Guild Wars 2

Vol.7601:

Your first sentence ruined your credibility for this post.

So have you seen the patch notes today? Half of it is on new gem store items….BTW it it makes you feel any better being the judge of my credibility then be it….

We are starting to see that the living story (illusion of content) is nothing more than an advertisement for the gem store and it is slowly killing the game.

Is the goal to attract the new player base or keep the dedicated players in game? As a dedicated player, I always spent cash to buy bank slots, character slot, some WvW boosters, etc…but now I feel the game has become a non stop train for the gem store and everything we see in game (every patch) is somehow related to an item in the gem store….That is totally OK if the core of the game gets a bit of attention as well….but unfortunately that is not the case….

So is the living story selling that much gems week that is worth forgetting the core game contents and improvements? is this what really free to play MMO comes down to? If yes then be it…but I’d say it is still not too late to shift back the focus on the core game and make GW2 last more than 6 more months that is has left….but maybe already too late….

Boonprot.6274:

Heezdedjim.8902:

geist.3980:

some of that we just have to suffer thru but as for low pop, I refused to accept it, I spent the gems and I moved to tier one and I regret nothing. sure I miss my friends on the lower tiers, but its not all giant zergs here. there are a lot of roamers and havoc groups making a difference at all hours of the day. the wait time isn’t bad either, theres always a borderland open. BG and JQ are max servers now from the transfers, TC will be soon too. join the wvw player base and move up.

This. If you want to play WvW and have it not suck on a regular basis, you have three choices. Pick one and get there today.

It would only suck if you’re a PPT zergling. T1 is garbage for anything but blob v blob. If you want good guild vs guild fights you go T2. If you want good roaming you go T3 or lower (although the skill level as you drop tiers is questionable).

Lol it is amazing how some people who have never played in Tier 1, have this strong belief that Tier 1 is nothing more than big zergs….

The OP is comparing pay for gems versus pay to play MMO.

I wish GW2 was pay to play….

Let’s just accept the fact that the WvW bugs (large list on the other threads), banning hackers, WXP accountbound merge, glitched queues on reset night, improved match-ups, low pop server, better rewards, dead EoTM and etc won’t change….

WvW is what it is and we can either enjoy it or keep complaining…I rather play it while it still has a bit of life in it left.

No because ANet cashes on transfer fee for pugs going from low pop servers to BG.

Farmers == inflation

Zerg farming —> more loot —> more gold —> gems lose value

This is a MMO. %99 of people are farmers.

Why is there 10 posts about BG everyday? people got nothing better to do?

It would be interesting to know what caused the issue? And knowing that it has happened before, why it took more than 20 hours to fix it?

Should have this thread stayed under the WvW section instead of being removed by the mods, maybe it would have got more attention, and fixed quicker?

As some people mentioned, a PvE bug in the living story gets patched within minutes, so how come this took almost a day, knowing that it was a critical bug to this weeks match up?

I am ashamed to see that WvW bugs are that the bottom of the barrel and get very little attention.

1. Auto loot
2. Auto loot
3. Auto loot
4. Auto loot
5. Auto loot

There is nothing wrong with RNG. What sucks is the way loot works in this game. Anything can drop a precursor for example but what if you miss to press F to get that loot? This is worst in WvW where you might die beside a chest or in a zerg fight. Personally I wish there was an option to just disable loot.

cheshirefox.7026:

kralketorik used to be a “mountain range”

Haha this made my day…

Well thanks for the 20 hours delayed fix.

The issue with the bugged queue probably not get fixed before Monday and by then it might be too late to catch up….

Also there is no way of actually patching this other than resetting all the scores for this week which will never happen.

I just hope %$^* like this doesn’t happen during the WvW season….

Spurnshadow.3678:

Anet. WTF? Common guys. PVE gets patches hours after something stupid, like too many monsters are spawning, that isn’t game breaking, but this goes on for 20 hours and nothing? Please. At least give a dev response so we know you guys are aware of the issue. You still need to fix it asap, though.

But PvE sells gems….

Ettanin.8350:

But, is this really a bug? With every single BG teamspeak server being taken down by DDOS attacks, my first thought was maybe that TC BL is being occupied by dozens of BG dummy accounts belonging to TC players?

Think Occam’s Razor. Why would this be caused by a game bug necessarily when such a simple answer explains it.

Has anyone at all been able to get inside TC BL to see if BG truly has no presence? Or is it really a dummy presence?

TC BL queue for BG has been stuck at 22 since the reset….and not anyone has been able to get in…

meep.2601:

in 2-3 years, WvW will be locked in a battle of epic proportions between the only two remaining players: devon and lordkrall

haha that is hilarious….

Another obvious proof that WvW tickets/bugs are at the bottom of the barrel…..

6 hours after reset and this is not fixed. I guess we have to do it without entering TC BL this week…

Can we have auto-loot option based on rarity in the game options?

Other then guild missions, is there any other reason to be in a guild?

The people in map chat are usually freindly enough and answer most of the questions. I have never had any of my questions, regarding crafting, events, living story achievement go unanswered in map chat.

I know there are some hardcore WvW or PvE guilds out there that work together, but it is mostly just a large group/party to use the same chat, since GW2 doesn’t allow more than 5 people in a group.

…is there anything else that I am missing? or is a guild basically nothing more than creating a party with more than 5 people to do something?

…It better be a freaking huge dragon 5 times the size of Zhaitan with 20 times the health of Tequatl.

….and the event better not be have an overflow…

Precursor drops are disabled in the living story loot….

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1z5y2g/mass_dc/

What is Anet’s plans if any, on how to keep WvW going?

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Nice thread. I don’t know how many of these issues we can feasibly tackle, but I’m sure you’ll see at least a few fixes come from this.

There are a million threads on your forums about this bugs since day 1 release. And you are only just finidng about about them? I am sorry but these are critical bugs that need fix asap.

58. All of the above

It is a MMO. Your choice is already decided….You want your own choices, go play single player RPG.

Share the frame per second during zerging in LA Living Story.

My setup:

50 Mbits wired connection. Speedtest (52 Mbits download, 15 Mbits upload)
AMD 8350 8 cores OC’ed to 4.8 GHz
AMD 7970 GHz Edition OC’ed to 1.2 GHz (latest driver 14.x)
Windows 7 64-bit
8GB 1600 RAM

…and I am getting 8-12 fps…sometimes when less mobs, I get around 15 fps if I am lucky…If I lower the settings all the way to performance mode then I get around 22 fps.

In comparision I get around 75-80 fps in Battlefield 4 on ultra.
In thief I get around 50-65 fps on ultra.
In Metra Last night I am getting 40-50 fps on ultra,
In Witcher 2 (uber disabled) I get 50-60 fps on ultra.

It is pretty obvious why…

PvP doesn’t sell gem store items. After the patch or in the future it might, and you will start to see more changes and better contents to PvP.

Welcome to free to play MMO where gem living story rules the kingdom…

PS. Personally I love PvP in this game even though it is really unbalanced sometimes…but hopefully they bring gems store PvP stuff so we can enjoy it more…

It is very simple to fix fractals and make everyone happy.

100% guaranteed of exotic weapon or armor from chest from lvl 20+. Account bound is fine…

100% guaranteed ascended weapon chest or armor chest drop from lvl 40+. Account bound

100% guaranteed ascended weapon chest or armor chest + fractal skin drop from lvl 50+.

This way you are not inflating the market…..also it is way better than gold reward.

styx.7294:

Should we care about Edge of the Mists?

why not? For once ANet has actually released real contents….It is definitely a great place for PvP but unfortunately EoTM doesn’t sell gems store items and therefore ignored by the dev team.

EoTM seems to be a dead zone since all the Living story LA AFKs overflow is going on. Maybe it is time to bring WvW Season 2, so EoTM can get a bit of life back?

Good things always end. LA was not making ANet any money. So it was going to change sooner or later. You have to think this is a free to play game and the devs work on whatever that makes money. Living story brings gems store items then the focus goes to that. Removing the convenience of LA makes money so lets go do that and so on….This is the sad truth of free to play MMOs.

just think of it as it will never happen…..

Since the game is pushing more towards bigger zerg’ing events, I wonder if anything can be done to make them more organized rather than following random commander tag?

I think in one of the CDIs, the devs mentioned that they want to bring the community together as a whole and teach them to work together. Kind of like the last Scarlet living story or wurm boss and even Teq….

But I feel the game is shifting towards meaningless zerging again? So which one is it? and what direction are we moving towards?

makes no difference for us in overflow. We are used to failing the events that new builds interruptions don’t affect us…

No that is not all it….Apparently there is some kind of spider backpiece that you can craft if you level 500..

My heart is already broken and I never even played GW1. It must really suck for you guys that loved GW1. I hear many good things about it that I am very close to buying the whole thing on steam….and switching to it….even on solo…at least maybe I get a bit of story out of it….because 2k hours of GW2 and I still have no clue what is going on….

All the 5-15 years old love it. All the 20 and above are sick of zerg’ing. But at the end, you need to shove the LS stuff to sell gems store items. What can you do…

Arikyali.5804:

Not zerging has actually given me more loot bags than zerging.

I’m hoping after the initial days of when people get bored of zerging and little loot gain, it’ll develop more into solos and havoc groups.

If it is the bags, then it is only good for the first couple of days until they nerf it. I actually picked up 2 exotics from 1 hour of zerg’ing last night which I was very surprised.

If the reward doesn’t get nerfed because they realize it is messing up the inflation then I am OK with it. But we have seen many times that the reward gets nerfed after the first hours days.

Vol.7601:

Zylonite.5913:

The living story zerg fest, run in a circle and kill mobs and repeat all day, has finally become a normal part of the game.

Nothing bad about it but I seem to be missing the point of it? oh yes, Achievement points.

And what is stopping you from going solo or in a 5 man team and doing other points?

Don’t hate on farmers because they like to farm.

Well how was I suppose to know we can do this in a 5 man team? I just follow the commander tag outside the portal and enter LA.

I also looked at the LFG tool in game and didn’t see any parties for the LS….

But anyways….If it can be done it smaller groups and it scales properly then that is great….Most of the previous LS stuff never scaled properly so I guess people don’t want to party up….

The living story zerg fest, run in a circle and kill mobs and repeat all day, has finally become a normal part of the game.

Nothing bad about it but I seem to be missing the point of it? oh yes, Achievement points.

It is such a shame that you guys design a great intro video into the Living Story and it plays on low resolution of almost 480i resolution. It is so bad that I just click skip….

Why not add the option or just get the high res video available in game. Yes the patch size will go from 300 MB to 900 MB but we live in 2014 and 25-50 Mbits internet is not hard to get.

276536 players

Everything will be transformed into PvE armour but soulbound to one character because we all know anet loves to soulbound…

NO.

R.I .P ranger and your great spirit

styx.7294:

Yes, this Blackgate hammer warrior worked hard to win season 1! Let’s get him more things!

Yes why not? I need more shiny hammers.

The reward of season one was so bad that 7 weeks of hardcore 24/7 WvW and waiting in queues, and got 250 finishers and some greens for place #1 in Tier 1 gold.

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”.

Luckily some of us don’t play WvW for the rewards….but the reward #%$&&%$ needs to change….