I ignore ALL the things I don’t like about the game and just do the stuff i DO enjoy. Thanfully there are a lot of things I do like and I’m still having fun playing it. They gave us great variety…as promissed. If the time comes I stop finding ways to have fun, I’ll stop playing. I won’t remember the stuff I didn’t do, Just the fun I had playing the game the way I wanted to play it.
judgung by that snipit of dialogue, they gave the people what they want.
If you assume the entire server population is those 15 players, and don’t count the ones who log in, stare at that depressing spectacle for 5 minutes, and then just close the game and go do something more productive with their lives.
You probably also think that WoW’s player base was exclusively composed of people who treated others like disposable “assistants” even before the Dungeon Finder was introduced.
I made absolutely zero claims about or referances to wow or wow players in my post. I also prefixed it with “judging by that snipit of dialogue”.
judgung by that snipit of dialogue, they gave the people what they want.
they gave us countless things to do to make a game where you don’t really have to grind gear in dungeons…but all anyone wants to do is grind gear in dungeons. So they gave us that too.
I like open world pve that I can play at my own pace (ie: DE’s and exploring) and spvp where the playing field is equal anyway. I can’t find me on the chart.
Was World of Tanks ‘pay to win’ or “pay to not grind your kitten off” or pay for better looking tanks, decals, stuff like that? How did the game fair? This is an honest question, not rhetorical. I’ve never played it.
mostly it was pay to not grind your kitten off.
trade off was guys who bought their way up the tiers had way less skill on average than those who ground it out playing 4 times as many battles.
You could either play 200 battles in a tank to earn the next one, or pay money to unlock your free xp and do it in 50. There were cash only tanks, but they we’re generaly lower stats than their regular counterparts but earned you more credits Which also excelerated the grind. for the next tank. The tanks have 10 tiers andnone of the cash only tanks came higher than tier 8.
i sunk a ton of money into a f2p game for a while. world of tanks. probably spent at least 50 bucks a month on that game for 8 straight months and had a ton of fun with it. There were also people who never spent a dime on the game that consistantly kicked my kitten. They had fun too. Everybody won.
It’s not pay to win unless you can buy better stuff than you can get free. Time=Money. If the gem store offered gear with better stats than you could grind for, then it would be pay to win.
I see nothing wrong with being able to buy stuff that can also be obtained by grinding as long as the cost reflects the difficulty of the grind.
I could be wrong, but I think Old Ascalonian And New Krytan are the only written languages in the game that can actually be translated. The rest were all just art more or less.
Likely not a mistake. More likely it was just displayed as New Krytan as that was the alphabet they had on hand. It gives it easter egg value as it can be translated by players, which is more fun than just making it out of jibberish symbols, and saves the hassel of creating a whole new alphabet and seeding it into the world to write something that will receive little more than a glance to 99% of players.
What is the time frame between GW2 and the ending of Edge of Destiny.
I can’t be that long since the members of Edge of Destiny are still emotionally recovering from it, in the beginning of your storyline?
" The arena was knocked down to make way for something"
That could be a very good solution, although when those events are mentioned it sounds like a good money making business for Lion’s arch since people around Tyria come to visit LA just for that arena.
Then again we already lost the Lion statue and now the observation tower. I just thought I would put it out there and see if anybody had an answer.
The mists are where we battle for competition in gw. The battles there would be vastly more glorious than what took place in an arena. Lions arch probably still generates a ton of money and draws a lot of visitors to town because of the gates. They didn’t give up a source of revenue…they took it to a whole new level.
we don’t need to do anything to change it. we aren’t responsible for content developement or corperate decisions at ANET. They make us an offer, we accept it or go elsewhere.
The only people who have anything invested in the success or faliure of this game are ANET employees.
Sometimes you buy a product and find out it was not exactly as advertised. happens all the time. You either throw it out or use it as is.
I can’t believe anyone would drop money in this game for gems. You get everything you need just from playing the game, there is absolutely no reason to buy gems.
If you are dropping $50/month into this game when it isn’t needed, perhaps you should give some of that wasted money to charity.
I find it sick how some players can proudly boast how much they spend in the gem store. Like most players, I haven’t spent a dime in the gem store and never intend to.
I don’t spend a lot in the gem store. But i have bought gems. It’s simply a matter of time vs money. I can spend 10 bucks (which is 15 minutes wages) and buy 5 hours worth of farmings gold.
I wouldn’t spend anywhere near 50 bucks a month, but I will spend a little here and there to cut the grind.
I leveled my warrior sending most of the game in areas/story missions 4 or 5 levels above me still able to take on 3 mobs at a time. Can’t do that on my ele, thief or engineer.
Conversely, you can have a person who invests oodles of time, but doesn’t care at all about hardcore content. Such a person would likely not want to see the peanut butter and the chocolate fraternizing.
mmmmmm…reese. now I’m confused. maybe I am hardcore?
In 4 years of playing gw i never did a dungeon after sorrows furnace. i’ll probably never see the inside of the bulk of the dungeons in gw2. never sauw the depths. Spent maybe 20 minutes in the fissure of woe once and wasted 1k to catch a 3 second glimps of under world. But I played the game for 4 years cause there was lots of other stuff to do
gated content is fine. I don’t need to open THAT gate. as long as there is also enough new content placed “outside the gate” for those of us who aren’t interested in the grind they can make 1 dungeon fort knox for all i care
it frustrated me when i first got there too. There are a few in each orr zone that are walled in and less frequently contested than others. you really have to slowely and diliberately move through orr if you’re going it solo because you may have to start way back at the beginning. They also bait you with resource nodes that are very dangerous and pull you off course. took me a week to get a good foot hold into the straights.
my gw ele retired from adventuring and built himself a little cottage on the bay in scoundrals mouth. One day he slipped in the tub and broke a hip. He layed there in agony for days waiting for someone to find him and get him to help. But since it was a private instance help never came
The pale tree is stationary. The sylvari are created as drones to allow the pale tree to interact with the world. It’s not much different than ants or bees. They can’t reproduce on their own either, but the queen keeps churning them out. Workers, soldiers…whatever is needed to reach out and meet the needs of the colony.
What produces the seeds that make the pale trees themselves is the bigger question.
i didn’t mind him till he gave me my first order of business as his second in command. what was the first thing he gets you to do? go ask people why they don’t like him. Holding him by the hand and leading him around the school yard asking people to like him made me feel like a kitten.
if you look hard enough you will always find them. I don’t think they can ever be fully eliminated. There are far fewer than there used to be. You arent tripping over them in every zone anymore. Ignorance is bliss.
I average a little under a gold per hour just playing and vendering stuff indiscriminately not including mats with any toon over lvl 50. I’d say a gold per hour would be an easy target with an actual focus on trying to make money.
I always drop a healing field before i start to revive a downed player and i swear it effects the time it takes to get them back up. you can see double the tics. I haven’t confirmed it through actual testing but i’m convinced it helps. whether or not it helps them get up on their own any faster to drop a field I’m not really sure of though.
I’d much rather be sitting on a stack of them than on the many stacks of tonics i get. I need to repair my armour way more frequently than I feel the need to transform into something random.
it’s all about perspective. the people who post those threads see the glass as half empty. I will admit, sometimes i have to change zones because one happens to be empty at the time when i’m there but I can always find a full one to play in.
I see an empty zone and think “i wonder what zone everybody is in?” so i go find them.
Others see an empty zone and go onto the forums ranting about the game being dead because no one was where they were.
not sure if i’m the only one experiencing this, but the nodes for the candy corn from halloween still show through quite frequently.
They pop up on my mini map then vanish as i get close to the node. i sometimes change direction to mine the node on the map without checking to see what type it is and am chasing ghosts.
they also pop up visible on screen in places for a split second, then dissapear again.
i played all of the gw1 campains and didn’t pay any attention to the story. by the end of eye of the north most of the lore was still just fluff to me. I loved the mechanics and the game play but didn’t read a kitten thing that came up in a dialogue box. I just wasn’t interested.
Gw2 came out and for some reason this time around I did decide I wanted to know. the lore is very rich and I found myself wondering a lot of things as well. I started going between the lore forums here and a lot of looking up characters and places on the wiki’s for gw1 and gw2 and I think i’m fairly up to date.
Why is this relevant? because the games are so different that going back and playing the first one because you fell in love with tyria playing gw2 might not be as simple as it seems. They are very different games with very complicated plot lines and hundreds of hours of content.
If all you’re after is the back story and lore playing GW1 may not be the easiest way to get there.
the state of the hall of monuments is pretty much in line with the state of your legend.
There might be a few scraps here and there, but for the most part history has forgotten old “whats his name? that guy that was always in the way when we were trying to see mhenlo”.
It fits well lore wise. Whoever you contracted to look after your legacy after you died laughed all the way to the bank.
it used to read soulbound but you could still pull it out of storage on another character and transmuted again. I’ve heard this is fixed now. Might have to transmuted something cheap and soulbound just to test it.
you can keep going back to GW1 and earning rewards. I went and threw in a whole whack of undedicated GW1 mini pets after i had already grabbed some stuff in GW2 to grab a few extra points.
