Guild Wars 2

opiomorph.7983:

some of us do not want to be forced into Ascended crafting.

with stats being removed from traits and put more into gear, will the gap between Exotic and Ascended increase, because I hope it does not?

Why would the gap increase?
I would assume that the increase will be just as big in blue, green, yellow, orange and pink gear, seeing as there is no reason to not have it that way.

I would assume (I seem to recall them saying it in an interview) that the Specializations that only gets 1-handed weapon will get something other to compensate.

Quite a bit of new information about how specializations will work and also how the trait and skill system is changed with HoT:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-one-a-primer/

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-two-reward-tracks-and-elite-specializations/

SkiTz.4590:

As soon as that HoT hype train was started, a lot of my guildies knew they were just gonna take a break until HoT releases, which is exactly what anet decided to do- take a break and so now we are in this lull period until HoT release.

You make it sound like the expansion is developing itself. ArenaNet is probably working even more intensively now than they did before they announced the expansion. They are in no way or form “taking a break”.

CrashTestAuto.9108:

It’s weird. Another Tuesday goes by and I’m still surprised at no news. How is this treatment of customers getting a pass in a company that wants people to buy an expansion this year (maybe)?

I would assume most people simply don’t care enough about SAB to let it effect their enjoyment of the game as a whole.

Not to mention the fact that anyone that actually paid any sort of attention were fully aware that it was temporary content and are now fully aware that it will come back but it is extremely unlikely that it will happen before the release of the expansion, due to lack of resources that can work on it.

I would assume that it is simply a matter of security.
Sending files out to random people is a rather good way to get stuff into the wrong hands and so on.
If they require you being on the office it makes it very much harder to steal assets and such.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

And that’s why people complain about Guild Wars 2 recently. We got Living Story updates and content every two weeks to two months, depending on certain situations, and now we’re getting nothing. In a nutshell, ANet set a certain standard of expectations with their continual updates.

Now? We get nada until some undisclosed time in the future. Maybe this summer? Maybe this Christmas? Maybe next year?

See the problem? I know I am and so are a lot of players. Thus this thread and the exodus.

And yet everyone with any sort of understanding of reality would know that it could not go on for ever. Especially not if they were going to start releasing expansions. Which interestingly enough those of us that preferred the Living Story system warned about when people were demanding expansions. And here we are.

There is no exodus. People can claim that all they want, but the fact that there are daily posts about people just starting the game or coming back to the game suggest otherwise. So does actual activity in the game itself.

Scoobaniec.9561:

You can..ya know..watch it on youtube or their twitch. Whats the point in releasing recap of it then? Before we used to get new info, now olny recap of recaps. In b4 recap of stronghold/wvw in 2 days..or mushroom lore.. Honestly i wont be surprised at all.

Not everyone have the ability to watch the stream and hear what they are saying, even if it is on youtube?

Does it somehow hurt you that they give those people the ability to read the information instead?

We have been given new info at least once every week the last couple of weeks. You might not be interested in the information, but that doesn’t mean it is not there.

azizul.8469:

even LOTRO which is now almost 10 year old allows you to choose which DirectX to use, why can’t GW2 ?

I suppose we are disregarding the fact that LOTRO required paying a subscription back when they added that option? Or the fact that Turbine have a number of other games that also generate money and could benefit from DirectX11?

Not to mention the fact that the engine Guild Wars 2 is built on (which is made by ArenaNet) is the same one that was created for Guild Wars 1, over 10 years ago, (although heavily modified).

People are still playing from my experience. And based on the amount of new/returning player topics on the forums and on reddit I would say that it is probably MORE people playing now than there was half a year ago.

Vanchatron.2306:

Game is boring. Not surprised.

And yet here you still are.

Unless the price is high enough that it is worth more than every single item in the game one could easily just get said item, sell it, transfer the money to another account. Buy a roll back and then repeat.

Windsagio.1340:

To repeat; the trick with marionette is that it was only up for a few weeks. If it had been ongoing it would be below-farm status by now.

To be fair that is true for every single bit of content ever released ever in any game.

Sooner or later even something that is supermegaultra challenging will become a farm, when people learn exactly how to do it.

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

“Dear ANet, as a Vet who’s been with you from GW1 and loyally supported your game since the Beta, could you please take under consideration this suggestion I proposed to improve game experience for everyone, not just new folks. I prefer not to buy a half-completed expansion.”

Except for the fact that it wouldn’t improve the game experience for everyone.
I for one have already done my map completion, why should I be required to do it again?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I think ANet should consider this, at least the pay for a rollback option. Leave your account open so that an angry girlfriend deletes your chars, it’s your fault for leaving the account accessible but at the same time, why not let you pay to get it restored?

Because giving people the ability to restore mistakes won’t teach them anything?
It is also rather easily abuseable.

Feirlista Xv.1425:

I really think that Anet should give every account one free rollback for any reason then after that charge for them but not threw the gem store but maybe threw the site you buy the game from. They could add an account rollback key, you pay like $29 and then they send you a key that you add to your account that will roll back to a date you provide at least 30 days back. This feature could be completely automated. This would cover any reason including account hacks, people do dumb thing so if you did something stupid like deleing your main with your precursor on it, you could get it back. $29 was just the first price that pop into my head it would have to be a price point to prevent people from over doing it.

That would be so easily abusable so it could end up wrecking the whole economy.

I think it might simply not be possible to not reward them retroactively for certain things.
It is rather likely that the map completion ones for example are giving specifically as a part of the map completion reward, and you can’t redo that. So unless they reset map-completion as a whole you would be unable to get that mastery point at all.

Scoobaniec.9561:

You dont have to rewrite anything. Its all about renderer. And if you think its going to cost them milions then youre wrong again.

So why isn’t every game ever always using the latest renderer then? If it is as simply as you seem to believe.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

I’m assuming that either this thread or my post on the guild wars 2 facebook page bought it to attention, so thank you to GM Rathmael who sorted this issue out for me.

Or maybe it was just your turn in the queue?

The fact that you have been spamming the forums about the issue for months would suggest against it suddenly being magically fixed due to it because you posted yet another thread.

And that quote says exactly what I said.

They would evaluate adding DX11 after launch. Not they would add DX11 after launch.

They never claimed that they would add DX11.

What they did say was that they would LOOK INTO IT after release.
Nowhere in that sentence however did they ever say that they would add it to the game.

^ Did you follow the thread while it was active or did you start reading it after it was locked?

There were plenty of (removed) posts that were very far from tame. Multiple posts were direct attacks on Marmatt’s person rather than the position itself.

It is rather irrelevant that it was, in your eyes, not as bad as other games. It was bad, and it would not be accepted in the slightest in any real world situation.

Yes, how dare they use the map for what it was intended for, WvW?

It is rather usual for guild groups to run around in EotM, either because there are queues, or because they want some training without hurting the real match-up.

Ultimaistanza.4793:

Again, that was some of the reactions, but not all.

The vast majority of the posts in the announcement thread were of that nature however.

“Even the most unqualified one would be better than a non existing specialist though.”

Not according to the reactions we saw with the announcement here.

I find it unlikely that you have a spot-free record though, which would disqualify you anyway.

phys.7689:

so based on the beta, new world bosses, will be lame.

in their defense though, most of the world bosses are lame now

Except for the fact that they never claimed that it would be a world boss you mean?
They said it would be a boss in the open world, not that it would be a world boss.

Which is rather irrelevant to what I asked.

Nope, no announcements. And it seems unlikely that it will happen.
The market is simply not large enough to justify spending all the money required.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mug_of_Bloodstone_Coffee

waSte.8640:

Delete all seige except for flame rams would make WvW a better place.

It would also make it 100% impossible for an outnumbered group to ever defend something.

Lets be honest here: Do people here actually think that ANYONE would apply for the role after they saw what happened to the last one?

BilboBaggins.5620:

In my country it’s not illegal to give someone free money. I’m not going to buy gold from a rmt, but if anyone wants to give me gold (or cash), I’ll definitely take the charity!

But that was not the situation we talked about here.
The situation we talked about here was that you found a large amount of money and you decided to keep it without any action.

Deli.1302:

Then he is being unprofessional. If you can’t be professional, you are not fit for the position. He still has the forum specialist tag under his forum name ergo he is still a forum specialist. I look forward to your next attempt to whiteknight.

Even the most professional person in the world can only ever take so much. No one is invincible to everything. Heck I have seen people that have worked 10+ years in customer service completely falling apart from things that one would have thought that they should be used to handling.

He might very will still be labeled as forum specialist due to the fact that they simply don’t have anyone to replace him with (if he have chosen to resign) and thus they simply haven’t bothered removing the tag yet.

Actually I did read the terms (probably more thoroughly than most people complaining about the choice of specialist). And yes there were a risk, but that doesn’t really change the fact that most people would buckle under the massive amount of undeserved blatant attacks on his person that happened in that thread. Not even close to the same reaction happened to the other announcements after all.

What makes you so sure he haven’t resigned?

Ultimaistanza.4793:

Considering that not every single person ripped on him and that some of us actually did have faith that he could do a good job, yes.

Did you see the announcement thread?

I don’t think anyone would be all that interested in doing that work (for free no less) after something like that.

Are people really surprised that he might have given up after the childish behavior shown here after the announcement?

Offair.2563:

Press B ( opens wvw panel ) Join your Home borderland, once there go south from that waypoint to the big pink/purple portal which takes you to Lion’s Arch. Once there you can take portal to other cities including divinity reach ( human city ). GL and have fun!

That doesn’t work until level 18 though, I believe.
At least not for completely new accounts.

Support usually don’t fix stuff like this unless you were hacked.

The answer will probably be along the lines that your sister should not have access to your account and that nothing can be done due to that.

Also keep in mind that support is swamped at the moment so it can take up to a week before getting a reply.

Guild Wars 1 support will take time, seeing as it is not a priority.

BilboBaggins.5620:

If I receive a mail with free gold I’m taking it, but that’s me.

Why?

If you do that in real life (at least in my country) you can get some rather nice jail-time for that.

Prototypemind.4026:

TERA and Vindictus.

You are aware that TERA started out as a P2P-game, right?

It is disabled due to a bug.

Dungeons do not scale.

It only requires DirectX 9, but can be run on higher versions as well (obviously). It is not developed for DirectX 10, 11 or 12 though, so will only ever take advantage of the DirectX 9 components.

It supports DirectX 9 and later.

By definition two guilds fighting each other would be a guild versus guild yes.

No, it is not wishful thinking. It is logic.
Guild versus Guild.
A guild leaderboard starts a competition between Guilds. Ergo, Guild versus Guild.

And the stronghold map is actually rather close to the original GvG in Guild Wars 1. Now if only they removed the point system and only allowed victory by killing the enemy lord.

^ Technically a guild leaderboard (with specific matches tied to it) would be the very definition of GvG.

Maybe down the line.
Season 1 was however not built with replayability in mind and the vast majority of it was in the open world, thus they can’t just put it back in, they need to rebuild it first, which will take time.

It might happen in the future, but very unlikely that we will see it before the expansion.

Tink.9486:

Im not sure the Dev’s even read this post, I have seen several people ask for gem items that have been already introduced at some point and are no longer available, and I have yet to see 1 of those items re surface as of yet. Rox’s Quiver is something I desperately want for my ranger, I have also seen lots asking for the Bunny Ears and other sets of armor. You would think they could add these items back, if nothing else for a 24hr sale like they do with other items easily. Come on Arena net people want to buy gems and buy items, make some $$!

I am rather certain that Rox’s Quiver have been put back in the store at least two times after the initial release.

They also added the customizable mail-deliverers which I seem to recall was being asked for here.