Guild Wars 2

There are a lot of purchases going on at once, the trading post has to check that the price it has shown you for an item is still available – as in someone else hasn’t purchased all of the item at the quantity and price you were shown. So yeah it takes a second for the transaction to go through, but it’s really not a bit deal. You are literally complaining about something that takes two seconds being slow >.>

Nick.6972:

What are the chances of us getting Cantha now that GW2 is in China?
As far as I know they find "everything’ slightly “Asian themed” offensive and inappropriate. Remember Pandas in WoW?

GW1 released factions even though the game was available in a lot of asian countries. Panda’s were originally a charmable pet but had to be removed due because of cultural issues, but apart from that there weren’t any problems.

Well yes they most likely wont release anything until China is fully launched, but that’s not far off since they’re in open/paid beta now.

As to how they will manage the story releases – we don’t know yet.

papryk.6273:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

You’re also missing the fact that China has almost 1 billion more people than the US and has the highest population in the world.
Also we don’t know the preorder sales numbers for US/NA.

but we do know. IIRC it was 1 milion copies preordered (NA&EU)

Oh well there we go then! Thanks.

TheJokester.4672:

Is the tengu and stargazer thing for real or just a tease?

No it’s not real, the person who made that post wrote it…

You’re also missing the fact that China has almost 1 billion more people than the US and has the highest population in the world.
Also we don’t know the preorder sales numbers for US/NA.

Check that you’re not trying to put it on a FAT32 USB, since the file is far larger than 4GB and you therefore can’t…

Best work around – open your applications folder, right click Guild Wars 2 then click ‘Show Package Contents’. Somewhere inside one of the folders that should open up is GW2.dat, it’s a 20ish GB file. Just copy that instead – it contains the whole game.

I would assume that resurrection only really works for mortal wounds. It doesn’t stop you from ageing and one would assume that dying of old age/natural causes would be pretty final. I don’t think a person could just be infinitely resurrected beyond normal life expectancy, at least not without it being very noticeable appearance wise.

You can use a speedtest website and select the Austin, TX, USA server to test the approximate speed of your connection to the US servers.

Actually Gilthor, the Emperor dissolved the Kurzicks and Luxons, uniting them into one CANTHAN people. So it’s more likely that their culture and architecture was removed as well, since to leave it would be to leave the possibility of them still distinguishing themselves from the rest of Cantha.

You could try specifying what server you are on?
I play on the US servers, SoS, and haven’t had any gold sellers PM me since a few months after launch, and I very very rarely see them in map chat.

Also NonToxic, the fact that the game has been released in China means absolutely nothing for us. They’re playing on completely separate servers and can’t access ours. They are separated from us more than NA and EU are separated from one another. So we don’t really have anything to worry about…

Noxaeternam.6214:

I paid just as much for this game as the PC users did and I got a broken client that crashes constantly, is full of graphical bugs/glitches, has a TRASH trading post, and is just all-over bad. If we’re going to play a terribly broken game, we should get one hell of a discount.

You paid for an account – which is a pretty crucial distinction. Yes you paid for access to the game, but that doesn’t guarantee performance. Someone with a very sub-par windows computer could easily buy the game and have a not so great experience, or not even be able to play the game. Even more important is the fact that you paid for an account with the intention of accessing a client that is in beta.

Yes it sucks, yes they should pay a lot more attention to the OS X client. But people do need to be a little more reasonable about it, both players and Anet.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

What does silence sound like?

Like tears in rain.

DonQuack.9025:

Vampirate.7054:

I don’t care but its your money for PC or Mac. MY Mac pro just running great.(without Bootcamp) My is Mac Pro 2013 Black cylinder
3.76 Ghz 4 core intel-Xeon
16 MB DDR3 ECC
AMD FirePro D300 2048 MB
OS X 10.9.2
setting on all “High”

except shaders and textures and high rez char textures seems to blocked out for some reason.

Because the screenshot was taken in the Mac Beta.. In which those features are not available because it’s 32 bit.

Um. It’s most likely because of your intel graphics card, I have a 15" MBP from 2011 also, but it has a Radeon graphics card, and therefore I get much better performance.

All WP’s show as uncontested from outside of that map now because of the new megaserver. WP’s will only show as contested once you are inside a map, and if the WP you tried to go to was contested you will be moved to the nearest uncontested one.

Lanhelin.3480:

Vexander.9850:

Sounds pretty interesting to be honest. I’d play it. Issue is, if we need another profession, it’s a Heavy Armor profession, not a Light Armor profession.

Hm, Monk would be the next profession and I’m sure it’s already there to launch, but not announced yet. But aside from Monk the Enchanter should be there too^^

The monk isn’t going to be put in game… Arenanet has been adamant from the start about NOT having a healing class in game, that’s why the monk was excluded in the first place. The entire game is designed around NOT having dedicated healers, throwing one in at this point would be game breaking.

So nope, no monk… Ever.

And I agree with LumAnth, what you’ve described sounds an awful lot like a Mesmer.

Iluzija.1798:

Todd.8162:

Why would some one recommend Crossover when the question clearly said that low game speed was an issue? Crossover is slower than the A-Net Mac client. I run the game in Crossover when I need to reliably use the Trading Post, but never to actually play.

Depends on your system. I run some things on crossover and have no speed issues. Both of them run on wrappers and crossover provides a 30 day free trial, how dare i suggest something that is completely free to try and that the OP would loose nothing by trying.

But the point is that Crossover running on a Macbook Air, which is what the OP has, is not going to give you very good speeds. OP talks about having had a gaming PC which got around 80FPS, a MBA is never going to get over 30 (which is optimistic) even on bootcamp, let alone using crossover.

Yes Crossover is a viable solution for some people, but not if someones main concern is speed – just remember that your definition of “no speed issues” is different to other peoples – I mean, personally I’m with you, if I had to run the game at 15FPS then I could live with that.

Lankybrit.4598:

I’m using bootcamp and it’s fine. In fact, better than the Mac version.

Yes, but on a macbook air the OP is not going to get the speed they want…
I have a decent MBP and in bootcamp I get around 30-40FPS, they want like proper gaming PC speeds… MBA is going to be far far less than desirable.

Conncept.7638:

Just heavy? Pretty much every head slot item but the ridiculous light armor tiaras erase your characters hair. I have two characters with the ‘new’ tophat armors and they are both completely bald with them.

Hey, don’t diss the tiaras!

All of the main cities were megaservers from very early on – with the exception of DR, which was only just made one.

There’s a thread for this that you may want to check out:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Merged-The-Cantha-Thread/page/42#post3885074

It was a few pages back, so evidently it needs bumping again.

I don’t think he would try and marry her at all… He’d be more likely to encourage the citizens to overthrow their monarch and put him, as head of a governmental system, in place.

Considering the lack of a proper romance between Logan and Jennah I don’t think we’re going to see a wedding any time soon. The security of the kingdom is probably a little more important to the Ministry than the security of the royal blood line.

The problem with your theory is that all of this has been in game since launch.
So yes a lot of it has been placed there because it, like a lot of other areas/things in game, opens up the possibility of later story-lines – but that’s all it is, a possibility. There is nothing to indicate that they would be following up with any of this for the next Living Story season.

Also heart NPC’s don’t tend to be involved in anything other than their heart – for continuity reasons.

Also the alliance between inquest, bandits and NC in Brisban is highly unlikely to have any relationship with Scarlet and her alliances. Considering their supposed alliance has been mentioned in game since launch that places it on the timeline BEFORE Scarlet goes crazy etc etc. So no connection there.

There’s a dev post somewhere that indicates they’re aware of the issue – but have no ETA on a fix.

I was not in Morgan’s Spiral (I’m quite familiar with the camera shake on certain jumps) or the underground jumping puzzle.
I was up near the overlook at Sleive’s Inlet, and I -think- it happened to be at the Village of Astorea, but I’m not 100% sure about that one.

MASSIVE +1.
It’s super annoying having my pretty Heritage Gear be called weird things…

I’ve experiences camera shake/quake in Caledon, pretty sure it’s happening all across the game and is newly implemented.

It’s highly unlikely that this is an issue specifically with the OS X client since that kind of stuff is handled server side rather than client side. (so you might want to file a support ticket)

Can I suggest you try making the game go into windowed mode then seeing if it lets you click it?

Also what happens if you log into a different character?

Lazarus.3970:

Im sure you have seen videos of other games where people go to unfinished areas or dev testing sites. Undoubtedly GW2 has such locations.

I wouldnt be surprised if there was even mechanics/special class hidden to us that allow the devs to use any skill or any weapons/armor in any combination. Such things are necessary for testing.

Except that there is absolutely no way you would be able to gain access to maps that you are not intended to.

Yes you can glitch into areas within maps that were unfinished, but the mechanics for travelling between maps and the way the server tells which map you are in mean that there is almost zero likelihood of you being able to port into some magical unfinished zone that you shouldn’t able to reach.

First of all, they wouldn’t put an unfinished zone in game – there’s no point, they would be testing it on their own servers, no reason to implement it onto the live servers.

Second, if it were on the liver servers there’d be a good chance someone would have found something in the .dat that at the very least HINTED at its existence.

Third, they’re not idiots….

Konig is absolutely right, if they had a map that they were going to release – they would have done so. I would assume they probably are working on new maps, but until they decide to release them they won’t be accessible in any way shape or form within the game. It’s common sense, they know that datminers have a tendency to jump on anything new – that’s part of the reason patches aren’t released until patch day.

Also the devs don’t need a special hidden class that allows that, if you’ve watched some the live streams they have the ability to mess with things on their own servers for testing purposes – e.g. removing cast times completely. But they do that kind of stuff on their OWN servers for testing, not on the live servers. An intelligent company is not going to put potentially game breaking things on live servers if they can avoid it. Testing servers exist for testing.

Snow Leopard was considered one of the bests, but Mountain Lion and Mavericks both have far superior performance. Yeah you might prefer expose to Mission Control (I know I do), but Snow Leopard drastically under-performs them and it is most certainly showing it’s age visually.

Literally the only reason to stick with snow leopard is compatibility. I do not know a single profressional using a mac who is STILL on snow leopard..

+1 to this.

The point of the Hero panel was to be able to quickly view ALL information.
In other games you often have to open up multiple windows to see your stats and your gear etc. Hero panel let you see all of this at once – and now you have to open the hero panel and then open the equipment panel… It’s silly.
It should at the very least default to Equipment view.

Lion has been the minimum spec for GW2 from the beginning.
Yes you may have been able to run it on Snow Leopard, but to ensure they provide the best service they can’t necessarily keep it running on Snow Leopard, and having people running it on an unsupported OS makes it difficult for them to work out legitimate issues.

If you have software that requires Snow Leopard to run you can always dual boot Mavericks (or any other version of OS X) and Snow Leopard. You can partition the drive in much the same way you do to install windows and then swap between Mavericks and Snow Leopard depending on what you need to run.

It may not be ideal – but it’s sort of your own problem, not Arenanet’s since they have not supported Snow Leopard (and nor does Apple support it anymore)

We sort of had this in GW1 – if you started dancing or playing an instrument your heroes/henchmen would join in. But for GW2 I don’t see how this would work, how would the NPC’s choose which PC actions to respond to? What’s to stop people from just standing there making NPC’s cheer? etc.

Why? They would hardly be willing to sell a proprietary engine to indie developers because it’s worth more to them than that, and they would struggle to sell it to AAA MMO developers who would be more likely to go with an established engine such as Unreal. Not to mention Arenanet is owned by NCSoft who would be unlikely to let them make their engine available for use beyond an NCSoft owned game…

Zeivu.3615:

They made a unique version of the game for China. Why not make a unique expansion for Koreans and everyone else can get what they want? If anything, I find it more racist that they can’t dare have their culture next to or borrow from a Chinese one, in the same game. You think they don’t slander our ways of life?

The Chinese version of GW2 isn’t unique – it’s almost identical to our version…

The point of the cap is to stop people from just farming dailies for achievement points – they want people to play the rest of the content first. So yeah it isn’t a perfect solution, but I see why they’re doing it and it doesn’t bother me. Your life isn’t going to end because you can’t do dailies over and over again to unlock an achievement chest.

It won’t let me edit my post so I have to double post…

I just want to add that I’m not at all saying there aren’t massive issues both with the client and with their communication to and treatment of the OSX playerbase. But they have advertised the client as exactly what it is, so you can’t really complain about that.

Hate to be that guy again – but they are advertising a product in BETA. Beta never implies a fully functional product, nor is it a guarantee of a fully functional product in the future.

When you purchased your account with the plan to play on a mac you knew exactly what you were buying because they explicitly put the beta tag there.

It’s pretty bad for a lot of people.
Personally don’t experience any issues with it, but it still performs dreadfully in comparison to GW2 running in Windows on the same machine.

Dany Little Star.2837:

Guys…if they promise the update, it will come out in the next days for sure.
In real life, I’m a developer: I code everyday at every hour….and there is a law in te developer’s world: IF YOU PLAN TO FINISH A WORK IN X DAYS, YOU NEED X+1/2 X TO FINISH THAT WORK.

I trust them, so…just wait for the update coming in the next days.

The issue isn’t whether or not they’re still working on it.
The issue is that they haven’t said anything about it. If you say, ‘we will have an update for you later this week’, then people are going to expect it. If you’re still working on it by that time then you need to tell people, otherwise it looks like you’re just ignoring them.

There is always the possibility of them saying something on saturday or sunday – I know that Anet technically isn’t open over the weekend, but there’s nothing to say that a couple of staff aren’t still doing things?

But yeah, otherwise it is quite disappointing. Even if someone were to pop their head in and say ‘Sorry guys, we’ve encountered x problem and won’t be able to mention anything until next week’ it would be better than promising an update and then not mentioning anything at all.

It’s the same for any new players who buy the game today, or in a years time. Unless you play from launch you are always going to miss out on things, that’s how MMO’s work. You shouldn’t be compensated because you haven’t lost anything… Anet have put measures in place to ensure that new players and the chinese players understand the story so far/what is going on.

The Wyld Hunt was to defeat Zhaitain/the Dragons – which was signalled by us seeing Zhaitain in the opening cinematic, not by that plant dragon in the tutorial.

The megaserver functions basically like a permanent overflow – one that is aware of certain aspects of player data. That’s all it does, decides which overflow to place you in (everything is effectively an overflow now). It doesn’t have any impact on how story is delivered because you are still playing in instanced channels/shard/maps/whatever you want to call them with other people. If Anet wants to do something like the Cleansing of Orr they will, but the megaserver does not impact how that kind of content would be delivered in the slightest.

As far as we can tell they still follow the teachings of the tablet, though in more loose a sense than the dreamers, but it is the Dream specifically that they are trying to get away from.

The courtiers do not like the Soundless at all, and if the Soundless had rejected the tablet then they would like them a little more – because that’s what the NC is all about.

I also don’t get why Kieran and Logan are in your diagram.
Kieran and Miku never got together, he was in love with and married Gwen.

CureForLiving.5360:

Anyway, from what I know EDs aren’t intelligent not in a conventional sense. They’re forces of nature with the sole purpose of consuming magic. They corrupt intelligent races and these races act as general, organising the army and forces. It’s like a queen bee, she just lays around all day laying eggs (in the case of EDs corrupting) and getting fed while the workers bees (the corrupted) do all the work.

They’re described as forces of nature by Tyrians – that’s not a scientific notion, it’s simply the way they’re choosing to cope/understand/deal with the dragons power. Pretty sure the dragons are quite intelligent.

lordkrall.7241:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I’m surprised how easily convinced people are about these (imo obviously) fake accounts. These things have been done since at least Corporal Bane.

Makes me tempted to troll with a fake Twitter account myself…

It does however seem quite legit when they 1: are followed by several ArenaNet employees and 2: posts images before they are available anywhere else.

Why would Anet employees following them make them seem legitimate? My first assumption would be that said employees are following the accounts because they find them humorous, not because they have something to do with them.

As to posting content before it’s in game – we’d need specific examples to actually say anything about that wouldn’t we?

How do you know that it’s a dev account? (Not saying it isn’t, just curious).