Guild Wars 2

Kaleden.9386:

I don’t think you can pin it solely on the multi-guild system. FFXI had a multi-guild system which functioned quite well. For instance, I had roughly 3 linkshells: one for friends, one for Dynamis, and one for Limbus.

The question is why aren’t your players representing your guild? Perhaps they joined for a purpose which your guild no longer fulfills – be it social or activity based. Unlike FFXI where you needed a guild in order to experience content, GW2 is extremely accessible to all. As such, players get to go where they please. The only real exception might be WvW where keep upgrades and siege equipment can have considerable cost, but PUGing is still a very viable option.

God this. Multi-guilds aren’t the problem.

Mkalafut.1273:

fizzypop.6458:

Mkalafut.1273:

Xenite.7418:

I love the feature, I think the real problem is to many guilds have no sense of quality when they recruit members. If you go around picking up trash, then soon you have a lot of trash.

So many guilds will recruit anyone and everyone. Have some standards BEFORE they are in your guild.

Xenite, I’m not sure who that comment was directed towards, if any. But nearly everyone in this thread who runs or is part of leadership of a guild has expressed they have quality control when recruiting.

What is your idea of quality control? Do you have them submit an application and accept them if they do so? How many people do you deny memebership too? I’ve read this whole thread I haven’t seen anyone really say outright they have any real quality control.

For my guild specifically, the process for gaining entry is as follows.
Say we get a whisper from someone interested in the guild. We go over briefly some of the rules to ensure that they at least agree to some of our basic rules like Ventrilo being required for runs, etc.

Once we’ve established that representing and ventrilo is required, we then send them to our website to fill out a short Q/A about themselves in which they also agree to have read our rules page, which there is a link to.

Depending on the specific answers to the questions along with the manner in which they are answered (and yes we do take into account basic grammar and punctuation ( you’d be surprised at how many blocks of texts without periods we see )) we assess them and determine as a group of myself and my officers whether or not this individual is right for our guild.

In my specific case it’s people who were previously offers (Note PREVIOUSLY) being lazy and just inviting anyone with a mild interest in the guild. And we’re largely playing catch-up with the stragglers from that ordeal.

As far as other guilds go I can’t really speak on their behalf but I hope that gives you some insight as to what people agree to and claim to have agreed to to gain entry into our guild.

So how many people do you deny membership to on a weekly or monthly basis? Why are you allowing members to invite? I run a small mostly IRL guild and the only people who can invite are me and my husband. My point is if you on average accept 90% of applications you aren’t really being as picky as you think you are.

They need to be rewarded like karma is it’d solve so many problems.

Mkalafut.1273:

Xenite.7418:

I love the feature, I think the real problem is to many guilds have no sense of quality when they recruit members. If you go around picking up trash, then soon you have a lot of trash.

So many guilds will recruit anyone and everyone. Have some standards BEFORE they are in your guild.

Xenite, I’m not sure who that comment was directed towards, if any. But nearly everyone in this thread who runs or is part of leadership of a guild has expressed they have quality control when recruiting.

What is your idea of quality control? Do you have them submit an application and accept them if they do so? How many people do you deny memebership too? I’ve read this whole thread I haven’t seen anyone really say outright they have any real quality control.

MMOs have been doing this for years…ya’ll just don’t see it. In every single mmo I’ve ever played I could just create alt and join another guild! I did it all the time! Guess what? A lot of people did it too! Even guild leaders. The difference is you didn’t see your friend on interacting with the other guild because their alt didn’t show up on the list. Anet just hide us unless we are representing and remove guild size limits. Then ya’ll can stop kittening about it.

Btw…there are mmos out there who have multi-guild system this isn’t new.

Nox Aeterna.2965:

@uknortherner.2670

Lets me point it out to you that , if you think that most of the people of the world support gay marriage , you are either blind , or living inside a very small bubble.

The media may help showing that , many and many do so , and many begin do so also more and more , but today , just no. At least if you dont consider the BIG centers , where this is actually a discussion subject.

Personally , just like in real life i would not care , 0 support , 0 adversity , they keep it to themselves , i keep it to myself , we dont talk and we all live doing our own thing.

Also , if they are adding a wedding feature anyway , think they should add this also , let people do whatever they want.

Many countries have gay marriage or unions legalized (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage). If you think that only a minority of people support gays then I’m guessing you don’t actually know much about the world or history in general. I mean gays have been around for like ever and many cultures accepted them even embraced it. Recent polls of Americans show that 53% actually support same-sex marriage. That sounds like the majority to me.

Olba.5376:

mcmillan.9760:

What is the problem with genders and weddings?

Well, if they choose to implement gay marriage, they will without a doubt get some unwanted publicity for that, all while losing some younger players because of their parents prohibiting them. I doubt ANet would want publicity for being the first major Western game to “support” gay marriage.

If they choose not to implement it, they end up with a guaranteed couple of times a month when someone will post into the Suggestion forum about implementing it. And they will, again, lose some of the players, this time those who wanted gay marriage.

So either way, it’s a lose-lose situation for them.

And if they implement marriage, that’s just one step away from in-game animations like hugging and kissing. And that’ll bring the same issues again. Not a path you want to take.

lol what? No they won’t. They wouldn’t even be the first mmo to do it…rift has gay marriage in game. They are western company. Guess what? No one said a kitten thing. Most gamers and game development companies are actually pretty liberal. If you’ve got a problem with gays then I suggest not playing video games…and oh don’t play on crystal desert either.

Keiran.1896:

Taurethion.7302:

There is a 24 hour time limit in effect now. You can run it as often as you want, the chest simply won’t open. If it won’t open period, that’s a bug, unfortunately.

Source? That seems to be pure player speculation. Since many people had it glitched the first time they opened it and yesterday…

Pretty sure a dev confirmed it when the patch went live…though now I can’t find the thread in which they did? Deleted?

I thought transmuted items become soulbound?

Consider adding an event master like rift or other similar mmos (add it in day 1). Make items that they sell buyable via in-game obtainable currency. For example; Taking the candy corn nodes and removing them- this really encourages chasing after nodes instead of playing the game. Instead give a reasonable chance to earn candy corn off of mobs, events, dailies (make it 100% on dailies so you are guaranteed some everyday), ALL nodes, and special events/mobs that are holiday related. Dear god do not put useless consumables as the only buyable things with this currency. The chainsaw skeleton mini could’ve easily been put on this vendor for an insane amount of candy corn, some weapon skins, or even just special bags like a 15-slot spooky bag or something like that. Costumes? Spooky mini pack? All could’ve still been sold via gem store. Heck you could sell those costumes as armor skin and I know tons of people would be all over them.

This way everyone is happy. People can still have their hard to get halloween weapons, BLC rare skins can stay, but give something to the rest of us folks who don’t have tons of money to spend or who have to spend our time wisely. The biggest let down for me is that there is nothing to go after for me. No long-term goal because everything is way out of my reach. I’m not the kind of gal to set an impossible goal.

As for events could you please let those of us who have decent machines turn on the ability to see ALL events in a zone or world (might be too much to ask)? Rift let you do this and it was awesome. I would teleport in just to do certain rifts. I feel like I am missing new events because I have no idea they are going on which sucks for events that will only be around for a specific amount of time.

Nope, just like everything else in this game you gotta farm ‘em. Doing it in Gendarran Fields in the morning is probably your best bet. I’m thinking they’ll start popping up more and more as the event goes on so you could wait? That’s what I’m doing because it’s super boring to farm.

Leo G.4501:

I think what’s pissing me off is how unintuitive this is with the rest of the game. The clues? Can’t make heads or tails of them unless you look at a wiki or something. Candy Corn Nodes? Not on the map like pretty much every other harvestable node. Haunted doors? Disappear when another player clicks on them unlike other quest objects.

The more I try to play this event the more frustrated I’m getting with it. Don’t know why, the rest of the game seems tough but I’ve coped.

Candy corn nodes show up as ore. So you have to hover over them to see if they are candy corn or not. As far as the rest I agree…I wish there was a little more directing.

Varen.8507:

fizzypop.6458:

Akhet.6527:

fizzypop.6458:

except “if they can’t not whipping about the gimme gimme gimme tears” put that with the title.

I must have skipped over that since it doesn’t make any grammatical sense and thus I couldn’t clearly decipher what he meant. I can guess but I would prefer not to do that since that presents its own handful of problems. I still find his post pretty tame, especially in comparison to the other garbage posted around here.

I don’t disagree. I just wouldn’t call it a positive post so me adding negativity to it really didn’t take anything away from the post. It was bound to go there anyways.

+1 For rationalizing ones behavior.

Rationalizing what behavior exactly? I didn’t know making a comment on a forum was such awful behavior. I’ll consider that next time.

Akhet.6527:

fizzypop.6458:

except “if they can’t not whipping about the gimme gimme gimme tears” put that with the title.

I must have skipped over that since it doesn’t make any grammatical sense and thus I couldn’t clearly decipher what he meant. I can guess but I would prefer not to do that since that presents its own handful of problems. I still find his post pretty tame, especially in comparison to the other garbage posted around here.

I don’t disagree. I just wouldn’t call it a positive post so me adding negativity to it really didn’t take anything away from the post. It was bound to go there anyways.

Akhet.6527:

Oh the title, I thought you were all referring to the post. The title’s cut off for me (small resolution, laptop, what can you do).

Still, I would take his actual post into consideration when accusing him of being a jerk because for all intents and purposes his actual post was pretty harmless when it comes to these types of discussions.

It’s pretty clear he didn’t mean it to start anything or his actual post would have reflected that and been rife with similar analogies. This is basically a “thank you anet” thread with a questionable wording of the title and now it’s some horrible mess that will probably get locked.

internet
oh you

except “if they can’t not whipping about the gimme gimme gimme tears” put that with the title. Don’t know about you, but I could do without it. Of course it doesn’t really matter I wanted to comment because of the “greedy company” crap. I’m so sick of seeing that as an excuse for everything. Then my one comment exploded and well I have nothing better to do today. So I’m listening to music on youtube while tabbing to this thread. It’s proved somewhat entertaining.

Akhet.6527:

Uh what? I didn’t see anything demeaning in OP’s post.

He wasn’t overtly rude to anyone, didn’t call anyone out, or anything of the sort. He thanked Anet for the way they set up the event because he likes it that way. He could have easily gone off the deep end but he didn’t.

Pretty sure I’m reading the same post as the rest of you.

You may not like or agree with what he said but he was never “insulting” about it.

I can see we have different definitions of insulting. Carry on dude.

dahkot.3579:

Ah, so now they are blaming ArenaNet for their addiction to gambling.

Holy kitten , just when the whiners couldn’t get even more silly , they do.

ArenaNet , this is the best holiday event ever , the bonuses get better and better.

except no one did that. Only saying gambling is an addiction that involves the brain which is true. >.>

Snerf.1650:

nimajneb.3871:

One short expansion on my thoughts, then I’ll let this drop.

I’ve used the cash shop, specifically for bank space and character expansion slots (altitis confirmed and untreatable.) I will never… ever… ever pay cash money for something that COULD give me an item/skin/etc. in a game. Whether it be real life cash or fake life gold, my view is that gambling is a sucker’s game. If you enjoy it, great. I don’t. Beyond buying the occasional Mega Millions ticket, in case lightning strikes three times in the same place consecutively, I don’t gamble and here’s the point that I’m belaboring getting around to. If you’re unhappy with that model of monetization that ANet has setup… don’t pay them. It’s that simple really. They are indeed in business to make money. If they discover this system doesn’t do it for them, you can bet that they will find other ways to part us from our coin. I suggest it be with lots of town clothing options, because I’m a total clothes kitten. Whatever they choose though, vote with your dollar/ducats. ANet will get the message. No need to worry there.

The problem is that gambling hits parts of the brain that bypasses usual thinking.

It’s manipulative and causes people to make poor or irrational decisions. There is a reason that so many places in the world regulate it. Because it’s scientifically shifty.

It doesn’t actually bypass thinking, but it does mess with brain chemistry. Which is why it can be so dangerous. It increases the release of chemicals that are pleasurable. The more these are released in large amounts the more addicted you become the more it further messes with the balance of chemicals in your brain. There are people who are prone/sensitive to it as well further adding the danger to it.

Akhet.6527:

Hats off to fizzypop for taking a positive thread on the internet and turning it into exactly what we all expected.

If you’re so disappointed by this game as you have continually complained, why on earth are you still here? It’s like digging your own grave and then complaining that you died in it.

It wasn’t positive it was insulting people who disagreed with them by calling them the “gimme gimme all crowd” if you really think that’s positive I hate to see what you’d call negative behavior.

As far as being disappointed in the game and still being here…because I paid for it. I want to give my actual feedback so that they don’t assume everyone is in love with this game because I think they have a whole lot of work to do. If I don’t tell them why I feel like playing less and less they aren’t ever going to know are they? You may disagree that’s fine. My husband and friends are playing this game so I stick around to do things with from time to time as well.

Vacks.6459:

fizzypop.6458:

Vacks.6459:

fizzypop.6458:

That is the difference between us Vacks. I don’t need to feel special. I’m not sure why everyone feels the need to be special. Simply put you aren’t. In the grand schemes of things this entire world isn’t even all that special. You could have all the money in the world that doesn’t make you special just like having electricity doesn’t make you special. Plenty of people in the world without it. I’d rather have fun and enjoy myself…because once I log off it’s back to responsiblities. Just writing this was kind of depressing.

Oh, I know I’m nothing special. I’m just not one to get depressed about it if I know I have something I worked for, or at least even have the potential to crawl out of the ooze and work toward my own fortunes.

If only there was something to really work towards for the middle of the road crowd even if I have a month I doubt I’d log enough hours to even come close to getting that staff. Town clothes and BLC chests aren’t worth the money spent on them. Not a whole lot to work towards…but hey I still have hope maybe they’ll add more towards the end.

I do agree with you there. It would be nice to have something else for just anyone to get. I mean, we do get free devil horns at least. But maybe there will be a finale where Mad King Thorn makes an appearance similar to in GW1 and gives away something exclusive for the year?

Are the devil horns back on the gem store? Didn’t see them this morning and someone said there was a nasty bug with them. I hope so. So far I haven’t seen any halloween events…I’m not sure if they are doing them out in the world or only in LA? We will see if second act gets better.

Vacks.6459:

fizzypop.6458:

That is the difference between us Vacks. I don’t need to feel special. I’m not sure why everyone feels the need to be special. Simply put you aren’t. In the grand schemes of things this entire world isn’t even all that special. You could have all the money in the world that doesn’t make you special just like having electricity doesn’t make you special. Plenty of people in the world without it. I’d rather have fun and enjoy myself…because once I log off it’s back to responsiblities. Just writing this was kind of depressing.

Oh, I know I’m nothing special. I’m just not one to get depressed about it if I know I have something I worked for, or at least even have the potential to crawl out of the ooze and work toward my own fortunes.

If only there was something to really work towards for the middle of the road crowd even if I have a month I doubt I’d log enough hours to even come close to getting that staff. Town clothes and BLC chests aren’t worth the money spent on them. Not a whole lot to work towards…but hey I still have hope maybe they’ll add more towards the end.

cubed.2853:

fizzypop.6458:

Every single person in the entire world could have a Porsche and I still would be happy when I got one.

I would not say no too ;-)

I’d be asking for it in pink! Hell yeah you can give me a porsche!

That is the difference between us Vacks. I don’t need to feel special. I’m not sure why everyone feels the need to be special. Simply put you aren’t. In the grand schemes of things this entire world isn’t even all that special. You could have all the money in the world that doesn’t make you special just like having electricity doesn’t make you special. Plenty of people in the world without it. I’d rather have fun and enjoy myself…because once I log off it’s back to responsiblities. Just writing this was kind of depressing.

dahkot.3579:

fizzypop.6458:

dahkot.3579:

fizzypop.6458:

dahkot.3579:

fizzypop.6458:

Joey.3928:

yurtshone.7325:

sigh I have not spent a single penny on keys or chests, infact I am enjoying selling all my chests and candy corns! But what you “supporters” are NOT recognising is that most people complaining are complaining about the crappy odds Anet put on the gamble chests! I think the people complaining have a point. Anet has set out a stall of being on the side of the gamer but it is patently obvious they are a corporate greedy machine that could care less about its customers.
They need to sort this out before it bites them on the backside. YOU will not have a game if the complainers do not spend in the cash shop any more because of RNG low drop rates.
Please do not come back with a “entitlement” argument. It is old, tired and plain wrong .

Do you understand game companies are a business like any other? They have to make money you know. This is their job. Calling them greedy isn’t really fair.

Running a business doesn’t give you license to be greedy. It’s 100% possible. Plenty of businesses don’t lie or gouge their customers. If people keep accepting it then nothing will change. As it is right now most american companies would rather lie, cheat, steal, and gouge you for every penny you’re worth. They’d gladly throw you over a bridge if it made them money. If ya’ll keep accepting it they’ll keep doing it….

Please show me what items you “have” to have in the event ?

AN is “forcing” no one to spend a cent.

It’s your , and others problem, if you think you deserve X item, and cannot accept the fact that pleny of folks have no problems with having rare items.

We get it , some of you think everyone should have everything and don’t like rare items , but you can’t seem to grasp that others don’t feel that way , that don’t think AN is forcing anyone to do anything , and think its ok to have rare items.

Oh god let’s not go with the “OMG YOU DON’T NEED IT”. Honey, you don’t even need this game. You don’t need internet, a car, or a house. I mean no one is forcing me to pay for gas or use a cell phone, but if I can’t get to work well no more money! No cell phone? No way to contact anyone for anything! Techinally all you “need” in life is something warm, food, and water. So let’s just skip this road because it’s a load of bull and ya know it. I bought a game to have fun. I spend 90% of my time not having fun. I think that’s a problem and I’m going to let them know it. If they want to fix their game so it’s fun for me then cool. Not sure why fanboys act like this. If you want to debate points that are BS there are political forums out there.

Your own fault for playing a game that you don’t enjoy a vast majority of the time by your own words.

Whining and not moving on is amusing. I will admit a side benefit of the Halloween event is seeing folks like you upset.

I’m not sure what your point was here. yes, I bought a game based on false promises. I’m annoyed by that okay. I try to enjoy the game…I find out I really can’t. I barely log in and pretty much have stopped playing. So where is the problem here? I say “hey anet this is the kitten I dislike and why I’ve stopped playing” and apparently this is wrong because why? Exactly where are you in my house to see that I’m upset? Or that I’m whining because apparently saying you dislike something is whiny! Do you have kids? because man oh man you haven’t heard whiny if you think this is it. My youngest is the king of it.

Yes I do, and you are right , you do sound like my three year old.

Ah, personal insults! I’ve been waiting for you! What took you so long? I hope you brought the wine and beer!

Ugh the forums are doing their no qoute again. Over 100k were made last year…alone. That isn’t even counting older models that are still in use. I probably should’ve given actual numbers my bad, but a lot of people can apparently afford that car. Just like how millions could afford million dollar homes…most of Seattle? Guess what living in a million dollar home. If the city said “hey here is a million dollar home” you bet my butt I wouldn’t complain. However, I think you missed what I said…good point I just didn’t agree with it. Every single person in the entire world could have a Porsche and I still would be happy when I got one.

Vacks.6459:

fizzypop.6458:

Oh god let’s not go with the “OMG YOU DON’T NEED IT”. Honey, you don’t even need this game. You don’t need internet, a car, or a house. I mean no one is forcing me to pay for gas or use a cell phone, but if I can’t get to work well no more money! No cell phone? No way to contact anyone for anything! Techinally all you “need” in life is something warm, food, and water. So let’s just skip this road because it’s a load of bull and ya know it. I bought a game to have fun. I spend 90% of my time not having fun. I think that’s a problem and I’m going to let them know it. If they want to fix their game so it’s fun for me then cool. Not sure why fanboys act like this. If you want to debate points that are BS there are political forums out there.

If you want to go that route I don’t need a Porsche to drive to work. I don’t need surf and turf dinner every night. Things that would be great to have? Yes! Things that I can’t afford? Absolutely!

The point is, much of the enjoyment that comes out of these special items is from their exclusivity and off-chance occurrence. If I ate surf and turf every night I’d probably start to hate it.

You do realize that there are literally thousands of Porsches made a year? So if you suddenly had one would it be less special because hey someone else has one? I’m guessing no. There are thousands of beautiful luxury homes out there and they are owned! If you were handed one does it mean that you aren’t happy because oh god too many people have them! My entire point is that no one needs a kitten thing from this game so it’s a nonesense arugement. I’ll give you props though because you made a good point. I just don’t agree with it.

ecwoodrow.7034:

fizzypop.6458:

ecwoodrow.7034:

fizzypop.6458:

Joey.3928:

yurtshone.7325:

sigh I have not spent a single penny on keys or chests, infact I am enjoying selling all my chests and candy corns! But what you “supporters” are NOT recognising is that most people complaining are complaining about the crappy odds Anet put on the gamble chests! I think the people complaining have a point. Anet has set out a stall of being on the side of the gamer but it is patently obvious they are a corporate greedy machine that could care less about its customers.
They need to sort this out before it bites them on the backside. YOU will not have a game if the complainers do not spend in the cash shop any more because of RNG low drop rates.
Please do not come back with a “entitlement” argument. It is old, tired and plain wrong .

Do you understand game companies are a business like any other? They have to make money you know. This is their job. Calling them greedy isn’t really fair.

Running a business doesn’t give you license to be greedy. It’s 100% possible. Plenty of businesses don’t lie or gouge their customers. If people keep accepting it then nothing will change. As it is right now most american companies would rather lie, cheat, steal, and gouge you for every penny you’re worth. They’d gladly throw you over a bridge if it made them money. If ya’ll keep accepting it they’ll keep doing it….

blah blah blah, greedy customer wanting everything for free, blah blah blah

This is game has no subscription. Their income comes from the in-game store. Stop qqing because they encourage you to get COMPLETELY OPTIONAL FLUFF from the store for money.

I like how fanboys literally make kitten up. If I wanted everything for free I’d be asking for it for free. I’m asking for them to get rid of stupid kitten like a grind for a halloween weapon. Just put it on the gem store I’ll straight buy it. So what’s that about wanting everything for free again? The problem is ya’ll want people to work like this is an IRL job. I’d rather just straight buy it for a reasonable price. At least that’s honest.

How dare I want it to take a week to get fluff for an event that lasts a week!

and lol, “reasonable price”. You mean low enough that you can just get a gold or two and convert them to gems? i.e. free

I have to ask do you like being so ridic? It’s actually really funny thanks for the laugh dude.

dahkot.3579:

fizzypop.6458:

dahkot.3579:

fizzypop.6458:

Joey.3928:

yurtshone.7325:

sigh I have not spent a single penny on keys or chests, infact I am enjoying selling all my chests and candy corns! But what you “supporters” are NOT recognising is that most people complaining are complaining about the crappy odds Anet put on the gamble chests! I think the people complaining have a point. Anet has set out a stall of being on the side of the gamer but it is patently obvious they are a corporate greedy machine that could care less about its customers.
They need to sort this out before it bites them on the backside. YOU will not have a game if the complainers do not spend in the cash shop any more because of RNG low drop rates.
Please do not come back with a “entitlement” argument. It is old, tired and plain wrong .

Do you understand game companies are a business like any other? They have to make money you know. This is their job. Calling them greedy isn’t really fair.

Running a business doesn’t give you license to be greedy. It’s 100% possible. Plenty of businesses don’t lie or gouge their customers. If people keep accepting it then nothing will change. As it is right now most american companies would rather lie, cheat, steal, and gouge you for every penny you’re worth. They’d gladly throw you over a bridge if it made them money. If ya’ll keep accepting it they’ll keep doing it….

Please show me what items you “have” to have in the event ?

AN is “forcing” no one to spend a cent.

It’s your , and others problem, if you think you deserve X item, and cannot accept the fact that pleny of folks have no problems with having rare items.

We get it , some of you think everyone should have everything and don’t like rare items , but you can’t seem to grasp that others don’t feel that way , that don’t think AN is forcing anyone to do anything , and think its ok to have rare items.

Oh god let’s not go with the “OMG YOU DON’T NEED IT”. Honey, you don’t even need this game. You don’t need internet, a car, or a house. I mean no one is forcing me to pay for gas or use a cell phone, but if I can’t get to work well no more money! No cell phone? No way to contact anyone for anything! Techinally all you “need” in life is something warm, food, and water. So let’s just skip this road because it’s a load of bull and ya know it. I bought a game to have fun. I spend 90% of my time not having fun. I think that’s a problem and I’m going to let them know it. If they want to fix their game so it’s fun for me then cool. Not sure why fanboys act like this. If you want to debate points that are BS there are political forums out there.

Your own fault for playing a game that you don’t enjoy a vast majority of the time by your own words.

Whining and not moving on is amusing. I will admit a side benefit of the Halloween event is seeing folks like you upset.

I’m not sure what your point was here. yes, I bought a game based on false promises. I’m annoyed by that okay. I try to enjoy the game…I find out I really can’t. I barely log in and pretty much have stopped playing. So where is the problem here? I say “hey anet this is the kitten I dislike and why I’ve stopped playing” and apparently this is wrong because why? Exactly where are you in my house to see that I’m upset? Or that I’m whining because apparently saying you dislike something is whiny! Do you have kids? because man oh man you haven’t heard whiny if you think this is it. My youngest is the king of it.

RShara.3265:

Walk into a casino with $50, dunk it all in the slot machines.

How much will you walk out with?

Yeah….

I actually walked out with $260ish…though not slot machines I played craps. Not too bad for my first time I actually made up for my husband’s losses that night. I’d rather have just spent my $60 on that to be honest…at least I’d have had some fun while losing the money.

Karitan.3059:

Schakal.6091:

ANet didn’t lie, cheat or steal. Anyone who bets on getting something particular from a grab bag is just betting very bad odds. I will generally say that I believe adding stuff to BL Chests exclusively is a terrible idea. Everything else worthwhile you can get via those chests you can also buy directly if at possibly increased cost. However if Skins had been the same they would have had to make them untradeable or run the risk of creating a speculator’s market with people buying skins in bulk and flogging them for a fortune this summer.

In a way, it’s a fair solution. Not the only one, but a fair one.

Otherwise I generally agree with the OP. I work 50, 60 hour weeks at times, but I understand that nothing worth having is ever easily gained. Sure, they could have given everyone a token redeemable for one of the skins. Then everyone would have run around with chainsaw swords for a few weeks. And they’d have vanished when the next cool new thing rolled around. By keeping them rare you keep them special.

I do feel bad for those people who really want one but can’t or won’t gamble on one nor buy one off the TP. But I figure if they really want that skin, they’ll find a way to get it. If not, well, then I guess they didn’t want it after all.

It’s that simple. If everyone had everything, nothing and nobody would be special anymore. Which is why communism is so unappealing to a lot of westerners even though it’s the most humane system conceivable on paper. Not that it can actually work but that is another topic.

If anet makes holiday skins so easy to obtain, everyone will just have them in first day. Imagine everyone runs around swinging their chainsaw great sword and scythe staff.

So? who the eff cares if everyone has it? It’s a HOLIDAY! Have ya’ll forgot what it’s like to have fun? I think so.

Twoflower.3176:

Casual player here, full time job, etc.

It’s fair to ask someone to work for a reward but I don’t think the level of work required by this event is fair.

This right here. I’m okay with work it’s not like I have never worked in my life here. If these items were buyable with a crapton of candy corn I’d be all over it or if they dropped from certain events…or if they were just straight buyable from the gem store, but they aren’t. All of that is work….it’s just not a ridic amount. I’m not going for them either and I’ll voice why.

ecwoodrow.7034:

fizzypop.6458:

Joey.3928:

yurtshone.7325:

sigh I have not spent a single penny on keys or chests, infact I am enjoying selling all my chests and candy corns! But what you “supporters” are NOT recognising is that most people complaining are complaining about the crappy odds Anet put on the gamble chests! I think the people complaining have a point. Anet has set out a stall of being on the side of the gamer but it is patently obvious they are a corporate greedy machine that could care less about its customers.
They need to sort this out before it bites them on the backside. YOU will not have a game if the complainers do not spend in the cash shop any more because of RNG low drop rates.
Please do not come back with a “entitlement” argument. It is old, tired and plain wrong .

Do you understand game companies are a business like any other? They have to make money you know. This is their job. Calling them greedy isn’t really fair.

Running a business doesn’t give you license to be greedy. It’s 100% possible. Plenty of businesses don’t lie or gouge their customers. If people keep accepting it then nothing will change. As it is right now most american companies would rather lie, cheat, steal, and gouge you for every penny you’re worth. They’d gladly throw you over a bridge if it made them money. If ya’ll keep accepting it they’ll keep doing it….

blah blah blah, greedy customer wanting everything for free, blah blah blah

This is game has no subscription. Their income comes from the in-game store. Stop qqing because they encourage you to get COMPLETELY OPTIONAL FLUFF from the store for money.

I like how fanboys literally make kitten up. If I wanted everything for free I’d be asking for it for free. I’m asking for them to get rid of stupid kitten like a grind for a halloween weapon. Just put it on the gem store I’ll straight buy it. So what’s that about wanting everything for free again? The problem is ya’ll want people to work like this is an IRL job. I’d rather just straight buy it for a reasonable price. At least that’s honest.

dahkot.3579:

fizzypop.6458:

Joey.3928:

yurtshone.7325:

sigh I have not spent a single penny on keys or chests, infact I am enjoying selling all my chests and candy corns! But what you “supporters” are NOT recognising is that most people complaining are complaining about the crappy odds Anet put on the gamble chests! I think the people complaining have a point. Anet has set out a stall of being on the side of the gamer but it is patently obvious they are a corporate greedy machine that could care less about its customers.
They need to sort this out before it bites them on the backside. YOU will not have a game if the complainers do not spend in the cash shop any more because of RNG low drop rates.
Please do not come back with a “entitlement” argument. It is old, tired and plain wrong .

Do you understand game companies are a business like any other? They have to make money you know. This is their job. Calling them greedy isn’t really fair.

Running a business doesn’t give you license to be greedy. It’s 100% possible. Plenty of businesses don’t lie or gouge their customers. If people keep accepting it then nothing will change. As it is right now most american companies would rather lie, cheat, steal, and gouge you for every penny you’re worth. They’d gladly throw you over a bridge if it made them money. If ya’ll keep accepting it they’ll keep doing it….

Please show me what items you “have” to have in the event ?

AN is “forcing” no one to spend a cent.

It’s your , and others problem, if you think you deserve X item, and cannot accept the fact that pleny of folks have no problems with having rare items.

We get it , some of you think everyone should have everything and don’t like rare items , but you can’t seem to grasp that others don’t feel that way , that don’t think AN is forcing anyone to do anything , and think its ok to have rare items.

Oh god let’s not go with the “OMG YOU DON’T NEED IT”. Honey, you don’t even need this game. You don’t need internet, a car, or a house. I mean no one is forcing me to pay for gas or use a cell phone, but if I can’t get to work well no more money! No cell phone? No way to contact anyone for anything! Techinally all you “need” in life is something warm, food, and water. So let’s just skip this road because it’s a load of bull and ya know it. I bought a game to have fun. I spend 90% of my time not having fun. I think that’s a problem and I’m going to let them know it. If they want to fix their game so it’s fun for me then cool. Not sure why fanboys act like this. If you want to debate points that are BS there are political forums out there.

Joey.3928:

yurtshone.7325:

sigh I have not spent a single penny on keys or chests, infact I am enjoying selling all my chests and candy corns! But what you “supporters” are NOT recognising is that most people complaining are complaining about the crappy odds Anet put on the gamble chests! I think the people complaining have a point. Anet has set out a stall of being on the side of the gamer but it is patently obvious they are a corporate greedy machine that could care less about its customers.
They need to sort this out before it bites them on the backside. YOU will not have a game if the complainers do not spend in the cash shop any more because of RNG low drop rates.
Please do not come back with a “entitlement” argument. It is old, tired and plain wrong .

Do you understand game companies are a business like any other? They have to make money you know. This is their job. Calling them greedy isn’t really fair.

Running a business doesn’t give you license to be greedy. It’s 100% possible. Plenty of businesses don’t lie or gouge their customers. If people keep accepting it then nothing will change. As it is right now most american companies would rather lie, cheat, steal, and gouge you for every penny you’re worth. They’d gladly throw you over a bridge if it made them money. If ya’ll keep accepting it they’ll keep doing it….

Ryth.6518:

Chrollo.2173:

You’re like those people who don’t like fast travel in Elder Scrolls games. You’d rather spend that 20 minutes every time to cross the serene, beautiful landscape…however some of us have things to do! Dragons to fight, loot to get, ya know.

Fast travel in a game does DESTROY immersion. It also destroys any sense of scale and massive size.

Look no further then WoW when they introduced flying mounts. Not only was the size of the world reduced dramatically, world PvP died. When they implemented a shorter hearthstone, teleports to zones, dungeon finder and more gryphon points, they destroyed the immersion even more. The world became empty.

A big example was the journey to places like Winterspring from Darnassus or the travel from SW to Booty Bay or from SW to EPL. When you add tons of flight poitns/way points…all of a sudden, it’s this small world now.

Lastly, even though GW2 doesnt have DF or World PvP, what all these Waypoints do are REMOVE the massive multiplayer from the world.

When you individuals ‘porting’ to every location, you create the sense that the SERVER you are on is either not active or dead. You create a vast ‘emptiness’ in the world because you don’t PASS anyone in your adventures when everyone is porting all over.

This is one big thing ANET massively screwed up on. Tons of waypoints and quick travel. You would have thought they would have learned the issues that were created in WoW and to avoid it…yet they didn’t.

kKagari.6804:

Chrollo.2173:

You’re like those people who don’t like fast travel in Elder Scrolls games. You’d rather spend that 20 minutes every time to cross the serene, beautiful landscape…however some of us have things to do! Dragons to fight, loot to get, ya know.

Dragons, aside, its been proven constant waypointing doesnt actually get you all that much more loot, thanks to costs and loot scaling. I certainly don’t mean to say having no waypoints is better than having them, but merely to highlight the fact, some of the charm of the game, particularly those that the developers envisaged is lost, due to waypoints.

Actually it wastes the world developers time by creating ports all over. If I was a world developer, artist, etc and the game programmers put a bunch of way points in, I would literally get on them about wasting my time creating a world that no one will experience because they are hoping all over. Sure you ’don’t’ have to use them but it’s better to keep your world active then making it quick and easy to get around because players want everything easy and quick. If you don’t have time to travel to distant locations, then make the time or travel one night and play another.

Travel in WoW was one of the most exciting things due to never knowing what you would come across, especially on PvP servers but also it was part of the ‘JOURNEY’.

Might as well not even bother and just start making instant ports to all DE and Dungeons.

Take the world out of an MMO and you take the subscriber out of the game literally and figuratively.

So you want me to travel for an entire day? Not doing anything I want to do and being bored out of my mind….then spend the next day doing what I ACTUALLY want to do? Are you kitten kidding me? I know it may come as a shock, but a lot of people have family and jobs to do. I think the only people who can possibly enjoy that style of play have 8-10 hours they can play a day. I don’t have that amount of time. I have 2 hours maybe of downtime and some days I can’t play at all. I used to be able to play for hours every day, but ya know responsibilities came up. I know for one if waypoints were gone I’d be gone. I work all day as it is I don’t need to feel like I’m working in a virtual world too.

Please for the love of….replace the mobs that knock you off the spiral staircase. It’s frustrating it’s not fun and it’s something that I basically cannot control. I killed all the mobs got to the top only to be knocked off by a mob…only feet from the map. I went ahead and tried a different staircase…killed all the mobs on the way up died again due to knockoff in the middle. I’ve run past all the mobs and have died several times by being knocked off. I’ve basically given up. You can’t evade their knockbacks because the staircase is so narrow you’ll just fall off resulting in death again!

I’d say yes. I have definitely got my $60 out of it.

Astaldo.3081:

‘’If you want the achievement that shows you have been everywhere, then go everywhere.’’

But it doesn’t even require you to go everywhere…WvW is part of the mists. Spvp maps aren’t required for world completion either and they are also part of the mists. Mists isn’t even part of the world of Tyria. So exactly why they were included is kind of odd especially since actual parts of the Tyria aren’t included like dungeons, POI in hall of monuments, and the jumping puzzles.

Shrug I can see their point.

World completion doesn’t have to have WvW included since as far as I know WvW isn’t even part of the real world. It’s part of the mists which isn’t even on Tyria. So I wouldn’t mind seeing that removed. WvWvW is boring anyways.

Yozoh.8179:

There are plenty of pants in this game. Matter of fact, medium armor actually covers you up the most. There’s only a few skirts for heavy armor, and there are many pants for light armor.

Use the transmutation stone if you don’t like the way you look. I honestly think light armor looks really nice in this game — on the other hand, medium armor I’m not too fond of, and heavy is okay..

All in all, GW2 can use some more/better design artists, because all the armors look really plain. I’m looking forward to expansions already (and new hairstyles).

I’m guessing you play as a male? Females wear 90% skirts or pants with buttcapes. We want straight PANTS JUST PANTS. No buttcapes. 95% of the medium armor for women is buttcapes! It makes it look like a half dress which is nice and all, but I want sometimes to just wear pants with a cute top.

Elona! Dervish. I fell in love with the Dervish in nightfall…I want to see them again in GW2!

Agemnon.4608:

I think there are enough pants as it is. Even the pretty light armored tier 1 human armor has pants though it’s a pants skirt hybrid

except some people want straight pants so no that’s not really an option >.> I’d love to see some plain straight pants especially for light and medium. Why does everything have to look like a dress or skirt? I’ve only seen 2 real pant options for light and they are ugly (sorry what’s up with those weird windows on the hips of the genie pants? looks awkward. The top is cool, but those pants are ugly) .

Sunny Side.7960:

How are people ok with Multiboxing but not ok with botting?

Multiboxing is no different, using a third-party program to gain income. Its wrong.

Edit: also why do people think using hardware instead of software makes it ok?

Botting is using a 3rd party program to have your character being played by a computer while you AFK or do other things. Multiboxing is different because the player is actually playing both characters at the same time and not AFK. A real life human is playing the characters not a computer.

Yes, the rewards are really lackluster. I think they need to be upped significantly. Mystic coins are only worth a silver. You shouldn’t have to sell your entire reward just to get decent $$. To be honest it’s a month of effort you can only do it once a month I don’t see the harm in giving a straight 30-50s along with a decent exp rate.

As far as survivor it’s really easy once you hit 60ish because exp scales up over time. By then 100k will feel like nothing. I accidentally did it while in timberline falls this month.

Dragonbrand is having a lot of bugged events. It seems to be more in the higher level areas 50+. I was out in bloodtide coast (the bottom half) this morning and out of 5 events I ran into only 1 was able to be completed. The rest were all bugged. There is also one in timberline falls that has been bugged for several days it’s the one where the skirtt are stealing their brew…the moot heart there is also broken. This weekend I noticed a lot of bugged events in sparkfly fen as well.

For me WvWvW is 40% fun and 60% frustrating. I only played WvWvW to finish the monthly otherwise I avoid it. I think it’d be more fun if a few things changed.

*Cut out the repair costs…this is the #1 reason I haven’t stepped foot into WvWvW. I refuse to go in there without a repair canister (and no I don’t use my real money on them.)

*The weapons need to be re-tuned. Seriously they hit like trucks and they can have the ground littered with their AOEs. These should be powerful yes, but they shouldn’t be able to permanently stall a group. It just makes the fights more drawn out and boring.

*Let us decide what we want to see on the map in regards to other players. Yes the little orange markers are nice, but they don’t give you enough information. You can’t see the players in an given area without being within a certain distance. I hate going to a battle to find only 2 people are there and alive. Not only did I waste the time walking all the way out there, but now I’m dead stuck with a repair bill. So let me see all of the players on a map. That way I can decide where to go and it’ll give me an idea what we are trying to push for. Or only have those orange markers show up if X number of players are alive on your team at the battle site.

*Give support more credit. If I put down healing rain down on someone and they kill a player I should get some credit for that kill. This is probably hard to code, but there has got to be a way to give support some more credit. Anything would be nice.

*As for the monthly achievement…since there is going to be a pvp portion (WvWvW)…why not let spvp kills count?

Drakkon.4782:

For the guy who said he doesn’t know what I mean by a Starter Zone, I’m referring to the level 1-15 zones right outside the racial cities. If you’re new to MMOs, which asking what a Starter Zone is would seem to indicate, there you go. Thus, the Sylvari Starter Zone would be the 1-15 zone directly outside the Grove. Hope that clears it up for you.

heh, I’m not a guy 1 and 2 I’ve played mmos for the last 6 years…I know what a starter zone is. However, I didn’t understand your problem clearly with it. It’s possible to level 1-15 in the Sylvari start area. You will find yourself in later parts of the game killing mobs that are 2-3 levels higher than you (Level 40 heart will have mobs that are up to 42). So to me that seems pretty normal and easily doable. You can easily do 5 levels above you if you are careful as well. That issue aside are you hitting the events and gathering? Are you sure you aren’t missing parts of the map? I know I missed the swamp first go around. If you are having issues I can understand your frustration sometimes events don’t spawn especially when you need them. I think some zones depend on them more than others such as the human area.

I think the real problem here is why are you hiding important financial information from your wife? If your wife is anything like me hiding it is going to make it a whole lot worse. I’d rather my husband say “I’m going to spend X on Y even if you don’t agree” then to just hide it. This may be out of line (and if it is feel free to tell me off), but does this kind of thing come up a lot? My husband and I had some issues with spending money we didn’t always have when we first got married. We didn’t talk to each other about purchases lead to us spending way too much money. So now we both have our own accounts (and one joint account for bills) that we each put $50 bucks in a month. This is our “fun money” to do as we wish and no harassment from the other. We can save it up or blow it all in a week. When it’s gone it’s gone and we have to wait until the next month. It works well and that means I can buy stupid amounts of character slots without him bugging me about it.

Gold sinks aren’t really the issue. The issue itself is that player income isn’t proportional to the gold sinks. A lot of mmos have massive amounts of gold sinks, but it isn’t a hindrance because player income is proportional to them. So travel should be near a 1-to-1 ratio. If I spend 5-10 minutes in an area I should be able to earn travel money right back. For big ticket items you will need to farm a bit and that’s reasonable. If they want to keep the gold sinks they need to adjust player income compared to the costs especially the costs of traveling. Of course it’s a complex issue since the TP is also involved and most stuff on it are being sold at a loss. Crafting doesn’t feel like it’s worth much aside from leveling exp.

Not entirely sure what you are talking about with the Sylvari starter zone. There are level 15 mobs in it and hearts as well (Wychmire Swamp is full of 14-15 leveled mobs and hearts). It can easily get you to 15. I will agree that the paths for the sylvari, asura and human zones are awkward. If I had to rank them norn and charr have the easiest to follow paths in terms of leveling. It would be nice for newcomers if there was a little bit more direction for those starter zones.