Guild Wars 2

IT’S SIMPLE, WE’LL KILL THE RNG

3 out of 10
I love epic stories… this game couldn’t pass for a children’s novel.

All I got to say is this
-No one can make the argument for a high or low population due to the lack of accurate info displayed (A-Net did this for a purpose, to take creditability away from post like this)
-Since A-Net can not or will not give us those numbers, some third party will have to come in and perform a neutral study.
-Selling the 2 year game to new players is less likely, players leaving are more likely.

chronometria.3708:

Ohoni.6057:

I got the alternate, Scarlet’s Rainbow, which is the same thing only holographic.

Considering that the rainbow rifle is marked as a monster only item, I sense untruth.

Go to trade post type “Scarlet’s Kiss”

Research before you speak.

I really enjoy the look of Scarlet’s Kiss, the weapon looks great for my engineer. I would like a pistol version of this weapon, I tend to lean more on pistols.

Sailsd.9245:

My guess? He is going to die a hero. By distracting Scarlet (or the main villain) so much, that we players are able to finish her/it off.

Seems about right, they always kill the likable characters and leave us with the garbage characters.

The minstrel is the sidekick for Hero-tron…

GoldenTruth.2853:

Still a permanent map… and one of the best aesthetically designed one too.

Nope. But then I didn’t ask you, I am waiting for a Dev to respond… if it doesn’t happen or this post disappears… It probably will pop up again and again until there is an answer.

ChaosKirin.1328:

Edge of the Mists is a permanent map.

No, that is a WvW parking area for those waiting to do WvW.

Where is the Cantha or Southsun-sized areas?

BobbyStein.2315:

gidorah.4960:

BobbyStein.2315:

You’ll have to wait and see how we integrated story into the release. I think it works pretty well but I’m biased. I am looking forward to the feedback we receive next week.

you also thought scarlet was a good villain.

I also know the entire plot a year in advance.

How does this help your statement?

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Aren’t all server high population already?

Nope. There some that really need to world transfers just to do the basic stuff.

When are we getting new classes, housing, maps, race, and weapon types?
I know the typical response is “When A-Net deems that is what they need in the game”, but all this is what a lot of players/forum haters been ranted about for the past 6-7 months.

Seriously, we need to see a Dev’s red response….
When are we getting this stuff?

Kentaine.4692:

Nice they added hard core content, but frankly the only reason why ANYONE plays an MMO is for the instant gratification that is the reward for their effort.

So far, I’m not impressed. The chests that drop for the event don’t have silver in them, only one green item, and a bag full of useless tokens that combine for some mysterious purpose no one has figured out yet that I have heard.

Hard content should have equally good rewards, GW2 cannot get the idea that risk vs reward is what’s making the game such a let down since they started upping the difficulty. They make insane events you stand around two hours for only to get wiped and the trash doesn’t even drop anything worth selling because its account bound. Idiotic.

But yes, to the original poster, you’re wasting your time. There’s a SLIM chance for an ascended armor from the Jungle Wurm, but other than that it’s all greens and blues. Haven’t tried the wurm, but the robot’s trash don’t even drop blues and greens. Even the CHAMPIONS for the robot don’t drop blues and greens let alone a chest like they have in previous events.

Straight forward answer.

You win the internet.

MightyMicah.7451:

The patch is fine. People complain about everything. I’ve been here since launch. I’m glad to see there’s someone else who still plays this game for it’s intended purpose. Namely, fun.

Edgar Doiron.2804:

Seems like nowadays people are only playing for Achievements and rewards.

Well with the story being rubbish, and the fun being on a lag server just to whack at a boss that drops rubbish….

Of course, what do you expect white knights?

WHITE KNIGHT LOGIC: “It’s not ANet’s fault for these unpopular patches… it’s the players fault for not liking this short unpopular patches. Clearly it’s the customer fault for not receive whatever is thrown at us.”

OUR BAD WHITE KNIGHTS, OUR BAD

Yes, you are the only one.

This is the worst patch. Truly it is. I played since day one.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Soulstar.7812:

What are the reward drops for bosses?

Blues and greens? I need to know if I am wasting time with this.

If you are playing this for rewards, don’t, and go do dungeons. If you are here for hardcore content, welcome to the party.

I have all my dungeon gear and ascended.

If I ask for a reward, it probably because there is no story, or anything worth my time with the content I am talking about. Check yourself.

Need to know that there isn’t just death, blues, and greens under this sweep under the rug content.

What are the reward drops for bosses?

Blues and greens? I need to know if I am wasting time with this.

Theundersigned.4761:

I can’t wait for the new update. I don’t care if it’s good. I don’t care if it’s bad. I just want to knoooow.

Honestly, that’s the only thing that goes through my mind come patch day. I don’t care about anything except solving the “Great Update Mystery”.

Otherwise known as G.U.M.

lordkrall.7241:

We didn’t get any information at all about the Queens Jubilee update either.
I would assume it is simply because they don’t want to spoil anything.

Nope.

They had a preview release. They just had it change over a week.

This is the first time there is no preview release, probably becuase it’s just the 2 world bosses that drop greens and blues.

Erukk.1408:

Soulstar.7812:

Like this upcoming patch…

That will include two bosses, one of them a wurm… all dropping blues and greens. Nothing else.

Exciting times we live in.

They’re talking about something different. We’ll be getting the regular LS updates like we have been for the past year, but they will combining and spacing out the the feature patches into larger updates throughout the year.

Concern: ArenaNet won’t stop banging on about the Living World update plan and so will stick with it even if it’s not working.

Not true. ArenaNet is changing it this year.

The original idea was to have four story teams making a month’s worth of content each, to be released in fortnightly bumps, and whatever mechanical features were ready at that time could be rolled in and included. ‘An online world updated more frequently than any other’ was the dream, but the reality was confusion.

“It’s very distracting to players,” observed Johanson. “It’s almost a muddled message, where we put these releases out and we want them to be excited about the story, to follow the story, and we also want them to be excited about the features that are coming with it. And either one or the other tends to be the thing that people cling onto.” And the other thing, people ignore.

“What we’re going to do this year is we’re actually separating the two of those out.”

All the big mechanical features ArenaNet is working on will be held back for a bumper update presumably in the spring/summer.

“When [Living World Season One] ends [on 4th March], we’re going to take a break for a little bit and then we’re going to do one really big feature patch that is more akin to what people see from some of our [MMO] competitors,” said Johanson, "where they bundle a lot of features together into a really big patch every now and then.

“We’re going to provide that experience and have this huge feature build that has a whole lot of gameplay-changing elements, a lot of quality of life improvements, a lot of features bundled together into one big patch. And that’ll come some time not too far after Season One completes.”

You know we heard this before.
We heard talk about 300 plus people being on the payroll and “secret projects” they been working on November… promises promises promises. Where are we now? Still talking about projects, and mind-blowing content?

The only thing more empty is the hype from all the white knights, who continue to jump and down over small content.

Just for once I wish this empty hype would actually benefit the community. I hope one of these white-knights puts their money where their mouth is and offer to pay gold if there is no new continent map or something expansion-worthy. Quite frankly I don’t think they would do it, I don’t think any hype-monkey would bet solid cash that A-Net would churn out something worthy.

Like this upcoming patch…

That will include two bosses, one of them a wurm… all dropping blues and greens. Nothing else.

Exciting times we live in.

Let’s see next update will be:

2 bosses, and both drop greens and blues…

No, nothing here to get excited about… and if you are, you lying to yourself and others.

Wait next week, and then tell me I’m wrong.

I do not support Quaggan on Quaggan dirtiness…

Tell them to take that into the swamps.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Soulstar.7812:

Standby

PREPARE FOR DISAPPOINTMENT

I wouldn’t doubt if the update was just the two bosses that drops greens and blues.
I’m calling out this for what it is. You can be angry, but when it happens just don’t direct that anger on me.

No one cares about you, though.

I doubt that anyone will remember your ID, whether the update results being good or bad.

see.. hate. my point.

It’s Evon Gnashblade.

Standby

PREPARE FOR DISAPPOINTMENT

I wouldn’t doubt if the update was just the two bosses that drops greens and blues.
I’m calling out this for what it is. You can be angry, but when it happens just don’t direct that anger on me.

So Living World vs Expansion.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/8118/Guild-Wars-2-Living-Story-VS-Expansion-Fight-.html

What do you guys think about the arguments against Living World content?

After all this sprinkle some champion mobs in there with green rewards… call it Living Story series part 2… and call it progress.

In fact add all the dungeons and fractal entrances in there.

Why bother going anywhere.

Mr. E = Evon Gnashblade

HiddenNick.7206:

Just wondering… The latest new map a Tower Nightmares was abandoned few days after its release. So I just wonder why so many people want new maps? I would rather like to see an update that fixes the issue with deserted maps…

1) Tower of Nightmares isn’t a new map, it was a temp dungeon. TEMP being the word as in it’s not somewhere we can explore anymore. TO PROVE ME WRONG you need to explore the tower right now… and you can not… hence my point.

2) The maps are not empty, people need to explore and travel through the map to get their legendary. Champions, bosses, and invasion has people jumping back in those maps. You are probably coming from a dead server. Spend time on Tarnished Coast every map is busy.

3) You are arguing for less… You have the unpopular opinion regarding for less content, honestly it is irritating. I don’t know you heck you might might be a nice guy BUT this issue you are pushing it’s not helping.

Well you got til Jan 26th to get it…

Why are you panicking?

ANet actually gave us the most metal gift ever.
Click link to find out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySGMnmiqlss

What if… brace yourself… they didn’t want to use this time to make content but to just have an extended vacation?

Thought of a funny idea:

He should become Hero-tron, programed to combat evil, with his minstrel sidekick.

There should be a storyline where they track down a villain unknowingly that the player helps them defeat enemies and traps, at the end of the mission Hero-tron believes that he single-handily saved the day.

Zaxares.5419:

No, that’s not what happened. Basically Evon disagreed with his Legionnaire on how they were going to set up their operation in LA. His Legionnaire wanted to extort money from the citizens (aka do what the pirates do); Evon wanted to set up a legitimate trading operation. Evon challenged his Legionnaire and killed her (she attacked him first), and has owned the Black Lion Trading Company ever since.

This also means that the BLTC is actually a front for a spying operation in LA. (Although I’ll grant this was years ago and Evon may have gone rogue since then. We certainly don’t see his original warband around anymore.) Humans with Separatist loyalties may want to reconsider their patronage of the BLTC as a result.

Cute fan fic, but that didn’t happen.

SOURCE OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN… and that BS above didn’t happen.

KIEL IS A FRAUD

All of her accomplishments, stopping Canach, Saving Lion’s Arch, Protecting the Settlers?

Yeah she DIDN’T DO ONE OF THOSE, those achievements were the work of the players. She stole the credit for our work.

Kris Kringleson is not Santa.

He is better.

WHAT I REALLY WANT TO KNOW

Was the Southsun bikini that Kasmeer was in, an illusion as well?

I WANT… NO… NEED ANSWERS A-NET

Gulesave.5073:

Devs gave a loud NO! during the livestream. Scarlet will not be appearing during Wintersday.

Thank you.

I like Scarlet.

I can see why people are upset that she is in every storyline since the entire year, even I am getting sick of it.

The story is written so badly, you can take any awesome villain you think of and place them into the storyline with with same actions and they come out looking horrible.

IT IS NOT OUR FAULT FOR NOT LIKING LIVING STORY
It’s ANet’s fault for not making the game the way the customers like it.

Do not let any white knight tell you otherwise.

That said, I do really enjoy the game
I just do not like the fact LS has taken up the expansion.

We could have had a Cantha or new map to explore by now… but nope we have rehash “Winter’s Day” content over 4 week “Tower” content.

There is no patch for 24th…
https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/408664126752555008

so nope.

Not much thank goodness, all the fun events are here.

You came back with ALL the events for Winter’s Day!
I was beginning to doubt the Winter’s day would be complete.

BUT everything is here!

You act as though everything will get better if she dies.

You forget the Living Story writers aren’t exactly popular right now.

Kraljevo.2801:

Verow.6904:

thats a shame is it really that hard to prepare 1 page with a little text and a few pictures on?

You clearly don’t know how marketing works.

I do.

but then again I don’t work on building games.

If I did, I probably would can every writer that came up with this caliber of story writing. Walter White was right quality of product means everything, you peddle garbage don’t expect fans. (No offense to those who enjoy the current GW2 Living Story, only posting the obvious)

Gnat.9405:

Soulstar.7812:

My theory is that they are afraid of shooting themselves in the foot with posting the Winter’s Day event.

Maybe reward or an event is failing to meet the deadline, and they are debating on releasing the details and information.

They have a horrible track record on that.

EDIT: That or they are working to pry Scarlet from the Winter’s Day storyline, because people are not responding well with her.

Wintersday content was finished 4 months ago

No.
They started working on it, four months ago.

I am questioning the fact if they finished the content they intended
and don’t play cute on wordplay over the word “finished”.

Yup, something is seriously wrong.

My theory is that they are afraid of shooting themselves in the foot with posting the Winter’s Day event.

Maybe reward or an event is failing to meet the deadline, and they are debating on releasing the details and information.

They have a horrible track record on that.

EDIT: That or they are working to pry Scarlet from the Winter’s Day storyline, because people are not responding well with her.