Guild Wars 2

dietzero.3514:

This is not launch. The income Anet get from bag slot sales is probably less than 1% of their total income. Most people do not even buy them because they are so overpriced.

Bag slots? Yeah, a bit overpriced.

And yet, apparently it’s a “must-have” rather than “do without” so it must not be that far overpriced.

Sarisa.4731:

Played M:tG from Ice Age to Zendikar. The worst mistake I ever made was becoming a judge. After that, I never was able to regain my love for the game, and eventually sold my collection for about $3200US. Dealing with the tournament atmosphere is also why I avoid almost all forms of PvP now.

I sometimes do Booster Draft and play among friends. I no longer really go out to play all that much – half due to my job being a night shift type thing, and half because I run into too many players who equate stomp-style wins as “fun” and aren’t having fun unless they have a deck which wins on turn 4.

. . . on the other hand, “Commander/EDH” was one of the more fun formats which got released. Still plagued by people who take it too seriously and try to win as opposed to making a fun deck.

Angel McCoy.1832:

KOPPER.1458:

I’ve been on the Magic the Gathering Pro Tour, it was a really long time ago now

Did you go to Kuala Lumpur on the tour? If so, I was there too. I was working at WotC at the time.

You both have my partial envy as a Pre-Fallen Empires player Though I know I am nowhere near good enough to make the Pro Tour.

Angel McCoy.1832:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

So have you been playing “spot the pale bald guy” while watching? It’s quite a fun game.

Is that a drinking game? If so, by the time you watch the season I’m on, you wouldn’t get very far before… Hehe.

No, it’s not a drinking game. Well I never played it as one. I played it more as “Where’s Waldo”. The last time I played a drinking game was Season 4 Lost and “take a shot at every Jackface”.

I don’t do drinking games anymore. It got expensive.

DiscoJacen.1590:

mtpelion If you have time for that good for you. But I’m fine just recycling and NOT spending hours on the mystic toilet ; )

Hours aggregate, perhaps, but more like 10 minutes at the end of my day. Or the start of my day, if I decided not to do it. Or maybe not at all if I didn’t get anything worth forging.

I sell my green gear, salvage apart white and blue gear, rares and up are on a case-by-case. (Do I have the skin? Do I have three or more of the same weapon type? Did I just use a bunch of Ectoplasm?)

Sakri.7234:

Vayne.8563:

There have been complaints about this game, pretty much continually (as one would expect on a game forum) but population complaints are not generally among them. Most population complaints are about too many people at events, rather than not enough people.

Most complaints have been legitimate on these forums, though. This game is still very lacking in many areas as anet primarily concentrates on gem store items.

I’d say roughly 66% of the complaints have some traction and the rest are mostly complaining for complaining’s sake. Or complaining about the complaining. Or wanting mounts.

I’ll make no value judgement on whether the 66% are legitimate complaints or not. Only that they have some point in there somewhere.

phys.7689:

Ashen.2907:

phys.7689:

Ashen.2907:

Wethospu.6437:

No really cares that to get decent bag space you have to do stuff like mules, guild banks and keep items on mails?

I don’t do any of those things and have what I would consider, “decent,” space. I would love more, but its a product for which I would expect to pay. So far the cost has outweighed the potential benefit for me. When that changes I will buy more.

I really do not understand how, “I want something so I guess I better pay for it,” became a foreign concept (this is not directed at you Wethospu).

probably because they did pay for it.

No, they did not pay for more space than was provided. They paid for what was included at the time of the purchase. Anything more than that is an extra purchase, something for which they have not paid.

they paid for an mmorpg game, it didnt say on the box that it had 30 bank spaces. By your definition, everything that happens in the game, you shouldnt complain about, because you didnt pay for something other than what you recieved.

. . . I’m going to point out how that argument sounds completely strange, and probably wouldn’t translate to actual physical goods at all.

Though I must say, I don’t recall there being complaints about buying the D&D Player’s Handbook and how it didn’t contain content which was being sold in the other manuals or splatbooks . . . it was understood entirely if you wanted to get access to the more broken aspects of 3.5 you needed those extra books. (And, similarly, 4th edition.)

There’s a lot of weird arguments going on about this whole bank space thing, in fact, it’s starting to get to the point someone should be charging admission and selling popcorn.

Wait, I’m no longer a white knight?

Sweet. I dug Cecil more as a Dark Knight anyway.

DocZed.6973:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Cantha. You wrote “Cantha”.

. . . It’s Elona.

My bad. It’s 3am lol
Sorry if I came off as rude there.

I was mostly being short because, similarly, I don’t trust myself to write longer poses right now and not ramble on.

So, no harm, no foul, Elona rocks.

DocZed.6973:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

DocZed.6973:

I want Palawa Joko to be a big portion of any future Canthan updates with his corrupted Sunspears.

. . . you going to double-check what you wrote there?

Are you?

“Many of the Sunspears swore allegiance to Joko after his rise to power in exchange for wealth and prestige. These traitors and those of their brethren who were raised into undeath now form part of the Mordant Crescent, who still hunt those who would attempt to uphold the oaths of the Sunspears.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Order_of_the_Sunspears

Cantha. You wrote “Cantha”.

. . . It’s Elona.

The “Devil’s Advocate” position is rather a necessary one for a healthy debate. Not to mention incredibly useful to begin spotting holes in your arguments.

It is also one of the things which is mistaken for “trolling” if you admit to taking that position for the sake of argument.

DocZed.6973:

I want Palawa Joko to be a big portion of any future Canthan updates with his corrupted Sunspears.

. . . you going to double-check what you wrote there?

Palawa Joko is still around, and I’d like to hear more about how to go beat him.

. . . I mean, how to join his ever-growing army of minions.

Palawa Joko. And Turai Ossa.

Zahld.4956:

white knight check. it’s your turn.

Pawn to queen’s rook four.

Angel McCoy.1832:

Oh, no. That is so sad. I’ve been watching “Fringe,” and it’s been such a delight to see him acting.

So have you been playing “spot the pale bald guy” while watching? It’s quite a fun game.

Mono.7320:

you know there is this thing called ‘’Edge of the Mists’’ where you go capture keeps/towers and gain lots of exp…I got from lvl10>80 in 2 days very easy

It’s also a terrible way to get to know the game, or your class.

Look, you have your priorities all wrong.

. . . first the asura, then the sylvari, then the charr. Then we pay off the norn with kegs of whiskey.

GiraffeRampage.6420:

Dont come to the forums complaining about anything because you will only find tons and tons of biasm from players defending anet’s every decision no matter how obviously flawed something is.

Or, and this is maybe just a stretch, some of us just disagree with such a rather opinionated and incredibly entitled-reading original post?

. . . or, like myself, came from games in the past where we weren’t so fortunate for storage space.

Astralporing.1957:

I don’ need to add what will be used as fuel for the fireplace, right?

The hopes of everyone wanting to actually see it without being “lost” somewhere down in the Ossan District, and found as a rather messy corpse?

It’s okay, I think I hate this game too.

Or at least, certain parts of it. Clock Tower, Winter Wonderland, Asura . . .

Chef? Come on, we know Bloodstone Dust has absolutely no culinary applications.

None.

Listening to the description of the Wyvern just reminds me of the two years I spent doing Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, and how annoying Silver Rathalos can be.

. . . if we could get active combat on that level . . .

Tyrannical.9348:

Anyone got a count on the amount of posts nowadays that are just spoiled kids having tantrums? I lost count, guess this is how people who work in pre-school feel…

No . . .

. . . think “retail wage-slave” and you’re close.

edgarallanpwn.8739:

Or they could just be cool like any other game and not restrict basic needs…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Oh yeah.

FYi most other games don’t restrict slots. They just don’t give you the bags that fit in the slots. Idk why this is such a hard concept.

Ohhhhh?

Do I need to pull up other games which do restrict slots? Especially “allegedly free” games I’ve checked out? Inventory is a premium in many of those.

Or should we look only at MMOs? Because I seem to recall Everquest getting away with a lot of funkiness with their bag/bank system. And Ultima Online as well.

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

Loex.5104:

Zepidel.5349:

Guild halls were something along with GvG that anyone should have expected DAY ONE with a sequel to GUILD wars.

Sadly the name GUILD WARS is given by the GUILD WARS between the major guilds of Ascalon Kryta and Orr and has nothing to do with player-guild-based PvP

learn the Lore :p

I feel like these people could also complain about Star Wars not having stars fighting each other.

Dunno what you’re talking about. It had Sir Alec Guiness fighting James Earl Jones.

Haha yeah, “this” kind of stars I meant the other one

It does have the “Death Star” . . . and there’s a war involving it . . .

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

Loex.5104:

Zepidel.5349:

Guild halls were something along with GvG that anyone should have expected DAY ONE with a sequel to GUILD wars.

Sadly the name GUILD WARS is given by the GUILD WARS between the major guilds of Ascalon Kryta and Orr and has nothing to do with player-guild-based PvP

learn the Lore :p

I feel like these people could also complain about Star Wars not having stars fighting each other.

Dunno what you’re talking about. It had Sir Alec Guiness fighting James Earl Jones.

Lucyfer.9517:

Charr and humans are not friends, we are allies only because dragon threat forced us into it. But as soon as dragons are gone we will be geting ourselves some charr furrs for cold winter

There’s a calendar photo shoot scheduled of Kasmeer and Marjory on a charr-hide rug in front of a fireplace.

Sometime after the last Dragon is killed.

I found getting another character with 4 18-Slot bags to be cheaper than a bank slot. I also find the longer I play the less junk I seem to accumulate as I begin to understand what’s worth hanging onto and what’s not.

I mean, I do still have a bank tab filled with Season 1 things like Tassi’s Candy-Powered Matter Meter . . . and an 18-Slot bag with all the backpack skin junk they kept throwing at me. (Seriously there was a lot.)

Gaab.4257:

I agree 300G is way too much. This should not be gold-gated like this.

As someone who sees way too much “Taste the Rainbow” going on during World Boss Grand Tours, I don’t think it costs as much as it should.

Also I recall people saying 100G was too much before the change.

HiddenNick.7206:

Zepidel.5349:

And still no proper GvG?

What is the deference between “proper GvG” and the new Stronghold mode? Just wondering…

GvG seems to be a moving target – people want what they could get before in GW1 which was 8v8 on a Guild Hall map where one side was defending and one attacking. Others want to be able to field basically their own guild zerg vs zerg or 5v5 arrangements.

Stronghold looks to be, really, a much more specialized form of WvW chopped down and rebalanced so it almost sounds a lot like League to me.

GiraffeRampage.6420:

1. judging off of market prices for EVERY EXPANSION THAT HAS BEEN RELEASED FOR ANY GAME has always cost roughly 40$. I paid 30$ for every expansion of gw1 that came out so saying its not going to be around that price is a very misguided opinion based off of your defense of the product.

I paid $20 for my first expansion of a game: “Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal”. Similarly, many years later, “The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal” didn’t cost me as much.

And you paid $30 for Nightfall? Fine, more power to you. I paid $45, twice so I could send a copy to my brother so we could start playing games again together which weren’t Diablo II.

2. If i am PAYING for an EXPANSION, i as the consumer want my moneys worth. The living seasons have not lived up to their expectations. An expanded part of 1 zone is not an expansion, thats more or less a large update patch.

Then don’t pay for it.

Fext.3614:

Harper.4173:

Fext.3614:

Ascalon will rise again.

Ascalon Eternal!

We’ll get back at the Charr for what they did.

BTW can you still play the old GW? Is it also plaqued by the White Wolf style politicaly correct nonsense, when every race has a primary antagonist group from the same race (flame legion, nightmare court, sons of svanir etc.)?

No. No it is not.

It’s also not limited to White Wolf doing that. That was in Forgotten Realms quite a bit before it made it over to World of Darkness.

Reminds me of why my friends and I would pack Sonic Bombs fighting Nargacuga in MHFU – to completely skip some attacks and force it into a pattern we could fight through practice.

Not that it was easier so much . . . if we were not careful or not in sync with each other, it led to some fabulous negative effects.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

I would also like to add that I’m a HUGE Legend of Zelda fanboy. Like, frikkin HUGE Legend of Zelda fanboy.

Any other Zelda fans in here?

I’ve not been a huge fan of Zelda since Ocarina of Time. I just have not liked many of the games I played as much as I liked the ones pre-OoT. Except maybe Phantom Hourglass.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Can we please get the temples that require traits on a timer or something? The temples I need for traits are never contested. I hate to be forced to buy them since these yellow traits are the priciest.

IIRC, it was changed so that the defense event for the temples also grants the trait.

Gates of Arah still are set so defense will not work.

Victory.2879:

I’m an identity thief and would like to thank you all for revealing so much about yourselves, along with Facebook and twitter some of you really make it easy for criminals. (for the Americans, who don’t get humour, this is obviously intended as a joke).

. . . yes, but do you have proof we were all telling the truth and not leaving flights of fancy for you to stumble on?

Really, honestly, the hints and calls to Cantha exist because a nice slice of the players liked Cantha. If Elona was more popular than Cantha, we’d be getting more on Elona I’d wager.

AngryJoeShow.5864:

Honestly when the expansion was announced it didn’t get me as hyped up as I thought it would. A lot of the content here in HoT is content I felt like should have already been in the game or at least in by now. What took so long? One new region? I’f I remember right GW 1 expansions would have multiple regions, and no new races or something that really grabs new players or return playrs attention aside from the revenant and specializations.

Well, GW1 didn’t release “expansions” so much as stand alone games (“campaigns”) which you could link to with older characters and have newer characters share the world with. Two of those and a more traditional “expansion” which was about as big as HoT seems to be (Eye of the North).

So, there’s that.

As for new players having something to get grabbed by . . . you’re kind of right, there’s not much there to “wow” people like a certain other game. There hasn’t been new races announced, and only one new class. (Though for the record, EQ1 had a habit of only adding three classes and two races by the time I bowed out in expansion 6. And UO never added new races or classes per se . . . only new headaches. I mean, realms.) GW1 introduced two new classes per the two campaigns . . . but therein was one of the issues which plagued it because at least one of those classes ran into a “this was probably badly conceived” problem. I should be more bombastic and say all four did, for different values of balance problems, but only two come to mind strongly.

Even at the start of GW2, I kind of feel there was a whole lot about the game which didn’t have a “grab me and shake me by the shoulders OMG I MUST PLAY DIS” feeling to it. The only one which was arguably interesting was “no subscription”. Meaning basically you bought and if you didn’t like it you were out like for any other Triple-A title. (Cheaper, actually, if you got it on sale.)

So I don’t know . . . the strategy for Guild Wars as a franchise has always been trying to not go kill or compete outright for attention, but just let people come and stay for what they like.

Anyway, I suggest you bring those concerns up when you get the interview.

Also, do get some sleep. I think you’re in the same time zone as me so it’s 2:15am

pdavis.8031:

Maybe it’s me but I’ve never really had a problem with the events. Usually at first things are quite slow. But I can usually defend one fort 2, maybe 3 times solo. But eventually the map fills up and we get to the breach and Vine wrath. People generally want to do, but few people actually start it, and if they find an “empty” map tend to leave to get to it a bit quicker.

See, that’s where it’s different – there are two mobs which cause me to wind up not being able to finish an event due to being overwhelmed – teragriffs and thrashers. Any of those being Veteran? I have to abandon the event, because I will not finish.

John Smith.4610:

• I love playing soccer and watching both Soccer and American Football (Baltimore Ravens)

As a Browns semi-fan, I’m told it’s customary to glare at a Ravens fan for daring to admit it. Instead I’m just going to sigh and shake my head and be glad you didn’t say Steelers.

IndigoSundown.5419:

I believe that ANet stated the mastery system is a post-80 progression system, and that traits 3.0 would be a pre-80 progression system. This implies that leveling a character to 80 should unlock all traits. If that’s not the case, then it ought to be.

I’d expect leveling a character to 80 would unlock the bulk of the traits like it did in the past, with some needing an effort to go earn – such as the ones which got added in the revamp.

Wolfheart.1879:

I think there is a danger of thinking “I have no problems, therefore no one should have problems, and anyone who says they do is wrong”. Not so. We all have different experiences depending on how we play, how long we play etc.

The corollary is also true – just because you have problems doesn’t mean you should assume those who say they don’t are lying.

Isarii.2804:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

I agree, they’re pretty bad.

But mostly because I can’t choose a district/instance and can get shunted repeatedly into a dead instance where nothing is happening. And if that’s the case, I can’t do many events defending the forts because they’re not balanced for a single player to hold things off very well.

Other than that, I really kind of enjoy the map. In small doses. Which is just about how I enjoy the rest of the game – in small bursts of activity, then take a break until the next day.

Just use the LFG to find a taxi to a full instance.

Yes, that might work in theory if the last three taxis hadn’t been blatant lies about how full or how active the instance was

Bubi.7942:

If I got this right, your main gripe is that you have to pay 200 gems (if you haven’t unlocked for free) for LS episode 3, which mostly contains re-used content to get started on Mawdrey 2?

Well, turns out, you can get those ingridients from the centaur in Dry Top for a few laurels. So there’s no need to do it.

Sorry about the tinfoil hat.

I thought that only was available if you should otherwise have access to it but may have deleted the item or had it go buggy on you. (Which happened when they added new chapters and layered the further evolution on the resulting seeds.)

Lifestealer.4910:

I wonder how people will feel if I use “casuals” as a insult to people.

I’ll own that insult, like I own a couple others thrown at me daily.

Aomine.5012:

Also Treaherne is one of the most emotionless and unsympathize character in the whole game. He never truly moan for anyone, thinking sacrifices is rational and reasonable and quickly move on.

This edit snuck in, but I’ll respond to it anyway.

. . . I agree with the sentiment of sacrifices being necessary, and a loss of a few is worth the futures of an infinite number of potential lives. Every lost life matters, but it’s only truly senseless if they die for nothing.

At least, that’s how Tobias and Garah see matters. (A human and a charr agreeing, mmmph, their ancestors would be screaming in the Mists right now….)

To quote a favorite song: “You can fight without ever winning, but never really win without a fight.”

Aomine.5012:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Death to the one we all hate?

Sure, sign me up, I would love to death-stomp Zojja. And then Taimi.

You should worry more about Caithe because she’s the coldest and cruelest among those 5. Even in personal story she’s merciless. She’s also the most cunning of all, and able to keep secret of Mordremoth for so long. The nicest of all probably is Eir, following by Zojja (though you probably don’t know why, sigh)

Also Treaherne is one of the most emotionless and unsympathize character in the whole game.

No, please, continue trying to sell me on a character I can’t stand, from a race I barely tolerate because they make useful things.

I do not like asura as a whole. Vekk was an odd one out because he treated us a lot more like a partner than someone to be used or just pointed in the right direction and let loose. All the others I recall? I work with them because I have to, not because I like it.

. . . and Zojja makes me want to bury an axe in her skull for most of the Personal Story and for a good section of the story instances in the Dungeons where she is present. It’s the attitude.

I don’t worry about Caithe. I’m getting tutored on how to handle thieves in WvW, so soon she’ll be less of a problem.

As for Trahearne, I’m one of the few people who would rather he not die at all. Just go retire from the Marshal position and return to Orr to focus on the cleanup. Give command to the next most deserving person in Tyria.

Evon Gnashblade.

I handle them by not getting anywhere near them. I only do dungeons/fractals with guild groups, and constantly mention I don’t do dungeons enough to have everything memorized about what to do.

. . . with the only exception of Twilight Arbor, which I know “kinda well”.

Hey Angry Joe, love your show, glad to see you coming back. I hope you can do a peek at what has happened since you departed, but I know you probably have a lot of other games to draw your attention and time.

Good luck with the event, and if you want a couple questions:

- Will there be a way for new/returning players to experience the story of Living World Season 1?

- Is there going to be a Season 3 before the release of Heart of Thorns? If so, will it be focused on leading up to the content or more focused on world-wide reactions to what happened?

- Will someone please unshackle Josh Foreman and let him work on SAB World 3? Or at least a cyclical availability schedule for the Box so it’s still special/limited but not offline all the time?