Stop trying to blame players and blame ANET. If they fixed bugs/exploits on a consistent basis we wouldn’t have these issues. Instead it takes them 3-6months to fix simple stuff like this.
The bond between races has only been strengthened more and more since the game’s launch, and I fail to see that bond weakening anytime soon.
That’ll continue to make stories that no one cares about.
Go watch Game of Thrones and ask yourself why that show is watched by over 5 million people.
From Wikipedia, the most watched shows are MASH, Cheers and Seinfeld with 125, 84 and 76 million viewers each (Game of Thrones is 141st on the list). Now, I don’t know these shows very well, but I get the impression that none of them have the same faction-like tension that you are suggesting.
Note: I do love Game of Thrones TV Show and book; however, one major difference between Game of Thrones and what you are suggesting is that the tensions and struggles are actually believable given the course of the story.
How can you compare viewership to shows that have run for a different length of time…
I wouldn’t go to lions arch for a lot of reasons mentioned above you’re pretty much forced there. They did say they wanted to get players back to the other towns but let’s wait and see how many years it takes them to do that
Not sure if we are playing the same game… Unless anet can make money off pvp they won’t do much for it compare all the content updates that pve has got to pvp. The ratio is something like 50:1.
Not a fan of dailies/monthlies. I stopped doing dailies quite some time ago because I didn’t enjoy them. If you are a new player you will be at a huge disadvantage because dailies/monthlies make up something like 40% of achievement pts. Oh then there is temporary content achievement points which most likely will never be obtainable again.
I can see why anet included the dailies/monthlies most likely because they want players to login more
Not much challenging content… Most bosses/trash are just big health sponges. An example of this is during the Fractal with the harpies the part with the prison that contains the Champion Ettin/Shaman. This fight is painfully boring yet can take up to 10-15mins in the 40+ fractals. I honestly think anet gives trash/bosses ridiculous health pools because you would be through the dungeons very quickly
Dynamic events are very bland they usually consist or escort/retrieve/kill. You can finish an event and then 1minute later it starts up again making it very repetitive. The events also scale poorly. After a certain amount of players the bosses go down faster than they spawn such as the big meta events like shatter and maw where you stand in x spot and autoattack until the boss dies.
Anet has no incentive to work on the pvp side of the game unless they can monetize it
One of the things that worries me about Anet’s answer to threads like this is “Oh don’t worry, we can add this to Fractals to make it permanent!” What about people who don’t like fractals? I don’t hate it, but it gets tiresome rather quickly. Even if they added new instances to the Fractals, we would still have to do old fractals if they popped up. I’m sure Anet has more imagination than that. I hope they give us new permanent content that isn’t just thumb-tacked on to old stuff.
I’m very opposed to adding them to the Fractals as well. It really doesn’t make any sense – there are several full dungeons with their own stories that have never been removed, chopped up, and put in the Fractals- why do these need to be? They should be fleshed out, given their own rewards, and put right back where they were/are.
If you didn’t notice all the dungeons have story mode which revolve around Destiny’s edge and then they have explorable modes. The temporary dungeons are pretty short which is the reason they will probably end up as a fractal. Plus fractals are supposed to be glimpse of history
We hear you guys loud and clear! We definitely plan on mitigating the leaver issue with a form of punishment. I wont give details about what the punishment will be, but it should be enough to deter this form of behavior. Anything we add will be in addition to what happens now (loss and rating hit).
And how will it ‘punish’ people who get DCed and try to come back? I DCed from a match once came back just after it had ended and received a chest for winning however got to take a lovely hit to my ranking and a loss… Thanks for that…
D/C rarely happen if you have a stable connection and if you don’t I wouldn’t suggest playing pvp because you would be a liability to your team if you have to keep reconnecting…
What would those things consist of, though? Raids? Gear grinds? Or something entirely different?
For most people, probably.
I’m still playing, and I’m still happy with the game. That’s not to say it’s perfect, and the game could do with progression after cap.
Instead of instanced raids, improve upon and add more large open world events, and instead of stat progression, maybe personal progression in the form or advancing in the world i.e. Racial rep, Order ranks, Area rep, skill advancement and modifications ect.
When I get to a computer, i’ll flesh these out more.
Just what we need more events where we zerg and auto attack while tabbed out
no offence but this would be nightmare if this was placed into fotm rotation. It would be like a 2nd dredge level which everyone crosses fingers not to get. However rewards u get from it really reflect time you put into it.
Dredge isn’t difficult at all it is just very long compared to the other fractals . The first bosses room alone takes 15-20mins in the 40s because you have to wait for the mobs to trickle out slowly
Yep i’ve tried this on 3 different servers they were all bugged. We had the tears directly on the spots which were shown on the fact but the torch wouldn’t light up. Good job trying to get players back into jumping puzzles that were bugged from before.
We brought all the tears to the spot where they automatically drop and kept re-trying it did not work..
Anet spoiled the player base that is why everyone complains anytime anything somewhat challenging is added. 3/4 of the other bosses in this game are a joke people get so use to fighting easy bosses then they fight something more difficult and start yelling “NERF we can’t kill this boss by auto attacking and have to actually think for once”
it only boots you if he clicked leave pary, change character -log out or log out to desktop. any other method won’t boot the party (clicking the x, Alt+f4, etc)
it would just leave you with 1 person down, has happened a few times to me, where someone just leaves and we can still finish it with the down aslong as we don’t boot them from the party.
Its free to play. You own it. There is no gear treadmill that you have to worry about falling so far behind on that it would be impossible to catch up. There is not content that you are locked out of because you missed the last month or two of updates.
These forums, are still MMO forums. If players used the opinions in them to determine if they were going to play the game, no MMO in PC gaming history would have made it more than six months.
Best advice is to check the website and see if the events this month look like they would strike your fancy, and then log in to see whats going on in the game. If you aren’t digging it, that’s ok. Maybe some of the changes later down the road will catch your interest a little more (I have some friends that log in for the events here and there, but are waiting specifically for the LFG tool to be implemented before they really get back into it).
Thats the beauty of an ever evolving game with no sub, that doesn’t knock players who decide to take a break down the vertical progression hill. You can drop in to check out the scene anytime you want and still be able to jump into whatever is going on.
Free to play? I guess I was dreaming when I paid money for this game then
I highly doubt anyone got wings from the normal Coffers. I’ve talked to some lot of people who have gotten tickets and none of them have seen wings from Coffers. It’s just another rumor like magic find benefiting chest openers. Also I’m pretty sure anyone can edit information on the wiki
They’re probably giving up on dungeons in their current incarnation. They tried to fix AC in a way they honestly thought would make things more fun, and instead they made the dungeon even worse.
I feel they’ll just leave dungeons like that and work on a much better dungeon system when it’s the time to build their first expansion.
They made the dungeons worse by implementing actual mechanics after training the community to autoattack HP sponges. If dungeons had real mechanics to begin with, it wouldn’t really have been a huge deal, but now you have people that don’t know what stunbreakers are or how to use stability, and they don’t do AC because anymore because it requires them to think, all of which was probably reinforced by the old AC.
I agree anet conditioned their playerbase to just autoattack and tab out because they know casuals rake in the money
This seriously needs to be fixed you take a huge risk pugging because of this. When the person that zones in leaves the party everyone gets kicked.
I just did a fractal 48 which i rarely pug but since most people I know who still do fractals quit I attempted it. We made it to the end of the harpy fractal and the person that zones us says he has to go after this. I said you zoned us right he replied yes I won’t log out. We kill the asura boss then go to jade maw then I get kicked to lions arch that is when I knew he left the party…. Which he did because he was the only member not in the party.
I don’t know if he was just trolling or dumb but I wasted 2hrs for nothing because let’s face it the rewards you want come from the Jade Maw chest. I still can’t believe there isn’t a feature to change the zoner/party leader
An hour ago I received a force name change because of my warriors character name “Rapid Penetration” How is this offensive? I based this off the rifle attacks the warrior uses. I’m just trying to make sense of this
Anet gave up on reworking dungeons and adding stuff to fractals quite some time ago. They are focused on the living story which revolves around RNG cash shop items
