Yep its probably a bug, watch it getting Ninja patched in the next hours.
I wish we could help but we as community are completely powerless. Currently we even have problems with our own EU/NA publisher.
I am sorry you feel this way. But there is limitations to how Armor works and how Outfits work, they have already said they can’t make outfits into armor. Its a technical limitation.
Rather a “we are too lazy and cheap to make armor skins instead of costumes” .
Work optimization at its best.Believe it or not there are actually technical limitations. Why they can’t address these limitations is beyond me but if their resources are tied up with so many more pressing matters, I expect some good quality stuff in the next year.
Good quality stuff huh? We are waiting for some good quality stuff since months and all we get are full body costumes, more bugs and more server instability.
its madness.
lock the only exclusive skins in the game behind a massive rng paywall.
who makes these decisions?!
We will never know what those twisted masterminds of Anet are thinking.
Seriously, with that only 1000 (or less since you can get more than just 1 skin with alot of luck) will have a nice halloween while you ruin it for several hundred thousands.
Yeah and this time its strongly limited. Knowing how RNG works probably those who only submit 1-10 of the pieces will win more often than those who submit thousands.
Well, kitten . I don’t know what to feel about this.
Just see this as a preview of what will happen to EU/NA servers if Anet goes on like that.
KZW is probably Kong Zhong, the publisher of GW2 in China. He probably want to say that there are almost no more active players on the chinese servers and that the customer policy of KZW is destroying the game for the chinese players.
They are trying to get people to buy gems with RL money so they convert it into ingame gold. Didnt thought Anet would get desperated that fast to press the last money out of the customers.
Expect nothing than pure disappointment for at least the next 12 months.
Before that you can enjoy the poorly made Living Story Season 2,3 and 4. For each season 1 new small area.
I am sorry you feel this way. But there is limitations to how Armor works and how Outfits work, they have already said they can’t make outfits into armor. Its a technical limitation.
Rather a “we are too lazy and cheap to make armor skins instead of costumes” .
Work optimization at its best.
How many people from the GW1 Team/Original GW2 Team are actually left after 2 years? Would be nice if Anet could give us a little overview about their current and original team.
Behold the miracles of the mighty (and “improved” by the last feature patch) megaservers. You guys should be grateful that you are allowed to use such a high developed system.
Sarkasm off
Either this is a new way of Anet to show players the middlefinger or its just a new design flaw among the thousands that already exist.
It would be fun to see the skritt as a playable race but…
1. Players would have to be able to control a pack of skritt not just one individual
2. I don’t think the devs should do it because there is no way they can come close to how I picture it in my imagination and anything they design would just be disappointing
Yes at least 12 Skritts, each bears 1 skill. Else your Skritt character wouldnt even be able to count 1+1.
Easy, give a Norn and a Human a big barrel of beer. The one who is still standing after the barrel is empty is the Norn.
Guild Wars 1 hasn’t had a major update in years and people still play it. UO hasn’t had an update in a decade and people still play it.
Vayne? Fact check yourself . . .
Ultima Online got an expansion in ’08 (Stygian Abyss) and a “booster pack” in ’10 (High Seas).
Still . . . most people I know still prefer to . . . um . . . think about playing emulated 1999 versions.
Okay sorry, Ultima Online hasn’t had an expansion in 6 years and no one plays it. I didn’t look it up. However, the basis of what I said remains true whether the specifics do or not. Changing the numbers doesn’t change the reality of what I’m saying.
For all practical purposes, it’s hard to imagine no one playing this game in ten years, unless NcSoft shuts down the servers.
Unless Anet turn this game into a unplayable mess (which has a high possibility to happen) and ascend to the worst gaming company in the world (which is currently hold by EA)
If we’re talking about GW2’s longevity, shouldn’t we be talking about games likely to arise in the future that will pose a threat? (instead of MMO titan’s like WoW, that have been around longer than GW2’s inception — and yes, as much as you all hate them, and many other people do, even with numbers dwindling, they still trump GW2’s fanbase)
And thats why GW2 devs dont see any reason to bring out new expansions. Until now there is no real threat and thats why they keep going on like this.
Dont set up your expectations too high, the only thing we will get is the Living (dead) Story 2. Some new overpriced and useless shopitems and more full costumes instead of armor skins. We wont see any significant releases for at least the next 2 years.
ANet has already shown with their action how this game will run: if it does not involve RNG+Gem Store sale, nothing will be done about it. For instance our many many bug reports about professions, constant reminders on existence of PvP/WvW/Dungeons and various suggestions have gone unheeded for two years now. And all of those have in common, which is lack of direct correlation in gem store sales. Living Story on the other hand creates an influx of players, which then can be lured into buying gems for skins/utilities while ardent PvP/WvW/Dungeon players have already accumulated enough gold and items to ignore such sales.
As matter of fact PvP has been neglected for 2 years with exception of occasional tournaments which only few people play. For WvW GvG or tier balancing is still out of the window and the most recent improvements were already datamined since the beginning of the game. For Pve, well ANet flat out destroyed hopes and desires of many Dungeoners and ruined fractal rewards even more. At this point expecting something from Anet is completely futile due to their infamous track records, so what I’d say is enjoy the combat and the game until new games come out.
- 1 Additional Emote for 800 gems,
- Ability to decorate your house, organize parties and do stuff like that for 1200 gems for Each furniture,
- Seperate buildings for guilds, private “teleporting stones” for guild members, all for 8000 or 16000 gems,
- Item allowing you to NAME the weapons/armour you craft for 2000 gems,
- Item allowing you to turn soul-bound item into an account-bound item for 2000 or 4000 gems.
- Unlocking bonus race/class for 4000 gems.(Almost) Free:
- Jobs from NPCs that would allow you to do ‘grind your kitten off’ tasks in order to get some gold,
- Information about who crafted the weapon/armour on every item(?), like a signature (which cost 800 gems),
- Ability to save trait combinations (new to the gemshop for 800 gems), this one would be great,
- “Coaching” new players for some period of time would grant players a 72h buff that would increase magic find by 50%, if the people you help will give you a good rating (only if you buy the VIP access for 10 Euros monthly).Those are just a few things that would make the game way more fun (for ANET).
There fixed it for you. We know that its going to turn out like that.
Invest them in stuff and later turn this stuff into profit.
This year will be Halloween light, no new content and only warmed up stuff again. All their efforts seems to be put into LS Season 2. There is even a chance that we wont have anything special this year and that it only will be a decorated LA and nothing else.
This game got a future. A dark one, in a grave, forgotten and hated on the internet.
Even if they manage to pleasantly surprise us with the next big update I doubt it will recover so fast from the last Feature Patches. Because they have to make up for what they missed to do in 2 years: New classes, new Races, more diversity in armor skin style, more pvp modes, new areals which takes more than just 1h to completely discover, fix of reward system for world bosses and so on. I could go on for hours to list up whats missing in this game. And with every day passing they fall further behind the other MMORPGs.
Also they will be new ones soon like Black Desert so GW2 will have a hard time in the next months. If they manage to pull of something well done and big they will able to buy some time to think over their strategy until now. If not there will be a mass exodus and thus the end of GW2 (at least for the European and NA version).
Thats why Im still waiting for bodybags, gravestones, and crematories to be sold on the gemshop. I want to bury my characters properly when this game died.
Expect nothing than disappointment and more unwanted shop items.
Anet clearly isnt capable of designing shoes. Until now there are only 1 medium shoe which looks elegant and functional. The rest looks like they stole it from some poor peasants. And another downside are those full armor costumes. They look pretty good actually but you cant pick specific parts of it to mix it with other armor. And judging from the datamining there wont be any near armor skins in the near future. Instead they will bring 1 or 2 armor costumes with the next updates.
Vampire clothes and that hooved lich from what the datamining says… also i saw something like a “commando” outfit that reminds me of some ww2 desert uniform shape wise… didnt find the textured version yet. Not sure where that fits in. Also it seems in winter we get a sweet warm looking and fur trimmed parker with hood…but also that one seems to be a frigging outfit…what else could it be…. Here´s that odd uniform i was talking about…really not sure where that may fit…almost looks “real live” rather then gw2 fantasy imo
http://www.mmozone.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/gw2-render-outfit.png
Yeah either ww2 uniform, or the Star wars rebel soldier gear.
Anet clearly isnt capable of designing shoes. Until now there are only 1 medium shoe which looks elegant and functional. The rest looks like they stole it from some poor peasants. And another downside are those full armor costumes. They look pretty good actually but you cant pick specific parts of it to mix it with other armor. And judging from the datamining there wont be any near armor skins in the near future. Instead they will bring 1 or 2 armor costumes with the next updates.
Until now we dont even have different voices for characters and you guys are already thinking of this?
Yes that would be really nice, so you make your unique hair color for your charater. They also should add this for the eye and skin color.
Oh god my eyes!!!!
Our characters all died from old age (we know people in Tyria rarely get older than 50 years), hunger, diseases and “accidents”. Judging from the HoM all the belongings of our GW1 characters got pillaged, their graves (if they got properly burried and not just dumped into the LA sewer system) robbed and every picture and painting burned and forgotten.
Else i cant explain why my GW2 characters were poor as kitten when i started playing.
Another explanation might be that our characters along with the Tengu, Luxon and Kurzick leaders got invited to the palace in Kaineng after we finished cleansing the affliction. There the ministry of purity announced the reunification of Cantha and the cleansing of all non humans. They then attempted to kill the leaders and ofc our characters tried to defending them. But in the end they all got slaughtered by hundereds of archers and mages. Their dead bodies thron into the sewers so it looked like they got ambushed and killed by the Am Fah or Jade Brotherhood. Everything what reminded the world of our characters got wiped out and their names deleted from the chronicles.
After all we know how Canthanians deals with those issues.
I have a feeling that the Mad King will take one look at the place, get upset, and rebuild it himself.
If it’s safe to leave it like that will be up for debate.
Yeah his joke for this year. Instead of destroying LA again he completely rebuilds it in its new glory while flipping off the players.
Just wow…… throws a big cookie at thread opener
All the money we collected during the 2. pavillon has been disappeared. Probably this new Skritt clan inside the large west cave is responsible for that.
Over the time LA will turn into some kind of slum, just like in Kaineng.
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Let people just marry a horse .. however only inside of the home instance so noone else has to see it .. -sigh-
Wouldnt that to be considered as sodomy?
A romance element could be a nice idea, although to properly do it would require a lot of work (primarily in terms of content unless you want it to be as deep as say Fables romance… which isn’t very deep).
Yep, all we are going to see are 2 large black bars humping each other…..
We already have lesbian relationships ingame. So what’s next? Gay marriages?
Cant stand the sight of 2 tall muscular male norn hugging and loving each other, huh?
And they should add a family system like you will get a little buff if you play together with your brother/sister.
So instead of mounts, you are asking for…mounts?
Eh? Eeeeh?
;)
…….
points to the door Get out.
Definetly nope. This is a game rated 12+. And also China and other countries got a huge problem with same sex marriages and romances. So this would inevitably lead to conflicts within these countries, especially on the asian market. And if Anet implements this without gay or bi marriages and romances it would kitten off a large group of the more liberal playerbase.
This whole lag issue already started 2 or 3 updates earlier. Since the last feature patch it only got worse.
Wait, werent they searching someone for this position since release? And that they have so much free space for developers already says alot about Anet as employer.
And thats why they should introduce tokens we can get from taco so we dont have to rely on the RNG god. Im waiting since over 300 runs for a skin, but I already got 20 spoons -.-
But knowing how Anet handles this me and the OP are going have to wait 2 more years until this happens or more than 700 runs.
Just gonna copy/paste my reddit post here.
I……really don’t understand the purpose of this change.
Like……the kitten, were mobs getting distracted by those finely engraved kitten cheeks?
Probably its hurting the feelings of the chinese players, just like death people skulls and stuff like that.
It got closed down again.
Its the Anet way to fix thing: Dont fix the bug/exploit, instead mess up something which works fine. Probably a way to keep their employers busy.
All I hope is that the whole living story approach is discarded entirely. It’s not a story, nor it is good quality content. It’s just a vehicle for driving gem sales and I hate it.
I second that!
You really think they would abandon this lucrative gemsale machine just because the players are not happy with it? We are only at season 2, expect at least 10 seasons more.
1200 gems for Kasmeers Suit, coming to your gemshop never or when we are out of money again.
I was fine when the megaservers were put in for the areas outside the major cities. But why the hell did they hat to implement it into the cities too? They stole our server identity with that.
In the past we used to have smaller fan made events on our home city maps on our server. Now its barely possible to have 50 people from the same server on the same map. Events cant be made without getting a constant flamewar from people who dont know our server and our own server culture. And they know that they dont have to fear any consequences.
Compared to GW1 GW2 is a bad joke. At the first anniversary the first expansion with major content, a new continent, 2 new classes, more pvp modes and a kittenload of new skills came out. And 1 Year later the next expansion came out.
In GW2 we have the same kitten, after 2 years with only 2 small new areas, no new classes, no real overworked pvp, barely new skills and a dumbed down new character experience.
After 2 years we took several steps behind the release of GW2. And many people already spend enough money into the gemshop for at least 2 expansions. But the only thing they get are some crippling so called “featuere patches” , some boring shop skins and a much worse server stability. So actually people are paying to get scammed.Of all the things you’ve said, only thing I’d challenge you on is server stability. The difference between a true MMO and what was essentially a lobby game are myriad. Having 150 people on the screen at one time casting and moving while casting is a completely different set of issues than having 8 guys in your party, or even 12. Or even 24.
Because graphics are better, and because more people are on your screen, you can’t really compare the two games.
It’s like saying my bicycle gets much better gas mileage than my car. Well yeah. Different situation altogether.
I meant the server stability since the patch, since the feature patch I and many others have far more disconnects, every dungeon run we have now at least 1 guy who gets kicked out by the server.
Compared to GW1 GW2 is a bad joke. At the first anniversary the first expansion with major content, a new continent, 2 new classes, more pvp modes and a kittenload of new skills came out. And 1 Year later the next expansion came out.
In GW2 we have the same kitten, after 2 years with only 2 small new areas, no new classes, no real overworked pvp, barely new skills and a dumbed down new character experience.
After 2 years we took several steps behind the release of GW2. And many people already spend enough money into the gemshop for at least 2 expansions. But the only thing they get are some crippling so called “featuere patches” , some boring shop skins and a much worse server stability. So actually people are paying to get scammed.
It’s not a problem OP. It’s certainly not the problem you’re making it out to be. You’re concerned because the forum community is larger dissatisfied. If you took a snapshot of this community every six months or so, almost since launch, you’d find the same thing.
When we were getting content every two weeks, the forums were furious that it wasn’t permanent content. When ascended game out the forums were furious that the game now has vertical progression. When the NPE came out, the forums are furious that the game is now being dumbed down and that they’re leveled gated. In six months the forums will be furious about something else.
The forums are always furious about something.
To be fair, some of the stuff is more reasonable than other stuff, but I’m not too worried about the content. Halloween is around the corner, and just after that we get more new area to explore.
I’m sure other stuff is in the works as well.
copy paste Halloween inc
copy paste Halloween light incoming*
They could do better than Matrix Online by selling bodybags, coffins and gravestones in the gemshop so the players can properly bury their characters when this game finally died.
But aside from that GW2 still got a small chance, IF they manage to turn it around of course. The next updates will decide over the future of GW2, if they fail there will be plenty of alternatives to this game by the end of the year and the start of next year.
Judging from their course until now however they probably wont learn from their faults of the past nor admitting that they did something wrong. They will sink together with GW2 while yelling: “We have done nothing wrong!!!! Its all the players fault!!!”