That’s 2% for a skin, any skin? Most of them are the shoulder pads, which are pretty cheap on the broker.. What’s the chance of getting a weapon skin? Or a specific weapon skin? Looks like 0.3% or so?
- point the camera at the HEAD instead of the center of the back
(so we’re not staring at the ground when zoomed out, and our backs when zoomed in)
- allow people to zoom to first person.
(so we can enjoy the game without breaking the eula)
Would love to see these two changes, also.
As for the FOV fix, I like it, but it’s pretty subtle. I wasn’t one of those people who got headaches or anything, though. I just like being able to see more of the gameworld (In terms of immersion, not strategically)
I love the way everyone is bumped up to 80 in the labyrinth. It’s too bad they can’t make all event content like that.
Or hey, how about making the whole game like that? You level up to add skills and traits, maybe even leave equipment gated, so as you get higher level, you get better equipment.. but get rid of the raw to-hit modifiers, naked armor class, the health modifiers, all the stuff that just makes higher level content flatout impossible.
Ohhh ok. So you people are whining that you want things for cheaper. I could have sworn this was a thread about not being able to use RMT to buy in game things. Oh wait, it is.
Yeah, I think there’s an assumption here that if they did sell them outright, they wouldn’t be trying to charge $40-50 apiece for them. More like $10 or so?
edit: bit silly calling it a free market, when anet has total control over it. It’s just simulated to seem free, but anet already does set the price. They’re just doing it with random percentages, instead of setting it outright, and that is the problem. If you take those percentages into account, you realize they are severely overcharging, hiding that behind terrible drop rates and such. That’s what makes it feel like a scam.
Vzur- I recommend you go to my Halloween Act 1 thread and read about the PToT locations. That’s 85 PToTs a day you could be opening to increase your amount of nougat centers. =)
I’ve gotten a lot of them, maybe upwards of that many. Even bought a few on the TP. What’s the drop rate on specific ingredients like that? Seems to be about 10-20% for one of them, but if you need a specific one, that’s what, 20% of 20%? So, 4%? 85*0.04=3-4 nougats per 85 bags? Am I calculating this wrong, or is that about 2000 bags for 100 nougats?
That’s exactly what I’d like to ask the devs. The way people are reacting is entirely because of the way this event has been developed. People are playing as the devs seem to be encouraging them to play..
You create reward system, you have to expect people to attempt to do what’s required for said reward.. don’t be surprised when they aren’t simply enjoying it, if what’s required is excessive.
I think the doors were broken in their urgent need to stop people who were farming too fast (aka “exploiting”) oh noes people are stockpiling candy corns! destroy the content, before its too late!
Prices depend ENTIRELY on what ANet does for the rest of the event. They could easily drive the price up or down, depending on whether they add more ways to get it, or more alternatives to it. Makes speculation kinda pointless. It’s all just guessing, and could go either way, unless a dev comes here and gives us a clue
Me, I can’t bothered hunting down more than the first few I found, so I don’t feel screwed, personally. I can just understand others feeling cheated, if they’re trying to collect as much of this stuff as they can, but find out the amount they can get has been cut in half. Not only that, but the ones in Lions Arch were probably a lot easier to get.
It’s basically a world nerf, and that frustrates players, especially when its not even for balance, but because the devs made a mistake.
My issue with the temporary weapons is that there appears to be no stats on them which makes them useless in combat…I guess they work if you want them while in town?
I bought a temporary staff, it seems to scale with level.
My problem with is just that it isn’t much fun, not being able to keep it. Almost completely pointless, so not really much consolation.
I’ve been playing for upwards of 300 hours, and haven’t even seen 3g, yet. Course, that’s because I spend what little silver I get buying stuff I need.. but I think even if I’d saved every copper I’d ever gotten, I’d only have maybe 10-15g.
Its silly to blame other players. According to that video, all they had to do was log out and log back in. Many people were probably doing it, without even realizing it was an issue. Just logging out, coming back later, not realizing it wasn’t supposed to work that way. That’s not an exploit, just an oversight by the devs, and they overreact by punishing everyone.
This does seem to be a trend with them. I wonder, do they intend to punish the playerbase, or is that just the only way they know how to fix problems, and they just don’t care if honest players are screwed by it? Some people didn’t even know about the ToT locations, yet..
Who’s selling these things though? Even if there’s nothing you want to use them for, wouldn’t real players be holding on to them until the end of the event, just in case? They say more’s coming.. do a lot of players just not know that?
Its an event, who says you have to get something out of it. Imagine going on a concert IRL. You spend money, get wasted, you might even not like the music but you do something different than every other day and it passes and you get nothing material out of it except memories (or maybe not even those).
People like stuff, that’s why there’s so much of it in these games. People like collecting, memorabilia, and new customization options.
Making an event that’s just pure fun, like going to a concert, sounds great in theory.. but I don’t know if its very realistic. I think they’d actually have to work a lot harder to make an event that much fun, and it wouldn’t really be practical to put put that much game-changing resources into it, just for a weeks worth of temporary content.
Maybe they should do an event, where no one gets any items, though. Maybe I’m wrong. Focus entirely on costume brawls and trick-or-treat doors, but don’t give any rewards at all. How would that go?
I know. It’s not “I gotta have this awesome stuff, why did they make it so hard?!” It’s more like.. you want us to farm our kitten off for this? If the issue were that these items were worth all that effort, it would be worse in a way.. but it’s not. It makes even more of a case for asking why any of this is so rare or difficult, when its just impractical fun stuff that most people wouldn’t want to use past halloween, anyhow.
Just bought the temporary staff for 6 sp last night. It looks neat, but not that neat. I don’t get the idea that we’d want to work that hard for this stuff.
Aren’t they all just cosmetic items?
Why is this such a huge deal to you?
Some people really like cosmetic items, and playing with the look of their character.
I never understood the argument that cosmetic items don’t matter. If they didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be in the game at all. It’d just be a huge waste of development time and resources, making different looking armor, weapons, and all that.
I guess I never really looked at it that way. So technically I could just save enough of the Candy Corns and get the rest of the materials later to be able to craft this?
Does seem to be what ANet intends, but what fun is crafting a special halloween item, three months after halloween?
By that logic.. wouldn’t that mean there is no such thing as a grindy game? None of them force you. They just reward you in different ways, but you can always choose to opt out of those rewards.
WHY does everything HAVE to be about rare or exotic? WHY can’t a Halloween event just be fun
This. A few rares might be cool, but in a holiday event, of course people will be angry, if they feel left out. Holiday events are usually more about everyone, not rare exclusive stuff. That seems just the opposite of holiday spirit.
It’s weird that they expected the time-limited items to serve this purpose.. I don’t know about anyone else, but the time limit makes it feel like no reward at all. Intermediate reward seems to be sorely lacking, here. As a holiday event, it shouldn’t be so exclusive, IMHO.
My issue is that Anet is catering only to the hardcores and tryhards. Having some items be rare and costing 100+ gold is alright, but when all the cool stuff is like that, what’s left for casuals?
The Halloween event should have been a fun holiday thing for everyone to enjoy, not another legendary grind.
Arenanet has stated that since they do not require a sub fee, they are not bound to provide and endless amount of content. At some point, like all MMOs, you hit a wall and theres nothing to do. It will happen. Expect it.
I have actually read ArenaNet saying that they intend to provide more than a subscription MMO does.
So far for me personally they are living up to that since there is so much more content I am looking forward too after 500+ hours since headstart. And we are getting new content on October 22nd, a mere 2 months after launch.
Yeah, I don’t think ANet ever said they don’t need longevity. That’s just something some fans like to say. Funny thing is, some haters like to say it too.. but it’s just wrong, no matter how you spin it.
ANet wants their game to have longevity, as much as any other MMO dev does. It’s just good for the game, no matter what payment model it uses.
Not everyone else – I pretty much agree with him, and think he makes some valid points. I just don’t really know what to add. Think it’s a pretty safe bet that there are others who feel similarly on this.. so much so, that it’s a bit of a dead horse, at this point, but anyhow.. the OP is clearly not alone in feeling that way.
Welcome to the world of subjectivity and independent opinion.
Also, I’m assuming that by “Sexy” you really mean “Revealing”.
Medium armour being so would probably invalidate its status as armour, but I can assure you, there are medium sets out there that are ridiculously revealing.
Take the Order of Whispers set for example: Click to reveal
Yep, nothing says sexy like wearing a burlap sack on your head.
On a more serious note, sure the top is ok, but what’s with the three layers of total coverage on the lower body? I’m not saying we need chainmail thongs, but that’s pretty excessive, for being an example of one of the sexiest most revealing medium armors in the game.
It’s really weird, yeah. Of course it’s an opinion, what else would it be… I noticed this forum trend a while back, but can’t believe its now become something moderators are being told to enforce.
Also, “higher level” should be 40+ IMO. The fanciest gear makes sense at 80, but we shouldn’t have the play through the entire game, just to start getting good looking stuff at the end.
This horrible camera is, in my opinion, a good reason to leave Guild Wars 2 for good. The camera just ruins the game, why did Arena Net put all that work and effort into a super-awesome world if we can’t see it?
Maybe this is why they added vistas? :/
Really? So all we are suppose to do is stare at the floor while we play, then occasionally look up at the beautiful world that Arena Net put years into making?
Didn’t mean to suggest that I approved of the idea, but that does seem to me like what they were going for. They must have realized there’s so much scenery people wouldn’t see, while playing. And why don’t we see it? Because of the lousy camera angle and FOV.
Agreed. Map completions really take away from this game for me. I would think completing all the hearts should of been enough for map completion. The thought of doing all the vistas again and poi’s really discourage me from playing alts.
Not everyone wants to be an explorer, and even I who somewhat feels like I enjoy exploring don’t want to do that again. Kinda the downside of making 80% of the vistas a jumping puzzle of sorts.
Also, map completion should be cumulative among your various characters as well as dye’s imo.
I am an explorer, but after doing it once, it’s not really exploring, anymore… At the very least, yeah, I agree, map completion should be account-wide. Which would really be an xp penalty for alts, not an advantage, but I’d be fine with that.
This horrible camera is, in my opinion, a good reason to leave Guild Wars 2 for good. The camera just ruins the game, why did Arena Net put all that work and effort into a super-awesome world if we can’t see it?
Like someone said, considering map completion can only be done once per character, yet events can be repeated endlessly, it makes no sense to say “Map completion is ruining events!”.
Sure but a lot of people complete an area and leave, never to come back. They may only do map completion once, but that means they aren’t doing most of the events at all.
Like a few others have suggested, just play in windowed mode and adjust the window size to your FOV needs. I have mine windowed into a thin rectangle and probably get at least a 100 degree FOV this way. I can’t play it with their bad default setting of 65, as it gives me headaches and anxiety. Seriously, it’s almost claustrophobic.
Er, why did my previous post break the thread? Now when I click on it, it goes to page 2, but there’s not page 2, yet. So now, posting this, I guess that will be fixed…
Yeah, I stopped doing map completion stuff. I love seeing the gameworld, but I don’t need a checklist of POIs and waypoints to do that. So I don’t do it.. At the same time though, I feel like they sort of pressure me to do it, and I’m missing out, by being all, ‘yeah screw that.’
It is boring. I’d miss so much, if I thought map completion was what the game is all about, the way a lot of people seem to.
The business model for this game suits itself very well to filling a niche. A devoted base of fans that like the game enough to spend money in the gem shop and buy expansions will keep the game successful.
The reasons that the average MMO players don’t like this game are the same reasons that I love this game and continue to spend money on it. The average MMO player already has games that cater to the lowest common denominator. Me and my gaming dollars are quite happy in this niche.
That makes sense, if that’s what they were going for. Guess I just thought they were “in it to win it this time” and all that.
I don’t know if its just FOV. In most games, I usually prefer playing at 65 FOV (less edge distortion) but never found myself looking at the ground as much as I do in GW2.
In options, you can adjust the camera to the right or left. I was thinking it’d be nice if there were a way to adjust it vertically, as well. It might just be that the camera pivot point is a bit low?
Sure, but I’m talking about the zones of GW2. “Peak” is whatever time they tend to be most crowded. “Off-peak” is when they’re not. I’m talking about those times when there is no one around to group with.
..is getting more and more frustrating. Have the devs said anything about working on the event scaling? Maybe even toning down mob density and respawn rates when a zone is nearly empty?
I remember this potential issue was brought up, as soon as they started talking about dynamic events. I remember thinking, nah, obvious issue is obvious. Surely they’ll have it covered…
