I think I’m going to extend you the courtesy you didn’t, I’m not going to devalue your opinion. You bring up some points, but I don’t see you providing much of a counterargument other then “you’re wrong”. But I’m not gonna argue your opinions, you’re entitled to them. I’ll just argue this:
First, if there’s a ton of people who “proceed to cry and moan” it’s not a little sub-section. It’s an issue. An issue that is going to loose your business sales. It’s called negative customer feedback, and if there was just a teeny bit then ANet could justify ignoring it, but this is by no means a small amount of negative feedback.
Second, this game is dying. Just spend 5 minutes on google and you can find stats of gaming communities decreasing time spent in this game by large margins. If you stop playing the game, you usually don’t buy the sequel. Then less sales leads to less features, lose more people. You get the picture.
I’m personally boycotting any future expansions that may come out, and certainly not spending another nickle on gems, so you’re assumption is correct, and least based on my account.
I have actually installed WOW and am playing on a free trial account, directly after this weekends fiasco-and obvious subsequent GW2 downfall. I’m sure this will only last temporarily, because PlanetSide 2 release is in just a few hours, accompanied with an awesome development team who cares about it’s player-base, unlike some teams we all know and hate.
Why OH why are you adding new content so close to release. You need to prioritize bug fixing, class balancing, etc. instead of focusing on stupid holiday content+plus a new island with no substance. Your design decisions do not make any sense. WE are the players, we pay your salaries and decide if you get to keep your job months down the line. Please OH please listen to your player-base and fix this game which has so much potential.
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I thought of another one: Game has official forums where all negative/constructive feedback is censored in order to simulate a positive/cheery Guild Wars 2 community to attract more customers. Although, it is a stretch to fit that into the positive category.
The rules and censorship displayed on this forum rivals that of Nazi Germany.
My ranger is viable underwater. Only positive I can think of.
Its funny that people are complaining so much that they are casual and have too much of a life to play towards earning a new tier. If you’ve got such a busy life then why are you here complaining so much about a game? And its not just simple complaints, some of you are taking it real personal like the whole world is ending. It’s just a game you don’t even pay a sub for.
Are you kittening kidding me? We payed $60 plus all the money spent in the cash shop. Game hasn’t even been out long enough to offset the price spent in a traditional MMO with a sub. Your argument is not sound for a large percentage of players on here, not to mention that we are complaining because we WANT this game to succeed, just are angry/afraid of direction ANET is suddenly taking.
OP is being sarcastic if someone didn’t notice.
I honestly don’t understand why they aren’t the same stats. The only difference between ascended and exotics should be cosmetics and method of acquiring. It’s great to release new awesome looking gear but to increase the stats forces EVERYONE to grind for them if they want to be on an even playing field with others. The game has been out for months, introducing this now is unacceptable.
The merged threads are thousands of posts long. Are you kidding me? The reason why the admins are doing that is so no one will be able to read them!
The only thing this game has going for it is the shiny graphics. ArenaNet really needs to take advice from PlanetSide 2 developers. They frequently make videos talking about current/future plans, post on the official forums+reddit, and actually make changes based on player feed back. In fact, I was just watching a developer interview and one of them specifically said they are NOT going to focus on pumping out new stupid holiday content but instead work on squaring away as many bugs as they can to please their player base. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGUhSuhiJa0&feature=youtu.be (around 16 min)
So everyone with legendary gear currently is getting bumped up to ascended level? Is that correct? Or is ascended the utmost top tier of gear in looks+stats and legendary comes before it with slightly lower stats followed by exotics? So basically no matter what you have in the game currently, when full ascended is released, everyone will be grinding for it, in order to get the new stat boost which is better than everything else?
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I am a relatively new player. As far as my understanding goes, exotic and legendary gear prior to the November 15th update had the exact same stats and the only difference between the two were cosmetics and rarity. Now post update, legendary and ascended now have the exact same stats while exotics are slightly weaker? Is that correct?
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This thread will probably be deleted. Very depressing.
Hundreds pissed at ANet at the moment.
Not a very good time to post this buddy.
Anyway, congrats with the Spark.
Hundreds? More like thousands.
The new build was implemented for the sole reason of removing every overflow with the event still going on. It’s over.
Very well written post. Every point you had I agree with. Anet really dropped the ball with this game, and it is extremely depressing to watch unfold.
That was amazing. I couldn’t stop laughing.
I have noticed this as well. There was a ranger thread with numerous complaints but as a whole, the entire subreddit seems pretty cheery versus all the doom and gloom threads I am reading here-which doesn’t make sense to me.
Guys, for those trying out Planetside 2, make sure you join an outfit. The game becomes 100x more enjoyable when you work together and use communication. I’ve been in the beta since the very beginning and it’s amazing how much work the devs have been putting in. They actually listen to their player base. A week or two ago, the certification gain was kind of slow but a ton of people complained so they increased the gain by 30%. The game will not feel like a grind if you don’t pay money. Personally, I will only be spending money on cosmetics, possibly a membership here and there.
I will also be researching Elder Scrolls Online and depending on how the game develops a few months after release, I will most likely dive into that.
I’ve noticed that there are unreachable, always blurred areas of the map. One area that is very big and noticeable is to the left of Lions Arch. I’m not sure if it’s possible to go there but I’ve tried numerous times and it seems impossible. I’ve also noticed that if there’s water on the map and you want to swim from say, one island to another, you are sometimes impeded from doing so by a “strong current.” To me, and let me preface this by saying, it’s really not that big a deal, but it somewhat takes away from the realism of the game. Has anyone else noticed this?
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warrior, they received a long bow buff with last patch.
I thought lick wounds was automatic? Is there a skill/button we have to press to activate it?
same thing here. Drank my jug but no option for continuation via miyani.
Same here. I’ve completed phase 1 and drank my jug of karma but the option for speaking to zommoro by talking to miyani is not showing up for me. I hope they fix this.
I invited one but I regretted it after reading today’s patch notes.
I’m confused, did anything pertaining to FOV change with this latest update? I’m currently using the FOV beta. Has the beta become final now? Can I delete my altered shortcut and play with the original now?
What does this mean???
Very disheartening. This is going to put a damper on the entire weekend event for me. Seriously considering rolling a warrior, or just stop playing the game altogether.
Were you there for the Halloween event act 3 “one time event”? It was just a real-time cinematic that everyone in the vicinity watched together, only lasted a minute or so. It’s really not a big deal and there’s absolutely no way to set it up so everyone can see it. The content will still be there for you, you’re just going to miss out on some epic cinematic that will be available to watch on Youtube shortly after. Stop crying, please.
It’s probably just placebo.
Oh okay thanks! Had no idea it had to be empty first.
A while back I bought a bunch of inventory bags from a random merchant. Naturally, I equipped as many as I could to increase my inventory size. Well now I have the 10 slot inventory bag from the Halloween event and I can’t seem to find out how to equip it. All my bag slots are full and I can’t unequip them to replace one of them with the Halloween one. Anyone know why this is?
I’ve literally acquired over a 1000 candy bags from farming the clock tower. I sold them all on the TP for a couple gold, but I was thinking that maybe after Halloween, months down the line, candy corn demand will sky rocket because it’ll be impossible to get them until next year. So maybe if you hold onto them, you can sell them later for untold amount of profit?
i7920@4ghz
2x 4890s (which equals about 6950 in terms of performance)
hdd
6gb ddr3@1600
1920×1080p
I get anywhere from 25-100 fps. 90% of the time I get 30-60, the 25 and 100 are outliers. The Halloween events, like redesigned lions arch, a few crowded places at some of the ghost locations are when my fps dips slightly below 30. I haven’t played too much wvw but my fps has been fine the few times I have. PVE, about 40-60.
Edit: This is with all settings on max: high/ultra but sampling is on native(my cards only have 1gbvram and supersampling takes them over and introduces stuttering.)
One thing that really pissed me off was that we can no longer run on top of the fountain. There is an invisible wall. It was not like this before Halloween started. I mean, obviously this isn’t a big deal AT ALL, but I kind of liked walking up there.
I was at the last ghost for act 2 and he wasn’t giving me the page. I was getting pretty frustrated, trying all options, logging out etc. Well turns out my inventory was full and I didn’t realize because there was no notification. Just something to check.
I was under the impression that the event starts at 12pm PST but continues throughout the entire day while being a one time only event for players(meaning you can’t do it multiple times.) I could be wrong though. I just wouldn’t think they would make the event last from 12pm to 12:01pm. That would be ridiculous.
There are two chests to the left in the first part of the puzzle. Then there is a third when you jump down, and the fourth reward chest when finishing
Hmm, did not know there was a fourth. I have only seen 3.
I notice there’s a yellow action popup when jumping on the vertical gear after the first pause but a good deal of time before the long drop, I assume that’s it?
I think it may be. I don’t think it’s immediately after the wait, but soon after yes.
The first chest is in the very beginning. I don’t really know how to explain the location other than it is at a point where there are multiple paths to be taken and it is at the very left. The second is right after you jump down(where it’s far enough to take fall damage) to the lower platform. The chest will be waiting there, but hurry or the acid will eat you up. The third is obviously at the very top in the room.
Doing the tower subsequent times after you’ve already acquired the Mad King slippers rewards you with candy bags. If you’re really good you can get a maximum of three chests full of candy bags per try. I usually hit 2 chests which is about 12-20 candy bags.
Loud "low bass" sounding alarm coming from Guild wars during Mad King's Labyrinth
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Yes, happened to me. Very weird bug. Had to log to fix it.
How are the slippers on the TP? It wouldn’t let me sell mine that I got from the clocktower:(
Yeah I noticed I couldn’t sell my slippers on the TP. Very angry at that, because I know I will never wear them.
Is there a way to check ping? I’m on Tarnished Coast, haven’t run into any ping issues, but it would be nice to know.
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hm, where are these chests. I was in the labyrnth for like an hour, and while the drops were great, I did not see any chests:(
I’ve done it maybe 200+ times. Took me a little over an hour my first try. I think I’m addicted. It’s just so fun. I love jumping, the vista, the whole look of the tower. I love how there’s tons of people all doing it at the same time with you. It almost seems as if your competing with them. It’s great. The tot bags are great as well:)
-Human ranger.
And if you can’t complete it? Big deal! You don’t get the Mad King slippers. It’s not the end of the world like you guys are making it out to be.
Not completing the puzzle isn’t a big deal.
That a feature was added into the game – a game that advertised and prized itself on being community friendly - that has actively encouraged griefing, insulting and demanding things of everybody else as if they had the run of the place, however, is quite a big deal.
It’s even quite apparent in these forums. There is very little sane discussion on where the problems of this puzzle actually lie. One side just goes “NEENER NEENER NEENER YOU DON’T HAVE SKILL SO SHUT UP” and the other side goes “YOU JUST DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO RUIN YOUR ACHIEVEMENT”.
If those two above attitudes could shove off – because they are unproductive, unhelpful and don’t actually discuss the problems that do make this puzzle genuinely unpleasant for a large majority of players in the community – then maybe we’d get somewhere.
The problems with this puzzle have nothing to do with the puzzle itself. The timer? It’s fine. Challenging, yes, but not impossible. The waiting? It’s frustrating as hell and seems ridiculous to be added to a puzzle demanded you not stray more than two seconds slower than the pace, but it’s not really a problem as such.
However, the vicious reaction of the community – in discussions like this or during the actual puzzle – is a problem. That this clearly wasn’t tested by more than four people at one time is a problem because those are problems. Allowing people to take in banners to give speed boosts to people in the middle of jumps – a bug I might add because skills clearly aren’t meant to be used – is a problem. The inconsideration to differences in racial sizes, and thus the issue this causes people in trying to work out where their character even is, are a problem.
^ they are the issues that need to be looked at.
Not the timer, not the amount of skill somebody does or does not have, and not the amount of time it takes you personally to complete the puzzle.
(You can eat a pie in thirty seconds? Good for you, but that doesn’t mean you should hold everybody else to the same standard. By the same token, just because I might take ten minutes to eat a pie, doesn’t mean I should scorn you for eating it quicker.)
I actually couldn’t agree more. Just an hour ago, someone in my group was using speed runes that gave a boost to EVERYONE in the vicinity. She was using it midway up and it would always be a surprise when it happened, thus throwing off everyone’s sense of timing. These issues should be fixed.