Guild Wars 2

So what you basically want is a world that remains exactly the same from day one until the servers go down?

It is fully possible to do Kessex Hills on a low-level guy.
Just don’t stand around just outside the tower where the super-toxic is.
And just so you know said super-toxic also kills lvl 80 characters, since it is not removable other than by moving away from the area.

Yeah, the issue with adding something special for people that managed to get to lvl 50 or higher is the fact that people didn’t know about it until it was too late.
If it had been available in plain sight for everyone more people might have worked on Fractals to get that far, but now they miss out simply because it wasn’t available until it was over.

Technically for all we know it can be out of their hands, since it is basically just a web-browser they are using for the store, so it might simply be the fact that the issue lies with that one rather than the game.

haviz.1340:

Could you perhaps explain why reset to 30 instead of 31? Instabilities start at scale 31.

Most likely due to the fact that they want an even number.
A better question would be why the Instabilities doesn’t start at lvl 30.

Sir Morgan Malory.2069:

I heard somewhere that fractals progress is being reset. If your under 30 back to 0. If your over 30 back to 30.

That is somewhat incorrect.
If you are over lvl 30 you will get lowered to lvl 30 due to the new Instabilities.
If you are lower than lvl 30 nothing will happen.

WvW levels will most likely not become account-bound, seeing as they are more or less the only progression available in WvW and people also want to spec different characters for different things.
Map completion wouldn’t really work either, since that would mean people would only ever be able to make two legendaries across all characters.

Oh, I would love to see those release notes, mind sharing?

Frenk the Vile.2596:

I hope they’ll announce an expansion soon…or the 2014 will be last year of GW2 for me (TESO*Wildst.cough cough)

And what makes you think they really care about people jumping onto new MMOs as soon as they are release just to leave when the next cool thing is released?

There are data-mined stuff suggesting that they are (or at least have plans) adding an item like this in the gem-store, which would increase the collectible stack limits.

Shiren.9532:

Optimism.

Just killing a character off is usually a rather bad way of get rid of them. Especially if they are hated.

^ And then we would suddenly have a hard gear-check in the game instead of a soft one.
It IS fully possible to do stuff with higher Agony rating if you are good at avoiding damage since most of it is avoidable.

Hm?
There is still loads of lvl 10 runs going on, and those don’t really need any AR, so I don’t think it will be much of an issue.

Underdark.3726:

yes, she said she would sponsor one research, and he said he would sponsor the other. Meaning that there ARE two different researches going on, one that got the money to go on the other didn’t not got the money. But that does not mean that the one that did not got the money stop the research itself.

They would sponsor if they won.
If they didn’t, there would be no research. Simple as that.

They are not wiped.
No AR will get lost.

No.
People can communicate without using in-game chat.

Underdark.3726:

Ellen said that she’ll support an important FotM research, the same said Evon. That, imo, means that there are two researches going on, and that the Abaddon one only have less founds and the research is going slower but eventually will get to an end and the fractal will be released.

No, she said she would sponsor it if she WON, exactly the same as Evon.
Since Evon didn’t won, he won’t spend any money on it.

So what does the sub in other games pay for then?
Isn’t one of their main justifications for having subs that it is paying for future development of the game?

Nor is it so easy to translate millions of lines of text.

So if they never ever release a paid expansion, you will claim in 5 years that you have still paid for every single release?

When you buy a product you buy the product as it is at the time of purchase. Stuff added after that is just bonuses.

Razor.6392:

Are those really demands? None of these have been made up out of thin air. These “demands” are stuff that ANet has promised for a long time and still hasn’t delivered.

There is a difference.

They also made it very clear that it were PLANS, and that things MIGHT CHANGE.
They have also stated that at least some parts of this list (which has been told to the OP in every single one of these threads he have created) will most likely be pushed back.

Razor.6392:

You’re pathetic lol. As a customer you have the rights to ask for stuff. Without you this game would not even exist.

But here you are siding with ANet… “its okay anet, we are fine without anything really! we dont want new stuff!”

Really sad.

Of course we can ask stuff.
But spamming the same thread every single WEEK for months is not really “asking for stuff” it is more along the lines of DEMANDING stuff.

Are you really saying that all 300+ of ArenaNets employers are programmers?
Seriously?

A software company (especially a gaming one) have LOADS of other kind of employees than just programmers.

Razor.6392:

Entitled? We’ve all paid 50$ numbnuts. Some paid even more.

And because of that we can demand that they release stuff?
As far as I know I only paid for the game at release, not for new stuff every 2 weeks.

You are underestimating the amount of work needed.
Especially since they would need to do more work every two weeks, which means that they more or less need to hire full-time employees for every single language, and that would be quite expensive, and since the game does not have a sub it would require people to spend much more in the store in order to generate enough money.

It will be an open area where people can fight against other servers without the effects of the Bloodlust buff.
Most likely more focused on the GvG players than the Duelers.

And yet those thousands of players would still not generate enough revenue to even get close to the cost.

Everything is possible.
But it is not justifiable to spend the money and resource on such a small part of the player-base.

Ah, this again.
And once again the poster completely ignores the fact that people working on living story does not necessarily have the same skillset as those that works on bugs.
So what should all those people do in the meantime?
Sit around doing nothing?

No, ArenaNet would not be able to give a good enough reason in order to spend millions of dollars in order to get the game translated into every single language in the world.

Even if people would translate it for free ArenaNet would still need to hire someone to read through all the translated lines to make sure they are correct and such.
Which would still require both money and time.

And if they did it for Czech, why not do it for every single language in the world?
Then they would suddenly have a MASSIVE amount of work to be done. And with each new release (every two weeks) they would have to get it translated and proof-read and so on.
It is not really possible for ArenaNet to validate those kind of costs.

No it doesn’t.

Your character have not gotten any stronger.
Your character have not defeated any epic new monsters.

Based on lore a lvl 1 Fractal is exactly the same as a lvl 80 Fractal.

Levels are not really lore-based, they are game-play.

Areoh.7495:

It is not fixed, two major guilds of ours jumped ship, (denying they were leaving until the last hour before leagues, now we have to fight them (because they are on opposing teams) with a 1/3 of the people. This league is a waste of time and doesnt show anything but how people jumped ship right before the leagues started.. Oh Good win :/ Not.

But when should they draw the line?
A month before league-starts?
As soon as the league is announced?

JMar.3254:

No it doesn’t. I have my bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. That will never be taken away from me.

True enough, but in the future said degree can become obsolete.
You will still have it, but you won’t really have much use for it.

JMar.3254:

Community coordinator =/= developer.

True enough.

But why should a developer post something that will say exactly the same?
Does it somehow make it better because the person posting it happens to have a certain title?

JMar.3254:

Can we have a developer respond?

Right now its the community arguing against the community, which really doesn’t matter.

We would like to know how the developers feel about deleting our progression rightfully earner, in order for leaderboards to come out, for which nobody wants or asked.

You got a response.
Until they have gathered feedback this is what you will get. Simple as that.

So basically make it possible to just run the 4 fastest/easiest Fractals for fast and easy loot?

Part of the point of the Fractals is that you don’t know what you will face.

Based on datamined information there will be more actual story behind the Legendaries sometime in the (near) future.

Romo.3709:

I personally never been one to promote going past level 50 since it was obviously not intended. But that being said one of the devs responses was clearly that the curve up to level 50 is way easier than it was before. With that in mind, the challenge that was there to begin with is being taken away and “chips” are nowhere in sight.

Yes, they say that the CURVE will be less difficult. That does not mean that it will be less difficult overall, just that it will increase in difficulty in a more steady stream.

Also keep in mind that the difficulty of the Fractals have nothing at all to do with the Instabilities, so they might indeed increase the difficulty of the Fractals, even if the difficulty of the Fractals themselves are slightly lowered.

Kaiiku.2917:

My 2cents: for those above fotm 30, and for those who are possibly (though not certain), losing infusions and whatnot, compensation SHOULD be given to not erase the effort..

No one will be losing AR.

Why do people keep talking about this being the first MMO to delete player progress?
I am quite sure there are several other games that does exactly the same.
WoW PvP “Seasons” comes to mind.

JMar.3254:

What’s your fractals level?

I don’t really see how that is really relevant, but I believe it was somewhere around lvl 35.

I wouldn’t really want to post here as a dev with all the toxic comments here either tbh.
They have stated several times that they are reading the forums, even if they don’t post.

JMar.3254:

Nobody complaining here is worried they won’t be able to do it.

We are upset that our hard work, time, energy, and effort is be devalued by removing it.

Why are people so upset with us at wanting our work to be valued?

Because it does not lose its value, in any way or form.
Or are you suggesting that stuff is only valuable if you can wave it in front of people?

If you really hate this change so much it is rather easy to show your disappointment.
Stop playing the game. But funnily enough I am almost completely sure that most people complaining about it here will still be among the first to actually do the new Fractals when they are released and then rush to lvl 50.

cesmode.4257:

Then why tell us its infinite? Just to hype it up? More PR? “Oh wow did you hear? GW2 has a dungeon thats infinitely scaling in difficulty. First of its kind in an MMO!!” No..sorry, thats only till lvl ’bra!

Why bother? Why not just say “The dungeon scales in difficulty up to level 80”.
I can’t even count on my hands the amount of times arenanet has walked this fine grey line between what they mean and what they say. Since launch.

Marketing.
That is how every single company does stuff. They use nice talks and stuff in order to sell their product.

Technically however one can claim that it is infinite due to the fact that every run is unique due to the randomized order of the Fractals and so on.

JMar.3254:

So this is your reasoning for why they should reset out levels? Not only is it flawed ignorant, it’s irrelevant.

No, it is an answer to some posts in this thread that talks about it being advertised as an infinite dungeon.

Context is quite important when reading posts.

Did anyone actually think that they would somehow magically be able to create something that is impossible?
It is completely impossible to create something that is infinite, since sooner or later the scaling would simply make every single attack 1-hit kill the player.

Patrikan Habaton.2548:

I why I was supposed to be somwhere I did scale 81 when they said it’s an infinity dungeon before any agony cap at scale 50 … ooooo Boy don’t speak if your not informed … Show me a single post that a dev Posts that I shoulnd’t be on 81… when I hit 81 … I asked em they didn’t answer guess I’m supposed to be there… why are you sooo jalous ?

Why do you think you can’t mitigate the Agony at lvl 51 no matter how much AR you have?

Nephitis.8201:

Magic find was a stat from gears. Their time and effort in getting those gears were not being deleted, they still get to keep those gears.

People will not lose the rewards for doing lvl 31+ Fractals either.

Patrikan Habaton.2548:

actually it would make perfect sence for you to start at Level -12/-13 you loose 51 Level from your about 28/29 and I loose 51 Levels from my 81 … stop trolling and posting LIES ty!

Which are 31 levels higher than you were supposed to be, so don’t expect any sympathy there.
The max-level was supposed to be 50, but people abused certain parts of the game in order to bypass that cap. ArenaNet shouldn’t (and won’t) take those people into consideration.