Guild Wars 2

So because of the fact that they revamped Fractals and added Ascended Armor (which had been known for a YEAR before it actually came btw) you can no longer enjoy the content you enjoyed before?

Are you sure you really enjoyed the content before then? Because none of that content have been changed in the slightest with any of those releases (unless you only wanted to do fractals, but they haven’t really seen much change either (other than adding some extra challenge)).

As long as you keep earning gold in WvW (and yes you do, no matter how much you try to deny it) there NEED to be gold-sinks.

Not at this time.
They have stated that they are working on it, but for now it is not possible.

You can read up on it on this page though: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_Story_Summary

Astralporing.1957:

You can’t play MMO game without players, and an etiquette of a “dead game” is enough to empty any MMO very fast.

Superior to what? I bet that if Anet stopped supporting GW2, it would empty much faster than GW1 did.

Good thing GW1 never was an MMO then, aye?
And the fact that you can do almost everything in the game without other people? Especially since they added the 7-hero parties back in 2011.

Superior to GW2 according to the people here complaining about how much GW2 sucks. And if it indeed was so superior, why can’t they play it if it is not updated?

Based on the amount of those type of comments here, you would be able to get more then enough people to do everything in GW1.

An Oak Knob.1275:

Because in the lore there was some big race guilds that faught the other race guilds (Ascalonian human empire vs Supressed Charr race)

But in reality it’s named Guild wars 2 for solely marketing, because putting a 2 on already existing game title attracts that games already present playerbase aswell as new costumers.

If you are going to be silly at least make sure you know what you are talking about.
The Guild Wars had nothing at all to do with the Charr.

Of course they are a competition. Every single game is a competitor. But they are not a DIRECT competitor, due to the difference in payment model.

People tend to stay with one of the P2P MMOs at a time, due to not having money enough to pay for more than one.

With a B2P however you don’t need to pay a single $ after you bought it, and thus you can play a P2P on top of that, without having to worry about it.

None of those games will however be direct competitors to GW2, seeing as everyone of them require a subscription.

And I am quite sure that they have way more eyes and ears out checking out any other MMO being released than most people here does. It is after all their line of business so it is highly unlikely that they wouldn’t keep informed about it.

Lord Kuru.3685:

This.

So GW1 wasn’t actually good enough to stand on its own then, and lost the appeal when they no longer developed new stuff for it?
Wouldn’t that suggest that the game wasn’t as superior as people want to suggest?
I mean, I can still play games that haven’t seen development for 10 years without much trouble, but apparently you guys, who want GW2 to be GW1 was better graphics, can’t play GW1 due to it not having active development.

milo.6942:

with the name

So Dune 2 is a adventure game then? I was always under the impression that it was an RTS, but then again, I haven’t played it for about 6 months.

Or what about World of Warcraft? I am rather sure that is not an RTS, but with your logic it should have been, due to the name.

Same, Sweden here and no issues, so it does indeed sound like the issue lies not with the game but rather with your location/connection.

Of course it is a different game, no one is denying that. Which is also why this thread does have its merits.
If you don’t like this game, you can go back and play GW1, simple as that.
And if you complain about it not receiving any more updates, then maybe GW1 wasn’t as awesome of a game as you try to claim (since you apparently can’t play it without new updates)?

Which is basically an upgrade of the earlier game, but with new and better technology and bigger appeal to a wider playerbase.

Or are you really going to suggest that said upgrade you assumed it would be would have been an identical game to GW1 but with nicer graphics?

milo.6942:

Because gw2 was supposed to be an upgrade, not a new game entirely of questionable merit.

And it is an upgrade.
But maybe not an upgrade in the way you wanted it to be.

What would be the point in spending a massive amount of money to create a game they have already created but with nicer graphics?

Nick.6972:

Because they promised GW2 would take everything we loved about GW1 and use in GW2?

Which is all very personal, and anyone that thought that they would take the whole GW1 and put it in GW2 is just being silly. Because that is what would have been required for them to take everything everyone loved in GW1. Since there is most likely not a single thing in GW1 that no one loved.

So you are going to suggest that enough italian people will suddenly start playing (and constantly buying gems) the game to pay for a full-time translator?

The cost for might it not be superhigh, but they would still need to hire at least one full-time translator for every new language supported, seeing as there are new things that needs translating with EVERY SINGLE RELEASE. Which means there is constantly new translation work having to be done. And hiring someone full-time DOES cost money.

It will most likely still cost more than they would earn from it, thus it is a bad addition, from a business point of view.

As of right now there seems to be no plan to stop with the Living Story updates.
We do know that there is only 4 releases left of Living Story Season 1 though, after which there will be a feature only release. But nothing implies that they won’t start Season 2 after that feature only release.

Rolyate.6753:

As it stands though PvE is very trivial in that the hardest boss encounters can be killed by a single player in a game that is supposed to promote team work. How? Through being able to dodge every, very obviously, telegraphed skill.

I just think it would promote a much more interesting level of depth to the game.

Oh?
I would love to see a video of a single player killing Tequatl tbh.
Or Jormag, or the Shatterer.

Arganthium.5638:

It’s possible, ANet just supposedly doesn’t have the “resources”.

I would love to see a single game that have 100% balance while still having more than 1 class/weapon/skillset.

Because the nick (I assume you are talking about the tag) is 4 letters maximum, and there is a limited number of versions.

Why does it even matter though?
Your guild is still your guild. And the fact that as many as 4 guilds have the same tag, might suggest that it was not so unique as you would think, and it is very possible that it was already used by other guilds before you used it as well.

Rolyate.6753:

To be honest, I’m surprised at the replies. I thought more challenging content was a good thing. As it stands I find PvE to be so trivial.

Are you somehow forced to use Vigor when you play?

Nuzt.7894:

I completely Disagree Krall, I to play a Warrior and there is NEVER a need for CC to last longer than a second or two, as I said above it should be used tactically to gain and edge in battle, it should not determine the battle. I know its a hard concept but players would actually have to think about when and where to use the CC rather than just smashing their faces on keyboards. Lets stop trying to water down MMO’s and bring some skill back to gaming.

And as I stated, most CC already have just a second or two duration, and thus, adding DR on them would make them completely useless almost at once.

The main issue with DR on CC is that most CC in this game already have very short duration. Adding DR on top of that would make people more or less totally immune to said CCs after just one or two hits.

There is more than enough ways to avoid/remove the CC, no need to make it useless.

Oh, I would love to see how you figured out that rate.

Ah yes, because in GW1 people didn’t find other sorts of currencies (like Armbracer, Ectos and so on) for high value trades…

I would actually say that in general, the expensive things in GW1 was more expensive (relatively) than GW2.

Indeed, avoiding the stuns from the hammer-train is already quite easy, so don’t really see why they would need to do anything about it. Just use the hammer-trains weakness to your advantage.

Not on your own.
You can however do it if you join a friend of said other races and doing their personal story.

If you want to make things more challenging, why not just not use Vigor?

Unless something is built around everyone having identical class, skills, and stats it can never be fully balanced.

That said, the balance in GW2 is actually quite good all things considered.

And if they didn’t have the gold sinks it would still be impossible to get something nice without farming anyway, seeing as everything would be more expensive due to the higher amount of gold in-game.

I love all these complaint about her being “introduced into the living story rather abruptly and for no reason”, simply because that is complete bullkitten.

We had hints MONTHS before she turned up that she existed, basically since the very start of the Living Story.
It was not something thrown in just with the QJ release, it was something hinted about in more or less every single release before that.

Sounds like someone is having a hard time with the Wintersday JP.

It is also a rather silly complaint seeing as the JP is just a very tiny part of Wintersday, while the vast majority of the release (and all releases for that matter) is not JPs.

Some people clearly like JPs, so let them have their fun. The game is not created specifically for you after all.

A complete wipe of the computer would be a good idea as well, seeing as you didn’t find anything with the scanner, but they clearly got your information from somewhere which would suggest a keylogger or something like that.

The armor itself must be lvl 39+ as well in order to take lvl 39 runes.

No.
Giving playable races specific advantages is something that should never be added to the game.
For the same reason as ArenaNet stated before release: No class should be forced to play a specific race in order to be efficient.

Jaymee.1560:

Now, for an innocent question, I graciously note that mostly the men here are claiming that I’m “whining”…* scratches head *

It’s an innocent question, one I am laughing about. Okay, some of you gals don’t care what gender the game population thinks you are. Okay, cool…

Thank you to those who answered the question without any kind of opinionated disdain.

To those of you who are answer the question with a large amount of prejudice… I love you guys, you make me laugh… your input on the subject is less than insightful, not quite intelligent and anything but friendly. Thanks for making me laugh even harder. Some of you are shaking your heads, you say? yeah well, so am I…

And yet once again you do exactly what you complain about others doing.

You have no clue about who are male or female in this discussion, other than those that have stated such, and yet here you are claiming that people are male without knowing it.

Jaymee.1560:

Uhhh… yeah… because lemme tell ya, should the situation be reversed, how many times does someone have to call you a girl before you feel the need to step up to that plate? lmao….

(Oh, and btw, that was an A-Class, 100% typical male comment you gave there… pat pat)

I wouldn’t care, unless they would treat me different because of it. But since this clearly doesn’t seem to be the case here, I really don’t see the issue.

And the last part is quite funny, seeing as you don’t really have a clue about if I am a man or not, so you are basically doing exactly what you are whinging about others doing.

And threads like this is the reason many people have issues with “girl-gamers”.

Does it really matter? I was under the impression that girls wanted to be treated no different from guys when playing. But apparently it is important enough that you are a girl to warrant creating a thread about it?

Max is MUCH higher than +10-
There is currently +15 infusions available in the database (and that means someone have actually made it) and they have stated that it will be possible to get a very high number.

You need 70 AR to do lvl 50 Fractal with as little Agony damage as possible.
With two infused rings you can get 40 AR (+15 infusions and the +5 from the regular slots) and then with an infused backitem you can get another 20, which put you up to 60 AR.
And then you have the 10 AR from the Accessories and another 5 AR from the Amulet, which put you at a total of 75 AR.

And how many of those games does have new updates needing translation every two weeks?
Or more or less everything with voice-over (and yes, if they are to translate it, it is highly unlikely they would not give voice-overs for the new languages, seeing as it is a rather major part of the game.)

And you are ignoring my post.
You don’t need to have a single piece of Ascended armor in order to do lvl 50 Fractals, seeing as you can get more than enough AR from simply upgrading the infusions in your rings.
And since you claim to love fractals you shouldn’t have much issues getting more then enough infusions to upgrade them quite high without having to spend more gold than you earn.

You are not forced to do it.
Technically you don’t even need one ascended weapon to get enough AR in order to do the highest level Fractal, due to the infused rings having very high AR limit.

Another thing that basically kills your argument is the fact that there is basically no new content at higher levels, it is more or less the same content as seen during lvl 1 (or 10 if you want to count agony as content) and thus, you don’t need any AR at all in order to experience all content in the game.

You also have to keep in mind that AR is more or less the only end-game progression, and only needed for a very specific part of the game, and if you don’t want the progression, then maybe said specific content is not for you?

Well there is the dev tracker that works more or less the same way, but shows all threads rather than just posts in a specific one. But quite easy to find posts in there.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/devtracker

You can attack more than the enemy can dodge. If the enemy can avoid every single of your attacks I think the issue might lie with you rather than the enemies ability to dodge.

Even if fans would translate it, ArenaNet would still need to hire someone with understanding of Italian to proof-read the whole thing.
There is also the whole matter with new information needing translation every two weeks and if they were going to be live as soon as the rest of the languages, they would need to send out the information long before each release, which wouldn’t really work if it was done by fans.

It will cost a rather huge amount of money, regardless who does the actual translation.
And if they do it for Italian, then they should also do it for every other language of the playerbase and that would require a massive amount of time and money with way too little payout.

250k total kills is required for the highest tier of the Achievement.

Ah, hunting some Dei might be interesting!

Threads about hacking have been removed since release of the game, and it is also stated quite clearly in the rules that such threads are not allowed, which is also stated in the message sent out about deletion of the thread.

EDIT: Seems like the thread about Title is (or will be) unlocked, so all the complains would seem moot.

It might be growing, but it is still only a single country and not a very wide-spread language.

As such it is quite unlikely that they could justify spending the money for said translation.

Aeonblade.8709:

How is talking about WvW titles in the WvW forum not a discussion on the topic of WvW? I…don’t…what?!

But it was nothing about talking about titles.
It was only about making a list about players having achieved a certain achievement, and thus didn’t really bring any kind of discussion value in itself.