Guild Wars 2

Good meant suggestion: turn back while you can. In these 6 months more things have been removed, nerfed, fixed until its broken than new content has been brought in. Starting zones dumped down, many lore technical things that you loved have been removed, trait system messed up, no major permanent content, leveling alts is a pain in the kitten now and the servers are lagging like hell. And these things are just some of the ones you missed.

It should be named “Remove Wars 2”, which thing you love will be removed or nerfed to death next?
And aside of several points of the lore there are no connections between GW2 and GW1.

Now i have a problem: Even tough I connected both accounts Kimmes doesnt offer me anything. I already tried toggling between personal achievments and accountwide achievments in gw1 but it still doesnt work.

Looka.6078:

Well, this is no infographic at all but it is relevant enough, I guess:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=guild%20wars%202

But thats normal, shortly before and after release the searches for a game will sky rocketing.

Currently the game feels like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyXhysmMNhE
Guy in red=Anet, Guy in white=major playerbase

Ok thanks for the fast response.

Im currently playing GW1 again and unlocking all the stuff in HoM.
Now my question is: If I link both accounts now will I still be able to unlock things in HoM later or will they simply not count?

Malediktus.9250:

While they are at it, they should add a token system for the world boss events. Its completly silly when you did Tequatl 100+ times and never had one of those ascended weapons or even the mini tequatl out of it.

Im currently at 300+ so dont complain^^

To answer your question: For the China release and for the giant champagne filled jaccuzzi in the central of Anet.

Didint the paragon from GW1 used heavy armor?

You are obviously one of the few who really likes the recent patch. I gave it a try, after 10 min with the new leveling system by just clicking 1 button I got so annoyed that i just threw in a lvl 20 scroll just to escape this dullness. 1,5h to get to lvl 10 with the limited weaponskills ist just to boring.
And to the new player experience in general: Im playing since release, and right after the start it was awesome. The areas looked alive, there was so much to discover: From Asuran Golem chess, over Norn Beer Football and to the famous apple pie of Eda. And the best was: You could decide when you wanted to do what. You didnt need to unlock your kitten traits with gold and skillpoints.
The recent patch is just continuing the downfall of this game. They patched out all those activities and racial characteristic things from the starter areas, took your freedom how you want to discover Tyria and are forcing you to either pay a lot of gold just to unlock your traits, the other way is doing some bugged events in order to achieve them. Also the once more or less ordinary made personal story has been dumbed down, things like skulls and blood are missing now in this game because of the chinafication of the game. Most of us veterans are simply disgusted into what abomination this game has turned into.
Also, 2 Years and no permanent major content but a lot of temporary grinding/zerging bullkitten are showing the state of this game. We are basicaly there where we started, actually we made several steps back.

Answer to your question: NEVER

NewTrain.7549:

airstu.2579:

Best balanced game ever and best esport game ever.

I hope you’re being sarcastic.

The sarcasm is already dripping from this sentence.

No, unless you are a hardened game veteran who can withstand pain, dullness and the ignorance of the developers.
GW2 is currently a sinking ship and the devs obviously dont have any plans saving it.

Work in rl and convert money to gold ist the most consistent way for your gold income.

Arikyali.5804:

pessimist.7294:

Eda delicious apple pie, asuran golem chess, all these things were removed for no reason. Looks like the dev dont want us to enjoy the game and thsoe small things.

WHAT. THEY REMOVED THE ASURA GOLEM CHESS?!

My guildies and I would sometimes spend afternoons duking it out there!! I had the winning streak!! How could they DO such a thing?!

cries

And this is just the beginning, soon all 5 races will be so simillar and dull that they only divide each other in body size.

Furyan.9578:

Considering how some of this NPE is going are Arenanet sure they want to actually keep the players it caters towards? I mean, really. How many people have actually stop playing the game because golem chess was too confusing, or watering plants seemed like such a struggle, or feeding a cow to actually warranty even a fraction of those changes, and do you really think players who’ve found the lower levels so challenging to stay are going to find the later levels tolerable?

Their heads might explode when all their skills are unlocked.

Anet wants their game to be so easy that even people without arms can play this game.

Danikat.8537:

The best approach is to post it on the forum. If there’s a specific section it’s relevant to post it there, if not put it in general discussion.

You might not get a response from Anet, but they do read the forums and will act on genuinely good ideas and valid concerns (the most recent example being the changes made to the new player experience after everyone complained).

There used to be a section where player could post feedback and suggestions. It got closed down somewhere after the start of the LS season 1.

I would be careful about storing things in a personal guild bank. In case your account gets hacked the support wont refund anything which was stored there.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

pessimist.7294:

They want to make the game less scary and appealing. With the next fature patch Norn will be non alcoholics, Charr soft pacifists, all to revealing armor replaced with burkas, enemies will use toy guns and the vocabulary in the game will be restricted to 300 words.
Currently this game is like a failing surgery, each new idea they try to keep this game alive only bring more pain and permanent damage to the victim.

And so say Pessimist!

Seriously though, i don’t think it’ll go that bad, you’re way too pessimistic haha.

You know, we germans said the same thing at the begin of the battle of Stalingrad and you know hiw it ended.
Also the playerbase said the same thing when the LS becaming more stupid and dull we ever expected. Everyone said that it only can get better, now look where we are. 2 kitten Years, no major permanent content, starting areas dumbed down aswell trait system and character progression and leveling, no endgame and so on. We could continue to list up all the things this game lacks and should have get in these 2 years.
Watch it going much worse from now on. There are barely any new players coming here and many of the veterans left the game or are about to leave. Means less money from the game and gemshop sales. And without these funds and no new ideas which arent complete bullkitten they are not able to bring the game forward. And from this point on they have 2 choices: Either close down the whole game to prevent further losses or they shut down the EU/NA branch and completely concentrate on the asian market which is far more lucrative.

Implied the game survives until an expansion gets announced.

They want to make the game less scary and appealing. With the next fature patch Norn will be non alcoholics, Charr soft pacifists, all to revealing armor replaced with burkas, enemies will use toy guns and the vocabulary in the game will be restricted to 300 words.
Currently this game is like a failing surgery, each new idea they try to keep this game alive only bring more pain and permanent damage to the victim.

Eda delicious apple pie, asuran golem chess, all these things were removed for no reason. Looks like the dev dont want us to enjoy the game and thsoe small things.

Why didnt you say 1000 gems instead of 1800? Now that they saw this they will probably put it in next year for 3600 gems

Isnt 50% of this game beta?

I want a kitten skin and not spoons!!! Ive been waiting since almost 300 runs now. 0 skins but 4 spoons, if this goes on like that I will have enough to equip a large restaurant chain with them.

Ciucan.5092:

Mitch.4781:

I LOVE the game…it saddens me to see all this potential go to waste. It’s like having a beautiful smart daughter who could become an amazing Doctor only to see her turn out to be a prostitute. That’s the bottom line.

Give the people what they want Anet..it’s not rocket science!!!

Brilliant comparison mate,sadest part of everything you said is that it is all true..

Yeah and on top of that a dirt cheap prostitute who does everything for some cash.

Or maybe its intended? We will never know whats going on the twisted minds of the devs.

They removed/reworked things that were totally fine in the game like pressing tab to choose the next target. Also they removed the freedom how you want to play and level your character. In the past you could either level up your character by crafting, doing events in WvW and Edge of the Mist, exploring the world or just doing your personal story, After the feature patch the Personal story will unlock every 10 level only, Vistas are not visible until you reached a certain level and events on the edge of the mist will give you 30xp on lvl 20. And leveling is artifically slowed down now, even for veterans. Also they removed 1 of the better aspects of the already dull personal story (did I mention that they also removed your characters personality?) where you could tell the pale tree what your greatest fear is. The resulting mission of this dialogue and the dialogue itself are gone. Another thing are the armor skins, Anet simply brings out full suites where you cant customize the specific parts or just equip 1 or 2 parts of them you like. You have to wear the full suit and cant choose what color the specific parts have. And maybe most importantly the collaborated develpoment forum has been removed. In the first year after launch you could bring in your ideas, suggestions and your concerns. The developers would listen (more or less) and give feedback. Right now there is nothing like that, most players have the feeling that the devs are simply ignoring the playerbase (judging from the Feature patchs this year they probably are). Just to name some of the things which are gone.

Ive been playing Guild Wars since the release of GW1 EotN, Must be at least 6 years now.
Right now Im trying to get a Tequatl skin after almost 300 runs now, farming dungeons to fill the new achievments and farming gold so I can buy some new fancy armor if there will be one in the Gemshop. The only things that keeps me playing now are that i actually really love GW2 and dont want to leave it (exept when the developers are forcing me to). There isnt a real alternative for this game also. Unfortunaly most of my favorite aspects of the game have been removed by now.

Cover your ears and cover your eyes, a heavy storm is coming…
And to answer your question: There is 1 new area you might want to explore. No new dungeons and you missed some events. But for this you can unlock eversything you missed in the Gemshop along with alot of other more or less useful things there. Also they changed the personal story so that it makes even less sense now. (No hard choices, less dead people, its more like a bad written fairy tale now) Also they nerfed the starter areas so that even veterans are going to have a hard time to bring a new character to lvl 80. Experience from crafting has been nerfed too along with the edge of the mist train, you will gain 4 level per maxed crafting profession now. Also they took the freedom how you want to play the game from you by making things like the diving goggles levelgated aswell as the vistas.
Just to fill you in some changes, the whole madness now has to be experienced to understand how bad it is.

They want you to have more playtime until you reach lvl 80 without putting in new content.

Einlanzer.1627:

It’s a good game. It really is. I think some of the negativity of the forums can be attributed to the passion people have for it – wanting the best for it and getting very frustrated by missteps and lack of communication.

Only that this miscommunication and failures have been happening for a long time now. And at some point the patience is gone.

Im going with number 1

Its broken so why should they fix it? Only if the system would work really good they will make changes.

Yeah you know there is a spectator working for Anet who keeps an eye on bigger groups of players organizing a run. And everytime when there is a specific amount he calls in the devs to roll in patch to ruin the game experience.
At least thats how many of us feel.

Anet probably answers:
1) No, players will get too much loot and we want them to buy gems with real life money for their skins.
2) Either not going to happen in the next 2 years or it will be a gemshop item
3) Since when we actively care about pvp?
4) Gemshop item or else too much effort for not enogh profit
5) Look 4)
6) Too brutal, could scare of the children, thats also why we removed so much lore/information, dumbed down the starter zones and rewritten the personal story. Surprises are bad, especially when a not really existing person dies in it
7) Sure but only if the loot is 2 green items and 1 blue for the event chain which takes 2h
8) look at 6)
9) Oh we just fixed it and you want us to break it again? Sure just wait for the next feature patch!
10) Nah we are out of ideas, also dont bring enough money

There will be no info picture because there is nothing fancy to show. Everything is going down now and they probably dont want to show the state of decay of this game so they can sell more copies before shutting it down.
Would be interesting tough to see how much veteran players really left the game and how many new players got into the game compared to last year. And ofc how much money they do with the NA/EU servers compared to the Asian ones.

They are thinking about more ways to make the players life miserable in this game like you need to be lvl 30 before you can use the waypoints in the starter zones and stuff like that.

The worst thing is that there is no option for turning off the “Anet thinks im to stupid to understand the most basic mechanics” function in the game.

Take care guys, even tough I dont really know who you are. Maybe there will be several GW2 Exile Communities in other, better games. After Anet finished sinking their own ship we might see those who are leaving there.
Anyway Im wishing you the best luck for your future games and may the RNG god be with you there.

Anet always claimed that they are better than companies like EA. But in the end they are the same wolf just under a different coat. They already have our money and if they think that the asian market is getting them more money they will simply abandon us.
After all nothing really new.

Talonblaze.3175:

Twilight Arbor Path F/U
Personality
Now an entire chapter of a story.

What next?

Probably Charr.

Or to get a bigger hold in the middle eastern countries all too much revealing armor for females will be removed.

Maybe they wanted her to look more “Made in China” like?

Yenrah.8532:

Oh dear, seriously? What was the reason this time? 10 year old payers couldn’t live with such failure? Was Anet afraid they would be forced to pay for their counselling?
I don’t want my characters to be almighty heroes. I want them to be human.

I think you mean a normal person^^
But yeah failure happens in life. And if they are removed from the storyline of this game its like we are playing a real bad written fairytale with obnoxious main characters.

MrsAngelD.6971:

I really hope the dev’s are paying attention to this.

Since when does the devs pay attention to the community?

Unfortunaly this isnt going to happen anymore in the future. Since the western GW2 and the China version become more and more similar, soon generositiy will be seen as an act of foolishness. The once nice and generous community will die out..

Leo Paul.1659:

We already got him to attend the summit. Who’s to say he hadn’t run to some more mordrem on his way back to Rata Sum? Certainly not me… teehee let me escort you on your way back councillor

Exactly, cant we just arrange some kind of “accident” to get rid of him?

They wont restore anything in your guild bank. And unless Anet finally brings in passwords protected guild vaults you shouldnt store anything in the guild bank.

The dragon looked like Taco with some salad^^