Guild Wars 2

So basically you want the game to be something that GW2 is not supposed to be?

There is a rather clear end-game in GW2. WvW, thats where the end-game is at the moment.
Or dungeons, or living story, or building legendaries.

I really don’t see all the fuss about this.
It is not like they are spawning in the middle of a keep.
They spawn in rather off-road places (at least in the BLs) so they shouldn’t really effect real WvW at all.

MithranArkanere.8957:

That’s not a rift. It’s one of Scarlet’s portals.

Wouldn’t a portal actually be a rift though?

They won’t make a major change like this during the season, which they made quite clear before it started.

Hm?

I have yet to see a single other big MMORPG that allows guesting at all.

The thing is you CAN play with friends on both servers, but it would cost some gems to transfer. (Whilst with most (all?) other MMORPGs you can only play with people on your own server, unless you pay (a higher cost) than here).

The issue is most likely that an account can’t exist on both Data-centers at the same time, hence why guesting can’t work.

Lian Olsam.9541:

i dont think so, me and alot of ppl (already spoken with friends and guild mates) will buy more stuff if will cost less then now, 1 euro a skin another 2 euro for other stuff etc etc u will open more the tp and u will buy more stuff, now if u wanna buy something u have to spend alot and this will discourage to buy anything

And are you really that certain that 10 times more people would buy stuff at the lower price?
Because if not, it would be a rather stupid change.

And yet there are LOADS of people spending those 10 euros on that skin.
Thus in order for them to actually make more money form a lower price the amount of people needed to break even would be TEN TIMES as high, which is quite unlikely.

Azure Prower.8701:

But why is she in the mists?

Why not?

Blaeys.3102:

2. Completely remove all server transfer costs and cooldowns from the game.

A great way to completely destroy WvW within a few weeks.

Lucyfer.9517:

Those restrictions should be lifted once acount is x months old or once it has like 5000 achivement points. I think it would be quite clear at this point that the acount is not a gold seller.

It is however usually hacked accounts that are used by gold-sellers.
Thus accounts with 5000 APs would still be used.

Exosferatu.2961:

You just repeated what I said lol

Which would suggest that your first post was quite pointless, because it would suggest the exact same thing as I stated.

Exosferatu.2961:

Not true. There is a limit. Once you received credit for participating in 80 matches you will not receive more achievements. It is similar to salvaging. There is a cap for achievement points.

You will however still be able to do the achievement, you just won’t get points for it.

You do know that the achievement is repeateble right?
Which mean you can’t really finish it, since it will just keep going forever.

Because it is quite unusual for the whole world to just stop because a holiday or something is going on?

From a strategic point of view it is quite smart of the Krait/NC/Scarlet to make their move during Tyria’s Halloween Celebration, in order to take people unaware.

How are they “making you” play the mini-games?
Do they somehow force you to do it, or they would delete your account or something?

The interesting thing with threads like these is that if we had gotten the same as last year we would have these forums filled with how lazy ArenaNet are that can’t do anything new.

Can’t please everyone I suppose.

So, answer me this:
Would you rather risk being unable to even build siege than to have to rebuild it now and then?

Ah, my mistake then.

And yes you have to tick the siege.
Once per hour.

It is quite easy to set an alarm or something if you think it is bothersome standing in the tower the whole time.

I am fully aware how siege work.

I was simply pointing out that taking seven hours to siege up a tower is an extremely long time.

No.

PvE/WvW and sPvP are supposed to be separate game-modes, and should not in any way or form effect each other.

If you have spent seven hours to siege up a tower you have either done something very wrong, or put up massive amounts of useless siege.

Another thing to keep in mind: What would be the point of all that siege if you are alone there? You would only be able to man one at a time anyway.

Imagi.4561:

Why does anyone cares what the gender ratio is for the significant NPCs? In what way does that affect your gameplay?

They care because it is women! :o
Had it been men (as it normally is) this thread would most likely not exist in the first place.

I am starting to think that you might actually be one of these people putting up useless siege, and thats why you are so locked into getting longer despawn timers..

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

I don’t understant the troll bs. I dont see it as a problem. If you cant even get people to tick siege, how are you going to get them to troll? The main problem is apathy.

It was a rather big problem some time back, with people simply building massive amount of siege in useless places, which in turn led to the cap being reached, and thus you could no longer place any siege on the map.

Had they increased the despawn time it would most likely make people more interested in doing something like this, due to its effects lasting a longer time.

Vex.3021:

An easy solution would be to give less points during nights so that the other servers can easily catch up and dont get demoralized next day if they play better.
Personally i play on desolation which has a great night team that gave us the extra edge we needed to win match ups, i wont lie about it.

So punish people that don’t play during your prime-time?
I don’t really think that is a good solution.

Night for you is not night for the whole world.

Are you even reading what we are writing?

If they increased the decay-time, it would tempt people to troll more, which in turn could lead to not being able to place your beloved siege at ALL.
Would that really be better?

Of course, because people usually don’t play during the night, and much less click siege.

Would you rather be unable to play siege at all?

Exactly.
Siege matters, thus a lone troll should not be able to completely stop the ability for a server to place siege.

We are not.
You seems to imply that you are the only player on your server that actually plays WvW, if not, I am rather sure that other people can refresh siege just as well as you.

If your run with the zerg takes over 1 hour you are doing something wrong.
Especially if you have every single player on the map in said zerg.

1 hour is long enough (too long in some cases), increasing it would make it even easier for trolls to sabotage and such.

ferra.9867:

There are American guilds on my european server, Seafarer’s rest, and European guilds, Italians an Russians ones for example, on American server and you can transfer from Europe to American and viceversa; so I don’t understand where is the issue, but it doesn’t matter. At least consider the idea of districts a la GW1 for PVE and fewer servers because I think wvwvw population is less than the PVE population.

People can play on different servers yes.
But that does not mean that the server can directly interact with each other.
It is for example not possible to guest between NA and EU-servers for one.

Well, they are tradeable so technically you can buy them without ever touching BLC.

Aedelric.1287:

Where did you pull that fact from? Because it sure was not in my reply. Do not ask a question when all you want to do is come up with your own answer.

Well since you refused to answer it, one could only assume that it was due to the fact that the answer would be unpopular.

Aedelric.1287:

Irrelevant as I do not deal in ifs and buts.

So you simply wouldn’t have cared if it was the other way around?

Not really surprising, I would assume the same would apply to everyone complaining about it here.

Aedelric.1287:

I like the female heroes we have and in no way against them, I am just wanting a handful of male leads to have equal standing.

And would you have wanted (and posted for that matter) the same if most of them were male?

It does give nearby “enemies” Vulnerability after all, so it SHOULD put you in combat.

And as stated, it was written out in the patch notes, so not really a stealth fix either.

EDIT: As stated below it is weakness.. :P

But putting people together don’t solve a thing unless those people have the same knowledge.

And even if they did “port” it, they most likely wouldn’t do it for consoles, due to the fact that they would have to rebuild much of the game in order to even get it to work.

Sadly enough I am rather sure we would not have seen a thread like this if most of the characters introduced were male…

Of course, I am not saying it is not Scarlet, I simply pointed out that the NPC in question don’t actually confirm that Scarlet it behind it.

Nick.6972:

I no longer care about the Living Story updates, I really don’t.
I don’t care if I don’t get all achievements or minis.

Honestly, I’d rather wait 1-2 months and get no new content for 3-5 New Crystal Desert maps with new Dungeons and WELL WRITTEN story.

I still care. I like the story, it is quite interesting.

If you really think they can produce 3-5 complete new maps and dungeons in 1-2 months you are quite naive.

zwierz.9012:

The historian NPC with the shard icon (forgot the name) already confirmed it’s Scarlet’s doing, also look at the preview picture of the next release. See you after it’s over in game!

Actually the NPC don’t confirm it.
It is only said that it SEEMS to be Scarlet (which is of course very likely, but it is not actually confirmed).

Well, people have been complaining about the “lack” of direction with the living story for months, so of course they had to do something to guide people.

DragonMind.2983:

Maybe it should be the same people if it’s true that it’s two different teams,
at least it being two teams would explain a lot, …at least to me.

Why?
Different people have different knowledge, thus people being hired for the balancing team might not have knowledge in outright programming and so on.

Henri Blanche.8276:

I would stop all work on future content immediately and go back and fix all known bugs and address all balancing and game mechanic issues.

That would be a perfect way to kill the game.

Not the same people working on balance and on Living Story though.
So it most likely wouldn’t make any difference.

And I don’t think all people would be happier with balance instead of new content tbh.

Well before the ranks were added people were complaining about no progression in WvW, so no matter what they do there will be unhappy players.

majos.8503:

Well i have an idea for the queues and at least be all more balanced when all maps have queues…

Priority queues, i won’t say that guilds have priority or priority on your world rank.

But i have to say, that we need a priority on queues for the people who enter with lvl 80. Or do WvW just for lvl 80 people, the queues will stay there and the issues of population, but at least will be all more balanced..

So basically punish new players?

Or maybe you had loads of people not following the zerg around?

You can get them from anywhere that drops Ascended stuff.