Disclaimer: this isn’t a bug report, it’s a frustration report.
My account is hit by a particularly nasty bug that prevents everything from resetting at the daily reset. This includes daily achievements, orichalcum veins and ancient saplings, world boss chests, once per day per account crafting, etc. Needless to say, the bug has cost me a great deal of gold over the last 15 days. Support tickets have been met with copied and pasted replies. The thread on this subject in the Bugs sub-forum has gone ignored.
With the upcoming Features Patch and the high cadence of the Living Story, I can’t help but feel this issue is so far down the list of prioritizes that it’s not going to be fixed anytime soon (or possibly at all, if the number of players affected is particularly low). At this point, my frustration far outweighs my desire to play; and I’m starting to feel this bug will be the end of my time in Tyria. So, what’s a guy to do? Any advice?
Hit again. 76 gold and counting in lost plant food sells. 6 laurels and counting. 42 or so achievement points and counting. Countless orichalcum veins and ancient saplings lost. Countless world boss chests lost. And all the while, this thread goes ignored and my Support tickets are answered with copy and paste (literally) replies.
At this point I’m half tempted to just request a refund. Sure, my account will be closed and I’ll lose everything I’ve done in this game. But since my ability to progress has been so severely impeded by this bug – a bug I suspect isn’t being looked at with any real sense of urgency – the desire for me to log in is already plummeting by the day. I’ll give it a few more days to see if ArenaNet can at least be bothered to acknowledge this thread’s existence, but I feel this bug is going to be the end of my time in Tyria.
Second day in a row. That’s 70 gold and counting in lost plant food profits. And I can’t help but feel there’s no one actually looking into this bug. With the upcoming Features Pack and the second half of Season 2 around the corner, how many guys do we honestly feel they have working on a bug that affects so few people (even if it is a devastating bug to those unfortunate enough to experience it).
Hit again last night. Total losses up to 60 gold from plant food sales alone. Support has given me nothing but stock “we’re looking into it” replies, which roughly translates to “sucks to be you”.
And I got hit again at tonight’s reset. That’s another 12 gold in plant food sells lost. That’s 48 gold in plant food sells I’ve lost in the last ten days thanks to this bug. I’m through with this game until the powers-that-be figure out how to fix this bug that’s leaving an unfortunate few of us at such a massive economic disadvantage.
God this thread’s OP is pathetic. “You’re not making content that caters just to meeeeeeeee!”. Kitten, I’ve pvp’d all of twice and don’t see any problems with the devs doing this. In fact, your post supports the devs putting effort into the mode to make it appeal more to the people who seek unique skins.
Can you not respond to OP without acting like a petulant child?
Just got hit by the bug again (third time in the last ten days). As you may or may not know, the next stage in the vine back piece was just released. So demand for the once/day/account plant food is at an all time high. Not being able to craft it cost me 16 gold. That’s another 16 gold on top of 20 it’s already cost me (not to mention the laurels, daily boss chests, rich ore veins, etc). Losing large sums of gold to a bug that’s at least a month old is kittening me off to the point that I’m considering taking my business elsewhere.
A Tyria in which it’s acceptable for a gang of adults to steal from a scared, handicapped child is a Tyria not worth saving. #lettheEdlerDragonswin
“if you dont have crafting and you don’t have the gold to buy what you need, you are pretty much stuck to farming gold or farming mats”
That’s no less true for those who craft than it is for those who don’t.
Mordremoth isn’t even a big enough threat to stir the tengu into action, so why should the rest of the world care?
How does your question about allowing casuals to more easily obtain the ultimate weapons in the game have ANYTHING to do with adding “items” to the game? Trying to mask your request for easy BiS item access as a generic, all encompassing plea for ideas on adding ANY new items to “improve” the game for “have and have-nots” is a horribly executed (and self-centered) ploy.
You can participate in the conversation if you want to. You can not participate in the conversation if you don’t want to. But DO NOT come in here with a kitteny, condescending attitude and presume to speak for me.
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It seems that ArenaNet is in a precarious situation when it comes to adding new items to the game. I suspect the gulf between the Haves and the Have-Nots is a big one.
People who play casually (less often) than the hardcore players don’t have much gold, don’t quickly gain karma, and don’t like grinding out new currencies. To people who play the Trading Post well, gold is no object. To people who play a bunch, karma is easy to acquire. But people who play a bunch hate time-gates and other artificial barriers designed to slow them down. Skilled players might not bat an eye at challenging instanced content, while those less skilled might be forever locked out of content hidden behind skill-walls if the bar is set too high. Few people, so far as I can tell, enjoy menial grinds and fewer still enjoy a system in which their progress comes down to rng.
So how can ArenaNet best go about adding new items to the game while pleasing everyone (an impossible goal, but one worth striving for)? Let’s use new Legendary weapons as an example. How can ArenaNet add them to the game in a way that will make the Haves have to work for them without making them so hard to obtain the Have-Nots will have virtually no shot?
They’re just… white. I saw the axe and was excited… but the staff and scepter just look like a super white telephone pole. I’ll pass on pretty much all of them, maybe the mace since this game is lacking in good mace skins.
Amen! Why, Mistforged Mace!? Why couldn’t you have been the good looking mace my guardian has been waiting for!?
The rumors were true. \o/
Command the Rainbow —> Different colors for tags.
Anyone care to explain to me why this is important. Are there people running WvW who can’t read who need to be told “follow red” or “stack of green”?
I know I say this often, but.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
And this is why Anet keeps butchering the writting quality over and over.Dah poor guuuurl! She doesn’t want to give her discovery away so we can save the world! Why can’t we murder political relationships with Rata Sum to please the unsupervised child that almost got kitten murdered for being too moronic to realize running into inquest territory on her own may cause damage?!
And that’s exactly why none of you get choices.
Stealing is wrong. Stealing from a child more so. There’s no right reason for doing the wrong thing. Ever.
NPCs talking in voiced dialogue to one another before switching to “text mode” to talk to the voiceless PC incredibly jarring…and incredibly disappointing. If free content means cut corners, I’ll gladly fork over money for a paid expansion.
We’re not just helping “people” rob a small, terrified, crippled child, we’re helping the most unlikable person in all of Tyria rob a small, terrified, crippled child…a guy who makes Big Nose Ted seem affable by comparison. Where was the "[bleep] off, you’re not touching her stuff.] dialogue option?
My aren’t you picky for getting something for free.
Hey, look! It’s the “you’re not allowed to criticize it because it is free” card!
No, feel free to skip it. Just don’t complain about free content. Who knows, maybe the next update has something you like.
Hey, look! There it is again!
PS – Just because the price of the content is zero doesn’t mean our expectations must also be zero.
Their appearance, along with short turnaround from the Ley Line weapons, certainly gave me the impression Anet is hurting for an influx of cash.
Data-miners over at reddit have discovered that a new Outfit will be available soon, most likely via the gem store. It is called the ‘Ceremonial Plated Outifit’, it looks like a heavy armour set but all professions will be able to wear it.
Is there any doubt?
I guess this is the new trend… No more piece sets. No more mixNmatch.
Everyone looks the same, save a few dye swaps.
Go figure.
Yep. 99% of the people in this game seem to own only the Celestial and Abyss dyes.
With two weapon skin lotteries being released so close to each other, and one of them apparently lacking in quality (assuming what you guys say is true) it could be possible ArenaNet is desperate to get numbers up. Is there an investors’ call around the corner?
Like, “for real” sure? “Bet our lives on it” sure? Over the last month or so my salvage rate for ectos has been in the toilet. I know, I know, “rng is rng”. If this is simply a case of rng, then I’m on a long, long streak of really bad luck.
Oh, and the portions of the Living Story intended to be completed by groups of players were anything but fun now that the groups of players have moved on, surprisingly enough.
You could solo the entire living story (instances) including all of the related story achievements.
Not all of the Living Story takes place in instances, though. The norn stretch, while doable solo, isn’t solo-friendly. It’s content that was clearly designed to be tackled by groups of people.
Just out of curiosity, how many times have you played through the various installments of Season 2? For myself, it’s:
– 1st installment, five times
– 2nd installment, five times
– 3rd installment, twice
If you didn’t play through one or more installment as many times as you did others, what caused you to do so?
Oh, and the portions of the Living Story intended to be completed by groups of players were anything but fun now that the groups of players have moved on, surprisingly enough.
I just played through this release on a second character, and I found it kitten near insufferable. Between all the unskippable dialogue (there’s a LOT) and the chain of content-breaking bugs (there’s a LOT of these too), it was painful to push through to completion. After the mostly enjoyable first two installments, this one is a massive letdown. I hope the next release shows this one to be an outlier.
Two weeks later, and the event chain in Iron Marches is still broken. There’s simply no excuse for that.
First off, I want to say that Achievements =/= content. It seems like under the current LS setup, they’re giving us a day’s worth of content and a week or so worth of achievement grinding.
My suggestion is to revise the release schedules to have one large playable content release per month (such as a dungeon path and associated LS arcs, or additional weapons, or new weapons, or new areas/zones, or new level caps, or new traits and skills, or new professions— basically mini-expacs) and allow achievements to be once again attained on initial playthrough (edited to show I wasn’t expecting everything all at once every month).
It just seems to me that under the current biweekly schedule, the nuggets of content we are getting just don’t last long enough on initial playthrough and that there’s a reliance on achievement grinding to keep us occupied until the next release. None of us want busy work, we want content.
It’s actually more like three or four days of content when you include the time it takes them to patch the content-breaking bugs.
Still trying to understand why the game with some of the most beautiful artwork is hell-bent on destroying it.
No kidding. I’m disappointed every time I remember what Kessex Hills and Lion’s Arch used to look like. And not “I’m disappointed that we couldn’t stop Scarlet from destroying Lions’ Arch” disappointed, but “I’m disappointed the developers think trashing these lovely zones in any way enhances the Living Story” disappointed.
Here’s a cooler idea.
Stop catering to people with gambling addictions, guarantee a chest drops one ticket scrap at the very least, and make it a permanent change.
Until then, you won’t see one red cent from me on Black Lion Keys. Try again.
I’m with you. But for every two keys you and I refuse to buy there’s someone else who buys three or more. The system, unfortunately, isn’t going to change.
Careful what you wish for. The path to grindy content begins with “we need something to do”.
I disagree. The intent is for the player characters to be the driving personality to make things happen, not the biconics who are merely characters to be moved into the proper locations for them to be useful. The purpose of them is as a resource to be used in the solo instance method of storytelling in case the player doesn’t always have friends to help out (which is actually a somewhat strong way of making sure there’s a coherent story rather than having it all open world).
They have the spotlight, but because they’re around us, rather than us being in the spotlight because we follow them. Therefore, they are not the main characters, we are.
You and I couldn’t be further apart on this. The spotlight is on them, but we’re just the audience. Sure, we get to bash stuff with a sword every now and then, but outside of the Personal Story pre-Claw Island, we’re just there to observe the real characters (the iconics, the biconics, Trahearne, Scarlet, etc.).
Taimi is trembling, and Braham’s looking over his shoulder…I’m afraid she’s going to be in danger this time—Inquest trouble, from the looks of it.
Let’s hope it’s real danger and not Saturday morning cartoon danger.
I respectfully disagree. The new pastries (Living Story) are, in my opinion, of significantly lower quality than those available at the grand opening (Guild Wars 2, circa launch).
Well I certainly like the Living Story better than the personal story that was in at launch. I even liked Season 1 more than the personal story.
I didn’t hate the personal story I just found it a bit underwhelming. The living story, by contrast, I found uneven in quality but I really liked some of it. Nothing in the personal story will ever equal the Nightmare Tower, or Escape from Lion’s Arch or the Marionette fight to me. All those things I feel are better than the stuff offered at launch, at least as far as my personal entertainment goes.
I don’t particularly like the dungeons in this game and never really have. They were in at launch too, for the most part.
But I do like Dry Top a lot and I do like the season 2 of the Living Story so far? Have you actually tried it, btw?
I have. I’ve played through the first two releases on all five of my characters, and for the most part I enjoyed the content well enough (though there’s certainly still room for improvement). This last release, though, is more of the unpolished, disjointed, bug-ridden mess we got during much of Season 1. Whether it’s the progress-halting bugs or the insipid writing, I’ve only been able to stomach through it once.
dude, the ‘pastries’ that came out at launch are still in the game and are the same. This means your point is even worse. Because there are new pastries, but they’re not as good as the original pastries. So the owner isn’t only wasting their time making shirts. They’re also making new pastries. But you still prefer the old pastries. That’s ok, because the old pastries are still there. You said the pastries had gotten worse, and that’s false. There are only new pastries you do not like.
Sure, the pastries available during the grand opening are still available. But the grand opening was two years ago, and at this point they’re quite stale. I don’t think a menu offering a choice between stale and undercooked pastries is going to keep the customers lining up. Especially not when the bigger, better-established pastry shop down the street is about roll out an aggressive advertising campaign to promote its newly expanded menu.
The point here is that most of the forum posters already left the game a long time ago (they themselves say so) thus they shouldn’t come here and act as if they were still playing. There is a term for this and it’s called “kibitzer” and nobody likes those.
How do you know who among the critics actively plays and who doesn’t? Rarely does someone lambast the game while proclaiming they’ve quit playing, and those few who do could hardly be called “most”.
can I just point out that in this stupid contrived metaphor the pastries have never actually gotten any worse? Sure the owner create the shirts or whatever the hell your analogy is but the pastries remained of the same quality. The correct analogy would be that the owner started making new shirts but never made new pastries.
I respectfully disagree. The new pastries (Living Story) are, in my opinion, of significantly lower quality than those available at the grand opening (Guild Wars 2, circa launch).
There’s been absolutely nothing to indicate a new class will be added to the game anytime soon.
Sure, that right there was exactly my point. That since you moved on, stop protesting with “constructive criticism” and let people who are actually still customers decide what they want from the shop and don’t try to tell them what they want. Because that is not constructive criticism, that’s something else.
What is it, then?
As time went on, the pastry shop proprietor started cutting corners to increase profits. He served pastries that were not fully cooked. He put more effort into selling mugs and plush dolls and tee shirts than he did his pastries. Some of his customers, those who expected more from the proprietor – those who know he was capable of making kitten good pastries – started to question these moves. They implored him to get back to the business of making good pastries.
But a different group of customers, those blinded by loyalty to the pastry shop, didn’t take kindly to this kind of constructive criticism. Where the critics acted reasonably and respectfully, this group dealt in dismissive condescension. They simply would not believe that the pastry shop owner had lost his way, and they wouldn’t tolerate those who did.
So they too gathered in groups, protesting the protestors. If they’d engaged those with whom they disagreed with respect, things might have remained civil. But they were combative and insulting. Those they insulted often replied in kind. And if not for the vigilant peacekeepers policing the streets outside the pastry shop, things might have turned ugly indeed.
On a park bench at the end of the street sat a man looking at his undercooked pastry. He remembered how delicious the pastries were when the shop first opened, and this saddened him. He just couldn’t understand why those who felt the quality of the pastries had worsened since the shop’s grand opening were vilified by those wearing tee shirts and hats with the pastry shop’s logo.
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This bug is REALLY starting to kitten me off. I’ve been hit with it two days in a row now. That’s two days of nodes, world boss chests, laurels, ascended mat crafting, and plant food this freaking thing has cost me. The plant food is a real kick to the crotch, as that’s costing me close to 10 gold per day selling something for which demand is quickly diminishing. 20 gold for a casual player like myself is huge.
I will predict that the forums will be full of complaints but that prediction is too easy.
If ArenaNet gives us all the exact same mini while simultaneously releasing a brand new set of 40+ minis in the cash shop those complaints will be justified.
No. This group will have no more infighting than did the Mystery, Inc. or the Planeteers.
I think that is the main thing though.
None of the races are strong enough to defeat the Dragons without the help of the others.The only way we could defeat Zhaitan was due to the combined man-power, magic and technology of all the races.
Assuming what you’re saying is true (and everything we’ve seen so far indicates it is), that means each time a new Elder Dragon is ready to be toppled we’re going to have to repeat some variation of the “get the band back together” routine. Rather than each Elder Dragon being a unique challenge with a unique solution, the struggle for survival is quickly going to degenerate into a “rinse, lather, repeat” scenario wherein we’re just going through the motions.
Consider Jormag, for example. Under the “grand alliance” scenario we’re rallying the races, teaming up with the Pact, marching into his domain, fighting our way through his minions and champions, and finally using whatever means the writers give us to deliver the deathblow. Every installment will have up hoping around the globe for some reason or another, and NPCs like Caithe and Zojja will come and go as they’re needed, never staying longer than a quest or two. If it sounds familiar, it’s because it is.
Now consider the alternative. Imagine Whitebeard, Eir, and Koda’s Voice leading a war host of norn and koda against Jormag’s armies while the norn havrouns call the Spirits of the Wild to assault him while we (the players) slip past the front lines to hit him in his weakened state with some McGuffin that to finish him off. Aside from making one hell of a cutscene, such a focused and contained approach would allow the writers to delve deeper into norn and koda culture than they otherwise would be able to do. They’d also be able to make NPCs like Whitebeard and Eir shine, since they wouldn’t be hoping into and out of the story on a biweekly basis.
Instead of each dragon being a “we must all work together” scenario wherein the sylvari ask the charr to help kill Mordremoth, the norn solicit the asura to help fight back Jormag, etc. I’d rather have see each Elder Dragon dealt with (more or less) by the those whom it most threatens.
In this way, the developers could spend more of their resources fleshing out that race’s struggles with the Elder Dragons. They’d be able to tell a more coherent story overall, since they wouldn’t have to worry making sure each race gets face time every Chapter. And the developers could also focus on fully developing the appropriate NPCs (racial leaders, iconic and biconic members, etc).
And we – the players – would get to delve deeper into the lore and take in more of the political and social ramifications of fighting the Elder Dragons. We wouldn’t be stumbling through a loosely connected story one disjointed installment at a time. And we’d be able to develop a connection to the people and places we’re supposed to be saving from destruction (assuming the writers do their job well).
Finally, whether tackling the Elder Dragons as individual nations or a unified resistance, my status as second in command of a military force formed solely to fight the Elder Dragons should be more than just a piece of background fluff. The Pact should be no less a tangible weapon to myself than my sword, bow, or staff.
Yes, you are seeing things through the nostalgia goggles. The Nightfall heroes were nice but they were either the first step to dragging the limelight fully away from the player (as many claim Kormir did and Traherne does) or unnecessary baggage to be forced to work with (I have a team to kill Varesh, WHY do I need General Morgahn with me?!).
They all had character, but most of the time they were as flat as the biconics and Destiny’s Edge are claimed to be. Especially Koss, as amusing and fun as he was.
The OP tries laboriously to make the point of the biconics not carrying GW2, and I’d add the heroes couldn’t carry Nightfall or Eye of the North. Boy is it a good thing they didn’t have to . . . and it’s a good thing the biconics aren’t making an attempt carrying GW2.
. . . yet.
I agree with everything in your post except the emboldened part. The biconics are, for all intents and purposes, the new main characters of Guild Wars
Wow, this is a completely new subject that has never been discussed before. Anet’s parent company is publicly traded and publishes its financial records quarterly. Thus we can see how Anet’s terrible business practices have lead to nearly two years of tossing money into a black hole and the entire company is days away from bankruptcy. I only hope that those with the authority to make decisions at the company see your insightful posts in time to reverse their course and begin making a profit.
You’re well within your rights to simply not post in threads that don’t interest you.
When i say bearbow, i mean bearbow. I should also state that imo i think its ok to bearbow in open pve but when i see this build in pvp or in wvw roaming.. lets just say every bearbow in pvp has been complete dead weight to the team and every bearbow in wvw that i encountered has been a free kill. I don’t think people want a bearbow in dungeons either.
Rangers everywhere are relieved to hear they’ve got your blessing to use longbows in open-world pve.
I’d rather Destiny’s Edge be dismantled, permanently. I don’t mind them as individual characters (some more than others), but as a team I find them insufferable.