Guild Wars 2

PhoenixFire.2790:

I don’t think the diminishing returns was a good idea. Frankly it just seems lazy. Much like my comment.

AHahahahhaahah thats awesome.

There is nothing wrong with WvW. get your team to work togeather and you will reap the rewards.

the highist ranked servers all work togeather as a team to win. if you think your going in solo and winning your kidding your self and need to go back to WoW. transfer to a top tear server and see the difference. and then leave because we have long Q times

Agree 100%. POWER TO THE PLAYERS!

JonPeters.5630:

rickets.1386:

JonPeters.5630:

Plain and simple this system is a safety net for stopping crazy farming when people find exploits that make each run super fast. We are also addressing those loopholes, but that takes time and new ones might always be discovered. If you and your group do the dungeons without skipping large sections and run different chains this system shoul(bugs aside) never impact you.

Addendum for clarity, super fast means < 30 minutes, and even then you must hit that speed multiple times in a row before you start seeing any impact.

Thanks for the reply Jon, and thanks for giving a time. However, my group just did a legit maggs run and a legit AC path 2 run in 25 minutes each. Of course with the bug we all got different rewards but i will post that in the proper forum with times.

They were not death free runs and we didn’t feel like we did them as fast as we could have, so when we bring our “A” game we will basically be waiting in front of the last boss room for 10 minutes to make sure we get full rewards….not fun. But, I guess if the system starts to work like you hope and it takes multiple sub 30 minute runs in a row we should be fine.

I will also be posting links to the 2 runs we just did(as soon as they are uploaded) to prove we did them legit.

Thanks and i hope a fix is on its way soon.

Thank you this is excellent info. We would like dungeons to be legit hard enough to take closer to 45 mins but if we can’t accomplish that goal we can look at the speed clear times from non exploiters and easily adjust the system. The goal is that hardcore farmers don’t even see this thing but only exploiters. We will keep working towards that goal.

Jon

Thats an awesome idea jon. The problem is level 4 toons are hitting this “system” or “bug”.

you want us to farm karma for gear at 42,000 karma a pice. ok fine, dont restrict on us how much karma we can get in a hour. or reduced the amount of karma needed to buy the set of armor.

Or add in more ways to get karma. for example remove WvW tokens and grant karma per kill. this will get more people intrested in WvW.

Any one know if Anet will release a race change option in the gem store?

I stopped logging in until instances are fixed. I have been considering rolling an alt but then i just play torchlight hardore much more fun.

This DR system is hands down the dumbist thing ever created for ANY MMO! THe better question is why was this game released with so many freaking problems and exploits.

all the speed runs were because of exploits. i agree with the OP if my group is kitten enough to run an instance in 15min 4 or 5 times in a row why should we not get rewarded for being kitten?

I ran TA 3 times yesterday.
Run 1 took about 45 min (first run of the day) should have gotten 60 tokens. I got 15
run 2 (different patch) took 50min and was the first run of the day should have gotten 60 tokens i got 6.
run 3 same path as run 1 took 45min and got 0 tokens.

So your tellling me i should stop telling Anet how much they suck becuase im not getting the correct reward…

thats like going to the supermarket buying 100$ worth of food and the second you get it home its all mold. What would you do?

Toss it and go buy it again. ok fine so you do and its all mold again and again. then what? you just going to say “hey give them time to fix the firdge” or are you going there asking for your money back and freaking out.

my guess is option 2.

Thanks for the update. Should have said this weeks ago.

Once again i AGREE this game needs a PTR. but i understand why they haven’t put one up YET. For all we know they could be working on it and i hope they are

Orr is hands down some of the worst zones in the game.

I would love to see your empirical data. you keep useing this as your fall back, but yet refuse to provide any supporting documentation. from where im sitting you have no data at all. Yes some F2P games make good money not disputting that. But if you combine the monthly $$ wow makes vs F2P MMO’s, Wow wins. Wow still has 9mill players paying monthly. i’ll do the math for you 9,000,000 X 15 = $135,000,000 (thats assuming every one is paying 15$ a month and not multi month subs)

Please tell me what F2P MMO is making $135mil a month?

i would put 1mil on that fact that GW2 will never make that much a month. EVER.

So why should any one listen to you then? Where is your credibility? do you work for Anet? where is your empirical data? you come off like a kitten does that mean i should follow your ever word?

Project name and company name are not ready to be released at this time. they will be released with the release of the website. still going through the leagel team for naming issues.

Nope.. its called the Anti bot code its nerfed PVE so you cant farm and you cant grind. But yet the game is designed for you to grind..

Nope.. its called the Anti bot code its nerfed PVE so you cant farm and you cant grind. But yet the game is designed for you to grind..I know.. i know.. mind blowing isn’t it. I feel like im in the movie inception.

True they promised no farm. When have you known of a company, trying to make money, not to Lie?

sadly bots will be a problem in almost every video game released. But it is easily countered.

Blizzard added a code, when botting became a problem in WoW, that they could track what is running on your computer while you are playing WoW. If you are reported for botting they open it up and see Workspace macro running they could easily tell if your botting.
Or you get the MMO glider and it re wrote some of the code for WoW. They couldn’t trace it as easily but they still knew. To stop this they wrote a program to find the new or re written code and track the accounts.

Sadly Anet doesn;t have the funds blizzard or WoW has so its going to take them some time. But all they have to do is watch the people for a few min to see if their botting.

This will continue to be a problem for a long time my friends.

vicwolf.7862:

Spawn.7014:

vicwolf.7862:

Spawn.7014:

you guys are funny. Heres why.

they dont have enough money for another server to test stuff.

This doesn’t deserve a response but I’ll give it one anyways.

Yeah, they do. For one, servers don’t cost that much to build and run relative to the amount of money they are swimming in since the launch. For another, they already have an internal server they use for their “claimed” QA team (who aren’t very diligent apparently).

How much money do you think their pulling in now since there is no monthly fee to play?

How much money did they make with the release of game and how much did it cost to make the game.

trust me, all of their staff is working on fixing the game as fast as they can. But with little income (gem store + more people buying the game) and with the game in its current state they dont have the time nor the money to creat a PTR.

I wish they did because they freaking need one BAD! but with the PTR they make no $$$ off it.

Lots, the cash shop pulls in metrickittentons of cash relative to the cost of maintaining it.

I’m not going to educate you on the f2p model and why it is often more lucrative than p2p these days so we’ll leave it at this: you’re provably wrong and if you actually cared about being right you’d do even a little research and see exactly how wrong you are on this subject.

Trust me i know what the F2P model is considering i own a gaming company working on an MMO. it’s a topic we have been discussing for a long time now. The gem store is not brining in as much as you think. and this is because you can convert gold to gems. and sadly you can buy gold cheeper from a farmer then you can from converting gems to gold.

Trust me they are working their crews to the bone to get this game working. I am not disagreeing with you that this game needs a PTR but in the eyes f a company it will not make them any money. WHo in their right mind would buy gems on PTR?

If you want gear you need to grind the instance that dropps tokens for that gear. If you want the karma set you need to grind WvW or events and if you farm events you get slapped with the anti bot code.

Or you run an instance and you get less and less and less reward. thats if you even get the correct reward the first time you run it.

vicwolf.7862:

Spawn.7014:

you guys are funny. Heres why.

they dont have enough money for another server to test stuff.

This doesn’t deserve a response but I’ll give it one anyways.

Yeah, they do. For one, servers don’t cost that much to build and run relative to the amount of money they are swimming in since the launch. For another, they already have an internal server they use for their “claimed” QA team (who aren’t very diligent apparently).

How much money do you think their pulling in now since there is no monthly fee to play?

How much money did they make with the release of game and how much did it cost to make the game.

trust me, all of their staff is working on fixing the game as fast as they can. But with little income (gem store + more people buying the game) and with the game in its current state they dont have the time nor the money to creat a PTR.

I wish they did because they freaking need one BAD! but with the PTR they make no $$$ off it.

End game for this game is just like WoW but with out the raids.

Farm instances for gear and thats it. only problem is WoW does a better job at instances

But then again Anet did a great job with leveling and the zones overall.

Oh i wasnt talking about the comma im talking about the “I proceed to lock the thread.”
Or the " We lock this topic "
My spelling sucks because i’m dyslexic. Spelling and i do not go good togeather but i try my best.

As for the comment about the NA offices being shut down and stuff. I didn’t even think about that.

Good read but you clearly hate the BLTC.
You need to give the reader more than just the BLTC.
Add in sections about how Anet puts a patch out and breaks 100 other things.
Talk about why there is no test server or the lack of communication between Anet and the players.
Add in how PvE is being nerfed every patch because they will not ban bots.

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

Spelling errors aside, I’m mostly disappointed about the copy/paste replies.

And why is that?

you guys are funny. Heres why.

they dont have enough money for another server to test stuff.

Hello I have been looking though the forums and I’ve seen a lot of locked threads today and most of the time the mods locking the treads are not even speaking proper English.
Example:
Hi,
We lock this topic and advise you to get in touch with the support to have this issue resolved.

Hi everyone.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
The forums indeed experience this kind of momentary incidences. They typically return to normality after refreshing the page or after some minutes.
Sorry for the inconveniences.
I proceed to lock the thread.

Now I don’t care one way or the other I just though it was intrusting that a company would hire people for NA servers that can’t speak proper English.
I hope i dont get a ban for this

/signed agreed 100%. the fact that ever patch has just ended up breaking some thing else is unacceptable.

Ahh ok thank you

Sad that every time Anet releases a patch they just end up breaking more stuff.

Whats wrong with WvW?

Hello guys,

Quick question. Why doesn’t completing an instance reward Karma?

Thanks.

I just don’t understand how Anet hasn’t learned to test > quick fix. I do feel that once this system is in place it will be awesome. But at the moment there is 0 reason to run an instance

It seems all the instanced are bugged yet again after today’s patch. This is what happens when you just release stuff with out testing it. I love this game and will continue to play it but Anet is distorting this game. I know at least 15 people who will not play this game due to all the bugs and they feel ripped off for buying a beta and not a some what polished games.

Ran TA down.
Opened instance at 4:25 ended at about 5:00pm EST.
Player 1 got 1 token
Players 2 got 16 tokens
Player 3 got 6 tokens
Player 4 got 5 tokens
player 5 got 20 tokens.

All first run of the day.

None first instance we ran all day.

it seems TA is bugged. i haven’t tried any other instance but after running TA for the first time and only getting 6 tokens i think i’ll wait a few days for them to iron things out. No point in wasting my time for 6 tokens.

just ran my first instance of the day. TA. Before that i logged off for an hour to play DOTA 2. So i get back into game and join a group and get to TA takes about 30min to run. We get to boss and we kill him no problems.

Time for reward.. I should receive 60 tokens( 20 for instance + 40 for first run of the day) correct me if i’m wrong.

I got 6 tokens. that’s 54 less then i was supposed to. I hadn’t ran any instance all day nor any events within an hour prior to the instance.

So the question is Why did i not receive the correct amount of tokens and why wasn’t this new system tested before releasing to the public to test?

I think Orr sucked. and is hands down the worst zones in the game.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Evil.9061:

Its almost like a PTR could have prevented this whole thing. Then again, I just play MMOs, im not a content designer,

More testing always helps ( I was a tester in QA long before I was a designer). Better to be safe than sorry, and there was a ball dropped in this regard.

There was a ball dropped every where in this game. lol maybe you should go back to testing.

play the game the way they want you too.

meaning dont play very much and buy gems.

Please keep on topic. What do you think will get nerfed next.

Im not even talking about the instance nerf. im talking about the hearts to low levels nerf. Have you tried to level a new toon because i can only play my toon for about 45min before my heart rewards hits 20/3

mangarrage.1062:

kittenh.9548:

They will nerf Spawn.7014’s posting ability

one could only hope

I love post like these the worst in mmo history lol
Of all the 1 game you played I guess

I do not even see the patch as being worth a conversation tbh

This is second in worst patche in MMO history. SWG is still in first place. I;ve played close to every MMO ever released (excluding the F2P) since Ac1. Do you even know what AC1 stands for?

So your ok with level 4 players playing the game and doing hearts and only getting 20 exp and 3 karma? really. good luck rolling an alt.

Tradewind.6913:

I’m hoping the next nerf is a limit on thread creations.

Why?

Some dyes sell really good. abyss sells reallly good. sold one for 13gold the other day.

Why. im allowed to ask the community what they feel will get nerfed next. this doesnt break the CoC.

Nah mine has more effort in it.

making your post a troll post.

The patch from 2 days ago goes down in history as one of the worst patches in MMO history.

what do you think they will nerf next?
PVE in a nut shell has already been Nerfed.

my guess is gems will be used to repair items and use waypoints or even better you must use 1 gem for every trading post auction created or bought.

i bet there working on a way to make useing a waypoint cost gems. and repairing to cost gems.

you laugh now but i bet you its crossed their minds. Anet has turned into a money hungry compnay just like blizzard. And we the players suffer for it.

this will never happen. you can buy items at level for karma grind more karma sell but a new set at level 30 sell at level 40 and so on. you would always have the best items once you got the karam.

Evil.9061:

I just remember the very cool video manifesto posted on the GW2 site “Play the way you want to play”. I guess it needed a disclaimer of

Disclaimer: “The way you want to play and the way we intend you to play may vary, change or vanish without notice. You may then find a new way of wanting to play or not; at least we don’t have a subscription.”

hahahahah BEST post EVER!!!!

Robert Hrouda did you come from blizzard becuase it clearly seems like you have a WoW nerf mind.

you should be FIRED!!!!!
and who ever approved this “change” should be FIRED also.