in my opinion absulutely not agreed. Armor Skins should be exclusive ingame rewards for playing the game, not in a cashshop. This is not a third rate free to play sceme, this is a A+ Buy to play game. Whats the use of the coming buy to play expansion, if all Skins are locked behind a pay wall, i would feel cheated. And this is not a virtual toy store, like some of the C titles. Convenience items, services, optinal fluf and outfits in the store, normal skins (armor and weapons) as play to earn reward.
One tip, when making a post, dont do it in an entitled demanding way, your post will certainly be trashed which such attitude.
The game was also advertised as play the way you want to play. Sometimes some of us just want to play alone. The great thing about MMOs is playing with other people. The bad thing about MMOs is that you are obligated to play with other people
Why dont you play single player action rpgs than? There are more than enough of them. Don’t understand the logic of People coming to a MMORPG (multiplayer yes) demanding that everything is a singleplayers game, which they know it isn’t.
The explorable dungeons should not be soloable in my opinion. Making the Story Dungeons 1-5 players like the LS instances would be nice if they have the resources in the future.
Theres already enough fluff incomming with the cashshop, which has nothing to do with the guildwars lore and world. I’m not a fan of changing this game into a dressup -makeup contest (ala the Sims). Theres already to many of that now. In my opinion no go. More beards and mature faces with character for the human mans would be nice, they are much to clean (not manly) right now.
Looking forward to the specialisation, but the name is too much generic cliche in my opinion. Maybe a contest for a better name if thats still possible?
I’m totaly fine waiting for the Hot expansion. But an event here and there would be nice. Preferably the Crown Pavilion and Queens Gauntlet, or Zephyr Sanctum , but that may be a little difficult lore wise, as it seems the Zephyrites are not in their best form right now (completely destroyed in other words :-p ).
Those events were all really fun, anything like that would be welcome. Instead the focus seems to be on gem store items
I think an event would bring many people so more gemstore purchases, would be win win for us and arenanet, right :-) ?
I’m totaly fine waiting for the Hot expansion. But an event here and there would be nice. Preferably the Crown Pavilion and Queens Gauntlet, or Zephyr Sanctum , but that may be a little difficult lore wise, as it seems the Zephyrites are not in their best form right now (completely destroyed in other words :-p ).
Gw 2 has a dynamic scaling system. Heroes wouldnt work in this game like in gw 1. In my own experience i always can find people to do almost every boss in the game (apart from some very exotic placed bosses on the outskirts. Since the Megaserver system its always crowded. Before that it whas a problem yes. Are you playing at exotic times maybe?
And heroes in pvp, it wouldnt be pvp anymore would it, and a big messy heroe zerg. Not to think of WvW, which already is Zergblob against Zergblob.
And it would actually turn this game into a singleplayer game (dungeons etc) , just the opposite of what you saying.
Magnificent Work. Best community artwork i’ve seen for a very long time. Its of the same class (and style) of the official arenanet art. 10+
Your earlier art of Jormag is also great, and the other arts.
Love all the detail and the organic realistic style.
1. npe (feels narrow and stiff to me in comparisson with the more horizontal former system). It doesnt have that organic play feeling to it.
2. Damage to the beginners area’s. They where fun and a great way the learn the mechanics of the game. Now they are just random and boring and not a learning curve at all.
3. Removal of many of the first map pets. The Norn still have enough pets in the city, but other races dont have many.
The ranger from gw 1. 2 worlds apart from gw 2. Miss my condy + interrupt builds :-p
Loved to interrupt those elementalist Luxons + ray of judgement smite monks in Fort Aspenwood. And Elona that also.
Probably eaten by the charr in the time they laid siege on the human kingdoms, when the supply lines where very stretched. Or the Norn, they are after all Hunter Gatherers and big eaters.
And this i why cartoons are totally censored and fluff in comparison to the classics (pre milennium). Oversentive people. Totally stripped of all character.
-Character creation audio continues when the cutscene after creation follows.
-Major fps drop
-strange audio bug when playing PVE (hearing all sorts of random Voices)
i am looking forward to the new Stronghold Gameplay type. What i don’t look forward is it being queued with conquest. Stronghold has the potential to let the PVP community grow if it can be played dedicated (just like the different PVP styles in GW 1) . Please consider giving it its own queue instead of throwing it all on one pile. In my opinion it will put many enthousiast off who are looking forward to stronghold as its own entity.
I’m in the middle of migrating from one Internetprovider to another. That means i will use different e-mail adresses from now on. I have 2 Guildwars 2 accounts (and a guildwars 1 account linked to one of them) each with their own user login (e-mail adress).
Nowhere in the support database i can find what to do to link my accounts to the new e-mail adresses.
What can i do now? Make support tickets for each of them with a change request?
Leave Trahearne alone :-) I like his character. Just like Kormir who Brought a whole army to the dead in Nightfall with her kamikaze strategy. Still liked the character.
My personal experience in this game is that theres a shift from horizontal progression/gameplay to vertical progession/gameplay over the last year.
Every patch things are symplified/narrowed/gated more. (npe/traits/gating of ps/cutting content out of the PS/narrowing achievements). And the new login rewards dont bring people to play more, only to login and logout (good for the metrics/not to retain players).
After the newest Wintersday incarnation (which is ten times the grind then the ones before) i come to the point that it dousn’t feel good anymore, its got a forced feeling over it. I personally have come at the point that i think it will be a good time to stop.
I was feeling sorry for the new players who where blasted away by a big Zerg train of high level players in Queensdale hunting for dailies last day. There was no event to be found for them in time. Thats what you get with a narrow pool of daily pve goals. It was the Champ train al over again, So much for promoting friendly healthy gameplay.
My experience this year. Theres a trend of on the one hand dumbing down (npe beginners areas, login rewards etc, promoting spoonfed), and at the other hand promoting restrictive gameplay (vertical forced grindy): Traits system, new achievement dailies, gate locked personal story used to be rewarded for just playing the game with the content i like (thats good achievements). Now it rewards for doing things forced from a very narrow pool (Myself am a PVE player only, before i just played the PVE content i wanted for decent hours and got the reward, now your rewarded with ap (which i want for the skins) for forcing things. Horizontal progression is steadily swapped for vertical, gated restrictive non progession (which vertical progession is, its no progession, its a grind).
I’m at the point having no desire to play anymore, it doesn’t feel right anymore (and thats of course because of many gameplay changes rolled out over the year, this is just a little part of it). The Guildwars spirit is gone for me (after playing guildwars 1,2 on and of from 2006).
Have you seen the new dailies for pve. One is do a fractal, one is complete 4 events in the Silverwastes. So much about the NPE as a new player and rolling out a new char. 2 full level 80 achieves, 20 minutes time and really easy to obtain kuch? In a very restrictive pool, thats promoting forced gameplay.
It is forced play (greatly reduced PVE pool), so its certainly grind. It forces you too play in a particular way. The old system did not, you where rewarded for playing the game the way you wanted. I play decent hours of PVE, but have no intention of hanging in Queensdale, Caledon Forest everyday. And have certainly no intention of pvp-ing or WvW ing.
Great for the Achievement grinders, not for the players who just want too play the content they like. I found it a nice reward (as anti grinder) by playing the content, seeing the dailies and monthlies pop up as a reward for that.
Old System: I played whatever i wanted in PVE and almost always got the dailies by playing the game unforced for a normal time of hours in a day. Events, gathering, salvaging, combat actions etc without ever having too force myself. Thats good achievements.
New system: the very narrow pool of pve daily achievements requires me too force myself doing things i dont wanna do. That it only takes half an hour is no excuse. Its a transition from horizontal (getting rewarded for unforced normal gameplay), too vertical gameplay (grind). I’m seeing a transittion pattern that doesn’t look too healthy.
First the gated traits, personal story gating, now the forced daily system (and lets not forget the spoonfed beginner areas we have now). At the same time theres a steady decline in the delivering of content this year opposed to last year. Yes its permanent now, but its also much less.
Just my thoughts.
All these little pictures they have shown us these past few weeks (without connection to the upcoming episode) does seems to point toward something rather big coming.
Going to be interesting to see what actually happens early next year.
Starting to think that the Rytlock thing indeed has something special about it. Wonder if it will be part of the end Of Ls 2 or something beyond that…
Had a Vision of the Crystal Desert/Elona with Rytlock Guiding us into this new lands next year like a mesiah….
Enjoying the Halloween event. Mad King Says, the Labyrinth, the instance. Didnt really get the chance to get into the event last year. And of course the increased rewards are very welcome :-) Herding candy corns for the Hexed outfit :-)
