HawkofStorms

nerfandderf, on 16 May 2013 - 11:52 AM, said:

Wow grouchy much?

So far only ascended gear for me.

I, on 18 May 2013 - 04:33 PM, said:

Well on your server maybe, I know barely anyone who isn't a GW1 vet and they are all still playing.

Well it was an alright update if you were looking for an excuse to mess around in Southsun. There's definitely more stuff they added in here than what F&F had in it's first couple of months. Might be worth karma farming Southsun because the events there spawn pretty frequently and you get a free MF or GF boost. Nothing worth really getting excited about but hey, Southsun isn't a dead zone anyone! There's actually stuff to do now..... even if it's essentially the same 5 types of events copypasted a few times around the zone .

What I want to know is what will Canach's Lair and the Karka queen involve. They're hinted at in the achievements but will they involve events, a dungeon... maybe a meta-chain similiar to the temple events. We can only hope.

I love how pointing out that someone don't have to play content they don't like is "attacking them".

There are quite a lot of complains about lack of things to do, or the world not changing enough, so clearly the living story is quite important for quite a bit of people. And why assume that they will ONLY release Living Story content?
As far as I know there have not been a single update that ONLY added Living Story stuff and NO other things (new features, bug fixes, balancing).

The concept of holding any guild member accountable for mandatory attendance in a video game is absurd.

I know its ridiculous but that snake line at the end there makes me want to belive the friend is a Forgotten.

So far we've had a month for each stage of FaF, and previous content rolled over into the next stage so it could be completed at a very leisurely pace.

One of the things GW2 fans were excited about before launch was the idea that the non-subscription financial model would relieve pressure to keep playing.  The idea was that you don't have a need to "get your money's worth" out of your monthly payment, so you could take a break from the game when RL or fatigue sets in, and then come back and not feel you lost something.

I know a lot of people have complained that FaF seems like little content spread over too much time.  Maybe having a dungeon only available for 13 days will make these people happy.  Personally, I like that I could continue doing non FaF things in game, and do FaF whenever I felt like it.  I'd much rather see small amounts of content added each month rather than it all give over one month and nothing for the next three.

I can think of pros and cons to this kind of limited content:

Pro: It creates some exclusivity.  Only a slice of the GW2's lifetime population will experience this dungeon and have the rewards from doing it.  This isn't a motivator for me, but it seems to be for other players dying to feel special and unique.

Pro: It feels (slightly) less theme parky if content is finished once and for all.  "I defeated the Molten Alliance" and four years later "Oh, I did that just last week" is the reply from someone who just joined.  Again, not too big a motivator for me, as I have pretty strong suspension of disbelief, but I get why people feel more immersed in one-time content.

Con: Somebody spent time creating this content, only to have it disappear after 13 days, presumably forever.  It's not doing anything for those people who come to GW2 and complain that it doesn't have the quantity and variety of content like a mature MMO.  After thirteen days Tyria is no larger or more diverse than it was back in April.

Con: The game starts to feel like a chore for some players.  I've got a really busy couple of weeks, say, but I better squeeze in some time to get in game so I don't miss out.

What other pros and cons are there to this kind of limited content?

Would it have been better for the Molten Alliance to become a permanent part of Tyria?

Or would a longer, but still limited time (say a month like all the other phases) be better for the players?

Or is even 13 days too long, and the finale should have been shortened and made a one time event like the Mad King or Karka finale?

Side-note here, but you can now hide gloves in addition to your head piece and shoulder set.

If an MMO starts previewing but hasn't announced a business model, you know it's going to involve a sub, at least until it fails.

Traveller, on 29 April 2013 - 03:24 PM, said:

^

Dirame, on 25 April 2013 - 12:13 PM, said:

http://www.guildwars...30#entry2194657

Simple fact of the matter is that ArenaNet's lost the built in audience for its *PvP.  Most of the pros have left and now they have to fight and uphill battle over the first impressions of the PvP.  Most people have moved on to getting into other games that are already more popular.

http://www.twitch.tv/directory

There are more people watching the DC Universe MOBA than there are people watching Guild Wars 2 (as of this posting).  There are more people watching Minecraft.  There are more people watching The War Z​ after its abysmal launch.

What El Duderino is referring to is ArenaNet's inability to capture a core audience (not players), because that is what drives eSports.  Not the crap that's going on now, but professionals with audiences and followers, who get ad revenue which justifies the cost of renting from ArenaNet.  Anyone who plays eSports professionally, unless there is a strong built-in audience to the game itself to drive ad revenue, isn't going to bother to learn a game as broken as the current GW2 PvP, especially when it's going to cost them money to learn the game on a custom server.  Especially if they've already found and learned another niche game that has more viewers.  Switching platforms, retraining (especially in a poorly balanced environment) without a larger potential ad stream is a bad move.

That's just bad business.

I, on 24 April 2013 - 09:35 PM, said:

...Just because you can be a jerk doesn't mean you should be a jerk. Being polite goes a long way to making friends and minimizing enemies. And, in the OP's case, keeping him off the temp ban list.

I can't believe I had to explain that.

I can hardly tell the difference between most of the shades/hues of the dyes already. Just looks like more red, blue and greens to me.

Thank you for taking the time to make the gallery, though.

I found a good option is to focus on level 78 exotics. The loss in stats compared ton an 80 isn't dramatically steep, but they're often much, much cheaper. To boot, level 78 exotics can be more easily customized in appearance since you can use the basic transmutation stones on them.

This isn't a longterm solution, but it's much less stressful to upgrade to 80 exotics piece by piece when it's a matter of fine-tuning rather than a dire need.

Please explain to me why this needed to be done? Honestly. Oh no, you can access the guild vault from anywhere. Big whoop. Now it uses merits?

An entire patch used to eliminate someone's ability to circumvent the gem shop by not having to buy more bag slots for their characters. Genius. I'm still not buying bag slots for my characters, nor do I buy bank express consumables.