Guild Wars 2

Same, I was on vent with some West Coast friends (I’m East Coast) playing in LA and we kept getting disconnected. I was guesting on Dragonbrand from Henge of Denravi. Tried my own server same thing.

ezd.6359:

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I want to talk to npc or stay afk for a minute, but i can’t do it when sky lazors focus me. It is ok when they do it 1-2-3 times, but not more. Let other people have fun from dodging them too

My opinion is they are there to stop farmers and AFKr’s

I think one glaring result of the Escape from and Battle for Lions Arch, is that massive world events require too much attention from Anet, and require too many competent players. OR it’s all wasted. Right now on HoD, the Knight events come and go with little or no interest. Why? People are working and involved in their daily routine. The Knights are not doable there until 9:00 PM EST or so. Otherwise the server is a ghost town. As word of the meager rewards filter down, people aren’t even logging in. Yes I know I can play leap frog, and hopefully find a higher population server, but it’s not like I can jump from server to server checking. Who has that kind of time to waste?

The LS was an interesting experiment, but it failed. It happens. The Knight battles and beyond, need to be instanced. Anet knew this going in. It’s a tried and true MMO premise. The time updating and patching etc, could have been used to design a more detailed ship. Make it a scale able instance that offers greater rewards for larger groups with greater difficulty. If Anet had followed this, it would be a screaming success. As is, it was/is a costly failure.

Ok lesson learned. How Anet proceeds from here will dictate if players stay or go. I’ve talked to people that were daily players that have gone back to other MMO’s. Some even went as far as deleting the game from their computers. And some, went back to a Pay to Play MMO! They wouldn’t stay and play for free, they left and are actually paying to play another MMO. That in and of itself, speaks volumes. If ever there was a time to say “Okay, we tried the LS, we gave it our all, and the players aren’t happy with it. Let’s dust ourselves off and move forward. We (Anet) need a real deal, tried and true paid expansion, like we did for GW1”. I won’t hold my breath though, it seems Anet is very prideful and will go down in flames before admitting they made a mistake. I hope I’m wrong.

All they need to do, is have everyone get it. Then they can fix it at their leisure. 5 pts towards ach. total shouldn’t be that big of a deal. The trouble is tracking it down. If anyone has completed it, logic dictates it worked at some point. Thus the maddening task of finding what is the problem. The code governing that particular achievement may be WAI, but another action borks it.

Thinsett.3789:

I have been laying into Anet for this latest LS, so I thought I would drop a line and say thank you for improving it with the latest patch. With the knights massively more doable, people show up and you beat it. I just beat them twice, along with prime and scarlet, having never managed any of them (I know, I could have done scarlet with the back piece, but I didn’t want to if it didn’t come to that).

I still find the fights gloriously uninteresting and would much prefer smaller instanced fights to these, but I recognize you were going for epic and you wanted to make the fights not merely aft on auto. That’s a tough balance. You flubbed it at first, because it was awful, but now it’s about as good as it could be, consistent with the above. So, thank you. I have a much better taste in my mouth regarding this event.

(Escape was far better, tho. Just sayin.)

Agreed, you beat me to it. I would also like to thank Anet for the recent adjustment to the Knights. People grouped after it hit and were pleased and so excited to face Scarlet. Well done. Now, that said… let’s talk rewards.. XD

CC Danicia.1394:

Please don’t delete them!

You can hold on to your extra blade shards, as the team will be adding something later which will allow you to convert the shards to something of value. Dev will be announcing more on that later. Thanks!

Any chance you can increase the stack size? I have a few thousand of them.

Found this: http://www.geforce.com/games-applications/pc-games/guild-wars-2/gpu-analyzer

More people are logging in for the new content. This happens to many people every update. It’s a server issue imho.

One thing to consider, there are a rising number of people with “high end” machines reporting the same problems as those with “Low end” systems. I’d wait it out, I don’t think spending money unwisely and being disappointed is a smart move.

I’ve had this over and over and over since todays update. I login, screen changes color and I hear a buzz from the speakers, and have to reboot. Prior to todays update it was fine, I could play for hours in LA no problem.

Guild Wars 2 is a generic mmo. Guild Wars 1 was a complete, well thought out world of imagination and loads of fun. Anyone reading this should know. If you loved GW1 you will not be happy with GW2. they share a name only. Jeff Strains vision is no where to be found in GW2. Anet has said they feel pretty much every aspect of GW1 was wrong and purposely made GW2 the exact opposite. Recently the co-founder of Anet left to join Dead Labs founded by Jeff Strain (founder of Anet, and driving force behind GW1.). MMO’s are all making the same mistake it seems they make their game a WOW clone and it fails. Hopefully the future is brighter. SWTOR is a 300 mil failure financially. Blizzard put their new mmo back into alpha testing and moved some of it’s development teams to work on other projects. All the mmo game co’s need to do is listen to the players. But they absolutely refuse to do so. I think I can safely say in 5 years or less, MMO’s will no longer exist as they do today. Even a former developer from WOW said they killed the genre. There are no inventive or creative games anymore. They all seem the same. I read an article the other day that said as of it’s posting GW2 had sold 3.6 million copies, but only had approx. 460k of regular players. That is a pretty big gap. I’d call it a failure except they do not live on subs. I suppose it’s possible the 460k of players bring in enough money via in game purchases. But I doubt it. Chat in game seems to lean towards little or no real money being spent. Most say they would never pay real money for anything offered.

Sad.. I was so excited when they announced GW2. Now.. I play because it’s free and just to pass the time.

I have an older system and the standard reply of “You need a better system” doesn’t work for me in this economy. Sooo I have been playing with my settings and I actually have things working well and can even join in zergs in LA etc and not freeze up or crash that often (I usually have CTD’s when the server is loaded, and I’ve come to the conclusion that is anets issue not mine). I run Windows 7. Here are my settings.

I run the game as an administrator.
I use compatibility mode set to xp sp3.

In my Nvidia control panel I use these settings:

Ambient Occlusion: Performance
Anisotropic Filtering: UGS (application controlled)
Antialiasing – FXAA (grayed out)
Antialiasing – Gamma correction: UGS (on)
Antialiasing – Mode UGS (application controlled)
Antialiasing – Setting (grayed out)
Antialiasing – Transparency UGS (off)
CUDA – GPUs: ALL *click the drop down menu and choose the 2nd setting Click the radio button marked "Use these GPUs. " followed by the lower setting (mine shows Geforce GT 630).
Maximum pre-rendered frames: 1
Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Single display performance
Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance
Texture filtering – Negative LOD Bias UGS (allow)
Texture filtering – Quality: High Performance
Texture filtering – Trilinear optimization: On
Threaded optimization: On
Triple Buffering: On
Vertical sync: On

Suggestions appreciated. As I said it’s an older system. 3GHZ/4 gig of ram dual core. If anyone tries these settings, go slow, and keep an eye on things. I offer no warranty or guarantee. These are simply the settings I’m using. Maybe it helps someone.

Hands down my favorite companion, her humor and quirky way of seeing things, I enjoy her a lot. That said..

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mehg1tO3Zn1reh10uo1_1280.png

I was doing the PS on my Sylvari engineer where he goes to a meeting in LA on the docks to unite the orders. I could see LA burning all around me and the huge drill in the water. Hopefully this is an oversight as it really breaks the immersion.

I’ll add my two cents, group run for yesterdays event resulted in players reporting constant CTD’s. but to be fair this happens pretty much every update. Sad part is my system was running gw2 fine prior to the recent update. I was enjoying the nice graphics etc too, oh well..

Face it, we lost, the Charr won. It was downhill from there. LOL

Well after a lot of thought, I’m taking a break from GW2, it’s uninstalled and resting comfortably. I think MMO’s are just headed in a way that is not fun for me anymore. 10 years has been a good run, but for now it’s time to go. This isn’t a wah wah or I’ll quit ending, it’s just me realizing it’s time to go.

Best of luck to Anet, so long and thanks for all the fish!

DevonCarver.5370:

Evon Skyfyre.9673:

DevonCarver.5370:

We definitely don’t want to go to the level of fragmenting the game to the extent that we have PvP, WvW, and PvE versions of all the skills as that creates a disconnect with the characters we want you to use in all those places. That said, we are certainly discussing the idea of adding skills that would have a WvW focus. But they are just on the discussion level.

So the way this was handled in GW1 was bad?

Yes. Not only was it incredibly complex to maintain it became completely unwieldy to players as well. GW2 has made a great number of changes to systems specifically to avoid the complications we created in GW1. Not creating multiple versions of skills for 3 areas of the game would be one of those changes.

I appreciate your candor, trouble is it’s also one more reason for many of us to go elsewhere. Sorry, but to be equally as blunt, I’m not concerned with the degree of difficulty it adds to the job of balance. The developers are paid to deal with that. If I tell my boss something makes my job too hard, he’ll nod and hire someone else. That’s the gig we signed on for as developers. I guess your boss is more easy going than mine, or most in the industry. If your superior comes in tomorrow and says “Do it..” you’re in the same boat as me. Do it or look for work. No easy solution. The result for now is pvp kills pve yet again.

It would be interesting to see the WvW players that have NOT played GW1, try the pvp system there. I bet a high percentage would prefer it. I’ve played a fair few mmo’s and the one positive thing all the hard core pvpr’s have said that tried GW1 pvp, is/was they liked the system and preferred it.

Dark Aidget.3879:

Things were so wildly different in GW1, it’s not a fair comparison.

Amen…

The Eternal Grace.3157:

So, 8 of my 9 characters just had their first birthday. Why? Because I was so excited for Guild Wars 2 and to play every profession after the beta.

Why were they all made on release night? Because 1) I wanted to grab their names that I came up with and 2) because I knew Anet from Guild Wars 1 rewarded characters with a birthday present for their characters every year.

For those of you who never played GW1, the birthday present could be opened to reveal one of several minipets of different rarity. The minipets were tradeable, so if you didn’t get the one you like, you could sell it, or simply keep it and buy one from another player who doesn’t want theirs or maybe got a duplicate from a second character. It was never a HUGE deal, but it was nice to earn a unique reward for being a loyal player each year.

So now why am I disappointed? Yes, I did get my birthday present….The same one 8 (soon to be 9) times!

I am disappointed because this minipet is…

A) Mini Queen Jennah, which until this part in the living story (that I didn’t even bother to do because GW2 has been boring me lately, but that’s a whole different story) was never really involved to much with the game. Why couldn’t I see maybe a mini Zhitan, or something cool that actually had to do with the something more epic in Guild Wars 2.

B) Everyone gets this minipet! Mini Queen Jennah is not unique, not tradeable, and not interesting. What in the heck am I supposed to do with 9 account-bound Mini Queen Jennahs? I don’t even like using minipets in this game because every time I click “Deposit all collectables” my minipets disappear as well! Why can’t I at least right click on my minipet to select it to not auto-deposit with my crafting materials?

C) Not only does everyone get this minipet, everyone gets this minipet several times, depending on how many characters you’ve created and when. Why would I want the same minipet 9 times? Can’t I at least have a chance for something different? With Anet’s RNG-obsessed nature, it figures they leave it out when it could be used for something interesting.

I’ve been very disappointed with Guild Wars 2 lately, and this was just another slap in the face to myself, who I’d consider a hardcore, loyal Guild Wars fan.

By all I have read, everything done in GW1 was bad. Even the devs here have said as much when asked why we can’t have something like it was in GW1. You’ll get 1 of 2 responses here from players, they boil down to the same thing, play or go away. I agree duplicate b-day gifts is kinda odd. It shows no imagination or planning. GW1 is completely different from GW2 and it always will be. They share a name, that is all. GW1 was/is a complete world, GW2 is a theme park. Get used to it, it’s WAI.

More than likely it’s your settings. Have you read the stickied threads about AMD?

Allie Murdock.8152:

Hi.

Still here, sort of. My family is in town and the fact is, my mother is quite demanding of my time (sorry if you’re reading this mum, I loves you).

The invitational is tomorrow. After that, I’ll be able to spend a bit more time on the forums. Also, I’ll talk to some devs about getting on here. Keep in mind though, any time that they spend posting on the forums takes away from the time that they are implementing. More posting = less features.

Hug it out

“A Son is a Son ’til he takes a wife. A Daughter, is a Daughter, for the rest of her life..”

DevonCarver.5370:

We definitely don’t want to go to the level of fragmenting the game to the extent that we have PvP, WvW, and PvE versions of all the skills as that creates a disconnect with the characters we want you to use in all those places. That said, we are certainly discussing the idea of adding skills that would have a WvW focus. But they are just on the discussion level.

So the way this was handled in GW1 was bad?

AndrewSX.3794:

… talking, exposing, discussing…

For this reason, one can speculate he may have overstepped his boundaries. While full disclosure from the developers is appreciated it is rare in the industry. In some games I’ve played the developers were basically under a gag order and were not permitted to post on the forums.

Whatever the reason, people come and go. We may never truly know why.

In Gw1 pvp had it’s own set of skills. They were the same as pve but they had special restrictions, longer cool downs etc. Will WvW in GW2 have this or will pvp here kill pve like every other mmo? Seems to me pvp was far more advanced in GW1 then it is here.

Seras.5702:

When the invasions first started I kept hearing players complaining about all the ugly shoulders in their bank that they’ll never use. I happen to like them and want them, but they never drop from those boxes for me. I thought they had a high drop rate. Admittedly, I gambled and instead of taking the gear pieces to build my own, I went for the RNG boxes. That’s on me. But how many invasions should I expect to have gone thru before I got them?

If I could trade them you’d have the 3 I have so far. I do not like the look of them personally.

If they make this and other events harder, they need to give us more than greens and crafting items.

Warcry.1596:

Those that kitten about not being able to keep track…. just make a word document…. duh,i did that with dungeons too… how DARE Anet make us think for ourselves

There should be a way built into the achievement panel. In my world of programming, the current method would have never seen the light of day. the brass would never approve it. Anet is competent and knows what to do, the problem is the 2 week schedule they have locked themselves into. If it was monthly they would have more time for testing and polishing.

Anyone that says “Oh I’d quit if it was monthly..” is just not being honest. 90% of the people that play MMOs play more than one. The industry knows this, and doesn’t care. You can’t have all the players attention all the time.

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Evon Skyfyre.9673:

Okay if it’s too easy, grab on level armor and weapons, do not use any skills etc that would not be available to a player of that level, and then use a group of 10 to defeat him.

Or better still setup a perma death server.

He’s soloable without taking even 1 damage, just grab a ranged weapon and a skill that grants stability for 5 seconds with a cooldown of ~45seconds or lower.

So much for scaling difficulty lol, they ran into that in SWTOR in one of their dungeons the final boss could be 3 manned . (It was meant to be a raid lol)

Okay if it’s too easy, grab on level armor and weapons, do not use any skills etc that would not be available to a player of that level, and then use a group of 10 to defeat him.

Or better still setup a perma death server.

It’s Monday we need a smile.

Seems no matter what I used, when I off-healed or buffed/Boon allies the Clockwork mobs come after me like I owe them money? I stared to wonder if the Clockwork Champ was controlled by a Dev and he/she thought it would be funny to chase me. I actually fell back so far to break agro the zerg had to follow because the mob was chasing me. LOL

WT… O.o?

Every time they have a new LS event, or similar, the traffic increases and their system shows all it’s flaws. The engine running the game is from gw1. They claim it’s modified, to suit todays gaming needs. It’s not up to the task of the gamers today imho. Even players with high end machines show sub standard performance. Bottom out all your settings and make sure all your TSR’S are closed. It’ll ease up after the event ends.

All software has bugs, what infuriates me is Anet just dismisses it and tells us to get a better system. I hope I live long enough to see a worldwide implementation of a set of rules and guidelines, or laws as it were governing software, it’s support, and so on. There may be a ray of hope, the FTC is starting to investigate gaming co’s, we’ll see where that goes.

The game uses the cpu instead of the gpu, which can result in 100% cpu usage and crashing.

Namica.2951:

Evon Skyfyre.9673:

The groups I had the misfortune to be in only run to areas with champs. Seems some even have spotters scouting out each spawn, and reporting back. The LS events are an EPIC FAIL!!!

Good thing, every champ drops Exotics and rares, each and every time. Bad thing is they are exotic/rare packages, and the stuff inside is total crap.

Welcome to….

FARM WARS 2
Tyrian Lootfest

What you’re tired of jumping through hoops to gain any ground? You’d prefer to run in mindless groups and play follow the leader? And do it all for little or no reward, well Farm Wars 2 is your game.

facepalm

You knew what you were getting into. With no gear grind there is only a cosmetic grind, which is of course one of gold.

Actually I expected GW1’s philosophy to carry over. Oh wait.. it did GW1 was Greed wars. LOL WOW is laughing so hard, they were actually worried about this game being their undoing.

The groups I had the misfortune to be in only run to areas with champs. Seems some even have spotters scouting out each spawn, and reporting back. The LS events are an EPIC FAIL!!!

Good thing, every champ drops Exotics and rares, each and every time. Bad thing is they are exotic/rare packages, and the stuff inside is total crap.

Welcome to….

FARM WARS 2
Tyrian Lootfest

What you’re tired of jumping through hoops to gain any ground? You’d prefer to run in mindless groups and play follow the leader? And do it all for little or no reward, well Farm Wars 2 is your game.

facepalm

The thought occurs, could budget be the reason for no expansion? The real world economy is still not doing good, even Blizzard is going back to the drawing board for their mmo Titan. ESO will have a sub and mt’s. Guess they aren’t sure what is going to work.

If they do an expansion they must write it, hire voice talent, etc.. if the people I have talked to are like most, hardly any of them have spent any real money in game. They play for free and that is why they are here. I have a feeling that is how most players view the game. The players that gush over the game and say how wonderful it is might not feel the same is Anet dropped MT’s and added a monthly subscription (don’t start foaming at the mouth they won’t add one).

Upon further reflection they, (Anet) seem to be the most excited about the way the game is headed. Seems in game and here, most are worried and losing interest. I have said it before, Anet, make the game we want to play, not the game you want to play. Unless pesky things like profit and ROI are not important.

If it must be a minipet gather all that exist in gw2 and make it random and tradeable like in gw1.

Try not to confuse players attending an event with it being popular. Many are just bored and will either go see it, or log off. That said all our back and forth here amounts to words on a page. What will be telling is the revenues generated. After the jubilee and the Benny Hill zergs, most players are going to have a lot of gold to turn into gems. Which does not make any money for Anet/Ncsoft. Not good. An expansion brings a new influx of cash. Conservatively if the current box owners bought an expansion, for say 29.95, You’re looking at about 84 mil in revenues. The living story costs them money and unless the bltc sales jump because of it, they aren’t going to see anywhere near that after a year of updates.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• Every map will be invaded at least once per day, probably twice. In some cases, three times.
• Builds do not affect the rotation.
• The rotation is the same across all servers.
• If you play at the same time every day, you will see all 13 maps by the end of the Clockwork Chaos release.

Never speak in absolutes, they tend to bite you when you least expect it.

Give the story sometime to unfold, she’ll turn on the Queen soon enough.

Something to think about, why do they fail it and farm it over and over? Because they can.

Grileenor.1497:

Vol.5241:

I really don’t see what the fuss is about.

The only difference between an expansion and the living story is how the content gets pushed out

Expansion – content comes out all at once
Living Story – content is gradually pushed out

People naturally hate change and still think of the old MMO mentality. Expansions are just as dated as paying for subscriptions.

Easy one.

Expansion = quality content coming out, when ready
Living Story = mediocre or worse content coming out due to schedule

Expansion = getting whole guilds back to the game for months
Living Story = getting less and less people back for days if you are lucky

Expansion = good advertising in the whole MMO community
Living Story = only some in Anets team and some hardcore fans really care

Expansion = Something you talk about still for years (Nightfall? EotN?) with story and immersion
Living Story = Very few updates are remebered like a halloween or winters day equivalent, but no immersion or story

Expansion = Full blown story lines in game giving rich playing experience
Living Story = some blogs on the web site for those who visit

I could go on, but I think the point is clear. LS, even when it is getting better can never hope to accomplish what good sound expansions can and will offer.

Spot on, well said and explained!

At best Celtic, the LS qualifies as a dlc.

ilr.9675:

As a consumer, I just like having a choice in when (and therefore, how much) to pay for an expansion. I waited years and years to get Factions b/c it was in my opinion a poor expansion compared to Nightfall which to the opposite extreme I had purchased instantly when I found out what it included (customizable Heroes).

And before anyone says “Well this is free”, uhh uh, there’s no such thing as Free.
And If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. All the “Free content” they’ve been handing us lately has only made the Content I actually paid good money for worse, and worse …. and worse still.

There’s an old expression about something that’s free. “It’s not worth paying for”.

I think one thing that would help is to stop calling it a “living story”, because it’s neither. It’s what other games call a “live event”. One can argue it lasts longer than a live event but mores the pity. If it lasted a day or so, happened randomly and had greater reward potential, or titles, etc, it would be far and away a more anticipated and exciting occurance.

The biggest problem gaming companies face is we the gaming public are well versed, with many years of experience and know exactly what we want. The problem is gaming companies seem to ignore all that and tell us what we want and they are wrong 99% of the time. At least GW2 can’t be called a wow clone like most are.

I agree with others here that have said they will believer it when they see it, and in our case, download it. I will go further out on a limb and say they may consider an expansion when and if, China and Korea are a huge success. I think every resource is focused on that.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/198469/As_Chinese_release_looms_Guild_Wars_2_sees_record_MMO_sales.php

ColinJohanson.2394:

Pacifica.9576:

Can we take this statement to mean that no “expansion” content has been worked on? Since I assume you’d have to know the method before you developed it all

We’ve said this before, so it shouldn’t be a spoiler, but it’s clear that the message hasn’t totally gotten out there yet:

For the past year, we’ve had some larger projects going on in the background we haven’t discussed yet. Our major focus however has been on making the core Gw2 live game as solid as possible, details of what’s coming still to address that core game experience can be found here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/
For the projects cooking in the background, we’ll go into more detail on those in the future.

I hope you put out a press release to this effect otherwise this is what others that have left see..

“So right now we’re not really looking at expansions as an option,” lead content designer Mike Zadorojny told me on his visit to London last week.

“It’s something that’s on the table but it’s not something we’re focused on, because what we want to do is – our idea here is that with Living World, we can do what expansions would have done but do it on a more regular basis.”

I pressed him to tell me whether there would be a Guild Wars 2 expansion this year and he shook his head to indicate no. What about next year, I asked?

“If we do this right,” he answered, “we will probably never do an expansion and everything will be going into this Living World strategy.”

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-03-its-unlikely-guild-wars-2-will-ever-get-an-expansion-pack

seeing articles like this, then hearing a different story here is making us a little dubious to say the least.

As for players in game behaving badly as a result of the LS events, we are in a faceless world, under a false persona. We escape reality to live our dreams in game. This doesn’t lend itself to what would be accepted behavior outside the game. I don’t condone the behavior of some, I’m just not surprised by it. I’ve seen hate speech, racial remarks, sexist remarks, verbal abuse etc.. I report it, but I also do not expect much to come from it. Most games look on this type of problem as WAI. They want every dollar they can get. Who spends it seems to be of little or no concern.