This is a good thread, although I just spotted a few posts that made me pause. Ah, you’re quoting someone on another forum, I get it.
What I noticed was the enormous size of the thread. I wanted your advice about whether we should close it so we can start a new thread. That doesn’t mean “Hey, new thread, post again!” and it bloats up to 4,000 posts. But the forums sometimes load slowly for me, and if it would be helpful, we could do something like split it into two — Part I, Part 2 — and lock the first to keep load times reason.
Let me know what y’all think about the thread (as far as load times):
Informer, I really admire your goal, and I wish you all the best in achieving it! One thing I think is good to keep in mind, even while you have that goal, is that there’s no timer ticking, and you can take your time, enjoy the game, and get that awesome legendary, too.
If you’re having an issue, you are welcome to contact the Customer Support Team for assistance. Please submit a ticket by clicking “Support” at the top of this page and then clicking the “Submit a request” option. Provide as much information as possible in the web form, which will create a ticket within the support system. If you do not know some of the information requested, leave the field blank. However, there are two drop-down areas that require an answer so be sure to choose from those fields so the ticket is properly submitted. Once you’ve done that, the CS Team should be able to help you.
I’m enormously fond of Lion’s Arch, and I dream of the day when it’s back to its former glory. I guess if you look at this in realistic terms, suffish and Stramatus are right: If it’s going to happen, the process would take time. After all, Rome wasn’t (re)built in a day.
I see more workers these days, and hey, CrimeDog, that’s one big rock!
I’ve polled my guild to ask them what they want to do. ~snip~
I like this idea. We all have guilds, so it’s great to weigh in on behalf of a guild. Naturally, guild members often gravitate to one another because of shared interests, so if a guild called Ranger Raiders said “we need more powerful Ranger skills” I might look at them a bit skeptically.
On the other hand, guilds also have people with a wide variety of opinions, so feel free to ask your guildies about this question if you wish.
I should say something here: I am not posting this in the same official sense that Chris posts his CDIs. This started as a casual question of general interest to me — in part because I saw so many different thoughts on the matter! So I just want to ask that you don’t build expectations about any sort of special outcome as a result of this thread. Having said that, accumulated information can be valuable to the devs, so do feel free to post if you care to do so!
I think some of you are going to get smote for going over the 100 word challenge :P
I was reading this in reverse order and as I scrolled up I couldn’t help but notice that there’d be quite a few smited bodies littering the forums if we held to the 100-word limit.
There is no challenge in anything after two years,
Hmm, hardcore mode? If the character dies, it’s gone for good. Can not WP back to life, can not be rezzed from full dead(dead, not downed). If the character has any rare or better equipment it gets auto-sent to the mail box, otherwise it’s deleted along with the character. Make a new char and start over.
How far can you make it on one life?
Permadeath. I have two character slots for this. Fun times.
This is really, really good stuff. Sure, it’s all over the map — that’s expected. I don’t know that even in time we’d see “Yes, we all want [this one thing] most of all.” But really, thank you for posting your thoughts. Keep ’em coming!
There are those people looking for an interesting mechanic, challenging mechanics, new mechanics. From basic event-mechanics to complicated worldboss-mechanics. They wont find any interesting mechanics for the very most time in GW2.
There are the people playing for the reward. They too wont be very satisfied. The most eficient way to get gold, the dominating reward, is by far to flip the traiding post. There is almost no special or meaningful loot dedicated to specific game types.
This is the discussion that we should be having. Not the discussion on if anything has/has not been added to the game. I can understand how some people based upon the issues you raised come to the conclusion that there is no “endgame”. Except that is not true. There is endgame depending on how you define it. I define endgame as things you can do when you complete the personal story and reach level 80. There is plenty of that.
So instead of claiming that there is no endgame. Perhaps we should be discussing on how to improve the endgame that we have. I honestly think that is the point that a lot of people are trying to make.
My recommendation find the boss mechanics that you like in game and ask for more similar to that. There is a wide variety of event and boss mechanics in the game.
If it is rewards that you are looking for. Post a suggestion on how you would like to be rewarded.
I agree with you. Suggestions would be wonderful: Practical, reasonably expressed, and clear. Here’s the challenge, and we’ll see if it’s possible and reasonable: Share your opinion about how to improve the end game in (roughly) 100 words or less.
I’d like to see this because I believe the effort could increase the value and focus of this thread. Doing so would give the devs a concise resource that they could kitten, and that’s always helpful to them.
Add new, instanced, group content.
This may include: New PvP types. New dungeons. New “elite” dungeons. Guild Halls. GvG.
IOW: Lots of the good “meat” of GW1 that this game is missing.
Edit: All of the above content is interpersonal. Zergs are not. Open world is not necessarily. Small social content encourages players to log on and interact with their friends.
I think that’s under 100.
That’s what I’m looking for. Thank you!
And pssst: I’m not doing a word count. You’re good.
We need challenges suited for both large groups and solo players, that shift and change depending upon both player actions and hidden variables so they don’t play out the same every time. Both types should be able to work towards better rewards, with even small gains always possible. It should be open to more than just “endgame” level 80s. The attack on LA was a good step towards this.
There are those people looking for an interesting mechanic, challenging mechanics, new mechanics. From basic event-mechanics to complicated worldboss-mechanics. They wont find any interesting mechanics for the very most time in GW2.
There are the people playing for the reward. They too wont be very satisfied. The most eficient way to get gold, the dominating reward, is by far to flip the traiding post. There is almost no special or meaningful loot dedicated to specific game types.
This is the discussion that we should be having. Not the discussion on if anything has/has not been added to the game. I can understand how some people based upon the issues you raised come to the conclusion that there is no “endgame”. Except that is not true. There is endgame depending on how you define it. I define endgame as things you can do when you complete the personal story and reach level 80. There is plenty of that.
So instead of claiming that there is no endgame. Perhaps we should be discussing on how to improve the endgame that we have. I honestly think that is the point that a lot of people are trying to make.
My recommendation find the boss mechanics that you like in game and ask for more similar to that. There is a wide variety of event and boss mechanics in the game.
If it is rewards that you are looking for. Post a suggestion on how you would like to be rewarded.
I agree with you. Suggestions would be wonderful: Practical, reasonably expressed, and clear. Here’s the challenge, and we’ll see if it’s possible and reasonable: Share your opinion about how to improve the end game in (roughly) 100 words or less.
I’d like to see this because I believe the effort could increase the value and focus of this thread. Doing so would give the devs a concise resource that they could evaluate, and that’s always helpful to them.
As you may have noticed on our website, we are heading into another free trial period. In the past, you may have spotted a few problems related to free trials. For instance, gold seller spam was pretty noticeable. For this trial period, we have introduced a few restrictions that should address some of the concerns we’ve noted in the past. Here’s a list:
Trial Accounts can send mail only to a player who has added the trial account holder to their friend list
Trial Accounts can send whispers only to a player who has added the trial account holder to their friend list
Trial Accounts cannot use map chat
Here are some other details about trial accounts, so that if your friends join us – and we hope they will! – they have an understanding of how trial accounts work:
Those playing on a trial account cannot sell items the Trading Post
Trial Accounts will be limited to 2 character slots
Trial Accounts will not have access to the Gem Store
Trial accounts will not have access to the Currency Exchange
Trial accounts will have access to Edge of the Mists but will not have access to World-versus-World
Also, FYI: there will be no guild restrictions in place, so your friend playing on a free trial account is welcome to join your guild and will be able to chat and play with you and your guild members.
Configured free trial accounts to block access to World vs. World maps (Eternal Battlegrounds, Borderlands maps, and Obsidian Sanctum). Free trial players may still enter the Edge of the Mists.
Oh and keep in mind: The Profanity Filter is not in place to give you or any other player “Permission to Swear.” The Profanity Filter is a means to allow some level of personal selection on what a player does and does not see, but it is by no means intended to serve as a 100% solution to the bad choices of others.
If you’d like our official terminology, here it is:
A suspension is a suspension — a halting of your ability to play on a temporary basis.
A ban is an account termination.
No, we’re not going to go with “temporary ban” because that’s like a “temporary death” and it just doesn’t work for us.
I did a little looking into this and I’m going to close this thread. Please be advised that with the in-game antics you committed, the offensive chat you used, not to mention a display name that was offensive and had to be changed, you’re sort of “on borrowed time” about now, in both the game and forum sense.
Amongst all your posts — which you put up and deleted in large numbers — you’re missing the main point:
You impersonated an employee of Anet about a month ago
* You said some really unpleasant comments a few days ago in the game
You chose an unacceptable display name
You created a thread to argue CS decisions, when you should have discussed via ticket. (See our Forums CoC for more info.)
You used the forums to post misinformation about the situation
You posted and removed about a dozen posts
When you’re in the game or on the forums, please use greater wisdom in the future.
Most of the animals are currently located under WvW discussion subforum. I don’t think they are tameable tho and I wouldn’t suggest to pet them. They bite and if you feed them nuts, they will throw ’em right back at you.
I see what you did there.
For transparency, this post was accidentally removed because the moderator was concerned that it might be insulting, but it’s clear it was a gentle joke and no forum members were harmed in the making of the comment so it’s back in place.
[Just have to add: Sometimes a joke really is across the line and it will be removed, so, you know, everyone should use good judgment.]
This thread has been great and it’s had a lot of valuable conversation in both directions, as was intended. However, at this point it seems to have fractured into a lot of different conversations about a multitude of topics.
In the interests of getting the most value from your comments, I think it’s time to close this thread and ask you to please post your thoughts in an existing thread or, if there isn’t one, in a new thread of your creation.
Thanks for your contributions to this discussion. We’ll be watching for continued comments in the future!
Just a note that GM White Noise is legitimate; he’s a member of the ArenaNet Team. We just need to get him his red hat and his gifts from the Welcome Wagon™.
I think it’s easier for the devs to review a single merged thread built from several that contain comments on a very similar or identical topic. I’m merging four into this and may add a few more. You are welcome to post your thoughts here!
I sent an e-mail about this to our Tech Support Team to see if someone can dip in here with help or a suggestion. I believe the best place to put these threads is in this sub-forum, but the TS folks may suggest that you use the BLTC forum, instead, so let’s see what they have to say about that.
I don’t know. Sky looks almost aqua/turquoise on my monitor. I’d think there are others a little south on the chart that might ultimately be a brighter blue. (Yes, Hannelore, I was thinking Winter Sky or Summer Sky but I like your ideas, too.)
But again, as y’all say, it depends on the “absorbing” material, too.
I tend to focus on lavenders, so I’m not the expert on blues.
I’d sincerely like to know where this rumor originated. No endgame? Is a new story campaign, giant map (and completion), crafting, a new set of dungeons, obtaining legendary weapons, and 3 new areas of the map opening up just not enough for you?
Really, where did this originate?
There seems to be group who are vocal on the forums who suffer from selective amnesia and denial.
For example, since the game has released there have been quite a few additional dungeons added, at least they would be considered dungeon in most games. However many players selectively chose to deny the existence of them, they consider a new dungeon path to not be a new dungeon (even though it would be if it had it’s own entrance), and of course Fractals of the Mist (and each individual fractal) is also “not a dungeon”.
If you look at the dungeons page on the Wiki, there are 9 dungeons in the game (including Fractals of the Mists). Those dungeons containing 42 different paths. Of those 42 paths, 10 of them (23.8%) didn’t exist at launch, but you’ll still hear people shouting that no new dungeons have been added.
This is true for “End Game” content in general, there has actually been a fair bit of End-Game content added, but you’ll never get some of the people on here to admit it. When you point it out to them you get a bizarre response, generally along the lines of “That doesn’t count because it should have been there since launch”. It might not have even been imagined at launch, but it should have been there anyway, so is not new.
You need to understand that the Living Story is not ‘New Storyline’, any new areas added are not ‘New Maps’ and any new words bosses are not ‘New World Bosses’. I’m pretty sure that anything added at all – unless it comes in the form of a boxed expansion – wont be considered new content by some people here, regardless of what it is, and even if it does come in a boxed expansion, there will probably be a group that denies it’s existence because “it should have been there from the start”.
My advice, would be to just enjoy the game, and not try to “understand” these forums.
I am quoting you “for great wisdom.”
Thank you for expressing what was running through my head as I was reading. And with tasty stats, too? Does it get any better than that!!??
Trying to access the gem store these past few days has been impossible. Just a big fat spinning yellow circle. Turns out it’s not just the gem store tab, but it’s all three (?) tabs on the Black Lion Trading Co. screen; nothing changes and they just show a spinning circle.
I’ve been able to access it in the past, even though loading times are always ridiculously long for me, but now nothing is happening at all.
Any insight?
Check out the bug forums, and the mac support forums. I’ve seen several others having similar issues, and the answer would be in one of those spots.
I sense you’re updating your existing ticket rather than making a new one, so thank you for that! The team will review your latest update and figure out the whole “9 isn’t 12” thing for you and get you a refund, if that’s what is warranted here. (I imagine it is, but they’ll need to look into it in depth.)
There were quite a few rude posts in this thread and they’ve been tidied. The conversation is fine, but please don’t toss in insults or off-topic comments. Thanks.
We’re all welcome to play in different ways. The OP has has an opinion, and s/he shared it here, which is just fine. If you disagree, that’s just fine too, but please do so respectfully, without insults or arguments. If you have a point to make, you can make it without resorting to rudeness, right?
Thanks for those links and quotes, Raphael, that’s very helpful.
My concern is that the post in the SPvP Forum may be seen by fewer people than a post here in Technical Support, which is the main channel for these issues. I am thrilled that Evan is looking into this, and I’ll edit my post to include a link to the SPvP thread.
I think info gathering here would be helpful as our TS folks will be watching for incoming reports. Definitely answering the questions from Evan Lesh immediately above this post would be helpful, too!
I just posted about this in the bug forum. I find this pretty horrifying when I am looking at my character in the hero panel.
And bingo! That is what you do for maximum visibility and for the greatest likelihood that the issue will be noted and resolved. Better still, look for and post in an existing thread, but make a new thread if you don’t find one already in the Bug Forum.
In a meeting earlier today, this was a topic of conversation. The best way to help the devs kitten these situations is to create one thread that everyone can join to give details.
During a morning meeting, I learned that some players in Europe have recently been experiencing latency issues. I see posts in a few of the forums, so I’m creating this thread to try to gather and focus your input to help us analyze this issue. (If y’all can share the link to this thread with others, that’ll help us gather info more quickly. Thanks!)
If you’ve recently noticed an increase in latency or lag, please post in this thread with the following:
Your location
Time and date of incident (plus time zone)
Game World
Brief description of what you’re seeing
(Since slowed FPS is a different issue and is not always related to lag, I will make a separate thread for that.)
Edit: Changing to “analyze” since when I write the six-letter wordthat starts with an “as” and ends with an “sess” I get kittenized. ~roll eyes~
I wanted to post in this thread to let you know that I’ve accepted a new position at ArenaNet, and I will no longer be your point of contact for this thread or the Account Issues Forum in general.
I will still be very active in the forums as a whole — that’s for sure! However, a Customer Support Team member will be helping you in this sub-forum and a Technical Support rep will help over in Tech Support. They’re all great, so you’ll be in terrific hands in the future!
Thanks for all the good times and the positive help so many of you have given me here! <3
I wanted to post in this thread to let you know that I’ve accepted a new position at ArenaNet, and I will no longer be your point of contact for this thread or the Account Issues Forum in general.
I will still be very active in the forums as a whole — that’s for sure! However, a Customer Support Team member will be helping you in this sub-forum and a Technical Support rep will help over in Tech Support. They’re all great, so you’ll be in terrific hands in the future!
Thanks for all the good times and the positive help so many of you have given me here! <3
So… what changes are coming? What is a bug? What is only declared as a bug because the players don’t like it and noone wants to admit that it was a mistake?
I don’t recall seeing that. Granted, my viewpoint is different, but I really think I see a bug called a bug and a change called a change.
Chris or one of our designers is your better source for info on this. But my impression is that we don’t “sugar coat” actual changes by dressing them up in a bug suit.
Everybody that hates the NPE is going to take over the discussion after all the fixes have been released I believe. You’re going to see multiple posts by the same people that hate it, and it’s going to seem like a lot more people dislike the new changes, when in reality, it’s just those same people that really want to make their point across. And not that there is anything wrong with posting more than once, it is a discussion after all, but you get my point.
I mean you can see the evidence of it now, with people complaining in one thread over the subject, and then having some of those same people from that thread start up new threads on pretty much the same topic.
I do agree that some minor changes need to happen, but hopefully Anet doesn’t give in to the pressure and make a complete 180 to the NPE, because I believe some of these changes are good for the game.
So I can’t wait to chime in when all the fixes are done. Should be interesting.
I agree with you about this. I think it’s premature to gauge how NPE will play at the current time, because we do know changes are coming.
And yes, you do see some forum members making the same points again and again. That truly is not helpful to the review and discussion, in that the devs would prefer a focused, clear, concise statement rather than realizing “Wait, it’s that same person, saying the same thing for the 19th time.”
So were these the only parts that were considered to be bugs?
besides the ones already fixed of course.
Nah. That’s what the “other aspects are being considered” means. The team is open to suggestions. From what I understand, this should not be considered a final list.
The devs have been reviewing your feedback on the New Player Experience. While some bug fixes have already been made, the team will be making other updates in the future to address:
Plot holes and story inconsistencies that may have been introduced with story realignment
Replacing the missing profession mechanics UI for the Ranger and Mesmer professions
Investigating issues that prevent players from retaining some skills (heal, utility, and elite) that they had previously unlocked
Addressing an issue with bundles that prematurely unlocked utility and elite skills
Other aspects of the NPE are being examined, and your constructive feedback is welcome and appreciated.
Thanks for that info, Ykaterina. I am sorry that you had the “stalled purchase” issue, and I just sent your comments to the team so they could examine the situation.
Please never feel obliged to keep gems that you didn’t intend to buy. If you would like us to issue a refund, please submit a ticket and a CS Team member will help you. Click “Support” above, and then “Submit a request” to get started.
In the meantime, I’d like for the team to be able to see your transactions and send details to our billing provider. Do you recall the time and date (and time zone) that the multiple purchases took place? (That info may be reflected on your PayPal account.) With that info we can look into the matter and perhaps help others, too. Thanks!
with new patch we got a collection achivement. but my 1 achi in basic collection tab missing .its name Style Guide i send ticket support but they not returned to me. how can i solve this situation?pls help about that
The only ticket I see from you is from last January. If you submitted with this Display Name, I don’t think the ticket went through. If you got a confirmation, then simply respond to that e-mail. If you did not, you might try submitting a single new ticket.
Please give the team a few days to respond to you. It’s no something they can address in a few hours. Thanks.
if they are, try typing in their character name instead of account name. I’ve come across this before, and doing that got around it
Good suggestions, nottsgman. I do suggest you type really, really carefully, though, because there are a lot of similarly-named character and you don’t want to send off an item to a stranger.
The CS Team should be able to help you, so please submit a ticket by clicking “Support” at the top of this page and then clicking the “Submit a request” option. Provide as much information as possible in the web form, because that will create a ticket within the support system. You are not required to provide all the information but may leave fields blank when you cannot accurately complete them. (There are two drop-downs that require completion, so please watch for them.)
). That’s amazing!
But the forums sometimes load slowly for me, and if it would be helpful, we could do something like split it into two — Part I, Part 2 — and lock the first to keep load times reason.