It’s early yet in the whole 2-week content routine. This is the honeymoon phase for it. Time will tell if 2-week updates will be able to keep people long-term. Rift did regular mini-updates as well but as they got increasingly stale, the player-base began to fall off.
Not everyone will stick around to wait for an expansion.
To be fair, the Living Story isn’t keeping every single player, either. There are as many things to dislike about temporary content as there is to dislike about long waits, although many an MMO has done well without bimonthly minigames.
What makes you think he/she is young?
Because I believe only children are capable of such ridiculous thoughts. Maybe they will prove me wrong, which will make it even worse.
You’re kidding, right? I know several 35+-year olds that whine and complain more than any 15-year old.
Personally, I never kill champions except during DEs like the current one where I get them by default of doing the event. The rewards for them don’t make it worthwhile for me to go hunt them.
Unfortunately, no, I’m not. I only wish there were a ‘report’ option on that mail. I didn’t ask for charity and if I were to, I surely would not be asking for such a useless item.
What a sorry state today’s youth is in.
Indeed it is… quite ungrateful nowadays.
What makes you think he/she is young?
Other MMOs do give freebies. I’ve played several of them.
Yeah, the nice thing about a real expansion is that it includes content that I can play whenever I have time rather than over a 2-week and once-hourly time frame when I am likely to be busy with other aspects of my life. I have missed entire story arcs that are nowhere explained because I have other things to do than game. It creates a disjointed feel to the game for me that is demotivating overall. I’ve had players tell me they’ve gone back to other games because they feel they’ve missed too much already and will likely miss a lot more in the future that they can’t simply play through on their own time.
Oh, come on, you know the only non-ill-gotten gold in GW2 is the gold you buy with your gems. lol
Living Story mini additions like mini-games and the occasional new DE is vastly different than a full expansion. To the player, it feels vastly different to have hours of content – new maps, new dungeons, and new gear ready and waiting to explore whenever they want than little bits here and there of content that, such as with this update, you do a lot of sitting around waiting and can’t play whenever you have the time.
Funny, but if Anet could really predict the future, they could have avoided making some of the apologies they’ve had to make during the past year.
The DE we currently have would have appealed to far more people if they could actually play it 15 minutes after the hour begins. lol
Southsun Cove has been a dead zone since it was created, essentially, the all of two events surrounding it notwithstanding. The map could have been designed more intelligently so that it would have staying power, but that didn’t happen. It’s not a player-friendly map, so players don’t use it. Too bad, since it makes no sense to spend time and money creating something so unusable that all efforts are more or less a waste of those resources.
An expansion presented in Living World format would be…exactly what we have right now…lol
I don’t really get the point of the question, as there are no decent farms in this game currently other than the Clockwork Chaos events, which are temporary.
The current event setup is especially unfriendly to DCed players, as once you’re in a map and get DCed, chances are you’ll never get back into that map and the event for it is essentially ruined for you. This has happened to me twice when I’ve been in the final map I need for the achievement. It’s frustrating to say the least. The design of this content is seriously flawed when you cannot play content but once every hour. I should have been able to reconnect to the game, get in an overflow map, and complete the event, which was only 18 minutes into it. Or else, the maps ought to be on a predictable rotation so players can plan to enter the maps they still need.
Account bound would have been nice, but I simply take this freebie for what it is – ArenaNet begging players to go out and actually keep WvW from dying off completely.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we never see an expansion on this game. If Arena Net is making enough money with their bimonthly mini updates and their new rotation of items in the store, they essentially have no motivation to sink money into a full expansion.
The number one problem with your solution is the number at which DR kicks in needs to be a lot higher than 4. It needs to be high enough to cover the actual number of champs that will be killed during a normal event run or else you’re punishing players simply for playing the event where a certain number of champs are going to be killed in the course of completion.
Also, this game has too much DR anyway. Other MMOs don’t have DR to punish their players and they do just fine.
That is the Vorpp I’m talking to, the one right in front of the playhouse entrance in DR>
There is a bug with the final step of Vorpp’s quest chain. He tells me to go back to DR and when I do and talk to him there, he tells me to meet him in DR over and over again. There is therefore no way to complete this chain after all the work on the first steps.
If it’s a farm, it’ll get nerfed because all farms get nerfed. They don’t want too much money coming into player hands too quickly. It’s just a matter of time, if it hasn’t happened already.
99% of people who post positive stuff about ANET are hard core farmers.
That’s an interesting statistic.
I never follow commanders in PvE. Half the time, I don’t follow them in WvW, either. I’m smart enough to figure out what’s going on in any given situation without a blue chevron.
I suppose killing another dragon – there are 4 more to go, right? – would involve an expansion to continue the personal story. However, nothing so far has suggested that an expansion will ever be in the offing. If the money rolls in with bimonthly content and new toys in the store, there’s really no motivation to spend the money on a full-blown expansion.
Anet very carefully controls their economy in-game so that players in general can’t accumulate too much money overall. Not being able to make money in-game overmuch means more money spent on gems to buy gold to get what they want. This is the goal and is why farms are nerfed each time one comes to light. Working as intended. It’s also why there are systems like DR in place – to control the amount of gold coming into player hands. Of course, there’s always a party line, usually something about making the game more fun or balancing things, but the bottom line is control and gem/gold sales.
Especially medium armor. This game has no concept of fashionable-looking medium armor. You can have a trenchcoat or a trenchcoat. Lame.
Random is random. RNG means something will happen the first time for some and never for others. Usually, when I see people get upset about RNG, it’s over something to do with legendaries. I’m not really sure what the fuss is concerning them. They’re not that big a deal and if the only thing you like about this game is owning a legendary, are you even playing the right game?
So far I haven’t seen a single event no matter how fast I WP in…
Though RNG sucks, GW2 uses it because, for most humans, it seems to work. Give a person a guaranteed reward, and they’ll do that thing once and get the reward and go on. Give a person a mere chance to receive a reward and they’ll do something repeatedly with basically no limit. Therefore, RNG makes them more money than more solid approaches. If the majority of people didn’t tolerate the randomness by using their pocketbooks to express this, RNG would be replaced with something else. But it doesn’t need to be because even though some folks complain about not liking it, the vast majority of people will simply continue to shell out money on the chance of getting said reward.
This looks like another farm nerf. It’s fairly obvious by now that Anet hates farming since each one is nerfed in turn. Making sure the majority of players can’t make money quickly compared with TP prices on higher end items ensures players are buying enough in-game gold with actual money rather than earning it in-game.
Kinda starting to look like the official comment is people in Tyria swim in their underwear.
This is pretty basic stuff.
Well, yeah, but this is an MMO. They’re not supposed to make logical sense. They’re supposed to make money.
That you or I don’t fall for it doesn’t matter, Zynga has taught us that LOTS of people do fall for it.
Well, you’re right, of course. lol If my playstyle represented a majority of MMO players, the MMO companies would either be bankrupt or they’d be running their games a lot differently. Hehe.
I see the definition of grind is up for grabs again.
Oh, yeah. But then, it always is in every MMO. Grind is a subjective term that also has a generally understood meaning. It’s the subjective part that everyone disagrees on. Fanboys will always claim their fave game has no grind and disgruntled players usually have it as a major complaint. Even when the context usage is clear, there will be differences of opinion because that subjective sense is always there. The ability to be truly, completely objective is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Everyone has perceptions and biases that are always in play whether or not this is consciously realized.
I suppose it would work that way for some people, but even on the weeks that I actually log in every day, I still never spend any money, so that logic definitely doesn’t work for me.
lol Hey, I didn’t say whether or not it would work. Question was what would make me want to go out there more and being able to romp the hills without getting zerged would do it for me.
If I could flag whether or not I want to be attacked at any given time, I’d spend more time out there.
Time of day is a factor. So is whatever the new content is going at the time. I play during USA Midwest prime time hours usually and there were some people at the Bazaar of the Four Winds. Haven’t seen many players in the greater world for a while now, though.
I really don’t spend any time out at Southsun any longer. It had a very brief life for me and basically everyone I know in the game. If they added some soloable hearts and such to the map, I’d go play there again, but that’s just me.
As far as I’m concerned, they can stay. Don’t bother me a bit.
Game achievements are meh at best. My real efforts to achieve are done in RL.
Huh. All that MF gear now currency down the toilet. S’pose we’re gonna have to just salvage all that stuff. I doubt I’ll get a single ecto from the process. lol
I am kind of surprised they’re going there, though. Do devs often cave in to whiners?
P.S. I don’t have enough drama in my life. Just sayin’.
I think it’s just busywork to get people to log in. Another “daily” activity, if you will. It doesn’t really bother me because I don’t use them, anyway.
This was never even remotely a concern or peeve of mine. I really couldn’t care less how many achievement points someone else has or how they got them.
To me, the Living Story addition was underwhelming. I thought the rewards at the end were basically useless and the instances felt really repetitive. The norn Braham seemed particularly lame and unbelievable. It seemed like such a cliche – we need something epic, so let’s pull out the old “Someone important has a long lost completely unknown adult love child that looks older than his/her parent.”
Even so, it was a free content update and a little something extra to do.
people … buy tons of keys.(success).
This is why ArenaNet does the whole RNG thing with all their new shinies each month. Because enough people will buy hundreds of keys and/or chests for a chance at a skin or item. If the majority of players refused to spend money unless they knew exactly what they were getting, this would not be profitable and so it would be handled differently. But since there are enough players that “need” everything and have money to waste, this scenario works beautifully for them.
To me, the guy looks like he’s around 30 years older than Eir, which feels totally ridiculous.
it really has given, something for everyone.
While I applaud new content in general, I don’t really agree with this statement. I basically got nothing out of this living story addition beyond around 30 minutes of instances. The rewards were very underwhelming and essentially useless to me.
It wasn’t meant to be a huge update, merely a bigger update than 1 and 2
Most folks aren’t even commenting on the size of the update but rather the quality of it. There’s a difference and your comment is fairly irrelevant to peoples’ concerns.
I can only assume that the number of players willing to shell out money for a chance at something via Black Lion chests far outnumbers the players that dislike this sort of thing. If people were unwilling to gamble for rewards, I doubt this would be done. Personally, I don’t pay money to gamble in a video game, but it seems clear to me that many, many others do. Therefore, we see it repeated.