Guild Wars 2

Vacuum tubes where before my time sorry. My mother worked on a huge IBM like that though.

goldenwing.8473:

Yargesh.4965:

Does no one remember punch cards?

Vayne.8563:

bluestocking.6148:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Ashabhi.1365:

I’ve been playing computer games since you had to program them yourself. (BASIC, anyone?) played p&p D&D….

Haha that brings back memories. I was the kid that would go to Radio Shack in the mall and program my name to go all over on the screen on the TRS-80 display. Later I had a Commodore Vic-20 with a cassette tape drive. I remember many hours with my nose stuck in Commodore magazine coding a game and many times having it fail. I had a few games for the cassette drive and would get home from school and start loading it, go watch cartoons and come back an hour later and maybe it actually loaded.

My RP also started with p&p D&D. Those were the days were most of the graphics were in your head aside from a few pictures to look at in books. Things certainly have come a long way since then.

I had the Commodore 64. No tape drive on mine, but that external floppy drive that liked to overheat and catch fire if you didn’t have a fan running on it at all times.

I had the tape drive before the disc drive was available (or at least affordable). 1983. Fun times. Brings back memories.

Vividly. Although I’d rather forget. That, paper tape, the first time I used a Tektronix monitor (omg graphing!), Cal Comp Plotters, the sounds of teletypes and modems requiring those things called telephones that were attached to a wall (true “remote” access to a mainframe!)

Does anybody remember when computers took a whole (air conditioned) room and had vacuum tubes?

Dang, I made myself feel old.

Does no one remember punch cards?

Vayne.8563:

bluestocking.6148:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Ashabhi.1365:

I’ve been playing computer games since you had to program them yourself. (BASIC, anyone?) played p&p D&D….

Haha that brings back memories. I was the kid that would go to Radio Shack in the mall and program my name to go all over on the screen on the TRS-80 display. Later I had a Commodore Vic-20 with a cassette tape drive. I remember many hours with my nose stuck in Commodore magazine coding a game and many times having it fail. I had a few games for the cassette drive and would get home from school and start loading it, go watch cartoons and come back an hour later and maybe it actually loaded.

My RP also started with p&p D&D. Those were the days were most of the graphics were in your head aside from a few pictures to look at in books. Things certainly have come a long way since then.

I had the Commodore 64. No tape drive on mine, but that external floppy drive that liked to overheat and catch fire if you didn’t have a fan running on it at all times.

I had the tape drive before the disc drive was available (or at least affordable). 1983. Fun times. Brings back memories.

lordkrall.7241:

It would probably create an outrage, due to the Temporary Nature of said metas.

This and I personally can’t see a need for it.

These discussions always remind me of this.

Can be several hours ahead or several minutes, or even after release. There is no fixed time of release as far as I know.

take them out, stack them in your inventory. Put them back. Not optimal but it works.

Living sub-optimally? What a strange concept. You live your life to some standard of what optimal actually is? I run through southsun to get some mats, sometimes the queen is up so do that and any pre-events still up. This is not optimal? I hop onto a train in Frostgorge if the node is near it and hop off after a couple of champs. Again this is not anywhere near optimal use of my time. Same goes for Orr I guess.

Serenity.6149:

Those who don’t know/care about opportunity cost will continue to live fully content with their decisions, and perhaps they’re better off that way. If you are unaware you made a sub-optimal decision, you won’t have to worry about regretting it. How many times have we heard how someone profited by turning X (something they acquired “for free”) into Y, which they then sold for Z gold, not knowing that had they simply sold X, they would have made more than Z…

GOSU.9574:

At this point it doesn’t matter what race or class they add, with the pitiful end game there isn’t much luster here.

Are you trying to convince yourself of this? Change other peoples minds about it? What?

a t s e.9614:

I wish the champs downscaled to 1 person , i would kill em all.
Those people get too much money for pressing the 1111 button .

Umm, they can be solo’d. Takes a heck of a long time though hence the train.

It would not work and would cause more problems than it would ever hope to solve.

Wolfheart.1938:

And this guys is why we can’t have nice things (the nice things being devs being open about their plans).

P.s. what makes you think that precursor crafting isn’t gonna cost as much as actually buying one?

+1

could also do a search using sites like price runner. It looks at online sites within your country and outside and lists them. They also have a rating for if the suppliers are known or not.

There are spots in puzzles you are standing on air. Other spots (worst to come to mind is the wizard tower at the start of Orr) you fall through what looks like solid structures. It makes it annoying until you learn it, it also makes it really, really funny seeing a huge norn or char standing on nothing. I am to this day (started open beta weekends) frustrated/amused by all the puzzles in game.

juno.1840:

Tagus Eleuthera.7305:

I think its difficult sometimes to be a player of this game. Its so close to everything you ever wanted, but that connection skips a beat sometimes and its a little tough to accept. Some people definitely handle it better than others though.

+1

It’s sooooo close to everything I’ve ever wanted in an MMO. The manifesto succinctly iterated what I want in an MMO — to the point where I get giddy just listening to it.

Honestly as soon as another MMO comes along that more closely follows the manifesto, that’s probably where I’ll be.

Good luck with that.

If you boost the damage output of the group do you get all the extra damage counted on your damage meter? If you prevent damage that would kill team members do you get the damage that they deal during this time? If you put down a combo field do you get all the extra damage counted as your own? If you trigger a combo field? Kind of pointless meter if it does not take these things into account.

After reading the responses I just need to say keep ignoring the sensationalists (on both sides). Get rid of the extremes and you can get in combination with metrics a really nice view of what is going on.
I have had a great ride, if I no longer enjoy this game in a year or so I will have absolutely no regrets and will always appreciate the work done by the team.

I got delusion as well the other day. Did not understand why I got an account bound item.

Or you could go the route the Roger Zelazny went many years ago with his Amber series.

Galtrix.7369:

Yargesh.4965:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Anet has already said they are NEVER doing expansions for this game. Deal with it.

They said they don’t know how they will release the expansion. They may have made up their minds by now though. They where unsure of whether to do a business as usual box release or feed it through the living story. The content will come one way or the other.

If I don’t want the content if it’s free, why the hell would I want to pay money for the content in box-form?

I don’t know and I really don’t care.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Anet has already said they are NEVER doing expansions for this game. Deal with it.

They said they don’t know how they will release the expansion. They may have made up their minds by now though. They where unsure of whether to do a business as usual box release or feed it through the living story. The content will come one way or the other.

I don’t miss it and I certainly don’t want it added into the game.

Love underwater on ranger, mesmer and necro. It is ok for me on guard and thief. The sharks at Southsun are a blast, trying to get 2 groups the circle opposite each other to come together at the same time is just chaos.

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Red Falcon.8257:

Some people will continue to prefer cheap wine even after making them taste elaborated qualities of wine.

Best not be knocking boxed wine.

GW2 is fun, I wouldn’t call it awesome. I always cringe at threads like these because I know it will bring in more hate than hate threads :P

The OP believes this as well. It is why he wrote it.

The loads of people are from your server. They also want to do the event, just like you do.

very random yes.

alcopaul.2156:

Yargesh.4965:

alcopaul.2156:

Henge.3907:

Seriously though, its been a year and people are still crying about the manifesto. Grow up or move on already.

How can we move on? By still playing the game of the ones who can’t keep their promise?

This is like me still living with a cheating wife. Sure you still do her. But she still doing other people and lying to you.

And the manifesto here are your wedding vows.

Stick to our wedding vows, A.NET!

Seriously? You have some serious issues.
Edit: get help.

can you elaborate on that?

Of course I can elaborate. You are confusing real life interpersonal interactions that hold great power to harm with a game. Get psychological help.

There is a key to the matrix however.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Matrix_Cube_Key

They ragequit and are back the next day. Bugs need to be reported before they are fixed. If you believe they are not going to be fixed put in specific examples of what you would do to fix them.

alcopaul.2156:

Henge.3907:

Seriously though, its been a year and people are still crying about the manifesto. Grow up or move on already.

How can we move on? By still playing the game of the ones who can’t keep their promise?

This is like me still living with a cheating wife. Sure you still do her. But she still doing other people and lying to you.

And the manifesto here are your wedding vows.

Stick to our wedding vows, A.NET!

Seriously? You have some serious issues.
Edit: get help.

Triple dog dare them. That will get them moving.

Tarinis.6054:

High survivability, excellent damage, wanted in groups all the time. Really no cons

Fun? Change of pace? Not get into a rut?

Paul.4081:

Good advice OP. Also if anyone ever gets a cut on their finger, just cut your hand off. Don’t bother with a plaster.

Or just threaten to cut your hand off. Over and over and over again.

Trenchcoats are everywhere in medium armour. My char has sunglasses.

To clarify I really, really hate the design of this entire cave system. Have done it on ranger, ele and mesmer though. Others I just leave it alone.

why are you attacking the vet? To open the gate you need to run past, interact with the chain and run back to gate. Run past all mobs and past the vista. Kill the low lvl mobs on other side and run back and use vista.
If you don’t want to run past the vista and can’t shake aggro take one of the multiple revive orbs you probably have sitting in your bank and die at the vista. When you revive you have no aggro and can interact with the vista.

Since they are a placeholder for future content they may have a graphic rotation that someone at some point thought should be there.

put dostoev sky peak vista into google. Watch videos.

Onshidesigns.1069:

Galtrix.7369:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Galtrix.7369:

Ashabhi.1365:

It is…it really is… Regardless of what the haters say, it is still the best MMO on the market right now.

Cheers!

Wow* is the best MMO on the market right now.

Most of the game is DEAD!

So is Guild Wars 2 by your logic. I dare you to guest to Gate of Madness and try to find a single person that isn’t in LA within a 24 hour timespan. You can’t do it. Does that mean gw2 is dead? No.

I transferred to TC long ago. Maybe you should change servers.

I know the OP has stated many time he/she does not play the game. I think I remember the same from the poster you answered. Switching servers is not what they want to hear. Don’t really know what they want actually.

Jack of Tears.9458:

Burnfall.9573:

(That’s all i have to say)..

As the saying goes, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

Yeah, but Beholders can cast an anti-magic shell and get like 8 attacks/round. Kinda hard to argue with that.

I just had to log in and say well done!

well stated.

Dingle.2743:

Negative criticism?

• Responding to a well-thought-out post stated in a reasonable and respectful manner with: “White knight! He works for A-NET! Insert meme here” -> Criticism?

• Seeing a screenshot of a new (horribly dyed) armour set and posting a bunch of: “OMG, it’s an evil scheme they want us to buy gems to transmute gear” “OMG kittenty armour fire the artists THIS is what it should look like” “OMG they put no effort and don’t care” -> Criticism?

• Living story updates. People ask for (Wallet, Revamp of world bosses, Dungeons, Permanent Content, Champions dropping bags, canthan themed content, other stuff) and forum goers: “THEY DON’T LISTEN TO US!!1” -> Criticism?

• Posting in every single positive thread with: “The OP must be playing a different game” “Game is boring” “I hope everyone quits GW2” “Random hyperbole goes here” -> Criticism?

That is not to say that there aren’t some very constructive posts and threads. An example of this would be:

Justin.7163:

They should have made an Ascended version specifically for each race – sort of like an Ascended cultural armor- since we know that designing armors with a certain race in mind (in this case it would appear to be humans) just ends up with sets that just don’t look right on others. The armors wouldn’t need to be exclusive for each race. Just that they are designed with the respective race in mind.

Dingle.2743:

Nike.2631:

Dingle.2743:

I absolutely adore the medium armor on my Elementalist.

I’m pretty sure Elementalists won’t be wearing medium armor…

But hate the light armor (and I hate the light armor because, as always, Asura only got the male version)

So basically, it’s not going to look good/right for your characters.

That would be pretty much the essence of the complaints.

The issue is more with the lack of a gender split for armor on Asura than anything.I’d probably like the light armor… if my Asura got to use something similar to the human female version, instead of the human male version. This is the primary reason I’ll probably never buy the Phoenix armor from the gem store, either.

That said, the male version of the light armor? It seems like it’s aiming for a very specific, niche theme, while you’d expect a set that takes a long time to make to have a more generic appearance that could be made to work for a large variety of characters.

True, they should at least leave a box to stand on. A soapbox maybe. Cheer!

Pwnzor.5682:

thats the thing they are always saying it comes really soon… all the look in 2013 stuff.. and still every 2 weeks some updates that are totaly stupid.

Then you have answered your own question and now can move on.

Copestetic.5174:

Near 7 year GW1 player here. I don’t know about “betrayed” but GW2 is a let down for me personally. Just re-installed Guild Wars and am surprised by the number of people who say the same thing about GW2 as a lot here do. I suggest all those that feel this way get back into GW1 with me! lol

Please, please listen to Copestetic. If GW1 is the absolute game for you, go for it.

I am nostalgic in a way that it was really cool to 2 man this dragon. I also have never hit a group that took off more than 25% of its hp. I am glad that there is a large co-ordinated target for those looking for it, just wish I could get the luck to join in such an event.

OP there have been several changes like those pointed out by Lanfear,
The negativity crowd is in full voice and since they are a small cliche it only takes a couple of days to spot them all. They believe they are RIGHT so what can you do.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

So how do you tell what server is high, medium or low population?

Character selection screen, select change server. Lists server names with the population.

Thanks Lynne

Here’s the information on facebook for those don’t click on links:

Until the day before the inaugural World vs. World Season, we’re reducing the prices for moving to a new home server! Transfers to a Medium population world are free, and moving to a High population server has been discounted to just 800 gems – but only until October 17!

You can transfer worlds using the World Selection button on your character selection screen. ~RB2

use LFG, post add with your lvl looking for similar or higher for a fun run. Should work.

Phi Is Sly.1857:

No i asked if i had deleted the character holding the items. they did not respond with an answer that is the only thing i could think of where my item may of went. Multiple things could of happens to these items.

Space aliens could have happened.