Guild Wars 2

To be fair it’s only been about 5 business days at ANet since those were released.

The achievement can bypass the JP. The snow-aura shoulders absolutely require it.

It probably makes me a terrible person but if I had a program that would run the winter jump puzzle for me in a way that’s only really detectable if you do it over and over I would SERIOUSLY consider firing it off three times so I’d have the pleasure of complaining about 10,000 drinks to get the snow-aura shoulders.

Cause right now I’m not even in the running .

Rising Dusk.2408:

Bluewizard.2694:

Could any of the developers maybe add a new notification to the website in order to indicate whether a dev or anyone else from the staff has opened a topic? I can fully understand that devs can’t respond in every topic, but without a response people have no idea whether their input is read by any staff member or whether they are just talking to their own community. A notification or visual emblem next to a topic might resolve this problem.

It would be nice if there were an indicator pointing out that the specialists had posted in a thread, too! We each have specializations, and we post a lot in the most popular topics associated with the things we cover, but right now those replies sometimes get lost.

I am fairly confident, though, that not a single great suggestion that was met with high public agreement has gone unmentioned by me in my reports on topics I cover. Sometimes I even get into conversations with developers in-game where they ask for clarification on what was meant, or things to that effect. Ultimately, I can guarantee the developers are seeing the suggestions that are most prevalent and most widely supported throughout these forums.

I would suggest you and the other reps get together and settle on a unified tagging scheme in thread titles so us poor peasant readers can find you. Something as simple as always putting [PvP rep] or [WvW rep] at the start of your thread titles would make it a million times easier to pick you out of the background noise when skimming topic names looking for something to read.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Both my team (EN (2), FR, DE and ES) and our Forum Specialists do gather and share suggestions with the developers, yep.

And it all happens INVISIBLY, which is an unbelievable waste of opportunity to build community goodwill.

Your feedback loops suck. Period. Full stop. If you’d post even a weekly highlights roundup or something, point out things that caught your eye even if they will never specifically be acted on, it would be a huge boon to keeping the boards to a low simmer instead of boiling over with frustration.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Not that I know of. It’s possible that could happen, but at the current time there are plans to communicate through other means, including forum posts from team members or on behalf of a team and of course on our official website, in the “news” section. (The “news” is really a blog, and that’s where a lot of info goes. Once posted, forum members invited to share their thoughts here on the topic at hand.)

You actually mean ‘on reddit’, right? because that’s the only place anyone’s seen anyone from ArenaNet except you (and the API developer) for months now…

As Qugi suggested, calling it a CDI can be confusing, but you’re welcome to initiate or join a thread on any topic you’d like to discuss.

Which isn’t even a pale shadow of a CDI. Its almost an unrelated concept compared to a thread hosted, guided, and read and responded to every day by a Developer with the ability to drive in-game results on that topic.

So answer the question any and every game designer is gonna ask: what to you intend to replace all the traits, signets, and runes you just obsoleted with?

Speed exists in this game, it has considerable value, and it’s achievable at considerable cost. How do you see mounts fitting into that other than as a pure gimme that wrecks a considerable number of systems?

Doam.8305:

Game needed mounts and that’s something no one has ever managed to successfully argue against and thus it isn’t truly a dead horse.

Sez, you. The Devs, three years of live game, and a few thousand posts sticking a sword in its eye say otherwise.

Soleil.1304:

An entire world with no mounts for player NOR NPC’s is just too unrealistic. Every civilization has used them and yet Tyria can’t figure out how to tame a few? How dumb are these inhabitants?

Dumb enough to have site-to-site teleports that require only a tiny piece of self-contained hardware at the receiving end. Yeah, every day I’m on the road I wish we were that dumb. Our mounts (cars) seem absolutely brilliant by comparison… Not.

You might want to start over completely on your ‘realism’ argument. It doesn’t go where you think it does .

Suggestion: Release a Black Lion mount in a similar timing as the Black Lion Weapon Skins. Each new release will have 1 new mount. Cost: 1700 gems or equivalent.

Suggestion: Runes are a thing. So are speed signets. And Traits. EVERY SINGLE PROFESSION can get a permanent speed buff, but must pay a price for one of the most sought out, most impactful benefits in the game. Decide what you’re willing to give up for it, but don’t expect it to be handed to you in a way that obsoletes all of those existing character options.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Would feel upset and somewhat violated having that kind of information made public. I would certainly stop playing if it weren’t something I could hide because I’ve spent a shameful amount of IRL cash on this game.

I’m pretty sure we’re talking about a voluntary toggle.

You might consider outfitting your home instance with all the harvest nodes/node packs from the gem store. You can end up with a LOT of nodes in there.

Either way sounds like an amusing diversion. Pass that character a watchwork pick and a unlimited axe and sickle though. It’ll save sanity points along the way.

sarasvatri.6871:

Desire is funny like that. Often we think we want the objects of our desires when what we really want is the act of desiring itself.

No, I’m pretty sure when I’m trying to put together a particular appearance for a character I want the actual tools not the annoyance of wishing I had the tools.

Likewise there’s plenty of content in game I’d like to take on with the best gear possible. I don’t always want to be thinking, “well, I’ll probably have that gear sometime in the next 6-8 weeks…” That kind of ‘anticipation’ doesn’t heighten the experience at all for me.

Eldbrand Charging.8902:

sarasvatri.6871:

I’d love it just for the spice it would add to map chat.

Nothing stops YOU from divulging in map chat how much you spent in the gem store.

I could divulge in map chat I’m the rightful heir of the Kings of Hawaii and people would care just as much.

There’s a huge difference between spouting whatever lies take your fancy and the game itself offering verifiable evidence of purchases.

luzt.7692:

I would look at my own Icon
and be like: “dang son, did I really spend that much on this game?!”

This. This times several thousand dollars, I suspect.

I don’t think BDO is going to be all that impressive after the ‘new MMO smell’ wears off.

Themepark MMOs are for the most part built out of single use content. Replayability is marginal and rarely amounts to more than “well, it’ll be a slightly different fight with a different class, but the talky bits change not at all.” GW2’s cardinal sin of this sort is the AMAZING range of early quests that might tempt you to play through the same race 3-4 times (at first) before if become clear how fast the pathways tapper off and soon it becomes ‘all roads lead to Trahearn’.

GW2 does better than most keeping up with the content locusts (and I don’t mean that as a bad thing — we came here to eat a good story and when it runs out folks interest in that aspect should move on). SWtoR is trying to with its new arc (though again the one-story-fits-all plotline murders replayability…). I’m trying to give Wildstar some slack as they re-launch but my patience is wearing thin as they keep NOT advancing the plot (which was to me by far the most interesting part of the property, not the twitch gameplay, overemphasis on raids-as-endgame, or godawful cartooniness of every rock, bush, and critter).

My next big time sink will likely be Star Citizen. Just not much new out there and I’m troubled by the direction GW2’s taken lately.

I give it a 2/10 for inane trolling.

Lazy?

Ask yourself this: Do any of the other cities have a gem-store locked services area right in the heart of the festivities?

Its not an accident it’s all in Divinity’s Reach this year.

Chrono tanks are just enjoying their last harrah as they’re about to get nerfed out of existence.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

This. But that fear is more than legitimate given past incidents and the current affairs on the forums. I mean, look at the nasty way people respond every time Gaile posts anything.

If you can’t manage to give a good showing in your own front yard while you hold every imaginable card in terms of time to prep, inside knowledge, and an absolute stranglehold on moderation, you’re DOING IT WRONG.

Heck, if I was an ANet developer I wouldn’t post here either.

And you’d be watching opinion surrounding your livelihood fester too.

Why? Because look at the dev tracker here. Its a wasteland. This is their own OFFICIAL outlet for information and we’re seeing VASTLY better responsiveness and communication out of house.

Do I blame the Devs over on reddit? No (other than Colin, who ought to know better). Something has gone systemically wrong at ANet that the individual Devs are not thinking “I should check my own house, first and foremost.”

Does it mean some training around the office? Almost certainly. Do they need to get less barbaric forum software? Yeah, probably. Do they need to ease off on restrictions that are driving their people to not post here? Ya think? There’s room for improvement on a whole bunch of fronts.

What will the next complaint be? I’m willing to $*(%&ing FIND OUT. Because the prospect of future complaints doesn’t let you ignore current ones.

They have got to get this reddit thing sorted. It’s making their official boards a laughingstock.

Pistol and shortbow should tell you exactly how much damage ANet is comfortable giving to thieves at range.

We may get rifle at some point, but its going to suck compared to the lofty expectations of the player base, pretty much the way all ranged damage weapons do in this game. They want GW2 gameplay to be all melee, all the time.

LastShot.4762:

Nike.2631:

I just want the shoulder attached to this year’s meta-achievement chest instead of the collection.

It actually makes very little difference, I am at 16/18, and 3 achievements left are 2500 candy, 10k drink, and 3x JP.

2 of them require you to open 10k+ gifts, so all it does just let people skip JP.

My point exactly .

I just want the shoulder attached to this year’s meta-achievement chest instead of the collection.

I suggest starting a fresh thread about the behavior in this forum.

It’s FAR more likely to get fixed over there.

Good fun !

I Deschain I.4623:

But where is the line? When am I allowed to talk about spoilerish things without having to fear to cause an outrage. I saw Predestination early 2015. Am I allowed to ‘spoiler’ it or is it sill too early? For me, it’s still not clear when things are clear.

Support rarely ever draws a clear line because they’d have various breeds of jerk inching up as close as they can get to the line still being obnoxious (the actual problem) while being able to hide behind the letter of the law.

The rule is simply if you’re unsure, don’t do it at all. And they want you to be unsure so you’re more likely to err on the side of caution.

Copestetic.5174:

Is this ‘the’ Nike from DnT?

Nope. I think that player’s screenname here is EuroNike (though I’m not certain).

Mikali.9651:

You understand that he said that it’s you who is viewing it black and white?

Really? My being in agreement that it should be turned over for review by the agents of the owners of the spaces is black and white? I haven’t called for hard and fast rules. I haven’t said ban-or-bust. I’ve done nothing but promote a context-sensitive review knowing full well that deliberately worsening another player’s experience in game will earn that offender something from a whole range of possible punishments.

And I agree with him, you don’t really see this on a larger scale, even tho one could think you are saying smart things cuz you actually have some English skills so you choose to use a bit more complex words and sentences to make your arguments seem stronger – which they really aren’t, they are very subjective.

Sorry, I’ll try to be less persuasive next time.

No, wait. I won’t.

You use too strong words, words that don’t have place in this debate. Sadism, really?

Yes. Really. Were talking about people using the tools available to them to hurt complete strangers for no other reason than to hurt them. That’s SADISM. And if it nets them getting whacked on the nose with a rolled up newpaper, good.

If I poke you, will you tell them I attacked you? Be carefull with words you are choosing and think about real arguments.

If you poke me, I might very well report it. That decision is mine to make, and you should factor it into your thinking before you poke me.

This ones arent really useable because they are on much greater scale which this topic isn’t.

And once again, the people giving offense aren’t the ones who get to make that call if it’s ok. You’d be surprise how slight a contact it takes to merit the term “assault”. You have no right to poke me and IF I take offense, the larger agency of enforcement WILL get involved with real lasting consequences. Here that agency is ANet’s Support team.

Zergs.9715:

Would that categorize pranks as well as form of sadism?

I would say that pranks motivated by a desire to be hurtful are absolutely a form of sadism. The same principle is at work here — Support will almost certainly be reviewing incidents to determine INTENT.

There’s an element of naked callousness at work. This isn’t an interaction with a person you know which opens up the possibility of good natured poking between friends — this is being sprung on complete strangers with no other goal than to be hurtful.

Since it’s so black and white issue I can almost see no difference between deriving pleasure from torturing people and throwing a water filled balloon…

Then I hope you develop the social skills to tell the difference. You’ll probably need them at some point. Because in the real world there are places where pitching a water balloon with be considered fun and others where it’ll get you fired (or worse). Likely with even less opportunity for appeal than here.

Kross.6428:

So again, my question is: Why does this topic get special snowflake status when there are far worse issues for the devs to be looking into within their very own game?

I don’t see how “yes, go ahead and report it, so Support can review it” is special snowflake status.

ANet has made no promises of action, only that they’d like to be informed so they can review it when people are point blank, no excuses trying to use the chat system to harass people.

Zergs.9715:

Using such serious words like sadism and harrasment in such trivial context devalues them. What kind of a jelly-spined creature are you if you can equate this with sadism?
Your feelings are not measure for the rest of the world.

Actually I find “trolling” to be the word the trivialize and tries to excuse the basic, fundamental fact that this is a person who derives pleasure from other people’s discomfort.

Manu.6078:

ghost.1804:

can i report someone for this cause that kitten is NOT COOL

No. There is a block option. Learn to use it. Being ignorant, overreacting at
the most mundane things, is not cool also.

If Support agrees with you they’re over reacting nothing will come of it. But if they don’t, awesome.

It’s not your call to make.

Hakuryuu.8634:

I’ll just put this here

Appropriate that you use an image of a character that spends the entire movie doing nothing but spouting bald-faced lies to promote a stack of bald-faced lies.

People object to all of the things you’ve list too. Sorry there’s more Star Wars fans who also play GW2 than there are WvW player’s who’ve personally seen hacking. I wish WvW were more popular too.

Mikali.9651:

Frodo throw ring and beats Sauron! Oh noooo, you spoiled all!!!

Funniest part of that being that’s NOT what happens .

The tragedy here is people lining up to either defend the “rights” of people to be deliberately obnoxious (I promise, ANet flatly ignoring you for doing that is the best outcome you can hope for) or advocating for complete passivity in the face of people being deliberate jerks. Sorry, we’ve been told to go ahead and call the police and they’ll sort it out it out to their satisfaction. I’ve got no interest in seeing a culture of meek acceptance being promoted here.

Burtnik.5218:

The censure is getting serious here.

No. They hysteria is getting serious.

Support has ALWAYS kept its own standards fairly secretive. We’ve been told to let support know when this is going on. Whether they will act at all, what the consequences will be, and what threshold of raw jerkishness prompts punishment is something we WILL NEVER KNOW.

The basic practical rule is in effect: if you’re afraid of Support’s scrutiny, maybe you shouldn’t do it. If you can’t self-moderate, there’s always the possibility they’ll do it for you (and to you).

I’m thinking the word “ever” needs to file a ticket, because it’s being grief’d in this post.

I don’t think there’s a ton of haggling over the exact ratio of tickets to pieces to be done… the entire concept is flawed for those who object to gambling for prizes over an actual sales transaction.

Prime Greek.1092:

Where does this end ?

It begins and ends where Support says it begins and ends. Full Stop.

That’s true of ALL reporting. And they’ don’t particular answer to us on their actions. We’ve just been told to go ahead and inform them so they can research instances and arbitrate the outcome, like always.

The “cleaning rag” maybe?

I’d probably respect it more if your opinion weren’t founded on points that are factually wrong.

The only reason you had to “deal with it on your own” is because you didn’t report it. And it’s pretty obvious people DO care in this case.

There are 7 billion opinions on this planet. My respect is reserved for the ones at least tangential rooted in reality.

Because they don’t want people teleporting into otherwise sealed parts of the map.

for breaking the realism of teleporting.

Read that back to yourself a few times. It’s funnier than you think .

MithranArkanere.8957:

The point is, you can’t police to prevent spoilers.

Sez you.

Trolls are like Merlin’s Queen Mab. Turn around, don’t look at them, don’t let them have power over you, and they disappear.

That stops them one time, in one place. Severe punishment stops them repeatedly, and has the chance of training them not to do it ever again anywhere. There’s simply no need to coddle (or tolerate) this kind of behavior and people need to understand they’re NOT masked anonymous figures here, they have skin in the game and they risk it every time they behave like willful jerks.

There’s no need to expand upon the EULA, its ALREADY COVERED under existing clauses.

Zephyra.4709:

This thread makes me not want to talk about any new movies in map chat now because I might get reported and banned.

Thanks, Gaile.

If you’re now afraid of acting like a jerk, then this thread is working PERFECTLY.

To be honest after the winterfest shoulders debacle, I kinda DON’T want them putting out armor though in-game channels. One piece at a time through annoying grind and chained to parts of the game that should be entirely optional… they’re not really good at it.

Seriously, let me just pay the 800 gems and go back to tinkering with my characters’ look.

Polearms have been in-game since launch. If you want to actually see one, go to Rytlocks office. He keeps a Lionguard-themed one next to his desk.

Nothing to suggest they’re ever going to resurrect that dead line of code though.

And when asked point blank to provide CONTEXT the thread fails yet again.

So, gambling for armor skins.

$&@#* That.

I’ll pay for armor skins. I have paid for nearly all of them that exist. I will never buy an outfit and while I buy black lion keys from time to time I vastly prefer the honesty of JUST PAYING FOR IT at a fixed price up front.

Maileen.1065:

All you have to do is complete the jumping puzzle 3 times, and you have until Jan 12….the 10k drinks has been changed so that it can be done until next Wintersday. The jumping puzzle takes around 5-10 mins to complete each time.

For you.

I don’t want it removed. I want there to be slightly more things that contribute to getting it than are needed so we have some choices on what to skip, just like the winterfest meta-achievement, which should have been the chest that drops this item in the first place.