Guild Wars 2

Dante.1763:

JSemar.5821:

I beg to differ. Skills were all different bud I was an avid pvper and had many builds all different. That is why I never got bored.

I beg to differ with you, i played for 7 years and alot of the skills were extremely similar to other skills. Its why i only had 2-4 builds per class, i didnt need to swap out that much for pvp

I have to say you have no clue.

The good thing at GW1 was that PvE and PvP skills were seperated.
So using the same skill on PvE and PvP was simply and plain impossible.

And this is what people loved…. when having PvE skills it doesn’t matter it is balanced or not. You can balance it later or maybe never. It doesn’t metter.
people just had fun with playing around with skills and builds.
Not like this zombie #1 hammering these days in GW2

10531 Ap …. 2619 hours

All precursors inclusive 3x Dawn. All of them from the fountain.
I am the proud owner of every Legendary weapon
If someone is not believing i can send screenshot proof.

I plan to get another dawn next week to figure out what happens when throwing 4 Dawns into the Mystic Toilet.

I guess this is real evidence there is a luck factor.
I didn’t play more or harder than anyone else.
My wife and me are more casual players and she didn’t get any precursor from fountain
despite having roughly same tries.
Actually we don’t even play more than 1 hour per day.
It’s the usual routine…. comein at 5h mountain time, defeat Tequatl….
use the Karma to buy beads… farm the Falls for platinum… sell beaded weapons for 20 golds overall …. this routine is enough to buy everything you need for the fountain.

Dear OP,

The Maguuma Jungle will get the regular Zaithan treatment.

Every variety will be replaced by 2 different plant hounds, 2 different plants and 1 kind of plant.

That’s it.

You are welcome

Kings.7491:

I watched the PAX announcement on twitch about HoT and I actually have to say that I’m a bit disappointed (btw the host… it felt like i was watching a kids show).

And here you answer your own questions.
GW1 and everything you mentioned was targeted to the responsible gamer.
GW2 is for low end teens and the “not so gifted” people.

From day 1 on everything was dumbed down in steps.
The days of building a character with combos and skills are over.
These are the days of button #1 hammering.

If you expect an awesome game with a deep story and incredible fantasy elements
GW2 is the wrong game for you.
Grab any class with a random race and get ready for hammering #1.
It really doesn’t matter what class or race, for any reason A-Net decided having variety
is confusing and all classes should be the same.

Actually i was expecting from the expansion to reduce everything to a single class.
Since heavy armor guys run around with staffs and scepters and light armor classes with great swords we don’t need any new or any classes anyways.

Welcome to these days gaming

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

I have much faith in the dev team and the upcoming expansion… really! And I’m, looking forward to another 2-3 years of amazement and entertainment. I know we will be happy once we’re at the end-station of this Hype Trains Travel,.

See that’s the problem.

The first hours of hype train were created by the people, the presentation was targeting.
People who never question anything and are happy with whatever is thrown at them doesn’t matter how bad.
Usually the guys who run in circles at EOTM 24/7.

But after some time the reasonable people pop up and start asking questions.
Something like: Wait a moment… Guild Halls, Maguuma Jungle and all that Jazz should have been there from the beginning. Also we don’t get new weapons, we just get luke warm already existing weapons and skills.
A-Net is asking for money for stuff that should have been there from beginning.

It’s like a car dealer did sell you the GW1 car and you are absolutely happy.
Now you learn that there is the GW2 car and you are totally hyped.
When coming home from the dealer you figure out that this car has no tires or doors and no windshield.
Sure you can drive on the rims and freeze while driving but you can drive.
And this is the fanboy argument.“i don’t know why you are complaining, you can drive”

After 2 years the Car Dealer makes an announcement.
We are proud to announce that we are putting a package together that includes rubber tires, a windshield and doors.
Fanboys: yeahhhh………. finally, take my money

But the regular guys will ask them self …. wait a minute, the GW1 car was incredible.
Why the heck do i get a product like the GW2 now ???? I am totally disappointed with the Car dealer.
Asking now for money for features my GW1 had anyways is kinda insulting.
Not to mention they removed everything that was really cool at the GW1 model.
And even then… the GW2 car still isn’t even close to complete.
I was expecting the Cantha rally stripes and the Elona custom colors……
But they just announced the doors and tires……. this stinks.

This is why more and more negative threads popping up.
People are just angry since 2 years. And they are confronted now with paying money
for something that should have been there from beginning.
I am one of these persons, i stopped enjoying after the personal story when i learned that they canceled all the cool monster variety and replaced it with clone zombie crap.
Also leaving the best parts of the map empty wasn’t helping to connect with the game.

This is why A-Net’s target group is always new and very young gamers.
These guys n gals don’t ask akward questions.

Iretha.7625:

slow clap Yes, let’s just jump to ridiculous extremes, that gives credence to your complaints, for sure! And of course! Anyone who enjoys playing the game and as such would be happy with the announcement of an expansion must be weak minded! No, it’s certainly not possible for other people to merely have a different opinion than you do! They must be “weak minded” to like something that you illogically hate!

I’m so done with spoiled people.

These words “weak minded” are not my idea or my invention.
You clearly never attended any promotion or advertisement classes in a ecconomy course. You learn even other words which would give me a perma ban here for sure.

Fact is that Video gaming is exactly like any other industry.
And of course it is handled like every other industry where 97% of the product is useless or pure garbage.

Everything starts with a target group. So people who will most likely buy your products.
In the case of video gaming “and this is not made by me or supported” the target group are under 20 who are not contributing to the society, not fullfilling the standards of the society or being pushed to the edge of the society for several reasons.
!!!Again, this is not made by me, this is what they teach you when it comes to target groups!!!!
This is why Video games always follow the same plot. You are the Hero and the absolute center point of everything.
Absolutely nobody would advertise Video games with having Dentists or Lawers in mind. Like it or not, our society has classes.

This why i loved Colins presentation from the point of view of ecconomics.
he appealed to lowest desires of the crowd, with saying stuff like: “We could have done the new maps and gameplay totally boring, but would you guys like that ?”
Of course the masses yelled back “NOOOOOOO”
And this is exactly appealing to the weak minded.
The reaction of the crowd was planned and he did it a couple of times.

But if you watch his body language he didn’t like it at all.
So you can be sure that this presentation was planned by professionals and of course these guys went by the textbooks.

This is all i am saying. It has nothing to do with insulting someone.
It is just reality. Just keep in mind that i am playing this game too.
I am just not as easy to please as the regular gamer.

These guys just nailed it.

All that stuff had to be there since release.
Like Guild Halls or the maps of the Maguuma Jungle.

Everything else is just illusion of new stuff. It’s not really something creative and new.
You don’t get new weapons like promised they just give you access to already existing weapons you never asked for…. Necro and Great Sword ??? really ????

The regular A-Net way…. lowest amount of creativity and effort but asking for the highest possible return.
And they needed 3 years for that ?? Wowwwww….

Every GW1 Vet is insulted by this.

What’s next 3 maps of Crystal Desert and Scepter and Focus for Norn Warriors ???
Of course with Sand Wulfs and Sand Plants corrupted by some Sand Dragon…….

This is a total let down.

The only highlight was the stellar presentation from the “How to present your product successfully” guide to the weak minded masses who clapped their Thunder Stick to most meaningless phrases thrown to the crowd.

From my view as an educated economist this was brilliant.
My favorite part were the influencing questions like…“We could have made the maps boring and uninteresting to play but do you guys want that” ??
And the masses erupts with a big “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO” followed by clapping Thunder Sticks………………….
An absolutely foreseeable reaction by weak minded.
You could clearly see that Colin didn’t feel good doing it but hey…. it’s marketing.

So yeah…. all in all what i expected. Pointless random stuff not worth of an expansion.

Balsa.3951:

uuu didnt think we ever really die i was more like we get knocked out?

in fairy tales its quite common kids go on adventure

or do we get legal cases against Hensel and Gretel?

Actually yes….. against the parents.
The parents take the siblings out into the Forrest and hope they die there.

But serious…. if i wanna play Sims 3 i would play Sims 3.
All these let’s be childs or let’s get married is getting on my nerves.

If that is going through i demand modern Airplane combat simulations over Lions Arch
or World of Tanks battlefields on every open map

lol you guys…………..

The Op asked for january 13th.
This is when the LS continues not Pax. This would be 23-25th.
This is not a feature patch or something.

My prediction:
New LS chapter… we run around clicking through textboxes for 3 magic stones to open the door.
Door opens…… cliffhanger.

Some people will really be disappointed next Tuesday

LS takes a short break and continues in summer.

kudos to you….
it’s a long time since i have seen someone being honest like you.

I guess the whole thing is going under the skin of all of us.
Being a customer and being completely excluded from anything important makes
people going at each others throats.

Since i dropped GW2 around 1 month ago life is getting better.
A little distance works wonders. There is nothing we can do anyways.
The community is getting extremely toxic and i simply and plain doesn’t need that in my real life

Sure, mock him because he went through the American education system.

But how is that changing the fact that the story is somewhere between boring and completely irrelevant ?
Not everyone finds textbox clicking until endboss appealing as well

GuzziHero.2467:

There is an almost 0% chance of a new playable race coming to GW2 in the forseeable future. This is not negativity, but is almost certainly the truth.

A new race would require a completely new personal story, from start to finish. If a new race were to be introduced, it isn’t just a matter of making a new version of the Race Arc.

lol……….. this screams ingorance.

Have you ever had the idea that people ask for new races because they want a new story ???

No new race because a new story is required…… this is hilarious.

The best thing is to stop to ask for new weapons as well because new animations would be required…. not to mention skills…. this would require a new traid tree…. horrible

I like thew idea……….

GW2 has a nice Logo… and yeah that’s it
Merge the Logo with GW1 and we have the perfect game

Absolutely nothing makes me playing this game anymore.
I tried talking in forums i tired talking to A-Net communications….
but it only made it worse.

I am one of these hard core 10 years GW1 vets.
When i figured out how they pulled us over the table i got really disappointed.
it’s like they took everything out what made GW1 so great.
Basically they made a new game and put a GW label on to trick us in.

I also am one of the persons who is attached to GW and i don’t wanna play something else.
So in the end i made a happy cut and focused more on real live hobbys.

If someone asks me the A-Net head should be ashamed for everything they have done to us.
I hope you are happy with your by magic appearing “New Players”

Vayne.8563:

If anything, the announcement the way it’s phrased, is specifically telling us there will be no expansion. Anyone who expects one with that wording is just living in hope.

The wording talks about new ways to expand the Guild Wars 2 universe. Expansions aren’t new ways to expand it. That’s old school. To me this implies new things that aren’t being done in the industry at least commonly. Ergo, it won’t be an expansion announcement.

This !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I normally don’t agree with Vayne. But in this case it’s pretty clear.
Before this Pax thing was another announcement from the A-Net head.

They simply and plain stated that the rumors of an expansion going on since 3 years and that they will clarify this issue very soon.

Doesn’t sound like “we are working on an expansion” to me.
Now the new announcement is, that they present a complete new way
MMO’s or at least GW2 will opperate in the near future and Living Story was just the beginning.

If someone asks me i think it will be more simple than everyone else is expecting.
They will stick with LS but will have kinda polls like we did with the “Bazaar of the four Winds” and who do we want to support.
This will create a changing future despite having the same story coming after with changing characters. A very simple illusion of game depth.

Man… people will be so disappointed at PAX

zombyturtle.5980:

Good points didnt think about the possibility for a JP kaineng. The jade sea though has suppost to have melted and be water again and the stone forest has return to normal so from a lore perspective they couldnt bring those back.

Jade melting to Water ????

First of all, Jade has a melting point of 1200 degrees while the boiling point is 1975 degrees at 1 atmospheric pressure. Let’s assume Thyria has the same mass and roughly the same atmosphere you need an insane high temp to do that.
And even then it would be fluid Jade no water.

Since Jade is a carbon you would need super high pressure and heat to fuse it to Nitrogen which would have to be fused again into Oxygen.
At the same time you would have to release the pressure and break Carbon down 6 times to reach Hydrogen.

That leaves us with magic only.
Since there isn’t a second Jade Wind who turned everything into Jade when
Shiro Tagachi was slain everything stays like it is.

If someone announces now it still happened i demand the magic Dwarf ritual reversed and the Dwarfs coming back

Vayne.8563:

So what is the supposed difference, since you’ve suddenly graduated to a professor of linguistics to defend your moot point?

Actually is an adverb, modifying in this case, the verb want. He’s not asking if anyone wants a Season Three. he’s asking if they “actually” want it.[/quote]

lol… Vayne
being in top form after holidays ????

This is exactly why people think you are someone from A-Net.
Someone comes with a legit request or opinion and it will be drowned in semantics.

Despite speaking 5 languages i have to admit that english isn’t my native tongue.
But i still catch the OP’s message that he is not happy with LS 1 and 2 and asks that if someone else is interested in a 3rd part if it includes the same dull and weak stuff.

How difficult can it be ?

Actually this topic can be closed right now because all of us know where this will lead.
The future discussions will be like………

What do you actually mean by LS2…… do you mean the actual LS2 or the 2nd chapter of LS2. Or even the 2nd LS after LS1 or after LS2 what would be LS4….. all this has to be cleared out before we even continue talking about game content.

After 83 pages the “A-Net Tag” comes in:

Dear Op we totally understand your desire of new and fresh content.
I just came out of a meeting and and got a hint that we add 3 trees to the swamp in Queensdale and removed 5 ambients.
Our graphics team also replaced the dye “Teal” with “Apple Green”.
We are totally excited about these ground breaking news and also want to point out
that it wouldn’t be possible without all your players input….

OP: ………. wait what ?? I was asking for content………..

White Knights: We totally told you… all this waiting was worth it. We always told you something big is brewing.

Trolls: LOL…….. this is insulting.

OP: but.. but … but…… all this was not my issue i just wanted to play more GW2

White Knights: This is exactly what you have been asking for

Forum: 273 bans …. topic moved to page 426

A-Net is amazing…………. they always find something to downgrade.

The whole game play reminds me of everyone’s most hated co worker.
Doing barely enough not to be beaten up by the co workers but always fist in line when pay checks are handed and lot’s of sick days

I loved everything in GW1……….

- Billions of skills to choose from and combine 2 classes.
- The whole game play is made to impress the player and for long term fun.
- The Stories are enjoyable with some nice cinematics
- Likeable characters…. Vekk is awesome :-)
- All the different environments from Cantha to Elona
- The music always moody and fitting
- The Dwarfs have some cool stuff like Halls in the mountains and knuckle brace fights.
- Title skills
- Heroes to chose from
- The game has so much soul. The Devs did really good to make it living
- You actually need effort and cleverness to get something going.
- It is not user friendly… I love it. No 5 year old around.
- No Zerker fests… Enemy Necros and AOE guys makes it impossible

I love about GW2……

- uhmmm……
- i can log in for free ????….. maybe. Well.. this is more a punishment
- I absolutely hate that this game isn’t made for players fun. it’s made for making money. They don’t give a dang you like it or not.
Thank goodness i didn’t pay for a single gem yet.

I will chip in some stuff i already mentioned before.

A-Net is following it’s own plan.
They are well aware that whatever their plan is would chase away the last chunk of people immediately.

So the we reached a peak of anger and frustration here at the forum.
So suddenly a “mysterious” blogger wakes up and decides… “oh yes, a good day to show up at A-Net”.
Of course he gets invited to a studio tour and sees all these “magical” things going on and all the Jazz.
We don’t have to mention that he can’t tell what he saw or what is important.
But he is allowed to tell that everyone is incredible busy and super stuff is going on…………….

Is someone actually remembering what happened the last time we hit a peak of anger and frustration ??

Right a “mysterious” interview popped up out of absolutely nowhere
stating that we get all the cool stuff…. new skills, new classes, new armor, precursor crafting.. and even more cool stuff they can’t talk about yet.

It’s the regular pattern A-Net follows.
I guess since we had a journalist and and employee interview, at the next peak
one of the gamer will win kind of a lottery and is allowed to come to the studios.
And he/she will see so much stuff going on but can’t tell because the stuff is soo awesome.

Well…. plus the reality facts… A-Net announced GW2 years before it came out.
They also hyped the living story and the world changes for a long time.

If they would have something to announce they just would do.

Yes they are working on stuff but their history indicates that it will most likely be
a new map with size of Claypool, a Squirrel pet, a purple kite backpack and 15 new cooking ingedients but also 256 new gem store items.
Like the last feature patch they will announce it as ground shaking and breath taking.

And then the cycle starts again……..

You guys can make you live much more easy.
Don’t expect the next huge thing. The people who made the awesome expansions in GW1 left the team long time ago. These days everything is given out to the cheapest contractors who never heard the word Thyria their whole life.

lol what ??

I never heard of this site.
The leading game has 9500 votes.
WOW with over 10 million accounts has just 7900 votes.
I’m not sure this is even representing something when 0.07 % of the people vote.
I guess everyone is busy having fun with expansions while our guys have the time to vote on unknown sites.
Voting every 8 hours ?? Sounds like North Korean to me anyways.

Dear OP i have never encountered what you say.

Would you mind telling us what kind of insults do you encounter ?
Are you talking about Kasmeer ?

But i would love to hear heterosexual insults though

Isn’t it strange that when the rage and the anger of the gamers is on its peak
“someone” just goes to A-Net and gets invited to a studio tour where he
“witnesses” all of the cool “stuff” but can’t tell anyone what it is.

Can someone remember what happened last time when anger and rage were
on a peak ???
Right an interview popped out of nowhere talking about Legendary Crafting,
new skills, new classes and new weapons.

I know GW2 is catering to people who complain about feeding cows
but at least try to handle the people in the forum like regular people

Kitsunami.6241:

Says it in the title.

As to the people complaining about ‘lack of content’

I remind you that you have been playing for nearly two years, and that the ‘lack of content’ is not a lack of content, its that you have finished the content.

lol this is awesome.

I am not speechless to often but this is great.
You can’t slap people more in the face than that.

It’s like the government starts a research why so many people are unemployed

The research company found the solution.
The reason why so many people are unemployed is because just very few have a job.

This exactly what you say.
There is not too less content, it’s just that you already know all content.

I just have one question….. how is that helping us ????

Yoroiookami.3485:

Kurrilino.2706:

I am not sure you are here by mistake.

This is the forum from Guild Wars 2.

You may be looking for The Sims 4
I provide you with the right link

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US

You are welcome

You mean Guild Wars 2 forums? The game that is supposed to be all about community, guilds and teamplay? And you find “marriage” or any sort of brotherhood/partnership to be out of place? Perhaps you’re the one in the wrong place. =)

Ahhhh ok it’s me who is wrong.

Well in that case i miss a modern planes combat simulator in here.
We could have an Aircraft Carrier south of Lions Arch.
That would even breath new life into the PvP world.
And actually people even getting married on Aircraft carriers.

For the people who don’t like plane combat we could introduce some maps from Call of Duty. And we could open Restaurants for the people who like to run economy simulations. Car racing is missing as well.

Vayne.8563:

szygum.2607:

The simpliest answer is always the best answer.
They aren’t annoucing anything because there is nothing to announce. Simple.

The simplest answer is that business announce things like expansions when it’s profitable to do so. When SWToR came out, Trion went completely silent about Rift and stayed silent for three months. It wasn’t that they had nothing in the works. It was that they didn’t want to waste advertising dollars, because they knew they couldn’t compete with SWToR.

The WoW expansion has been hyped for months and it’s just come out. Which means that spending time hyping or even mentioning something that would get lost would be a waste of opportunity.

Watching the industry is how you find out what’s going on. Not by guessing.

If for 2 years always better games come out you can’t compete with something
is really wrong don’t you think ??
I know you are always defending, but telling people for 2 years they didn’t come out with an announcement of an expansion because it would always be overshadowed
is a little bit riudiculous.

Mo Mo.1947:

Oh I’m sorry was the creation of entirely new game maps, tons of new weapon skins and new armor, and a lore progression not enough for you?

All you with your excessive complaints need to stop trying to milk that $60 you spent on the game 2 years ago. How many of you are buying gems more than once a year to support new content? The gem store is what funds new content. The up-front cost of the game just covered the cost of making the game we had on release.

If you can, please spend some gems every once in a while. You get a nice treat and you can be happy knowing you’re contributing to new content.

Ok sir…………… now to you

This is the icing on the cake.

When i bought the game for 60$ i was told something like that……..
An always evolving living world always changing where no day is like the day before.
They also had advert. videos on with a chick in a Taxi bragging how the world is changing on a daily base. Where no day is like the day before !!!!!!!!!!!!

This is what i bought with my 60$ period.
They didn’t say it is changing and evolving when i spend money on the gem store.

The next thing is that absolutely everything in this game is timer based…. world bosses,
bosses or whatever you want… it’s always happening at the same time or i a fixed cycle.
Dungeons are always the same… Fractals are always the same ……..

Does this sound like every day is new and not like the day before ??

And you come in here demanding people should spend money on the Gem Store
to support this borderline lie ??

And last but most important …………………….

People don’t want more content they want quality content.
All your new maps and weapons new skills have one thing in common.
They are utterly useless from a player point of view !!!!!!!!!
What is it 2 new maps ? What are you doing there ???? Right…. farmind grind.
The maps make absolutely no sense from player point of view who is not into farming.

These maps are an excuse to tell the people ….. we did new maps.

And i better stop here before i say something and get my account suspended for 3 days

Most guy here get it right.

With the history of A-Net hyping their future contend there is just one explanation.

They don’t announce something because there is nothing to announce.

And what do you expect the poor Gaile to say ????
The Questions are always the same and always get the same cookie cutter answers
without any information content.

If she comes back it will be like “yes we understand you are concerned,
Love you all”

lordkrall.7241:

Kurrilino.2706:

This is not the point.
I am a grown and educated person. Why am i getting punished for what other people did ?

And yet based on your posting history you seem to be one of those raging about every little change that does not follow the exact original plan.

lol that’s a incredible lie.

But what do i expect from you, actually Vayne is missing here to make it complete.

What i am raging about is the way A-net is doing it.
- People ask for more skills… they deliver 1 skill they know nobody can’t use.
- People ask for contend. A-Net delivers a feature patch with a wardrobe.
-People ask for more maps and they deliver maps without conetnt

Everything is not even close to quality.
And everything is made without effort.
It’s just made to have an excuse to shut up people.
Then they have you and Vayne trolling around justifying everything A-Net says
to annoy people so much that they give up posting their opinions

This is what i am raging about. I can absolutely live without any changes for a year or so.
But don’t offer people shiny toys to get off the hook to create some quality.

Well all that is off topic anyways…………

It must be possible to have any communication between player base and corporation
about the future of the game without any bad feelings or harm intended

lordkrall.7241:

Shen Slayer.3058:

I agree with OP, we are just too in the dark here. They tell us nothing, other developers would provide the gamers with a vision and direction they want to take, not here. It’s so kitten frustrating.

They did that before and a while after release.
Guess what happened every single time something was slightly changed or dropped?

This is not the point.
I am a grown and educated person. Why am i getting punished for what other people did ?

This is a concern not only applying to me.
I want to share this with other people since they have the exact same question.
Isn’t this what a forum is for ????

but my question directly towards Gaile ???

Zypher.7609:

Kurrilino.2706:

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Name one MMO that has followed the leader in the market and done just as well as the leader? It takes companies to branch off in their own direction so we do not just get a reskinned MMO.

You missed the point.
The point is you don’t have to actively try to ignore what makes a MMO successful
just to force to be different.

GW2 is catering to 7 year olds.
Yes this is unique in the MMo world but this is not going to work despite being different.
Having a skill system suiting to people who have problems to tie their shoes is unique
but most likely not successful.
Repeating the same story over and over again since Zaithan is unique but not very creative.

I say that in a very polite way and don’t want to offend someone.

Dear Gaile,

first of all i want to let you know how much we appreciate that someone like you
finally starts talking to us.
Communication in GW2 forum is one of the worst jobs on this planet and you are still polite and very dedicated. Thumbs up

But i noticed something and was wondering how and why you give your answers.
They usually remind me always of my customer relations classes in economy at University.
It always starts with assuring the talk partner you acknowledged his opinion or complaint. But then you make sure the topic is moving somewhere else.
That remind me of my political classes….

So i would like to know why we don’t get any answers relating to a topic.
You know what i mean and i say this with the most respect.

A typical conversation example would be….. (just made up)

“Players:
Dear A-Net i am unhappy with recent content and would like to know,
do you plan new Dungeons or Expansions

Gaile:
Dear player thank you for your most important question.
We here at A-Net are absolutely aware of your thoughts and i can assure you
that we talk about these topics.
In fact we had a meeting yesterday talking about it.

The meeting went well and we had some catering with amazing cookies.
They had some powder sugar on top and had kind of a vanilla flavor.
My husband used to bake them like that. If someone is interested i can send out the recipes…………………….
Someone else has a question ?? "

I know you people have a tough time to deal with some strange people in here.
But i am absolutely sure that a majority of people looking for answers
can handle any answers coming back.

When people ask for weapons or what ever….. why can’t you answer
“No, we don’t plan new weapons or Yes, we are already working on it”

I know you since the GW1 days and you are actually known for going AFK to get some answers from higher authorities before coming back.

What happened………… why is even the the most plain and simple stuff turning into excuses ???
When people asked for communications, they actually asked for answers not
for random communications.

I say all that in a most polite way and want to make sure you are not offended by any meanings because this was not my intention.
I just want to point out that the community is able to handle direct answers
and that a healthy relationship must be strong enough to handle answers we or A-Net
don’t like.

I/we would appreciate it when more direct answers are coming our way.

Thank you for your time

A big fan since GW1

Countess Aire.9410:

It doesn’t need an expansion. The content and achievements keep the game fresh and moving forward. Why is expansion the battle cry? This game has changed and evolved since its pre-release beta days. The game is evolving and changing. I am still logging in to run around and work towards gaining achievements. Doesn’t need expansion yet. Still more area to explore.

lol not sure if serious.

So the rolplaying people who don’t give a dang about archievement get exactly what from the game ?

I am not at work.. i don’t have to archive something. I want entertainment and
not working toward a target.

people like you are A-Nets wet dream.
No expectations and low maintenance

agree here.
How do they need 2 weeks to make something like that is far beyond me.

Identical story to last episode, recycled graphics from the Nightmare tower,
zero creativity.

Well i guess not every episode can be a highlight

Morsus.5106:

At first I was really upset at the length and quality of this episode. Then I realized the only person to blame here is me; I expected quality content.

Lol………………….

did we reach the point to feel guilty when expecting quality ????
Actually i felt the same and had to think hard about even posting it

After the great and creative last episode we get presented this ????

A complete identical episode without the eye candy ????

Following a group which left the camp
Group gets attacked
we take over their task
run into a mace and get scattered
unite group
fight end boss……………………. really ?

This exactly what people complain about in general.
Always presenting luke warm repeats.

Well the overall story is luke warm as well and not helping
Dragon comes
Dragon turns stuff into minions
Leader don’t care
We make them care
Defeat Dragon
This is Zaithan 2.0 and Zaithan is a luke warm repeat of Eye of the North without reaching half of the quality

Big Textbox……..

You see heavily injured Mordremorth

A) Kill Dragon
B) Maybe not right now
C) i have to talk to the group first

I don’t get you guys………….

it’s like screaming for disappointment and put it on A-Net.
Just because someone is blind ans someone in GW2 Elona was blinded is a bridge to an expansion ???
Holy crap you guys are desperate.

Also the interview they gave didn’t say they will announce an expansion.
They simply said it’s now 2 years and they have to talk about expansion plans.

This means they could also announce that an expansion is just rumor and there is none coming just to put it to rest.
And this is exactly what i expect. They said it pretty clear.
No expansion will come for GW2. Even less Cantha because they will run into trouble with China. And of course they don’t want 2 versions of the game.

Where do you guys get your strength of believe from is far beyond me

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Which became approximately 20 members total. I’m sure the other Devs are working on something else. Whatever those big projects in the background are.

What do you mean ????
This is like a conspiracy since around 1 year.

There is no hidden super secret project running and A-Net isn’t announcing
anything because there isn’t something to announce.

GW2 was announced 5 years before to hype the crap out of it.

Even the argument it’s just 20 people working on living story isn’t holding anything.
Sure A-Net has 300+ employees but lets break this down.
- 20 guys living story
- 20 people for forum and PR
- CEO and department heads maybe 30
- 2 ground keeper
- 10 server maintenance
- 3 cleaning ladys
- 2 front desk ladys
- 12 dolyak sheppards
- 199 programmer for the gem store

Where do you get the idea someone is working on an expansion?

It looks like the regular outcome……….

people are excited and few complaining.

Patch comes in

Nobody is happy and the map a ghost town.

Bravo………….

I still believe there is no fix anyways.
The way how they run this game demands the majority of player to live in poverty.

And this is where the game is broken.
GW2 offers absolutely zero playable value.
So the player looking for something else…. shiny armor or new weapon or other toys.
This of course works totally against the idea to keep the people poor.
And we all know what is sacrificed between these ways to play.
Players happiness……

I guess i propose something that never er have been discussed at A-Net
but i guess it’s time.

!!!! What about making the game so interesting that players are so tied to storys or exploring that they don’t find time to farm something and actually demand to spend money on the Gem Store to get something they desperately want !!!!!

And it would be so easy….
- Open the whole map, have dwarfen tombs and ruins let us explore Lara Croft style…

-Give legendary weapons an actual meaning.. why are they legendary.. who crafted them.. what race have they been …. what is the story behind them……..

-Give players freedom to form their toon like they want. Give them tonns of skills to chose from… give them storys give them something to make the owner fall in love with them.

-Give us adventures instead of swarm stomping
Just cut that stupid zerk fighting and give players an alternative way to play.
Give us houses to live in… property to care about

-And of course get rid of that Dragon clone crap.
The story gets old after the 1st "Dragon comes, turns stuff into minions, Leaders don’t wanna fight, you make them want to, defeat dragon…. this is so plain and simple it hurts . Zaithan was already a luke warm wash up from Eye of the North but these new Elder Dragons are even worse.

But i guess all that would be way too cool.
Who needs the best MMO ever made when borderline mediocrity
keeps stuff barely running

Fernling.1729:

Kurrilino.2706:

really this again…………………………………….

What part of : “A-Net announces no expansion coming”
is so difficult to underdstand ??

There is no hidden super secret brewing.
They don’t announce something because there is nothing to announce.

It’s going on and on and on and people keep on being disappointed.
It’s getting old

They have a team of 20 people working on the living story. What do you suspect the other 300+ employees are working on?

I was asking that myself for almost 2 years.
I guess they have 12 reception desk ladies. An army of 75 food caterer
and what not.

I also had no idea why nothing moved forward or was at least descent.
Then i learned something that calmed me down.

GW2 is not made by the same group of people from GW1
They don’t care about quality or gaming experience. They deliver to the
“usual” youth without any expectations or the will to invest some efforts.

Since i learned that it is way easier to understand why everything is like it is.
All that has nothing to do with the sequel of GW1.

Just take zerking, It is a huge problem for any half brained person.
But it keeps the developing costs low and spares them from being creative
and it works very well. Or at least well for “these” types of players.

if you like roleplaying or quality exploring, GW2 is not for you.
I learned it and you can do it to for your own peace

really this again…………………………………….

What part of : “A-Net announces no expansion coming”
is so difficult to underdstand ??

There is no hidden super secret brewing.
They don’t announce something because there is nothing to announce.

It’s going on and on and on and people keep on being disappointed.
It’s getting old

Ok so what to do now.
All of us know that chestfarm was totally abused. No discussion about that.
But is the nerf really the solution ?

I have the same thought on that like the devs.
People came here to get chests and ignored the map and the game play.
“The purpose of the map is to defeat the 5 underground and not chestfarm”

And as soon as i was thinking that it hit me.
If you take this away the place turns into a Ghost Town and the 5 underground bosses will never ever defeated again anyways.
Mindless slaughtering of stuff without any reward is not cutting it,
so the problem must be somewhere else.

And it is obvious.
The game itself is not rewarding regarding to loot.
As soon as a slight chance of loot is popping up people will crazy farm it.
GW2 is just to repeating and numbing that people switch to looting instead of
really playing the game.

Problem is….. there is no solution because low loot is part of A-Nets plan to keep the game running through the Gem Store.
Somehow we are in a downward spiral.

Any thoughts ?

It’s always same story……..

so much potential nothing of it used.
All the same since 2 years.

Instead having an entertaining mini story around the Blood Prince
it is 2 instances and rest is mindless zerking.
Why not do more story after the chest is sealed ??
Why not follow him into the Mad Kings realm and be part of the dispute ??

I got my archivement after 2 hours and there is no reason for me to replay any of it.

lordkrall.7241:

Crovax.7854:

Source?

I would assume it is from Glassdoor Reviews, which is isn’t really that reliable as a source, seeing as it is fully possible for anyone (employee or not) to actually add reviews.

lol.. yeah sure…………….
now it’s the source that unreliable.

I dare you…….. bring me a reliable source that proves me wrong and i shut up.
Oh and i guess Vayne jumps in sooner or later, i dare you too

Crovax.7854:

Kurrilino.2706:

Let me quote from employees NOT MADE UP BY ME
QUOTE:

• Severe reliance on contract/outsourced positions completely tanks morale across virtually every department.
• Resources are spread too thin. Nothing seems like a real priority
• Most of the upper management seems disconnected from their employees and the customers
• Compensation: ArenaNet has always paid below the industry standard for most, if not all, of its positions.
• Salaries have not only lagged behind, but opportunities to advance have also been greatly reduced.
  END QUOTE

Source?

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/ArenaNet-Reviews-E255820.htm

Employee entry from Jul 23 2014

There are many more posts but all of them say the same basically

yeah right guys…………….

if we need 1 more thing it’s farming maps.