Guild Wars 2

Start a new character and get them to look exactly how you want. Play a different class or race this time.

In all seriousness, they should take the same option that LotRO did and allow you turn down or mute the volume on player created music if you don’t want to hear it.

Matryoshka.1607:

Even if you delete all your characters?

Yes. I’m pretty sure this was done to combat the people who were transferring to their opponents server during WvWvW matches and doing acts of sabotage and then coming back (this may not be 100% accurate, so if someone who actually plays WvWvW wants to speak up, feel free to fill in the blanks).

Shadowlancer.7102:

@ ProphetSword.5427

Just a friendly quote that is accurate in people that actually owns a business.

“Time is money friend.”

And yet, here you are wasting yours….

Was there a point you were trying to make?

Shadowlancer.7102:

@ ProphetSword.5427

Like I cannot stop laughing at you for this post, you do realize how bad that is business wise right? People don’t pay to wait in line for a internet issue on downloading. If that was the case, I could argue about music files being download every day.

Laugh all you want. The reality is that there is only a finite amount of connections and bandwidth to give, and if there is not enough room for everyone, some will have to wait. I know patience is a quickly dying virtue in this on demand world, so consider this a good lesson.

xiv.7136:

guessing everyone is having the same issue, server hamster exploded

Oh no! Not the server hamster! Poor guy!

I can still see him with his tiny little legs going back and forth really fast while I was off killing centaurs. At least, that’s how I’ll try to remember him.

Shadowlancer.7102:

@ Kaizer.7135
So its perfectly okay for a customer to wait in line for a download while another person is downloading ahead of them, unknowingly if they have broadband, DSL, or some other internet connection to download the content fast enough?

It is perfectly okay. It’s like going to retail store and heading to the checkout line, only to find a bunch of other customers ahead of you with larger carts. You can’t do anything but wait; because they got there first. It isn’t an injustice that you have to wait your turn, it’s just how it works.

Of course, the game must be failing. Why, in fact, the reason we are all on these forums right now is because the game failed so hard from all the people trying to get online after the Wintersday patch, that we can’t get into the game.

That is some amazing failure, when you fail from being too popular.

dekyos.1548:

No ProphetSword, 5 mins after would not be worse since there would be a lot less invested in it.

Fair enough. I was just trying to find out what would be a worse time.

Also, WTF is with Anet and pushing out ALL of their patches during NA primetime? And don’t give me that rationalization that if they did it at 4AM it would be Asian primetime because these are NOT Asian servers, they are North American servers. Logically they should schedule maintenance around NA schedules.

With everyone waiting for the Wintersday event to start, I would rather they did it now than at 4AM so that I have a hope of actually getting to do some of it tonight.

Shadowlancer.7102:

Just saw the twitter update.

“If you’re getting a connection error, be patient. Everyone is attempting to download at the same time. ~RB2”

I like how they just revealed that only privileged people are able to download. What a disappointment.

How do you get that only “privileged people” are able to download from that? I mean, I’d really like to know how you managed to get that from such a simple statement.

moirweyn.9872:

ProphetSword.5427:

Any time they choose to patch is going to be a bad time for someone, since the game is played worldwide. I’m sure the connection errors will be sorted out soon.

2 hours after WvW reset? Doubt there is a worse time.

What about five minutes after a WvW reset. Would that be worse?

Haven’t seen it since the first week the game was released. I’m guessing there are a lot of people wanting to do it simultaneously, and it’s overloading the servers.

Any time they choose to patch is going to be a bad time for someone, since the game is played worldwide. I’m sure the connection errors will be sorted out soon.

It’s common practice to drop your price after a release in order to entice more sales. It doesn’t signify anything.

If we’re going to throw around conspiracy theories, I think that they are just trying to get rid of their extra stock before the end of the world hits.

Let’s see, the holidays are coming up…and someone might want to buy the game for themselves or someone else as a gift. What would bolster those sales? Dropping the price a bit?

Hey, by pure coincidence, there also happens to be a big Wintersday event coming too. How about that?

Huh…I’m sure neither of these things have anything to do with them lowering the price.

Not everyone who works on the new content is a programmer with knowledge how to fix the bugs.

Some of them are artists. You know, the people who make the game look so awesome. Their time is better spent making art.

Some of them design new events, monsters, encounters, etc. They are good at designing things, and should not spend time fixing bugs they didn’t create.

Some of them are likely responsible for in-game dialogues given by the NPCs and such; because, prose is what they excel at. They do not excel at figuring out code.

So, you assume all of them are programmers, which is a fallacy.

Let me get this straight. There are actually people who want to keep the bots in this game? Now, I’ve heard everything.

Even still, I’m going to continue reporting them every time I see them. I hope others will do the same.

The game is great. If you’ve played other MMOs, you will find that GW2 has a different way of doing things. In my opinion, it is better than the standard way.

The idea in this game is that the whole game is end game. Enjoy it the moment you start, don’t worry about leveling or getting to the end, take your time to explore, and find a guild of friendly people who will help you out when you need it.

Oh yeah…and don’t listen to the negativity in the General Discussion area of the forums. Form your own opinions.

nottsgman.8206:

Chaialyna.1023:

Xavi.6591:

Don’t get 100% World Completion if you are a Mesmer.

Ok, I’ll bite. Why shouldn’t you?

because the star next to your name is not applied to clones, so in pvp/wvw you know straight away which the mes is

Ouch. That sounds like a bug that needs to be reported (if it hasn’t been already). I hope they fix that.

Is it possible that your account has been hacked and been used to mail out some gold spam mail? You should consider changing your game password, changing your e-mail password and scanning your system for malware/viruses, just to be safe.

EDIT:
Additionally, if you suspect you’ve been hacked, you might want to contact support as well. You might be flagged as a gold seller and will eventually get banned over it, and you don’t want that to happen.

Best advice I can give: Find a guild of friendly people who are willing to team up with you and show you the ropes. While I have no doubt you can do it on your own, this game is far more fun when played with people versus playing it solo (not that it isn’t fun solo, too).

Others have already mentioned that the development is in multiple teams, so I won’t bother with that. But I do have an issue with this:

NineOnine.4327:

Please Anet can we have a patch or two that doesn’t add brain dead space bar+forward content for the wow masses and just fixes the 10000 bugs. And please add a 4v4 or 1v1 arena and ill love you forever.

Some of us like the jumping puzzles. Also, calling those of us that do the “wow masses” is inaccurate. How many jumping puzzles can you name from WoW?

And where do these unusually large bug numbers come from? 10,000 bugs? Can I see your source so I can verify this is the actual number?

Can you do 2,000 gems for $20? I thought you only got 1,600 for $20.

So, it might cost a bit more than $20 at the moment (unless they are having a special promotion or something…and if they are, jump on it).

EDIT:
(judeobscure beat me to the punch by a few seconds, so yeah, it’s more than $20)

Just make sure to report them when you see them. The only way they can be removed from the game is if players are diligent in their efforts to inform ANet about them. So, even if only you do it, it’s something.

Actually, what I said might be considered harsh anyway. Let me try again:

Don’t worry about what other people are playing. Play what you want to play. I’m sorry it bothers you.

If it helps, I will try to only log on with a male Asura when you’re in the area.

Why does it matter what other people are playing? Play what you want to play and don’t worry about it. Let people enjoy the game how they want to.

I love Guild Wars 2, but I’m not sure it should be RPG of the year. It should have been MMORPG of the year instead and SW:ToR should have been RPG of the year…I think that would have been more fitting.

And while we’re at it, I take issue with the term RPG being applied to any of these games. RPGs require books and dice and some people sitting around a table. These are CRPGs, and I’m not sure when they decided to drop the “C,” but they should bring it back.

Bluestone.7106:

ProphetSword.5427:

Did you visit the Hall of Monuments (there’s a point of interest there, but I don’t know if it counts towards completion or not)

HoM does not count towards world completion, neither do dungeons.

Good to know. I wasn’t sure myself. I’m glad that someone confirmed it.

Bru Jah.3874:

Oh yea my bad, GI named it MMO of the year,..however a bigger and wider reaching publication called TIME magazine did name it “Game of the year”.

Apparently, Gamespot just named GW2 the “RPG of the year,” so that’s another one that can be added to the list.

Wait…did you figure it out? Who were you responding to?

Congratulations! A well deserved honor, I think, for creating a new kind of MMO that will live for years to come. Good job.

Did you visit the Hall of Monuments (there’s a point of interest there, but I don’t know if it counts towards completion or not)

Sparky Sights.9174:

I couldn’t think of a better title but here is quick question for you all.

Do you think ANet would have used their time better by adapting GW1 instead of creating a game that many people appear to hate now (I’m not one of them, I like the game) or have they done the right thing in making a new game?

No, I think they absolutely made the right move. Guild Wars 2 is, in my opinion, a far better game than Guild Wars. It is the compromise between Guild Wars and other MMOs with some original ingredients mixed in that you can’t find anywhere else.

Also, the idea that “many people appear to hate” GW2 is based on what? These forums? There are always going to be haters, especially on the official forums, but that does not mean that the majority of players are against the game. Most everyone I know in the game is fine with it.

Which means, to those players, GW2 was absolutely the right move.

Felblade.8701:

You did call me one but you realized how dumb you sounded, but the fact i leveled 3 to 80 is because i like diversity in play style and enjoyed leveling different classes, that is hardly rushing to end game. As everyone knows anyway the end game is limited and you think its a rush to 80. Why are people telling me i rushed to 80? i leveled through questing on all 3 which is certainly possible in a month and over of casual playing tbh.

I seriously doubt that you can call yourself “casual” if you made it to 80 three times and gained full exotic gear in a month. I play casually 10-15 hours a week and I haven’t come close to that.

That’s okay, though. If you’re not casual, you must be a hardcore player. To each their own. My original point still stands. I think you’re burned out and you should probably do something else for a while and come back when you feel you’re ready to tackle the game again.

That being said, let’s all try to be nice to each other.

She can start on another server and then attempt to transfer until she can actually join the server you’re on. At the moment, transfers are free.

Felblade.8701:

Yes insulting me calling me a “no-lifer” is really mature mate Thing is i have a job and even go the gym every week but i managed to get 3 80’s in exotics in a month. I didn’t rush through it at all, and people can power level to 80 in a day or 2 with crafting alone. You will be surprised how people can achieve more things than you in a short time, don’t be mad.

I’m not going to call you a no-lifer, but I will point out that if you power leveled to 80, then you are not enjoying the game the way it’s meant to be played. And, as you have already discovered, getting to 80 doesn’t net you anything.

The point of the game is to explore the world and have fun. The point of the game is not to rush to the end.

If you go on a long hike in the woods, the point of that hike is to enjoy your time in the woods, not to see how fast you can get to the end of the hike.

Felblade.8701:

Hmm burned out from an MMO in a month, that’s a new one. The end game is where this game gets stale and they tried to “fix” it by bringing in new gear hence more grind right? I knew a good few people who quit just because of this simple factor who played the original guild wars with me.

The “end game” is the whole game. I still don’t understand why people don’t get this. In Guild Wars 2, there are two stages of “end game:”

Stage 1 (End Game): Playing
Stage 2 (Not End Game): Not Playing

The whole time you are playing, starting at level 1, you are in the end game. Enjoy it!

Solitary Shell.4618:

1: The lost shore event was a complete failure and a botched work. Why ?

Okay, I’ll bite. Let’s see what your reasons are:

- The southsun cove map is not a real map (at least in my opinion) because you can’t explore it and feel satisfied when you reach 100% completion.

It’s a real map. I don’t see how you could reach any other conclusion. If it’s not a map, when what is it? A biscuit? A pencil?

Whether you feel satisfied or not doesn’t matter. If you don’t like the map, don’t go there. It served it’s purpose during the event (probably even serves its purpose now), and we were told early on that it wouldn’t be as large as other maps. So, I feel there was no failure there, as it opened up another place to run around, even if it’s much smaller than the others.

- Karka items such as shells can’t go to your bank via the deposit collectibles button

It could be an oversight. Instead of complaining here, you could have simply posted about it in either the Suggestion or Bug forums.

- Karkas are not even considered as a type of enemy. I MEAN WHAT THE HELL ? You kill a karka and it doesnt add to your daily “kill variety”. This is horrible.

It’s not horrible or game-breaking. It’s a bug, for sure. Report it. That’s all you can do.

- Some friends got a karka chest mailed event if they attempted the event and looted the “real” one.

ArenaNet tried to make right. I don’t think it worked out exactly as they planned, but at least they tried. Compared to other companies that frequently do nothing at all, I think the effort is worth something.

Are you saying that you were due a chest you didn’t receive? If so, that’s unfortunate, but hardly the end of the world.

2: When jumping, your hardware performance can reduce your jump length. For instance if I’m on the edge of a mountain and about to jump, and my FPS suddenly decreases then my jump will be shorter. It’s a proof of terrible coding and probably the same thing that allows bots to teleport across maps.

I’ve never encountered this in over three months of play. I’m not saying it isn’t for real, but it is the first time I’ve heard of it. I’ll reserve judgment on it at this point about whether it’s a real bug, but I doubt you should call it terrible coding, as I’m sure the coding really doesn’t try to anticipate what your FPS is when jumping. More likely, the low FPS is giving you a false sense of where you are when you jump, so you jump too soon.

3: Loot rates are stealth nerfed everyday.

This is not even close to realistic or true.

4: Some classes are still bugged to hell and way overpowered/underpowered and nothing is made to fix them.

What classes? I’ve seen plenty of class changes in the three months since the game launched, so saying “nothing” is being done to fix them is a ridiculous statement. Also, it takes time to balance things out. Just because you don’t see the changes right away doesn’t mean that you won’t see them later.

5: Over 9000 things are bugged like events in Orr and some bosses/mobs. Such as risen sharks one shooting you from 30 miles away underwater

9,000 things? How do you know it’s that many? Is there a list somewhere you can cite for reference?

Also, I really doubt that risen sharks can shoot you from “30 miles away.” Your levels of exaggeration are off the charts.

Discuss ?

Okay. I think you need to calm down, quit exaggerating, and report the bugs you believe exist in a sensible manner instead of ranting on the forums.

The game is dying to you; because, in a month’s time, you leveled three different characters to 80 and equipped them all in exotics.

Have you considered that maybe you burned yourself out? The game isn’t dying, your interest in playing it is what’s dying.

The one thing I see missing from this thread is information about what these systems contain:

- What operating system is everyone running?
- How much memory do you have?
- What brand of laptop do you have?

etc.

These things would really help in trying to help troubleshoot these issues.

It’s not the box, but what’s in it, that counts. Also, bad box designs won’t keep me from buying the expansions.

What you’re doing right now…that’s what you’ll do at 80. The whole game is end-game. The point is the journey, not the destination.

If I were you, I would continue to have kittenn and not worry about what level you are or how soon you will get there.

EDIT:
(For some reason, the word F-U-N is now censored and comes out as “kittenn”? What is that about?)

It is impossible that full relates to accounts tied to the server. That would create a deadlock situation where new accounts could never be created after a given time. And does anyone measure this way?

Hellkaiser.6025:

Her answer:

The first one

/discussion about it

Except that her answer was actually:

“The count is always about the ACTIVE players playing at that moment in one server, independently of where they created their account months ago. Of course it prevents people from logging at a given moment but you can still keep checking as some of them go from FULL to HIGH in different hours of the day.”

Her second answer was likely due to the fact that she felt the first option fit this description better than the option she selected. I say this because her first answer was VERY DETAILED, and her second answer was that it seems to relate to the second option.

/discussion

PowerCat.5738:

I asked Eva for clarification on that message, as it was fairly vague.

Here was her response.

First message says players online at that time, but then she corrects herself saying “players registered to that server”

Looking at that a little more closely, I think she was actually trying to say that it’s the number of currently active people on the server, not number of accounts.

Your first choice has the word “current” in it, while the second one points out current and active accounts. In my mind, it would seem that the first choice means the number of people online, and the second refers to the number of people online and the number of people who have signed up for that server. (Though I honestly think you intended the opposite).

I don’t think she was the one who was being confusing. The wording can be taken in multiple ways. (Cue a reply below me from someone who translates it differently and tells me I’m wrong).

So, maybe we can actually get a 100% answer in this thread and finally put this to rest.

For getting a visual skin without any kind of advantage? I doubt it. If they didn’t want you to do it, why would they allow you to take the soulbound item out of the bank?

Lionaeron.5724:

Aaaaand don’t forget the best one, play with your nose with your hands tied behind your back, it’s a real party pleaser.

I would totally watch a video of a guy playing that way all the way to 80. Talk about an achievement.

puffintoast.6501:

ProphetSword.5427:

Logged into GW1 the other day for the first time in months (after having played it for years), generated a new character, played until I hit about level 2. Quit. Considered uninstalling.

I loved the game, but it’s time has passed. Going back feels like a severe step backwards. Hell, you can’t even jump or go in the water.

One of the odd criticisms often leveled at the original Guild Wars was the lack of swimming, and especially jumping.
And now there is totally free movement and combat through a watery environment, that quite alot of people avoid due to it’s inherent quirkiness and cumbersome combat mechanics, and swimming is primarily a means to get to the next piece of land.
Much the same could be said of the ability to jump. Aside from the clever addition of jumping puzzles as a mini-game diversion, and the placement of vistas as an incentive to jump up a mountain, the jump’s total effect on gameplay is fairly irrelevant. In terms of combat, the meat and drink of fantasy mmo’s, it really does not serve a great deal of purpose.
Not to belittle the flavour activities, such as breath-taking vistas or difficult to reach underwater POI’s, but the derision of Guild Wars for a lack of these things is perplexing.
Take WoW, for instance. The jump mechanic serves as a valuable tool in how many situations that a player would come across every day? Swimming was necessary because?
The addition of water obstacles to traverse, and hills and cliffs to be painstakingly jumped up, always felt a contrived time-waster.
Anyhow, will stop blathering now. Just a vent that seemed necessary about a superfluous gameplay mechanic that is often quite surprisingly brought to the table to discount Guild Wars – a game which I always found to be perfectly streamlined in it’s mechanics, especially in view of it’s age.

You missed the point. I didn’t uninstall it because of these issues. I just pointed them out to illustrate how the game feels like a step backwards. Honestly the game just seemed kind of dull, going back to standing in one spot while attacking and not being able to move around or dodge.

It was good in its day, but its day is over. At least for me.

MrThebigcheese.2014:

There is no sense of danger at all though. Exploring just isn’t fun for me when it’s impossible to have any kind of real failure. I mean what’s the point, just to have it done? It’s pretty tedious imo.

I like exploring to be an adventure. GW2 feels more like an introduction to mmos than an actual game.

There are a couple of solutions to these problems I see in this post and others:

- If you want to make your exploration more of an adventure, go to areas higher in level than you are and explore there. It will be an adventure because the chance of failure is higher.

- If you want to level slower overall, go to areas below your level and never level in an area that’s the same level as you. This will actually make it harder and harder to level.

- Alternatively, if you want a real challenge in leveling, go to areas above your level and try to only level that way.

- Consider playing with a perma-death rule of some kind (like only allowing 5 defeats). Then, getting to 80 will be a real accomplishment.

I could probably think of twenty other ways to spice up the game…because the game is what you make of it.

Logged into GW1 the other day for the first time in months (after having played it for years), generated a new character, played until I hit about level 2. Quit. Considered uninstalling.

I loved the game, but it’s time has passed. Going back feels like a severe step backwards. Hell, you can’t even jump or go in the water.