Guild Wars 2

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Harper.4173:

Agree with the OP.
If i had 1 copper every time I saw an sPVP player say " Change 100b "….

You’d have about 3 copper. It’s the pve crowd that typically cries about 100b warriors.

Yeah noticing this alot now and never had an issue before. Even something basic like weapon switching is having major issues. Which puts a rather large crimp in your combos.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Allie Murdock.8152:

Sure, but keep in mind that most of the suggestions or feedback that is posted on this forums is either in development, on our backlog, or simply impossible to do with our game engine.

Know that I read these forums daily(many of us do), constantly refreshing the page and reading through most every thread. I’ve been passing along all good feedback to the team (you can ask them yourself how naggy I can be about it) since day one. There are even times I take your feedback and expand on it, by creating more professional documentation.

Don’t make the mistake thinking we are not aware of what is wrong with the game or that we aren’t watching the feedback you are providing. We are well aware of most everything that is going on out there, we are just busy. I think we cleared this issue up with those who attended the PAX event. It may be difficult to understand that we have it under control and know what’s going on with the obvious flaws in our system right now (matchmaking, decay, leaver penalty, rewards) but know that we are working to fix them all at the soonest possible point in time. Often times processes come in the way of releasing content as fast as the community expects it(*sigh, game development process), but know that they will be fixed.

I can try to be more visible on the forums here regarding your feedback but Allie already does a good job at that. Just know that I’m here lurking and watching over this section of the forums constantly.

<3 you all

That’s fantastic and it’s great to see you posting and everything. But are we supposed to just guess at what you are actually working on?

Maybe you could give us some detail as to what you are actually working on?
Maybe give us rough time frames?
Those things that are often requested but are impossible, well tell us then and maybe we wont keep requesting them.

Ofc we don’t expect exact specifics and dates but “We are looking at other games modes”. Thats it. Thats the usual level of information. No idea as to if it is currently in a workable state, no idea if it will be a year or more away, no idea if it will even ever happen or if it is just a wish list thing.

Matchmaking, decay, leaver penalties, rewards, all fantastic. But what about the passive, AI cluttered cheese meta, how are you working on fixing that? Are you even working on fixing that? Are you actively working on new game modes? What about normalized character models?

The thing is, I have zero doubt that you are all 100% busy and 100% commited to improving the game. But the info we have to go on is just not enough to allay the concerns of (i’m guessing) many players.

CC Danicia.1394:

Mrbig.8019:

the post the whole forum was spammed with was not breaking any single rule.

Whilst the post itself is a different topic, spamming is against the rules. Numerous people spammed the same post, and when members instigate others into spamming, it created an even bigger problem. The folks who were suspended will be back, but we are very clear in our rules about spam and duplicate posting.

I can fully appreciate why you have to run a tight ship to prevent spam, but sadly it seems that it took that spam storm and general outrage/qq on the boards to get the red names actually posting here.

It also served to demonstrate quite how disenfranchised some have become with both the pvp subset of the game and this subset of the forums (and its moderation).

Is this a serious thread?

Wryog.5073:

Why is it that it’s always the “WvW GvG” guys that get challenged to do sPvP? Why don’t the sPvP guys try to do GvG?

It’s due to time/logistical reasons.

For a gvg player to jump into spvp and have a character ready takes about five minutes. It takes rather more time for someone who spends all their time in pvp, to ramp a character to 80 and gear up.

Thanks for all the communication, it is a shame it took spam/qq and a community seemingly at breaking point to get it.

For all your talk about new modes and balance, I am finding it hard to believe and/or actually be positive about what you are saying if I am being honest.

I can see this one going well.

Xom.9264:

Anet is going to kill GvGs perhaps they feel its pulling from their E-sport. They are going to kill a popular community driven game mode on a whim.

If you are worried about them kittening up gvg (and given we are talking about ANET here your concern is probably valid), then don’t you think you would be better served making posts about the issue on the w3 forums instead of kittening up the place here?

There will be more people reading that forum and more people with a vested interest in supporting your claims. Moreover, you actually have a mod that posts and seems to give a kitten.

stof.9341:

You got a 8M sub strong game, you do not do shady practices for 10k more subs. It’s just plain stupid.

Moreover, only a fraction of them would actually migrate to paying a sub for WoW. I would imagine a large amount would devote more time to other pvp centric games and/or wait for other releases.

People are complaining because they are disgruntled, not because they are being paid to complain.

Xom.9264:

I have and I just laid down a truthful reality check on the PvP community.

Well no, not really.

SoLeciTO.3490:

Sorry but what does “15 characters” means?

It means the forum wouldn’t let me post “No.” because it requires you to have a minimum of 15 characters worth of typing to be considered a valid response.

No.

15 characters

Vamp Rook.7835:

GW2 Zerg vs Zerg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y601EvDD0k

That looks kittening awful.

People have offered solutions. People do understand it’s difficult.

Now if you are expecting customers to tell them exactly how to code and/or work around every problem point by point then that seems somewhat odd quite frankly.

If they cannot resolve the fundamental issues this section of the game has, then perhaps it would be advisable not to big up the esport credentials and make utterly ridiculous comments about it being the pvp game to go to.

As for reading a dev post wrong, i’m pretty sure he himself commented upon the fact that he could not see why the post was removed. So not entirely sure how you can fully agree with the removal of Xeph’s thread.

TwoBit.5903:

Isn’t this thread subversive in the exact same way? Belittling opinions of a demographic through passive aggressive remarks?

Yes, yes it is.

butch.8136:

A w k w a r d

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Isaac.6041:

PAX was a good start. Hopefully ArenaNet can have more official tournaments with nice rewards like in Guild Wars 1. To me it seems like some people quit or are taking a break because they lost the prelims which is understandable.

Not everyone’s going to win the grand prize. Congratulations to winner Car Crash and runner up Team Sync. Enjoy the money!

The mind boggles. Apart from congratulating the two teams, the rest of the post seemed an utter nonsense.

Phaeton.9582:

If they did 2 things

A. Made zerker stance immune to the blind.
B. fixed the targeting system to prioritise players

Spirit rangers would be a lot less viable.

With the sheer amount of AI in matches now I think point B should certainly be looked at at the very least.

Phaeton.9582:

But let’s face is it… going to WvW to work on your pvp is a bit like going to an orphanage to work on your boxing.

True.

Alkaholic.3875:

Nettle.9025:

Darnis.4056:

If DAOC2 comes out and is buy to play it would CRUSH gw2

Its called Camelot Unchained and its coming next year

That game looks TERRIBLE!!!!!

“Terrible” is a couple of steps up from the dire state pvp in this game is in.

The GvG spam has been the highlight of the entire thing so far.

Ascended underpants.

Onshidesigns.1069:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Castaliea.3156:

Onshidesigns.1069:

GW2 needs more time before people can say which is better. Anet is still fixing mistakes from bad decisions. This is their first attempt at making real mmo.

I’m sure Anet has a huge amount of permeant content that will be released this year. As they fix the problems with the open world.

The comparison was between both game’s first years. Your defense is invalid.

the current defenders of gw2 will never fully open their eyes and see what is really happening to this game so its not really worth proving anything to them

You can not compare a CO-OP game to a real open world MMO.

They are not, they are comparing it to GW2.

zone.1073:

Even Berserker’s stance is predictable. If you’re a necro and you see a warrior running up to your face confidently, it’s very likely that he’s going to pop berserker’s stance. Instead of smashing your face into your keyboard and spamming all your conditions right away, wait a second and observe the warrior as he pops berserker stance. Kite him around until it’s over. Then proceed to put your left cheek and nose on the keyboard and gently roll your face to the right and left repeatedly until everything around you is dead.

ha +1

Kai.9182:

People are just going to zerg these bosses down anyway, won’t be much to see tbh man.

No, not really.

The cynical might suggest that it is to disguise the poor gameplay and hook players by giving them a new layer of shinies to chase after. A chase which involves an inordinate amount of grinding, time gating and RNG.

It’s the same reason we see updates every other week which add new skins and minis to chase after and AP completion to grab.

Those people either bite the bullet and craft (which is incredibly easy and fast), or they hope for luck on drops.

Certain mechanics/game elements can get you certain things. If you cba to do said mechanics/elements then you miss out on those things.

That is not to say the whole timegate and over9000 T6 approach is not a bad one ofc.

You are worried they are going to break the “wonderful” and “skill driven” WvWvW? Which game are you talking about again?

If they had really wanted a dynamic game in which players could make an impact upon the game world, then they should have made a sandbox/hybrid.

Adding legendaries, yep that will fix the broken gameplay and ever worsening meta. Esport here we come!

Completely separate pvp/pve skills and have a dedicated team working on pvp balance.
Rework the ranking system.
Add new game modes.
Run a tournament correctly.

Ofc, that is not to say that they are not already working to add/address the above.

Well it’s probably down to the fact that (imo) the gameplay/game in general is really quite poor.

TooBz.3065:

Maybe, but zerging like this takes away from everything people use to do (like WvW) which makes all those aspects worse.

If it takes players away from those other “gameplay” aspects so readily, it is because those gameplay aspects are substandard.

Which to be honest, they are.

Chase.8415:

data.4093:

AyuReady.3952:

I was actually thinking about the drop rates, but now that you mention it…
Thieves are the most overpowered class out of any game in the history of mmos/rpgs/mmorpgs. Please nerf as you do with every patch.

You haven’t played enough MMOs. Truly OP classes get played by everyone. In sPvP most thieves are the easiest kill…

Unfortunately there are far more bad players than good ones, it’s just the nature of PvP. Many will think thieves are overpowered, but the good players know this is not true. Thieves are rarely represented in PvP in tournaments.

That’s because any “thief issue” is primarily wvw centric, not spvp centric.

Thieves are not OP, there are though issues with the way stealth is handled in the game and with the “cheap” gameplay that can be derived from that.

Just awful really.

nexxe.7081:

Ghettoblade.7962:

Complex..LOL…this is the sesame street of mmo’s

You’re right. Actively dodging, managing cooldowns, switching weapons/skills, is so much easier than tab-target combat, where you stand still repeating rotations, all while eating chips and watching tv.

…oh wait.

Not everyone plays an MMO 24/7 for decades. Some people are new to the genre, and so were most of you.

It’s not complex, at all.

I’m sure some will love it no doubt, but for me that was really quite poor.

ShadowPuppet.3746:

That is precisely my point, everything in this game is farm related including the dungeons. Once the shiny surface fades you realize that all that is left in this game is just collection activity which they use as a carrot on a stick by time gating, or overly inflating the amount of any particular item needed to make something. It’s a shallow experience and for as much as they tried to tout innovation it really isn’t, they are just better at making people think they are doing things differently not that they actually are. I do at least enjoy sPvP and solo roaming in WvW so those are things that hold me here, but from a pve perspective this game is just subpar at best in my opinion (better throw that opinion part in since I am not trying to make a claim to fact).

Yeah, I agree (sadly).

Outside of trying to solo dungeons, spvp and the Liadri stuff, I find the gameplay/content of the game actually pretty bad/poor.

It really does seem to be a chase the shiny zerg grinder with zero real dynamism and subpar content (in both a pve and pvp context).

I’ll qualify that in a similar manner, that is just my opinion ofc.

Is she meant to be?

ShadowPuppet.3746:

I can’t think of a more unimaginative, uninspired way to spend the time I do have to play than farming. It just goes to show that people are perfectly fine with tedious and mind numbing rng so long as they can pull the handle and take another hit off the wheel of fortune. Sad day that people have been conditioned now to accept status quo as entertainment and it is so far from what Anet’s manifesto spoke of that I can’t help but feel lost.

Most of the non farming gaming experience in this game is below par, unimaginative, uninspired and really rather tedious if I’m being honest.

spoj.9672:

Honestly just get them with orrian boxes. You will have too many eventually. Aslong as you use karma for boxes for making some money every now and again.

It’s something like a 3% chance to get shards from a box.

Not exactly a viable method if you are specifically trying to get shards.

Balt is pretty much perma closed on every single server since the borked the scaling a few patches ago.

The Liadri stuff, trying to solo dungeons and some spvp.

I have to admit i’ve lost interest in the game now for the main part though.

You don’t find it “fun” so it has to stop? How about you just do something else yourself and let others get on with what they want to do.

Quite a lot of players don’t rez in the Queens Trials either, being a kitten is not restricted to people running about in a zerg.

Yep, knocked down and then nothing.

Traveller.7496:

And now it seems like it’s not progressing AT ALL, despite succeeding at the invasion. Anyone else having this problem?

If you mean the portal invasion closer thing, yes. It’s not updating for me after succeeding and killing Scarlet.

Yeah, portal invasion closer is not updating for me either.

urfrid.5971:

Same here i got disconnected and now i cant login also getting this error.

Yep, booted from server when porting, now can’t log in.

I imagine there are issues with the log in server due to traffic.