Almost all the issues that are coming up, again and again, are coming up due to lack of proper communication on Anet’s part.
That and the lack of a decent search function.
So you want a list of things they are working on and updated monthly.
Sounds like a nice idea.
The Planetside 2 roadmap is a good example of the kind of thing I’d like to see from them. Planetside 2 is a different beast but I’d like to see roadmaps for WvW, sPvP, open world PVE, dungeons and fractals.
In reality though, ArenaNet seem to be making very slow progress on these fronts so I don’t see how much they can actually tell us.
From outside they appear to be making slow progress… the alternative is that a lot of work get’s thrown out internally for some reason or another (which I guess would be kinda sad).
Whenever anet representatives or devs talk, it’s like their head is on the chopping block. They’re only words but I can feel the nervousness in their indecision on what to say.
Face it, communication isn’t their strong suit, hasn’t been since launch and probably will never be.
There was a time when we’d get a message or two a few times a week.
You know, if they were to come out and say that they’re currently working on Cantha expansion, without releasing absolutely no additional information, people would easily get extremely hyped.
I bet, this alone would bring tons of people back to the game.
If Cantha is the draw, why would they return before Cantha is released?
I find it funny how the guild wars 2 community is probably one of the nicest gaming communities but arenanet managed to upset them pretty badly.
Most of the unhappy people are just unhappy people unfortunately.
Or maybe a grapnel to go over the keep walls…
As I’m sitting on 99% world completion on one of my alts, I’d love something that could quickly pop me over those unassailable walls (because Aurora Glade just ain’t doing that good right now). So I’m all for this idea
Anet don’t want to talk to us anymore , they only want to talk with our money…..
Me and my money actually have a pretty close relationship, and my money hasn’t said anything to me about it… Although it might just be that my money doesn’t want me to get jealous or something.
+1 Vayne. Although, I do have to say, their silence has spoken volumes and will be extremely hard to retract.
Never actually found much in the way of value in silence myself. Silence tends to have the bad habit of being filled with people’s self projections. Although it does make for wonderful speculations.
I’ve been talking to people in game today. Most people I talk to don’t even know people are annoyed about something. lol
Yeah, there’s this massive disconnect between the forums and the in-game community. I tend to see this especially around patch time when no one in my guild really knows about the patches whereas I’ve experienced hours of debate, discussion and speculation.
Seeing the forums have great ideas but hidden in swears, cries and what have you.
Anet should allow the forum community to vote on player champions that might have access to special forum for discussions of changes or updates. Gather people who have experience with the game in many aspects and avoid all the clutter of…Class X OP or this game is ghay.
Yeah sounds like a good idea, but I maybe recognize like 1 or 2 names, pretty sure no one recognizes me. What I’m saying is, how effectively would we be able to pick a random person from a random pool of names.
Wow…
I’ve have heard of angry nitpicking, but geez… this thread has got to take the cake…
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Furthermore, it’s been established that the avatar isn’t a physical thing but a mere manifestation (of ether, from what I recall). Such things should disappear, rather than fall limp, just the same as magical effects disappear if you get knocked out/killed (such as seen in Sea of Sorrows with the guardians on Balthazar’s Trident during the final naval battle).
Assuming it’s an active ability. Sure it’s something that developed over time, but that doesn’t mean it’s something that can be turned on or off. Maybe the moment it came into being it simply was.
Totally indifferent. While the story so far is off to a better start than the last LS – I’m bored by another Sylvari focus. Nothing about the sylvari is compelling and Anet is jamming them down our throats.
I’m not getting this Sylvari overload thing though… different perspectives perhaps?
The assumption that any work of creativity is unbiased is… well demonstrates a deep misunderstanding of the human creative process and human thinking in general.
You see as your physical body is the only thing by which you come to know the world (pure rationalism is silly if you ask me), and since your body is an unreliable tool at best all human are inherently biased in terms of what they have or haven’t experienced and in terms of how they experienced things. Essentially all experience you have is interpreted and within a particular mental and emotional context (pure positivism is silly if you ask me). You have an existing frame of reference and knowledge through which all new experience is interpreted and meaning is drawn from. Now new experience might reinforce or go against your frame of reference (i.e. your bias) and either reinforce believes or lead to cognitive dissonance and possible self delusion or a change in your bias / frame of reference. You see as such it is humanly impossible to not have a bias. Every though, every word you speak or action you take is influenced by the internal workings of your mind, the things you know and don’t know.
What am I saying? Whoever thinks not having a bias is even possible or that having one is in some way bad, is a very silly person. The only problem occurs when one enters a state of self delusion in order to reinforce present biases when confronted with contradictory information.
That doesn’t really explain why are menders are trying to do something with this so-called manifestation. I am agree with Konig – there is no reason to rush towards the avatar since Sylvari could communicate with it without the avatar and ask her what help she needs and where. IIRC, she said her roots are torn up by Mordrem. Why not head there first?
Why do people visit graves?
You see you’re thinking too factually about this, the facts don’t matter when we’re dealing with living emotional beings who ascribe value and meaning to things which might not (if one views them factually) have value. Like putting a piece of rotting meat into the ground, putting a nice headstone on it, and then routinely visiting it.
Just because the pale trees avatar is only a illusion does mean that sylvari don’t think of it as being a thing, as being their mother.
Do the event with them and make it pass every time you get the chance.
And then when they start threatening you report them :P
What I’d like to know, does Arena Net consider this an actual exploit? Something they’d ban people for doing? Links to any official comments by developers or staff?
No official word that I know of. Technically it is, but yeah no one knows.
They didn’t ban people for Lyssa farm, Anchorage farm, Shelter and Dolyak farm.
What did they have all in common? Stalling/failing events.
You’re more likely to get banned for harrassing people completing the event than this
These sort of things they usually fix via patching not banning.
My 2 cents:
It’s NOT an exploit because the event is designed to have 2 VALID outcomes: Success or Fail.
No game mechanic is broken when you purposely fail the event.
Ah but failure is not intended to be something to strive for. Failure is there to tell you: ‘better luck next time’.
Now farming is an exploit too? GW2 community makes me sicker day by day …
ps: Remember what happened at the ember farm. ANet just changed the event./thread
Not farming per say, it’s farming via event failure. The question hang over the failure part.
I usually dont mind those farms, but lately the use of caps and name-calling in chat is too much. There is a number of reason why ppl want the event to succed, and “trolling” is just one of them. (btw, does anybody else find it hilarious that succeding an event is “trolling”?)
If only the farmers could be polite about it, accept a few less bags once in a while and move on, there wouldnt be any problems. As it is now, with reports of abuse and harrasment, Anet will most likely nerf it, and everybody loose.
I think this is the reason why they removed the queen’s dale champ farm. It’s probably the mob mentality thing.
For the record, I love farming.
It’s like I go into the zone, simple repetitive activities just put me in this zen-like state.
Don’t be a tattle tale, nobody likes tattle tales. You should have learned that when you were in school but some people never seem to get that lesson.
You call it tattle taling, I call it whistle blowing
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Not necessarily, most likely just ANet deciding that reusing models is easier than creating new ones.
If you play sylvari, the Pale Tree says you know this powerful Mordrem from your Dream (just before the Shadow of the Dragon spawns). Afterwards, Trahearne will ask if you remember the Shadow from your Dream which you confirm, and then your PC says that you feel the call of your Wyld Hunt again, and after asking Trahearne if it was a new one (why would he know, exactly?) Trahearne says that it’s the same, just a new stage of it – meaning that apparently your Wyld Hunt was only put on hold with Zhaitan’s defeat, not completed as the PC said during Victory or Defeat’s celebration. Finally, if you talk to Braham at the end, you’ll tell him you fought the Shadow of the Dragon before in your Dream – mentioning it as the same one.
It’s not just “new enemy, same model/name” it’s the same enemy.
So it’s a retcon then
Well not a big one, but still.
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We need also a button to skip the fights. It is very annoying to have boring fights until you can follow the next dialog.
Stupid comment. Hearing same dialog second time is waste of time, there should be button to skip dialogs.
Not necessarily stupid. Sarcastic sure. Although it is a good example of argumentum ad absurdum.
As a roleplayer it feels terrible to advocate skipping haha, but especially with the summit part I totally agree that that option would be a good thing for the achievement playthroughs. Should be unskippable the first time of course! Since it’s an RPG, sitting through the story at least once should be mandatory!
This would be the better idea. Once completed give us the option to replay story more or replay achievement mode (i.e. no dialog).
