Guild Wars 2

I’ve been keeping my eye on this thread since is started but wanted to reserve my comments until I had played the minigame for a while.

As a musician and music instructor, I love this game. I agree that it’s not easy to adjust real-world musicianship to the skills needed to play this game well. I do wish it was truly the “rhythm-based activity” that’s described in the patch notes from 12/10 and not a visual response activity (although this is proving to be a lot of fun, too).

For me, I don’t see a way to make this game a musician’s experience until you circumvent the lag problem. I don’t know about you, but the response time between my keyboard input and the sound I trigger is super late. As a musician, this totally drives me nuts! Hence the need to turn off my ears (or the speakers) and focus on the visuals.

That said, I still love the game and enjoy learning to get better at it. But to say that it is at all related to the kind of internal timing a good musician needs to match beats is a bit of a stretch as long as there’s input lag. Bell Choir = cool. :-)

I’m having an issue with responsiveness of Trading Post.

To illustrate: a couple of days ago, I attempted to buy one stack of 50 silver ore. After the first attempt to click “buy”, I saw no indication that my action had done anything at all, so I clicked “buy” again, thinking that perhaps sales were so robust that the Trading Post needed to reset quantities, etc. In fact, I ended up clicking “buy” several times (about once every 20-30 seconds) with no indication that anything was happening at all, no green message from the Trading Post confirming my purchase, no item in my pickup mailbox.

I know this sounds incredibly stupid on my part, but it took me a few minutes to realize that each click of the “buy” button was chipping away at my character’s coin. The problem is that the Trading Post was giving me no indication that any transactions were actually being completed. At this point, I stopped using the Trading Post all together. However, today, I see that I have 5 stacks of 50 silver ore waiting in my pickup box. This is not what I had intended; I only wanted 1 stack. Also, the amount of money “missing” from my character far exceeds the amount of money I would’ve spent on 5 stacks.

Something has been lost in translation with the Trading Post. My biggest issue is that, more often than not, you can click something in the Trading Post and…nothing happens. Or, rather, nothing happens except your hard-earned coin gets eaten like a broken vending machine.

I’m delighted with the potential of the system and have had about five or six successful transactions (complete with confirmation messages and prompt delivery). BUT one Trading Post failure (the silver ore purchase) has cost me +/- 70 silver, which is more than half the coin I had earned in during the entire lifetime of my level 33 character…and all for a stack of silver ore. I can only imagine what others are going through.

[Finally, I would just like to say thank you to the GW2 people for an amazing game and for being so responsive here on these forums. I’ve been playing MMOs since the beginning of time, haha, and could not be more impressed with everything you’ve done.]