So can anyone actually tell me why not to bot ? I do not say i support this but if you think of it :
1. Bots get tons of gold and can work wile u do other stuff, like , sleep/work/school.
2. Bots do not get removed from game, they are free to farm.
3. Bots , by some count can make 50-100k karma per day and from 100-200g , per bot.
4. Unrelated to boting , some tools let play char port all over world in instant. Even coordinates for all points are there.
So if i wonna get legendary, why not simply let bot do it for me wile i sleep ?
Is this all right with everyone ? Is this common thing now ?
We ALL know this happens, we know ppl having over 20k gold in pack (must be from legit play) and no one is doing anything.
Something is really wrong here and i feel like no one really care.
The why not bot argument is just silly. Why do you play according to the rules in chess? Why do play football according to the rules? Games are ruined if you break the rules, fun is spoiled for the people who do like to follow the rules of the game. Like bots inflating the market such that a legit will never be able to collect enough gold to buy a special weapon.
Why no raiding?! The dungeons are all about raiding and DEs are also basically raids. You mean raiding as a guild? That would be a nice addition. But there is lots of raiding. The MK is also a raid.
@TheSaint Had such an email also, just 1 copper and the delete button got deactivated. I e-mail them I reported the mail. I asked them via support to please delete the mail. Nothing happend. Didnt get banned either. After months I tried, in my desperation, to return to sender. Didnt work, user was banned probably. So, eventually I took the copper and deleted the mail, just yesterday. Hope I won’t get banned later today.
I suggest Anet to delete messages you report as spam. @TheSaint Did you return to sender?
My frame rate always been around 25, sometimes it goes up to 50 if no people around. It is annoying when you have to do jumping puzzles all the time. Other games have no such issues, so I guess it is an optimization problem. Also, auto-detect gives me the medium setting, so my frame rate much not be the worst case out there.
People react to you like that because this a community, but a lot of threads are complains. A forum is about player discussion and not a complains department. As a community we can’t change anything about this and moderators only check if you follow the rules.
Some complains are also opposing each other, e.g. gear gives too much advantage and others: ‘we’ want gear grind.
Try to discuss what is wrong with the game and things like service issues contact support.
You should use the report function and/or contact support. The community can’t help you with this. Moderators only moderate, they don’t respond. Guess they are a different team and they wouldn’t even know even if they wanted to.
In any case, they need to make more tools, because they apparently can’t recognize these accounts as bots. It could also be farmers from 3rd world country, playing it as a job and that by itself is not illegal.
Im not speaking against the idea, Im just saying it wont happen. Ganking has nothing to do with it, there is no money in it. You can keep wanting all you want, until you give a reason that pays, nobody will care.
You are talking entire code reversal and changes, world changes, lore changes, spell and weapon changes..all for what? 1-3 servers at best? with like…1k people? yeah…thats going to sell to the investors.
This I say also, except I say ganking has everything to do with it. Because of ganking people get bullied out of these servers. Not enough people enjoy being killed every minute by a level 80 top clan character being bored. So… not popular enough and so no return of investment and if they would implement such a thing on existing servers they will loose 80% of their population. GW1 didn’t have this mix either and sometimes it seems people really ended up in the wrong place; hating everything that makes guild wars guild wars.
Yes, that’s why EVE Online failed. Right? It’s wonderful how you apply your own preferences as a general rule.
I don’t know, it has millions playing it? Imo (= in my opinion) their is not enough market for a PVP server, that is all. You can have it, I don’t care. Making existing servers PvP servers would be very bad for the GW2 population, many people I know hate PvP servers and the gank feast it brings. The WvW separation is much better, imo.
Im not speaking against the idea, Im just saying it wont happen. Ganking has nothing to do with it, there is no money in it. You can keep wanting all you want, until you give a reason that pays, nobody will care.
You are talking entire code reversal and changes, world changes, lore changes, spell and weapon changes..all for what? 1-3 servers at best? with like…1k people? yeah…thats going to sell to the investors.
This I say also, except I say ganking has everything to do with it. Because of ganking people get bullied out of these servers. Not enough people enjoy being killed every minute by a level 80 top clan character being bored. So… not popular enough and so no return of investment and if they would implement such a thing on existing servers they will loose 80% of their population. GW1 didn’t have this mix either and sometimes it seems people really ended up in the wrong place; hating everything that makes guild wars guild wars.
No world PvP was one of the selling points of this game. If you want to PvP, either do WvWvW or structured PvP.
And if all you want is griefing lowbies, this isn’t the game for you.
This, I agree with Xia. Some people are bored and then usually lowbie ganking starts. Suprise, not possible in GW2.
One reason for me to buy GW2 is because it has this separation. There are nice games that have this open world ganking. Don’t understand why you buy a game that has this as a selling point. You never read anything about it?
In Orr the monsters are so many that you are constantly on the run. If you stop to kill them you ll end up fighting more than you can handle and/or it will take you hours to reach your destination.
If everyone has everything right away then people will be complaining it is too easy and/or get in general bored. I play couple of hours in the evening and I have almost completed my exotic set, it looks great. Each piece costs me around 1g or less to make it. That is very little and quit easy.
More likely the database contains sicknesses, as very often they are used to offend. E.g. Megabite probably is no problem. As for foreign words, I think the database should contain only English words on a English server. All other names should be banned when reported (and proven).
Probably more a problem is that this game requires a big population, else you ll be walking around from failed DE to failed DE.
I agree. Since there’s no gear progressions (everyone is equal), the game became a number game. GW2 isn’t about skills and character gears anymore. The intention was to create GW2 focus fully on player’s skills by removing gear progression. But there’s no usage of skills in the first place in pvp. Even if they put a stop to transfering server, it would still be a number game. Most populated server = wins.
Sure, but I say maybe people transfer to bigger servers (also) because there is not much to do when you have a small server population.
Don’t know if stopping the server transfer would work. Even if you make it once a month you ll have this problem, but it will go a bit slower. Imo they have to have no armor repair cost for the smaller servers and better rewards. Also better management of the amount of people allowed to enter. Have doors allowing only an equal amount of soldiers to enter.
@OP I agree with you that some areas are quiet empty. But, imo, this is not because the server is death (at least desolation is not). It is because for most MMOers level 80 takes a month max and so, on desolation, you see the RBs in the level 80+ areas filled with people most of the time. Tools for finding parties could be improved, a tool to find an active guild would be nice and more guild only activities would help you.
Um, rather than involving France, wouldn’t it be more the case the you can’t use the word on NA servers because you might offend French Canadians?
The English server has other language groups playing on there that have no server. Is there a NA server or is it an International Server with language English? If the latter, then some of the worst words need to be filtered out.
Well if the filter is only English then at least the reporting of other languages need to be possible. I have seen names that in other languages that clearly have only 1 meaning and they go above and beyond any name with bite. I can’t give examples, because I ll get infractions.
When anyone levels that fast, they will burn themselves out. It doesn’t matter what game it is.
Most people leveling super fast are not enjoying the game. I’d also be willing to bet they have missed a large number of the dynamic events.
“Too fast”? The game spoonfeeds you EXP every corner. It’s been a month. Even casual players are starting to hit 80 by now. Tell me how you play, please. Avoid every single monster, mining node, tree, DE, and just “explore”? As for the DE’s, it doesn’t matter that I missed them. They’re exactly the same as the DE’s I’ve already done in every other zone: Kill everything inside the orange circle. Even WoW has a wider range of quest types than this game. DE quantity =/= DE quality.
The game is not about max level, so you are 80? Agree with you, leveling goes to fast and you get tons of xp for every little thing. It looses its value. However, eventhough I am 80 I still haven’t completed the story and I haven’t done all dungeons. The map is like 50% completed and the next extension is around the corner (22 oct.) People are so used to the importance of level that they can’t cope if they make it so unimportant.
First this is a suggestion which should go in the suggestion subforum. Second, this has been proposed before (many times). And, my reaction was and is that the only thing this will do is transform GW2 in a ganking game like Tera, Aion, L2 and many others.
Nice? No, GW2 (and GW1) is setup as an exploration game where good behavior is rewarded for a reason. People will get bullied and they will stop playing and you will not find anyone to run dungeons with. The sustainability of open world gank feasts is very little. Many times people start GW2 exactly because they are tired of the open pvp power play games. You want PVP you go WvW.
And, finaly, this does quit the opposite. People who bot will have more resources and they ll have better weapons. Also they ll be bored more quickly and what you see in all the traditional RPG is that the botters will hunt the legits, not the other way around.
The thing that matters is that most of the people I know share his view and are leaving or left.
That doesnt help things.
I did a 2nd toon and I can tell you the areas are dead. The perception is the game sucks and there is nothing to do. Orr is bad simple,WvW is a mess (transfers/bugs/hacks)and Spvp(unbalanced).
I hope Anet can get things together and turn things around.
like sPvP and I think that most coming from grind MMOs run through the game. In the end it is about seeing stuff, collecting new armors to see and following the story. But some people really want grinding, factions and ganking to stay busy. The bugs need to be fixed, I think they (dev team) go slow (period).
You can’t blame people skipping through lengthy posts and see only the word gear. That is how people read forums, not like a book every word, they read quickly and mainly the title. Make your post short and to the point. In one paragraph what is your point?
@Cathaona what other social structure this game has that could encourage people to meet? Dungeons perhaps. But in most games the guild is the best way and here lays the problem. Influence is mostly collected by playing solo and there are no dungeons or RBs that real need a guild event.
Sigh… captcha… you underestimate the skill of the bot programmers. In the end only the real players will be bothered with Captcha. Captcha becomes unreadable many times and it takes effort and it is just annoying.
If Captcha would actually work, it would be implemented in all MMOs because it has been proposed over and over and over again in every MMO I played. Anet knows about Captcha and like any developer team they wisely skipped it.
I started reading expecting to agree, but with the inspect and duel I ended up disagreeing. Inspect is only useful to say to people, no we don’t want you for this dungeon, your gear ain’t no good. Dueling is a nice ‘could have’ but I don’t see how this is the big thing that would change the community.
The only problem is that you don’t need a guild, there are no activities you have to do with the guild and so people are not put in a situation where they ll actually meet. No shared activities that need social interaction, no ice breakers. In this game you probably play more with RL friends and friends from other games.
not to mention that there are no peace zones, so you ll have war even in the city. PvP in the PvE envirnoment will mean a major roll back to the traditional design.
Open war entering the PVE world I am strongly against as it allows big guilds to bully small guilds and this in the end is bad for the game. Bad for the game? Yes, because you allow 1 group of people to bully the other group of the game. I am not against guilds having wars however, but like in GW1, it should be fought in instances where members can come if they want.
Thats why declaration should be both sided, so both guilds agree to fight with each other.
Because then it will affect people who didn’t choose to PvP. Some people in your guild will want war, others don’t. You should have the freedom to choose and not be forced to exit the guild because you want war or because you don’t.
As I probably said, I don’t want to be bothered during my PvE. If most of your friends in your guild think like that then you ‘ll never have your war either. Unless the GL thinks the same as you, after which people will get bullied and quickly exit the guild with lots of drama and guild death. This is something Anet tried to avoid in their design and I don’t think they are going to completely turn back this core design to a traditional design. Instance based war is more preferable imo and something that was like that in GW1.
Maybe they don’t even know it is an exploit. You should just report it to Anet and let them determine what it is. Can it be a skill? Guardians have some invunerable skills, lasts about 3s.
The castle siege or city siege idea is something good, as it will give guilds things to do together. In my opinion the guild should only get some minor benefits like guild flags in the town.
Open war entering the PVE world I am strongly against as it allows big guilds to bully small guilds and this in the end is bad for the game. Bad for the game? Yes, because you allow 1 group of people to bully the other group of the game. I am not against guilds having wars however, but like in GW1, it should be fought in instances where members can come if they want.
High expectations I guess. Also, Anet made some very extreme and new choices and groups of people always respond extreme to change. Most of it I like and I say good job Anet. The bugs are annoying me a lot, especially if they prevent me doing group activities and many bugs have to do with group activities.
What is the problem? Where is the holy trinity needed? I have my friends all playing the prof they want and we haven’t had to wait for 1 specific person (who you may or may not like), not even for a second. In this game you depend on your own skill not on the skill of this super duper healer.
Crafting is not worth doing until level 400 because most people are 80 by now, also just by doing crafting you level so fast that you will need the next armor.
Not if you don’t do it all at once… And that is only possible if you farm the required items with one character and hand them to the other. Or buy all materials on the TP.
XP obtained is perhaps too high and for too many things. Think the difficulty is quiet ok, sometimes dungeons are too hard even. And no, sometimes bots or 3rd party aided players are better than the human handplayer and you may actually make it too hard such that the normal human stops playing.
Crafting is not worth doing until level 400 because most people are 80 by now, also just by doing crafting you level so fast that you will need the next armor.
Actually disagree with most you say, and with WvW I don’t have much experience. Believe that leveling goes too fast only.
I strongly disagree with your view on the holy trinity. Taking that out is something Guild Wars already did in the highly succesful GW1 and it is a blessing. How awful it was to spend most of your time waiting for the guild healer to come online and start doing stuff. How horrible for the tank that he couldn’t even go to the toilet, because he is the only tank online that day.
@ZaiTh Indeed, most certainly I won’t join. I don’t like PvE only nor PvP at every moment. Imo you can have such a server as long as they leave my GW2 style server alone.
@aleiro well no, because everybody is 80 and the fun of open world pvp is to stand in front of Divinity Reach gate and gank people new to the game.
@OP Why you want to interrupt peoples PvE entertainment? Go fight people who want to fight you in WvWvW, in a situation where player skill is more important than the armor you wair. Guild wars 2 is the first game with a real innovative vision on PvP. There are so many gankfest games out there.
In general, to satisfy people who like power play, there could be a weekly PvP fight to own each of the major cities.
Some are slightly too hard I believe, perhaps they take into account having full traits. These dungeons do take hours to complete and right now you don’t have medium difficulty. You have only easy and omg-hard-i-want-to-go-to-bed mode. Easy gives no tokens to collect armor and hard is not really accessible for some dungeons for most people and you will only get tokens in the end.
Why are some people so terribly scared of fighting other players?
WvW is part of the game, and you can access the points you need without even PvPing if you so want.
Just wait for them to be capped.
100% world completion means you have seen all world of GW2, and that includes WvW.
I mainly do PvE at this moment, but I have no problem with PvP (if fair like GW2). However many people have been so frustrated by ganking games (overpowered toons killing new players with no chance to win) that they have developed a deep hatred of games that mix PvE with PvP. You see already that the boys are staking out PvE spots on the WvW map just to annoy people. Give them a finger, they take the hand.
Botting is an every lasting problem. No game will solve it, just enjoy your play and ignore. I am guessing they take rangers because their long range doesn’t need them to move much. Proper movement is probably still difficult.
The only thing GMs could do is, like real police, be visibly patrolling the area once in a while. This will give people a better feeling.
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