and then taken nine other sets without paying. The price for most of these sets is rather high, but you can’t really complain when the money doesn’t have to come out of your own pocket.
You’d have to make 640 gold for 1 cosmetic armor set, and if you wanted one for 10 characters.. that’s 6400 gold just for some cosmetics. There is some pressure into paying, trust me. I’d like to spend money but as of current I will only buy account unlocks such as bank tabs, character slots, I’d like to buy cosmetics but I(and everyone I know) will only do it if it’s for the whole account. I see it as prejudice against player that play more than 1 character, nothing more than that.
Sadly, I don’t think that’ll ever happen. The achievement items aren’t bought, they’re earned (even though I really don’t like the skins, and would love another option to choose from).
ArenaNet would lose out on money if they allowed everyone to buy one armour set, and then have access to it on every character for free. I could see them reducing the price of an armour set if you’ve already bought it X-amount of times, but never just handing it out for free.
It is NOT free if i spend 20 dollars on an armor set for 1 character. I could go to any other f2p mmorpg out there and get an outfit for 50 cents account-wide. Also no intelligent person is going to pay 20 dollars 10 times for the same armor set on all of their characters. I am potentially discouraged from making purchases because I know I’d have to buy it 5 times (potentially paying 100 dollars) just to have 1 armor set on all of my characters. I will never purchase gems again unless I get account unlocks. And anyone that isn’t a moron will do the same.
EDIT: Like I said, it is NOT free if you’re paying 20 dollars for an outfit. So don’t act like they’d be losing out on money it would encourage more people to buy them if it was a permanent unlock (that is also more fair to customers, they shouldn’t ask TWENTY DOLLARS for ONE OUTFIT and not give you it account-wide). Everyone I know ingame refuses to purchase gems because they know the outfits are not account unlocks. And who do you know that would spend 200 dollars just to get 1 outfit on all of their characters? No one. They’ve done EVERYTHING else account-wide there is no logical excuse they can’t do it with things from the gem shop.
If someone pays 20 dollars for a cosmetic outfit on a game.. I think they deserve at the VERY LEAST to have it account-wide.
It’s not free indeed, but if you can spend 60 $ to buy more why would a company (whose achievement by definition is earning the most possible) prefer to receive just 20? Even if this is a game, we are in a real world and all the love and unicorns mean nothing in front of money.
Besides, who tells you no one buys a skin for more characters? I have seen people having two characters with same skin. Not to mention some could have female and male characters, and like the skin for both gender so buy it twice.
Everything else on this game is account wide. Why should cosmetics from the gem shop not be? It’s unfair to customers tbh, and you’d be a moron to spend any money on gems just to have it for 1 character if you are active on 10 characters.
I want to also mention that don’t you notice that the highest selling things are account unlocks? Bank tabs, character slots etc. They would simply sell more if they gave the consumers a better deal when they are spending their real life money on it. You wouldn’t suggest that bank tabs be separate to the character you bought it on right?
Sadly, I don’t think that’ll ever happen. The achievement items aren’t bought, they’re earned (even though I really don’t like the skins, and would love another option to choose from).
ArenaNet would lose out on money if they allowed everyone to buy one armour set, and then have access to it on every character for free. I could see them reducing the price of an armour set if you’ve already bought it X-amount of times, but never just handing it out for free.
It is NOT free if i spend 20 dollars on an armor set for 1 character. I could go to any other f2p mmorpg out there and get an outfit for 50 cents account-wide. Also no intelligent person is going to pay 20 dollars 10 times for the same armor set on all of their characters. I am potentially discouraged from making purchases because I know I’d have to buy it 5 times (potentially paying 100 dollars) just to have 1 armor set on all of my characters. I will never purchase gems again unless I get account unlocks. And anyone that isn’t a moron will do the same.
EDIT: Like I said, it is NOT free if you’re paying 20 dollars for an outfit. So don’t act like they’d be losing out on money it would encourage more people to buy them if it was a permanent unlock (that is also more fair to customers, they shouldn’t ask TWENTY DOLLARS for ONE OUTFIT and not give you it account-wide). Everyone I know ingame refuses to purchase gems because they know the outfits are not account unlocks. And who do you know that would spend 200 dollars just to get 1 outfit on all of their characters? No one. They’ve done EVERYTHING else account-wide there is no logical excuse they can’t do it with things from the gem shop.
If someone pays 20 dollars for a cosmetic outfit on a game.. I think they deserve at the VERY LEAST to have it account-wide.
You know how when you get an achievement cosmetic item, how you can retrieve it on all characters? I believe it should be this way for outfits in the gem shop. If I pay 20 dollars for an outfit I should be able to get it on all of my characters. It would be quite simple for them to implement this and it would make alot of people happy. Arenanet, we need this feature. Thank You
Recently there has been alot of server lagg, is Arenanet aware of this? If so are they doing anything to fix it? It gets quite annoying and appears to be starting on the off-times instead of the prime-times.
This story instance has been extremely buggy since release and I dread having to do it. Recently I have had to try it 4 times on an alt character (I have not gotten through it on him yet) because when I dodge or teleport I get stuck into a rock or a pile of rubble, last time I tried to do it without dodging or teleporting and I got near the end then the server crashed. If you guys could fix this instance it’d be greatly appreciated.
Also I believe the servers are down right now, servers have been really laggy today.
I just started playing wvw. I used to just play pvp before for more than half a year and I noticed that thieves use stealth beyond normal in wvw. I dont know why they are allowed to do that in wvw. It’s not fun fighting them at all.
I play as a zerker ranger and it takes a lot of effort for me to kill a thief. I can beat them theres no problem about that but i dont think that they are even exerting any effort to the fight. most of the times they will stealth then run far away, reset and come back. it is lame, no-skill and braindead.
As a thief myself I actually find it quite annoying that 99% of the people that play thief just roll alts and stealthspam. My thief does not use stealth at all, I hate how you are basically forced to use stealth to be viable I have been trying for a long time to make a viable non-stealth build but stealth is just too overpowered to not use. I think stealth should be removed and replaced with a more interesting, less annoying mechanic.
I was not defending solo pvp, I was creating an example. Perhaps I should have used 10v20. The point still stands, the group with the most players always wins regardless of skill, therefore rewarding the bad players.
well there is always strength in numbers so, i would call it, rewarding the larger group.
i.e.
“3 stooges can beat 1 Einstein”
Once again as I have said many times, that completely removes skill from the game making it simply a button mashers game rewarding players that are bad. Good players are punished for being good. When they were going to release this game they promised a “fast-paced, skill-based combat system” when really it’s just rewarding bad players with free kills simply because they have a friend or two follow them 24/7.
The “suspension for 3 days” IS your warning. When you are suspended/banned from the game, it is usually accompanied with a reason as to why you were suspended/banned. First offences usually result in 1 – 3 days of suspension. Subsequent offences usually go 3 days to a week. I don’t know where ANet draws the line before a permanent ban, but I’m guessing they probably operate on a “3 strikes” policy if the guilty party is particularly abusive.
Well see.. most people expect to have at least 1 warning before any kind of suspension.
Being downed isn’t dead, you haven’t killed them. When they are down, you need to finish the job, and actually kill them. If your group of 10 can’t beat a group of 20 because none of you are finishing the job, then perhaps the group of 20 players are not bad, and you only lost because you were out numbered.
I would say a group that is helping each other back up after being wounded in battle, is actually a skilled group, because they are paying attention to each other to help each other.
That’s my point, it does not take any skill at all to spam F an entire fight just to instantly revive everyone that gets downed when it takes an abnormally long time to finish someone off (Like I said, in Neverwinter it’s less than a half of a second which is realistic.) when you have to raise your arm in the air like a moron and spin around and jump before finishing them off, instead of just instantly stabbing them while they are down which is faster and makes more sense.
I was not defending solo pvp, I was creating an example. Perhaps I should have used 10v20. The point still stands, the group with the most players always wins regardless of skill, therefore rewarding the bad players.
Honestly people should be able to say whatever they want, if people are intimidated by words on a screen they should not be using the internet.
People should be allowed to enforce what ever rules they want for their own property. If people can’t abide by someone else’s rules, perhaps they should stay off that property.
So you are trying to justify people getting permanently banned without prior warning for saying 1 swear word after they just paid 60 dollars for this game? Lol. You’ve obviously never worked a real job that involved customers before.
they are not being permanently banned for saying 1 word, they are not even being suspended for 1 word. They are being suspended after multiple warnings.
Also, I have been working in customer service since I was 16 years old, and I am 35 years old, working with customers in their homes.
Actually I was suspended for 3 days for saying 1 word(a swear word), and I was not given a warning. I asked about warnings to support and they said they do not issue warnings.
You’ll have to excuse me for not believing you. For one, you stated Arenanet permanently banned for 1 word, yet here you are now stating that you were suspened for 3 days for 1 word. Which is it? Suspened or permanently banned? Also, like I said I have a friend who has a problem with profantity and lost 2 account in WoW because of profanity, and has not lost his account for profantity with Guild Wars 2, but only had been given warning before he was eventually suspended multiple times.
I never said “I” got permanently banned for 1 word, I was saying that other people did. Please learn to comprehend words before responding with insults. And it is a fact that I was never given a warning before being suspended for 3 days. You can look it up on the forums, there are literally thousands of cases of this happening everywhere with Arenanet.
You said that Arenanet permanently bans for using 1 word, yet you use 1 word and claim to be only suspended? And I have been on this forum since the beginning, and Thousands of cases is a very gross exaggeration. Using gross exaggerations doesn’t make your point even more stronger, it weakens it and makes you say anything really suspect. Arenenet themselves have stated before on this forum that they do not take bans and Suspensions lightly. Also will not trust what some forum users say, but I guarantee you that if someone was suspended or even banned, it was for a lot more then just 1 word, going by the personal experience of a friend of mine. Of course I don’t expect you to believe it, because again I am just some forum poster and could be lying.
But common sense will dictate that Arenanet will not suspend or ban someone for using 1 profanity word, there is much more then what other players are not reporting to us.
Please read what I posted before, I tried to make it as simple as possible so you could comprehend it.
And yes, if you choose to not abide by the rules of the property owner, you also choose the consequences. Paying money to be on some one else’s property does not give you the right to disobey their rules, especially when you agree to those rules before entering.
When I was a teenager, my friends and I were kicked out of amusement parks for breaking rules, and guess what? We never got our money back ,and the amusement parks were not under any obligation ethically or legally to give us a refund.
Lol, you aren’t very good at comprehending words at all. I will try and make it as simple as I can but I doubt you will understand: The point is Arenanet does not care for their customers, In fact I think they enjoy trying to frustrate them as when other more professional companies treat their customers well. It’s a matter of professionalism. For example: On this game if you put in a ticket about some misc. problem, you’ll get a response 2-8 weeks later that is just an automated response that has nothing to do with what you were talking about. If you put a ticket in on WoW you get a response within a couple hours and it’s a real person that is there to help you and is generally caring about your frustration. Arenanet does not care for customers, and to me that is unprofessional. I even heard of this case on gw2 where this entire guild reported this 1 guy for saying “hello” and he was banned permanently, because “hello” is a reference to “hell” which is therefore racist against religion(according to arenanet). You can look it up if you don’t believe me but it is a real case, and if Arenanet really cared for that customer they would have said “guys.. this is ridiculous come on that guy paid us for this game.” But instead they just ban anyone that gets a good number of reports which any group of friends can do to troll someone.
Honestly people should be able to say whatever they want, if people are intimidated by words on a screen they should not be using the internet.
People should be allowed to enforce what ever rules they want for their own property. If people can’t abide by someone else’s rules, perhaps they should stay off that property.
So you are trying to justify people getting permanently banned without prior warning for saying 1 swear word after they just paid 60 dollars for this game? Lol. You’ve obviously never worked a real job that involved customers before.
they are not being permanently banned for saying 1 word, they are not even being suspended for 1 word. They are being suspended after multiple warnings.
Also, I have been working in customer service since I was 16 years old, and I am 35 years old, working with customers in their homes.
Actually I was suspended for 3 days for saying 1 word(a swear word), and I was not given a warning. I asked about warnings to support and they said they do not issue warnings.
You’ll have to excuse me for not believing you. For one, you stated Arenanet permanently banned for 1 word, yet here you are now stating that you were suspened for 3 days for 1 word. Which is it? Suspened or permanently banned? Also, like I said I have a friend who has a problem with profantity and lost 2 account in WoW because of profanity, and has not lost his account for profantity with Guild Wars 2, but only had been given warning before he was eventually suspended multiple times.
I never said “I” got permanently banned for 1 word, I was saying that other people did. Please learn to comprehend words before responding with insults. And it is a fact that I was never given a warning before being suspended for 3 days. You can look it up on the forums, there are literally thousands of cases of this happening everywhere with Arenanet.
Honestly people should be able to say whatever they want, if people are intimidated by words on a screen they should not be using the internet.
People should be allowed to enforce what ever rules they want for their own property. If people can’t abide by someone else’s rules, perhaps they should stay off that property.
So you are trying to justify people getting permanently banned without prior warning for saying 1 swear word after they just paid 60 dollars for this game? Lol. You’ve obviously never worked a real job that involved customers before.
they are not being permanently banned for saying 1 word, they are not even being suspended for 1 word. They are being suspended after multiple warnings.
Also, I have been working in customer service since I was 16 years old, and I am 35 years old, working with customers in their homes.
Actually I was suspended for 3 days for saying 1 word(a swear word), and I was not given a warning. I asked about warnings to support and they said they do not issue warnings.
Umm.. can that moderator that merged my thread please unmerge it? I was suggesting DESIGNATED AREAS FOR DUELING NOT open world dueling. They are 2 entirely different things, I DO NOT support open world dueling, I was suggesting DESIGNATED AREAS DUELING. Thank you.
Honestly people should be able to say whatever they want, if people are intimidated by words on a screen they should not be using the internet.
People should be allowed to enforce what ever rules they want for their own property. If people can’t abide by someone else’s rules, perhaps they should stay off that property.
So you are trying to justify people getting permanently banned without prior warning for saying 1 swear word after they just paid 60 dollars for this game? Lol. You’ve obviously never worked a real job that involved customers before.
The thing that frustrates me the most about this games pvp is the downed system, it rewards bad players and punishes skilled players. Like let’s say there was a group of 10 people, and I was skilled enough to take down 3 without dying. Well the entire rest of the group would stop what they are doing and instantly revive their teammates before I can even get close to finishing them off. And regardless of my skill downing those 3 players, I get no credit for a kill. It only rewards groups that have the most players. My suggestion to change this is to swap the revive speeds with completely dead and downed. Therefore making reviving someone while downed take FOREVER (instead of it going instantly) and while someone is dead, make it faster. This way at the very least people get credit for kills. And I am only suggesting it this way to try and satisfy everyone. If I had it my way the downed system wouldn’t even exist. Another option is to simply make downed AND dead reviving speeds both slow, because the biggest problem is people getting revived INSTANTLY by 2-3 players while they are downed.
I also hate to mention another MMO on these forums but Neverwinter has an excellent ‘downed’ system where you finish a player off in like a half a second. It only makes sense I mean if someone is down and you are fighting them, you aren’t going to go “HAR HAR IMA RAISE MY FIST IN THE AIR FOR NO APPARENT REASON INSTEAD OF SIMPLY STABBING THEM ONE MORE TIME WHICH WOULD BE ALOT FASTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE!!!”. If someone is downed, realistically what you are going to do is just stab/shoot them again and they’d be dead. The raising fists in the air and spinning is really ridiculous and looks stupid.
The thing that frustrates me the most about this games pvp is the downed system, it rewards bad players and punishes skilled players. Like let’s say there was a group of 10 people, and I was skilled enough to take down 3 without dying. Well the entire rest of the group would stop what they are doing and instantly revive their teammates before I can even get close to finishing them off. And regardless of my skill downing those 3 players, I get no credit for a kill. It only rewards groups that have the most players. My suggestion to change this is to swap the revive speeds with completely dead and downed. Therefore making reviving someone while downed take FOREVER (instead of it going instantly) and while someone is dead, make it faster. This way at the very least people get credit for kills. And I am only suggesting it this way to try and satisfy everyone. If I had it my way the downed system wouldn’t even exist. Another option is to simply make downed AND dead reviving speeds both slow, because the biggest problem is people getting revived INSTANTLY by 2-3 players while they are downed.
DUELING, ADD, YES, PLZ. They gave us costume brawl, but no duels!? Madness. Most people want duels. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be added to the game on account of the few people that are bothered far too easily.
Indeed but people that are afraid of dueling ingame could not possibly complain about designated dueling areas. It’s a win-win, we want it and the complainers can’t complain about designated areas because all they have to do is stay away from those areas if they can’t handle it.
Cross posted from the sPvP forum. I wasn’t sure where to post it…
So I’m waiting for Tequatl or the Shatterer to show up along with a lot of other people. Wouldn’t it be a nice idea to give us something to do in the meantime? Being able to just challenge someone in the open world would be pretty kitten cool especially when you’re not doing anything but just sitting around no?
How bout…whenever a large enough group of people accumulate in one area, some interesting event occurs? Like say there’s a demon queen feeding on life force of warriors and the presence of so many causes her to appear. Imagine fighting her and Tequatl at the same time!
Just thoughts since I just get bored otherwise. Dueling would be pretty sweet.
You know I am sorry to mention this but.. Back in the day on Runescape they used to have these things called “random events” that would happen to specific players doing specific things, at any rare random given time. So if you are bored running around DR, something like an asura could appear and ask you a riddle question, if you answer it correctly you gain some kind of little reward. I think a “random event” system would be cool in guild wars 2, and break alot of the boredom that exists today. (any time I log on, I simply log on to chat with people for about 5 minutes before logging off again, if I could duel or if random events happened even in main cities, this would make things alot more exciting for alot of us.)
The filter has many issues and the filter is also not a license to swear.
If you swear and are reported, you will get suspended. Swear and get reported again, you will get suspended for a longer period. Continue to violate the TOS and you will lose your account. Your choice, but if you feel you MUST swear in an online game then there are other issues involved.
See this is the reason this game is so bitter to most people, the only community left in the game are people like you that run around reporting people 24/7 in Divinities Reach and never actually play the game. You guys get some kind of kick out of getting people suspended because you know Arenanet will ban any and everyone that gets reported even if it is for no reason at all.
EDIT: I also wanted to comment that this is one of the reasons WoW is far more successful than this game, you don’t see Blizzard running around banning thousands of accounts for saying 1 swear word. And people wonder why Arenanet will NEVER be NEARLY as successful as Blizzard, that is one of the reasons. And people that say “WoW is bad!!!”: that is irrelevant, go look at the sales charts to see which game is more successful. Guild Wars 2 went crazy in celebrating that they had sold 3 million copies, well congratulations Blizzard has sold more than 76.2 million copies and that is not even including their monthly subscription income. It is quite obvious which game is more successful, and I think it’s mostly because of the companies involved. Like I said, Arenanet does not care a single bit about any of their customers, they have your money, they will ban your account even for a simple 3 second laugh.
Duelign in specified areas of the towns would not only increase populations in towns, but keep the chaos and spamming away from people trying to conduct commerce. Each town could have it’s own area:
Black Citadel- Arena Pit, I mean, c’mon….
Grove- Pick a spot on the bottom floor, it’s pretty open and not much to do down there, most of the commerce is on the 2nd (sub) floor plus you have water you could incoorporate
Holebrak- the Great Lodge, right around that big-kitten tooth
Rata Sum- This one might be tricky due to limited space, might have to either do it in one of the labs on the ground outside the city or council chambers up top.
Divinity’s Reach- This clusterkitten of a city…welll…idk I hate the place myself, maybe someone else can think of a good spot in it to do it. Maybe around that gigantic automated orchestra
Lion’s Arch- The little red arena that we all know is a kickback to the Anet symbol (down on the beach behind the fort), would make for an interesting, close quarters combat arena and require some pretty intense tactics.
Indeed it would be nice to actually utilize those little arenas they put in the game, instead of just having them solely for decoration.
Who says “hellheal” has anything to do with religion? Lol I got a 7 day suspension for having a character named “Jbrewer Godofpvp”.. You know Arenanet wonders why this game is dead, and why WoW is SO much more successful? Well it’s mainly because Blizzard doesn’t go around banning their paying customers for tiny reasons like Arenanet does, Arenanet rewards the groups of players that go around trying to get people banned by reporting as many people as they can, IN FACT I know of a guild on henge of denravi that used to just spam reports on a commander on an enemy team to get them banned and they literally successfully got several commanders banned. And that ruins the community of a game when everytime you interact with a player in any way they find something wrong with you and threaten to have their entire guild report you. With a game like WoW you are treated better as a customer, you aren’t going to get a 7 day suspension for having “god” in your name because banning someone for 7 days for something THAT SMALL is ridiculous and any professional company will agree with that. Arenanet has probably banned more than half the community of this game roflmao(and they keep wondering why it’s dead), they really show how immature and unprofessional they are by not caring that you are a PAYING CUSTOMER and just issuing bans to whoever gets reported for the SLIGHTEST reasons. And in fact I can see them giving me a forum ban just for saying what I said here, just for voicing my opinion. You did not deserve a ban and neither did the other 90% of players they have issued bans to.
Hey I was recently suspended for 7 days and I was given no proof or anything as to why. I asked support for chat log proof but I still have received nothing, the last time this happened it took your support 3 weeks to respond and all he said was “yes we indeed confirmed that your account was suspended” when I specifically asked for proof of why I was suspended. Please give me a competent response this time, and if you cannot provide complete proof for my suspension then lift it. I spent far too much money on your game for you to be treating me like this, I really am tired of the “oh we have their money now so we don’t care what we do to them.” mentality from Arenanet. With any real pay to play game I can expect respect from the employees of the gaming company because they actually have to work for my money. Arenanet goes around banning ANY account that gets reported for the smallest reasons just because they don’t get a monthly payment from them. Well I can almost guarantee you if this suspension isn’t lifted I won’t be spending another dime on this game. I’ve read about Arenanet literally banning THOUSANDS of accounts for no reason and REFUSING to provide proof now this is completely out of control and completely unprofessional. I honestly don’t expect a professional response from Arenanet to this, if they gave me an actual mature professional response I would be quite surprised because that’s unlike Arenanet.
All I want is 1 of 2 things, Either show me complete 100% proof (and it better be good enough for banning me for 7 days after I spent alot of good money on your game) or lift the suspension because you have no proof and/or refuse to show it.
