Guild Wars 2

Isslair.4908:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

And because of my “expect it, be ready, be flexible” philosophy I am not one to reroll once they nerf my class. I simply do not let it ruin the fun I’m having. Besides, it forces me to rethink my character, and letting me invent new ways of playing. And that is fun in and of itself.

Btw, this is an answer I would have given for every class in every MMO.

This is only applicable for solo play.

If you want to join a party you need to have max performance. Otherwise you’re just being a bad person and ruining fun for your teammates.

Weird that my guildies and friends haven’t complained so far :p
But then, but this is more of a personal preference, I prefer with people who are also flexible. Because like I said, you can expect nerfs. And people who are not ready for them and cannot adapt are more useless in the long run than the flexible ones.
There are often more than one way to finish something, and people who are dead set on one build often don’t see them. Tends to make boring runs if you do the same thing over and over and over again.

ZeroArmada.9426:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

Thief. I am still very happy with it. I do not worry about nerfs. In every MMO, eventually somewhere along the line my favorite class – whatever it may be – IS going to get nerfed somehow. Expect it, be ready, and be flexible and it won’t bother you as much. Same with buffs by the way.
And because of my “expect it, be ready, be flexible” philosophy I am not one to reroll once they nerf my class. I simply do not let it ruin the fun I’m having. Besides, it forces me to rethink my character, and letting me invent new ways of playing. And that is fun in and of itself.

Btw, this is an answer I would have given for every class in every MMO.

But what if you spent all this money on gear and trinkets, then that specific build gets nerfed. Are you going to buy new gear again? Assuming you don’t have much time to play and get on about 2-6 hours per day[/quote]

I don’t pick my armor for one specific build – I build my armor in a neutral way that lets me use it with different builds.
Besides, in this game you don’t really need to spend a lot of time and money to get yourself some armor.

(and I play at most 10 hours a week btw)

ZeroArmada.9426

For those who aren’t running multiple toons and aren’t going for every profession like I am, how do you feel about only sticking to one profession? Are you happy with it? Are you worried about any current nerfs that have been implemented? Do you like the buffs you have received? Do you feel like re-rolling another toon because of anything that has/hasn’t happened? Please do state what profession you run

Thief. I am still very happy with it. I do not worry about nerfs. In every MMO, eventually somewhere along the line my favorite class – whatever it may be – IS going to get nerfed somehow. Expect it, be ready, and be flexible and it won’t bother you as much. Same with buffs by the way.
And because of my “expect it, be ready, be flexible” philosophy I am not one to reroll once they nerf my class. I simply do not let it ruin the fun I’m having. Besides, it forces me to rethink my character, and letting me invent new ways of playing. And that is fun in and of itself.

Btw, this is an answer I would have given for every class in every MMO.

They are available to buy with gems outside of the chests. At least, the mini toy venturi is. I think the other minis will be added later.

I am a fan of option one though.

The pun in the title was intended… right?

Back then there werent a lot of people with more than 3/4 gold. I don’t like it either, but it is logical that the price of gems would rise as more people get richer.

[whine]Only if they give “old DD’s” the price difference with the normal version in gems. If I had known I could have bought a DD for the price of the normal version, I wouldn’t have done it![/whine]

Come on, OP. Every product you buy has the risk of getting a discount X time after you buy it. Doesnt matter if it’s a game or washing machine. I recently bought Dishonored at a 50% discount via a steam sale – that game is only a few months old too. Should the “old” buyers get their money back too? Should there never be any discounts, ever?

If it bothers you that much, simply wait a few weeks/months before you buy something so you can profit from the discounts.

In that case, no idea how he knew it…

@ Fox: you should read the first post before answering :p

@ OP: did you wear an untransmuted dungeon set? If so, he probably recognised the looks and knew what stats went with it.

I agree. In the pre-launch weekend en the days after that, zones were overcrowded and DEs were boring. Now there is an option to fail an event, leading to interesting new events I havent seen before.

What both games do better or worse is just personal preference. But no matter which game you think is better, there is no doubt that it’s good for both games and the entire genre to be able to learn from each other.

Didn’t buy them at halloween, didnt buy them for Lost Shores and I won’t buy them now.

I am not a gambler. I did however save up some keys, so I hope I can use those.

Khemizt.5104:

Quaz.4931:

I get the feeling (but correct me if I am wrong) that you run into a lot of hackers/exploiters :P

CoD had similar exploits though (like being able to get under the floor) and that was a console game that got fixed. So when I am sure these things will get fixed soon enough!

Exactly lol, it got fixed, and I’m sure within a reasonable time frame, many games that I play have had hacking and exploiting issues it’s just what happens now a days. The fact that Anet can’t do anything to stop it is the problem.

Holy hells, do we play the same CoD? Some days I cannot find a decent game without the wallhackers and the auto-aimers. It’s quite the opposite of a hack free game.

did you test these all yourself or did you believe the Almighty Google that they worked?

I can make a website claiming I have a found a crystal skeleton in my backyard – doesnt mean aliens exist. Don’t get me wrong, I have no doubt there are a few hacks out there. Where there are games, there are hackers. But I doubt the problem is big enough to go dramaqueening like this over.

**Edit ah, Saw you already said you didnt test these yourself. Still – you are surprised that there are hackers? Show me a game without them, I dare you.

I miss the good ol’days, when towns were full and henchies were so godaweful you HAD to team up with players or fail like a madman. I really hated the introduction of heroes in GW1, and made me turn to PvP instead of PvE. Got addicted to GvG for about 18 months, then quit when my guild slowly fell apart.

But I have some very fond memories of GW1.

I got one off a random mob yesterday – so it’s still possible. That being said, since halloween I only found 3 keys, 1 for map completion and 2 as drops, so they’re very rare.

Saving up the keys for future events that might have some good stuff from chests. I sure as hell am not buying keys, so the few rare drops are my only chances

Esrever.8613:

Reaver.9256:

If anything it’s getting more and more people. Can’t walk 2 feet on my server without running into people. Did Teq last night at 4am and must have had 100+ people. Seems most people just refuse to open their eyes.

100 people is nothing. Opening week, you can’t even get out of overflow to do shadow behemoth.

facepalms

On opening week, every single player was in the same zone. Now the population has spread out more. Doesnt mean the game is dying, just means that there are no longer 1000 people stuffed in the same square meter.

Pve: make the dragon DEs more fun and actually dynamic – remove the timer, let them come to different area’s. Revamp some DEs to require more teamwork
Guild: remove the multiple guild system OR let you read the guild chats of all guilds you’re in

Slartybartfast.7039:

Having just purchased the game and currently waiting for the download to complete I find this post rather depressing. It sounds like a re-run of Warhammer. Also, I was under the impression the group events scaled in dificulty related to the number of participants.

For the sake of your own soul: get off the forums and make up your own mind. Forums are bad for your game enjoyment.

For world completion, dailies and helping out friends.

Zoid.2568:

SquallofBalamb.8973:

Dear God Zoid, do you have any idea how much of a whiny, entitled little… “child” you sound like? “Oh, I got disconnected, give me a pre-cursor! Wah wah wah! It’s not fair! Why were there so many people online for this one time event in the same areas?” Seriously! I get that you feel annoyed about the disconnect before you finished, I would have too. But whining that you deserve a pre-cursor for not even technically finishing? I am one of the lucky ones, I’ll admit it, but In my entire instance only two other people seemed to get pre-cursors, and I was stacked to the brim on magic find. I know that if it had happened to me I would be miffed, but I’d also just be thankful that ANet said “Yeah, that wasn’t fair, give us a bit and we’ll send the box in the mail.” And if you were wanting one so you didn’t have to buy it, atleast the prices came down after the event to make it more manageable. I’m not even sure that it was just because it was a 1 time event boss, they’ve always said that they can be found in high level area chest, and it is a level 80 area and that was a rather rare chest, it’s just that there were so many people getting to it (most probably doped up on magic find like myself). If you don’t want the chest, shut up and give it to someone who couldn’t even make it to the event because of work or other commitments, we don’t want or need whiny, self-entitled children here.

I didn’t read your wall of whinetext.

Then allow me to summarize:

Quit whining like a 5 year old.

Grevender.9235:

would you guys kill dragons more often if:

- they were as difficult to kill as Ancient Karka
- given that, you had at least one exotic dropping guaranteed

I would kill them more if the battles were actually fun. Most of them are a “spam 1” fest.

I have done every dragon once on my main – sometimes twice if I happen to be in the area. But no, I don’t come back for the dragons, nor do I time them. They’re not that much fun to do, so I don’t really bother.

It’s a shining example of the reward-based culture we live in. No goodies at the end of something? Then it wasnt worth it.

Sad part is, that most of the complainers are adults who should know better.

Here’s an idea

Write each of the professions on a piece of paper.
Fold the papers
Put them in a hat
Draw one at random.

If you don’t like that one, throw the piece of paper away and draw a new one.

It may sound silly, but most people beforehand do know what they want. They just don’t know that they already know it.

I wonder if the OP has fixed his char now with the makeover kit… can we get an “after” picture?

Don’t type the exact same message three times in a row. If you change it a little bit every time, you can keep going.

Depends, are we talking about my favorite
Landscape: Sylvari
Quests: Norn
Population: Queensdale
Humor: Asura

really, the only one I don’t like is Charr, even though it’s the richest in lore.

Tried crafting?

After the patch launched, jumping was severely delayed or just didn’t work at all. Which was a major pain, especially in jumping puzzles.

So it was something that broke when they rolled out the patch, and had to fix afterwards.

Depends on the server I guess. Never had any complaints about Desolation (EU), and that is the main reason I will never ever transfer from there, even if it may cost me my 100% map completion.

*Edit: it also depends on your expectations. A few days ago, I was leveling an alt with my boyfriend, and he complained that there were so few people in the (level 20-30) zone. “Only 4 per DE, and only one in this jumping puzzle”. I was a bit flabbergasted tbh, I think 4 others in a DE is just perfect to keep it a challenge while still socializing.

shrug I bought my extra bank space with ingame gold converted to gems. And the armor skins in the shop aren’t that great. But still, all those things you mentioned are not needed to play. They are cosmetic at best, plus all of it can be bought with ingame gold.
Unlike for example AoC at the moment, where you cannot play certain classes unless you pay a sub fee, or SWTOR where you cannot finish certain quests unless you pay for it.

Oh, what content do you need to pay extra for before you can play it then? Must have missed something.

Au contraire, the cash shop doesnt offer me anything I want. So even if I want to buy gems, I wouldnt know what to do with them.

Hehe, I’ve only played GW1 extensively. I ragequitted AoC because of the bugs, and WoW was just plain boring for me. And GW1 doesnt really count as an MMO according to most people, so I guess you can say “none”.

so eh, my questions aren’t meant to be eye-opening-rhetorical questions, I am honestly an MMO-and-economics-noob

Thanks for the explanation.

I can see how this works for Call of Duty for example. But for an MMO, that is supposed to be long-term enjoyment, this would be shooting themselves in the foot. No one would ever buy something from them again. Ever.

I honestly think Anet isnt stupid enough to choose a course like that. Which brings me to my second question: why do you think anet would choose a course like this?

Snores.7806:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

I wonder why you think a vibrant community gets in the way of higher profit. Happy costumer = spending costumer.

That’s the point of a Churn and Burn policy Tosha. It focuses on raw profit over a shorter time scale.

Since I’m a complete newbie when it comes to economics and business models… care to elaborate why something like that would be a good idea for an MMO company?

I wonder why you think a vibrant community gets in the way of higher profit. Happy costumer = spending costumer.

I want to club trahearne to death with the severed head of Logan Thackeray. Pwetty please with a cherry on top?

LordByron.8369:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

LordByron.8369:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

OP is wrong, for one reason. Someone may not play the game anymore, but has lifelong forum access. I’ve noticed that most disgruntled doomyellers do not play the game anymore. On a forum of a sub based game, these players wouldnt have a forum account anymore, and thus unable to reply. Here, quite a few of them keep spamming doom and gloom, even though they’ve stopped playing.

So imo you can’t really count them in the player group.

cool…

Now you will for sure show us a statistical evidence more significant of the situation you are trying to disprove right?

Sure. I’ll show you the same amount of statistical data the rest of the replyers and the OP did in this very constructive discussion.

start with a 10.000 posts thread of complaints with 100.000+ visits…with more pages than whole general section pages.

Just to put some numbers

Add polls on forum

Your move now…..show me something similar.

Have you corrected for the positive posts in that thread and the number of “give us vertical progression” topics before the LS update? And do you know how many players that originally quit the game, came back after said expansion?

Point is: this thread is only speculation. you cannot know if the forum users are the majority or the minority. My point was not if it’s a majority or minority, but that it is not an accurate (random) population.

LordByron.8369:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

OP is wrong, for one reason. Someone may not play the game anymore, but has lifelong forum access. I’ve noticed that most disgruntled doomyellers do not play the game anymore. On a forum of a sub based game, these players wouldnt have a forum account anymore, and thus unable to reply. Here, quite a few of them keep spamming doom and gloom, even though they’ve stopped playing.

So imo you can’t really count them in the player group.

cool…

Now you will for sure show us a statistical evidence more significant of the situation you are trying to disprove right?

Sure. I’ll show you the same amount of statistical data the rest of the replyers and the OP did in this very constructive discussion.

… These ideas are actually pretty awesome. I hope Anet reads this.

OP is wrong, for one reason. Someone may not play the game anymore, but has lifelong forum access. I’ve noticed that most disgruntled doomyellers do not play the game anymore. On a forum of a sub based game, these players wouldnt have a forum account anymore, and thus unable to reply. Here, quite a few of them keep spamming doom and gloom, even though they’ve stopped playing.

So imo you can’t really count them in the player group.

I don’t really care about ascended gear, so the game isnt about just running fractals for me. So no, the game has not gone downhill imo. Instead, it has given me some new things to do since the last update, but I don’t feel like it’s mandatory to do it.

Don’t want to be running only fractals? Then don’t. There is plenty of other stuff to do (for me, at least).

How long does it take for a game economy to stabilize (taking into account that bots influence the prizes and that we’ve just experienced a huge bot banning wave) after the game is launched?

It’s not a rhetorical question by the way, I’m really curious about the answer.

Guilds are basically what you make of them. You don’t need them to accomplish something, but imo my gaming experience is better with a nice guild. You don’t need to do jumping puzzle races for example, but they’re fun to do ^^

Give me a nice, chatty level 60 player with a nice sense of humor who has never even heard of the dungeon anytime. I prefer those over one of those elitist self proclaimed pros who only want to do speedruns with fully geared level 80’s.

Even though the dungeon takes a little bit longer, I’ll know I have more fun along the way.

Everyone on the forum is pessimistic. It’s the nature of us forumdwellers. If you want to keep sane, stay away from the forums

I did not read your full post, and I skimmed the replies (most of them were the same dead-horse-kicking about ascended anyway), but I want to reply about the forum part.

You are completely right, these forums are terrible. I sent an email to forums@arena.net to complain about my first forumban, and I got a reply 20 days later. I have not yet recieved an answer on my second mail a week later.

In respons, I have sent them a 2-pages-long reply about everything that is wrong with the managment on this forum and ways to improve it. But I suspect that mail will be instantly trashed like this post is going to be, and just like a previous posts I made about this subject has been. Or that it takes them another 20-40 days to reply, and that the reply will be “thank you for your feedback, I will now proceed to close this thread”.

Take one piece of advice: either learn to manage your forums well, or close them. And based on the current state of affairs, I strongly suggest doing the second.

I have talked a few former-wow-addicts into trying the GW2 beta. After they played the final beta weekend, they cancelled their Wow subs and never looked back. They’re playing GW2 more than I am at the moment.

Would I recommend it again? Yup. I would also strongly recommend they never read these forums if they want to keep their souls intact.

I buy an MMO for the same reason I buy board games – to have some fun with friends. The MMO having the great advantage that I can make some new friends along the way.

But as soon as it starts taking over my life, I quit. I don’t need an addiction – any addiction – in my life.

that being said, I already have a fulltime job RL and hopefully soon a child on the way, and I do not need a virtual job as well. So as soon as a game becomes anything like work, I’ll quit as well.