Guild Wars 2

revy.4320:

Do you mind providing the “4 months ago” source?

The change was made back when the new healing skills (that required unlocking in sPvP) was released.
That was in December last year, which is about 4 months ago.

Becka Williams.4978:

You continue to whiteknight. I’m going to go and figure out what to do in this game, now that I can’t farm world bosses anymore.

And you continue to try and find issues about every single thing in the game, so I suppose it evens out

Uhtameit.2413:

He was told to wait. He has waited, and now they say no. Hum, uh, how is that complicated? They screwed him big time.

Yeah.. I am sure they told him to wait FOUR MONTHS ago, before they even announced the feature patch.

Something doesn’t really add up there.

Wolfheart.1938:

@lordkrall: the reason is simple really, I didn’t play for 6 months for personal reasons, so what you had august doesn’t matter to me or to anyone that wasn’t there.

Well that is a bit unfair though.
We still got the content, even if not everyone played it. It still took time, money and resources to make after all.

Becka Williams.4978:

Yes, but they seemed to indicate that it wouldn’t come to cities, and that the roll out would be slower than anticipated. If they’re just going to open it to every map in one or 2 days, why even talk about a rollout?

Because if they didn’t people would claim that they lied if not every single map in the game got added to the MegaServers at once.

Uhtameit.2413:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Why-are-refunds-being-denied/first#post3910095

If he was told that, it is rather clear that he decided on a refund on a much later date than those 4 months ago when the stance clearly changed.

They said they would add it to low-pop areas, and that is exactly what they have done now. So I really don’t see what the issue is.

Someone seems to forget to mention the fact that the vast majority of those things were added with a new box purchase, which was basically a new game (they were all stand-alone after all). Or the fact that quite many of those skills were simply duplicates of already existing skills, rather than actual new skills.

You have also missed the fact that we got new content every second week for most of that time as well. But I suppose that doesn’t count for some reason.

Pyriall.1683:

The only recent change to this statement was the change to heals.

Ah yes, my bad. It was only 4 months ago.
So why didn’t you request a refund back then?
Did you have all 30 character slots back then or did you buy some of them later?

Becka Williams.4978:

How do you know it works flawlessly?

I have never claimed that it does.
But you seems to be demanding that they do nothing at all to change their plans if things actually work as they should.

We have known since they announced MegaServers that they would be adding more and more maps until all maps were added. They said nothing about the speed of it nor did they specifically state which maps they would start with.

But they had changed that statement as far back as 6 months ago. So why shout about a refund now and not 6 months ago when the change actually happened?

Had you bought all of your 30 character slots before that time?

Pyriall.1683:

I certainly am entitled to one. They explicitly published, as the impetus for me purchasing those slots, that there would be no change to the way you earn traits. I wouldn’t have bought those otherwise.

No they didn’t.

If you buy a car and suddenly there is a new cooler car being released 6 months later you are not entitled to a refund for your “old” car.

Pyriall.1683:

I was told then to wait until after the this expansion…

Oh, so now you suddenly did ask for a refund six months ago?

Indeed, you didn’t.
But they did make it rather clear back then that there WOULD be unlocks in sPvP, which should have made you consider asking for a refund back then, not now, when it is no longer new information.

Pyriall.1683:

I didn’t buy those slots with the intention of having to keep unlocking things. I bought it under the advertised premise I previously posted.

And yet you waited about 6 months after they changed that stance before demanding a refund?
Doesn’t really hold in my eyes.

Becka Williams.4978:

I like how Anet said that it would be coming to cities, then to low population maps, then just heart of the mists, then it would be slower than they had announced, then within 12 hours, it’s progressing nicely, and they’ve turned it on in 4 of the 5 major cities, and 1/3 of the total maps. Can we ever get a straight answer?

Yes how dare they make progress?
They should of course stay in one zone for several weeks even if it works flawlessly!

Chase.8415:

I see, the actual Looking ahead of 2013 does specifically state it would all be unlocked.

Well if there’s anything we learned with ArenaNet, take their word with a grain of salt. Not only have they gone against their manifesto but they went against an article just a few months ago….

Yeah, and after that they said multiple times that it would be unlocks.
But I suppose we should only take some of their statements into consideration?

Chilli.2976:

Have you seen the rank 60 shark and rank 70 phoenix emotes? They are 200% better in design and animation.

That is of course a matter of opinion.

You complete them by having them set as active (one at a time) and completing sPvP matches.

You unlock the Dungeon ones (permanently) by completing story mode of said dungeon, and the area ones by completing already unlocked area ones.

Chase.8415:

So basically the e-mail response you got back was, every new trait and ability will be unlocked in PvP.

Either they made a mistake on an upcoming change and said something they weren’t supposed to or that agent was not clear on how the traits worked in PvP.

I am assuming that part of the post was information he heard earlier (as in several months ago, which has since been changed, but he seems to ignore that).

Wouldn’t really make sense if that was the case.
Seeing as Ranks and other PvP rewards are account-bound.

Morsus.5106:

So if I run Sorrow’s Embrace, Arah, Citadel of Flame, whatever, story today will I have it unlocked forever or will I have to unlock it again?

Forever, as far as we know.

Yep, you need to do Story Mode again after the patch to unlock them. Which was confirmed before the patch was released.

Pautik.9751:

Why did you cap this? Maybe I don’t have people to play arena with and to far of a noob for playing solo arena… Did this say anywhere? I’ve played several custom matches now, with diff chars, because I thought it was a bug or something…

The fact that he said that it will ALWAYS give progress would suggest that the “cap” is a bug.

Abban.5076:

I thought the whole point of the Megaserver was to group up more people to play with on a given map. I see that some of you above are talking about too many people and while that may be the case for you. I am experiencing the opposite. I have been to several different maps today (after the update) and it has been about the same… very few people. Maybe everyone is WVWing or something but I am just not seeing much of a difference in PVE population increase.

The mega-server change haven’t happened on most maps yet.

DargorV.8571:

Yes, how dare he expect a team thats been failing since day 1 to achieve properly.

You need to learn respect and stop expecting them to follow their deadlines. This is how the gw2 community has been holding it together so far, by expecting second rate service, just look at the patch notes..

Hm?
So you have information confirming that the patch will not be released within the next 9 hours then? Because if it is released before that, they have met the deadline. Just like with every single other patch since release.

They have given us a date. 15th April.
They still have about 10 hours left of 15th April.

Charak.9761:

Tying gold to spvp equipment/traits means this game became pay-to-win

It is funny how people never shouted Pay to win about GW1, where you could outright buy every single skill in the game (available in PvP) with real money in order to bypass the grind to unlock them.

Tibi.5892:

this is about a given word, a promise to the whole public not to the guys in their county! so stop labeling and attacking ppl and try to learn some respect.

You are aware that it would be more or less impossible to have something released on the right day in the whole world, right?

You can’t. The cost is based on some sort of algorithm that takes the amount of gems available vs the amount of gold available (in the “bank”) into consideration.

Haven’t people been complaining about how the PvP in GW1 was superior in every way to GW2?

And yet now when they are basically adding part of what was in GW1 PvP (paying currency to unlock skills/item) it is the worst decision ever?
There is no pleasing some people.

Nope, you can’t replay earlier chapters of the Living Story.

You can read up on it here though: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_summary/Season_1

MMORPG.com just keeps getting better and better, aye? ^^

Darkobra.6439:

They say a lot of things that usually fall short of expectations.

They have however NEVER missed a patch-day.

Flytrap.8075:

Take a look at ANet’s track record and get back to me.

I don’t feel like getting infracted for speaking the truth.

Oh, you mean those: “We will release new content every two weeks” (which they did until they informed us otherwise)?

Raven Bloodshield.5472:

10g… why is there even a cost? don’t get it

13×10g for all amulets and this is only for amulets, sigils?

Because we are earning gold in sPvP, and as such sPvP also needs things that takes away gold.

Flytrap.8075:

I find that extremely unlikely.

Why?

Oh, this was that interview that they hyped up last week as being something “big”, but simply turns out it is just a repeat of what was already known (except the borders for item for some people, it seems).

I suppose MMORPG is in need of views or something.

Have you checked your junk-post folder?

WvW:ers have been asking for ways to get more Ascended materials since said materials were implemented. We do get rather few of those mats naturally after all.

Patch time is based around their time, not Australian time.

Not everything found in the dat will be implemented into the live game.

It haven’t been implemented because it is not really something that most people would care about, and thus they won’t really put any resources into it.

HotRatchet.5072:

nope.. no response for ticket2 after they said on ticket1 that they will not give me any further support. so FYI CUSTOMER SUPPORT. Ticket#2 is an entirely different concern. And right now, I’d love to get a refund for the Key that I used stated on ticket2. Or I will just tell my CC company to cancel the purchase because I did not get any service for it.

Which will get your new account suspended as well, if you used that card to buy the new key.

lazarus.1639:

Does that mean that they will start with LA in ruins, and every time they go to the instanced personal story version of LA, it will be back to normal?
Same for our new characters, but without any living story to (barely) explain what the kitten is going on?

LA is not back to normal in the personal story version of the map currently.

As for LA starting in ruins, that is most likely the case. Just as how the Dragonbrand already existed when we started playing and so on.
Scarlet and her attacks are simply part of the history of Tyria for them.

Deniara Devious.3948:

And you actually can pve. Edge of the Mists is open.

There. I corrected it for you. Sadly EotM is a pve map, which has spvp-alike looks and was sold to us a WvWvW map, which it isn’t.

Nope, Edge of the Mists is very much a WvW map.
Notice how there are two other player controlled enemy factions in that map?

GreenAlien.5623:

It’s not about doing the salvage achievement in wvw, its about making wvw achievements work like the salvage one.

I know that, but why should we have access to easy repeatable APs when the PvE:ers don’t?

Sure they have the dungeon and activity ones, but that requires them to do specific stuff. Everything that could be used for repeatable WvW achievements is something that would be done more or less automatically from just doing WvW.

Yep, one of you needs to transfer to a world in the other region.
You can transfer for free if you delete all your characters, but that might not be the best course.

What is stopping you from doing the salvage achievement in WvW though?
I get way more salvageable stuff in WvW than I usually get in PvE.

The lockout timer have nothing at all to do with stacking on the most populated server.

It is there so you can’t just jump around between servers all the time without issues.

As far as I remember they actually talked about these kinds of punishments before release, when they talked about server transfers. So it is not really something new.

And you actually can WvW. Edge of the Mists is open.