Guild Wars 2

Gestankfaust.4216:

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

Gestankfaust.4216:

Aeonblade.8709:

Can I order this paperback?

^This

This is why you won’t get a valid or constructive opinion. We need the lecture note a full friggin week ahead of your post

I know that “some of you ppl” on the innernet can write. I know you can make reports. I get that.

So…JUST GIVE US THE NOTES!!!

Then er can give our opinion

Then you can expand…

Iz how these thing started. Not with 50 page reports to analyze before we could rebut.

I don’t think you’re understanding that I’m no longer interested in your opinion.

This one and your last reply sums it up. Don’t post you biography on the state of your mind whilst playing an MMO in a ten page mocumentary…then ask for replies.

You’re complaining about the OP being long winded and then you take about 6 long winded replies to continue your forum literary crusade lol. Why don’t you take your own advice?

Bubbles.1047:

StinVec.3621:

So far the top three people on these forums whose opinions I respect are Vayne, tolunart and Tengu. I don’t agree with everything each of them says, but they offer insight and logic with the majority of their comments they make, and their opinions are of value to me. Thank you for that.

Huh. I would put those three on the bottom of my list of people I respect. Not because I almost never agree with them, but because of the know-it-all, snarky attitudes. To each their own, I suppose.

Back on topic, I agree with OP. Buffing the underpowered skills is the way to achieve balance, not the other way around.

Agreed lol.

The Eternal Grace.3157:

Drew.1865:

Dante.1508:

Totally agree OP find a new game with things you enjoy, trying to convince people with blind faith in a product will never work.

As for the game dying not sure but from what i’ve seen its drastically declined in the past few months and so many players have taken breaks or moved on..

So each time i see Nerf this and Nerf that with very little content fillers and major mechanics overhauls i see massive groups leave, which doesn’t help the game..

Personally think you’re wasting you effort trying to explain to blind faith player that spend their whole lives on the forum defending a game and never playing it..

Agreed because if it was so wonderful they’d never be on the forums.

Thanks for supporting. These are kinda the views I’ve seen from a large number of players. I would consider myself a very large fan, and I still actively play, but I’m not afraid of admitting to the game’s downfalls and weaknesses.

The game could be great but I think many of us see that our concerns are ignored as they keep going down the path they have been on. It just gets boring after about 4 months and the constant nerfs to everything don’t help make it more fun lol.

Dante.1508:

Totally agree OP find a new game with things you enjoy, trying to convince people with blind faith in a product will never work.

As for the game dying not sure but from what i’ve seen its drastically declined in the past few months and so many players have taken breaks or moved on..

So each time i see Nerf this and Nerf that with very little content fillers and major mechanics overhauls i see massive groups leave, which doesn’t help the game..

Personally think you’re wasting you effort trying to explain to blind faith player that spend their whole lives on the forum defending a game and never playing it..

Agreed because if it was so wonderful they’d never be on the forums.

Valanga.5942:

I have no expectation about the new patch, so i will not be disappointed.
Though, if ANet will revamp CoF in order to kill the speedruns, i’ll laugh so hard i will probably get banned

Rofl me too!!!!

Claudius.5381:

Vayne.8563:

Drew.1865:

Vayne.8563:

Every month, before the update hits we get a couple of speculation threads, but for the most part the “infighting” in the forums has died down.

…

This might be the most hilarious post I’ve ever seen on a gaming forum. I’ve been reading them for years and Anet really needs to buy you dinner for this. Lol!!!!!!!!!

I wrote it just to entertain you. Seriously.

And I really thought that it was a giant troll post. But what do I know about that…

Lol!!!!

Vayne.8563:

Every month, before the update hits we get a couple of speculation threads, but for the most part the “infighting” in the forums has died down.

It would be really nice if we could keep this sort of calm after the patch (though I’m relatively sure that won’t happen).

One thing I will say about the forums, in general, is that speculation isn’t fact, and until we actually see what’s being done, we won’t know. More than that, until we’ve played the game with the update, we STILL won’t know.

It’s like when the dungeons got updated so you couldn’t rez rush any more, and people were saying it was the end of the world. Well the world didn’t end, and many people seem to like the update.

I’m not saying don’t complain (it wouldn’t stop anyone anyway). I’m saying give changes a chance before you start complaining.

This might be the most hilarious post I’ve ever seen on a gaming forum. I’ve been reading them for years and Anet really needs to buy you dinner for this. Lol!!!!!!!!!

HawkMeister.4758:

Drew.1865:

The game is way to new for engine optimization. You want to see bad optimization try Tortanic. You will lol.

Tor_what_?
Never heard of it.
On the other hand everybody heard of GW2, was the talk of the town during the last E3 and didn´t even have a booth.

BTW, you forgot the “little”(as in humongous) player culling problem they optimized. Very important for the couple of peeps in PvP.
Us PvE pleebs (aka. majority of players) are so happy for them. :P

Star Wars the old republic aka Tortanic.

Mirta.5029:

Drew.1865:

Thanks Anet I’ve been having so much fun raiding on my worgen warlock! I never knew a game so old would still be so much better :-)

if you think it’s better try a druid. Some of their specialties get nerfed every patch -_-

Are you kidding I’m top healer on my Druid in almost every battleground.

Can we have 10, 15 and 25 man raids?

My Mesmer has always been op lol. Anyone that knows how to play a Mesmer well will still pwn people. It takes like 4 people to kill me in spvp lol.

The game is way to new for engine optimization. You want to see bad optimization try Tortanic. You will lol.

Thanks Anet I’ve been having so much fun raiding on my worgen warlock! I never knew a game so old would still be so much better :-)

Belenus.9132:

The fact is Ema.4953 and others you will ALWAYS get those who whine on about ‘how lousy’ something or other is. Often they compound this whining by mentioning that another game system is better or that it has such an such an element which Guild Wars 2 should have. My immediate reaction to such people is to say that if they love those other games so much they ought to just [insert profanity here] and play them and leave Guild Wars 2 to the people who actually LOVE the way it works.

In reality I work in the business and have been both a game designer and player since the very early Eighties and as such feel that unless those posting such ‘suggestions’ can actually do better than the designers, programmers and all of the hundreds of people involved in creation, content and presentation that they ought NOT to post their grievances at all. I have no wish to hear about OTHER games! I’m here to PLAY and to enjoy Guild Wars 2. I will not even profane this commentary box with any other games title or content; that is how strong my feelings are on the subject.

What often tears it for me is how dumb these posters often are. I appreciate that not everyone has had an education but many of them cannot even use basic English (actually it has been my observation that non-English speakers often use better English than native speakers) and instead resort to that highly irritating and dumbed-down text-eze language so beloved of the cell phone generation. I flatly refuse to communicate with them, that is how irritating I find it to have to ‘translate’ their dribble (and in world often mute them rather than have to ‘listen’ to it).

There is an expression, ‘’pearls before swine’’ and it is very appropriate for these complainers and no-nothing’s in wanting to make Guild Wars a clone of other and lesser games are just without any appreciable imagination in my book.

Your wisdom is a great example of why SWTOR became Tortanic. Since you seem to have so much wisdom as far as gaming development is concerned what games have you worked on?

Or maybe they should move all the fanboy’s off the forum since they never add anything to any discussion except whining about people complaining :-)

A troll hunter is really good if you like bows.

No and they make really good hunters and Druids.

Farzo.8410:

Check Steve Hughes, he’s an awesome comedian.

He talks, and jokes about being offended is purely subjective, and now people are trying to make laws out of it. what offends you might not offend me, and vice versa.

Should I be able to report someone, and “hopefully” get him banned because he said the word orange? Because one time in the past I got attacked with an orange?

Agreed and I often laugh when I should be offended because I love people pushing each others buttons. People are so silly.

One thing I noticed that is truely an awesome detail is walking thru the grove on my mesbian aka female sylavri mesmer named Geie and seeing little flowers and ferns grow as I walked. That was pretty amazing for a game detail. There is no other mmo as beautiful as this game. They got so many little things right.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

As usuall I am unsure where to post my posts but I hope this is the right place.

(Edit: My point to this thread is to tell those who asks the question ‘Why is there a profanity filter when you get banned for being foul mouthed’ a few reasons to why some who don’t wan’t foul language disables profanity filter.)

I have read on Dev commented topics and found that there are so many who asks this question after have gotten their 3-days ban.
And I don’t wan’t to revive threads with a comment to their question after a dev have answered.

I don’t mind cursing, in my country more or less everyone curses like cute kittens :P
But what I do mind is when people are calling someone bad names or saying realy foul words over and over again.

So why don’t I have Profanity filter on?
First and most important reason is; I am not from an English speaking country and some of our words will be blocked by the filter, so typing with my friends or other players from my country (in Party/Guild chat ofc) would have been troublesome.

Second reason is; as I first said, I don’t mind the usuall cursing that more or less everyone does nowdays (Atleast in my country), so I rather read the curses than reading wingdings or kittens but I can’t help other players letting it getting out of hand.

As for me that is why I’m having profanity filter off option. Just becouse I can handle foul language doesn’t mean I use them on any chat becouse I mind the other players.

Here is how I see it. Have more than one game you like to play. Use the words you want in party and whispers. Don’t curse in general chat or use racial slurs because it’s rude to the other players. If you get banned for cursing then play the other game while you’re banned. Banning your customers is generally bad for business.

I would raffle the precursor off to my guild mates. I always shared all my drops with pugs. Sharing is caring as they say.

Takato.4976:

Drew.1865:

Call your ISP. Unless the karkageddon has started it might be on your end. If it’s happening to lots of your guild mates it’s probably server side combined with how poorly optimized this game is.

I dunno, it’s been working fine ( isp ) for all my other games. And calling them is pointless, it’s like. “hur hur, you should unplug your modem for 20 seconds and replug it.” NOWAI.
Customer service is too good. Most of the lag spikes Iv’e been getting is happening to my team as well. I don’t know anymore ;

I just had a depressing pvp match where lag spikes makes you use black powder 2-3 times in a row effectively crapping on my initiative lol.

I would put a ticket in and give them your specs and your ISP speed so they can look into it. Trust me karkageddon was so annoying I skipped the whole event.

Tommyknocker.6089:

Necro,. We may not anywhere near the dps of the top three professions, but it just seems to fit me better. I have a warrior, guard and a thief all @ 80, and I was leveling a ranger. However, I find myself constantly trying to go into death shroud when I play one of these other professions, so now I just stick with what works for me.

Yep necro is tons more fun than those other classes. +1 for having good taste! I hate melee in this game ugh so boring.

Snowmoon.1758:

Drew.1865:

They nerfed the rewards from almost every other part of the game so if they nerf this the forums are going to be epic qq. That is basically the main way players make coin to buy stuff now so messing with it is going to make lots of players mad.

Yes i know this is a very unpopular topic.
And personally i find it very sad that the loot table in GW2 is so unexciting that it forces players to farm this for meagre scraps of gold.

However, for the good of this game’s future, please improve on your loot and nerf this dungeon. I come to GW2 to have a good time, not to grind 5 runs daily for gold. I do that everyday at work already.

I totally agree with you and you guys deserve better rewards for playing the game. I truly hope enough players quit to send Anet a message about the bad loot.

Wolfheart.1938:

Drew.1865:

Because anything that provides you with gold or a way to make it means less gems for Anet.

Because the gem/gold exchange ratio is fixed right? Right?

I don’t know and don’t care because I would never buy gems again. Maybe you know the answer?

If I’m going to support a gambling operation it needs to have slot machines and lots of blue haired old ladies to hang out with. I don’t gamble with real money for pixels.

A worgen warlock :-)

Snowmoon.1758:

I’m probably gonna get flamed / bashed about this,
but i hope Anet knows that everyone using COF (Citadel of Flame Dungeon) path 1 to farm for gold. It yields about 3 to 3.5 gold per run depending if u use food buffs.

I do it myself, and while it is nice to get gold, i feel that this goes against
the idea of having fun. Personally i find it a lil sad that we players have to
resort to do this because of the terrible loot found elsewhere and i hope Anet can look into this. Grind grind grind grind for gold is killing my interest fast.
Everyday, i’ll just log in, do my daily, run 5 runs of COF and call it a day. sad.

If COF P1 is designed to be farmed like this, (which i suspect is to probably keep gold farmer rangers contained within and not out in the open world) Then PLEASE remove the annoying world event timer that locks the COF waypoint and entrance. Might as well make it open 24/7. Quite annoying to have to guest to other servers and find that all servers are also contested.

They nerfed the rewards from almost every other part of the game so if they nerf this the forums are going to be epic qq. That is basically the main way players make coin to buy stuff now so messing with it is going to make lots of players mad.

Call your ISP. Unless the karkageddon has started it might be on your end. If it’s happening to lots of your guild mates it’s probably server side combined with how poorly optimized this game is.

Jski.6180:

pricer.5091:

Jski.6180:

Mirta.5029:

Jski.6180:

Mirta.5029:

a 5-man story dungeon. There are not going to be any raids in Guild Wars 2.

There are a good number of open world raids.

no, those are group events. A raid is an instanced dungeon designed for a huge amount of people (20, 30..)

Ya same thing just not in an instance it in an open world.

No not the same thing at all, one is a zerg amongst people you don’t know and will never speak to and will likely be over in anywhere between 10 seconds (Maw) and 10 minutes (Claw), the other is a raid amongst people who are in your group and are communicating via speech and / or text.

Just because you find something easy dose not mean its not a raid. Most of these ppl who are running these world events have done it before and know what going on but if its your first time you got to talk to other ppl to work out what going on. There also more then just the one shot bosses that i am talking about temples are major raid like events. They do take some level of coronation all of them.

A huge Zerg of people spamming dps at an npc is not a raid. The temple events are burn boss and Rez downed. Nothing complex about them.

pricer.5091:

Yes, over and over again, many more times than I can even say. Did you even read my post or are you just flapping your chops?

And no, I have not just played WoW. I’ve been playing MMO’s for longer than some people have been alive.

Spvp is actually a lot of fun and the builds matter. The rest of the game is extremely boring and unrewarding but spvp can actually be fun and classes matter as well as builds.

Sinifair.1026:

I have to agree with Seras and Vayne. We have to expand on the Game Design.
- Basically it comes down to two kinds of aspects. The Game Concept, which is the idea that we want implemented, and the Game Design, which is determining the way that game concept will be implemented.

The Holy Trinity as a game concept is still a part of Guild Wars 2, but the Game Design is, well, designing it differently.
- I have come to find that the Holy Trinity, or the supporting of ones fellow players, works best when I play with my friends and have them over skype or have a “LAN” party. We are much quicker to act on the combo fields and such.
- I used to think the exact same way about the issues that you describe, so I can understand your frustration.

Still, if we are to look at the game design, I think that it is a matter of implementing new weapons (which ANet said they would. They have stated that they want more skills to add to the combat, but also that they are doing it the GW2 way) or maybe some vehicles in certain areas, like Orr, that we can use to fight off the enemies.

- Take a game design from GW2 that can be expanded. Maybe Utility Skills that are based on a certain weapon. Like if you wield a two-handed sword, you can purchase utility skills that are exclusive to that and add more moves that you can pull off on the battlefield.

- But yeah, suggest a game concept that can be improved or something that expands the game design, and let the devs take it from there.

You can be a full on Ele support healer in this game with the right gear but it will effect your drops. My Ele is in all healing gear and heals a ton.

The combat in this game is extremely boring in my opinion and the builds are boring because so few are viable. You aren’t the only person who feels this way OP.

Because anything that provides you with gold or a way to make it means less gems for Anet.

Vonnix.1986:

I’m mostly using all berserker gear. And to Ruprect I’m not trolling I suppose I’m just bad. It sounds like most people especially warriors don’t have much trouble so it’s probably just me. I’ve never been in a dungeon group I’m afraid I’ll ruin other folks fun by being bad. I do like doing group events if others are around though.

My toons have at least 2 sets of gear. You should only use zerker gear when you feel more omfortable with the game.

Vonnix.1986:

I’m starting to think that I’m really, really bad at this game. I don’t think I’ve ever died as much in an MMO as this one. I’m right now in the straits of devastation trying to complete the map objectives, and I’m just dieing constantly. I solo exclusively and I guess this type of play style doesn’t work for GW2? I’m pretty much a casual player that just logs on from time to time but It’s gotten to the point I just hate the end game zones big time and pretty much ready to throw in the towel. Is this zone suppose to be group only or what? I’m thinking I’m just really really bad ,which is why I solo anyhow. I don’t want to ruin other peoples fun By sucking at the game.

You don’t suck at the game. I can craft you gear with toughness and vitality but you need the mats since I no longer play I probably don’t have what you need to make it. The problem you will have with that gear is that it will take you longer to kill stuff and elites won’t want to run dungeons with you.

I suggest you join a guild and get them to help you. There are a lot of really nice people that play this game so it shouldn’t be hard to fin help.

Geotherma.2395:

Vayne.8563:

Drew.1865:

Ursan.7846:

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

Not when there are members of the Anet defence force around, that’s for sure.

Do you think name calling and making fun of other people’s opinions simply because they don’t disagree with you is “constructive feedback?”

I’ve never called anyone any names other than a fanboy from time to time but if the shoe fits wear it as they say.

As you’ve pointed out, you don’t have to actually call someone names to be offensive, or to attack them.

I think the posts about sPvP may have some merit. people seem more inclined to forum PvP than to do sPvP. Anyone who says nice things about the game is a fanboy, anyone who has a different opinion is an idiot. I would say our world has really gone down hill as far as people respecting each other, but I think the news channels do well enough a job showcasing just how terrible, selfish and evil people can be. The de evolution of the species I suppose. At least most these people on forums are not as vocal and obnoxious inside of the game, because that would definitely be a defining moment, and a sign to leave.

The majority of the people who play GW2 are extremely nice when playing the game. This game has one of the best communities of any mmo. See I can praise the game :-)

Vayne.8563:

Drew.1865:

Ursan.7846:

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

Not when there are members of the Anet defence force around, that’s for sure.

Do you think name calling and making fun of other people’s opinions simply because they don’t disagree with you is “constructive feedback?”

I’ve never called anyone any names other than a fanboy from time to time but if the shoe fits wear it as they say.

As you’ve pointed out, you don’t have to actually call someone names to be offensive, or to attack them.

Are you talking about how you twist people’s words around and try to belittle them when they don’t agree with you or are you talking about how you have talked to clay?

lothefallen.7081:

This is the problem that removing roles creates. Without defined roles to help structure combat and content, the classes with the most utility and optimal skills are just flat out undeniably more viable than the rest.

Example: Time Warp, Portal, etc.

Arguably, these skills are some of the most useful skills in the game. Does Guardian or Ranger have an Elite or Utility that is even half as effective or role-creating as Portal or Time Warp? Not really. The imbalance lies in the lack of distinction of roles and the disparity between skill favor. Aside from Wall Of Reflection, what Guardian utilities can you really say are as useful as Portal? Elites as useful as Time Warp? Absolutely none and it’s even worse for Ranger. ArenaNet needs to devote more resources into correcting these problems.

The gaurdian heal elite is amazing but other than that the class is extremely boring. Mesmer and Ele are by far the most fun IMO.

Ursan.7846:

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

Not when there are members of the Anet defence force around, that’s for sure.

Do you think name calling and making fun of other people’s opinions simply because they don’t disagree with you is “constructive feedback?”

I’ve never called anyone any names other than a fanboy from time to time but if the shoe fits wear it as they say.

Geotherma.2395:

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

Geotherma.2395:

Whats it like trolling a forum of a game you no longer like/play?

Anyone who purchased the game is allowed on the forums, at any time, for the lifetime of the game, or, until such time as Arenanet sees fit to change it.
You, and the rest of the Arenanet defence force may not like this, or the opinions of the people who lost their blinders… but no amount of crying, name-calling or condescension will change this. (Edit: yeah, I know, it works both ways…)

I think, you and the rest of Vayne’s world are just a little bit annoyed because you never wanted to admit that a “proper” LFG tool is a more important addition to this game than, lets say HKO style, 8-Bit, limited duration ‘content’…

How so? I have made plenty of threads that reference the need for a LFG tool? I’m not complaining about customers who no longer play using forums. I’m saying when they contribute nothing to the topic or spout off how bad the game is, they might as well just get off the forums. They offer no suggestions or constructive feedback. If they did, people wouldn’t be bashing them in the first place.

I agree they should only post if they are going to praise the game and if not why bother it’s not like they paid for the game or anything ;-)

It’s only really hard when the members of he group are trying to speed run it and not working as a team. I personally don’t find it fun a all either way but then again I think the fractals are a complete waste of time and can’t figure out why they even introduced them.

Vayne.8563:

bigtime.7410:

Oh gawd not another one of these threads again… I didnt read OP or any of it, but let me guess:

“mmo’s take time to be good”
“if you dont like the game stop playing”

At leaste complaint threads talk about something relevant to the game which make the forums worth reading. Unlike complaints about complainers threads that dont discuss the game, or ad anything to the dicussion other than useless complaints aimed at people. These threads are garbage and should be locked instantly.

SOME complaint threads talk about stuff that’s relevant to the game. Not all of them. Constructive and civils posts are quite different from whining posts. I mean if someone posted a thread that said Guardians need a buff, that wouldn’t particularly be relevant to the game, but it would still be a complaint thread.

One guy made a complaint thread that said he wants full on gear progression in this game. I’m not sure how that’s relevant.

It’s only relevant if you approve of or agree with it.

Vayne.8563:

While I know Anet is working on an LFG tool, just earlier someone trolled me by using my name on gw2lfg.com.

Actually it didn’t really go that badly, since I made a couple of friends and got a new guildie out of it…but the point remains, it’s too easy to troll people this way.

While I like gw2lfg.com, I think the LFG tool really needs to come soon enough. Not everyone likes chatting as much as I do.

Anyone think it’s coming in the April patch?

Oh so it should be added now because something someone did affected you? I see so you only want improvements when something effects you?

Someone pretending to be another player is a bit disturbing. I guess they must really be bored.

So…because you have no life…sit at home all day playing a video game, you should have better rewards than those that can only put in a few hours of the day after work? Because honest, hardworking people that have lives don’t deserve anything nice in a game they might enjoy playing in what little free time they can devote to it? I gotcha, you feel entitled to something nicer because you put ‘more time.’ Skill > Time.

As for “unfair advantage in pvp”…by nature, a competitive game (such as player vs player) must have equal footing and enforceable rules in order to accurately determine a clear winner or loser. Gear advantage skews this, and while this isn’t terribly obvious in GW2, it is in other games like WoW. Getting your kitten handed to you because you didn’t have hours to grind the latest amazing gear level (or even while trying to grind that latest gear level) is NOT enjoyable. If you think it is, go roll a new toon in WoW, level up to 15 and go play AB in base PvE armor for a few hours and see how you feel. Maybe it makes you feel wonderful, getting beaten down over and over again (and talked kitten to), but for most normal human beings, we feel pretty crappy. We do not want this in GW2!

SolidTx.3249:

Okay make all PVE dungeon/raid gear default to static stats when entering PVP. The game already auto levels anyhow. No big deal.

It does in sPvP, which I’m good with. Dungeons it doesn’t need to because there is a cap to armor, as there should be. It worked wonderfully in GW1, it can work just as well here.

SolidTx.3249:

What then is the issue with having gear progression?

The issue with gear progression (generally) is that it’s required to access content; content that players get locked out of at later times because people have moved on. I’ve experienced this personally in WoW. I only started playing WoW last year. Started in January, was totally burnt out and hated the game by July. Why? Because every guild I joined, I couldn’t play with any of the members. I wasn’t a high enough level. I didn’t have the right gear. So on and so forth. In 7 months I killed myself grinding 3 characters to max, bored to tears running the same dungeon over and over and over again, to armor up so I could join my guild members – 1 healer, 1 dmg, 1 tank. So I could fit into any role they might need. It wasn’t fun. It wasn’t enjoyable. Not to mention the kitten I got from my dungeon groups for not having ‘x’ or ‘y’ skill, or armor, or not knowing the path because I’d never played before, or what have you. And, while yes, sometimes I got help on some of the grind from my guildies, most of them were too busy with their own grinds to be able to help. I don’t know about others, but I don’t want that in GW2. I don’t want others to suffer for hours being made to feel like they aren’t ‘good enough’ or treated like kitten because they aren’t up to speed on the gear treadmill.

SolidTx.3249:

The answer is there is No issue – other than a group of people who feel slighted because someone is able to do something they are not.

I am not willing or able to have it so by the alimighty neither shall you…that’s what you are saying.

Yes, there is an issue with gear treadmills, at least with how the treadmills and gated content has been implemented in other games, as many have pointed out (some rather rationally, and politely – me not included, I know I’m cranky). There are alternatives to what you seek in simpler solutions, but those don’t seem to be good enough answers for you. Like many who refuse to hear arguments in favor of gear treadmills, you’re equally as bigoted about accepting logical, reasonable arguments against it.
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Amazing. Why do assume because I want something more from the game that I am a loser with no job and life and play video games all day? How dare you. Would you like my Linkdin profile? Would it shock you that I work 60 hours a week, have a mortgage, 2 happy well adjusted kids and a wife, been married to one woman for 19 years? How dare you.

I have achieved all I want IRL as you say. The fact that I want more from the video games I play is my right to speak. You can disagree with my opinion, but you have only degraded yourself with your wild and incorrect assumptions.[/quote]

Actually his comments and the people who agree with him will have nobody but themselves to insult when this game dies because people are so bored and tired of all the RNG and bad dungeon and event design. The same thing happened with Tortanic and the only difference is this game is pretty.

Solid I think players like us should avoid Korean grind mmos because that’s really the problem. They build mmos to squeeze as much money out of players with RNG and a cash shop and could care less about how fun the game is.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Brutallyk.1250:

You totally misunderstood the post and failed to contribute anything to this topic. There were 2 points I wanted to mention in that post:
1)The randomness in this game is favoring some players more than the others and creating inequalities.

Explain how randomness is favoring some players more than others, then I’ll start considering this a bit more seriously. Saying these words makes you look like . . . well, an idiot. Rephrase it and maybe your point will be more apparent.

2)Our progression in the game is limited or at an end. We cannot simply advance in Fractals and other dungeons aren’t getting any harder. Most of the content is just pressing movement keys.

This is true. This is probably more detrimental to the game than the RNG, as those who have caught up to the content will not be outpacing the creation period it takes to put new content into the game.

I mean, unless they forego testing it altogether. But I don’t think we want that.

Drew.1865:

I wasn’t sure if fanboys put on tinfoil hats before they start posting on here and if you were asking me to make myself a tinfoil hat to wear. I’m not a fanboy though so I’ll let you guys use the tinfoil :-).

I don’t like your assertion, but it’s clever enough that I laughed. I’d like not to consider myself a “fanboy” in the sense of “OMG you can’t criticize the game!” . . . I like the game, I enjoy playing a lot of it, but even so I admit there’s quite a bit to improve on.

Luckily, the company and developers are still at work. Unluckily, I don’t think they’ll hit all the things people want. (Largely because some groups want totally opposing things.)

It was meant in a humorous way and to be honest I would feel more comfortable posting with a burger king cardboard crown on. I really need to get one. I could go for a raccoon tail fur cap or moose ears as well but those are harder to find lol.

Jrunyon.3012:

Drew.1865:

You’re wearing a tinfoil hat?

What?

I wasn’t sure if fanboys put on tinfoil hats before they start posting on here and if you were asking me to make myself a tinfoil hat to wear. I’m not a fanboy though so I’ll let you guys use the tinfoil :-).

Jrunyon.3012:

Drew.1865:

But none of us know how RNG is implemented in this game. How do we know some accounts aren’t more than lucky and what causes that?

More tinfoil hat theories. The devs have confirmed that there is no fishiness going on in multiple threads across multiple topics. Whether you choose to believe that or not is up to you, but the fact is that no matter what side your are on, it is impossible to prove or disprove.

You’re wearing a tinfoil hat?

killcannon.2576:

Vayne.8563:

Parlourbeatflex.5970:

Weirdly it seems Anet dont like their own forum… Considering we have little to no information and i have just stumbled across a IGN article with some revealing info is makes me a sad to think that this place should be first and foremost when giving out information about the game and upcoming updates.

This has nothing to do with Anet liking their own forum. It has far more to do with Anet playing nice with certain sites. By giving the “scoop” to fan sites, they get people to visit those sites, perhaps even in exchange for commercial consideration, or ad space.

It’s good to keep the fan sites happy. The information was posted here on the forums anyway, right?

Giving scoops is fine. But there is no reason why the GW2 players should have to search for the info. The forums are one of the easiest ways the GW2 dev community has to communicate with it’s players, and there is no reason why the forum mods or community managers can not link pertinent sites and interviews in the News section of the forums.

Players ask why the devs don’t communicate more with the forums, and are told time and again that they don’t have the time to. But yet we see constant interviews, feeds, news stories appear on other sites that the devs have spent hours on. I’m not sure if anyone is asking for exclusivity for the forums, but keeping them in the loop isn’t too much to ask imo. Forgoing your official forums for face time on other sites does more to alienate people than it does to bring a community together.

Maybe they decide which gaming site gets the scoop by using RNG?

Jrunyon.3012:

Brutallyk.1250:

1)The randomness in this game is favoring some players more than the others and creating inequalities.
2)Our progression in the game is limited or at an end. We cannot simply advance in Fractals and other dungeons aren’t getting any harder. Most of the content is just pressing movement keys.

Random is random, it does not favor different players. You can remove your tinfoil hat now.

But none of us know how RNG is implemented in this game. How do we know some accounts aren’t more than lucky and what causes that?

They’ll never remove or tame the rng in this game. The rng is what keeps all the players with addiction issues addicted to the game. This game uses the same tricks a gambling outfit uses. The only thing that will stop it is legislation and trust me once a lot of parents have their kids turned into gambling addicts they’ll start talking to legislators.