Guild Wars 2

I mailed several items from my account to a friend. These were all crafting materials; nothing soul- or account-bound.

Items are no longer in my inventory; Items were never received by recipient.

The name in the send window auto-completed as usual; it was correct.

Thoughts?

Ehmry Bay (US) crashing every time I attempt to port. Guess I’ll go play something else. GG @ no response after 50+ posts of “hey, your game is busted”.
Edit: oh, nevermind. I forgot- I can’t check the official forums for a response; I have to go to Twitter or Facebook or Reddit or BFE.

http://www.gw2armor.com/

1. select human or norn, female, light/medium/heavy
2. go nuts.

Hope this helps.

edit: lv 80 exotics only pictured.

vespers.1759:

lol “game in crisis”. it is hardly in crisis. every game forum on the planet is a hive of scum and villainy when new content is released.

lol this is the second Star Wars reference I’ve seen on the forums today. The other one, ironically, was also about Mos Eisley.

Carry on.

CJAncients.6907:

People expect gear treadmill because that’s how they are conditioned based on past experiences. This is like a child refusing to recognize a house without stairs as a house, because all the other houses he’d been to had stairs. This form of egocentrism should have been grown out of at a young age, yet we see it here.

I was just having a conversation about egocentric thought in Psych class earlier this week. Piaget theorized that children should overcome the idea that everyone shares their perspective and knowledge by the age of about 7. Kinda says a lot about the playerbase that’s heavily entrenched in the idea that everyone wants a gear grind, yeah?

Ultimately, only time will tell us what ANet’s next move is going to be. We can anticipate the slow trickle of Ascended gear into the game- it’s already been foretold. Once all that gear has made it into the game, that becomes the time when we have to wait and see. The next four to six months are fairly predictable in terms of the gear progression. It’s after that, when players will hold their breath and wait to see if ANet makes good on their manifesto, or if Eveningstar is right, and it’s been decided that the model they dreamed up simply wasn’t feasible.

I’m glad to see we have such a healthy and vibrant community, all interested in the well-being of our entertainment vessel of choice. It’s not a bad thing to debate this issue, and I want to say thank you to Eveningstar for posting this, even though I don’t agree with some of what was said.

While it’s true that a manifesto can be likened to a philosophy and not a business plan, I think people are missing the bigger problem. The problem was not necessarily that ANet deviated from the manifesto; the problem is that they did so, and then chose to not tell anyone about it.

The breakdown in communication is at the crux of this whole thing. In the world of social media, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, dozens of gaming sites, and hundreds of fansites… ANet had ample opportunity to step up to the mic and say, “Look, this was the idea we had, and like a lot of ideas it looks great on paper… BUT….”

The problem that exists is the communication (or lack thereof) we’ve gotten from ANet. Players have come to expect it. Devs are rarely seen here on the boards, and when they are, the answers are often shrouded in mystery and laden with doubletalk. I think that players have come to expect in the MMO genre, there’s a certain level of input and feedback and transparency. I could easily cite examples, but don’t want to get infracted.

I believe at this point, people would just be fine with someone to come back and say, “Our bad, we’re sorry, we should have been a bit more upfront about this. We’ll bring things up a bit sooner and try to be a little more transparent in the future.”

Communication breakdown has been a huge trend I’ve noticed since returning to Tyria. This event has been a debacle. Players shouldn’t need to come to the forum and look up a GM/CM post to see if they have done all the steps to the event; they should be self-evident. One step should lead to the next, logically.

Disappointing.

Personally, I like the Asura and Charr in LA.
Asura: Your head looks funny. Your face is all smushed in…
Charr: No, your head looks funny. Like a little raisin…

Paraphrased, but you get the point. They’re over by the bank if you want a good chuckle.

Eleazyair.5716:

BurnedToast.3781:

I gave Anet a chance.
>snip<

Why should I give them another chance?

Because they’ve never handled a game of this scale before. They need to work out how to balance their development teams, what to announce to us and when. These things take time. The game has only been out for a couple of months.

And it would have been difficult to take notes on their predecessors? WoW, EQ1/2, Rift… I could go on. While I understand those are all subscription based games, they all share the genre market that GW2 is trying to cater to.

I gotta say, there’s a pretty clear feeling here on the boards and in-game from chat: ANet didn’t do their homework. After years of development, it is starting to feel like they didn’t understand the gravity of what a game of this scale would mean in terms of design and (more importantly) upkeep of that design.

Now, to be fair, I’m not in here threatening to quit or rage about my class getting or not getting nerfed… there’s enough of that already. But the handling of this patch- the content update, the balancing, the information communication to the community- this has all been mishandled from the word “go”. These are all things in which I would have expected ANet to understand from their competition, take the good, leave the bad, and present us with an amazing product. Again, the feeling, by and large, is that they failed at this on several levels.

We got next to no communication, and the communication we did get was unclear or turned out to be completely inaccurate. People feel lied to. First, with the “gear treadmill”, then with the “sweeping balance changes” that didn’t show up. To then come out after the fact and say, “hey, there’s only two of us balancing” in my mind makes ANet seem almost amateur.

ANet needs to take a hard look at what’s going on in the forums, and in-game, and realize they have to make serious changes going forward if they expect continued success in GW2. I just hope they realize it before everyone gives up on them.

As the title states.

I keep seeing this Field of View change mentioned here and there… but have no idea what they changed.

What I did notice was a drop in FPS… a little over 10 frames. My rig is already 3 years old- replacement really isn’t a financial feasibility right now.

Any way to undo whatever video changes were made?

Add me to the list, appears to be somewhere between 300-400 points missing.

I put my ranger alt on the back burner pending this patch. It just has this feeling of becoming less and less powerful as it levels, oddly enough (currently 43). Guess he’ll stay there a little longer.

As for the rest of the balance notes… as I recall, didn’t we have a quote from some Dev floating around that there were five pages of skill changes? This hardly looks like the entire patch note would take 5 pages of space… Or is it just me?

Having come over from another MMO (not WoW), I grew fairly accustomed to getting patch notes weeks before a patch hit, and then watching them evolve in stages. This gave the players time to give the Development team (constructive) feedback, and maybe point out scenarios they didn’t think about, as this happens often… After all, a Developer is only human.

I don’t think it would be unreasonable for ANet to release patch notes in advance. There are a fair share of people who would “chicken little” over every change to their class, but they can be easily ignored, honestly. I learned a long time ago in GW1, no matter how many complaints there are, unless something is technically broken, ANet won’t go back just because of public outrage (anyone remember the LoD nerf?). What early patch note release does is gives us some idea of what we can look forward to. It gives us a sense of direction once a new patch drops, and (bonus) it generates buzz. How is that a bad thing? I don’t think it’s a stretch to say, this game could use some good press right now.

But alas, this thread, and others like it, fall victim to the same problem that I mentioned previously: ANet has never caved to public outrage that I can recall in my years with GW1, and now here. And so patch note release prior to the actual patching of the client is unlikely.

It would be welcome, but is unlikely.

camoflaugz.5031:

Not trying to make it different in anyway.. This is an MMO, its part of the genre and its a basic function that MMO’s do. Im not even thinking of wow or any other game.. Im thinking MMO thats it.. It already has its unique functions such as no set roles. That alone already sets it apart from others but trying to eliminate basic MMO functions is fail.

“it’s part of the genre and its a basic function that MMO’s do.” Based on what? WoW? Oh wait, you say it’s not based on WoW… okay, then… your own personal ideal of what the MMO genre is?

The fact is, the lack of gear grind was a selling point of the game. The Devs made interviews and videos about it- it’s been quoted dozens of times on multiple posts. What’s fail is players bringing preconceptualized ideas from other MMOs and trying to put a round peg into a square hole.

phooka.4295:

But that’s exactly the point, isn’t it?

The game has lots of weaknesses, be it the stuck events that block important parts of Orr, the missing in-game support, the bugged dungeons, the missing class-balance. However, while I had reason to assume that they did what they did to achieve the goals they had communicated in the manifesto, I was confident that the problems would eventually be solved and the game would continue to evolve in a direction that I would love it to evolve to.

Now with the manifesto’s promises broken, I don’t know where the game is headed, so I have to judge it for what it is, not for what it’s supposed to be and thus eventually going to be. And what it is is far less appealing than what it originally was supposed to be or to become.

First off, thanks for sharing that video- it was excellent. Second, it’s a dead-on application about not only this gear situation, but the game’s current status in general. You could not be closer to the truth, talking about the number of selling points that ANet has reneged on: The dyes, the boosters in the cash shop.. the list has been retold dozens of times in the past 48 hours in dozens of now-merged threads.

The point that I made in a previous post ties in pretty well: ANet just needs to be a bit more honest with its playerbase in terms of vision and reality for the future. PR doubletalk isn’t going to make you any friends. If the expectations hadn’t been set in this manner prior to release (via the interviews and articles and manifesto) people wouldn’t be in such an uproar.

But when you tell players “this is how we see it, this is how it’s going to be” and then go back on that every 5 minutes… people are going to understandably be upset. Now, if it’s out of your hands (meaning this is something that NCSoft has forced down your throats) then we need to know that, too. This goes back to just being honest and upfront about what’s going on internally. And while I get the fact that we all obviously don’t work for ANet, we want very much to work with ANet, and to be a part of this product, and to see its continued success.

Apparently I’m not allowed to state my opinion on this matter without my post being deleted…. let’s try this again. Watered down version:

[Deleted part about Dev reply adding fuel to the fire…which was funny, btw]

Badly disguised gear treadmill is still a gear treadmill. If ANet says, “seriously, this is it, a tier of gear we’ve had in planning, this is the pinnacle of everything” and that’s the end of it, fine, I guess. Whiteside’s statement makes it pretty clear that they’re not even reconsidering this move for a moment, and that ANet plans to stay the course. So, there it is.

This whole thing is still [deleted word describing how I feel about new gear situation]. Betraying your playerbase and the belief system you profess to your players is a great way to leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth a mere 3 months after release. If there is anything ANet should take away from all this, it’s that honesty and transparency is the best policy- Just be straight with us. We’ll respect you more for it in the end. But this- all this cloak and dagger, doubletalk PR speak, it doesn’t sit well with people.

Forum combat log:

Playerbase uses skill Cry of Frustration.
ANet Dev Team counters with Husk of Indifference.
Playerbase is defeated.

…Where did THAT skill come from? It’s certainly a new one for ANet, that’s for sure…

The thing that sucks about the fact that this fix was withheld for so long is that quest rewards are going to be completely useless at this point. I mean, I’m sure I am not the only player who continued to level past this quest. And quite frankly, the CS answer of “roll another character” was pretty insulting.

From what I’ve read, the bug was first discovered on October 8th? Patched once unsuccessfully, and then just left to sit until a “content update”. Being that this story quest was the totally unique experience the game sold itself on (that and WvW), this should have received a much higher priority than things like a patch that “addressed an issue with drop rates of Unidentified Dye”.

This was a completely dropped ball on ANet’s part. Being that it’s the first since I picked up the game (just got here a little over a week ago), I’m not screaming “REFUND!!!” but continued instances of the feeling that we’re being shoved off into a corner until we can be dealt with will not go over as smoothly.

My answer might differ slightly, because I’ve only had the game for about a week or so.

There’s no direction. To be honest, I stumbled upon the WvW screen and thought, “oh, that- cool. Let’s check it out.” I get ported to an area, and that’s that. I have no idea what’s going on next. Okay, let’s run through one of these Asura Gates and see what happens… 30 seconds later, I’m dead, because I walked into some place (I have no clue where) and ran around aimlessly until I was slaughtered by a small band of players.

There’s no real introduction to WvW. I feel like because I missed the beta for GW2, I’ve somehow missed out on understanding this entire aspect of play. I don’t know what the objectives are, how the score is kept, what the cost is, what the point is.

Maybe I missed something glaringly obvious, but I think that’s the biggest issue for me: If I can’t see the point to doing WvW, then why would I do it?

Love my guardian. I rolled other classes, filled all my starting character slots…. No one else is even close to 80.

And yeah, I’m in the camp of player who considered rolling a second guardian. They’re that awesome.

My ranger. Heritage HoM armor skin, Midnight Ice + Blood Red.

Simple idea, really.

I thought it would be nice if ANet could add a notification of some kind when an order you placed through the Black Lion Trading Company trading post was filled.

This could be an audio cue, or perhaps even better, would be an in-game mail.

Thoughts?