Guild Wars 2

People complain about everything being instanced

Also the events are TIMED so for all we know each fight will only take 5 minutes at most (which would then put people back at the end of the queue I believe) so that shouldn’t really be much of an issue.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Pretty much a contradiction, since if you played GW1 you already know whats going to happen in the Abaddon fractal.

We know about as much about the Fall of Abaddon as we know about the reactor.

Abaddon was defeated and imprisoned.
The reactor blew up.

See?

khefka.2804:

Anyone know when the new patch updates usually are? Wondering if I will have time to finish achievements after this maintenance.

The safest thing would be to assume that the patch will be applied during the downtime.

Faowri.4159:

That’s nice for you. Unfortunately I have a lot of American friends I can’t play with. I even have American friends I literally told “GET GW2! It will allow you to guest on other servers so the ocean divide is cool! Come join me!”, and then when guesting actually arrived, it was with region restrictions. So I then had to tell them “I know I convinced you to buy the game and all, but I actually can’t even play with you without paying to switch over to an American server every single time we want to play together. Sorry!”

The ArenaNet blog is pretty much gone, so unfortunately I can no longer provide quotes from pre-release confirming that yes, they promised us that with guesting we could play with anyone regardless of what server they were on. They went back on that. Perhaps it doesn’t affect you, but that still makes it a broken promise.

EDIT: Actually, thank you, GW2Guru:

A World of Choice – The Regions of Guild Wars 2

In time, we’ll also introduce free “guesting,” which will allow players to visit other worlds as guests as long as they have friends on those worlds. This feature will be free, but guest players will not be able to enter World vs. World, and the Power of the Mists bonuses from their home world will continue to apply to their characters.

ArenaNet: GW2 to be region tied for logins but you can play on any server

And don’t worry — we want you to play with your friends wherever you are. This policy only affects where you can login from — not which worlds you can access. People from NA will be able to play with people from EU at launch. We’ve got two datacenters — one in NA and one in EU. Those who do not fall into either of those two regions will default to the NA datacenter.

And yet there is nothing actually stopping you from playing with them.
You are not forced to play on the EU datacenter, you can without much trouble switch to the NA datacenter which would make it fully possible to play with the US people.

They never actually said that you would be able to have unrestricted guesting across data-centers, people just assumed (for some silly reason) that you could.
Their statement still holds true though, since you are not locked into the EU data-center.

Antara.3189:

To everyone: This is not the 1 year Anniversary update. This is the Queens Jubilee.

Which will most likely be the first part of the 1 year Anniversary update, since historically each chapter of the living story seems to be 2 parts spread over a month.

Sauzo.6821:

Oh yeah I read that but you guys must be from another country cause here in US it’s only Aug 5.

People are talking about what to do during the maintenance TOMORROW, there is no maintenance today.

The reason for why the three borderlands are identical is simply balance.
If they weren’t there would always be maps that were “best” which would give the “owner” a clear advantage, and that should not be the case.

Faowri.4159:

Considering cross-region play was a promise made before release (“play with whoever you want no matter where they’re from!” etc.), I like to hope they’ll revisit it at some point. I was really disappointed when this promise was broken.

I am fully able to play with whoever I want no matter where they’re from so I don’t really see how that is a “promise that was broken”.

Do people really pay this little attention to what they are clicking?

There is quite some space between the Guest and Transfer buttons, and unless you watch something else (which would be silly when it involves money) it would be quite hard to click the wrong one.

Kalan.9705:

Adding some WvW skins would take exactly the same time as pve, arena mode or gem shop skins for just a few examples.

So skins are suddenly content now?

Iavra.8510:

Culling is more something of category “bugfix”, no new content.

So unless something is actual content it does not require dev-time?

yesfourme.8906:

The changes we all get in WvW are very welcome but so far insignificant.

Oh?
I remember back before they removed culling and added progression about how those things were desperately needed and the game would die without them.

And now they are suddenly insignificant?

People need to understand that stuff actually takes time to develop and get to work in a good way.

Story mode is very interesting actually, since it explains the whole story about how Destiny’s Edge gets back together before the final showdown with Zhaitan.

As said in your other identical thread: We have gotten quite a bit of stuff in WvW, but for some reason people seems to ignore this.

And for all we know, what we have gotten in WvW does take as much dev time as what have been added in PvE.

Kalan.9705:

Wrong! None of it was new content.

That would be like me saying that all living world content should cease because bugfixes or achievements happen for PvE. I would never say such a thing. I’m just asking for any sort of balance of effort at all.

Hm?
I would say Breakout events are actual content.
And you have to keep in mind that stuff take different amounts of time. Just because you want something ready now doesn’t mean it will be ready now.

The amount of dev time needed for the WvW changes could very well be as high as for the PvE content as far as we know.

I love how people keep complaining about WvW (no wrong with doing that since it is lacking in areas) but for some reason always seems to ignore or “forget” all the stuff WvW have actually gotten since release.

WvW have gotten stuff in more or less every single release these last few months, some bigger and some smaller stuff, but they have gotten stuff nonetheless.

Come one people, learn sarcasm, or at least read someones post history.

This is simply a thread made by the OP because another thread about how another game was so much better than GW2 was locked.

I do however somewhat agree with what he says, even if he doesn’t actually mean it.

Sirendor.1394:

Sorry but won’t this limit players who don’t zerg? The only champions are inside heavily fortified towers and keeps that can only be taken down by zergs, which are widely despised by every WvW player. Can you please add more champions outside the keeps and towers?

Hm?
A tower can easily be taken by a small group.
Same with a keep if the group is good enough.

If they cannot be seen how can you know they are doing it?

Psychol.5783:

Maybe at the beginning Anet wanted this option but now they could’ve change their minds and instead of deleting and anger the gamers they control price.

Is there anything that even points towards this, or are you just trying to come up with conspiracy?

Psychol.5783:

I agree, now they added these achievement chests with gold rewards maybe it’s a small ammount but there is a lot of people which means a lot of gold in the pool.
Second, they are adding new things every new Living Story.
Third, will Anet let price of gems drop?… I highly doubt about this.

The price was (and still is) quite low, if they didn’t want it to drop they wouldn’t have it as a supply and demand model.

I would say it is unlikely that it will drop, simply due to the fact that gold is so easy to come by in the game that trading gems for gold is quite useless and therefore the price will rise due to the lack of supply.

Tolmos.8395:

Could you please link an Anet response stating that

A) WvW activity is increasing
B) Player population is growing, not shrinking?

Because so far, it’s not a question of his information vs Anet’s information, but rather his information vs some other random forum viewer’s information.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

So far this year WvW has seen some major updates: from the removal of culling to the new progression, reward and ability system, our WvW population has been rapidly on the rise since January.

I love how people go on and assume that the devs have not actually thought about and tested things but rather just put the first thing that came to their minds into the game.

They are working on it and it is currently in testing.

Meglobob.8620:

I want the thaumanova fractal that’s why I vote for Keil, quite a few of the devs have said that fractal is far, far better than the Abaddon one, which apparently is medicore and disappointing…

Actually no.
Not a single dev have said that. The only thing a dev have said about the Fractals is more or less: “I have worked with this one, so I prefer it if it won”.

Funny how that post seems to get more and more extreme everytime someone talks about it.

If I am somehow wrong and a dev have actually outright said that the reactor fractal is far far better than the abaddon one I would love to actually see said post.

Ronah.2869:

I am not interested in dungeons, fractals or any type of PVP, WvW. Roughly 70% of the game does not interest me. So, I vote for Keil because she is not a murderer like Evon.

Based on what we have seen Kiel have actually killed way more people than Evon

Gamadorn.2659:

The list of FUBAR programming standards is astounding….“New build will be released in an hour”…. 30 seconds later….NEW BUILD AVAILABLE….wow fastest hour I ever seen!

They have never said “New build will be released in an hour”, what they do say is “New build will be released WITHIN an hour”. The whole within part is quite important here.

Burnfall.9573:

Closing Low Servers or Merging Servers is Critical for Presderving WvW Population Status.

So basically stop people from playing WvW because of they don’t feel like sitting in a queue for several hours?
Sure that might solve the “issue” at hand, but I wouldn’t say it is a solution.

I wonder how people that complained about “ArenaNet favoring Evon” are feeling now..

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

I have serious worries about what kind of testing they run before releasing content the game gets NEW bugs and issues every time they release something new.

You mean just like every other game (especially MMOs)? This is not something unique for GW2.

Because otherwise it would be too easy to beat them since they can’t evolve or counter strategies as well as a human.

Teulius.8752:

TL DR; we need personal motivation to go after someone or to engage in a journey and I feel that there was nothing personal about confronting Zhaitan.

Also, the last fight felt lazy, just give us a cinematic of canons shooting at him and Zhaitan falling down, don’t force us to spam click autoattack to kill him.

So someone killing loads of people, destroying towns and trying to kill everything that stands in its way is not motivation enough to confront them?

Keep in mind that we didn’t really go after Zhaitan until he attacked and took Claw Island. Sure, we worked against the dragons before that, but the real reason for going into Orr was the fact that he came closer and closer to one of the main population centers.

You have to keep in mind that the last fight has been going on for months (ingame) before we actually kill Zhaitan.

Sadly way too many people simply vote based on the rewards rather than for the story/logic/future.

Deniara Devious.3948:

I ran to 5000 character limit and forgot to add one of the most important ideas to reduce zerging:

Make every 20+ man team appear on the map to enemies at all times (e.g. moving orange swords)

This would mean enemy would know in advance when a zerg is rushing at their gates etc. but realistically a huge trampling force won’t be able to move unnoticed. Their trampling feet would be heard from long distances.

Now if you’d want to ninja cap a keep you would need to do it with less people.

So, basically make it more or less impossible for guilds to do stuff together in WvW?

I believe you have missed the fact that they ARE adding a wallet with the update on Tuesday that will put all tokens and badges in your inventory panel (such as gold, karma, gems and laurels is now).

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

There is no need to close them.

But I do think that they should merge lower populated realms.

I don’t understand why they didn’t have just 1 server and then expand on the overflow technology.
That way they could spread the population evenly in all areas.

Because it would make WvW impossible?

People saying that they can just change the engine with the money they get are quite naive.

Changing the engine would more or less requiring rebuilding the whole game, which would take YEARS. One of the main reasons for the limitations is that it is built on a modified version of the GW1 engine, and it still took quite some time to build it.
Now think about how much time it would take to build a completly new engine from scratch.

morrolan.9608:

Wrong, this from someone who has been playing WvW from the start

So just because you have played WvW from the start you have better information than ArenaNet themselves about increase of WvW activity?

Xiao Haishou.3691:

The thing about the gambit is that there is a specific one that removes dodges, which is the only form of damage mitigation a Necro (which I main) has. If the boss monster does any form of OHKO, then the Necro would have absolutely no chance to survive.

I know what achievements are. Achievements are supposed to be difficult, but they aren’t supposed to be impossible. If a boss monster uses a OHKO skill on a necro, who has no way of blocking the skill, then that is impossible. It is not a matter of “l2p” because there is no option to block/evade an attack like that on a necro once dodge is removed. I am a completionist, and I’m sure there are many others like me, who get every single achievement. I am not complaining about difficulty. So far there have not been any achievements that are impossible for me to complete.

All classes have the ability to avoid OHKOs with their skills. Necro can set minions that can take the hit for one.
Or use one of the many skills that blinds the opponent, or pulls the opponent which would interrupt them.
Or use Spectral Walk to teleport away from the attack.

Now, please tell me how you can not avoid possible OHKOs with a Necro.

You simply get more points for being active.
Otherwise you can just stack up on rations and run hiding and get huge amount of points without any actual “work”.

Simple as that.

Another thing to also keep in mind is that there are gargoyles and statues of dragons in the real world, and yet we have neither gargoyles nor dragons flying around here.

Syktek.7912:

So basically: Lord room fights where the lord goes up and down a few times a fight are going to become rather lucrative.

I don’t actually think that a rezzed lord give loot.
Might be wrong though.

Chiolas.1326:

DX9 is from 2002…

It was however updated until 2008, which was well into GW2s development cycle.

mjharrison.3209:

Not necessarily. You could design a text-based game with more gameplay elements that would consume more server bandwidth/cpu cycles than GW2. Point being, the graphical demands of the client are largely independent of the demands of the server.

And yet people tend to lag less when they lower their settings (and I am talking about actual lag rather than FPS drops which some people seems to assume are the same).

Having immortal scouts would more or less kill WvW.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Still investigating? Bit on the slow/lazy side. Its not as if this issue is new or anything is it. Personally i dont think they will do anything about it. Sure they can say they will investigate it but that doesnt mean if/when they find out why its happening that they will actually do anything about it. To busy making rubbish PvE content to bother with WvW.

So.. how many online-games with massive PvP combat have you created?

I think are you simplifying the issue quiet a bit.

Demeth.5816:

Will you add new events, new jumpins and mini dungeons in the world? I mean like in caledon (not enough jumpings there :p), in Krytia etc…And do you add secret things to the game,i.e a secret location, not mentioned in the patch note?
I guess if you do so, you won’t tell it but who knows..

They have added new (permanent) stuff to the game quite a few times since release including jps and minidungeons.

Maladon.5760:

You guys already know how to reduce skill lag, just do it already. Lower the map caps until you can solve the problem permanently. This would also spread some of the players around to different maps and/or lower populated servers.

And it would also make it more or less impossible for people with bigger guilds to play together without changing servers.
It might sound like a good solution to you, but to the hardcore WvW crowd I would say we would prefer the occasional skill lag rather than not being able to play at all.

IndigoSundown.5419:

For the sake of discussion, I’m going to take it for granted that the issue is bandwidth, as ANet says it. The question I come up with is, “Knowing the bandwidth issues, why were DoT’s not treated as DoT’s are in other games, where applications of the same DoT by different players are treated separately, but individual players can only have one of the same DoT at any given time?” It’s pretty evident what the shortcomings of the current system are. It’s a lot harder to see what advantages it provides — if any.

The main issue with that is the fact that it would make conditions more or less completely worthless, unless they got extremely buffed, which would make them very unbalanced.