Guild Wars 2

Regarding other kinds of ports- the MMORPG is one of those genres that’s only ever on PC. But we’ve seen some MMOs on consoles in the past. Have you ever considered porting Guild Wars 2 or making a console MMO, ever?
This game has problems running properly on the 2GB address space of 32bit systems.

Consoles?!

http://imgur.com/r/funny/UgKnW

So only two highly opinionated (& IMHO totally wrong ) answers?

Come on peeps, you can´t seriously believe the current chat system is in any way shape or form adequate for this game.

Coming from EVE Online and lately Lord of the Rings Online, I´m pretty appalled at how unfinished GW2´s chat system is.

Never thought I´d actually miss LotRO´s clunky one. But it had at least server-wide user created chat channels where people could LFG and or chat without map limitations.

This would of course solve many pressing problems.
From the LA map LFG spam, to empty capital cities so everybody has to suffer the abysmal LA graphical performance to read said FOTM spam in LA.

As Guild chat proves that server-wide chat is possible in GW2, the current state is most annoying. Leaving a very unfinished impression.

So my bet is we´ll at least get a server wide LFG spam channel as a Christmas present(I´m an optimist).

What say you?

P.S. no hope for something fancy(& actually useful) like inbuilt group voicechat that EVE and LOTRO both offer for free. Not THAT big of an optimist.
p.p.s. Sry for the botched title. Was supposed to read Your bet .. but title was too long and I forgot to grammar properly.

They had time since basically they started development to add Dx10+ support.
Dx10 is around since end of 2006, Gw2 development started about 4 years ago IRC.

They still haven´t.

And the biggest joke in all this is that this game has actually no “World servers”.
Or rather only two server farms. The US and the EU one,

Servers are purely virtual and every map is actually floating somewhere between the load-balancing server-farm.

Volomon.9147:

You can’t datamine for something that has no stats or figures.

And you haven´t got the foggiest what the client can or cannot datamine. So stop pretending you do.
Obviously ANet won´t ever reveal that vital piece of information either.

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[Edited by CC: Disrespectful accusation]

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

Watching the manifesto and believing what it said was your mistake. Trust me though, you were hardly the only one.

This.

I´m still here only because of the work of Daniel “Count” Dociu and his team.

Volomon.9147:

Anet has no datamining, Anet has no antibot software even.

Watch their latest GDC lecture. Search for programming secrets, it´s somewhere on here.

Hey, lets add some Math to the whine.
This game has 25 Maps and 52 servers, not counting overflow.

Basically every map is its own server, this means there are actually 25×52=1300 servers which ANet has to police constantly for bots.

For some reason they are unwilling to hire live GMs who immediately respond to every whine, that would come from the players populating these servers pretty much 24/7.
This obviously means they have to automate the process by creating data-mining scripts analyzing the data that clients constantly communicate back to the servers.

Oddly this also takes time.

Even more oddly the Chinese botraiders seem to be cunning enough to adapt their own bots to counter ANet´s datamining. Probably because they are making a killing because you people are willing to pay “real money” for their virtual gold to buy stuff that´s virtual (calling our fiat currencies real money is actually the real joke here).

Why am I posting this?

Tryin´to keep it real. :p

I got annoyed with his constant harping on the voice acting, then later found out he played a Norn Warrior.
/facepalm

Congratulations on choosing the worst of all the storylines and indeed acting, from what I heard.
Should´ve chosen a Norn female, like everybody else.

As for his other gripes, they do have merit and it was indeed part of my quick disenchantment with the supposed “groundbreakingness” and this game´s hype.

But after the initial disappointment the game still grows on you. Mainly because of the Art and the hidden depths of the combat system. Mind you, not that deep.

Though I did read better reviews and even wrote one on par with this.
Forbes is going downhill fast, as all old media and their biased&controlled “reporting” should.
Good riddance.

In other words, pretty kitten useless.

Not only do you have to be lucky for it to proc but also choose an enemy that clobbers you down into it´s precise window of operation.

All thanks to this woman: http://youtu.be/RaSmassvv4w

<3

Stone Builders, Mound Builders and the Giants of Ancient America.

A very interesting TEDx talk I found.
Couldn´t help but make the obvious connection.

Wonder if this is ANet´s inspiration for our dear spirit revering (not worshiping!) giant peeps.

tetsuo.7318:

Yeah well as you can see on that page for example Planetside 2 does use Umbra too so why dont they have the same problems?

That is indeed the 99Silver question.

Why does this client work seemingly flawlessly(until the next patch) on most computers but on not a few it´s pretty much hopeless, although they work perfectly good with any other game?

I suspect the ANet “hackers”.
This game often does things “too” smartly and the coders seem to be enamored with their own coding prowess so much, that they routinely seem to reinvent a “better” wheel.
All those install problems that plagued this client from the very start(i.e. 10125K download crash) are a good example.

Great when it works.
But when it doesn´t, simply a waste of my time to even bother error shooting.
ONE of the main reason why my main is currently on lvl53 and the other 6 alts around 15. Playing since launch.

Occlusion culling is done by Umbra´s middleware , so that means ANet can do squat about their main performance problem.

BTW ANet has ALL the metrics they ever gona need about this problem, as the client is constantly “phoning home” your performance on every part of the map.

Check out their GDC lecture: Guild Wars 2 programming tricks revealed

They know their own servers work.
http://www.gw2status.de/
As do you now.

Must be something on teh Internetz.

The Scepter and Staff from the Order of Whispers vendor (only for those who picked the order) glow, and cost about 3g for the scepter, 5 for the staff

I would be very surprised if the “mythical” make over kit will actually allow a change of the basic character thus the personal story.

Just reroll now before you´ve wasted too much time on the current chars.

If you want to be smart, before deletion bring both of them to the lvl10 personal quest for the free black lion keys and explore as many areas as possible (the capital cities) for free transmutation stones.
One can never have too many transmutation stones, especially as altoholic!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Stone

marnick.4305:

Some people prefer ESDFor even RDFG.

Whatever works best for you, you should go with. Don’t let anyone tell you how to bind your keyboard, unless you’re using arrows for moving

This.
If you have to use the keyboard then simply moving WASD one key to the left will open up a lot more possibilities, RDFG is just too far away from SHIFT & CTRL.
Of course strafing instead of turning, what was ANet just thinking there?
The skills up to 6 are still in good reach and having the rest on q; w; r; t helps immensely.
I´ve also mapped F skills on the capitals of QWRT for some quick shift-key action while still able to strafe.
I´m actually using the n52te with the above setup programmed in. Works good.

Hmm, I think I´ll try this trick to get a matching set of Fanatic´s Pauldrons to my Visionary Helm.

Went for the Priory and don´t know what to think of those shoulders. They look like McGuyvered rain-pipes or something.
Hopefully it won´t clip like crazy.

Grind to win for now.

The prerequisite for pay to win so the casuals can keep up.
Standard Nexon tactic to be boxed through soon by “former” Nexon employee Crystin Cox.
Responsible BTW for changing the account-wide dye system to our current character bound one.

Player created global chat channels.

Technically trivial to implement, as it´s already here in the form of Guild chat.
And would give us players the tool to solve our problems dynamically without tying up a single Dev-hour writing some stupid LFG tool.

Vain.7643:

They don’t deserve to be praised when 1000 of accounts are being hacked while they can’t do anything about it.

Of course they can do something about it.

Just force players to change their passwords. Either weekly or monthly.

They already check your new password towards the known password lists these botters use for stealing accounts. So at least they are learning slowly.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

I don’t know if it has already been mentioned but I think introducing Global Chat system would resolve lot of the social issues where you can chat with people through the entire game and find out what is going on across Tyria.

Yeah this.

I´m really scratching my head why ANet doesn´t allow user created global(serverwide) channels.

Would solve so many problems. From empty capital cities to the LFG spam in LA.

MAJOR omission!

Yeah.
Guess I´ll just have to learn embracing our two handed weapon combos.

On my Ranger it´s quite a nice way of boosting my Longbow damage.
Turning on the Torch fire field then switching to Longbow and thus shooting fire arrows.

The same tactics just doesn´t seem work with the Guardian.
Whenever I activate shield´s light field and switch weapons it instantly disappears.

Anybody else managed to get “self-combos” to work with weapon switching?

Oh yes.
Even something easy, like on icon-click automatically switching on whisper to the downed player would help immensely.
I´m really fed up running to some guy and he is suddenly gone.

Though to be fair it´s often their own fault too.
I have yet to see a polite ask for a rez in mapchat. Again everybody seems to think they are paying an hourly subscription or something and just haven´t got the time.

Jeez.

nachtnebel.9168:

MrSilver.5269:

Add ascended armor to the list. I haven’t stepped one foot inside the FotM instance, and never plan on it. I’d be willing to spend $50 bucks for a full ascended armor set if/when if releases, however.

If something like that ever happens the game will die instantly.

Agreed.

It´s because of morons like Mr.Silver, that locusts like Nexon and their pay 2 win philosophy exists.

Take heed missus Crystin Cox.
For ever Mr. Silver there are at least 5 other guys disgusted by this attitude.
And as this isn´t some Asian kittengrinder, your job( &ANet ) will soon be gone if you try too many of those Nexon shenanigans in here.

Really don´t understand why they have omitted a “barber”.

It´s a great way to sink some more gold and another obvious point to personalize your character.

Pretty much every one I met in this game runs through this content like they are on a frikken timer.
And thus miss all the cool scripted story elements.

I find myself in a middle of a Zerg and suddenly alone to be the only one watching the often hilarious story(scripts) to start of the next leg of the event.

Meh. Single player GW2 with random PC swarms it is for me.

Tomorrow? Dream on.
They all are still digesting those fat ´merican turkeys.

My bet is, next week´s patch is on Thursday.

And moving to another server for the WvW is shortsighted at best.
You´ll just end up in the queue, or rather you would last time I checked on the PvP fora.

Phew.
I´m relieved. Had a lucky dye drop to sell on the TP juust before BF and managed to buy some gem wondering why they were so high.
Would´ve really kittentinkled me off if that character slot had been on sale this weekend.

As for the sale itself.
Meh, not bad for a first time sale.

LotRO has these all week long slowly rotating through their stuff.
Guess ANet isn´t that desperate (or savvy) yet.

The obvious answer should be to make the versatility of current gear work for it not against it.

Leave ascendant and agony and all this crap as it is, but by the kitten´s tail confine it to the Fractals ONLY!

Instead just give us a new tier of (non infusion) sigils and runes equalizing the attribute gap.

Thus a major part or the current problem is mitigated as people don´t have to throw away their current gear and just have yet another set of equipment for a specific task.
Similar to having your Magic Find gear.

Probably would boost sales for Transmutation Stones too. Win-Win.

I would love to be nice to a Dev, if I actually saw one in a relevant(to the current problem) thread.

This has yet to happen. So not really sure what fora OP is reading ATM.

Of course they won´t.
This is just “us bickering at each other”, don´t you know?

And reddit-mods won´t dare allow “inflammatory” post either, in their awe of yet another AMA by some VIP.

Guess it´s just easier to let others play the bad cop censor instead of just daring to log on to your own fora and fire of some honest answers in the many threads.

I came here because of the Manifesto.

I didn´t come her to experience Nexon´s brilliant monetization strategies that make Blizzard look like Jesus getting old testament on the moneylenders.

I got another one.

Have you said no to any design decision Crystin Cox made?
Maybe even a 2nd time after you got a call?

vince.5937:

I was PMed and insulted, called names in map chat, and even got a few nasty slurs and one “die in a fire” for asking why it was so kittening hard to find a FotM team below level 5.

I hope you reported every single one of them for harassment.

It seems 50 bucks isn´t enough anymore to deter the “morans”, so let ANet handle them and don´t take the bait to insult them back so they can finger you.

In todays “soviet PC culture” criticism is willfully misunderstood.

Not only by the creatives whose product is getting criticized but especially by the unwitting consumer, that means you OP.

Yes, there are always crybabies that want it all now&quick then switch on the siren again when they got it just as asked for.
This is not criticism, that´s just nagging.

We care therefore we complain to hopefully get a better experience out of it again. For us(& you OP) and the Devs.

When we´re so fed up that we stopped caring and just leave, THEN it´s actually game over.

BTW OP, you should be SO VERY thankful to the D3 fora that turned you off that skinner box of a game. You will(hopefully) never waste another penny and your precious lifetime on a Blizzard product again. I´m glad I didn´t even start.

Onshidesigns.1069:

Horizontal progression is not easy for developers to make so they get lazy and add vertical progression.

Indeed.

And as the above video brilliantly explained it actually makes old content obsolete.

Which is downright stupid in a game that downlevels you so you supposedly can experience “everything” at (somewhat) the intended level.

And the cherry on top of the GW2 vert.prog. fail-pie is that I´m not paying sub so DON´T EVEN HAVE TO PLAY constantly to keep up with the other morans running after the carrot.
Unless NCSoft axes them too, I can just come back next year, when the next level has been introduced and all that super gear is worthless again.

If that UMBRA software is the problem then kick some effin icelandic butt so they get their broken code working with today´s drivers.

Oh and don´t forget WinXP!

You decided to make a DX9 game then make sure the kitten thing actually works on 2GB of 32bit address-space .

When will client performance problems get a fix?

How far along is the work on this?

The Tech support fora are F U L L with people getting worse performance after a patch!
H O W CAN THAT BE ? !

Sef.6918:

So me and my friend were killing champions in frostgorge this week we both had mf gear on 200%+

Pretty sure a Dev already stated that MF gear only works on normal mobs.
Chests drops can only be tweaked by the Devs themselves, which they did. A bit.
In your place I´d be happy that the DR(diminshing returns) code DOESN´T work on chests, as your constant droprates there seem to indicate.

Quite frankly I´d bump my head on the wall for an hour instead of running the same Champ over and over again.

Sure you´re not a bot?
Cause I´m getting mighty suspicious and pretty annoyed at the sheer audacity of you bot farmers lately.

I could care less about Legendaries.

What I DO care about is wasting my time(i.e. getting soon to be obsolete exotics) and getting told what to do, namely ignore the rest of your world and just run Fractals from now on.

So incredibly shortsighted.

Existing exotic armor could already be made to “bridge the gap” by simply introducing a higher tier of runes&sigils.
But that would require some serious game designing and tweaking/balancing with existing gear.

Much easier to just put some new stats on it. But so is getting into the unemployment line.

Either get some more people with thinking caps or start rotating the burned ones out to forum mod duty or something.

Tired of whining about Ascendants. Lets whine about empty capital cities instead.

After the now 2nd big event in LA I´m getting the sinking feeling that ANet will host the “Wintergames” there too.
Just sprinkle fake snow everywhere and magic Snowmen that don´t melt in a temperate ocean city.

Please ANet, DON´T !

Breathe back some life into the deserted cities.
At least once a year.
Obviously Wintersday(see GW1) should be hosted in Hoelbrak.

Who´s with me?

edit:Thnx Looria, lost that link due to the non-existent subscribe feature.

Yup, yup and most likely yup.

A quick search with the word “trading” yields this.

As long as ANet can´t decide if GW2 is supposed to be a “Theme Park” or a “Sandbox” it will hemorrhage player interest and thus the very thing that OP laments.

With players comes player generated content.
If all players can do is hit 1,2,3 to anonymous quasi mobs in PvP then things won´t change a bit.
Trying to “out WoW” WoW in the new Fractals doesn´t create player loyalty either.

It´s a somewhat steady way downhill unless the Devs make some hard hitting decisions. We can only interact and play in the game that is given to us and with the tools the Devs provide us.

Going outside, heck even registering on foreign sites for a simple LFG tool is a non-trivial security risk.
BTW which is something that a DEV should be able to quickly hack together using their own WEB based AWESOMNIUM.