Guild Wars 2

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I have seen that happening for weeks, I just ignore them now and use chat instead.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Actually it’s because they are trying to FORCE me to do game types I do not want to do. Remember, “play the way you want to play”.

Actually, you keep forgetting: part of ANet’s goal is to encourage people to try other things. So you can still play the way you want to play — earn 2g via or earn it by chasing world bosses or whatever you like.

tl;dr don’t like enough of the options? don’t do the dailies.

Let’s try not to confuse the concept that “dailies might not be geared towards my preferred style of play” with “dailies are no longer geared towards casual play.”

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

I don’t do the dailies if I don’t like them, but you seem to gloss over the other posters who like to keep saying “go do PvP or WvW”. All I would like to see is more then 3 PvE options so if 1 of them is bugged or on a map that is time gated or god forbid a jumping puzzle, I could skip 1 and still complete the rest.

If all you wanted was more options, why not simply say, “hey can we get a few more options? I think more people would enjoy the game.” That skips all the issues with what it means to be ‘casual’, whether existing options are ‘casual-friendly’, and whether the mix across the game modes is ‘casual friendly’.

PS I am not “glossing over” those who refuse to do PvP or WvW — it’s everyone’s choice to do dailies or not; I choose not to make life harder on myself by categorically refusing to try other modes at least once, if only for the dailies.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

This is the way they used to do it. They gave us options but have now taken them away.

You forget, you also got no gold, no bonus rewards, and we had to do more of them. There was less value for the time we spent and we had fewer options to skip relative to how many we needed to complete.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Honestly, I log on, do dailies (that can be done) harvest my home and guild nodes, maybe do kitten if it’s close to his time, then log off.

Then what you are saying is that you don’t enjoy the current iteration of the game. That’s a shame, but it’s understandable — not every game is going to appeal to everyone for years and years.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

I’m done with HoT, you can only do the same events so many times before they become boring. The world bosses are, on the whole, pretty boring as well. There are a few I will jump on if the timing is right but most, well been there done that over and over again.

Again, sounds like time to take a break.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Dailies give something to do, but if you can’t do them without doing something that you do not consider fun, why bother? I can’t even earn experience to level up as it’s wasted since HoT!

Again, sounds like time to take a break.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Maybe it’s just my play style, but I need SOME kind of goal to work towards, something to show progress besides earning more worthless gold. Atleast finishing dailies showed some kind of progress, as for the 2 gold, I would gladly PAY 2 gold a day for more choices and something to show some kind of progression.

Sure, I’d love to see ANet go back to the way things were in 2014, with frequent updates adding new stuff to do. A lot of people didn’t like it, though, and it created a really crazy work load at ANet, so I don’t expect to see that again.

In any case, I think your own comments should encourage you to take a break. And to be clear: I mean set GW2 aside for other games (or RL) for a while. Then, in 3-6 months, come back and see if you’re still enjoying it.

I did that when I felt I was burning out on GW1 and I am very happy that I did. The game was a lot more fun after my break, because I found more things to do (they were there before; the ‘gap half-year’ allowed me the perspective to find them).

I already took a break for well over a year and only came back because of HoT. At this point if I take another break I probably will not bother coming back. I am still having some fun, and as the last surviving member of a 13 year old guild, I hate to let the torch die out completely. Dailies have been “OK” for a while, but adding dragon stand to the mix was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back, it just kittened me off to no end. It just seems with each change that is made, it gets worse and worse and the changes seem to be made for no good reason.
I stopped posting here a long time ago and just recently started again, but this thread reminded me why I stopped reading the forums. I think I am going to take a break from here for sure, to toxic. ( not you, BTW, your post was well thought out and made very good points.)

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Harper.4173:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Harper.4173:

you’re not always going to do things you find appealing and fun.

Then why bother doing them at all?
I don’t know about the rest of you but I play games to have fun. If it’s not fun, there is no reason to play.
Playing a game that is not fun does not sound like any fun to me at all! ;-)

I’ll clue you in.
Some activities in the game are not fun.
Rewards however are fun. If I want fun rewards sometimes I need to do stuff that is not fun.
It’s as simple as that.

Let’s give you a practical example:

Do I love bringing rare items to pact provisioners each day to get my tokens? No. I hate pact provisioners. And the absurdly bothersome time gate.
Do I want legendary armor? absolutely yes – I consider that to be where the “fun” is at in this game.
So what does that mean? It means that if I want to have my fun I have to do the daily chore of bringing those guys their rares so they give me the time gated tokens I need for my armor.

Does that clear things up?

Not in the least. I don’t view “things” as fun at all. No interest at all in legendary weapons or armor. Doing things you do not want to do just to get a few flashy trinkets sounds way to much like real life, thank you very much!
I do not need gold, I have all the armor and weapon skins I want or will use. (I have been using the exact same armor skins on my 3 mains since day 1 because I like them).
I have maxed out inventory and banks, stocked full of every kind of material available and loads of armor chests that I have not even bothered to open as I have no need for them. I have no need for any additional items.
You have a goal, you want the pretty armor skin. That is what I want, goals to work for but other then more worthless skins or trinkets. Progression, levels (even if it does never pass 80), a simple set of doable dailies to finish without having to do something I do not like to do. You can talk till your blue in the face, but there is nothing you or anyone else can say that can convince me to use my gaming time to play something that is not fun, I will simply go play something else that IS fun.

So…. why are you still here, arguing, instead of playing something fun?

Same reason your here making worthless comments?

Harper.4173:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Harper.4173:

you’re not always going to do things you find appealing and fun.

Then why bother doing them at all?
I don’t know about the rest of you but I play games to have fun. If it’s not fun, there is no reason to play.
Playing a game that is not fun does not sound like any fun to me at all! ;-)

I’ll clue you in.
Some activities in the game are not fun.
Rewards however are fun. If I want fun rewards sometimes I need to do stuff that is not fun.
It’s as simple as that.

Let’s give you a practical example:

Do I love bringing rare items to pact provisioners each day to get my tokens? No. I hate pact provisioners. And the absurdly bothersome time gate.
Do I want legendary armor? absolutely yes – I consider that to be where the “fun” is at in this game.
So what does that mean? It means that if I want to have my fun I have to do the daily chore of bringing those guys their rares so they give me the time gated tokens I need for my armor.

Does that clear things up?

Not in the least. I don’t view “things” as fun at all. No interest at all in legendary weapons or armor. Doing things you do not want to do just to get a few flashy trinkets sounds way to much like real life, thank you very much!
I do not need gold, I have all the armor and weapon skins I want or will use. (I have been using the exact same armor skins on my 3 mains since day 1 because I like them).
I have maxed out inventory and banks, stocked full of every kind of material available and loads of armor chests that I have not even bothered to open as I have no need for them. I have no need for any additional items.
You have a goal, you want the pretty armor skin. That is what I want, goals to work for but other then more worthless skins or trinkets. Progression, levels (even if it does never pass 80), a simple set of doable dailies to finish without having to do something I do not like to do. You can talk till your blue in the face, but there is nothing you or anyone else can say that can convince me to use my gaming time to play something that is not fun, I will simply go play something else that IS fun.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Actually it’s because they are trying to FORCE me to do game types I do not want to do. Remember, “play the way you want to play”.

Actually, you keep forgetting: part of ANet’s goal is to encourage people to try other things. So you can still play the way you want to play — earn 2g via or earn it by chasing world bosses or whatever you like.

tl;dr don’t like enough of the options? don’t do the dailies.

Let’s try not to confuse the concept that “dailies might not be geared towards my preferred style of play” with “dailies are no longer geared towards casual play.”

I don’t do the dailies if I don’t like them, but you seem to gloss over the other posters who like to keep saying “go do PvP or WvW”. All I would like to see is more then 3 PvE options so if 1 of them is bugged or on a map that is time gated or god forbid a jumping puzzle, I could skip 1 and still complete the rest. This is the way they used to do it. They gave us options but have now taken them away. Honestly, I log on, do dailies (that can be done) harvest my home and guild nodes, maybe do kitten if it’s close to his time, then log off. I’m done with HoT, you can only do the same events so many times before they become boring. The world bosses are, on the whole, pretty boring as well. There are a few I will jump on if the timing is right but most, well been there done that over and over again. Dailies give something to do, but if you can’t do them without doing something that you do not consider fun, why bother? I can’t even earn experience to level up as it’s wasted since HoT! Maybe it’s just my play style, but I need SOME kind of goal to work towards, something to show progress besides earning more worthless gold. Atleast finishing dailies showed some kind of progress, as for the 2 gold, I would gladly PAY 2 gold a day for more choices and something to show some kind of progression.

Harper.4173:

you’re not always going to do things you find appealing and fun.

Then why bother doing them at all?
I don’t know about the rest of you but I play games to have fun. If it’s not fun, there is no reason to play.
Playing a game that is not fun does not sound like any fun to me at all! ;-)

Ayrilana.1396:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Obtena.7952:

No, but you are complaining they are less casual-friendly when in fact, they have recently been made MORE casual friendly.

When days go by where I can not finish the dailies, they are not more casual friendly by any means. I keep hearing “do PvP”. NO, hate PvP. it sucks and has the very worst of the community in it. Will NOT PvP for any reason as it is not “how I want to play”.
Jumping puzzles? again, no. I would be happy if every single puzzle disappeared from the game forever. Activities? once in awhile but I pity the other players as I stand around until the timer runs out, only moving enough to keep from getting kicked.
There have been many different dailies, some better then others but for some reason they seem to keep going back to the worst ones again and again.

It’s because you are choosing to make them more difficult than they really are by dismissing those that you simply do not like.

Actually it’s because they are trying to FORCE me to do game types I do not want to do. Remember, “play the way you want to play”.

Obtena.7952:

No, but you are complaining they are less casual-friendly when in fact, they have recently been made MORE casual friendly.

When days go by where I can not finish the dailies, they are not more casual friendly by any means. I keep hearing “do PvP”. NO, hate PvP. it sucks and has the very worst of the community in it. Will NOT PvP for any reason as it is not “how I want to play”.
Jumping puzzles? again, no. I would be happy if every single puzzle disappeared from the game forever. Activities? once in awhile but I pity the other players as I stand around until the timer runs out, only moving enough to keep from getting kicked.
There have been many different dailies, some better then others but for some reason they seem to keep going back to the worst ones again and again.

Chamelion.9536:

IMO, any section requiring a wait to get into a map to do, I.E. Dragon Stand, should not be on the list of dailies; ever.

I’m perfectly fine if the over all list has items I don’t want to do and I am limited in collecting my three; but at least the choice should be mine, alone.

And yes, I am well aware DS was one of so many dailies… but that is not the basis of my opinion.

-C

I agree, I have completed dragon stand once, and only once since the release of HOT.
The map never seems to have any players at all on it. I have literally stayed on the map until the timer kicks me out without ever seeing another single player.

The music folder should be located at C:\Users\{yourname}\Documents\Guild Wars 2\Music

If that folder does not exist and creating it does not work, you may need to open a support ticket.

Setting up custom music :
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/audio/A-guide-to-custom-playlists

Veronica.9781:

I removed the link, but it can be a virus because it can bring sites up that are infected. You didn’t need to be so ignorant. And let the OP look it up, all they have to type in in google is “is amazonaws safe to use”.

Here is one of the reviews I read.

Seeing references to that domain is definitely not inherently malicious, however given that you can store just about any file in S3 there’s no guarantee that it isn’t being used to store some malicious files (among the overwhelmingly legitimate files). AWS credentials are a valuable target for hackers so it’s possible the owner of the account has been compromised.

It’s not called “ignorance”, it’s called “knowing what you are talking about”. You posted false information, then also posted an infected site on top of it, potentially infecting other users. Amazonaws is no more a virus then Guild Wars is. You cannot “remove” something that does not exist on your computer in the first place.
You can store files on ANY website, anywhere and any account can be compromised, so all you really posted is a file “somewhere”, posted by “someone”, could be infected “somehow”. I do this for a living, and posts like the one you made are nearly as dangerous as the malicious sites themselves. If you do not know the subject, it is best to leave the answers to the people who do instead of posting false information after the correct information had already been posted and the issue resolved.

Also, a website can NOT “be” a virus. A web site can HOST a virus. A virus is a program that executes on your local PC. Amazonaws is a website, just like Google, Bing and even this very site we are posting to right here.

Veronica.9781:

Amazonaws is a virus. I had it before, do not download anything with amazonaws in it! —-malicious link removed-—

It is also known as a Browser Hijacker.

Amazonaws is NOT a virus, it is amazon.com web storage service used by a HUGE portion of the internet. The link you posted however IS a virus infected link and should not be followed by anyone. You should remove that link at once. Meanwhile I will report your post to the mods so they can delete that malicious link.

I hate jumping puzzles with a passion and wish each and every one would be removed and the code for them send to the seventh level of hades, but even I got that achievement. Don’t get discouraged, there are always some helpful mesmers who are willing to port you directly to the goggles without having to do the puzzle. Hang out on the map and keep your eye on chat. You could also try posting in players helping players and see if anyone is willing to meet you there and port you up.

I play an ele or a ranger as my mains, and neither of them are fairy princesses.
Most of the legendaries are either incredibly ugly or tacky, so nothing I would ever have wasted my time on making. Nevermore is a beautiful staff, but at this point I am well past trying to start making one now.

I have been playing since beta with only a few months off, and never heard the term “CC” until some control nut started shouting it during a battle. When I asked what he was talking about, he said “if you don’t know you should not be playing”. No one else volunteered the info. From what I have gathered it means “crowd control”? No idea what that means or what skills that refers to, never heard the term before.

I have experienced the exact same thing. Hitting the movement keys and there is no response in game.

Gaile Gray.6029:

ShiningSquirrel — you are not infracted. This is exactly what you were told, and exactly what happened:

“The thread " Recent interactions with support" was moved from the Guild Wars 2 Discussion sub-forum because it was a better fit for the Account & Technical Support sub-forum.”

The thread then was moved. No points, no penalty — just keeping things on topic where the topic best fits. The subject was support. The moderator felt it was best expressed in the support sub-forums. Makes sense to me!

Edit to add: It was very kind of you to post that, and I admit I blanched when I saw the content and read that you believed it was infracted. I hope all is forgiven with this explanation, and thank you for the post!

Nothing to forgive Gail, I may complain, but I still love you guys! Like I said, I was actually amused by it. I am back in game after taking some time off (best thing to do if your feeling burnt out) having fun, and have no real complaints about the game. If anything, I feel kind of embarrassed about some of the complaints I used to have as I have seen just how wrong I was.

I stopped playing about a year ago, but came back with the release of HoT. I have seen a few discussions both here and in game about how difficult some areas and content is.
I just wanted to mention something I have noticed. When I left, Teq was one of the hardest events in the game. Special guilds where created just to do him. Players, including myself, where complaining about content done just for the “elite” players.
Imagine my surprise when I came back to find Teq is now no more difficult then most of the other content. I thought I would never get him done, and have done him dozens of times with only 1 single failure. Now to the point of this thread. My opinion has changed about “elite” or “hardcore” content. When released, it may be hard but just give it time for enough of the player base to learn it, and everyone will be doing it and you will be wondering “why did I ever think this was hardcore”?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ayrilana.1396:

Odd that he gets notifications like that when I normally get something like the following:

Your post in (thread name) was removed because it quoted a post that was deleted by a moderator. This notification is intended only to inform you of why your post was removed. The removal does not result in any points of penalties and does not affect your forum account in any way.

That’s all that’s in the message. Why the difference?

It’s a procedural difference. There are two ways to remove a post, and although the core messaging is the same, there is other messaging around it in the one case, as you saw in JaFW’s example. Both result in removal; both result in appropriate core messaging as long as the moderator is sure to write it; both would not give points, as you can see. However, the message that JaFW received is actually the result of use of the better procedure because it retains more information in case of an appeal or questions.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

insanemaniac.2456:

Neural.1824:

You didn’t just remove the offensive word post, Gaile, you infracted half the thread for it.

This forum software writes “kitten” all over half of creation at even the slightest hint of potential vulgarity, yet somehow a word got through that is so “highly offensive” that you have to punish 4 people merely for the sin of quoting it?

Meanwhile, another thread is allowed to stand with a title change, even though you know as well as I do that if it had be me that posted the thread, I’d have gotten in trouble for it.

you do not accumulate infraction points for posts deleted because of quoting an infracted/deleted post unless something is naughty about your post too. theyre simply deleted, and a notification spams your inbox.

Unfortunately this is not always true.

That is generally true. It is rare for someone to receive points for quoting a removed post. In those cases, it’s most likely that they are receiving points not for the removal but for what they said below the quoted content.

In the case I was speaking about, the user was specifically infracted for “quoting a deleted post”. That is the exact reason given. When it was pointed out that it was not possible to quote a post that had already been deleted, the infraction was removed. In this case, the mod admitted the infraction should never have been given in the first place. You and I had discussed this over a year ago in private.
Check the link I posted in my previouse response. I came back after not playing for a year and thanked support for doing a great job getting me back in to my account and fixing several issues I had. I was infracted for pointing out how great support is. I do support myself for a living and know how much it sucks getting nothing but complaints all the time so I thought it would be nice for you guys to get a compliment when it was deserved. I just thought it was funny that saying thank you was against the rules as well. ;-)

insanemaniac.2456:

TexZero.7910:

insanemaniac.2456:

Neural.1824:

You didn’t just remove the offensive word post, Gaile, you infracted half the thread for it.

This forum software writes “kitten” all over half of creation at even the slightest hint of potential vulgarity, yet somehow a word got through that is so “highly offensive” that you have to punish 4 people merely for the sin of quoting it?

Meanwhile, another thread is allowed to stand with a title change, even though you know as well as I do that if it had be me that posted the thread, I’d have gotten in trouble for it.

you do not accumulate infraction points for posts deleted because of quoting an infracted/deleted post unless something is naughty about your post too. theyre simply deleted, and a notification spams your inbox.

My inbox begs to disagree with this.

As it clearly states

Your post in Egocentrism was infracted by a moderator:

Moderator Note:
Your post in “Egocentrism” has been removed because it quoted a post that contains a highly-offensive word. You are welcome to share your thoughts, but please use care in what you are quoting, because to keep the forums reasonable we do remove quotes of comments that themselves were removed for offensiveness.

Hope that clears up this non-sense.

They do issue infractions is the TL;DR and if they aren’t then they definitely need much clearer auto-gen messages, or just human intervention would be a nice civil start.

That said, the original point of moderating double standards existing is evident as it is seen on the first page of the forums. Satire, does not produce discourse, especially when it’s about topics that otherwise get locked for not having anything of discourse, nor being related to GW2.

dude.
it tells you when you get an infraction point.

trust me.
no infraction point there.
…

Infractions have been given for quoting a deleted post in the past. Unfortunately we cannot speak of it without also having that post infracted as per forum rules.
I have had discussions with others in this thread about this very subject in the past and it is one of the primary reasons I stopped posting here. Also, you can also get infracted for saying something good about the game, not only something bad. See the thread below:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Recent-interactions-with-support/first#post5723049

insanemaniac.2456:

Neural.1824:

You didn’t just remove the offensive word post, Gaile, you infracted half the thread for it.

This forum software writes “kitten” all over half of creation at even the slightest hint of potential vulgarity, yet somehow a word got through that is so “highly offensive” that you have to punish 4 people merely for the sin of quoting it?

Meanwhile, another thread is allowed to stand with a title change, even though you know as well as I do that if it had be me that posted the thread, I’d have gotten in trouble for it.

you do not accumulate infraction points for posts deleted because of quoting an infracted/deleted post unless something is naughty about your post too. theyre simply deleted, and a notification spams your inbox.

Unfortunately this is not always true.

Lie.3517:

Status on the fix? Been a week now…

You are going to have to give them some time. It’s only been a day since they said they may have a fix in testing.

They are aware of the issue and are currently working on it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/BUG-Characters-are-Stuttering/page/3

I do not know enough about the programming logic behind the attacks, but it would be nice if there was something like x numbers of players in x radius, = attack zone.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I apologize that forum members and those who are impacted by this bug did not receive an update earlier. I can appreciate that a situation like this is a cause for concern!

You can rest assured that this bug is on the Bugs List that is routed on a regular basis to the dev team. Particularly because of the nature of this situation, I feel sure it’s safe to say it will be given a very focused look and will be addressed as soon as possible.

Thank you very much Gaile!

keenedge.9675:

Since it was mentioned, where should I start a comment like this in the future ? I often feel the desire to make a comment that I hope the devs will ‘consider’.

BTW, if you read it, I think there is no way to misinterpret that any player based comments are meaningless (unless you’re somehow in-charge of production).

@Seera, you remind me of an uninformed mom blindly defending Johnny for misbehaving. (even though he was guilty). Your comment was a rant, pure and simple – just like my second half of this post.

While I do feel your pain, the problem with patch times with a game played all over the world is no matter what time they do it someone will not be happy. What may be a good time for you would be a bad time fore someone else.
As to where to post a suggestion, usually it’s under the forum for that part of the game. WvW suggestions under the WvW forum, HoT under the HoT forum, etc. For this suggestion, I would have thought general chat would have been fine, not really sure why it was moved here.
As to other players responding, it’s a player driven forum. If you post anything, you can expect other players to respond and give feedback and for suggestions, the devs would probably prefer to have more feedback from other players to see how everyone else feels about the suggestion.

Ellieanna.5027:

Funny how you feel that Anet will reply. This is a player assisted forum. If you want Anet to take your suggestion, you should post it in General chat. As your post isn’t an Account issue (you can get the patch, and that is when they released it) nor a technical issue (see previous comment).

Otherwise, you don’t have to be rude to someone giving their opinion.

Actually, he DID post this in general chat. The mods moved it here.

I’m confused, I though the whole idea behind this was that it is supposed to be hard?

Thanks, I thought that was the case, but better to ask and make sure then assume and screw things up. ;-)

I should know this already, but I’m drawing a blank. I want to purchase HoT for a friend for Christmas. Is it as simple as purchasing a code and emailing it to them? I just want to make sure using my email address to purchase it will not bind it to me instead of them.

LOL, now I have seen everything! I was infracted because of this post.
Well I guess no good deed goes unpunished. ;-)

Not sure where to put this, so I will put it here.
I have been gone for over a year, and just recently came back. Due to lots of changes to ISP, new phone, new email, I had to open several tickets with support to change my account and secure it.
With the release of HoT I expected a long wait time on the tickets.
I was pleasantly surprised. Each request was handled very fast and efficiently. I know we all like to complain when things do not go our way (and I have done my share of complaining) but when something is done right we need to speak up as well. I am in, everything is working again and all issues solved.

To all the support reps, thank you! :-)

“miniature locked” will be there and will be grayed out until you add them to your wardrobe as Danikat suggested, then it will change to “miniature unlocked”.
That is just showing you the status of that miniature. FYI, if you add it to your wardrobe, you can then sell the extras you receive on the TP.

I though it was going to be a continuation of GW1 with better graphics and game play mechanics, sadly, that was not the case.

I used to be upset on the direction GW2 took, until I just decided it’s “Guild Wars” only in name, with no relationship to the original. If you think of it as a completely separate game instead of a sequel you will be much happier.

Kill.3458:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

I got 1 after 35 bags or so, no idea what it was used for so sold it for 42G.

id probably cry when i realized what I’d sold xD

LOL, I don’t really have much interest in nightfury, so I’m fine with it.
I have been using the same armor skin since launch and probably will as long as I play. Sometimes it good to be content. ;-)

I got 1 after 35 bags or so, no idea what it was used for so sold it for 42G.

There was a dev post (may have been on the blog) stating there was a problem with the way the megaservers where distributing players in HoT and you could very easily end up on an empty map. Supposedly this has been fixed.

My only complaint about the mentor tags is there are just too many of them. What I would like to see is a restriction to the number that can be shown on any map at any one time. Trying to do daily events, you have a Comm call out an event on his tag but you can’t see his tag because it is blocked out by the several dozen mentor tags cluttering up the screen. Just give us the option to hide them. I do not need mentoring and they server no useful purpose for me. If I need help, the last person I would ask is someone running around on a map with a mentor tag now that everyone and his brother has it.

Stopped playing more then a year ago. Came back to give it another chance with HoT.
I would give it a 4/10. I am actually having much more fun in dry top and doing the Halloween events so it did serve a purpose after all but if I had played it first I would not have purchased it and I have not recommended it to my friends who do play.

FYI, for any thread like this, to get a more balanced view, throw out all 10/10 and 0/10 answers then average the remaining votes.

Guys, your over analyzing it. The links posted are NOT the links that where in the original email. When you type out the text of a link or paste it in, the forum will turn it in to an actual link. The Op posted the text from the email, which had the text links displayed so they where turned in to the legitimate links above. The ACTUAL links in the email he received did NOT go to the same location as the displayed text so you cannot hover over them, or see the original links on this forum. The forum software created the links in his post, they are not the actual links from the email.

This kind of misunderstanding and confusion is why they ask you remove all links from any phishing emails before posting.

Gaile,
Nice to see you back in the saddle again!
The main problem with feedback on the forums is a very inconsistent mod team.
I have seen some very well written posts with valid points deleted for no apparent reason. For a very long time, it seemed like ANY post that had anything negative to say was deleted and the poster infracted. I and many others simply gave up even trying to say anything as it felt like no one wanted to hear anything except how great a job everyone was doing. Rude, nasty, demanding or insulting post where and SHOULD be deleted but when a player has a valid issue and posts it, to have it deleted and a warning issued just stops people from posting at all.
Feedback on the forums is a great idea, but only if someone wants to listen and honestly from what I have seen, no one at Anet seems to care.
I gave up on the game and uninstalled it months ago. I still watch the forums to see if it improves, and I even reinstalled it and tried it after a death in the family had me very depressed, but it never really seems to change.

Feedback is great, but first the mods need to learn to take the bad with the good and stop using such a heavy hand or there will be no feedback at all.
Second, it would REALLY be helpful if someone simply replied to threads with hundreds of posts complaining about game breaking issues with a simple “We are aware of the issue and looking in to it”. I work in support. I copy and paste that canned response all the time. Users are happy just to know someone has actually seen their message and they are not being ignored. Many times here, we feel ignored.

As to the suggestion of rating features on a scale, that sounds like a great idea.

Karizee.8076:

Silly.

Q2 2012 25,800,000
Q3 2012 22,900,000
Q4 2012 107,000,000 <—-Launch year Christmas sales
Q1 2013 32,800,000
Q2 2013 25,800,000
Q3 2013 22,900,000
Q4 2013 32,000,000
Q1 2014 24,500,000

They just launched in the largest gaming market in the world. What do you think Q2 is going to look like?

LOL!
If you really think the China sales are going to have any impact on the rest of the world, your in for a rude awakening. I’ll give you a hint, you may as well consider the China servers a completely different game for a different audience. It’s common practice, if you have resources in 1 location losing money and another making money, you don’t keep both alive, you kill off the losing property and concentrate on the money maker. If you really want to keep playing GW2, you better hope the rest of the world servers can keep pace with the China servers or they will shut them down in a heart beat. Mark my words, the megaserver was phase 1. Next will be merging servers in regions, then merging regions, then………..

Well over $200 for the collector’s edition just as a start, and so much in gem purchases that if my spouse found out I would be in BIG trouble. I spent roughly $100 a month or more on gems. That is until I stopped playing. I know, your saying I am just one player, but there are probably tens of thousands of players just like me who stopped playing and that revenue loss will hurt. If you think your gem purchases make up for it, you better start spending a lot more if you want to see the game survive.

Adry.7512:

Hey, lets give it another shot, they have come closer and closer to perfecting their craft.

i see a bright future and no i am not a fanboy, never been. Either way, i think this game will become better than most of us expect it to become.

No.
Gave them “another shot” time and time again only to be disappointed. I see no future for this game and see it becoming worse and worse. I will still watch and would love to be proven wrong but I am not going to hold my breath and not going to give them another chance to disappoint me until things are FAR better then they are now.

NewTrain.7549:

penatbater.4710:

More than 6 months ago, people were also claiming gw2 is gonna loose people because of this and that. At that point, I had to quit not because of the game, but work, real life stuff. Recently I tried playing. And from the numbers I see in dungeons or wvw, it seems it hasn’t gone down much tbh. These “gw2 is gonna loose players if they don’t do A, or B, or C” serve as a poor attempt for suggesting what could be better done for the game. It’s more of a whine really, when their suggestions aren’t done/haven’t happened.

Did you take into account that 6 months ago there were no megaservers (which I know don’t affect WvW or Dungeons, but come on those are instances with a fixed population cap and completely useless in judging population health)? If you notice the same population patterns now, after the megaserver merge, that indicates a massive hemorrhaging of players.

Now you have gone and done it! You used logic and math to disprove his point. ;-)

I left the game as well, completely uninstalled it.
Why? Because there was nothing for me to do that I found enjoyable any longer.

Before you start with the anti train nonsense, no, I do NOT mean the trains. I did do the trains once in awhile, but not for the loot. I did them as an easy way to get the dailies out of the way, and for the fun of it. Yup, you heard that right, FUN. Playing and chatting with your fellow players is fun and that is the reason I play multiplayer games.

When I would log on, I would check the dailies required and gear my play time to getting them done as well as doing world events. World events where fun and if I could get dailies done that way, great!

After the megaservers and the time changes, I was rarely able to do any world events at all. The world bosses became nothing more then huge zergs with so much going on the screen, it was impossible to even see the boss. Then there where the “bosses” that died in seconds, LOL!

Farming? I gathered pretty much everything I saw and salvaged anything that would give me magic find. I had a very nice collection of rares sitting in inventory, massive amounts of almost all materials, and gold, I needed nothing.

I had full ascended armor, weapons and trinkets. The only thing I did not have was a legendary, but there was not a single one I would want to use, so that was not a goal.

So what was there for me to do?

Skins? I have been using the same armor and weapon skins since launch, I like the way I look.

Wvw/Pvp? No. Been there, done that and not willing to deal with the toxic community.

Dungeons? Again, been there, done that.

World events? See above.

Living story? Yes, there was that. Unfortunately much of it was so incredibly bug ridden it was not enjoyable to play and what was enjoyable, was removed too quickly.

Titles? Yeah! I like titles! I spent YEARS getting titles in GW1. Sounds good, until you realize just how incredibly BORING killing 1000 of any single creature is or clicking on something 10s of thousands of times until your fingers bleed.

I loved the GW franchise. I have multiple copies of all GW1 chapters and collectors editions of all and the collectors edition of GW2. GW2 is not Guild Wars. It’s fast becoming a poor WoW clone with better graphics. I watch. I hope. But I seriously doubt there will ever be anything to make me want to reinstall it again.

atheria.2837:

When players are blatantly pushing their AFK’ness in your face, time after time, it’s time for ANET to do something.

When the AFK’er flaunts his ability to AFK – all lose. The server’s honor is besmirched.

Out of all the pics I took of people standing afk at different times during the events, none speak as strongly as this one.

I hope you did report him. No defense there at all and since he admitted it, anet should have just suspended him without question.

If your email was hacked, change your email associated with your account before doing a restore. They only allow 1 restore for the life of the account so you want to make sure it is completely secure before you restore it.

Carighan.6758:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

LOL, doing my blade kills for daily in LA tonight, prime time. According to map chat, 10 players on green and around 5 on red. Event failed of course. Saw so may players asking how do they do the holo fight and their sad responses when told they can’t, try another server.

Interesting.
These “so many players”, couldn’t someone have told them to come to the spots at ~:00? If they’re “so many players”, the knights would easily go down (since ~80 people total will always succeed, and ~50 can succeed).

Nice trying to twist what I said, but you fail in your attempt and reading comprehension as well. The players complaining where the ones who had just failed fighting the knights. There where nowhere near even 50 players on the map, so not sure where you are getting this “80” players from. On the entire map, I would have been surprised if there where more then 40 players total. With a large number of them running around just trying to do their daily, and more fighting the champs, it was amazing they where able to take down a single knight in the time allowed so there was no possible chance of 3. When 10 or more players are all asking the same question in a population the size of what was on the map, that’s a large portion of them.

Stop trying to support a poorly done patch and a failed event. If we do not call anet on their failures, they will never improve.