People will complain no matter what they do. It’s in our nature, what we can imagine that should be is always better than what really is.
GW2 is its own game, it’s not GW1 with updated graphics, and it never will be. Either you can accept it for what it is, or move on. No amount of complaining is going to get them to completely reconstruct the game for you.
So all the features that were good in the first game that have been removed, we’re just meant to accept that and move on?
I thought NCSoft already owned Arenanet when GW1 came out.
Yeah, but Guild Wars 1 wasn’t this bad.
Crystin Cox showed up and destroyed everything about GW1 that I loved.
For Guild Wars 1, NCSoft pretty much let Anet have all the say in the game. There was NO micro-transactions until EotN. You paid for each of the 3 games and the 1 expansion and got all the updates for free with no sub.
IF Anet had followed what got them here and just made an updated(read open world) GW1, I don’t think you’d have 75% of the complaints that you see on these forums. As it stands now, NCSoft is just milking us for every dollar they can get till they decide to move on to the next “next-gen MMO”.
Lol exactly what I said in the post above.
The only thing “guild wars” related in this game is the name.
I thought NCSoft already owned Arenanet when GW1 came out.
Yeah, but Guild Wars 1 wasn’t this bad.
Crystin Cox showed up and destroyed everything about GW1 that I loved.
I tried to play GW for the Hall of Monuments rewards, but the interface and game are so out of date and limited that I get bored and log off pretty quickly. I’ve tried several characters and haven’t gotten past level 10 with any. I don’t understand how people played it for years.
On the other hand, I really enjoy GW2. Games are like that, I don’t play 1st person shooters but many people love them. It’s good to have options, but realize that not every game is going to be a perfect fit.
What I’m saying is that GW1 was great for it’s time, and all Anet needed to do was modernise it, and they’d have lots of happy players.
Instead they turned it into another failed NCsoft korean grinder.
I thought NCSoft already owned Arenanet when GW1 came out.
Yeah, but Guild Wars 1 wasn’t this bad.
Crystin Cox showed up and destroyed everything about GW1 that I loved.
“Why did Domain of Anguish take so long to do?” <— because the reward was totes amazeballs
“Why does everyone and their cat run CoF1?”
Because it provides a huge reward for a 11 minute investment of time.
Step 1)
Balance difficulty/time investment for reward
That’s it. There is no step 2.
Look at all the godkitten complaints in this forum, and you’ll see how all of them could be avoided if that rule was stuck to.
You basically either try to run through it and get it over as fast as possible, causing it to feel like a grind, or you do it casually as you explore that map, in which case it completely feels like forgettable non-content. Either way, its a stinker as a mechanic.
This. Exactly. It seems the developers are getting lazier and lazier. Each event having less and less actual content.
Consider the holograms. Why are they there? Who put them there? Is there a story behind them at all? Did the devs just steal the idea from Wintersday and repackage it?
During Wintersday, you had Tixx’s airship which was presumably dropping the gifts as a form of self-promotion. Any story attached to the holos here at all?
Of course! holos be bad. The End.
the LFG tool.
dual clkitten
kittenty events.
VS drop rate? Now that takes me back to the voltaic spear farm.
Yeah the drop rate for that was terrible too.
Remember Rollerbeetle racing? Anet surely doesn’t.
That was a fun event, the current event is just more gambling RNG bullkitten.
Warrior Primeval Armor.
That is all.
Also Elementalist Elite Iceforged, that was awesome.
Oh, and Obsidian armor, for kitten’s sake.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
One man’s completely useless post is another man’s eyeroll excersise.
To BG, frustration aside, we will win with humility and lose with grace, that’s the BG style.
Yep. That’s the first thing that pops in everyones head when they hear the term “Blackgate”: humility and grace. That, a spirit of fair play, and uncompromising ethics.
Really? I think about all the bags I’ve gotten from bombing the MERC zerg this week.
actual permanent content that’s not just an F spam grind.
So we’ll meet back here at half past never on our unicorns?
your money goes to NCSOFT, not ANET.
Current event, run around in Lion’s Arch pressing F.
Then go outside and kill 300 mobs.
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
I’m having fun with dragon ball and with my new helm.
Wish you were here.
Does having a cosmetic helm actually increase your….fun?
Or is it just the combination of dragon ball and your new cosmetic helm?
Serious question, but expect you to say that it makes for better roleplaying or something.Dude, how do you miss the obvious troll.
What makes you think I missed it? grins
What makes you think I was talking to you?
Current event, run around in Lion’s Arch pressing F.
Then go outside and kill 300 mobs.
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
I’m having fun with dragon ball and with my new helm.
Wish you were here.
Does having a cosmetic helm actually increase your….fun?
Or is it just the combination of dragon ball and your new cosmetic helm?
Serious question, but expect you to say that it makes for better roleplaying or something.
Dude, how do you miss the obvious troll.
We are a small guild looking for another small guild to merge with to help with numbers . hit me or Vecatom up . thanks
We are Oceanix [OCX]!
258 of us based on SoR, PvE, dungeons, fractals, etc, but we boast a pretty sizeable WvW presence as well.
Here’s a quick video of us running CoF. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XddPo0aV_GU
I use zerker staff ele in wvw and d/d in dungeons.
Know why i don’t die? Because I know how game mechanics work. That’s it. That’s literally all you need to know in this game.
Current event, run around in Lion’s Arch pressing F.
Then go outside and kill 300 mobs.
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
This section of the forums is not helping anyone, save people who want to vent
Do you realize that you’re venting on that very forum about itself?
Dude don’t tell him that, it’s kittening hilarious.
This is Sideshow Bob appearing on TV, telling people to turn off their TVs.
but I don’t know him nor do I have time to read all of his posts.
My objection is regarding the devolved state of this particular section of the forums and I believe it would be better to just eliminate this one section of the forums.
Let me sum them up
“Guild Wars is amazing, the dev team are gods, and you’re just playing it wrong”
Also dude, getting rid of this forum wouldn’t remove these posts, they’d just go somewhere else.
I never take my Champion of the Gods title off.
The “honor” monument in GW1, can we bring that back? The thing that actually kept a record of your achievements?
There is more than one section of the forums all of us can use to express ourselves in but I cannot think of any section on this game’s site that is as full of vitriol, uneccessary rants, undeserved insults, and general utter lameness.
Your reply was first and it exemplifies how near these forums are approaching Blizzard forum badness. You make a remarkable claim with no proof “…no one from Anet reads suggestion pages…” as if you have any idea what anyone at ANet reads and then you follow this up by insulting another player.
It would be better to eliminate this section of the forums then allow them to continue as a place for such base behavior.
And you make a remarkable claim with no proof, “This section of the forums is not helping anyone, save people who want to vent or post hundreds of times in order to stroke their own ego.”
That also falls into the same realm for which you call out others, “insulting another player.”
I mean the hypocrisy there is mindboggling. You start the thread by insulting players and making up facts and follow up by lambasting others for doing the same.
Don’t forget the hilarity in which this entire thread should be moved to suggestions forum.
Also this post should be in suggestion forum, move it pls.
wtf is this post. We can’t talk about stuff that isn’t satisfying us in the game we paid for? No one from ANET reads suggestion pages, and sometimes all we want to post is “x is broken, fix it”.
Besides, what would Vayne do with all his time if he couldn’t whiteknight this forum 24/7?
Nah, watched this video, it’s completely accurate.
because there’s no reward for skill, and it’s become a casual game full of mediocre players.
They actually went out of their way to say the achievements for Case Closed do not count towards the meta. So yeah… Why shouldn’t we complain?
Furthermore, its about choice, and fun. There simply is none in there now.
Wait, what the kitten? When did this happen?
I think they create this content around what they can sell out of their gem shop.
Guild Wars 2’s “other” manifesto, expressed in one line. Well done, sir.
“kill 300 of these mobs, BUT YOU BETTER NOT GRIND THEM OR WE’LL PUNISH YOU”
The game devs make poor decisions, then punish the playerbase.
Again.
Hey, at least this time they’re not banning people for their own mistakes, right?
Right?
lol it’s horrible on Blackgate, can’t go five minutes in Orr without seeing a bot.
Nobody should get to wield a fiery dragon sword without knowing who Prince Rurik is first
or an icy dragon sword without knowing where they drop from in the Shiverpeaks.
Lol, shatterer and jormag boss fights have become hilarious. Shatterer = 1 minute, Jormag = 3 minutes of combat.
Lol, I wonder if the gold-seller sites that are directly affecting GW2’s bottom line will be the final catalyst for the devs to implement LFG =D
Hey OP, can you list all the AAA MMOs that had an LFG at launch. Cause I’m having trouble thinking of any.
Ya, it took wow like 5 years to get one. Suddenly GW2 has to launch with one because if it doesn’t it looks cheap? Aha.
So given that GW2 was released AFTER WoW and GW1, this has no significance to you?
They’ve done it before, they should have done it again.
It doesn’t matter if other games started without LFG, wow launched 100 years ago, GW2 launched in 2012, LFG is common sense now.
The argument that it took a competitor a long time to get something is not a valid argument. Why does it keep coming up?
In order to remain competitive, you need to offer services/features which your consumers want. In this case, a LFG is wanted. Competitors have realized this and implemented them. In order to remain competitive in the current market, the supplier needs to offer these features in addition to exclusive features, or it will lose customers to the competition.
Especially considering how many design changes they made to appeal to the WoW crowd, leaving this one out just seems weird.
I honestly love the LFG website and I don’t really feel that we are suffering from a lack of an in-game dungeon finder.
So you think it’s completely fine for a AAA game launch to be lacking core features that some other guy had to make a website for?
Since when is a “Looking for Group Que” a core feature. I have only played 1 other game with this so called “core feature”… and I really don’t care for it either way.
Do you play entirely single player? XD
Doesn’t guesting not allow you to get World chests?
This is just basics ANet.
It’s been half a year.
+ the 7 years that GW1 was around for.
Because it works. They didn’t even have official forums for ages because it was provided by the community, you don’t need to make redundant things.
This leaves me speechless…..
Oh thank god, I thought it was only me who had that reaction.
Devs (I think robert) said they’re working on it just a few weeks ago.
I’ll believe that when I see evidence of that in game.
I honestly love the LFG website and I don’t really feel that we are suffering from a lack of an in-game dungeon finder.
So you think it’s completely fine for a AAA game launch to be lacking core features that some other guy had to make a website for?
The problem with relying on a completely barebones external website is that it makes the game look cheap.
I love how people suggest to go “early in the morning” in a 24 hour game. In any medium-high pop server, there is NO DOWN TIME for events. XD
The reason I feel bleh?
This is not “GUILD WARS” 2.
This is a fantasy MMO that just happens to take place in Tyria.
Never before have I felt so disappointed with a game.
I see two possibilities in current situation; devs don’t care and keep doing what they like and the Gem revenue disappears with players leaving OR they fix their game.
Number 2 is highly improbable.
Fairly sure the money they got from my purchase has long disappeared into the ether. Guess they’ll be releasing skins like they did today a lot more often so they can actually have a revenue stream.
gw2lfg exists, therefore it’s not a huge rush. get groups in no time – and anet are working on implementing a similar upgrade to the existing lfg system.
You didn’t even read the OP did you? The point is why Anet are relying on an external website to provide core game function for them.
I have an orbweaver, this setup looks interesting =D