Guild Wars 2

Keep in mind that the new borderland is not meant to promote pvp, but to erase it from wvw and to allow the same pve train that run in eotm. Don’t worry too much about pvp interactions, they are not mean to exist there. Test more the events and click on the objects to see if it works, it’s the sort of feedback they want.

When the launch of the dlc is so near, and they only beta-test parts of the first mini-map, you can smell the scam. Even with all that is annouced, my perceveid value is 10E, not the 45 they try to take from my pocket each loading screen.

There are 4 mini-maps, the total is equal to one normal map. Discard their pr speak about layers, it’s not innocent that in their beta week ends they only show a tiny part of their mini-maps. Given all the problems they had with this tiny demonstrations, it should be normal that they want to beta test all the mini-maps before the launch, wich is near. But they don’t, they only show a little part of a little map. Prepare to be disapointed.

45E for this dlc that contain 4 mini-maps (= 1 normal map) and some ui tweaks is way overpriced. My perceveid value of the dlc is 15E, and even at that price I’d have waited for a cheap key because I don’t want to reward lazy work.

I don’t think that the community will change a lot. GW2 has the friendlier online community i saw, and i assume that most people that want to play gw2 already own it. It came 3 years ago, had many massive disccounts and cheap keys are all time avaiable. f2p, p2p anf b2p are the same players, wow is a sub game but the community is kitten, some f2p have nice communities, ect.. I guess they want full f2p because the game sell very little now, it’s more the occasion to make an annoucment. They like to overhype their tiny work.

I’d prefer that arenanet make the LS3 free and don’t charge us 50E for their several mini-maps full of boring events and their bunch of ui tweaks. Since the launch of their game, arenanet took the standards of the f2p game and lowered them. They have nearly stopped working on gw2 and only produce low quality low quantity content.

The arenanet way is now making mini-maps. I guess we will have at most 3 mini-maps, that translate in a whole 0.75 normal map for the dlc. Their “different layer so it is big you’ll see” is just pr communication ; and the maps will just be boring farm maps with their boring never ending events, in a never changing, stale world. Low quality low quantity is their credo since launch.

I think the new pve borderland map that exclude pvp from wvw is an answer at your concerns.

You still don’t address the scammy 45E you decided for this dlc, and you still are silent or extremely vague about the amount/content in there. Stop try to scam us and at least put the dlc on open beta for those that have already buyed it. Why are you so ashamed about your work ?

Np. I don’t consider myself an arenanet’s customer anymore.

My perceived value of the dlc is 10E. They made it 45E, and even made an insane 100E offer. They have to work way more in this dlc to sell it to me at that price.

Arenanet will change the borderlands for a pve map, even if you don’t buy the dlc. Enjoy.

This DLC is worth 10-15E. At most there will be 3 new mini-maps, that make 0.75 of a normal map for the entire dlc ; all the little new things are lazy design that meet your low quality low quantity standard. And 3 different version for a dlc ? a 100E ultimate for this ? How deep will you dig ?

I did. In 3 years they only could create two glorified world boss zergfest. That’s why i think they don’t have the skills to design a whole standard raid, for maybe 12 players with 10 boss. My guess is that their challenging group content is a glorified meta event, like triple wurm is a glorified world boss. Sort of an elite zone in a corner of a mini-map.

No i mean that arenanet’s devs doesn’t have the skill to create a raid even if they would have all the time they need ; they couldn’t tune it for a set amount of players, and i don’t think they have the skills to design it as a whole.

Raids means lot of work to create and fine tuning, something that doesn’t correlate with the low quality low quantity anet standard.

This system is here to gate the mini maps, not to add any depth in the game.

Ironically, arenanet removed theses poses from the game.

Theses changes are to go on par with the new pve borderland. They want their bad design of meta event everywhere, they want us to play the same things in their new mini maps of the ls and dlc, and the new pve borderlands eotm-like. They just lack creativity.

I agree. Dont put pvp out of wvw, that make no sense. Let the bad design of your meta events in you pve mini maps. Let the “verticality” imagined by frustated devs that never managed to finish a Sonic die.

This class needs to be nerfed to the ground or redesigned. Sadly arenanet neither have a class team or a balance team.

Never been hyped by this ls 3.

Don’t forget that with the new borderland map, they try to force pvp out of wvw and transform it in a farm map, like eotm and the mini maps from the ls. I remember that when the devs went into wvw for the event, all of them were total noobs that never played it and many didn’t even have a lvl 80 character. They try to apply their bad design of meta event everywhere, from the next dlc to the new wvw borderland to the new spvp map. One bad design to rule them all, all parts of the game will be the same.

Given that the dlc is the ls 3, we should now pay upfront any ls release.

Search for immersive combat mod on google, it’s a mouse lock – action like mod for gw2, something that should be native but arenanet don’t have a general ui team.

Just don’t fall for the name “expansion”. It is just a scam in order to make us pay upfront the ls 3 + feature pack. Don’t expect much.

They need the pve players of eotm to test this map. It is designed to eliminate any form of pvp and to push it only in ebg.

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Doesn’t matter, people will forget, the minute the xpac comes out, everyone will flock to buy it cause, HYPE. If you don’t agree with their game, stop playing it, if enough people do, they will take action. Otherwise, why fix if not broken?

Many people already stopped playing the game, anet revenue shrinked by 40% between q4 2013 and q4 2014. The action they take is scamming us by calling the next ls season expansion and sell it upfront.

They simply don’t have an engine team. No work has been done on the engine since the culling’s removal.

More than 10E would be way too much for this small dlc. It is just ls 3, but this time it’s not free we have to pay it upfront.

There is already so few content with this dlc. If they released with less it would just be the same as the actual gw2.

The dlc hot is the name of the next ls season, so it is easy to estimate the release date. Their maximum rythm is a mini-map each 6 months, so the dlc will be avaible near june/july or by the end of the year. Low quality low quantity by arenanet, as usual.

Will we be able to op out off the new map ? If I don’t buy the dlc, will I be able to stay on the pvp borderlands ? I’m worried because I only do wvw in the borderlands and I wouldn’t want to have to go on eb for wvw.

If this map replace the alpine one, the borderlands will be a sort of ls story ? So wvw will only take place on cbe ?

There are many options for an expansion, but arenanet selected none. They call their dlc an expansion, but it is just a ls season + feature pack. Low quality low quantity of work is their credo since launch.

Why only one precursor/account ? You still have to craft the legendary after the collection grind. Why couldn’t we craft them at will ?

Do we have to activate a mastery to benefit from it, so we can only “equip” once at a time ?

Why do you force a pve eotm style map in the wvw ? Why do you force this hated “verticality” on wvw players ?

This dlc should not cost us more than 10E. It is hard enough that they now sell their ls season + feature pack and call it expansion. We already know that it is a scam, let’s see how big of a scam it is.

They never did something big since launch. And because gw2 lost 40% revenue between q4 2013 and q4 2014, they even overhype an already overhyped ls season + feature pack and call it expansion. They need money because they are tanking hard.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-ArenaNet-RVW4234884.htm

Some other reviews mention it too. Reviews mention that arenanet rarely hire and rely quasi-exclusively on contractors. I now wait for my posts to be moderated and my account banned, as usual when I mention those things.

It is not really a beta, it is more an advertising for their dlc. Don’t forget that it’s a ls season + feature pack, there is not many things to test. And don’t also forget that arenanet don’t have a qa team, it is outsourced.

The feature pack and the next ls season are tied together and they will sell it as an expansion. GW2 revenue declined by 40% between Q4 2013 and Q4 2014, and is now the second less profitable game in the ncsoft portfolio, only above wildstar. That’s why they are begining to sell in real money the little they did which was free, because gw2 is tanking hard.

If you find the game boring now, it will still be boring when the dlc land. It is just a feature pack + ls saeson.

They don’t seem to have an engine team anymore. No work on it has been done since the culling problem has been resolved.

So they just changed the visual of the buff, and they will call it a major feature. The more info they give, the more this dlc seems tinier and tinier. It’s the result of 3 years of work, it is so sad.

It’s a ls season and a feature pack. They call it expansion in order to sell it, other games call it dlc. And just to remind, ls season 1 was laying ground work for the future too, ls season 2 was laying the ground work for the future too, and they say this dlc is too. So it’s always “we will work later”. In fact anrenanet seems to have abandonned his game since launch.

I’m worried that we already know all the features of this dlc. Seems really cheap for the moment. I’m still waiting for the never seen framework to expand their universe.

Their new map will be very small like they said. They didn’t use the adjective “small” for the ls mini map, so they might be even smaller. They want to gate the content of the dlc so it is not burned in 5 hours for normal player, 2 hours for rushers. Yes, the same time as a ls season. The more they talk us about the dlc, the more it seems to be a ls season + feature pack.

They try to gate the abysmall low content of their dlc. With what point will we be disapointed for the next blog post ?

A useless checklist for our character. Are they sure they don’t want to make this dlc free ?