Guild Wars 2

Kaiyanwan.8521:

BobbyStein.2315:

Kaiyanwan.8521:

BobbyStein.2315:

Thalador.4218:

BobbyStein.2315:

The best is yet to come.

So more massacres, mayhem, and destruction in your words. Why is that since the start of this Living World (although I may risk saying that there were signs of this in the vanilla game as well) the only way you guys seem to be able to drive the story forward is through mass killings and calamities (that often draw parallels with real life modern attacks on innocents)?

Remember this picture attached to the Story Journal reveal page? I can’t decide whether it’s hilarious, ridiculous, or outrageously imbecile and depressing that it’s a spot-on summary of your entire storytelling to date…

What sort of stories would you like to see?

Tell us a story, that is worth telling. Ah, and don’t hold back on new maps, like real ones, not map teasers…

Vague answer is vague.

Want me to write you a story? Hire me.
If you are good at something never do it for free.

You’re a good writer? Why don’t you share your works with all of us, as it seems you are very open to critique.

this is still going on? I thought multiple points from the resident economist would have calmed things down

Vesuvius.9874:

Never believed such incessant whining was actually possible…

I never believed people would complain about something so beneficial

Dizzie Mizzie.1069:

I don’t know how anyone else feels about it, but I don’t think paying a fee if you miss living story content is fair! what about those that have lives, families, work, school, are on vacation or even have disabilities ( I have disabilities and am just lucky I can be on now ) and cant log on in time to get the content..how is that fair? I have supported you enough thru the gem store, my own cash,(and I know that’s my choice) and I take offence to you asking for more because now you are taking the choice away from me, now you want me to budget for content?. I understand that for some they say this at least gives some a chance to play it if they miss..unlike the last story, but my point is why does it have to cost at all? I’m sure you can set up replay without the cost. I was under the opinion this was a free to play game, but now if you want new material its not? Well that makes it a pay to play game right? At least for those that cant live for the game.

As opposed to the previous method, which was ‘you snooze, you lose’?

At least players are given the option to pay for previous content, while before you couldn’t.

Besides, all you have to do is run the launcher in the background to download the patch, spend 30 seconds logging in, and you’re done. You don’t have to touch it.

Xenon.4537:

Vol.7601:

““Your not meant to see that” , “that isn’t ready yet”
We don’t care… "

And then you come across an area with junk assets and terrible terrain and complain that the game is unfinished and choppy

When it was never supposed to be revealed in the first place…

If you’re going to complain about something, it shouldn’t be about this.

No, they have a good point. It’s the designers job to keep the player from accessing unintended areas. The designer is supposed to do it in such a way that minimizes exposure to invisible walls. Actual rocks and things should be placed to prevent this occurrence. It would help Anet if they actually had screen shots to show the method of reaching these spots.

But Anet did exactly. What OP probably did was get past these same barriers that Anet put in place.

How many times are they going to put barriers? Should we put another set of rocks behind the set of rocks that are behind another set of rocks? At what point do we stop?

I also did some exploring too and ended up at the very top of the eastern portion of the map, next to a huge pipe. The top continues to slope upwards, and I tried very hard with the portal guns to get past it. But due to the angle of the slope, it wasn’t going to happen.

Anet’s expectation is that this would be a sufficient barrier to the average player. Of course though, someone is going to get past this first one. But is it worth investing the time adding rocks and another barrier, when the expectation is that the average player will 1.) not care and 2.) not even attempt it?

I have about 4KG worth of inscriptions saved up for new precursor gambling..

but these prices are tempting me to go on a gambling spree again…

I actually think down the road they will open up this restriction, especially since the wardrobe is in place.

““Your not meant to see that” , “that isn’t ready yet”
We don’t care… "

And then you come across an area with junk assets and terrible terrain and complain that the game is unfinished and choppy

When it was never supposed to be revealed in the first place…

If you’re going to complain about something, it shouldn’t be about this.

So for someone who never ventured that far in GW1, what could this mean for us?

New dungeons of sorts? How does this connect us to Mordremoth?

Or is it just a tease/reference in homage to GW1 players?

Subutex.2416:

Just read the text – ???? – profit.

No need to be snarky, especially since you’re wrong and the guy above is right.

There are purple markers in the world that allow you to replay the specific instance.

Pay attention before insulting others first, mkay?

STOP

Don’t give them any ideas pls ;(

I like to hoard my karma…

Keep in mind kills per hour are a lot more important.

If you were to compare the amount of loot a staff spamming guardian gets, versus a GS mesmer, the former will get a lot more loot.

I really don’t care about the loading screen.

Then again, I don’t care about art in general. Whether or not you like it depends on your personal tastes. I don’t mind it, but I don’t like it. It’s not an important issue for me.

I certainly understand why it looks the way it does – it is the art style that Anet decided to go with this game.

“Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our great saviour and Hero of Tyria, Evon Gnashblade?”

Uhh are you sure that’s even the ending?

I can’t help but notice that the first person to acquire and post the Ambrite Sheet yesterday posted it for 300g.

What a bookah

I don’t like these Dry Top chests.

It’s a two-step process that makes the whole event more of a chore than rewarding.

They reward you with an item, but not only do you have to find the item, but it’s only available to you during a designated time frame.

The coding challenge isn’t so great, it’s just going to be time consuming. You have to design, animate and code all different interactions for all classes for every single release.

And then you’d have to balance each of them

Yeah I can see them putting it in the gemstore, but unlike Marjory’s Axe or Kasmeer’s staff, it doesn’t have any glow to it.

400 gems max.

I think the leylines being activated explained Tequatl’s rising. But I think it wasn’t explained as well.

Nonetheless, I don’t see Tequatl as integral to the story, so having him reborn out of nowhere isn’t really an issue.

I think they just made a convenient story to address the revitalization of content.

Master of Peace seems like a shady guy. I’m willing to bet he will end up a villain later on and we’ll have to fight him.

Aerin seems like a perfect scapegoat.

Also, if you really want to be technical, Aerin’s combat choice involves grenades and explosives. His role in the explosion of the Zeph ship is obvious.

But how about the executed NPC’s? They died by blade.

Master of Peace?

Greyalis.2309:

Vol.7601:

So you wanted everything to come out on day 1? The entire new map? An entirely new boss instance where we fight Mordremoth and finally kill him? And what then?

This is a story, and if you lay everything down on day 1, then there is no point

Yes! So what? We aren’t getting expansions any time soon. Instead of working forward to all this big stuff, why not just give it all to us now and work backwards from it? This would have made more of an impact. I can write a story for the rest of the year in a couple days. .

Let’s go back to Living Story Season 1. Would it make any sense for us to have Lion’s Arch destroyed on day 1, with the breachmaker still in the air and Scarlet mulling about? We would have so many questions. Who the heck is Scarlet? What are these robot things? Why is there a giant drill? That’s information overload, and there is no information as to what/who.

You release a dragon on day 1 of season 2, and you’re destroying all the potential content that you could have designed leading up to it. And then you have months, maybe even a year of downtime where nothing gets released. Go look at the past few months here and see how restless players were when we didn’t have any significant content updates.

twoscoops.6913:

Not everything, no. I just wanted… something.

Then please, divulge what you wanted specifically. We already know what is at the end (Mordremoth) and we know what happened at the start (another Sylvari destroyed the Zeph ships).

How we get from the start to the beginning if the journey that needs to be revealed in increments.

What fun is it if I go out and say that Glint’s baby is going to spawn in the next patch and help us defeat Mordremoth and sacrifice itself?

You failed at succeeding content on the first day, and you give up already?

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Of course new legendarys could use an entirely different set of mats. We have kakra shells, watchwork sprockets, and now amarite sheets as “T6.5” mats. One more and that will be enough for an entirely new gift.

True, but they would have to come out with a better drop source for those materials.

Those T6.5 mats can only come from one zone, and one of them isn’t even farmable.

There is always a risk that the new legendaries will have some completely different recipe structure, but the risk is certainly no where near the risk of current material prices skyrocketing on that particular patch day if there is no change.

So you wanted everything to come out on day 1? The entire new map? An entirely new boss instance where we fight Mordremoth and finally kill him? And what then?

This is a story, and if you lay everything down on day 1, then there is no point

Oh comon you know perfectly what I meant

Isn’t it obvious? Marjory’s sister killed them all

That’s why she has a katana!

T4 doesn’t have much benefit. It just makes items cheaper.

And if you aren’t interested in HVT gear there is nothing appealing to purchase.

I suggest saving all your geodes as we know the rest of the map is going to open up, and hopefully more rewards..

tldr one single picture of loading screen art results in a disastrous patch

I’m still gonna hold on to my T6 mats – I got 3 stacks of each.

It’s not really an investment, but as a way to guarantee that I won’t overpay for T6 prices when new legendaries come around.

Why do people blame the economy when there are other factors that happened? Educate yourself about the updates since your 4-5 month break instead of blanketing everything because of flippers and rich people.

I know a good # of players do content because it is rewarding. Boss Blitz was the perfect example.

But this update has been a step back.

The choices of rewards are extremely limited. All but 4 reward items at the vendor involve the new THV gear.

This gearset is tailored towards a small minority of players. How about the large majority that have no interest in these rewards?

That leaves us with Sandy Bag of Gear, which I hear only carries masterwork items.
And the keys are more of a chore than a reward, since you need to find locked chests which change every sandstorm, and can only be accessed every 45 minutes.

Comon Anet, what is the rationale behind this poor assortment of rewards?

lorddavito.2395:

Everyone deservers to be rich i.m.o. the only problem is rich people bring bad influence to the market which makes it impossible for new people to buy normal stuff.

People may get rich by die-hard farming something, they pumped their time and energy into it.

People may get rich by playing the tradepost, they understand the way things work and make good use of it.

People may get rich by by difficult content, they have the skill to do so, and maybe some small degree of luck.

In the end it doesn’t matter how one gets rich, it all needs the same amount of luck, effort and as many attempts as it should take for that single person.

you know if everyone was ‘rich’, that would just increase the prices of everything, resulting in inflation?

It’s an unfortunate reality in the real world and game world that some people have to be poor.

If there was a good farm, it wouldn’t be 15g a stack

next time you want to take these screenshots, press CTRL + SHIFT + H.

It removes all unnecessary stuff, like nameplates, UI, chat, e.t.c

at the earliest they release it at 10:00 AM EST on the day of the patch.

And then no later than 2 pm, unless there is an urgent fix

They didn’t say that it opens. It’s just there. We need to develop a story as to why it’s there and how to enter.

At the minimum I expect an entire new zone to be available in the next patch (after this one). At the minimum I expect a sub zone (as we saw in the screenshots) to be opened in Brisban in the southwest.

No, my PvE farming which gave me 15g/h was by farming several Orr events across 3 servers. And when you hit DR, you swap characters, hence why I have 4 guardians.

Make sure to remind on map chat too, as there’s bound to be a ton of people collecting near the Bandit Fort.

@ Shining

I think he meant Q2 results as a whole, not drilled down to region

I think Soule’s music is marvelous.

I can’t quite say composer/songwriter x is better than y. I suppose we should all enjoy them?

I think Soule’s personal life and public comments make people dislike his music, which isn’t quite fair.

People who buy gems subsidize those who don’t. And I reckon the # of gem buyers available are more than enough for Anet to sustain itself and grow. The exchange rate reflects this.

Just stop Wanze. It’s a battle you cannot win >_>

Let us hang out along the Royal Terrace conducting our transactions while the peasants mingle and protest outside!

azizul.8469:

how did someone was able to get to that area (commander tag) ?

Do you remember the name of the person with the commander tag? Add the name to friends list. They could be an Anet dev.

Realist.5812:

@JSKI

The OP is making assumptions about season 2’s story/scripts based on the precedent set in season 1, and personal story.

And here you are people are, defending the story and script writing of season 2, based on literally nothing.

I’m not saying the OP’s assumption holds much merit, but it certainly holds more than yours, aka nothing.

Except that the person making insinuation is the one required to back it up. Not the defenders.

So OP here is the one that has to have the onus of proof.

So what in the world does this have to do with Pokemon, or a child’s show?

phys.7689:

William Bradley Knight.2609:

Vol.7601:

If only I knew how to photoshop or make .gifs ;(

But I have no time…cause IM FLIPPING!

Wait, I thought flipping is easy and takes almost no time? ;-)

I actually found myself appreciating flippers just last night. While leveling up a new warrior I found myself not doing as much damage as I would like because I was just wearing gear that I picked up while playing. It seemed like a good idea to buy some cheap zerky gear so I did some searching on the TP and found stuff that upped my damage for just a few silver. Just looking through the list of stuff, it seemed likely that some of it (e.g. http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/45925) was stuff that is flipped. Even buying it immediately I was glad it was available and a reasonable price. Let’s hear it for the flippers. :-)

to be honest flippers dont do anything good for players, other than give them some quick liquid cash.

That’s a pretty big ‘good’ or advantange. I like how you downplay it by saying it’s worth nothing but then add a little snippet to pretend like it’s not worth mentioning.

“You got it and that is exactly my point. Speculators are bad for the economy because they serve no purpose”

Yeah your argument failed from the start.

If only I knew how to photoshop or make .gifs ;(

But I have no time…cause IM FLIPPING!