Guild Wars 2

RoyalPredator.9163:

• Cultural Armors are locked on races with no real logical reason

apart from design work required to fit on 6 (each gender and char, asura, human/sylvari/norn….apart from proportions the last three are the same it’s just stretched slightly differently over the three)

pricer.5091:

Or possibly Project Titan…(whatever that turns out to be).

It turns out to be nothing, it was scraped.

Aeonblade.8709:

If you want to truly prove which game is the best, vote in the MMORPG of the year awards, don’t read articles from a site that blatantly reviews games on a per paycheck basis.

All the game sites do, for example right now Massively are clearly being paid $$$ by FFXIV marketing since you can’t post any comment that isn’t praising FFXIV without it being removed very quickly.

So yes, vote.

Insignya.8625:

I now understand why all the content we’ve been seeing is temporary. It’s not a gift from A.net, it’s not the passionate work of designers who couldn’t care less about money – no, the sad truth is, it’s just an attempt to get people back in the game before the stuff expires. None of it is for the sake of lore or immersion, don’t let them bullkitten you – it’s the cold reality of a game that, like many, has turned rotten because of the desire of both developers and publishers to cash in on a product, rather than provide an experience worthy of remembrance.

Pretty much, you may notice that there’s temporary content every month or so…effectively they’re attempting to foster the same mentality as a subscription only difference being one you need to pay to experience (so you’re pretty much guaranteed to be logging in) compared with if you aren’t logging in in this limited window you won’t be experiencing content.

The whole thing is about getting $$$ not providing a good game, it’s the same thing with the cash shop chests/lockboxes it’s an exploitation of their customers naivety for $$$ rather than offering a paid way to get the rare skin because they make more exploiting the customer with minuscule change. It took 9 years for Anet to get a solid reputation but it’s taken 9 months for them to really start ruining it and start being another company people don’t trust and with the general MMO player once you screw you up there isn’t any second chance.

lordkrall.7241:

Why?
If I go out and by a lottery ticket in real life I have no idea about my chances of winning the jackpot.

Errr…yeah you do, the odds at the same for everyone since the numbers of balls and the chance to pick any given ball in X order always remains exactly the same. It’s completely transparent and just requires math to figure out. The RNG here isn’t transparent since everything is skewed to worthless, it’s not really random.

The living story wouldn’t be an issue if it lead to permanent content, it doesn’t, you end up with this one time content which you can’t ever do again so you just go from one one off thing to another as a smoke and mirrors act to the game actually improving when really it’s just stayed the same.

Doesn’t look like it, I mean the way to trigger the events for the Fervid doesn’t trigger, the npc is there and all the locations have the intractable flower but you can’t get the scanner which makes it a little annoying with everything (the intractable spots and the npc) being there… would have been nice to leave that in, at least give people something to do if they missed the event, especially since you can’t get the item any other way (unlike other event items that you can buy off the TP)

I dunno, I don’t mind it on the normal ones but the animation on the shatterers ones are terrible

I think the irony of the situation is the promoted the game so heavily on being able to get max gear easily after hitting max level only to do a 180 on what they had been promoting before release, kind of makes me feel like I was lied to about the product and given the rest of the shady decisions by Anet a couple months post release I’ve stopped trusting them. That 180, a complete lie to their customers, and the continual RNG boxes are going to be what ends up trashing Anets rep, making systems that continually just leave people unhappy isn’t a great PR approach.

Kain.9127:

actually, all you gotta do is let all the other people know who is taking them. I give people a couple chances but ive only had to mention peoples names twice now. Apparently everyone in the region wouldnt wait for those guys.

So basically, you encouraged people to engage in vilification of another player because they weren’t playing how you wanted them to….nice.

Also randomly, i do believe you will find that against the ToS so I dunno if I would be bragging about it in a public place…..

holo’s seem to drop the chests at a much higher rate

it’s just anet resorting to nickle diming their customers which will eventually lead their reputation into the ground all because the parent company wants $$$

It probably doesn’t but given the length of this event it’s probably going to fail since the weapons skins will be fairly common.

Zenith.6403:

Fractal level isn’t bound to account?!

For me WvW blueprints.

Not, it’s character bound, you can also do the daily chest on each toon because it isn’t account bound, if it were then there’d be only one chest.

The only thing that comes to mind is Crystal (item from Miyani from skill points) and anything in that vein, more a convenience though.

that shouldn’t be right, it’s basically just a gps tracker on opposing zergs….

Aenaos.8160:

Even if they increase the level cap,I don’t see them introducing new gear.
Maybe they will just boost current gear to compensate for the higher
levels.
GW2 is at the verge of being tagged as a gear grind game as it is,and I doubt that
is something Anet wants.

it’s pretty obvious ascended gear and weapons will be coming increasing the vertical progression (despite Anet’s claims that wasn’t ever going to happen…and then did it anyway, but Anet doesn’t lie….)

Feirlista Xv.1425:

To many people are putting to much effort into dailies, just play the game as you did before dailies and you will get your daily done. It’s even easer now that there are more choices in the dailies. There are a couple that may be out of the norm like going and talk to the loural guy or crafting 10 items but on average I get 6 to 8 of the dailies done just by casual playing not grinding them out. Just have fun and stop over thinking the dailies and you will be surprised how fast you get them done. If for some reason I just don’t have the time to play much that day and I want to just do the dailies I can get them done in less then an hour.

errr…no, that’s false. normal gameplay will maybe every other day get you 4 of the tasks but you really need to go out of your way to get the last one the vast majority of the time, especially now with a lot of them being zone specific.

Agreed it’s kind of ridiculous and just highlights a back track from the whole gear treadmill and gating gear behind daily chores caused by all the new currencies, but pretty much everything in the manifesto has been backtracked or shone itself to be a lie so whatevs, all we can take from this stuff is Anet aren’t the trustable company that produced GW1 anymore.

Riss.1536:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Riss.1536:

The problem is more about the Black Lion Kit. Why the hell would I buy one at the gems store if I often salvage and get between 0 and 1 ecto ? (more often 0…). Prefer not buying and selling yellows to the market. Seriously up the kit to 75%.

Rate is around 0.8 to 0.9 ectos per salvage, so if it was 75% then you’d get even less ectos.

Currently, master kit has a 25% chance of having rare mats. Black Lion Kit has 50% chance. I want a up to 75%, that’s what I meant so I don’t think you would have less by upping the kit. Otherwise, it’s better to directly buy the ectos than to buy gems or use gold for the black lion kit.

Then I must be the most lucky person with my approx 9 ecto’s per 10 salvages.

Just picked up a Heavy Armageddon Breastplate in a fractal chest, it’s tool tip says soulbound on use…I’ve not used it and it’s refusing to let me sell it

Tekyn.5376:

Actually… the real problem is people who undercut by more than 1c. If everyone undercut by only 1c the profit margins would be fine.

Ermmm, no, it’ll just reach the point slower, it’ll still reach it considering the TP is becoming more aggressive with 3rd party notifiers alerting players when they are undercut.

the average player isn’t….legendaries are meant to be “rare” (they just aren’t since they are on every other toon you come across in game)

Given that the only thing world completions gets you is 2 ingredients for a legendary weapon which also requires you to get 500 Badges of Honor from WvWvW I fail to see what the problem is.

Agreed, more info is required (and I doubt will be given) or this issue is going to negatively affect the tone of this forum (see second thread where people have resorted to name calling people who disagree with the program and what seems like fairly obvious trolling/drama seeking) because people fail to be civil with differing opinions :\

Oglaf.1074:

Charming Rogue.8071:

Oglaf.1074:

With the price of Precursors, Legendaries definitely need less gold sinks. The Icy Runestones should be removed.

Good idea, give players wanting a legendary 100g more to spend on a precursor. That won’t raise the price of precursors at all. /sarcasm

Yeah because supply/demand is how Precursors are priced. Not like you have a few players having monopoly on them or nothing.

Oh wait…

People are buying them at the current price, there is demand there. We also know the drop rate for them is tiny. Whether they are being manipulated or not is irrelevant when the supply is tiny and people are STILL buying them at the current price…still supply/demand, the only thing the possible manipulation does is get it to the max price a buyer will pay (ie the highest demand)

Vol.5241:

T6 prices and lodestones will go up when they release scavenger hunt, which I suspect (with no proof) will come out during or immediately after summer.

Every time it’s been mentioned the dev’s have also pointed out that no one is working on it, so I wouldn’t hold your breath on it coming out any time in the foreseeable future.

Esplen.3940:

In terms of my inventory, the gold sinks are enough (especially if you count Gem store transactions via Gold). However, I would not mind more gold sinks being implemented.

….that’s not really a sink when gold is simultaneously coming out to people that sell gems for gold.

It’s too late, the people with money will always have money since they aren’t ever going to spend in a way that they’ll lose money, meanwhile the average player will rarely ever have more than 50g. Precursors will always be expensive as a result of this.

On a slight tangent I agree that the report options are lacking, I mean there’s verbal abuse but unless you take it as abuse of the chat feature there’s a lot of reportable conversations that wouldn’t fall under what most people consider verbal abuse.

Just feel like that whole thing would be more effective if people could put in some text of what was going on (ie like we do on the forums) if nothing else it helps whoever is looking at it to know why the report happened.

Blueshield.6291:

Exactly, ANet’s actions (or lack of actions) speak loudly in this case. A thread announcing and dedicated to Zicore’s notifier has been bouncing around the first page of this forum section for something like a week now. When threads discuss, propose, or glorify EULA/TOS violations, the mods tend to lock them down quite rapidly.

I’d like to agree but AN haven’t really shown themselves to be prompt on quite a lot of things, given the number of exploits that have existed since release and aren’t handled until they have already gotten out of control and no word from AN til after the fact. Bot bans happen in waves (rather than when it’s detected) only after the effects are extremely obvious on the TP. Cultural weapon skins on karma vendors they shouldn’t since launch (and only fixed last month), etc. It’s hit and miss with AN.

Ansultares.1567:

Protoavis.9107:

They’ve basically become slaves to the player base without the freedom to explore.

Is that a problem? We did mention that it’s the only MMO to show any net population growth over the very long term.

One wonders why certain bugs never get fixed, or other areas never get touched up; I guess it’s because developers are too busy “exploring.”

I never said it was or wasn’t but you’ve done a 180 on your initial stance

“I like subscriptions because then the developer has no need to view every little change through the prism of increasing cash shop sales.”

In the case of eve, sub’s don’t achieve what you’re saying they achieve since they are still having to view every little change through a prism of maintaining subs (either cash shop or subs, it’s just about maintaining $$$)

Ansultares.1567:

Protoavis.9107:

Ansultares.1567:

I’m unfamiliar with EVE and its history, other than that I’m aware it’s practically the only MMO which experienced net population growth over the very long term. In fact, I wasn’t even aware it was subscription based.

You could elaborate, maybe?

They were adding things to the game that a large part of the player base believed the game was shifting away from what it was. (sandbox) in an attempt to pull in new players. A big cosmetic overhaul happened also which (while very pretty visually) didn’t sit well with the player base (since it wasn’t necessary). Add in the cash shop being added and well nerd rage, 40K (at the time over 10% of the player base) subs cancelled in protest, etc. Since then nothing has been added to the game that hasn’t been specifically been asked for by the community.

If anything, that sounds like a defense of subscriptions, because the playerbase was able to effect change through mass cancellations.

In a sense, but it still goes against your initial post about a sub allowing dev’s to be more free to do what they want since everything doesn’t come down to how to get $$$ which in the case of eve at least isn’t the case. They’ve basically become slaves to the player base without the freedom to explore.

But have they? ANET haven’t said anything about this program (as this isn’t GW2Spidy), so you might want to avoid jumping the gun.

Blueshield.6291:

Protoavis.9107:

DarkSpirit.7046:

If gw2spidy is ok, then so should this program be ok as they use the same mechanisms to access the trading post server.

Same mechanism but COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GOAL/END RESULT IN MIND.

If ANET do nothing about this their reputation is going to further decline and given the amount of distrust towards them it’s not something they are going to be able to afford.

How do you figure? Both gw2spidy and Zicore’s notifier do nothing beyond tracking market data and providing that information in real-time. Sounds like the same goal to me.

GW2Spidy isn’t real time, it’s in 1 hour intervals…

GW2Spidy just tracks and records data, it’s purpose isn’t to notify in real time.

Ansultares.1567:

I’m unfamiliar with EVE and its history, other than that I’m aware it’s practically the only MMO which experienced net population growth over the very long term. In fact, I wasn’t even aware it was subscription based.

You could elaborate, maybe?

They were adding things to the game that a large part of the player base believed the game was shifting away from what it was. (sandbox) in an attempt to pull in new players. A big cosmetic overhaul happened also which (while very pretty visually) didn’t sit well with the player base (since it wasn’t necessary). Add in the cash shop being added and well nerd rage, 40K (at the time over 10% of the player base) subs cancelled in protest, etc. Since then nothing has been added to the game that hasn’t been specifically been asked for by the community.

DarkSpirit.7046:

If gw2spidy is ok, then so should this program be ok as they use the same mechanisms to access the trading post server.

Same mechanism but COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GOAL/END RESULT IN MIND.

If ANET do nothing about this their reputation is going to further decline and given the amount of distrust towards them it’s not something they are going to be able to afford.

Ansultares.1567:

I like subscriptions because then the developer has no need to view every little change through the prism of increasing cash shop sales.

Depends on the community, if you look at eve (the only sub game left that’s increasing in player base as all others are decreasing/have adopted a different payment model) you have to reconsider your quote given what happened in 2011. You can pretty much tell the dev’s there aren’t going to do anything the player base doesn’t want anymore given all the updates since then.

Soulstar.7812:

Protoavis.9107:

NetherDiver.6079:

With all the people complaining about being lied to and disrespected, you’d think they’d be gone by now.

It’s a tough question. I want to say no because there’s no gated gear grind to artificially lengthen your play time. And then I realized how silly it is to pay to have your content be gated.

What do you call ascended gear? An amulet takes 30 days to get…

I’m getting mine in the next 5 days…
and I am a horrible player… so what does that say?

Nothing that’s relevant? Point is it’s still gated and it still punishes those with alts (as it’s another 30 days for each) or anyone that plays more than 1 build.

NetherDiver.6079:

With all the people complaining about being lied to and disrespected, you’d think they’d be gone by now.

It’s a tough question. I want to say no because there’s no gated gear grind to artificially lengthen your play time. And then I realized how silly it is to pay to have your content be gated.

What do you call ascended gear? An amulet takes 30 days to get…

Attila.6348:

Revolution.6301:

Gw2 broke its maneifesto and feels 2/3s done.

People keep in mind this game was DELAYED TWICE. It was suppoed to release back in 09 then 10 then 11 and finally released in 12.

If there were so many issues why not hold it back a year? And the voice acting really? Anyone in 10 could’ve told you to redue everything.

The manifesto was broken because GW2 attracted too many different kinds of players that thought they could find something their favorite mmorpg has (such as grind, “endgame”, etc.). Also, for me, the manifesto wasn’t broken because I feel Anet delivered.

Really?

Have you watched it lately?

Boss spawning 10 minutes later not ok…..meanwhile that’s exactly what champion events do in gw2, “the game doesn’t care that I’m there”

Villagers don’t remember anything, let alone that I (and dozens of others, every 10 minutes that day) saved them. There’s no “in a very permanent way” since everything just resets and repeats. Nothing Ree say’s in the manifesto is true to the game that was delivered.

Holyblesserx.7618:

i think a lot of times people are overreacting at the cost of paying a monthly subscription for an MMO. Folks pay 15 dollars for a meal at their nearest restaurant or grab that crappy Mcdonlads value meal they shouldnt be eating for 7.99 or whatever i is. but complain about a $15 subscription. If you eliminate the unecessities and bad habits then $15 is really nothing. This is PER MONTH. People are ordering pizza every weekend or whatever and spend much more on a weekend for food/fun than a subscription cost

Given that you’ve likely heard the same argument about not playing a p2p game before since it’s so common to hear you might want to consider it’s not about the cost but the psychological impact the time limit has. Time limits send people into a frenzy and that prevents most people from taking their time and enjoying it because they are stuck in a “need to make the most of it” mind frame.

Czar Peter.7961:

Karizee.8076:

Czar Peter.7961:

Same here. An MMO subscription doesn’t cost much compared to most hobbies. I’d rather pay to play an MMO that respects your time than play a grindy f2p game.

Good thing GW2 is a non-grindy B2P game

Requiring PvP players to log in and spend half an hour on an activity every day for a month to acquire 1 max stat item out of 14 potential slots is f2p level game design. Of course the good thing about f2p is that I can’t quit, and will be back when ANet fixes said issue =)

Ermm….PVP players don’t benefit from ascended gear (it isn’t available in pvp)

No, for as much hype as the manifesto video generated I don’t believe they even remotely lived up to it (most of the quotes in that video are either exaggerations or lies or idealistic/unrealistic aims they failed to meet) and I really can’t see myself paying to play GW2 for more than a month or two as even playing an alt you quickly realise the storyline overlaps far too quickly. Which isn’t helped by the fact that a lot of dev’s were tooting on features that that aren’t in game and don’t even look like they are on the horizon (esport stuff related) which just makes you think they released too early.

Probably not initially, box sales and all. But then like pretty much every MMO released in recent years it’d be looking at a ghost town 6 months into it and rumors of F2P would turn out around 9 months before happening at 12 months.

Trickstick.7523:

The simplest solution is usually the best: make other people’s character sheets viewable. This would fix the problem, without causing annoyance to people by removing a load of equipment. You don’t want MF in your party? Look at what they use and kick them.

Kicking them is basically griefing, if someone doesn’t like MF they should be the one leaving, if everyone leaves that’s one thing but kicking someone because you don’t like their gear is your problem not theirs so don’t force it on them and throw a tantrum about it just leave since you’re the one with the issue.

Even if there was a healer….you as an ele….wouldn’t be the tank so you’d still be dead compared with your warrior/guardian.

Folk.2093:

I still don’t see what so awesome about warriors. If they’re in my fractal groups ok, if not, ok too. Never seen a correlation with successful frac runs and having warriors.

You haven’t seen a good one then, when you see one single handly (because everyone else died lol) tank Lupi in arah you may change your opinion slightly.

If they are doing it against a mob they are doing it wrong. Do it in WvW one dodge against a zerg and it’s completed

Doggie.3184:

Protoavis.9107:

Doggie.3184:

Rynn.1324:

Is it so much to ask to get a legendary that actually looks like something an Asura would use? The rifle was the perfect opportunity for this, but no, we get stuck with more Charr-themed nonsense (just like the engineer turrets).

I wish the Quip was a high tech looking Asuran style laser pistol/blaster. Instead it’s the only Legendary I simply hate. :/

Protoavis.9107:

Personally I think it looks ridiculous/cheesy now and sold the precursor as a result. I would have been so annoyed had I gotten the legendary and had them changed it after all the time spent to get it…seriously uncool changing things people have worked at getting.

Many of the Legendarys were incompleted. This patch simply finished them.

unfinished means a change in projectile colour despite the projectile colour already being vastly different from the default? Don’t believe everything you read…

They didn’t just update a projectile. They added footprints, auras and various other effects that were lacking on most of them. They said they didn’t expect people to get them as soon as they did so people got things that were underwhelming. Like The Moot for example, which pretty much did nothing till this update.

People expected all of them to have visual effects on par with Bolt, Twlight and Incinerator~

Missing the point, this was a redesign not just finishing something that was “incomplete” given that the changes aren’t all just an addition to what was there but a complete change on what was there previously to something else entirely.

Thematically I find the weapon now ruined and due to Anet’s seeming(and increasing) inability to release finished/tested products and been punished in wasted time and financially on obtaining parts that are account bound and I can’t get sell or “refund”. This repeating cycle of punishing their player base because they are releasing unfinished/untested content is making a pretty terrible name for themselves.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Can we take Colin’s statements to be as correct as when we were assured that Veterans and Champions would drop ANYTHING?

Sorry if I am more than a bit skeptical.

After the whole snowflake thing, cultural skins on open world karma vendors, etc that it’s fairly fair to say testing isn’t a strong point before handing things out to the player. I’d be skeptical too since it doesn’t look like they really realise what they are releasing til after the fact.

I just res NPC’s there are various hearts around Tyria that always have dead NPC’s around them