Guild Wars 2

ViRuE.3612:

Oh yeh, I’m sure it will take a long time to expand on the WvWvW specifics mentioned in the blog… oh no wait, my mistake it won’t take more than a sentence will it?

In fact for WvWvW the entire feature patch can be summarized in one sentence. “Nothing to see here”.

Not even sure why you mentioned WvWvW at all in the blog posts because you have nothing to say on it – except that (for the moment) you don’t plan on getting rid of WvWvW homeworlds.

Pointless waste of time and bandwidth. Not even sure why you bothered to post in the WvWvW forums.

I might of course have misread something, but I am very sure that we will get a change that people have been asking for since release. So claiming “nothing to see here.” is complete BS.

And just because they didn’t post specifics in the latest blog-post doesn’t mean they won’t tell us more in a live-stream.

They only told us about a few new Traits in the blog-post but showed all the new ones on the live-stream after all.

phys.7689:

no not really, most WvW guilds expect you to be there and participating at the allotted time, many may kick you if your ignoring that time frame to do other things in game. Which does make a kind of sense, because they need people there to actually matter in WvW.

Its a conflict of interest.

But why would you be interested in Tequatl in the first place if you were in such a hardcore WvW-guild?

How is the guild chat from a potentially all-in-one guild any different from the current guild chat though?

It is already fully possible to use guild chat (or whisper, or party chat) to talk across servers, how will mega-servers suddenly make it worse?

Kasteros.9847:

Question: What about players that can’t participate in any Tequall event etc.? due to sleep time, job or even WvW raids. For example Tequatll appear at 6 am.(standing up to get into work), 3:30 pm(still in work), 9 pm(raiding @ WvW). So tell my how to the hell i can make any Tequatll? And don’t answer like: u have sunday or satuday, cos i’m off at weekends for whole days.

ps. Those are hours in my country’s time zone(UTC + 2)

Well if you really want to do Tequatl it if fully possible to not have WvW raids every single day at that exact time, is it not?

Flytrap.8075:

What could you possibly have to talk about?

The blog post was barren.

Which would mean they probably have quite a bit to talk about, seeing as they have not really said anything about it yet

I was born in 1988.
When that happened I had missed both world wars, and the majority of the cold war. That is very unfair, I should be compensated?

For them it will basically be exactly like it was for us when we started playing the game.
There was stuff that happened before we turned up, that is now part of the history of the world. I never got the see the Rise of Orr, nor did I get to see the forming of Destiny’s Edge.

Enzo.3906:

For example, NA/EU would really like to see Cantha, but China (Kongzhong) would be very much against that, which could lead to scrapping that entire project.

You mean the project that, as far as we know, doesn’t even exist?

Ah yes, how dare they implement stuff people have been shouting about since release?
The fact that they are implementing stuff to make it closer to GW1 (mega-server) should make you happy.

But I suppose people will always complain, no matter what.

The Meat Wagon.7194:

You are assuming that most maps had overflows, which isn’t true.

No I am not.

But the fact remains, a system that takes server, guild and friends into account WILL make it more likely that you will be able to play with server, guild and friends, in those cases where there were overflows (which was more or less the norm for most (if not all) servers during large Living Story fights).

Becka Williams.4978:

So, to sum: In some zones where the system doesn’t matter, we’ll get to play with people from our server. In overflow maps, which most servers don’t have now, we won’t get to play with people from our own server. So it seems to me there’s a net loss of playing with people from our own server.

What are you talking about?

First of all, there won’t be any overflow maps anymore. Secondly the replacement for the current map system will take server, guild and friends into consideration, while the old overflows did not, and thus we will get to play with more of our servermates, guildies and friends than before.

The Meat Wagon.7194:

It doesn’t get me playing with people from my server more like the anet rep said.

So you are basically claiming they are lying unless they force people to play on those maps?

What the rep clearly talked about was maps with overflows, where you currently end up in a completely random one, but with the new system you end up in a map with server-mates, guildies and friends.

The Meat Wagon.7194:

I’m talking about the emptier maps that don’t have overflows.

Which most likely still will be empty enough to not split up your server.
So not really an issue.

The Meat Wagon.7194:

How? This seems like it adds people to my map from other servers but not my own. If people from my server were not in the map before, why would they be there now?

Because before they might have been forced into overflows, that took no consideration of home-server/guild/friends/whatever.
The new system takes all that into account, and thus it is much more likely that you will play with more of your server than before.

eisberg.2379:

Is it actually going to be for sale in China, and not a Free to Play game with micro transactions? For some reason I thought MMOs are never sold in China, rather they have given for free.

Yep, they will sell the game in China, which is basically historical ^^

Stooperdale.3560:

Do we know if the Living Story will be at the same stage as the existing servers or will the Asian servers be starting from scratch with the karka?

They will be at the same stage as us, so when we get the next Living Story update, they will get the same.

They are not getting rid of servers.
You will still have a home-server and you will still be mainly with those people on that server.

And to be fair, more or less the only reason to transfer is for WvW or for changing region, none of which are directly effected by these new servers (as far as we know).

New skills is most likely counted as content rather than features.

And no, they have never said that there will be no features until after a LS arc.
They have said that they will be seperated. Which basically means that week 2, 4, 6 might be LS and then week 8 Feature and 10 LS again.

Since they will no longer have any real use after the update on the 15th it is fully possible that they are permanently removed.

Cactus Brawler.7415:

I’d also like to know if people who paid for a transfer are getting a refund, I mean mega kitten move on Anets side to keep selling server transfers when they are doing away with servers.

To be fair the only real reason to transfer would be fore either WvW or for going to another region.
None which will be directly effected by these changes.

Asmodeus.5782:

Well, this is a discussion about PvE, is it not?

Ah, I must have done dungeons all wrong then.
Or the larger-scaled living story updates for that matter.

Asmodeus.5782:

Well, then they should make this game interesting as a multiplayer experience. Currently group play is synonymous with ‘spam 1 and fight your seizures until the loot drops’. Solo/duo roaming, on the other hand, lets you plan your skills, dodge, you know, utilize the mechanics.

I keep wondering about this.
People are always claiming that everything is spam 1, but I have played more or less daily since headstart and I have yet to find a situation that forces me to spam 1.

But I suppose that might have to do with the fact that I mostly do WvW.

Yenrah.8532:

The fact that it is an mmo should not be a reason to punish the players who prefer playing alone. Till now there always was a choice of server or less popular map. I don’t see why should it be removed completely.

Maybe not.
But the fact that it is an mmo means that they won’t cater the game around people that want to play a single-player game.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Except the primary benefit of this new system, which is Anet saves a lot of money by spawning fewer map instances. This is almost certainly the true reason behind all this. The rest is just spin.

The probably also earn less money with this change, seeing as it will be more or less unnecessary to transfer to a fuller server.

But I suppose that line of thought doesn’t works so well with the whole “ArenaNet is evil moneygrabbing baddies”.

Becka Williams.4978:

I think coming on and saying “yeah, we’ll be addressing your concerns later.” is kind of…not helpful.

Yeah, and if they had said nothing people would complain about them saying nothing.

Mystic.5934:

it is worth some. I looked it over a few weeks ago and decided a fair price would be around 300 gems, with 500 gems being the highest I would ever pay for it.

So a price that is lower than even one of the parts of it?
Sure the price should be lower than buying the items on their own. But when the price is lower than buying ONE of the items in it something would be very wrong ^^

Becka Williams.4978:

Why wait two days, post the blogs now? What’s the point of coming here and saying “Oh, your concerns will be addressed soon. We’re not going to post the blogs now. But soon.” What is it with anet and their fear of “spoilers”?

Because it is easier to take feedback and give correct information when releasing less information?

If they had released 3 days worth of blogs right now, people would most likely miss quite a bit of the information, and then whine about missing said information.

Natronix.9827:

Doesn’t have anything to do with wvw it seems

I disagree:

What about World Bosses, Guilds, and WvW?

Later this week, we’ll be discussing how our transition to the megaserver system will affect the timing of world bosses and some changes we’re making to support this. We’ll also be discussing the long-term plan for guilds and WvW in relation to our megaserver system, so check back each day this week for more information!

From the bottom of article.

Elbegast.6970:

It’s too late for answers, Colin. I’m done with this game. As soon as I saw the word ‘Megaserver’ I knew my time in GW2 was over. If I can’t play on the realm I chose, I don’t want to play at all.

To be fair you have been “done with this game” about 5 times since release, and yet you are still here. So clearly people won’t take your “threats” seriously.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It seems to me that server mergers + underflow servers would have been an easy and better solution without nearly so many issues. My guess is that the Execs and Marketing guys wouldn’t ok mergers since it sends a bad message, so we get this instead.

I guess we will have to wait and see what the next two days of details are, but this seems like an overly complicated way of just merging servers.

I would say that server merges would be a rather bad idea. Seeing as it would screw up WvW quite a bit. Especially in the middle of a season.

In order for server merges to work they need to remove servers in clusters of 3, which complicates things quite a bit.

EverythingXen.1835:

Anet brought some this on themselves by stretching the kitten announcement for days rather than providing their customers all the information at once.

Oh, we would have just as much whining even if we had gotten all of them on the same day.

Urxx.6840:

And I can’t help but finding it really desperate, with the shameless feature name and idea stealing from Zenimax and all.

Ah yes, because games released years before ESO was even announced didn’t have those features and that very name.
Oh wait..

I wonder if we will ever see an announcement about anything that will not involve people shouting about how much it will suck.

Funnily enough we see people that have earlier demanded something like this, now whining about it being implemented.

Elbegast.6970: So.. this is the fifth (?) time they have added something to the game that will make you quit, and yet here you still are shouting about quitting due to yet another of those changes?

You won’t be queued.

Based on the blog post they will be ranking maps based on certain stuff, so if your number 1 is full they will simply put you in number 2.

I seem to recall people complaining about how the Orr chapters of the personal story was bad because they were darkish.
So might be hard for ArenaNet to know who they should listen to.

Apparently there were some lore-documents switching hands yesterday about a certain mysterious religious sect.

Might be related, might not be.

https://twitter.com/John_J_Ryan/status/451126231413428224

Vissarion.6509:

They just HAD to open SAB again. no updates just let us get into SAB W1+W2 !!

Yeah, and if they did people would whine about them just releasing the same stuff again.

The ToS is in effect in Guild Chats as well, not just public chats.
If you are afraid to talk in the game, it might be time to rethink how you talk and behave with other people.

Sadly Zhaitan does not get a bobble-head. Did it earlier today for this very reason.

The giants and Mouth looks very funny though ^^

Blackarps.1974:

Those aren’t “breaks” because they are still working on the next batch of content. Its always been bi-monthly updates.

They are breaks from releases though, which they have clearly stated several times.

Usually we have bi-weekly (not monthly) releases. Now we have no specified time for releases other than the Feature Pack. We have no information about when the next update will come after that, nor if there will be any update before that.

Blackarps.1974:

I guess they are skipping this week and just putting all effort into the feature update on the 15th. Kind of weird since last I heard they have 4 living story teams.

They are not skipping anything.
They are taking a break. Which they told us several MONTHS ago that they would do.

Living Story Season 1 Finale —-- Break —-- Feature Patch —-- Break —-- Living Story Season 2.

Iason Evan.3806:

THe whole reason they said they were releasing the feature patch on the 15th is because I thought SAB was coming and they didn’t want to talk about it so they highlighted the feature patch instead. If SAB sin’t coming we should be getting the feature patch today instead. A month without a patch in a game that doesn’t release new permanent content is a bummer. Not the end of the world or terrible or anything, but when you set a two week cadence, keep a two week cadence.

No, the whole reason they said they are releasing the feature patch on the 15th is because it is ready on the 15th.

I remember back in the days when you had to pay monthly for games that gave you new releases once every third month or something if you were lucky.

They made it VERY clear last year that there would be four Living Story updates, then a break, then the Feature patch, then another break and then Season 2 of Living Story.
I really don’t see why people keep ignoring this information.

It is quite funny that people are expecting SAB to return because it was Aprils Fools thing last year. I mean, wouldn’t people just whine like mad if all they did was release the same joke again this year?

They made it very clear (as in stating it multiple times) that there would be a break in updates after Living Story Season 1. Followed by a Feature Patch (coming on the 15th) and then another break before Season 2 of Living Story starts.

methozbbf.1928:

It’s too little .. just the head, nothing more? Disappointment …

Seeing as they could have simply not released anything at all and never said anything about releasing anything I really don’t get how you can get disappointed.

Aye, really nice mask. Gives my Charr a rather demonic look.

Raine.1394:

Could you imagine if the energy and effort this required was put into making the game better?

Ah yes, changing basically a couple variable (most likely, I haven’t seen the code, so I wouldn’t know), takes sooooo much time and effort.

How dare they do something other than working 24/7 on superdeadlyserious stuff!

methozbbf.1928:

So only bigheads at 1st April?? A big disappointment :-(
SUPER ADVENTURE BOX or so is better…

Yeah and if they had added SAB people would have complained about how they just used the same joke as last year

Can’t please everyone.

Some admins on reddit are making an April Fools joke.

Simon.3794:

im expecting sab too, but its only 1 day left and no announcement

They never announce their April Fools releases.

ronpierce.2760:

Almost thought I could be a bird.

Also, this is why we haven’t had a balance change in so long. Too busy with April fools she-nay-nays.

Yeah.. except the fact that this is not a joke from ArenaNet, but rather from a player?

There might be.