Have you considered that BC wasn’t a free update and WoW have subscription fees ?
You can’t expect the same from a 430$ game and a 60$ game. (game cost + expansion cost + 2 years subscription fees)
The ratio is 7:1.
There’s problems, mismanagement, other things. But your comparizon is pointless… WoW and GW2 aren’t equals on the funding.
arenanet get more per player than wow get with sub fees per player – check this quartal thingie
Actually been here since launch and 3 new maps is more then none so progress is being made. Regarding your last posts it is obvious that you are a pessimist seeing that you don’t like Southsun Cove because you do guild missions/kill world boss/farm/explore new area/story lol what do you want from a PvE area magic unicorns that let you ride them and get precursors for 2s? And lets not forget they don’t ONLY focus on PvE so resources will be split and refocused when everyone get a fair share.
I wonder why you have to be so hyperbole. As for your initial post: “New maps every few weeks”. Let’s see, 3 maps added the last two years. So every 34 weeks, they add another map. One could say that 34 still counts as few, but I do not.
Let’s get to Southsun Cove then, shall we? You can explore the area once and you don’t get anything for doing so. The world boss can be killed once every day, unless you feel so obligated to kill the Queen more than once per day. That said, the Queen could spawn on any map, it wouldn’t help the fact that the map itself lacks meaningful activities.
As for farming, yes you can farm T6 mats, but neither is farming effective, nor can you do that all day, nor will get rich by doing so.
And as I said in my inital post, Guild Missions can only completed once per week, unless you feel obligated to do them more than once per week. That, said, it isn’t even assured that you get Southsun as Guild Mission.
And there is no story anymore on Southsun.
And yes, I would like to have unicorns, even though I prefer chocobos.
But yeah, keep talking about how incredibly meaningful this map is.
Wow no comment. Pointing out reasons for the map and dismissing them because you don’t find them worthy.
no – because when look to other games it is just not enough
blizzard brings in wow in this 2 years always a new continent with 7-10 maps or something + sometimes new class or race + compelte news tier and style sets for weapons and armors you can get by playing (not gemshop only like in gw2) + tons of so called features^^ + actual progress for characters/accounts + whatever ……
2 years and you guyz count southsum and eotm ? rly?
they tried and they patched ( eotm map , wvw masteries ) but unfortunately one of these patches was shoot in the foot …..
eotm was good alternative but became main wvw map for many players ( the first diamond legend : 10000 rank became in eotm , coincidence ? i don’t think so ) , because of faster rewards and great fun in all levels ….
this hilarious situation becoming more funny when the seasons start and all people login to eotm and not to wvw to help their servers , because you know they will complete the achievements in eotm too …. bingo
you are wrong – the shoot in the foot was the wvw masteries – atleast the buffs to siege
since they made AC´s very OP the WVW is a boring/annoying place and since than the population was dying
i know wvw is designed so even the worse casual clicker can feel like a hero with spamming aoe while blobbing but this patch nailed it
now the horrible players sit in all the towers and feel like superheros and wait even hours for an zerg
just ugly
best times was the 1 day matches the first 2 weeks after release – noone cared bout siege or tower upgrades cause noone could pay this and ppl just fought everywhere
eotm is a step back to this and its fun – would arenanet remove now all the siege in eotm it could be even more fun^^
I thought today’s features were really good. People have long commented on the problems with Instance owners leaving. And, I find the new crafting feature very helpful.
Who doesn’t want improved performance? Well, I suppose some have great performance now…lol. But, I will look forward to possible improved performance on my machine! =)
rly?
my only thought was why the hell this even need a blogpost? months ago this would just be patched in a normal livingstory patch and now?
they hold back this lil features forever to make the presentation like a patch
they made a break from livingsotry just to can present this blogposts – feels pathetic
My end game is living story, which comes out often enough to keep me playing, achievement points, and going for various things that I want like the vine backpack right now. I’ve beaten every dungeon and run them sometimes. I play WvW sometimes. I PvP sometimes. But mostly I PvE.
Your end-game are these forums! I’m rather sure that you spend more time here then in the game.
Why not go in game, check my achievement points and then say that. Or do you think I have 19,500 achievement points just doing the forums. The advantages of two monitors and hating load screens.
no its not worth to lvl crafting – you dont need crafting
only thing would be for asc items but they are useless anway and a hugh waste of gold
you need this only for fractals but you can simple buy 3x +10 agony infusions for back item and both rings and its much cheaper than crafting asc armor with +5
I only know one spot for lemongrass .. there are 4-6 herb spots and it takes 3 minutes
to farm them .. if you can reach another instance via guesting its 6 minutes.
To farm them you need 10 characters and 2 instances .. and in the end you make maybe
8g per hour .. the same like farming mobs for T6 mats or harvest iron and platinum.
So for me the price is OK.
and lemongrass is only 1h respawn + all the other good stuff you find there like corriander or Cayenne Pepper
i had before megaserver patch alot chars sitting there
now after megaserver patch farming is a farce – you have to find the nodes most time again
arenanet should make all farming nodes the same on all megaservers and problem would be solved
maby you should than not make a blogpost with things you will give us this year BUT
a blogpost with things you work on
i guess people would be happy to read things like: we work on housing but far from release, we have 3 dungeons in beta status, we had to restart work on precursor crafting and its back to alpha status ………
something like this
That would also break the company policy of what we’re allowed to discuss in regards of what is in development
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maby you should than not make a blogpost with things you will give us this year BUT
a blogpost with things you work on
i guess people would be happy to read things like: we work on housing but far from release, we have 3 dungeons in beta status, we had to restart work on precursor crafting and its back to alpha status ………
I think the fact that they are that expensive means they’ll never be pay to win. They’re a convenience item for people who want to support the game. They’re not supposed to be “worth it”.
yes but only when you look at this
characterslots 800gems (the normal price)
bag slot 400 gems
bank tab 600 gems
this things alone are way to expensive for an normal/new player when wanna buy it for gold so gw2 is not far from PAYtoWIN anymore
its 3 bagslots 200g – seriously?
only 2 banktabs 200g – rly?
characterslot 130g
no – new player can not pay this and they dont even would have all bags or bankslots with this
better this guys farm this in some custom arenans than in my soloQ matches
seriously
and why you guy even care? Is not the progress limited in custom and hotjoin to 2 tiers per day?
dont understand why ppl even qq about this – how does it matter how this ppl farm this 2 tiers? – and this customarena thing is even the longest way for this
so what?
other problems more important
stop trieing to be an old woman looking on all other ppl to have something to say – its annoying
Living Story was popular for two reasons – rewards and there was nothing else to do. The longer this goes on, the more true it is. Truly interesting rewards are pretty well only found in LS or behind hard RNG (fractal skins, Teq box, Toilet, etc), and even then, you have to sort through piles of useless crap to find the interesting bits.
Similarly, I’m sure someone at Anet holds up their tablet with all the fancy piecharts that shows how well LS has done with players. The fallacy is that first, the content is completed in a couple of hours, and is easy for any semi-dedicated player to do, and second, it’s the only kittening new thing in the game. They’ve left us with the same zones, dungeons, fractals, wvw maps and pvp maps for two years, so yeah…we’ll go check out your little melodrama for two hours a week and then go back to whatever we can do to entertain ourselves.
To the OP – it’s definitely the game the Devs want. They’ve shown us again and again that this is what we’re getting, and if we don’t like it, tough luck. Now, that’s probably a mandate from management and driven by money issues. They hung their hat on LS early on, so all their development is arranged around it. Their earnings projections are built on it. Their press is created to support it. It’s not going to change, regardless of how much we’d like it to. The best we can hope for is some tweaks here and there, and maybe them throwing us a bone every now and again.
i guess not
i dont care bout e-sports and i did not watch tournament but gamescom is all about NEWS
Devs present their new shiny games or extensions and in all gamescom news on all websites i did check on the weekend i found absolut nothing about Arenanet and Guildwars 2. No News. Noone care bout them. So NO i dont think it was a success.
The games been out for two years and I feel like for the NA/EU region the esports time has past. Because the pvp community has grown so small. How are they going to get people back into the game to make a big community again?
they can´t
most in this games pvp is designed to kitten people and arenanet dont care about.
“fun” has no priority in their design
i talk about:
Hotjoin is all about kittening new players – they get farmed /stomped all day in outnumbered fights (experienced hotjoin heros go all same side and farm newbies)
SoloQ they do everything to kitten people in hope they will join teamQ cause they dont have Players for teamQ – with things like skyhammer/spiritwatch in rotation or only half pointz for same work as teamQ
TeamQ – 5 man premades farm most time randoms (solo players, duo or trtiple teams) and call this competive
ye – arenanet dont care bout fun … atleast it looks like and they dont know anything about or how to design a game for people to have fun
so no – there will be no new people – only some triehards to stubborn to udnerstand even after 2 years what a fail gw2 pvp is and it will never get the work it needs …..
2 years ….. and nothing ….. stilll looks/feels like a kitten beta
my speculation is:
Arenanet will bring with Precursor Crafting a complete New Set Legendarys (Tier 2) and stop dropping precursor for Tier 1
so there would be no problem with old precursors and his market (arenanet guyz always said they dont wanna mess with this marked) and i t would be a frech and clean new start^^
after this they stopped the work on lineage 3 and started lineage eternal as an diablo like game cause it was the time where diablo 3 released and it looked like this genre is popular
Well it was just confirmed during the na vs china tourney that the feature pack will be coming out on september 9th. Looks like arean net wont be taking player feed back on the changes they are proposing since the last 2 classes to hit the balance preview will be taking place a measly 4 days prior. GG Anet, way to listen to your player base.
In before Anet comes back and says we do listen we implement features based on what they ask for. Except we totally drop the ball and do stupid crap like charge 300 gold per color for new commander tags, and only implement standard character models for TeamQ and custom areanas.
a start would be a real ranking to see who is best – and yes for teamQ and with 5man teams only
this mixed leaderboard we have now is useless where teams farm randoms
a start would be a ladder system to can see who is the best
a start would be INGAME Rewards for skillfull play and not just farming time
i know arenanet fokus on casuals and so even the kittentiest casual clicker can feel like a hero while throwing his sox on screen
a start would be to make this game so people wanna watch it
talk about game to fast/to much actions for human eyes
to much bullkitten clutter on screen
to much blink and shiny grafics
to much random effects noone see
castbars
combatlog (with things like how much dodged and how much dodge fails, how much interupt and how much interupt fails, how heal wasted how much protection wasted and so on …. )
a start would be a dev team who know anything bout pvp and has some experience in other games pvp before ….
a start would be not to trie to copy some egoshooter moba bullkitten …. we payd for an mmo
and a start would be to reduce team size – even blizzard understand 5 man team is to big
give everyone 5 freeslots (to show them how cool they are) and let people buy more slots for 800gems per slot (max 20)
i bet most people would buy this – i know i would
in this slots you could use: minis, permanent contracts, lionarch/airship teleport scroll, Buff food, Gathering tools, maby the ACC bound asc gear, utilities, crafting materials, items you need in livingstory like this lockpicking thingies ….. i bet list can be much longer
