I think that’s a bit of a conspiracy theory there, suggesting that they are gating karma hardcore just to keep people playing longer.
I think it’s far more likely that karma jugs will be on the gem store soon, but they didn’t want to make this karma nerf at the same time or people would quickly come to that conclusion. I’m thinking November or December- karma jugs on gem store.
Uhm have you actually looked at how long it’s going to take to get enough mats from playing the game for the new tier of crafting. At this point it stops being a conspiracy theory and starts being a fact. Time-gating is what they are good at just look at LS and how that was done and how people can’t experience that content again because it’s gone. That too is evidence.
Reducing the karma is only part of the scheme.
I hate that they made the game about grinding and it’s amazing to me that some people can’t see that. And I’m a farmer! That’s all I do is login gather mats and even I know this is overboard on the grind! Seriously.
I too am a solo farmer and the perfect provable example of Karma being turned into a grind-fest is the change to the dailies karma acquisition going from 5000 to 600(big grind to make up the difference).
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Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Because we’re gonna have to buy important stuff with Karma soon I’d wager, so they want us to grind more.
Yes there’s a plan behind this that we don’t know about yet.
It may well involve the “cash shop”.
How? I seriously doubt ANET will start using Karma to buy stuff from the cash shop, because, then NCsoft won’t get money to put into their greedy little pocketses.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Went from 1 JUG of Karma to 1 DROP of Karma per day. Intended? A mistake? Or, a bold and flagrant rip-off? It SHOULD BE at least a Vial for dailies and Swigs for monthly.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Just a quick question; sorry if I’m posting this in the wrong forum.
It may seem a bit trivial to be bothered about (or bother anyone with), but I am currently in the process of downloading an update with an estimated size of 20 gigs. Seeing how that seems a bit bulky for a game update, my question is simple.
Did I miss an announcement of sorts, or did the game somehow uninstall itself? Or are pirate aliens highjacking my computer? Or is there anyone out there who can provide me with some kind of plausible explanation? Or should I simply have my harddrive take the pounding and sit it out like a hairy, hairy man?
It just seems… odd, that’s all.
At any rate: thank you for your time.
PS: Yes, I do check underneath my bed for big, bad game updates every night before I go to sleep. That will be all.
Did this just happen or has it been ongoing with each update being bigger and bigger? If so I suspect you are starting your client with the repair switch on.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Cosmetic items were supposed to befunding this game since the beginning. If you can’t afford them, you simply can’t have them, and it’s perfectly fine because it doesn’t prevent you from playing the game in any way. Having a luxury item is not something you are entitled to. You are entitled to having mandatory items, like exotics, which you can get through many means within the game.
(And you obviously can’t afford them if you complain in topics like this instead of buying them for 600 or 60000000 or whatever price they are sold for)
Please tell me how would I be “befunding this game” buy buying a card code from some random person not associated with ArenaNet? As far as I know it’s against ToS.
You are “befunding” this game by buying the game card, which in turn was bought from Arena.net by the other parties for promotional reasons. Arena.net gets money or other stuff from those parties.
Sorry, but, you’re totally wrong example being that if I buy the game from ANET it is WELL WRITTEN that I CANNOT resell it as stated in the GW2 EULA same goes for items purchased, unless, explicitly told/indicated that you could do so, read the game rules, I do.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Still I don’t get why ppl spend money on ascended magic find…. it’s so useless, a rare / exotic is more than enough. And don’t tell me " to be more useful to the party", if you wear magic find you are useless anyway.
Ok, the infusions, but I think it’s more the outcome than the income.
It makes them look greedy and entitled.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The fix for that now would be to give EVERYONE a Mr Sparkles mini, that sure would kitten those who bought one(confirmed, I looked it up on ebay. Bidding has ended on this item.) and de-value it.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
It has been said a couple months ago by an ANET dev that precursors were going to be added as a “Precursor Scavenger Hunt”. Don’t waste your money unless you really GOT TO HAVE IT NOW.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Could we possibly have a toggle to dismiss the ones we have absolutely no intention of doing so as to remove some of the screen clutter, it’s ok being able to minimize it ,but, EVERY TIME you zone or wp to another area there it is again in its full glory.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I wish they would add the GW1 weapons as skins, I think ANET would probably get swamped if they were put in as skins because they look so much better than 95% of ANY of the GW2 weapons/armors.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Dire Orichalcum Imbued Inscription. I can find this NOWHERE and the only mention of this item using google is from a GW2 forum post that returns as “Cannot find topic with that permalink!”. Go figure.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
You aren’t seeing the bigger picture. They nerfed karma rewards across the game. They introduced expensive karma recipes for ascended crafting. They added in karma only mats for crafting.
They are starting to move towards karma being a useful needed mat again. They need to drain the current supply of karma from players using these recipes and one off purchases. Once that is done they will almost certainly start introducing more karma based rewards and further reducing karma gains throughout the game.
In a few months time karma may be an important reward from events.
I wouldn’t laugh so hard… What Zudet says is exacly what’s happening. Don’t go spending all of your karma just yet.
I’ll try very hard not to spend my 2.5 million karma that I have……….
That’s all? just 2.5? When you start buying SOME of those Ascended recipes at 25,000K a pop you will wish you had more.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
With such a high demand ori now more than ever we need to be able to farm this stuff on our own without the need for the TP. Currently i think the amount of nodes present needs to increase so that ppl who do not actualy have a butload of cash can actually compete in this market a little. I honestly do not want to have to spend tons of gold just to get my ascended item because exotic discoveries are the only way to hit 500
Good luck with that. That’s like asking that the new TIME GATED mats not be time gated.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
They need to count how many Champs you kill, and then dole out all of the loot bags at the end when you complete the invasion.
I said this very thing on TS with my guild and was told it would never happen, BUT, It should. Loot will be handed out AFTER an invasion or event is COMPLETED to its end.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Zergs are fun though how can you deny what GW2 gameplay is all about? Go play SWTOR or WoW if you want complicated mechanics with micro-management. This is a new era for MMOs, this is Gw2.
Zergs are fun at times and as far as micromanagement I’d love to be able to micromanage my kitten pet.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I did not want a purple weapon. I wanted a blue weapon. I want it to be blue during the day, and I want it to be blue at night.
You can’t change the COLOR of a weapon people spent months working on. I happen to HATE the color purple. It’s the reason I don’t have a Mesmer.
I chose Meteorlogicus because it was blue.
Changing an item’s COLOR like this is completely unprecedented. This is not a mere effects improvement— this is a change to the fundamental aesthetics of the item.
I’m sure some people will LOVE the new purple. But other people have already obtained Meteorlogicus based on its previous appearance.
Maybe you can make Meteorlogicus special by giving us the option of putting it in the mystic forge with 3 purple dyes, and THEN we get the version that turns purple at Night. Or make that the default, and let us do something to change it back to blue.
I appreciate that your artists have worked on something that I’m sure is beautiful to many people, and there is no need to waste it. I’m totally ready to spend more gold and compromise however I have to— I just do not want purple.
Please don’t force it on me. This patch will ruin my favorite item and achievement I’ve had in GW2— or any game, for that matter. Yeah, I hate purple that much— and I love the current Meteorlogicus that much.
I’m sorry, but, I’’m seeing the dress is identical in color to the item you are wielding.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Last night I received via an ANET game mail ANOTHER B-DAY gift, why? I only have 1 character, you can take it back. I thought it was something else as it was my physical birthday and I really don’t need a repeat of what I already got a couple days before.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
simplesimon: funny must be my class cause I have never seen that happen. I have killed that same thing you are killing in the pic by myself and gotten 46xp and when someone helped me I got like 23xp with a bonus of about what you got. So not sure why it would give you the same thing and not me. And not sure what other weapons I can use I have used every weapon I can.
RNG runs really deep in you to be getting hit by XP RNG.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
SAB is it’s own wonderland, let those who enjoy the 8bit content have it, if you don’t like it let those who do play it and stay quiet if you don’t, simple as that.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I always res when I notice someone is downed even to the point I dye for ressing only to be killed still waiting to be ressed until boss is burned up before getting a res(usually still getting the boss reward, so, no biggie). Not all are inconsiderate, but, a large part is.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
people that claim it’s “fun” are really just doing so from a standpoint of they like getting rng loot, much like pulling on a handle from a slot machine. It’s not particularly engaging but it can potentially be rewarding.
This is the other huge point I fail to understand about this zerging trend.
People go on incessantly about RNG. RNG cashshop. RNG chests. RNG drops.
Zerging is RNG put to the max, you’re getting RNG drops and chests/bags both from these champ zergs…..and this same population is feeding more and more into it.
We don’t want RNG, but we are going to farm it in the most mindless way possible and claim to love it like there’s no tomorrow?
I don’t care about the crap for drops, I enjoy the huge mobs of people and baddies to squish and the gold.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I wanted to finish my balloon achievement, I had to visit like 2 more. But as always, they were closed and I had to kill a nearby champion.
It would be okay if there were people around to help me. But there was no one. Not a single person. On the entire map. I circled around, used chat and nothing.
Since I bought an MMO, I want to encounter others as well. Not only in Lion’s Arch and cof p1. The game is said to be casual, and you have to enjoy the little things, the exploration and stuff which I DO.
But doing it all alone. Events (group ones especially) are hard to complete and it just feels empty. Please come up with an idea to change this situation. So many wonderful maps created (best one so far in any mmo I’ve played), so why not use them? Why not enjoy them?
So I would like to ask for ideas on how to make the maps more populated.
My one would be the dailys: it should be more flexible. Like you have the Krytan killer, not it should reflect your lvl and become either Kessex/Gendarran/queensdale killer.
Or joint servers on less populated maps.
Or less waypoints.
Or more rewards for completing ordinary events.
Or just make events easier for solo.
Anything just not this empiness.
Any thoughts?
These champs are completely solo-able and the reason for the emptiness is that MOST are doing the LS.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
This is because you have set animations to the lowest setting.
This isn’t the case, my settings are set to high and the animations I see from others is the same as using a mining pick on them(or severe chest compressions if you will), but, MY animation is that from the normal ressing mechanic.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
As “Digital Deluxe Edition” owners ANET should upgrade ours to the new edition by adding the items not received in the new edition for a small fee, but, since it is offered at a significantly lower price there should be no charge for adding said upgrades to our account.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I agree. Ignorant people saying “don’t use it if you don’t like it.” Yeah that’s not the point. It’s nice to every once and a while have some mystery and need to figure things out as players.
HUH? What? The statement to not look if you don’t want to know in advance is very valid and the mystery stays just that a mystery IF you just don’t use it, in essence what your saying is that everyone is weak, after all it IS A CHOICE you can CHOOSE to do so or not, you’re not being forced to use Dulfy or any other site, I usually try on my own most times, but, when time is against me or I get completely stumped I will look to a guide, everything in life has guides of some sort, schooling is probably the best example of this, try doing “Boolean Algebra” for the first time without a guide.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
how can you deny what GW2 gameplay is all about? Go play SWTOR or WoW if you want complicated mechanics with micro-management. This is a new era for MMOs, this is Gw2.
