Considering the manifesto is just a bunch of lies at this point i m not surprised that its not in the game.
I was trying to find it after release but no area fits its surroundings: big deep uncorrupted ocean.
Why are you even on the forums? You seem to very much not like GW2…
Anyway back on topic, youtubing GW2 Manifesto turned up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35BPhT-KI1E but I don’t see any Liviathan.
Culling is not really something you can fix, unless you’re computer runs on plutonium it’s going to suffer in a WvW zerg or doing a meta-event with a full map. Culling itself was a fix, which they’ve tuned a bit for WvW but it’s still necessary.
ANet could do an overhaul of the home instances, make it a bit more home-y. Otherwise kinda seems like a lot of work which could go into other things (guild halls).
Keep dodging but add block. block reduced damage by some percentage and is easier to do, dodge is harder but completely prevents you from taking any damage.
Yeah, if you’re on high population servers I’m guessing a majority of the map would be filled with people from that server.
I’d like to lodge a complaint.
Then you’re in the wrong place, this is the suggestion forum, and granted most people tend to use this as their own personal cathartic-shouting-area but this is still the suggestion section and you’re not making a suggestion.
bah, filtering isn’t that bad, most people have very little of actual value (or coherence) to say, at least now when I read their messages I get to think about kittens.
lol it would be funny if not so depressing. Crashed on my server near the start of jormag, went into the overflow was lucky and got into jormag again, crashed just as dragon was about to die. Same issue, sound crashed then game. Strangly happened now for the first time.
Shouldn’t this go into the suggestion section?
Sylvari don’t make babies and Charr conventionally don’t raise their own children. Also overall this seems like a feature that will require a lot of work but will have little value to the game overall. In that I mean, so you have a family do a few missions and then what?
True ANet should spend 2 years of getting rid of every single bug and glitch before making and implementing new content
If that happened, more people would quit. I see less “I’m quitting because ____ class is still broken” than “I’m quitting because there’s nothing to do” or “I’m quitting coz of ascended stuff” threads in the forum.
I think maybe he was being sarcastic, or I hope very much he was being sarcastic.
Actually I like it the way it is. Granted there can still balance out the down state abilities and perhaps give you a suicide button (nothing more annoying then knowing you’re going to die and having to wait 4-5 seconds while someone slowly pew-pews you to death).
If you’re bored while walking around then I cannot image how moving faster would make it less boring, all moving faster would allow you to do is get from point A to point B sooner, which can be just as easily be accomplished with way points, although apparently you say that getting places faster isn’t what you’re looking for.
This isn’t one of those alpha-male-my-car-is-fast things right? I never understood how going fast leads implicitly to more fun…
I’ve never actually had this happen to me, even when auto-attacking I still get a gold. So I’m not sure if this is a problem, or maybe your doing something wrong. Maybe others can weight in, get some agreement on what is going on, if at all.
Playing a game just to “have fun” and pass the time is not my idea of a good game.
you could’ve simply posted that, it explains everything about your position.
this isn’t the kind of game you’re looking for. I’m sorry if you feel you’ve been “tricked” into buying it.
better luck with your next purchase.
This. There are so many skinner boxes out there I’m sure you can find your fix somewhere.
Is this the most casual AAA MMO ever? I know some of you will get offended by this statement thinking I’m attacking the game, but clearly, it was a design decision that Anet went for. Just curious if there has been another with more casual elements?
Seeing as how the title reads: “Legitimate Question”, while you clearly self identify it as a statement. I’m significantly more offended by the fact that you feel the need to lie to get people to read your comments.
Well at the least what I’d expect is: new races and/or new professions, definitely now areas / maps. Secondary expectations would be some new gameplay mechanic or gimmick, but usually these are more difficult to make compared to just turning out new quests / areas.
Watch my videos and there wont be any more of these soo called “issues”.
lol Gosh I swear… You people all just complain than learn on forums sometimes.You explain even the most basic skills in this video like it was some great secret, while completely failing to actually display any depth at all. I mean you kited an npc for about a minute while repeatedly applying cripple, wow, that’s grand. Oh the depth of it…
Seriously, that’s not what depth is. An evolving, reactive meta game could be considered depth, build diversity could be considered depth, truely customizable skill bars, the secondary profession system or something like the strategic impact of hexes, counter hexes and various interactions of skills that gw1 had certainly where depth; but what you show here is only amateurish beating (fast cast ground targetting off for gs/rifle?) on an almost unreactive ai.
Not being the best orator I’ve learned how to find good examples of things and then point to them, it also saves me the hassle of having to explain things myself.
Anyway on the topic of depth, this: http://extra-credits.net/episodes/depth-vs-complexity/
The psychology of addiction and conditioned behaviour is an interesting topic. Needless to say, most MMO players don’t so much strive for fun as much as satisfaction, the satisfaction that comes from achieving something (usually as an end result of grind).
St Patricks Day… that’s that Irish thing right? Very few Irishmen around where I live but it would be fine by me, the more content the better I guess, even if it is only a few small changes like loot drops or mobs.
This topic has been discussed many times, the fact alone that the page url is https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Race-change-18 (note the 18 and the end) implies that there’s already been 17 previous posts with exactly the same title. Wonder why the mods don’t combine these topics…
Doesn’t look too bad, but I’m guessing the issue here is that the launcher is a bit more convenient.
So charr and sylvari can wear war paint instead, same basic idea: you get to add funny pictures to your characters.
Well I seem to remember people complaining about free world transfers, so now people are complaining about paid for world transfers.
Once upon a time, ANet designed a game where the only things people might choose to do that required time commitment were gaining a dungeon set, or a legendary weapon. Everything else in the game, and there was a lot of it, was for fun. ANet envisioned gamers choosing to do whatever they wanted because it was whatever they wanted.
Then their vision met reality, in the form of a horde of players who wanted the results as quickly and easily as possible. Said horde clamored for more, for progression, for something new to do, for more and better stuff. And so ANet realized what other MMO developers have known all along. A large percentage of players play for rewards.
You know, all that fun stuff they designed in the first place, the stuff that was supposed to be done for fun? It’s still out there. The only thing keeping people from doing it is their own choices.
This, oh god so much this! GW2 is a example of the developers having lofty ideals and unrealistic expectations of a playerbase. A playerbase which I can only say has been skinner-boxed into oblivion, a playerbase unable to actually fun. No grinding is not fun, in the same way that heroine is not fun, but it feel good and your brain tells you it’s good so you keep doing it (like rats pulling levers, over and over and over hoping for cheese, for that singular moment of payoff which apparently has to excuse an entire play session of tedium and monotony).
So a lot of developer time is spent adding more grindable content and not adding more fun things to do, because MMO players.
Well on the one hand yay, I guess. On the other, how much money is ANet pulling in from the gem store? Usually those box sales recoup the cost of content production so I’m afraid that the amount of money to make new content might not be there and we’ll keep seeing small content patches which in total don’t match what we would have gotten from an expansion, and a fixed expansion also puts pressure on the developers to do something new or interesting.
There seems to be a misconception that I have seen in map chat of [Group] Event ‘Overflow’ maps. Some people are under the impression that if they are in overflow they won’t have the event spawn. I can personally validate that this is NOT true.
I did both Behemoth and Maw event yesterday on overflow and got my chest just fine. Just wanted to make sure people were not under the impression Overflow means no event/chest. That is just not true, at least in my case.
Yeah my thinking as well, judging by how people are going on it seems like the overflows don’t have word events or rewards or something.
Not that I’ve noticed, have any screenshots?
Well variety requires more time and effort. For game developers it’s a bit of a hard sell, as contents requires a lot of time to produce you’d also want to maximise the exposure of that content i.e. you’d want a lot of players be able to experience it. Also one can argue that the more variety they attempt to put in it to more buggy and unpolished the overall experience will be.
But in principle I do agree with you, and would like nothing more than ANet to be able to produce more and varied content.
Well always nice to have a nice comment on the forums every now and then, a break from the usual pace if you will.
Well the dailies are a step in the right direction.
All the suggestions in this thread just reminded me of Orr. Except you want it instanced.
My thinking exactly, or actually no they’re calling for Orr++. Since I can still more or less solo my way through, with careful mob-pulling.
Also, why do you not want a game promoting tattoos?
Instead of saying “tattoos” let us say “self expression”.
Yeah, beyond character slots and bank slots there isn’t really much I want to buy in the gem store…
Have you tried guesting to a higher populations server?
Sure the starting areas tend to be a little less populated but a usually see a few people running around.
Well the problem is of course that you’d end up with people trying to min-max their magic find in order to farm more efficiently. This could have some bad results, particularly en dungeons.
But I’ve always been a strong supporter of transparency.
Technically this would be dishonest, you want to be able to lie to your guild and you want the game mechanics to allow you to do so.
However I do feel some sympathy for your stated problem, although your problem is not so much a game-centric-problem but more a human-centric-problem. Now I’m not saying that a 100% problem is right or wrong, but this seems like the sort of thing you either accept or reject, if the guild wants 100% commitment and you can’t do it then, well that sucks.
I use to be in a casual-ish raiding guild in WoW, the guild had raiders and I was one of them and to be a raider I had to raid. A simple enough agreement. I think what you might be trying to do here is have your cake and eat it, i.e. you’re trying to cheat on your end of the deal with your guild (the whole 100% commitment thing). Maybe the guild isn’t for you?
EDIT: lol stupid spell checking and eloquent speeches and Jrunyon.3012 basically beats me to it :P
Well I’ll be argumentative and say it’s fully possible to have a MMORPG that also happens to use FPS-mechanics, because a genre should not be defined by it’s mechanics (but then again I’ve probably been drinking from the cool-aid, http://extra-credits.net/episodes/aesthetics-of-play/).
However I have to note that this will essentially require a redesign of GW2 fundamental combat mechanic.
The only problem with that is how will ANet illicit these responses? After all few will argue that these forums represent a majority of the playerbase. ANet says that they’re checking our chat logs (creepy) and they have people going through these forums and some other GW-related forums but still even then I’m not sure how good the data is (or is that are?) they’re getting.
I’ve previously suggested they introduce some sort of in-game, completely optional, polling system to get more direct feedback from a potentially larger portion of the playerbase. Player logs in, sees a flakittenhing in the corner clicks on it, can choice any one of 3-4 options (or none at all), makes a selection and keeps on playing.
Let the Economic Roleplay(ERP) commence. I shall first buy stock in the Orichalcicum mining industry, controlling the mines. Once I save up, I shall then buy a Charr refinery and route all my ore there for refining. I shall then buy caravans for moving it about, and move on to another industry, more mines and more refineries. I shall control the whole business through vertical integration. Frosty Carnegie will be known all throughout Tyria before I’m done!
Oh it would be awesome if you could actually do that. But GW2 isn’t a sandbox.
Yeah the design philosophy goes something like: “the game shouldn’t a second job, it should be fun. Farming is not fun.”
Unfortunately this doesn’t go over very well with most MMO players who seem to really really like grinds.
My Char Necro was suppose to be more angry! So I agree in principle. However I highly doubt we’ll be seeing ANet retrospectively adding this to the current content, but perhaps in a future expansion, or content patch.
So wait when there was no one around everyone was complaining about how much of a ghost town it is and how GW2 is failing, now that there’s so many people you can’t get into the door now people are still complaining?
Stop looking for new scapegoats every time you don’t get what you want. First it was magic find, now this. STOP IT.
This.
Why not just Guest as well to some low population server, or is that too much effort?
Well ANets got to make their money somewhere, also they did publicly announce that they were going to close down free world transfers so you all did have time. One of the primary (I like to think) reasons they kept it open so long was for so that people could hop around, get it out of their systems and then decide where to settle down.
As long as you give me a button to mute other peoples instruments I’m fine with it.
I agree in principle, having a in game VoIP service would lower the barrier to entry and most likely lead to more people using it. The problem is of course that ANet is not a VoIP company, with everything that entails.
Have you tried recreational drugs? I hear from a friend that they tend to help the tedium of boredom. As for the game, I’m afraid because of the way it was implemented (not too many skinner-box / reward grinding elements) you’re brain simply isn’t getting the release of feel good hormones usually associated with achievement and discovery since you’ve probably done most of the grindy things already. I could advise you to take a break, and hopefully one of the future content patches can give you something to do. With GW2 being B2P there’s no subscription so you can easily take breaks and come back when and if you feel like it. Perhaps the context patch tomorrow will give you a few more ours of gameplay, and perhaps next months patch will do the same.
I must say if my googling is any indication ANet was always rather mute on the importance of home instances, what little I found was technically accurate and appears in game, but I think the big problem was more a matter of the playerbase over hyping them and ANet not calming said hype. But that said I really don’t like the implementation of the hope instance, it doesn’t feel particularly home-y, or more accurately I don’t feel it accurately reflects my character. Probably because I don’t have much direct capacity to affect how it looks and feels.
+1 for a ingame guild recruiting board (or perhaps integrated into the UI). I’d like to be able to shop around at my own leisure for a guild to join and not have to make feel forced to make a snap decision when someone sends me a guild invite (usually at random).