Raytla

Hello people. To collect some player's opinions about current topics and some of the changes GW2 made compared to other games, I created a survey. I avoided questions about stuff like class balance or dungeon encounters, and tried to look at the game as a whole. Here is the link to it:

http://ow.ly/jzoD4

Results are viewable after you complete it (or at http://ow.ly/jzpST, but don't look before answering the survey). Thanks in advance

Also, let me know if you think any question should be added.

thx for the survey - very interesting and nice to see that most people obviously appreciate the way ANET is going (as i do).

Every time I log on, the first thing I check us to see what my friends are doing, then join them.
It doesn't matter what.

While I'm doing so, these so called "checklists" help me keep track of what I could do along the way.

If my friends are not on, or afk, or crafting, then I proceed to do my own things, which is literally just pick a random cardinal direction and GO.

Usually I would end up following some random player and do what they happen to be doing.

My "checklist" ticks off by itself without me ever needing to pay much attention to it.

Now why is that so?

I no longer go look up on a certain item on some database, research on how to get it and start doing nothing but the things that would get me that thing in the fastest most efficient way possible.

Rewards are byproducts to me.
I'm not doing only things that are worth MY time.
As a result, everything is worth playing, everyone is worth playing with.

Try it.
Make the point of you playing the game not entirely for yourSELF.

Just play.

Yeah, you know what? I think I figured it all out.

This game is ridden with carrots, dangling on sticks. My problem with this, is not the carrots. As the arse that I am, I love them carrots. Juicy and dripping with goodness that makes me go after them

The problem here is that the stick is too damn long!

There are things that an accomplished game will always crave. The feeling of accomplishment for completing a challenge, my ability to express myself through the way I look and how I shape my character through the means available in the game, and attain a special uniqueness that describes who I am. Like a business card, my character is my own, and the time I invest in it should reflect it!

Unlike what some white-knighting fools (which I have no other words to describe) would have you think, my character is not an amalgamation of stats walking and prancing in Lion's Arch with the sole function of being a medium to play this incredible "fun" game. Those cosmetics you folk quickly dismiss as "just cosmetics" are as part of a character than the best-est of best item in slot. And the path to attain them was made excruciatingly hard by ArenaNet...

...on purpose! And designed as such! Not by chance nor accident!

Cosmetics aren't gold nuggets in a river waiting for a lucky prospector to come along and hopefully comb them out. This is a beef I have that has made me claw my eyes out. ArenaNet are devils, demons, for purposely make things either too hard or too time-consuming, for no reason. Their clamoring of "captivating customers" through appealing content was a sham, and we were all fools for falling for it. Yeah I've seen it. We all have.

But what have they done wrong you ask? Well...

1) The needlessness of having to go through dungeons, not once, but several times in a row to obtain the gear associated with. And best of it all? Said gear cannot be obtained in any other way! A smart move would be having that gear dropping randomly from instances, but no, all we get is trash loot from chests that barely makes up for the trip. Even a single remote shot of saving me 3-6 runs through an instance would be better than the travesty of loot I get from dungeons. Not a single rare item in two weeks is just not right!

2) The idiocy of the inane quantities of RARE items required for even the simplest non-dungeon equipment. Said rare items that don't drop anywhere except on the remote occasion that Lady Luck smiles your way, items with no practical method of being obtained I may add. Even the most efficient farming guides only guarantee an "average" of ONE item PER hour. And be glad if it drops at all, as the cryptic and borderline useless Rare Item Plus stat is as reliable as screwing a nut with a hammer.

It makes my blood boil when I think about it.

Guild Wars 2 is most the accessible MMO on the market, but it isn't for everyone.

clipbord, on 24 February 2013 - 02:13 AM, said:

Many folks here don't. They prefer to come on here and complain. The rest of us, we still enjoy it. Life is funny...if you don't enjoy something you don't have to do it. Maybe there is a game out there better suited to your style?

El Duderino, on 13 March 2013 - 11:07 PM, said:

Because I have a very busy schedule and I don't have time to waste trekking through nonsense mobs and cc to get to where I want to go. I already went through and got those way points the first time around. It frees my time up so I'm doing more actual content rather then running around.

If you really love running around then I suggest not taking whatever the closest way point is and walking the rest of the way if you want that experience.

El Duderino, on 13 March 2013 - 09:37 PM, said:

Waypoints are fine. This isn't Guild Wars 1. Nothing is stopping you from manually running around and you have no right to force others into your brand of fun.

Take a break. I play gw2 in spurts because it does bore me to some extent. Some months I hardly play at all and others I play a lot.

Arkham Creed, on 01 March 2013 - 05:13 AM, said:

You might want to consider simply not playing for a while. Do something else, either play another game, do something else on the computer, or just go do something else altogether. When you want to go back to the game, go back.

you are not leaving home, your family nor ur girlfriend... u are taking a break from a game man... do it.

Come back when u like, if you will ever like, and that's it lol.

IT'S A GAME

Feathermoore, on 22 February 2013 - 05:43 PM, said:

Lol GW1 battle is decided plenty fast alright, there's no chance of an upset victory.

Let's see - their team has a monk, and you don't. You're dead - you don't even start the game, you know you're oh so hosed.

They bring hexes, you bring condition removal. You're dead - don't even bother playing.

They got touchers and you're melee heavy. Guess what, you're dead.

Or what about earlier when rangers spiked like crazy and you're prepared for an ele spike. You're hosed.

Considering you carry the same skills with you between matches = it was only a matter of time before you get hosed. So I guess you're right, GW1 battles lasted a lot faster.

On the other hand... Ele for instance, has been called a brainwaster. Because you pretty much just sit around and push 1-2 buttons. There's a reason they're called the "heal bots". Because they got shitty heals, but they can do it non-stop by spamming skills. Not to mention Eles did crap for dmg, because pretty much anything else bypasses armor except for elemental damage.

Compared to GW2 where if you're an ele, you can go melee, dance and deal nifty damage, switch attune, drop a few heals, and get back into the fun. The zerg actually alows for AoE to really shine in PvP. In GW1, bringing AoE to PvP was considered a "noob" mistake. GW2  skills actually blur the line between PvE and PvP much better.

So I guess GW1 is faster in all the wrong ways and slower for all the wrong reasons. If you've ever noticed a good game is where a chance of an upset was possible. This is not the case with GW1.

A good chunk of your chance of coming on top was already pre-determined before the game even started. Going back to SSFIV - the game creators knew that a game is only interesting if a chance for upset was possible hence they added the super and the ultra. Have you ever watched a sports game where one team was clearly dominating the other? Yeah boring right. This is what it feels like for a lot of GW1 matches.

El Duderino, on 22 February 2013 - 04:30 PM, said:

Congratulations, you've asked for people's opinions and then immediately refused to acknowledge them.  You're right, their opinions aren't the definitive truth and neither are yours.  There are obviously people who want more active combat and those who want to keep the more slower paced gameplay.  A developer really can't appeal to both sides in this situation; it's going to have to be one or the other. One thing that IS definitive truth, is that the combat systems you see in earlier MMOs were very much designed around the severe limitations of technology at the time.  With current tech, things like character displacement, movement, proper hit detection, physics, all of these things can now be implemented into an MMO combat system.  And that's what we're seeing happening with the vast majority of new MMOs being released.  It seems like the natural progression of combat in the majority of new MMOs is towards a more active combat system.  However, this idea is still in early stages.  It may take a while, but I certainly think you can retain a high level of strategy with more active combat.  GW2 may be lacking some strategical depth from other, slower paced, MMOs; but I think it IS a step in the right direction towards using current technology to improve the basics of combat

El Duderino, on 26 February 2013 - 07:39 PM, said:

you don't need to be a hardcore player to get ectos easily. ofc being hardcore helps with lowering the time spent on getting them, but if you are a casual player do you even need ascended that quickly that you can't even let your stack of ecto's grow by playing cassually?

Am I the only one who's glad it's not 250 ectos....