Guild Wars 2

Fuz.5621:

Hawkmoon.5849:

The TP exists as an anti-scam measure

Rotfl
How naïve.

rofl. You clearly missed the level of sarcasm that existed in my post. GOML.

Clearly, they don’t care.

Now, looking at that statement, it’s easy to say, “sure they do, they are busy, etc.” but when you examine ANet Dev and staff responses and level of communication here on the forums to many other current MMOs (I like Rift as an example in this case), the difference is night and day.

Let’s look, shall we?

ANet’s dev tracker shows Jason King (Live Response Team), Gaile Gray (Support Liaison), and Ashley Segovia (technical support). These are the last 3 pages of the Dev tracker. Not a single developer posting (technically, I guess you can count Jason as a member of the development team, per the information we were given about what the “Live Response Team” is).

Let’s look at Rift’s Dev tracker:
today, 3:23 PM: Taticus, Senior Content Designer
12/27: Taticus
12/24: Zorba (player API developer)
12/23: Taticus…. 3 or 4 times.
12/19: Amary- Rift’s very own Patch Notary… you know, the person who posts patch notes AS THE PATCH GOES ONTO THE SERVER.
12/19: Dalgar, Lead Developer
…that’s only the first 5 notable postings. Not even half a page.

… shall I go on? This, right here ^ is called “communication”. It’s a neat trick to doing business. ANet should try it some time.

Hendo.4671:

You’re a giant man-eating hunting cat, with horns to gore with no less. As an added bonus your race was responsible for the genocide of the humans of Ascalon.

How could you possible be more scary with a cloth mask? As a courtesy to all of the terrified human children you should probably wear a nice mask.

Best. Answer. Ever. +1.

Personally, I think IW has excellent synergy with skill 1. I mean, knock foes away= dealing more damage. Add in the interrupt factor, and the skill is pretty win.

I feel like a lot of the complaints about Mind Stab are PvP-based specifically. I would like it a bit better if it targeted a larger area, but that’s about it IMO.

This might be just my opinion, but I would disagree with removing vulnerability and adding poison to the staff attack.

Vulnerability makes my target take more damage… from all sources (and by sources, I mean people beating on your target). This means everyone in my party is essentially dealing more damage. This is a bad thing…. how, exactly? The four other people in your party are probably doing considerably more DPS than a stack of poison would, yeah?

I think there needs to be some understanding, here: Mesmers are not Warriors. This is not a powerhouse DPS class. I loved my Mesmer in GW1, and I’m having a blast with one in GW2. It’s hilarious watching heavy armor classes around me in events get ROFLStomp’d, as I teleport and dodge and stealth and drop a bajillion clones… essentially, I have a crazy amount of survivability that other classes lack.

I think Mesmers might be lacking in damage, but they make up for it with a host of other abilities.

Again, just my two coppers worth.

Honest to goodness, best solution I’ve found for GW2’s missing cursor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104674

Took about a week of play to get used to the button layout; after that… let’s just say mouse cursors are no longer a consideration. The keys on the side of the mouse function for my 6/7/8/9/0 skill buttons. My thumb does all the work. No more clicking- ever.

I gave up on waiting for developers to actually listen to feedback and make adjustments.

Player to player trading will never be introduced. The TP exists as an anti-scam measure, and as a gold sink to “help stabilize the economy” (insert any number of “good joke” lines here.).

@OP: Preview in TP would be great, and should have been implemented at launch. And yes, having to go to a 3rd party website (for that matter, having to go out of game period) to find a group is beyond stupid. a LFG tool should have been introduced at the latest when FotM came out. Serious oversight there.

The rest of the ideas/suggestions/fixes are probably pretty low on ANet’s totem pole, assuming they even plan to fix or add them… but these two you mentioned are pretty common complaints. We’ll see how long it takes for them to follow through on the claim they actually listen to the players, and get this stuff in-game.

My bet is Jan. 2014… and no, that’s not a typo. 2014.

Wow. No one caught The Hunger Games gravestone in Ebonhawke?

Rue, our little songbird?

GW2 is a far cry from GW1. Comparing the two is not unlike comparing an apple and a pomegranate: they look slightly similar on the outside, and they’re both fruits…. and that’s about where the likeness ends.

GW2 focuses on the cash shop. This is clear in every content update: new chests with new shinies for you to blow real-world cash on, with about the same odds as winning the Powerball lotto. This is by far one of the biggest disappointments of the game.

The trek to actually acquire money in this game is astronomically frustrating. If you’re not a trading guru, or a massive dungeon grinder, you’re pretty much screwed because of DR and the accompanying horrible drop rates. This issue was compounded by some type of change (that ANet refuses to acknowledge even exists) after the Lost Shores update. This was never the case in GW1; for example, PvP in my opinion was easily one of the best ways to make money (Zaishen keys and HoH chest rewards). In the case of GW2, PvP feels like a massive cash sink. While I don’t believe there should be a “100% surefire” method to gaining cash, certainly going out and spending several hours farming mobs should net you a decent reward for your time? Not the case here.

Combat feels stale after about 20 levels. This is due in part to the lack of trinity. While dumping the trinity was a good idea on paper, what this has boiled down to is every class DPS’ing their faces off, because things like support skills are wasted. At least with a tank/heal/dps setup, you have a good idea about your role in combat; there is no such distinction between Guardian, Mesmer, and Thief (or any other combination of classes): they all simply push out damage. Combat mechanics come down to attack everything + dodge red circles= win.

The announcement of Ascended gear treadmill, er, excuse me- vertical progression… and the “brilliant idea” of Fractals; the LS event debacle… How this game has been voted “Game of the Year” by multiple sources is truly beyond my grasp.

Do I still play? Sure. But not nearly as much as I thought I was going to when GW2 was first announced. I put 6+ years into GW1, and I still want to go back and look for groups for Alliance Battles and HA… I don’t feel any of that sense of longing in GW2, and that, perhaps, is the biggest letdown of all.

Sokina.8041:

What I learned in this thread: Apparently scamming is fine if people are “Foolish enough” to trust him.

Lol. This forum. Be right back, going to go steal from someone. It’s fine though, since I won’t get caught. Totally not a flawed mentality at all.

Guess most of the people that say “You got what you deserved” were totally born with street smarts, and had to learn the hard way that only the strongest survive, or some other bullkitten.

Hopefully their account doesn’t get hacked, because then they’d make a topic and cry about it, and I can laugh and high-five the hacker who was able to find out their simple password. Because obviously it’s their fault for having a crackable password, and the hacker is doing nothing wrong.

This is amusing.

As one of the “people that say ‘you got what you deserved’”, I would say yes: I think it’s fairly obvious that only the strongest survive. It’s not “street smarts”, by the way; it’s common sense in this day and age. This is the Internet. Why would you place trust in someone you don’t know? There is zero reason for anyone on the Internet to be “trustworthy”. None. There is no real consequence. So, the guy maybe gets a temp ban? He might lose the gold? Guess what: he got rich off the other 15 people who lack common sense (and thus also decided it was a good idea to try and circumvent the system) who didn’t report him.

Oh, that’s right, I forgot: common sense isn’t common anymore. My bad.

Most of us who said “you got what you deserved” didn’t say it was okay that the guy did it; we’re assigning blame, and rightfully, to the OP. He tried to circumvent a system, it backfired, and thus, he got what he deserved. At no point did I say the scammer should get away with it… he’s an assclown too.

And anyone who gets their account hacked clearly also lacks a certain degree of common sense. ANet allows for a 100 character password. Anyone with half a brain should be able to devise a secure PW. Then, you follow other “security measures”, like not giving out your account info, not buying gold through unauthorized sellers, etc.

Am I going slow enough for you, or do I need to break it down further?

Quarktastic.1027:

If you take the time to actually read your personal story objective, you would know that to complete your personal story, you need to visit fort trinity after killing Zhaitan.

At which point you still only get a token for a fail rare item… which you probably don’t even need, because you crafted or bought an exotic weapon already.

OP is right, the story reward is fail.

morrolan.9608:

To Stephanie how can we provide data when we had no reason to track it before 15/11? This comes across as a stalling tactic.

It is a stalling tactic. As I stated in another thread, it’s called “shifting the burden of proof”. ANet is asking players to provide “concrete data” to prove an issue exists, when in fact the burden is on them to prove that it doesn’t… especially when you consider that a previous thread had hundreds of replies, and was laden with the “concrete data” that ANet suddenly has an interest in.

It’s bullkitten. It’s a lame attempt to stop people from bailing ship, by saying “go in-game and spend hours researching this for us, and we’ll take the matter under consideration.” Pretty sure you should have your own access to the “concrete data” you are seeking. If not, check the thread that you locked. I’m sure you’ll find some of it there.

Randulf.7614:

… I can’t see it being a huge problem for them to implement.

Famous last words.

BUTTERBLUME.3217:

Hawkmoon.5849:

BUTTERBLUME.3217:

To anyone who believes DR was implemented because of the bots… nay.

“Diminishing returns, abbreviated DR, is anti-farm code implemented to prevent bots and exploits from disrupting the economy and gaining an unfair advantage over legitimate players.” Sourced from the Wiki, pulled from a conversation with Jon Peters. DR was implemented initially because of a botting problem.

Now, I’m not suggesting it doesn’t serve ANet to have a DR regardless of botting; it certainly does. They can’t expect to make a reasonable profit out of their cash shop if everyone can just spend a few hours farming, sell everything, and convert to gems. Thus, even if botting did not exist, it’s reasonable to believe that the DR would still be present.

The issue I’m presenting is that the DR is crippling to players. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter to botters; they make money regardless. They make less, true; but they don’t stop botting because of a DR: they stop botting because they are caught and thus banned. Players, on the other hand, will stop playing because of an inability to acquire any amount of wealth.

Again, I submit: deal with the bots, and reduce the DR. I get that we will never be rid of it; we can’t be. Just like we will never be entirely rid of bots. But I would maintain that if your own “mechanics” are driving players away…

Which is exactly my point.
They say DR is there for the bots, but ultimately it is not.

DR a bot all you want, as long as the same DR applies to the players, it will not change anything, except slowing down the whole economy for everyone alike.

And slowing down the economy equals money for them, because people spend more time in the game and spent some real $ eventually… or just quit, which is the risk they take for keeping players busy with the DR.

Aha, yes. We are on exactly the same page

BUTTERBLUME.3217:

To anyone who believes DR was implemented because of the bots… nay.

“Diminishing returns, abbreviated DR, is anti-farm code implemented to prevent bots and exploits from disrupting the economy and gaining an unfair advantage over legitimate players.” Sourced from the Wiki, pulled from a conversation with Jon Peters. DR was implemented initially because of a botting problem.

Now, I’m not suggesting it doesn’t serve ANet to have a DR regardless of botting; it certainly does. They can’t expect to make a reasonable profit out of their cash shop if everyone can just spend a few hours farming, sell everything, and convert to gems. Thus, even if botting did not exist, it’s reasonable to believe that the DR would still be present.

The issue I’m presenting is that the DR is crippling to players. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter to botters; they make money regardless. They make less, true; but they don’t stop botting because of a DR: they stop botting because they are caught and thus banned. Players, on the other hand, will stop playing because of an inability to acquire any amount of wealth.

Again, I submit: deal with the bots, and reduce the DR. I get that we will never be rid of it; we can’t be. Just like we will never be entirely rid of bots. But I would maintain that if your own “mechanics” are driving players away…

Khristophoros.7194:

Hawkmoon.5849:

Drop rates are a joke.

Dev team believes it’s working as intended and challenges the playerbase to prove otherwise, per Stephane’s sticky thread.

This is called “shifting the burden of proof”, and is a lame tactic that so far appears to be working, as players scramble to present data that has already been presented before.

Expect drop rates to stay this terrible, and perhaps get worse in an “ongoing effort to combat bots ruining the economy” which is PR speak for ‘putting in a crippling DR forcing the playerbase to eventually rely on gem purchases to supply their gold’.

It is working as intended. The intent is low drop rates.

I am here to explain why that’s bad. I am challenging their design ideals.

It’s pretty simple. I find myself avoiding fighting mobs instead of looking forward to fighting them. There’s just no point to it. I have better things to do with my time. That’s not good.

@ Everyone else: yes yes I know how to make gold and gear up characters. Thank you for not reading my post.

I think you missed my point… and just about everyone else’s, too. And you’re not “challenging” anything (or explained anything yet, for that matter.). You’re ranting on a forum, just like the rest of us. Don’t delude yourself into thinking “This is it. This post is going to change everything! They’ll see the light now!” It’s not; it won’t; and they will not.

The developers are doing exactly what they either A.) want to, or B.) are being told to… and that is to set the drop rates at a level that makes “farming” a fruitless endeavor.

The point I was making is that the dev team, via CM Stephane, has come out and told players there is nothing they can find to substantiate player claims that since the LS update on Nov. 15th, drop rates have radically changed. They continue to say this in spite of the massive thread they recently locked that showed clear, erm, excuse me- to use Stephane’s word, concrete- evidence to the contrary.

Now they want players to basically do the research for them, by submitting more data that shows a change in drop rate. While some players have probably accurately tracked this, very few (myself included) anticipate part of our gaming experience as needing to tell the developers something is seriously defective, and then having to prove it ourselves. I know I don’t spreadsheet all my loot, track which mobs drop what and with what frequency. I find it a little frustrating that after pages of data have already been presented, now they’re suddenly asking for “concrete data” without giving any information in return.

It’s a stall tactic to placate the masses, and it’s bullkitten. Deal with the bots, reduce the DR, and stop punishing players via lazy programming. Simple as that.

Drop rates are a joke.

Dev team believes it’s working as intended and challenges the playerbase to prove otherwise, per Stephane’s sticky thread.

This is called “shifting the burden of proof”, and is a lame tactic that so far appears to be working, as players scramble to present data that has already been presented before.

Expect drop rates to stay this terrible, and perhaps get worse in an “ongoing effort to combat bots ruining the economy” which is PR speak for ‘putting in a crippling DR forcing the playerbase to eventually rely on gem purchases to supply their gold’.

lol… He gets away with it because the Internet is full of gullible people… and this just serves as a case in point.

You tried to cheat the system (the “taxing” that exists in the TP) and got screwed in the process. You try to blame this on someone else, and get all kitten when people tell you it’s your own fault. Then other gullible people show up and try to build you up saying “it’s okay” and “shame on you” to those of us who are realists and play by the rules.

Seems legit.

Nike.2631

I’ll make you a deal-
You POST the expected base drop tables by rarity of standard, veteran, and champion mobs and I’ll tell you if that in any way confroms to my experience killing those things in verious loadouts of magic find.
I’m not doing your QA’s job for free without a little transparency from your side. Especially when they can do a database query at the touch of a button.

This needed to happen before they started asking us to relay data to them. I would find it incredibly difficult to believe that ANet doesn’t have this data compiled or have ready availability to compile it quickly. This thread’s creation reeks of an attempt at staving off a mass exodus.

Sythus.2396

I don’t understand why is it so hard for you to just come out and admit it. Pretty soon it’s going to be 2 months since that god awful patch and we haven’t received a SINGLE word from you. I don’t know what you want to do with your game, but this silence is certainly not the way. The other thread had thousands of people say that they are seeing reduced drops, yet it is like we do not know what we are talking about.
I guess there are still tons of people buying gems and until they continue we will not receive a word on this. Sad, sad :/

They can’t admit it; they won’t. This thread is an attempt to make it look as though they are investigating a matter which players have clearly documented (again, and again, and again), and ANet refuses to admit exists. How much “data” do they need? There are dozens of posts here; hundreds in the previous thread (which was locked why, again?), and there has not been a single official response since the initial posting of this thread. We are being ignored- again.

It’s been par for the course since release (see here: Ascended gear thread(s)). Why would we suddenly expect a change in the level of communication we received? Oh, right- because they acted like they cared for .02 seconds… which is clearly not the case.

I have to laugh a little bit.

First, I’m laughing that someone decided to “trust” a complete stranger on the Internet. That was the first mistake. Common sense would tell us that you not “trust” someone in a situation where there is no repercussions for violating said trust. From ANet’s point of view, you mailed someone X amount of gold. Period. I would be fairly disappointed with ANet if they actually returned your money, because what you did is tried to circumvent the in-house trading system: the TP. By trying to save yourself some cash, you lost everything. Ever hear the phrase, “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is”?

Second, I’m laughing about all the people telling Phlem to choke on it. You guys talk about him being so horrible, and yet you wish him ill. Hypocritical much?

The OP didn’t follow the dictates of common sense, or the mechanics for trading set forth by the game. Trading by mail is a one-way system. If you want to buy something, you buy it from the trading post. Doing anything else is like the idiots who fell for the scam in GW1 where you were instructed to join party, go outside, and drop an item on the ground…

Midnight Ice ‘works’ as black for medium armor (can’t comment on light armor), but for the heavy armor, to get a ‘true black’, you need to use Abyss. This, coupled with the rarity, has driven the price to an astronomical level.

I haven’t purchased the Abyss; I doubt I will. My guardian will just have to do without, because I refuse to spend that kind of coin for something that’s purely cosmetic. For 18 gold, that dye should cause my armor to emit a radiation field in a 30 meter radius.

yurtshone.7325:

I suggest that Arenanet are not interested in getting too involved with the playerbase. They have consistently shown a disregard for our views. The communication from them is the worst I have ever seen in my 15 years of online MMO gaming.

^ This, honestly. I don’t think I could have said it better. I came here from Rift, and the Developer communication was amazing. We could interface with them directly on the forums (where they were seen regularly addressing player concerns and general questions), or via frequent live streams in which they gave players a preview of what was coming up.

This is just bad. The only person we see on the boards with any frequency is Gaile… and last I checked, wasn’t Regina supposed to be the CM? It feels like getting any kind of official response to anything- and I mean anything- is like pulling teeth. The CM from Rift was the biggest forum troll ever; you’d see the guy all the time. Server goes down, he posts about it. A sudden concern from the playerbase about something new that was introduced (perfect example would’ve been the ascended gear debacle) would be addressed in short order… not days later. And it would be a simple, straight answer, not the “PR speak” we’ve become so accustomed to here.

Yes, ANet has shown and continues to show a clear disregard for the players… and I wouldn’t expect to see that change any time soon.

Okay, I have to ask this…

Why on God’s green Earth would you want a guide for this game??? This is the Internet. Google is your friend. YouTube is pro as well.

You can find guides (well written, at that) for leveling, crafting, zone completion. You can find a totally interactive and completely fleshed-out map. You can get information on dragon spawn timers. You can probably find out where in Tyria Jimmy Hoffa is burried if you look hard enough!

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc

my favorite, personally.

Yeah, I have to agree. I don’t think being a “veteran” player (how can you be a vet of a game that’s less than 6 months old?? hmm…) factors into it, really.

The game is melee hell. Rift was like this for the first year as well: the mechanics were absolutely punishing to melee, while the ranged people simply ran out of the way between point A and B, back and forth (not unlike dodging red circles). The development team finally made some adjustments to correct this, and melee became far more balanced in combat.

Personally, I see a lot of the same issues here. There is no real benefit to being in melee versus being ranged; in fact, most of the time, you’re a detriment to the party because you spend all your time dodging and kiting damage instead of dealing it.

This is the main reason I rolled all my alts as ranged classes. It’s frustrating, because I love the idea of being in melee, but in practice, it’s more frustrating than the alternative of leveling another character to 80 and gearing them out.

The biggest issue, in my opinion, is the fact that condition damage can be largely ignored, by both players and by mobs. There is no sense of urgency to get rid of a condition- even vulnerability.

Basically, conditions have to matter before they can be useful. This is why necros feel so underpowered- because they rely heavily on condition damage (which they share a stack limit with the rest of the party on), and it’s weak. 25 stacks of bleeding is a pinprick compared to 20+ stacks of might and a hammer blow from a Guardian, or any other physical class, for that matter.

This was the biggest problem with removing the trinity- there is no need for anyone to do anything other than hit things as hard and as fast as they can. Conditions fall by the wayside in comparison to raw physical damage.

Again, don’t take this as scripture; this is just my observation.

Endgame needs to exist before they can work on it. I hit level 80 on my Guardian weeks ago, and I’m bored to tears.

Fractals have lost most of their appeal, and I’ve only hit 11 or 12. It’s the same set of dungeons, over and over again… And regardless of what anyone at ANet says, it’s a gear grind. If I wanted that, I would’ve stayed with Rift- they did it better, anyway.

I tried starting new characters to stave off the staleness, but then I realized eventually all the characters become Trahearne’s sidekick, and nothing changes. The “epic story quest” that this game was sold on is a sham at best. It all funnels into the same ending… Where’s the fun in that?

The dungeons here are insanely weak. I can’t even describe how much they don’t embody any sense of fun or entertainment. When grouping in other games, even for the purpose of running the same content over and over again, I was at least entertained. Here, people just want to run past mobs and kill bosses as fast as possible- it’s like the GW1 speedclear mentality has carried over to GW2, which completely trivializes any content.

I could start working toward a legendary, seeing as how it’s the only reason to go out and complete any sub-80 maps. The lack of other players in those zones, however, makes the entire world feel empty. Not to mention the fact that the trek to get a legendary embodies the very grindy feel that ANet claims they don’t want in their game.

All I know is, something has to give here. A lot of changes need to be made, quickly, before boredom swallows Tyria long before the dragons can.

GW2 can’t introduce raids. That would require us to actually get good loot on boss drops. It’s forbidden.

ASB.4295:

What if a thread with a non-descriptive, unfinished title got deleted before anyone had the chance to read it, would the thread actually have existed or not?

Doesn’t this question constitute a paradox?

Welcome to a game with a cash shop. Farming gets nerfed into the ground so buying and converting gems becomes the only viable means of making money. Enjoy your stay!

cesmode.4257:

Just get used to the fact that a low level player MIGHT join your “holier than though” level 40 group. Get used to it, going to happen unless people begin gear checks which will happen and cant be avoided.

First off, it’s “Holier than thou”. I got a good laugh though, so thanks.

Second, on to the meat and potatoes of this issue: Fractals have been and continue to be a bad idea, and a way of creating a disparity in the playerbase. This new change will only emphasize the issue, when a lower fractal level player, lacking agony gear, gets into a higher level group. The player will end up getting carried, or kicked. Displaying fractal levels on the FotM entry screen would be a nice change.

Don’t bother coming at me with the “you don’t want low level players tainting your pro group” nonsense; I’m only on fractal 11… because I’m pretty well bored to tears with this game.

There currently appears to be no way to acquire additional Mystical Cogs needed to complete all the pets. it would appear that you need to buy them (the other pets, not cogs) from the cash shop, which I refuse to do. If it can’t be acquired in-game, then I don’t need it.

This is getting old.

Try to get a group together during a “non-peak” hour for fractals. Because GW2 has no utility in-game to form parties off-server, we’re forced to make use of a website that some very smart individual(s) developed.

Finally, a party is formed. There are 5 players from 3 servers. Only one problem: no one has an overflow on their shard, making it impossible for us to all join into the same location and enter the FotM dungeon.

This needs to be fixed. Players need to have the ability to join other non-overflow maps in their party. This is a seriously limiting factor during off-peak hours that should have been addressed at the time that FotM was released.

Also, it’s a little absurd that we need to go outside the game to form groups. There are several methods of resolving this, including a chat channel that works across servers, or a “LFG” utility.

Thanks to the ANet Support team After my ticket was reviewed (initially sent on the 6th), I received my chest in the mail about 20 minutes ago.

Appreciate the correspondence, and the effort.

Now, just crossing my fingers that my girl gets hers too!

You couldn’t pay an actor enough to act as stupid as Trahearne.

FaRectification.5678:

If the devs would make it so that future expansions require a subscription, it would benefit both the community and also the developers.

Stopped reading here.

This game has a cash shop, which you can bet ANet will expand on. I fully expect to see more skins, more shiny stuff, and even some items that will probably cause a stir.

The population of this game was up in arms over them adding a tier of gear… what do you think would happen if Mike O’Brien suddenly stepped up to the mic and said, “oh by the way… we’re adding a subscription for our next content patch!”

People would go ballistic.

Go back to a sub based game if that’s what you want.

General Belisarius.2548:

I never received a chest, and I got a DC. Upset, my support ticket says I didn’t qualify? My guild mates who didn’t even attend, didn’t even log on for weeks after the fact got cheats. How did you even decide who gets one?

Hmmm… typo (in bold), or Freudian slip…?

Anyway. Filed a ticket. Waiting on reply. Gaile says wait till the end of the week. I’ll keep waiting. General, I’d say since that message was sent out en masse, if you DC’d, you should appeal the ticket by replying politely and asking them to look again. And then wait, like me

@ OP:

Over the course of several hundred (500+) hours of gameplay, I’ve received 3 keys from mobs. They are extremely rare, and always a welcome surprise.

It’s even better when you unlock a chest, and then get another key from the chest, along with the standard loot. This too, is pretty rare as far as I know.

AcidMage.9508:

A simple answer to my post would be really appreciated. A simple, we don’t care about the extra chests recieved we will now only give them out to rightful people. Or " the extra chest situation is being looked into right now, and an answer will be released shortly". It just shows people like me a bit of hope, or simply know we are not recieving the now deserved chest, and please let be just remark the NOW, not before, but now after all thats happened.

I gotta be honest- and this is just my opinion- I feel like you’re missing the point here. You seem overly concerned about other people, and what they got or didn’t get.

Me, I’m happy for guildmates and other players who got 1, 2, 5, however many chests. Good for them. Personally, at this point, I would just like to get one for my participation in the events of the weekend, and attempted attendance of the final event.

Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying: yes, I see how other people getting multiple chests can and will have an effect on the game’s economy.. I’m not ignorant. But the point is, ANet has already said, “we’re not taking stuff back from people.” So on that front, we already have an answer: what’s done is done. For the people who got 2 or 3 precursors and are about to get crazy rich, good for them.

I think most of the players who are in the forums agree at this point, the solution would be to make a list of anyone who had an active account before the weekend of the event, subtract the people who already received one or more chests, and mail one out to the rest. Gaile said that’s not going to happen, so we’re left to wait and see who ends up with one (rightfully or wrongly, doesn’t matter at this point, IMO).

Those of us who don’t get one will have to submit a ticket if we honestly think we earned one.

It’s a game of wait and see at this point. If I’m reading Gaile’s last posts correctly, ANet is pretty much done with this, aside from taking care of the tickets.

Desova.5821:

I put in a support ticket last night at 23h (CET – France), and received the chest when I logged in this morning at around 10h. I suggest that anyone who hasn’t received the compensation yet and actually attended the event send in support tickets, it seems to speed up the process somewhat.

That’s interesting… my ticket has been in considerably longer (since shortly before the first script was announced) and I still haven’t received one.

Lucky you :p

I’ll keep waiting, I suppose.

Can we get any kind of confirmation that the new script has completed, and those of us who got nothing are just hosed?

I have to echo some of the sentiments here, sadly. I tried to take part in the event, wasn’t able to get in due to repeated DC’s, and now I wait for what is (presumably) going to be support’s cookie-cutter reply to my ticket saying, “you didn’t qualify”.

Which is amusing at best, because I think it’s safe to say, neither did hundreds, perhaps thousands, of players who received the chests already.

I think the smart thing for ANet to have done here would have been to take a page from Trion’s book(River of Souls World Event- remember that one?), and just mail the item out to every account created prior to the event. Could have saved a lot of headache on your end, and a lot of player frustration on our end. I don’t think anyone can look at that idea and say, “that’s no good”.

I find it a bit frustrating that I’m facing the prospect of not getting a reward for an event just because I don’t have a screenshot to prove I was there or trying to get there.

/attended (tried to; disconnected repeatedly)/no loot/ no mail

You know you play too much GW2 when…

You write an awesome piece of code at work, and say to the guy next to you “Did you SEE THAT? TELL ME YOU SAW THAT!”

It’s not just EU; here in NA lots of players haven’t received them either. I’m on Ehmry Bay and haven’t received mine yet either.

Nothing here yet either.

I think if we knew the criteria behind this script that ran this evening, it would go a long way toward alleviating some of the questions here on the boards.

That way, we would know if we should expect to see one or not… just my two cents. I’ll keep waiting and hope for the best.

Galdrek.4371:

Yeah, guess those of us still without the Box have to wait to ticket it tomorrow, at this rate im expecting not to get anything.

If I’m being totally honest, I’m expecting to get hosed again too… and yet we cling to hope, right? What was it Raistlin said in Dragonlance?

hope is the carrot dangled before the draft horse who plods along in the vain attempt to reach it. Something like that?

Tried to do the event; couldn’t do it, got nothing.

I’m reading that the script is now “finished running” (Dev Tracker), but they don’t want us putting in tickets yet.

Guess I’ll wait longer.

GregT.4702:

Snores.7806:

I’m am worried about the direction of GW2.

…patches and updates that do little to nothing for the long term development of the game and it’s community….
… constant content push […] for new content instead of a focus on game stability and playability. The steady nerfs to the economy, drop rates and general wealth generation. The lack of genuine communication and any real QA from the development team.

Dude, I don’t know what you’re seeing or what your experience is, but I can tell you in 30 years of gaming:

• I’ve rarely seen a game release solid new content this reliably or this often;
• I’ve never seen a game team of this size answer questions so frankly and fully in so many different places; and
• with the notable exception of EVE Online, I’ve never seen a game take such a serious and professional approach to managing its economy.

I’m ignoring, obviously, Lost Shores, which had just a ton of problems which the dev team have never fully addressed. And the game’s not perfect, obviously, because otherwise everyone everywhere would play it and I’d never need any other game ever again. But beyond that – man, if you find a game that does all these things BETTER, be sure to tell me what it is, and what I need to smoke in order to play it.

Please tell me you’re joking, GregT. I left Rift by Trion for GW2, and I often wonder if I’ve made a good decision. The content releases here are largely untested, hence the massive amount of bugs and glitches we see regularly. This was nearly a non-issue for Rift, which used a Test Shard, and weeks of player feedback to weed out bugs and implement fixes that worked. This equals near bug-free content when everything goes live. This also gave players time to review upcoming changes and give feedback to the Devs.

The development team is on the forums daily, answering questions about mechanics, upcoming changes, and general fixes in the pipeline. There’s no “PR speak” like we get here; there’s just Devs being open about what’s up.

And how can you “ignore” Lost Shores when it’s a shining example of just how badly the ball has been dropped here?

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not raging, I’m not leaving GW2, and I want this game to succeed… but the amount of errors we’re seeing from ANet since release is, in my opinion, staggering. I’m really hoping they can recover before the playerbase gives up on them.

I kill Claw of Jormag at least once each day. Lots of vets, a few champs, and the dragon itself.. usually a semi-decent haul, even if I end up selling everything to the merchant because the drops are usually crap.