Guild Wars 2

A well written OP from a person clearly unhappy with the game speaking negatively about Arena Net. I’m surprised he hasn’t been infracted yet.

I also agree with him.

Well, I don’t see the connection between adding a DR to drops and farming and getting people to buy gold in the TP. The DR’s do make people unhappy and unhappy customers shop elsewhere.

What did this have to do with the Trading Post and real money?

Paying a sub or not is really irrelevant. Any MMO needs people or it’s not an MMO. This one especially is designed with LOTS OF PEOPLE in mind. Orr is a nightmare solo. Many events are impossible solo, if they even show up at all (it seems like the frequency of events is determined by the number of people around). If populations drop, this game simply won’t work. Not to mention, a consistent loyal playerbase means income, whether it’s through the TP, a sub, microtransactions, expansions, or some other means.

Yes, I’m sure that’s what people in Star Wars said just before everyone left. And the happy majority, as we all know, lives happily ever after in whatever game they are now playing.

All female, mixed races. I like the ladies.

The fact that you feel the need to make a post like this just points out in neon lights that there is a huge problem.

Rewards are fun. All content gets repeated eventually. Repetition without a reward is madness.

You should be worried, so should anyone who likes this game and wants to see it succeed. Three major games launched this year and all three of them were accused of a lack of things to do at max level . All three are doing poorly, consolidating servers and two of those have either changed business model or have talked about it. There is major competition out there and bored people will not stay.

All the diminishing return mechanics in this game designed to combat bots are poorly implemented hurting players more than the intended bots. Dungeons are too hard to be fun and you can’t do most of them (explore) with pugs. Not everyone, in fact I’d say most, have people just waiting around able and willing to run dungeons when they are able/want to. Not having content friendly to the masses is a huge nail in the coffin of a game. Rewards for low level content don’t scale at all and drops don’t scale enough. It’s simply not worth the time invested to complete low level content.

Unless Arena Net plans to mirror the events of other games launched earlier this year, they need to swallow some serious pride and make some changes. Anyone that cares about this game should be worried, because it’s only been a few weeks and the calls of bored people are turning into the roar of the bored masses. When it gets quiet, it won’t be because everyone is suddenly happy unless things change, quickly. Especially with the way this game is designed and how events work, low population will be even worse than other games.

Despite the above workaround, post tools aren’t showing up and it’s a bug that should be fixed.

Yes, Map chat. /m

So wait, 300+ hours logged (Oh My God) and you spent real money on gems?

I’d ask why the system is designed to penalize the people still left in the dungeon. If someone leaves, fine. At least let the remaining people find a replacement and continue on.

I have found it a touch ironic in a game with Magic Find, they limit the amount of loot you can get.

I don’t think it should be free and I certainly don’t think it should pay, but it is too high and needs to be looked at. Since low level zones never change what they pay, events, hearts, etc pay the same regardless what level you are, but your travel expenses go up and stay up I think waypoints fees should be based on the zone. Travel distance could still be taken into consideration, but traveling within the same zone should scale down when completing low level content.

I play a necro and an ele. I avoid underwater like the plague on my necro. Ele, fire, water both do good damage, electricity has good escape and a cc, earth….well we have the other 3.

Am I the only one that came in here thinking that somehow this persons gems were being stolen?

Just for the record, I’m totally ok with nude female characters. Based on armor designs, I’m guessing Arena Net is also.

Jason King.2647:

Thanks for the information, everyone! We’re continuing to investigate this issue, but haven’t been able to consistently reproduce it on the noted story steps. One of our first suspicions is that it could be related to lag causing the audio not to play.

Can anyone verify whether you’ve also noticed lag coming up more often? Thanks again!

A latency indicator in game, like GW1 had, would help to identify any lag people might be experiencing.

I’d also like to add into this that my stories have been having this problem. Sylvari and Asura, at different levels in different places. It’s any time there is a cut scene, some of the dialogue simply doesn’t play. The characters even stop talking, their lips no longer move. The text displays but no audio.

I’m still getting random voice clips playing, particularly after using a waypoint to travel. It’s less than before, but not gone.

I agree with the OP. Also features I’d like to see include a full function zoom that not only allows me to zoom into first person, but zoom far out (at least twice as far as currently possible).

I don’t know if the mouse functions are tied to the camera functions, but I’ll mention them because the mouse controls the camera. There is no sticky targeting. When you turn your camera by clicking with LMB it deselects your target. This is particularly troubling for ground targeted abilities. RMB causes the character to attack. This causes you to accidentally attack mobs you did not intend to when running around. It gets you killed.

I don’t want to compare games, but quite simply, the best camera controls I’ve experienced are in WoW. Camera options there include camera follow options (bounce, etc), terrain options, water options, distance, speed, etc. You can set the camera exactly how you want it and it works beautifully. The mouse camera controls don’t make the mistakes that this game does and the whole thing just performs better. If the Arena Net team wants this to be the best game possible, these controls should be at least as good. Controls make or break the game. Bad controls in an otherwise good game equals a bad game. The camera is the most important part of those controls.

ColinJohanson.2394:

As for the question about PuG’s for explorable dungeons, we’ve said all along that explorable dungeons are intended for highly organized/skilled groups of players. That is absolutely the case

Forcing the overwhelming majority of dungeon content to require this level of competency and cooperation will hurt the longevity of this game. There are only 8 dungeons, 3 max level and the scaled down versions don’t give proper rewards. Dungeons are the only thing that you can do as an organized group outside of PvP. Having 3/4 of the dungeon content unpuggable severely limits peoples options to just pick up the game and play. If all explorable modes are this difficult and require this much synergy to complete the overwhelming majority of the community won’t do them. There isn’t much else to do. Arena Net should take a serious look at their design philosophy and ask themselves if they really want to be the “best MMO ever” because a game that nobody plays due to of lack of accessible content won’t be.

Cameras in general are bad. I can’t zoom far enough out to see around stuff on jumping puzzles or just running around and I can’t zoom all the way in which makes the camera hit the ground and I can’t see when trying to look up. When downed, every class should be able to zoom their camera out to see the battlefield. Just, better camera controls all around, every race, every option.

I agree with this. The sound is waaay over the top and extremely loud compared to other weapon sounds in the game. Super annoying.

I’m still looking for a night guild if any are out there.

I was looking for an adult guild, not a primarily adult guild, but thank you for your response.

I play nightly between 11 pm-4 am eastern US time. Currently I play a Necromancer (67) and Elementalist (low level).

What I’m Looking For:

• A group of adults, 21+.
• PvX, I enjoy all aspects of the game.
• People playing when I am. I play at odd hours for where I live which makes it harder to find active guilds. I don’t care where people are (country, region, etc.) so long as English is spoken and written fluently (because that’s what I speak).
• I’m looking for people that will be around a year from now.
• I’m looking for a group of people with a sense of humor that aren’t easily offended, can tell or take a joke and generally log on to have a good time and blow off some steam.
• Voice communication (TS, Vent, Mumble)

What I’m not looking for:

• Bigotry, racism, sexism, hate speech. If you use words that convey hate, move along. I’m not easily offended, I cuss like a sailor, but I don’t tolerate the disrespect that goes along with any of these topics. I think it’s sad that I even have to mention this, but it’s all too common.
• Spam invite guilds. I’m not interested in being 1 name on a list of hundreds. I’d like a more tight-knit community.
• Drama.

That more or less sums up what I’d like to find in a guild. If anyone knows of or has one along these lines, please hit me up here or in game. See ya in Tyria!

Thank you for your reply Mike. I have noticed the pause after a few attempts, but it is extremely short. It doesn’t seem like much of a deterrent to me. I feel there are better ways to handle this particular security matter out there. Some sites I’ve used bring up one of those squiggly line things that computers can’t read after so many attempts. This avoids your second point while still allowing the legitimate owner of the account access and thwarts bots running endless login attempts. Perhaps a system like that would be better served here.

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

Our team already made some changes last week that should address your concern. Are you still seeing this issue?

Yes, just before making this post I tested it. I didn’t want to ask the question only to have had it already been fixed. I purposely entered the wrong password more than 10 times, then entered the correct password and made this post.

Also, I wanted to say that I received an infraction for asking my question. I did not mean, nor do I think anything I said was rude. I simply want to know why this security vulnerability exists because my account is important to me. I apologize if someone has taken offense, but I honestly don’t understand how anyone could be offended by what I asked.

Currently, the website will not lock out an account if an incorrect password is entered multiple times. I have personally tested this multiple times since launch and have yet to have login stopped after 10-15 failed attempts. This is a basic security measure to prevent bots spamming your login servers attempting to break into accounts. Why is this not implemented?