Guild Wars 2

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

So, as many said, subscription fee coming in Nov., and by 2015 you’ll only have access to the warrior class, and each class should be unlocked for 401 gems each.

LOL

I fear she will communicate this to management – A.K.A. – management is listening! :-S

Welcome to 2012 beta.
Can dev provide an update since 2 years please?

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lets-talk-about-the-new-Gem-conversion

Gaile, another clear example of non-transparency. Again, the policy is making the gaming experience more toxic than ever because you’re (Anet) not allowed to discuss stuff in progress. We are force-fed this, …

It’s A-grade damage control, and it doesn’t have to be that way.

Completely agree. I tried to write to her with no reply at all (many others tried as well) :-/

P.S. I get this feeling this thread is being down-moved onto page 3 where I found it, despite recent posting… I hope my reply wont be deleted because I wrote this…

Koviko.3248:

Give us an “I am Evon Gnashblade” option that lets us buy smaller increments.

Maybe “I am not confused”

No no no – just add a button titled “I am not a stupid player” which brings the old GUI.

Problem solved.
Thank you Greedy-Net.

Conski Deshan.2057:

The quality of the event has nothing to do with not having an exclusive for it?

I partly lost you on the double negative, but rewards are apart of the quality of an event. Specifically Halloween 2013 was terrible on both parts, and now 2014 appears to be a rehashed remake.

I heard someone made over 100,000g because he was in Halloween 2012, bought a bunch of shields and resold them at 2,000 gold each because of this company’s decision not to ever bring them back (instead we’ve gotten common-ragg-looking gloves for example).

He basically won GW2 because of this exploit.
Now comes Halloween 2014 and still these items are gone.

Amazing ArenaNet reward strategy right there…..

Conski Deshan.2057:

no exclusive item from Halloween 2013

Halloween 2013 was horrible!! So you’re complaining nothing exclusive from a horrible event stayed??

… at least if you said 2012, but from in-game evidence Halloween events are tumbling downhill into a boring abyss at this rate (e.g. 2015)

Signed,
- Ghastly Grinning Korossive

Joining in – exactly what rewards are “sweet” here?!

There’s nothing new but reskins of the worse outfits (not even armor) nor anything else even decent!

Signed,
- Ghastly Grinning Korossive

I haven’t seen all the rewards, but this holiday is a shame, bore of an event.

Tranquillity.8697:

The old system was to confusing? If that’s the best excuse for the new system i don’t even know what to say anymore….

Anet. This is dissapointing on a whole new level.

Hi Gaile,

All of this could have been avoided if you would only have communicated your plans for the game, remember? This is a result of thinking what’s good for the community without caring —-- about what we may truly want.

You came back to this thread, asking if people can bring their ideas to correct this, someone said make it in 100’s not 400’s – and you gladly concluded “THERE!”

Wow, just wow. Your dev lead could not have thought of that himself before ruining the code? was that complex? could you not have asked us before you ruined the code? and if you couldn’t (and didn’t), why taunt you are “communicating” with us? or is the communication only to damage-control? will you erase my post because its unfavorable?

I hope my point is made to you, but I cannot tell, sadly.

- Kor

Roybe.5896:

Just so you know, I have finished hardly any of the impermanent content that has been put out for the game. I was working 45+ hour/week. I was not upset about this fact. I knew it was going to happen. I have taken a few weeks off here and there and understood I would miss things. Would I have enjoyed the content? Certainly. Do I enjoy the freedom to play the content in my own time now? Yes. However, I am disappointed that the game continues to change from what it was supposed to be to what ‘everyone wants’. It is not ’everyone’s opinions’ that continue to drive changes. It is the loudest voices that do. Obviously, my voice (and others like mine) aren’t loud enough.

Neither is anyone’s apparently. As someone said on Reddit, its like there’s a will to flush out the fun. Content is rehashed, detracted, and made temporary. Fun aspects such as SAB have left us and now dangled infront of those asking to “return one day”. I just don’t get this company sometimes.
… this game was so much fun at 2012 its now a shame.

Halloween 2012 was amazing, then came the crash of Halloween 2013, and now a rehash of 2013 again. Disappointing and feels kinda boring.

Azure.8670:

Im convinced ANET no longer exists

One does wonder where this company is headed, and where development at all is taking place.

I completely agree, this is a copy/paste rehash of last year (which was bad) and I personally feel fun has left this is some time ago.

Anyandrell.6238:

As I was told before not to say anything about the devs

I agree with you about referring to the devs, there is a strict deletion policy about unfavorable posts here. You can go to Reddit to see a better picture on this regard.

EDIT: You may see the impressions on Halloween 2013 to get a sense…

Amazing changes are coming! But were gona need another reset to everyone’s hard work before them.

… What? … Compensation? Let’s just reset people anyway …

MFoy.3284:

Ya know, I was thinking about this a bit and keep coming back to the same spot. I (and others) get out the torches and Storm the Castle shouting “They owe us < Insert here > because…” and I kinda get stuck. Then I noticed "What was the Quid Pro Quo? Uh… I give you $60 for a couple of gig of binaries and game server access. “But but I have an emotional investment in this!” Well, that’s on me. Yeah, they could do better than have two random devs kinda smirk and say SAB is on the shelf via some weird web interview. As an aside, that was a really really bad way to let that news out and I don’t even like SAB. But, life is hard, wear a helmet.

The truth is Anet filled the agreement. I got my $60 bucks worth.

I am kinda surprised that Anet has let this thread discuss areas clearly outside their comfort zone without repercussion. I’m pretty sure no one has be banned or even had posts taken down. In a way that’s a significant step towards a more honest even visceral form of communication.

This is an argument worth a thought.

Yes we received the 60$ worth of content, and be done with it. Goodbye.

But then, the product was marketed as a community of players and world, with evolving dynamics and developments. To sell, the company had spent much resources on hype building, this is how they chose to market it to us.

Lets have us an example: You can see Ree Soesbee here bellow promising you that the village you just rescued will stay rescued and remember you. Now we both know after 2 years that it’s BS. Here the players come back to the company and request a redesign, where the response is "were listening, were debating, were … Soon™ ".
But as we know, Soon™ is lawyer for never.

Lets forget for now the no-grind promise (“I swung a sword, hehe I swung it again”), dynamic events will remember you, horizontal progression (and then ascended gear), your choices and background affect the world (remember noble/commoner/…?), fun is in the center (remember Halloween 2013?), and cherry on top is the overabuse of the word Excited on communications. Are you excited?

Are we the bad people to want the hype and promises? Hmm.

So if its back to the original 60$ + goodbye, then I’ll never return to another ArenaNet product. I hope it isn’t, despite Gaile’s/John’s/Whoever’s fluff postings with no answers.

Bonus:

Although I notice Gaile hasn’t posted in the last few pages I’d guess the thread is getting read at some level.

You know the phrase on assumption?

Yes.
Soon™.
Real Soon™.

You forgot the SAB dragon who has 8-bit breath.

Valento.9852:

Wow that was acid, are you having a bad day?

But yeah, that wouldn’t be top priority.

I’m sorry, you’re right, my past experiences did sound acidic. I was just surprised he wanted to ask for the smallest thing that’ll then completely kill any development pace at all.

Like slowing down a crawling turtle.

My day is actually good :-)

This bar, when clicked, opens a functionless dialog window (the one with the currencies).

That window alone took them 4 months to introduce once discussed and now you want to make changes to some pixels on it?! are you mad? It’ll halt all development on anything else for another year at ArenaNet-pace™.

Besides, I’m sure they will take their own direction regardless of any of your text, then talk about it in some motivating menifesto, and introduce it Soon™ completely different to what you wanted, meanwhile having a CDI show /sorry/ thread on it to keep appearances.

… Even if its mere pixels your talking about.

Brb g2g, I have some ascended rings I need to salvage.

I calculate your odds at 27 years and 10 months. And that’s for Mordermoth alone at this pace.

Stop necroing things!!

Sleepwalker.1398:

Must have been a typo.

Yes it was 3012 originally.

quaniesan.8497:

I could see that. I have been pursuing Sunrise. At this point, what left is to put the final 4 together to pop out that thing. But I choose not to. Got sick at looking at Sunrise while chasing it. Still waiting for these …. new legendaries they spoke of last last year.

Good idea! … You’re smart.

Hey there’s also the possibility Colin woke up one day, saw box-sales not going anywhere and gems are neglectable and decided to close shop. “John / Gaile, you two stall time while we put a few nails in the coffin, tell them we can’t say sh— even though we’d love to, should be enough. Art, you guys put some new minis, hell anything you want, don’t care. Programmers – you’re all fired. Lore, you guys, … lore? oh I forgot. So guys its been a good run but I have a private jet to take me to my yacht, see were sailing to the Bahamas where I’ma swing it again lol, so turn the lights off, and keep some servers up so they wont feel anything ADIOS SUCKERS!!!”

… did I go too far? o_o

ozmaniandevil.6805:

I would recommend to hold onto them, since at some point in the future, they may be usable on other items. Hey, you never know with ANet!!!

Yes! Just like the blade-shards vendor, they may do the same thing and offer you dumb green items for them…

This is fun! And I thought I was the only one sick of bad decisions from this company…

You think we can buy the whole product off from them with gems?

The proper response is that you can indeed salvage them.

You see you take the same salvage-kit you use for your ascended rings and use that.

The connection of the Flying Rug to Elona is like Legendaries to Lore.

If you pay, they will sell it.

Meaning will come Soon™.

Rebound.3409:

@Gaile what u explained only appears/happens when u continue not satisfying the needs of the overall population of the game
…
- No expansion
- 1 small (good) map in 2 years (southsun was such a fail and still is, we won’t take it into consideration)
- no races/classes/weapon types (skills u did add a few and they changed the game quite a bit in a good way i give u that)
- no precursor crafting (am not even going to bother detailing this any more…it’s gotten to the point u are literally trolling us)
- hands down the most unrewarding drops in any mmo i’ve played so far with no one able to give me another example, combined with extreme-grind for nothing really.
- EoTM…good map for farmer PvE players..literally NO USE to WvW players. The queue thing is debatable specially when u need ppl in WvW but they instead go in EoTM
- a LOT of bugged events that have been since the start of the game….but u instead fix anything that can be exploited by players in order to get a few more gold
- housing, guild halls, gvg…things that not only were asked even since beta, but they should have been mandatory.

Did you happen to see the Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics? It tries to sum the progress in GW2 year 2. It was ignored by Gaile/John.

@ Phenn: I love your last post! Couldn’t have said it better. I’d be surprised if you’ll be responded to, since your post is tagged “unfavorable” now.

Devs and players used to be a community at beta and launch times, some practically friends. Too bad its now sank to an oiled PR machine with reviews and considerations on a per-word bases … if any answer is given at all (especially if unfavorable posts like mine sorry to tell ya).

Those days are long gone :-|

Imo you can spare the CDIs altogether.

This is how you make customers happy:

You take something away from them, wait for them to complain and point out its not fair that you took it and not developing anything meaningful to the game, bring it back without developing anything meaningful to the game – and they are happy! Yay! :-D

Zoid.2568:

One rank will summon a cannon that shoots you up in the air and when you land you splatter on the ground.

Brave Mallyki.1563:

I want a nuke

That’s in the collector’s edition.

Brave Mallyki.1563:

a light saber

Dreamthistle sword.

Brave Mallyki.1563:

a phase ray

Guardian staff #1.

Brave Mallyki.1563:

and the noisy cricket

I ……. what?

DarkWasp.7291:

Korossive.7085:

It started good, then they botched it, then they fixed it, recently they botched it, and now were waiting for them to fix it again.

Am I the only one who read: “It started out as a corpse… and now it’s a corpse again.”

?

No no no. You’ll die, and you’ll leave a dumb corpse!
:-D

It started good, then they botched it, then they fixed it, recently they botched it, and now were waiting for them to fix it again.

This issue is still pending as developers are currently busy making more minis and outfits instead.

I have a feeling something in ArenaNet’s development department is fundamentally broken. It’s just a hunch, but I think there is a disconnect between management and the remaining developers (talents who have not left the company already), where management is mistreating them or something, or plain living on another planet.

This product is going nowhere.
Updates, if they come, are superficial and uncaring (not tested or in bad taste). The world is a stone-cold repetitions of recycling events, some on a 3 minute cycle, some on an hour cycle, not changing a single blade of grass anywhere. Armor is released as outfits, items as gem-store only, useless minis, female animations, fractal reset insult, clothing bugs that killed my favorite look (reported time and again yet rest assured no one else had any fix either), story plot still stuck since release (dragons-story where I see dragons like GW2’s logo), loreless legendaries, and many many more aspects I feel like repeating myself in these forums already stuck for 2 years.

On the one hand I really wish I could mentally break into the company and dig in their brains on just what-the-kitten-is in there. Yet on the other hand just be sad about the good intentions on making a good world gone by.

You don’t listen to us. You don’t care. Your manifesto was a joke. I had fun playing the game after release but your company just didn’t give a da— afterwards.

Gaile I don’t expect anything to be changed even if you do forward this inside (you wont, nor will you answer me anything), I just wanted to express my disappointment – now reaffirmed with your “we will tell you nothing haha” post.

Edit; To the guy above me
No one told you when SAB will return. Given the Soon™ mentality and company track-record – SAB is expected to return in Q4 of 2019.

December too.

31st if possible, end of day.

So I wouldn’t be happy about it if I were you.

The reason is bad implementation of colors in rendering engine.

The lighting in the preview panel makes white look white, and color X look like color X.
In-game lighting makes all colors grey bland. I spent hours on hours on all sets with all colors, they all get washed out faded-grey in-game. Only black remains black in-game.

Don’t complain over this – wont be fixed this decade.

Teq: 1

Your guild: 0

LinkR.6190:

Vayne.8563:

We already had an open world dungeon and I loved it. It was called Tower of Nightmares. So yeah.

shutters
I still have the nightmares…. Please, not again.

LOL! did you mean shudders ???

I do hope you’re not installing shutters against said nightmares, they may not help you much :-DD

Management said Living Story is their decision, so it’ll be that way even if all players quit GW2 and the servers catch fire. They are a tunnel-vision train careless of their community (e.g. SAB will return Q4 2019, new weapons will never be introduced, a new profession will be talked about but never done, new weapon skills ditched, Holidays to worsen grinding, new races to play scratched, depth to lore to remain juvenile, “kill grawl” on one side of the hill quests and “help grawl” on other side of the hill quests, dye issues on same armor type, new dungeons never considered, so many etc………).

Why do you think you are gona be heard? Have you any idea how many good threads on burning issues I’ve seen being “sweet-talked” by reps into uselessness now long forgotten? Can you guess how many times I’ve read “amazing idea! – we’ll pass this on to the team” being written on good subjects 0 was done about?

The game is a static as-is. Like it like its now? good. Want anything other than management’s tunnel-vision direction? forget it.

Cherry on top: Representatives will never answer a non-complimentary thread. Goes to show something about hypocrisy.

I see hoards of 4-signet warriors lead by bearbow huntards through a loop in he maze that the bots found, to launch us into a new era of farming.

A winner-idea has you.

Wait – you mean the Ghastly Grinning Witch’s Hat?

You will NEVER see it back, but because were nice, we’d let you buy it on TP for 13,998,437,331,890 gold. Now how does that make you feel?

“We will be compensating players for Fractal Reset”
“SAB is now open permanently”
“Utilities can be switched even if on CD”
“We will introduce 1 new dungeon with 3 paths every 2 months”
“We will provide lore for our legendaries”
“Holidays will stop being grindfests, previous items for that holiday will be attainable”
“Mesmers can dual wield guns, Rangers can dismiss pets forever”

lol! – ya right – oh please give us more LS instead of these!

10 Enter office at morning
20 Go take coffee
30 Think about trait A
40 Open SAB for yourself locally, play a session, close it
50 Return empty cup of coffee to kitchen
60 Submit a fix to trait A’s tooltip, claim credit for development
70 Pick random trait B != A, call it A, goto 30 unless its 4:59pm
80 If asked for status, reply Soon™
90 End.

WAIT

WAAIIIITT

~ ding ~

pheee – ok – popcorn’s ready – ROLL AAAND ACTION!

Gaile Gray.6029:

According to Colin Johanson, Guild Wars 2 Game Director, Super Adventure Box will be back in the future. We don’t have a timeframe for the return of the SAB, but we will be bringing back this popular content.

I know you would like more details, more info, a date, etc., but that’s not available right now. I hope the above comment reassures you, though, because at the core, the important answer is that yes, SAB will be back in the future.

Please inform Colin that all gem purchases are delayed until Soon™, which will be in “the future” and “we don’t have a timeframe”.

In my specific case: Soon™ will also include Fractal Reset compensation.
(no, I have not forgotten)

Gaile, I seriously don’t understand the management in your company.

Standard 800 gems is my guess; which I wont spend my gold—>gems on (I don’t spend real money on Anet since fractal-reset hit me).