Guild Wars 2

You want to take some of them away AND only be able to use them if standing near them? Again, some of us like actually doing stuff other than traveling, and no one is stopping you from taking the scenic route.

This isn’t WoW. WoW’s model is to create as many time-sinks as they can so as to extend peoples’ subscriptions as long as humanly possible. (Two days till I’ll allowed to cancel mine!)

This is not an issue in GW2. If people aren’t having fun within a few minutes of playing it, they’ll quit out and tell their friends not to buy it. GW2’s revenue model involves people having a good time without staring at their screen doing kitten-all for 10, 15 minutes or more.

If you don’t like the waypoints, no one’s stopping you from running from zone to zone.

I’ve been playing with as many professions as I can. No mains as of yet, although my guardian and ranger are highest-level so far. I made a charr thief, but I’m not sure if I like the race. -.-

I use an EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti. I get about 60fps, unless I’m in the Black Citadel, at which point it’s a slide-show. :S

XXOwnsXY.9465:

Something cool happened to me tonight, actually. Apologies for typos, all written from an iPad

I was doing map completion for lions arch today. I get to my very last POI and i find a waterfall, of sorts. I can hear chatter at the bottom, so i risk it all and jump down. I miss the pool of water below me and splat to my death. I go AFK for a few, and upon my return, find myself alive.

I continue up the rocks and jumps in this cave im now in, to find a maze with a spirit guiding my way. I follow the spirit through this maze, the whole time, enthralled with my surroundings. So into it, i had not realized that the spirit had left and i was left to finish the maze alone. Out of nowhere comes another player. He just passes me without saying a word. I realize that this must have been the phantom ressurector (and thank goodness for that, or i would have missed all of this…i mean, what are the chances that, in a place so seemingly desolate, i would be ressurected before leaving?).

Anyway, i follow this player through the maze and we end up at a cliff. Im not sure which way to go. It is obvious to me that he has done this puzzle before, but he stops and looks at me. He states “Are you following me?” I was shocked and scared that he was pulling the “do it yourself” card. Scrambling for an answer in my brain, i blurt out, “No, I.. Uhh.. Was following the spirit.” He replies “I think its best you follow me”. Relieved, i do just that. I follow him through the rest of this very cool puzzle that i was sure to blotch on my own. We get to the last part. Its a puzzle that involves one choice. He says “you choose the tunnel. One lets you live..the other two, you die”. I stop, i think…i run and jump to one with my eyes closed on the way down. I was aliiiiiive! He simply said “good choice”, and moved along.

Now THAT was awesome.

That reminds me of when I asked in map chat for help finding juvenile critters to charm on my ranger. I got a whisper, “I’ll help you, mate”. This guy invites me to group, and takes me to three different newbie zones so I can tame four or five different animals. I’d never seen him before in my life. And people say there’s no community in this game, pfft.

The first time I took an elevator in Caledon. It was stunningly beautiful.

I like underwater fighting in GW2 a whole lot more than I did in DAoC or WoW, but the z-axis issue needs to be fixed ASAP…

With the addition of authenticators, as well as the existing new IP confirmation, it will be more difficult to hack an account without a goodly amount of social engineering.

kKagari.6804:

Not because of the cost, I’m quite well off at the moment.

So I started my alt and this time I’m going through the game at an absolute snails pace; reading every bit of text, talking to every named NPC, and I’d say, the game is absolutely enjoyable in this sense. (I’m even playing with maximum up close camera, offset to the left for that personalized over the shoulder effect).

And I realize the thing that destroys the games sense of immersion, are the waypoints. There is a truly epic feeling going about the landscape like and explorer that is lost once you just teleport everywhere. I know what you’ll say now; just don’t use them, but the thing is; other people use them. Sure, they might not share the same sense of adventure as me, or their definition of it is different, I’m not here to judge them.

The thing is, without waypoints, we could all share an extra sense of camaraderie. Dying is going to suck way more because if no one saves you, you’ll have to restart at some camp far far away.

Or when people eventually travel back to Lions Arch; they’d have been away from a major city for a day or two, and their exploits would feel that much more grand, rather than just popping into the city every minute or so, like it is something in their backpack.

Actually a game I played recently sort of does this; Dragon’s Dogma. Granted the rest of the game wasn’t spectacular, the sense of ‘going out to adventure’ felt very true.

I love waypoints. I don’t have a ton of time to spend running around on foot. I’m willing to eat the coppers to get to where I need to go!

There are people like me who choose to give their money to a known quantity (Anet) and not gold sellers. I’ve also seen a lot fewer bots in the past few days.

Nah, there are probably other young folk around. This game has a wide appeal, and if I were a teenager I’d be even more addicted than I am now. (Stupid … job. Gotta pay for gems somehow.)

“You could be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, and someone somewhere is still going to hate peaches.”

This is downright tame and mannerly compared to the battle.net forums.

I love that this is a game where I don’t feel guilty for not playing every day. I love even more that it’s a game that I want to play every day!

Vzur.7123:

arjeidi.2690:

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.

And a lot of people, like me, will do events multiple times (in a row) because they’re up.

I’m 34 and completely enamored of this game.

Completely. I have a whole stable of alts. I’m enjoying going through all of the racial content, seeing all of the maps, doing all of the DEs and heart quests. I haven’t touched WvW yet and I’m already in love with this game.

I love doing map completion. It helps me find events I might otherwise miss, especially if they’re in far-flung spots or corners of a map. I like being encouraged to discover ALL of the content that ArenaNet worked so hard to put there for people to enjoy. I have a particular love/hate relationship with vistas – so hard to get to, so neat to see the view.

Karma, you sound like my kind of player. I love belly-dancing (or watching it, anyway), and middle eastern music.

When I saw the title of this I thought you were literally looking for carrots to harvest in-game. When I realized cooks could make dyes, I immediately took cooking on an alt. Only problem? Cooking is super mat-intensive. Alas. More farming.

WoW on launch was not more stable or less buggy, and had its share of bots. I love the mechanics and game-play. I’m hooked, and spoiled for any other MMO now.

On slower systems, tab targeting is the only thing that keeps me alive. On my desktop I tend to click-target more, but when I’m fiddling around on my Macbook Air, I have to tab-target. I’d rather it not get killed.

I love them all. My guardian is the easiest to level, my elementalist is super-squishy but I’m trying to fix that through gear and learning to play. Every profession I’ve tried is FUN, and feels properly differentiated.

Last night I had a bot that I couldn’t even target. The maphack they were using made it so I couldn’t click on them, and trying to bring up the in-game support kept directing me to “submit a request on our webpage for support”.

I miss my dervish something fierce. Whirly death!

Huzzah for two-factor! My husband’s account just had someone try and log in from Japan. He’s running around changing passwords this afternoon.

Stevoli.8795:

In general the people I run in to are nice, but Map Chat is usually full of elitist little punks. Don’t even mention something about a bugged skill point or bugged event, you’ll be told to go back to WoW and called everything from a Troll to a wow employee quicker than you can press enter.

I haven’t seen that at all on my server.

I picked Devona’s Rest at random. I’m loving the community. I’ve had people help me when they had no reason to, I’ve had interesting conversations in Map chat, I’ve seen people jump in to help when there was no impetus other than just being nice. In comparison to WoW, I feel like I’m home.

Ixal.7924:

ciannait.1945:

That’s not what I said. I said, a lot of people are enjoying the game. If your feedback is you don’t like it that’s fine, but it’s not exactly actionable. You’re allowed to have your opinion. Mine is that I’m having fun, I’ve gotten my $60 worth and I’m not at end-game yet.

Just wait till you are. The closer you get to 80 the less fun the game gets.

Again, actionable feedback is going to be more effective for Anet than “it’s not fun and it’s not WoW”. What’s not fun about it, and what would make it more fun for you? I’m genuinely curious.

Define predecessor. GW1 without any expansions was also not a very deep game.

Zambino.3061:

ciannait.1945:

Ixal.7924:

ciannait.1945:

GW2 is about having fun while you’re playing

And a lot of players are lacking exactly that.

And a lot of players aren’t. The game may not be for you, but that doesn’t mean it’s worthless.

Who exactly is this game for, then? For casual players who don’t care about the quality and potential of a videogame? This argument makes no sense. Saying “this game is perfect if you don’t like it go play something else” isn’t helping anything except maybe your buyer’s remorse. This game needs to improve for the sake of all players.

That’s not what I said. I said, a lot of people are enjoying the game. If your feedback is you don’t like it that’s fine, but it’s not exactly actionable. You’re allowed to have your opinion. Mine is that I’m having fun, I’ve gotten my $60 worth and I’m not at end-game yet.

Ixal.7924:

ciannait.1945:

GW2 is about having fun while you’re playing

And a lot of players are lacking exactly that.

And a lot of players aren’t. The game may not be for you, but that doesn’t mean it’s worthless.

WoW has a subscription model that forces people into continuing to pay in order to be able to access the new content (gated dailies, etc). GW2 doesn’t have that subscription model, so the content argument is like comparing apples to oranges. GW2 is about having fun while you’re playing, WoW is about stringing your subscription along as long as humanly possible.

With a F2P game, I think it’s less of an issue. I’ve certainly gotten my $60 and I’m not even level 20 yet.

I love my Guardian. Different weapons for different situations. What’s wrong with that?

I’d rather have a bad FoV than bad game mechanics and gated dailies required for advancement.

Yes, I know there’s a botting thread – but it’s closed.

Botters have become very good at teleporting / map hacks. By the time I can right-click one to report it, it’s gone. I’m on Devon’s Rest, and they’re everywhere in the starter zones. All a GM need do is stand guard by a resource node and watch the botters fly in and out. This is ridiculous.