Guild Wars 2

The Ventari Ele.5812:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

This won’t happen for technical reasons (our NA and EU datacenters are entirely separate.) Though even if it was technically possible, there’d still be design reasons to avoid doing so, like that EU national worlds wouldn’t have NA partners that spoke the same language.

Didnt stop the Chinese guilds from joining T1 NA instead of playing on their own GW2 servers.

Their own? You mean the one that was launched in 2014 when these players already had an account? Also, many of them aren’t from mainland China where GW2 of China was released. The one released in mainland China is handle by different company KongZhong and probably has the “Great firewall”…

There is no such thing as a fix for off hours capping unless ANET can and do decide to shutdown maps regardless of time zones. Open up maps if there are enough players on all 3 servers at that time frame. If server A has 200 players ready, server B has 150, server C has 100, then open up 2 maps. 50 from each server on the 2 maps and all others will need to be in queued. This is a perfect fix. It will force servers who are heavily stacked in a time zone that if you want to play, you move to a server where you are not doing a 10 vs 1. I’m sure NA primetime will see a few servers frustrated where they’ll move their behinds to servers where they get play time instead of where they are able to do blob time against lower population. It’ll force equal and competitive gameplay. It’ll help all time zones. And if there’s only 30 in OCX/SEA.. then 1 map is needed. Don’t need to pay me ANET. I just given you a fix for making competitive and fair game play.

ANET developers needs to fix this balance thing more than sleep capping. Let’s begin a season where BG and JQ can be paired. BG has the NA/EU forces. JQ has the SEA and both BG and JQ can contribute a little to the OCX. TC or YB needs to be paired up with Anvil Rock or server that has equivalent population. It won’t be fair for those 2 servers since they are heavily queued as they are right now.

BeepBoopBop.5403:

Straegen.2938:

BG finally wins a week with the help of the strongest T8 server after months of losing and proceeds to declare victory. Good to know.

Lol is the word on YB really that BG is winning because of ET? I mean we like those guys, but come on lol.

Yes. ET saved BG. We all know that. But it’s better that they saved BG than YB who only knows how to do siege wars.

I still hate DBL. Maybe it can be fixed but the map needs to be shrunk… Still see DBL part of the EOTM rotation instead.

kiwituatara.6053:

I don’t get why this is even on the list.
There is no such thing as “nightcapping”. It is always night time somewhere around the world.

Not possible. The world evolves around me according to Anet’s definition of night capping. If I’m not online doing the capping, it’s night capping. I’ll give you my login time so Anet can properly set this new scoring system to lessen the effects of night capping.

Can we turn off scoring for anytime I’m not logged in? It’s almost like night capping. Also, if anyone logged in that isn’t within my time zone, then it should be classified as night capping. Night capping is all of the following: European time zone if in American servers, OCX time zone, Asia time zone. Only USA prime time should count.

RodOfDeath.5247:

Join the alliance FA or DB instead. Be part of the resistance!

I’m into recycling dead guilds, servers and game. But who’s going to pay for it? Have someone pay for me. I’m tired of starting with a level 1 character again… YB was boring, JQ was boring, BG is boring… what’s next? FA, DB, or TC? Boring servers with same recycled guilds. Anet needs to bring back free transfers. This ridiculous price of gems or deletion of all characters to move isn’t worth it anymore.

Aphs.9528:

Join TC and collect your bags

With such large blobs, does that mean I have to pound the 1 key harder and faster to be receiving my “Kill”?

Bring back free transfers so stacking on servers can happen again and the Q’s can be back to where it belongs. 1-3 hours per day. The way it is right now, that’s the only way to even out the population…

morrolan.9608:

Cause Malevolent’s ego needed stroking again, he needed to feel relevant again.

He and whatever alliance they could come up with would’ve been irrelevant during the prime of WvW. Back then they had real alliances like “The Titan and The Ascension”. Back then they had real strong guilds. Whatever guilds remains probably don’t have their best players still in them. Unless these long lost guilds are players return, GW2 WvW is pretty much dead. Thanks to the Desert Borderlands by ANet and the match fixing attempts by recycled leftover players/guilds that isn’t coordinated to spread out players evenly, their attempts will be just another failed attempt and it’ll just be a rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat cycle…

Straegen.2938:

The “kingmakers” as they are known due to the time when they helped push of YB into T1 got “bored” and started transferring around in T1 fighting mostly against YB.

I guess they couldn’t beat the king they helped create so they moved to T2 in order to try again it seems. Problem is some of these guilds are a lot more talk than their walk and some are a bit abrasive. In addition several TC guilds didn’t want them crashing the party so they xferred over to DB.

Excellent analysis. They tried to fight against the PPT, siege humpers they created but couldn’t do it. Now they try to move into another server to try making another king. Problem is, they’ll end up ruining WvW more than the desert borderlands Anet put out.

shagwell.1349:

Most of those “salty bad guilds” are from BG.

Wrong… they are from YB.

Raven glider sounds perfectly fine if it goes to the gemstone and everyone can buy it.

Frediosz.2718:

I can’t wait for being able to sell a PVP match through somekind of exploit and the sheetstorm that will follow right after.

I should be able to buy PVP rewards who cares about others.

I’ve seen PVP leeches. So it’s already available. If you can buy PVP team to help you win, then more power to you.

Seriously people need a life. The skins only have value if people are willing to pay for it. I see nothing wrong with people paying to leech even though I have not personally leeched or offered such services.

BadMed.3846:

Kastiel.1947:

I think potentially you can have much more fun fights than in Alpine.

By the time we get to a fight…..half the map is gone anyway. What fights you on about? The NPCs in middle?

By that time, they already got thru to the que in EB.

Murksler.5261:

If they want to fix the DBL they have to scrap it. It has so many flaws in it, they can’t fix it and a new map would be faster and better.

I wouldn’t mind it, if they put it on a rotation with EOTM oder making a second EOTM with it. But it has to many flaws for real WvW.

+1 Agreed!!!!

Kastiel.1947:

Pretty much the title, after seeing the recent post by Mike. I mean the map is so gorgeous, and if people actually learned it – I think potentially you can have much more fun fights than in Alpine. But then again I think utilising environment like higher ground and all that makes for fun strategic play rather than just zergs bashing into each other . The map really does look like it was designed with gliding in mind , so I guess if that’s not happening than reducing the size would help. Please just address the issue with lowest tier servers, as well those are really a dessert population wise. Also I’m not saying ppl are vein, but rewards wise adding say, a WvW legendary backpack as a long term reward would do miracles for attracting more players .

It’s a gorgeous deserted borderland. Tried it and only look at the map and chat with people since it’s useless for anything else. It’s the worst junk ever seen. It’s a PVE map with gliding in mind but without gliding that map is completely useless. Give me my free wings? I’ll take it since I have not bought HOT yet.

Instead of changing price for commander tag, just allow someone to trade in badges and a few silver to have a temporary commander tag for that map during that instance. Sort of like renting one. 100g can be easily made.

Another option is free commander tag for WvW only purposes but will require the map’s population to vote yes when someone wants to pin-up. It’ll prevent trolls and the likes…

Phedre Scion.1520:

Please revert back to the alpine bl

This seems to be almost everyone’s request now that they saw the new bl and how disappointed they are with it.

thankitten.6307:

2. The old BLs. It’s understandable that lots of time was put into the new BLs, but the old BLs just encouraged open field fighting so much more than the new ones do.

Definitely agreed with statement.

People don’t play wvw for the siege and the arrow carts, they play it because gw2 has an amazing combat system in large scale fights. It gets people excited when they come across another group their size in open field and you know the best team omes out on top.

Not true. Ask YB how many arrow carts their blobs stand behind.

Arrow carts needs to be nerfed or removed permanently. You don’t need 10 arrow carts when you outnumbered your opponents 5 or 10 to 1. There are servers, I meant server that puts up 10 arrow carts and have a blob of 50+ fighting 20. This fighting style helps kill WvW faster than the horrible maps Anet implemented.

Enough complaints about night caps. The worst caps are work and school caps. If we are to modify the game where you can’t night cap, let’s make sure you can’t allow work and school cap time. People have to work and go to school so it’s not fair. Same analogy as night cap. EU time zone needs to be stopped!!!

Dvantaman.3617:

Why is WvW dead anyway?
I want to hear opinions of WvW pro players 24/7

I’m not a fan of WvW back then , but with the new layout of the map Im gonna try it after I finished my HoT stuff.

Anet killed WvW with new maps. Try it and you probably won’t log in to play but to get that daily chest like me.

Powwownoize.4962:

Just bring back Alpine. Test Desert BL for beta weekends. Or leave it for T1 servers.

It might of been a good concept. But it didn’t work out.

Please remember that we don’t need new WVW maps. Just need lag fixed. We come here for the fights, not the scenery.

Shouldn’t desert bl fit them lower tiers? It’s built for roaming.

Warlord.9074:

Map too big for there to be 3 of them. Layout of the map encourages groups to avoid fights by taking alternate routs to hit objectives. Too bad If his map was just smaller and the keeps and towers were not so large it wouldn’t be so bad.

the maps don’t have a big enough group for me to play in yet. i like outnumbering the opponents to show my 1 skill.

if i wasn’t already in the most dominating na server i would’ve gone to bg. we got bigger na force than bg. yb forever! … until we can no longer outnumber other servers in my time zone.

the real reasons people are upset… because mentor tags also have that apple on top of their head. commander gets nothing.

Zypher.7609:

displacedTitan.6897:

Econ 101, please sign up for it.

If only people who talked about anything economic related actually required this. Or the experience equivalent of it.

Gets rather sad to read all the armchair economist posts. I enjoy when John Smith steps in to set things straight, it is a shame he is busy. I am sure he could have a full time job just commenting on some of the absurdities that gets posted.

john smith says currently demand greater than supply. thus prices high for certain items. he’s doing his job keeping me in the poor house. you don’t want anet to print i meant programmed more gems and gold to flood the economy do you?

Selkirk.4218:

notes-i do find it odd that they nerfed dungeons (content) and the traders are having a field day. wanze said he made 500 gold in one day-one wonders why they haven’t cracked down on the traders? a transaction limit should be rather easy to implement-the outliers will stand out from normal players.

i’m not happy i’m not part of rich trading crowd. but if we stop overpaying and just go and work (aka grind) for what we need, then traders won’t have such a field day. don’t limit anything just for the sake of it. anet gets a cut from the tp of 15% if you didn’t know. it’s 5% tip for listing and 10% tip for item sold. if you remove and resell, you don’t get your 5% tip refunded. let’s not try to bankrupt anet’s bank ok?

Selkirk.4218:

what a noble fellow. his actions affect no one and he just amasses gold for the sake of it. but let’s assume not everyone is as kind and humble as wanze. what if some of the trading post flippers were gold sellers?

what if they were making tremendous amounts of money off of ridiculous trades (flax seeds) and selling that gold to a now impoverished player base. wouldn’t it make sense to get rid of the traders?

the dungeon runner who was told he is too rich has to now tolerate lectures from the tp flippers…more than a few eyes are rolling.

bad analogy. it can also be said, what if dungeon runners are gold selling bots and can make tremendous amounts of money off runs. wouldn’t it make sense to get rid of dungeon runners? this can apply to gold grinding bots off mobs.

frostybroc.5329:

Im getting back into the game. I do not have an lvl 80 yet. Outside of Revenant, am I missing anything without the expansion?

yes, you missing the most grindiest portion of the game from what i’m hearing.

this thread is coming out the wrong way and is too selfish of op. if you don’t already know it, the best customers are those who complains. they let the company knows what’s wrong before more existing customers starts disappearing and potential customers staying away. by saying everything is fine, you’re not helping out by providing any negatives for the company to address. nothing in this world is perfect. i have not purchased hot and i appreciate seeing negative along with positive criticisms. so far my view is to avoid purchasing since one of the few accessible areas for me is wvw and it really fails to even match the previous maps in the fun factor.

Prideofshadows.4106:

Why should those who have the full version of the core game have to pay ANOTHER $50 for the expansion that includes another “Core game”? It makes no sense.

i don’t think you truly know what you are getting to be complaining. look at how much you get. 9-12 hours of pve content. wasn’t this free in living story? oh no, wait, you also get a new class – aka revenant! now it’s worth that price. go and buy it and join us in this new adventure. you might enjoy the guild hall. wait, is that new? i thought it existed in guild wars 1. shouldn’t veterans of guild wars 1 get more entitlement?

I love how this new grind system works… Less reason for me to buy expansion now. I will wait for $10 sale.

Why take your hate to TP flippers? Should everything in life be purchased and account/bound? Does that mean all real life stuff, rather be cars, house, stocks, etc. be account bound too? Why allow people to resell anything then? Silly arguments requires silly responses…

Kodiak.3281:

I disagree. When we start looking at the PPK in context of the recent Kill / Death information we start to see a completely different picture on a lot of match ups. For example in Tier 1 we’d be looking at only a 5k spread between BG and JQ instead of a 11k one. That’s a lot of points and shows that while BlackGate is doing very well in terms of kills and match up performance against other servers they simply lack the coverage to keep things going.

http://wvwintel.com/#1019
(Click the down arrow in the upper left)

PPK is a joke as it stands right now. While I hate to tell you all this, but as a non lvl 80, I typically see 5-10 people coming in for the kill. Does that show the type of skill that some “un-named” guilds require a pack to be able to beat low levels or even hunt for 1 player? They aren’t truly 1 on 1. Unless you can void the kill/death rate if more than 1 person hits you, it’s pointless. But if you manage to beat multiple people, then the points counts toward kill not death. Death must not be tagged by more than 1 person. Level 80 beating uplevels shouldn’t count too. Uplevels beating level 80 needs to count. Give handicap where it’s needed.

Gideon Ravenor.5603:

I am currently on a server which is strong at prime. Often we can maintain a tick of 300+ and our enemies strugle to compete.

So if your server can maintain 300+ and enemies struggle to compete, it means your server is seriously over stacked at that time zone. So is it fair for your server to outnumber others during that time but not fair if other time zones your server suffer from lack of players? This posts comes out as, can we modified the game because it doesn’t benefit me.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Ricky.4706:

@aiden nah, we are beyond that. There IS no choice to get the core game alone.

There is no fantastic deal when you have no choice. that’s pretty simple to understand.

I have a choice… I don’t need to buy the core game again I already have it.

Me 2. I don’t need the core game already. Can we buy something that we don’t already own? I only had the game for a couple of months.

They don’t deserve my money either. I only had the game for a little over a month or two and I now need to buy the game again for $50?

It’s like saying, I’ve been using Microsoft Windows for 10+ years. I know I can trust them. Just take my money. Huh? What? Yes, I can trust that I am getting a deal because I use it for a long time.

Stop trying to defend improper business practices. It’s not going to help make this world any fairer. It’s people like you who needs to change and fight for what is right instead of protecting corporate greed.

Getefix.9150:

why not wait a decade for guild wars 3?

No need. If enough people quit, gw3 will be around the corner to replace the badly handled gw2 fiasco.

Anet already sworn by their graves that there won’t be a cheaper version of this repackaged game. It’s time for competitors to step up and offer discounts to their game and steal the player base.

Wording of the game… “Bait and switch?” Started out as expansion. Now became a full blown game…

Wait for release. This expansion changed from being an expansion to being repackaged goods that existing owners need to rebuy in order to get the missing contents.

ilMasa.2546:

nJuSt.9182:

Fukc you anet, put your marketing team at wc and flush

wildcreek?! :p

Isn’t that place in Eternal Battlegrounds? Time for Anet to flush their marketing department there.

AWACS.6537:

INB4 ‘yer entitled, staph complainering you whippersnapper spoiled rat.’

Anyways, on topic, it wouldn’t cost them anything if they gave SOMETHING to the veteran players, I mean, the only things veteran players really want are some digital ‘upgrades’ like a character slot so they don’t have to shell out more money, especially after not being able to use the ‘free’ Guild Wars 2 Core Game. If veteran players are greedy, then anet must be far worse.

+1, coming from a player who only have 1 character and got ripped off due to fake labeling HoT is an expansion that requires GW2 original is required during their sale of GW2.

Teutos.8620:

Old players already had a good time and lots of fun in the game. Is that nothing?

Would you prefer, you would not have bought the core game ages ago, not had a good time in the past year/month/weeks, so that you now might save ~10 bucks?

Don’t forget. Old players who used up all their slots will need to spend an extra $10 on top of that $50 that new players will be paying for the full HoT experience.