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Will you pre-order the next expansion? [Poll]

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My response is the same as the last time this topic came up.

No.

Anet has cured me of any inclination to prepurchase or preorder a game ever again. I learned my lesson.

That does not mean that I will not purchase future expansions however. I chose to skip HoT because it did not include anything of interest to me. If it had, and if future expansions do, I would have, and will, open my wallet.

In my opinion the days of being a fan who supports a company based on fandom are long past. Game companies, at least AAA ones, are big business now. We are numbers to them to a degree that was perhaps not the case before. If its just a business to them, and we just numbers, then we should be every bit as discrimiating as we are in other purchase decisions. I will not prepurchase an automobile just because I had good luck with the manufacturer in the past either.

I don’t pre-purchase games period. But, certainly never again from ANet. I’ll wait 3-6 months and see how it pans out then decide.

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It won’t be changed,

I find that comment funny – the game has done nothing but flip-flop all over the place. It’s because they can’t stick to their decisions that we are in this position.

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IMHO, I think one of the worst decisions ANet made was moving from a Living Story development cycle to a Living Story/Expansion development cycle. Ever since ANet made the move to move away from a development cycle that was working (regular Living Story updates) and moved their resources into developing expansions, we’ve had massive content droughts and less developer communication (it’s only been fairly recently that we’ve had more dev communication and transparency). HoT underwhelmed with a short storyline and underdelivered the features that were promised.

It is poor form that nearly a half-year later, there are expansion features that were promised in pre-launch advertising that we are STILL waiting on. And it is unacceptable that one of heavily advertised features that players were incredibly excited about (and PAID for) is now being put on the backburner indefinitely. This does not make me particularly confident about the other features that were promised, but have not yet been delivered.

It’s pretty obvious that ANet bit off more than it could chew by taking on expansions and their dev resources are spread WAY too thin. At this point, I wish they’d scrap the idea of a second expansion, allocate those resources to finishing what people paid for, then return to a development cycle that worked (regular Living Story updates and no expansions).

The problem is, the 2 week cycle wasn’t that great either. The story basically got done in a day (if it wasn’t bugged), and any other activities around it were done in maybe a second day (unless it needed repeating, due to time gates or farming).

Either way, in the end, it didn’t last the whole two weeks for anyone (unless they were on vacation for two whole weeks and could never just log in to get the free week. There was that incident I think with some weather problems and people were trying to help in some way).

People got bored of the two week schedule fast. And even then there were lulls in between chapters where…welp, really nothing much to do since you probably did all you could during the two weeks you had. Remember, not all of dry top and silverwastes was available right off the bat, but released over time as well.

Two weeks was too ambitious. From what I’m use to, it was at first new content every 3 months. If Anet wanted to show themselves as being more bold, a month would’ve been a better idea, maybe two, then see if you can work your way to even shorter times.

Two weeks was just waaay too big of a leap

Totally agreed that 2 weeks was too short/ambitious. I much more preferred the release pace (+/- one release per month) that they had right after the vanilla game was launched. Heck, the current quarterly pace would feel fine too if they actually incorporated some story into the releases. But the current story pace is way too glacial.

I’ll be able to retire by the time the dragon story finishes. Heck, I might be dead.

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I have made all the mats pre made and ready too and it saddens me that I wasted all my time and energy and some gold. Is there going to be a way to break down the items to get back the mats since now they are account bound items and useless.
Gift of Magumma Mastery 724 gold
Mystic Tribute 593 gold
Crystalline Ingots

I would look into contacting support. Now that the Legendaries are not coming any time soon, it’s highly likely when they do finally arrive, they will be tied to future expansions, rather than HoT. They probably will not be arriving for years now – do people really expect them to still be tied to the HoT expansion that will be several years old at that point?

All your HoT mats might very well be useless and you’ll need mats that relate to whatever zone the xpac is in – Shiverpeaks, Crystal Desert or whatever.

I had begun farming HoT mats for the sword, but as that is not happening any time soon, I’ve given up and don’t bother with the HoT maps anymore. It’s a waste a time (except for a DS for new toons – 70 free mastery points lol)

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I was really hoping for a sword and dagger.

I wanted to make the sword too :-(

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dont worry they will probably give 3 classes shorbow on the next round of specialization lol.

And make you buy the 2nd Expansion to get access to them. Then for the next three Expac #3 and so on.

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I have made all the mats pre made and ready too and it saddens me that I wasted all my time and energy and some gold. Is there going to be a way to break down the items to get back the mats since now they are account bound items and useless.
Gift of Magumma Mastery 724 gold
Mystic Tribute 593 gold
Crystalline Ingots

I would contact support and see if they’ll send you the components of those items in exchange for you deleting them. It’s worth a try.

I had some sort of intuition not to make my ore into ingots “just in case”, I have all the components banked and uncrafted until they are needed. I have all the ore to make the ingots, I played dragon stand every day for months, sometimes without getting one ore because it failed. My disappointment is extremely deep. Nevermore was to be my first weapon, and then I was going to make others that were nontradeable. I don’t see a reason to make nevermore even though I have almost all the components banked and halfway through the journey. I don’t feel like playing this game anymore.

So… You wanted Nevermore, but now you don’t want it anymore because they won’t release legendaries you have never seen? I fail to understand the reasoning.

I didn’t want just nevermore. Nevermore was the FIRST of what I considered a long term goal of making several legendaries. You are aware that the cost of the first is the greatest in both terms of content completion (masteries and maps) and other inputs that only have to be bought the first time you craft one. I bought this game in October on the premise that the type of content I was thrilled about would be there. The entire reason I invested was to craft. I invested in extra bank space, as well. It isn’t about one skin, it is about the entire process. Your lack of understanding shouldn’t be surprising. It would be like me saying “well you got one story, what the heck do you need another one for”

The worst part of Legendaries being put on the shelf? You’ll probably be forced to buy multiple expansions down the road to have access to the ones HoT was supposed to give. Pay again and again and again.

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This expansion is falling apart. [Merged]

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…for endless hours.

Not sure about that.

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I’m so glad you decided to do this, AN. Living worlds were the most fun I’ve ever had in this game, having the world constantly changing around you and it just felt like things were happening in the world. You guys managed to push out a new LS every 2 weeks and they were amazing. It was great quantity AND quality.

I know a lot of people enjoy legendaries and I do too, but I would much rather have an amazing story and fun content to play and progress than to have a shiny weapon and I’m sure the majority of the player-base would agree. Most players play for the story and content and it’s legendary weapon hunters who are in the minority, sorry guys.

I’m looking forward to creating amazing memories and having fun progressing in the living worlds again.

Most people actually agree that false advertisement is not a good way to do business, and regardless of whether you like PvE content or Legendaries it is very scary to see a company completely disregard what they had promised to deliver while asking you to suck it up and be happy with what you have and some more story content they might put out at a later date.

That is very true, but I do believe they TRIED. I don’t think they had planned it out to cancel them when they released HoT. This was most likely, as Mike already stated, a difficult decision. I guess my excitement for Living Worlds is overriding my displeasure for their failed promise.

Hahaha, bro I used to be like you . See you in the July update when they scrap LS3 for expac2/“brand new WvW overhaul”/or pretty much what ever they feel like. Calling it now, nobody gonna see anything done there either

I think this might be the main issue now – lack of trust.

It doesn’t matter what they promise. No one believes what they say any more.

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or just go to the guild hall.

But how would he get back? Which is what i assume he wants to do.

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If 6 devs that were working on Legendaries are going to be so useful to LS3, then the 6 devs from raids should also be moved over to LS3.

Raids can wait. They are played by a small fraction of the playerbase compared to LS, and LS3 is the priority.

When all the things promised are caught up they can go back to making raids.

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Poll: Legendaries or Living World / Story?

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Remove 30 devs from expansion that no one wants and give us legendary’s and living story.

And the 6 devs from the raids too can be moved over to LS3. Raids only service a small fraction of the player base compared to the rest of the game.

Raids can wait, and when ANet have fulfilled what they promised, the team can go back to raids.

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To think, we mocked him at the Heart of Thorns launch event……..

He knew

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Remember when we were all terrified Nexon was going to take over and ruin the game, and introduce a rampant cash shop? lol.

The biggest danger was from within all along.

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After 6 years it’s time to let it rest and stop beating the proverbial dead horse on the parts of it that didn’t work out and they weren’t able to keep.

Maybe MO shouldn’t have bought it up then.

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New building at Observation Platform XKV

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To stop people standing on the roof and avoiding all damage, during the golem fight.

Were they standing there? I thought they were standing on the platform in front of it. Only been there once or twice in the last couple of months. The time I saw the people they were standing in on the elevated section front of the inquest observation place.

Yeah. You could just walk up the cliff behind it and stand on that roof, pew pew the boss anfd take no damage. Saw people doing it all the time. It was “The Box 2.0”

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New building at Observation Platform XKV

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To stop people standing on the roof and avoiding all damage, during the golem fight.

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A Legendary based on a Tiger that killed three children?

Ummm, great? lol

The other tiger killed 436 people.

The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon area of India, mostly during the 19th century. Her attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of fatalities from a tiger. She was shot in 1907 by Jim Corbett.

Even better! -_-

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Surely it is a bit disappointing but when you have to make for this tradeoff, I am all for the decision.

How many times are they going to change things though? Will it be OK in 6 months when they alter direction again? And 6 months after than when they change direction again? Always design and direction changes, BUT WHERE IS THE CONTENT?

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A Legendary based on a Tiger that killed three children?

Ummm, great? lol

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You owe us a refund. That is how I feel. I love this game, but I spent my money for the advertised expansion that per you comments will never happen.

I just hope that when the remaining Legendaries drop at some far off time, they aren’t packaged into the next expansion. That would mean paying again for them, when they were promised as part of HoT, and we have already paid for them.

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Two things:

1) Can we can have an assurance that the remaining Legendaries will not be locked behind Expansion #2.

2) Other gametypes such as raids (less players do these than do Legendary weapons) and gemstore resources (we have enough stuff in the shop!) should be scaled back / suspended until all of HoT’s promised and advertised content can be implemented, and LS3 can be done properly.

you want to scale back raids? it has a team smaller than the legendary team. can everyone please get over the fact that they can’t raid

Exactly, if Legendary team is moved, so should the raid team – LS3 needs all the people it can get. I think all other gametypes should be scaled back / suspended so that LS3 can have it’s best shot – that is the bread and butter of the game. Not all that other stuff.

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Apparently I’m playing a Blizzard game now.

I won’t rant and bash for 3 paragraphs because frankly I think it was a “good” decision if it actually yields a positive result in terms of living story release time. I was severely annoyed that it was going to take so long to get the new living story season out, especially when raids are getting so much attention and I’ve yet to actually actively try to get through a genuine wing run.

I’m happy for the communication but I have to agree with some of the people above that it seems a little odd that you’re moving 6 devs that couldn’t finish more than one legendary in 6 months to speed up a living season update that is much larger than a weapon and quest chain. We haven’t seen the chain so it may be really interesting and a better way of obtaining legendaries than the collection system, but only one? And this team is supposed to boost living story production enough that it’s worth sacrificing advertised content?

After obtaining HOPE I’m in no hurry to obtain another legendary, so again, it isn’t a huge deal to me, it just seems a little nonsensical to move 6 devs from current already paid for content vs. Gem Store items or an expansion that may still be 2 or more years away. I don’t mind having a large team working on the next expansion, but would it really halt the process of making the expansion that much to move a few devs from there to work on the living story instead? It just seems like the priorities are a little shallow and the transparency also comes with a jarring epiphany that you’re more concerned about pushing out gem store items and another $100 dollar expansion quickly than current expansion content and living story.

I don’t know. It’s not a huge deal to me but it’s still a little surprising to hear how resources are being allocated and where priorities seem to be given the current state of the game and already lackluster amount of content. Again, I guess most of us got spoiled with the 2 week updates oh so long ago that we aren’t used to this new business model.

I do hope for the sake of the community that this living story 3 will be the best and biggest one to date with multiple new maps and story arcs.

Also hope this expansion in progress isn’t so dismally far away that the resources that are being allocated to it aren’t being wasted in the process.

“IF”

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If you are spread to thin it is time to drop the next expansion idea.

They should not be working on a new expansion when they still haven’t finished the current one.

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Two things:

1) Can we can have an assurance that the remaining Legendaries will not be locked behind Expansion #2.

2) Other gametypes such as raids (less players do these than do Legendary weapons) and gemstore resources (we have enough stuff in the shop!) should be scaled back / suspended until all of HoT’s promised and advertised content can be implemented, and LS3 can be done properly.

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Xpac 2 needed for remaining Legendaries?

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Given that any further Legendaries have been delayed, and they were supposed to be part of the Heart of Thorns expansion that we paid for, can we have a guarantee that the remaining ones WILL NOT be put behind expansion 2?

In other words, we won’t have to pay a second time for items which we have already paid for once?

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Pull/delay next expansion, not legendaries. Legendaries were promised this expansion.

Yes. And at least do everything promised in this one.

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Another sad thing is that since Heart of Thorns was released, there have been 112 gem store skins added to the game (Dominator, Soaring, Timekeeper, Merciless, Plasma, Immortal, Improvised). No problem allocating resources to that, was there?

$$$$$$$$$

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I think perhaps you should indefinitely suspend the next expansion until you can deliver the promises made on the current one. That would be the right thing to do for your customers.

Totally agree. Its been a complete fiasco.

Not doing Legendaries, WvW dead, pvp a joke, the story so bad its embarressing – and now no Legendaries.

What exactly are they doing with all that money they took from us? It sure as heck aint been used to make a decent game.

But hey, here’s some new gemstore items! -_-

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So, when will I be getting a partial refund? Or some sort of compensation?

That was one of the things I PAID MONEY FOR as part of the expansion.

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Did ANet block daily's list on Wiki?

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Both the GW2 and GW1 wikis have been down a lot today. There was some sort of maintenance and they’ve been pretty buggy since.

Yes, I noticed this also – lots of 503 errors and page format problems. It may be because of that too. Still it’s funny the list disappears right as the dailies thing is pointed out. Almost as if they want to keep it hidden.

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I logged onto an alt account that’s not to high.

- Ascalon Vista Viewer
- Metrica Province Event Completer

These two seem to be the lowbie ones.

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Anyone else not able to see the current dailies list on the wiki?

As was reported on reddit and on these forums, people are able to get credit for lowbie “hidden” dailies on max accounts – presumably a bug.

I went to the wiki to see the dailies and noticed the list is gone.

Did ANet block this?

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Anyone else not able to see ANY of the dailies on the wiki now?

When I check that page now, none show – hidden or normal.

ps. Not to put my tinfoil hat on, but I find it incredibly suspicious that the day after this is reported the daily list vanishes from the wiki.

But I found an alternate list anyway.

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Account worth over 5 million gold?

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If you read the reddit thread, Chris Cleary posted that he thought it was an error too.

But if it is dodgy, now that Anet has caught wind of it, expect to see another naked body falling through DR
https://youtu.be/bqfUi9DzBuo

Yeah. The people running the site said it’s not the site that wrong, so the bug maybe is the info coming from the games end. They said it’s stacks of items causing the large number. But I guess it’s only accurate insofar as the site is getting correct data from the game.

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The account is real – the account value can also have many sellable things such as NxEternity in storage.

We tried to tell ANET the legendary market was sown up by a few very rich individuals – you have just met one

They are active as well. It just went down by 20k

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Efficiency is “opt in” right? I mean it doesn’t scrape the whole game? A gold seller wouldn’t put their api on it, would they?

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Couple of things I can think of, don’t know how likely they are.
Bought the gold with real money
Hacked account being used by a goldseller to hand out gold to gold buyers.

They said only a portion of it was actual liquid gold (could have bought items with it I guess), but that most is items. Apparently it’s over 500k!

Would a gold seller put their api on efficiency? Seems super risky.

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Spotted this on reddit. It’s insane, and in under 400 hours of play. They are so far ahead of everyone else it’s almost unbelievable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/49xudv/did_someone_just_buy_nearly_200000_in_gold/

What on earth could they have that is worth so much?

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Flax Farming... 4 or 5 hours daily? Um...

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Of course I enjoy it, but I am beginning to find now… that usually around 11 PM… I start getting a headache, agitated and tired, but… I push to get it done because, if I say… cut the trek in half, only do 12 character post-reset and 12 for the next day, I often worry the risk of screwing up the timer of when the Flax refreshes for my next run.

Ugh, am I making any sense? I’m just wondering if 24 character hitting both patches should take 5 or 6 hours to do or am I just a slowpoke and punishing myself through the tiredness to get it done.

hmmm. Perhaps you could hit up the flax farms directly, and not do other things along the way. Then go do some events after youve completed farming, and stop when it beccomes a chore / painful. Or do less events along the way also.

ps. If you are getting physical pain, headaches, etc, itd probably be good to scale it back. No point playing till it hurts.

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5-6 hours? Really? I have my alts parked at the itzel flax farm and it takes about 10 minutes to farm it. Why is it taking you so long? O.o

Do you port all 24 to the TD one? I cant be bothered doing that one, but even so 5-6 hours seems really long?

You said you do stuff alomg the way, so you must get really sidetracked :-D

ps. As others have noted, yes if you are having fun, it doesnt really matter i guess. Just enjoy the fun :-D

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So much baseless hate, with people like you around, no wonder Anet doesn’t post here often.

Raids being in the game is not a bad decision or has bad implementation, what the hell are you talking about OP? 5-6 people work on raids, that has no impact on the rest of the game at all.

Colin was not fired, did not leave because the game was dying, he left on good terms and clearly stated why.

The game is far from dying. To quote NcSoft, it’s one of the main revenue drivers consistently.

LS3 is probably coming in July. That’s the quarter update right after May/June, I hope you do realize that?

PvP leagues are not broken. They are working quite well.

re Colin, thats what they say, that he left amicably. But thats what most companies say – because it looks better. Facts are the xpac didnt do as well as expected, and Colin is the guy in charge. He, as game director, is ultimaltely responsible for the game performance.

Lets face it. Things for a long while now have been…. unsettled (perhaps not the right word im looking for). The game has had many system changes, and tweaks, but has never quite reached that ‘outstanding’ level that it should have, given the time and resources thrown at it. We all know this. I think perhaps the xpacs not exactly universal success – it was rushed and unfinished – basically gave them an excuse for Colin to bow out gracefully. The games development is so uneven and hodgepodge – dungeons, wvw, pvp, etc. The list goes on and on.

As for pvp, yeah it is a little broken, given how horribly ranked is being abused. Im not surprised i guess – people are nothing if not ingenious! lol.

Anywho, out of all of this, i hope whoever they get to replace colin focuses more on pumping out content regularly and less on system changes. We’ve had enough!

That’s also what HE himself said. And what YOU are saying right now isn’t true one bit. Isn’t true for Anet either. Remember what happened to the dungeons team guy? There was no “we are still friends”, he just disappeared.

No MMO is perfect, no MMO has nothing wrong with it. Not. One. Game. In that regard IMO GW2 is definitely one of the much better ones and the core gameplay is fun as hell. But nobody gives Colin any credit for that.

Colin himself already stated TWO MONTHS ago that they will stop adding systems, everything is in place and they will focus on content only, with the exception being WvW. It would be nice of people to actually read the blog posts Anet puts out.

Ive read many blog posts over the years. They always say they are doing this and that with thier grand plans. And its almost always turned out to be bogus – perhaps for very good reasons, but still they havent delivered. Remember the big WvW update that was supposed to be here BY NOW? Or the Fractal Leaderboards? Or a lot of the things in the expansion? Exactly.

So, you’ll have to excuse me if i dont have much confidence in them, or thier claims. Who’s to say they wont just change direction once again? They’ve done it many times before.

As for Colin, well, he’s hardly likely to say otherwise is he? And that doesnt stop them personally liking him, or missing him when he leaves. But he’s failed at a lot of things – the game has had many missteps over the last few years. This is not a secret. This is, being coldly objective, a great time to change game directors. I hope they get a good one that can really fix the game and actually put out quality content volume – not just system changes.

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Hope that collin's departure is a good sign

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So much baseless hate, with people like you around, no wonder Anet doesn’t post here often.

Raids being in the game is not a bad decision or has bad implementation, what the hell are you talking about OP? 5-6 people work on raids, that has no impact on the rest of the game at all.

Colin was not fired, did not leave because the game was dying, he left on good terms and clearly stated why.

The game is far from dying. To quote NcSoft, it’s one of the main revenue drivers consistently.

LS3 is probably coming in July. That’s the quarter update right after May/June, I hope you do realize that?

PvP leagues are not broken. They are working quite well.

re Colin, thats what they say, that he left amicably. But thats what most companies say – because it looks better. Facts are the xpac didnt do as well as expected, and Colin is the guy in charge. He, as game director, is ultimaltely responsible for the game performance.

Lets face it. Things for a long while now have been…. unsettled (perhaps not the right word im looking for). The game has had many system changes, and tweaks, but has never quite reached that ‘outstanding’ level that it should have, given the time and resources thrown at it. We all know this. I think perhaps the xpacs not exactly universal success – it was rushed and unfinished – basically gave them an excuse for Colin to bow out gracefully. The games development is so uneven and hodgepodge – dungeons, wvw, pvp, etc. The list goes on and on.

As for pvp, yeah it is a little broken, given how horribly ranked is being abused. Im not surprised i guess – people are nothing if not ingenious! lol.

Anywho, out of all of this, i hope whoever they get to replace colin focuses more on pumping out content regularly and less on system changes. We’ve had enough!

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I think Colin left because he already knew about the fate of this game, don’t get me wrong it will succeed, but not as the GW2 we all knew once, hell it won’t be a Guild Wars game anymore…

Also can we talk about E-Sports too? I know it’s not PvE but it kinda affect it since groups of “teenagers” seems to be the directors of the balance team by ordering nerfs and buffs to the classes they want only for PvP.

I’m beginning to think that also – raids and esports. Sort of liked that GW2 was different. Now they are just changing it to look like every other MMO many of us hated. Hope I’m wrong.

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Matthias Gabrel? Who is he?

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Matthias Gabrel: “I am the scythe, the bringer of salvation.”
Squad Leader Bennett: I need your help!
Matthias Gabrel: “And I shall harvest the souls of the unbelievers.”

Matthias Gabrel – Guild Wars 2 Wiki

Justiciar Hablion: “I am the scythe, the Bringer of Salvation.”
Justiciar Hablion: “And I shall harvest the souls of the Unbelievers.”

Bloodstone Fen – Guild Wars Wiki

It seems they did some pretty nice work there. I’m curious for more GW1 references coming with this raid wing!

Sigh. More Guild Wars 1 lore they are locking away behind raids.

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Who are Mursaat?

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Please say to me who are Mursaat? What wrong with them?

If you raid, you’ll find out -_-

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Don't own HoT; please remove Forsaken Thicket

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Just delete the mail and move on.

It pops up on your screen and you cant get rid of it.

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lvl 70 how do i get to new Hot content

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lvl 70 reverant where do I find the new Hot lands and content that comes with the expansion.

Go 10 more levels for a start.

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I hope Anet realizes....... [Merged]

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I hope players realize that anet spending 3 years developing neutered PvE content that never challenged them to improve caused this.

Raids are a good thing for the game and add optional challenge for those that want it.
If you want to raid, you’ll inevitably under up gearing properly and joining a guild or forming a static to clear these encounters.

Don’t know what else you guys want from anet, as it seems you want them to be social for you when all it takes is some initiative on your part as players.

All they had to do was put in content like GW1. Where you could travel to new lands and maps, and do new adventures and explore. And with a half reasonable story. But we’ve been stuck with the same maps forever, and when we got an expansion it had a whole 4 new maps, where you do nothing but grind away all day for terrible rewards. And the story blows.

I remember WoodenPotatoes did a video on the Tyria World map that had been datamined and speculated at all the places we could maybe go – places we didnt even explore in the first game. But we’ve barely moved out of the old maps after 3 years. Too many system changes, not enough new maps. That world map might as not exist.

Plus, this game has very little to do with old GW. They ignore lore and story connections to the old game. Many want to know about what’s happened to old characters or their ancestors and various items. They want to know the fallout from events in the first game. But ANet have intenstionally moved away from the first game in many aspects.

Is it any wonder people lost thier kitten when they thought Mursaat or Tengu or Titans or the Wizards Tower were incoming? No. Most people liked the old games story and lore, and wanted it to continue. Instead we got this ‘new’ Tyria that no really cares about, and we just retread old maps endlessly. No wonder people are getting fed up.

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[ROID] World first Slothasaur kill :)

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Grats.

Now, can we have all the content that the other 90% of the player base actually cares about?

You hardcore types have had your 3 minutes of fun.

Implying content that gets cleared 4 hours after release is hardcore?

Anyways, congrats on world’s first

Hang on, it’s CHALLENGING CONTENT, right? /sarcasm

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