Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I like Guild wars 2 PVE, but as most people i thing it can use some improvements to be more fun :-)
As i see in game today are only two types of dungeons that are heavily farmed (instead of fractals). It is Ascalon explore 1,2,3 an Citadel of flame eplore 1 and 2. And other dungeons with their sets are mostly ignored by players.
If i would be developer witch created tens varieties of dungeons with armore sets for each and people would use only few of it, i would be desappointed :-)
Foe example i spend realy lot of time in Cursed shores why levling my character, doing story, farming karma and completeng it to 100% but for all this time a saw only few time like someone is trying to make groupe for Arah exp…..Realy few.
First thing what i would do would be make Story modes more rewarding. Today people have no need for doing story modes. Some people have Full armore set but never did story mode of its dungeon. And it is not good becouse they are fun, but just not rewarding enouth to force people to do them.
Putting tokens like from Explore mode as reward coul help but becouse story modes are often much longer and sometimes harder then exp. It soud be more then 60 per first run. Or if some lvl 80 will complete some story mode it could get some randome peace of exotic armore as rewar once per day per dungeon or maybe even piece of set armore. This would definitly bring more people to do Story modes dungeons too instead of continiously farm path 1,2,1,2,1 of exp per day.
Bigger problem is how to bring people to rest of explore modes of dungeons and buy all types of armore instead of only AC, COF an karma gear.
Something like token exchange woul solve problem of unused sets but coul make problem of unused dungeons ever worst, Or making sets from Hight lvl dungeons better than low lvl could help too but can be contrapoductive as well becouse noone would like to do low lvl if he could get better gear from hight lvl dungeon. But it could help. Anyone else has some ideas how to solve it? :-)

Vocation ended so there sould be finely answers here. But i dont see any.
So i ask again….What is wrong with servers Anet? Why no one from Anet responding so long? I Suppose you worked hard to solve it so you had no time to give us info.
So what did you discovered and when will be all lags issue repaired?
Please answer all these questions till tomorow becouse we so many people has to play with this issue or even cant play. You had lot of time to answer but until now you did not.
More and more people starting to thinking that you absolutly do not care about your customers…..That you are absolutely spitting on them….This is youre last chance to show that it is not truth. Otherwise i as your customer will joint these people and start thinking same way about Arena net. Now it is up to you. You had lot of time to answer this thread……Do you care about you customer or you spit on them?

Iyeru.5240:

DaRkSnIpErZ.8739:

Well, I just updated my graphics card driver, and now have 25-30 fps on medium. That’s good enough for me. :-)

A lot of people want 60 though, like me.

Yes lot of people whant it but lot of people dont understand that it is not necessary to have it. 25-30 Is always enough to fully enjoy any game (If it has decent optimization)
And between 30 and 60 difference is realy small.
I am speaking from my own experience so all who do not agree ( or understand like i said) save comments about how totaly wrong i am please……:-D

Veprovina.4876:

daros.3407:

,,Bringing Guild Wars 2 to the Mac is huge for us, because it introduces the game to an entire group of players who are often ignored by game developers."
As far as i know Linux users are ignored much more than Mac so it would be more than huge for them. It would be nice to have GW2 on Linux.

It’s a vicious circle…

Developers don’t port the game to linux because there’s not enough market for games and not enough games for linux, but the reason that there’s not enough games and no market for games on linux is because developers don’t port their games to linux. :/

And since a lot of people use linux as their desktop, i really don’t see how making games for linux would be bad. :/

Yes it is circle so someone has to start and break it and Anet already has Mac version so Linux would not be so hard to make ……and would not cost tham that much money :-D

,,Bringing Guild Wars 2 to the Mac is huge for us, because it introduces the game to an entire group of players who are often ignored by game developers."
As far as i know Linux users are ignored much more than Mac so it would be more than huge for them. It would be nice to have GW2 on Linux.

Tomorow realy bad lags in CoF. I died in fires and then i could not even teleport to WP. Stop ignore us finaly and do something about it!

Mark Katzbach created this thread before 3 months and then he never posted a single answer or info here or anyone else from Anet. Is this what they call support for one of biggest problem of game?
Last time Katzbach posted something on forum is 8 days….seems he realy enjoy chrismas vocation…..:-D Ok then tomorow enjoy your ,,Happy new year" and after it is time to give us answers. And real ones…No some babbling about ISP please.

SunShamon.4320:

this is just awfull i brought the game to 2 days ago and i cant play and i cant recomend the game to anyone just by the fact the servers arent doing the job they are meant

(sorry my english)

I would recomend game to my friends too, but can i take that responsibily for their money? I cant make tham buy game which they will not be able to play properly becouse of lagy servers and realy pooooooor support from Anet.

Hoss Man Dave.3905:

I will be playing and everything will be fine but than randomly everything will freeze for 4 seconds and than everything has to catch up with real time. This happens alot. Also I have my settings on low and it still does this. I run 50 fps but it still does this. Also I have a Dell XPS and geforce I believe 540. Wondering what is going on…

You are not alone this problem is here for some time but it seems Anet is doing nothing to solve it.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Network-Lag-Merged/page/17#post1105340

OGDeadHead.8326:

At this point, I’m also thinking about servers not being up to par when it comes to population, and some accounts are being down throttled in priority. Could explain why I have 30-90% packetloss on the most popular areas, but have zero issues in low level areas with very few ppl in them. A theory anyway.

Yes a theory, but better than their about ISP…

Sadly games under wine does not meet as good performance as under windows. As far as i experienced. GW 2 runs good on my laptom but it is on edge of playability. So under wine it would not be playable.
So if i would play GW2 on Linux it would have to be GW2 made for Linux. Not GW 2 made for window running on Wine.

Sonoran.2874:

Game was unplayable for me and after trying (2) different re-routing services, repairing the client and other “fixes” nothing worked. This morning I logged in and as usual I was lagging out and getting disconnected so I decided heck with it and transferred from my server which was shown as very high population to one that was listed as medium population(lowest population I could find was medium) and I just played 2 hours lag free, no disconnects…nothing….go figure.

I also think it is server overpopulation. And there is core of problem. Thay would have to spend money to improve servers. But it seems thay dont have money for that or just dont whant to spend money for it.

GW on Linux would be nice. I am using Windows only becouse of games. I am no harcore player and i dont need play every game which cames out so if GW2 would be on Linux maybe i would stop using Windows completely :-D

Revoke.1425:

daros.3407:

I think better would be to tell us ,,We are not working now so wait till holiday ends." It would take 5 minutes of their free time and it would be still better than this silence.

this or “burn in hell you and your network issues!!!! and happy new year!”

Yes or this :-D

Nitro.4732:

daros.3407:

That is not completely right Pentium dual cores are better than core 2 duo.
Release dates of Core 2 duo are from 2006 – 2009 and Pentium dual core from 2008 – 2012. Good comparison is here http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?make=Intel&model=Core%202%20Duo&type=Laptop%20Processor , http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?make=Intel&model=Pentium%20Dual%20Core&type=Laptop%20Processor .
I have Pentium Dual Core B970 2.3GHz and it is better then an core 2 duo. At least all you can find on list i posted.

I stand corrected. In that case the processor meets the minimum requirements, however with 128MB of video memory the computer is still below the minimum requirements to run the game and we still don’t know what model of graphics the computer has, stating Intel HD could mean the original series, 2000, 3000, or 4000. That could make a big difference but 128MB is still too low but may be able to be adjusted in the computers bios.

I am not arguing with you about rest of his laptop. Just about post that Pentium dual core does not meet minim requirements becouse minimum is Core 2 duo. Model pentium dual core is basically better than core 2 duo.
But i agree his laptop will probably have big problem to run GW 2 playably.

Nitro.4732:

That is not completely right Pentium dual cores are better than core 2 duo.
Release dates of Core 2 duo are from 2006 – 2009 and Pentium dual core from 2008 – 2012. Good comparison is here http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?make=Intel&model=Core%202%20Duo&type=Laptop%20Processor , http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?make=Intel&model=Pentium%20Dual%20Core&type=Laptop%20Processor .
I have Pentium Dual Core B970 2.3GHz and it is better then an core 2 duo. At least all you can find on list i posted.

I have CPU: Intel Pentium B970
GPU: Geforce 610m
Ram: 4 GB
I play mostly on low set. Nativ rendring and 1366 × 768 resolutin.
And i have pretty big scale of FPS from 15 to even 70 depends on situation ofcource. It is predictable…In WvW where a lot of people is aroung me i know i will always have
+-15-20 (20 if not fighting)
It is said the game is demanding on CPU and you CPU is better. So maybe you will get similar performance on higher sett. than mine.

Revoke.1425:

could devs at least tell (or lie) us “we are trying to find/fix the issue”
are they at least reading this “come here and cry with friends” topic?

Thay are probably on holiday so they do not know about it :-D
I think better would be to tell us ,,We are not working now so wait till holiday ends." It would take 5 minutes of their free time and it would be still better than this silence.

As you can see here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Network-Lag-Merged/page/17#post1089758
you are not only one with this problem. Lots of people say it started with Wintersday.
Sadly Anet did not gave us explaining jet.

cybermaohi.4310:

Hello,

French customer here … I am both happy and pretty sad to see my fellow people post here too …

It’s been weeks that I am experiencing amazing lag at “rush hours” from 5pm CET to 11pm CET … The game has became unplayable since Wintersday after NOON …

Today I ran the 3 paths of AC without lots lag and luckily stopped at noon … I felt a lil lag so I went offline.
Then I tried at 5pm to do an AC run : after 5 or 6 DC, I just didnt log in back since I was so ashamed of being unable to be of any help to my PUG … I just hope they made it …
Finally I logged in at 9pm and the game was still laggy as hell, I just managed to finish my daily achievements …

Lag + unable to log back in a Fractal group = NO FotM for me … During all december I’ve only tried to do a daily every other day and still can’t even manage to finish 1 out of many … I was enough lucky to get 5 rings with only doing less than 15 dailies lvl10, so I dont really mind to get more uninfused ones. But Id like to level up from level 11 to 20, for the 2nd daily AND the chance to get infused rings, which is a MUST HAVE for lvl30+ … And of course I wanna get to lvl30+, I paid for this. I repeat I am a legit customer and even more than the casual or lambda one : I bought several times 4k gems (check my account history). So I am also paying now and I guess later.

My question is crystal clear : WHY ?

I talked to my guildees and none (Sweden, Portugal, Netherlands, Turkey, South Africa, etc.), not one has a lag like mine.

My computer (viruses, processusses running in the backgroud, applications, RAM, video card, SSD, HDD), network I/Os and internet bandwith are clean, perfect and optimized …

So, WHY us, French people, have to be left alone ?

I would really like to hear an answer from Anet to the French Community.

Thank you for your attention and thank you in advance for your answer.

It is not only French as you can see here. But more important is that Anet still did not bother to give us good explaining. As you said we all paid them to play this. And what what we get? Lagy game and ignoring of this problem or if not ignoring than explaining that problem is on our site. But as most of us now know this is not truth.
If they will not change the way they behave we shoud all demand our money back.

I posted info about it on Anet FB page http://www.facebook.com/ArenaNetInc. Hope we get some good satisfying info about problem.

Aleran.5397:

Hello everybody and merry chrismas

I’m French and i come posted here with my poor english because we have a similar problem .

The game is unplayable : lag and a lot of deconnections in game since 1 month . The post on the FR forum is really expensensive : a lot of players and 26 pages on the topic.
You can see here :https://forum-fr.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Probl-mes-de-latences-lag-postez-ici/page/26

After 1 month of silence , players are desperate . We have buy a game but we cannot playing . We have a good computer , a connexion ADSL , and a key alright . We haven’t the problem with internet or other game …

The assistance of Anet send all player to the FAI assistance fai is (Orange, Free and SFR) . The FAI say the problem is not in her routage. Some players think it’s Cogent .

Players have found temporary solutions :
-VPN but not for all and not very security and we don’t want payed for playing
-Migrate on a US serveurs but the jetlag and the language are very restrictive for french people
-Wait and see but since 1 month ; we waiting and waiting and waiting … and nothing !!!
-Stop this game . Myself , i loved this game but it’s impossible to play.
- We think go to see an association to defense of customers because the time passed and nothing . We have payed this game and we want play because we have respect the contract and nothing in CGU/CGV specifie the necessity to take VPN or the game is incompatible with some french FAI

I hope find here a communication with Anet and a solution or an explaining . We need help of Anet . We have very patient but stop to ignore the French and the EU player and the situation please .

Nicely said but i worry they do no even bother to read it.

Fault is definetly on their site but it is easier to say that it is our problem so thay dont have to solve it :-D
I never had any problem in any online game and i played even more demanding games than GW 2. My lattence, ping…..was ever as low as it can be. But than i start to play this and have sometimes even 30 sec lags? Is this some kind of joke? :-D My internet conection did not even break (or fall, dont know how to call it in english) in 2 years i have it. Not even for few seconds …In two years. No this is not problem of my conection.

Seriously these lags starting to be unbearable. It is time to do something about it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/New-Random-Server-Lag/first#post1073050

Lot of people experiencing realy bad lags since Wintersday begins.

I have CPU: Intel Pentium B970
GPU: Geforce 610m
Ram: 4 GB
I play mostly on low set. Nativ rendring and 1366 × 768 resolutin.
It is playable. And with playable a i mean that in any situation i can do what i am supposed to do ( kill enemies, break gates…, heal…..And so on :-D ) Even in WvW where
FPS can get lower but still enough to allow me play.

I have absolutely same problem. Sometimes lags are even 30 sec long. And it also started with Wintersday.