Vayne.8563

Old players opinion of new players opinion. What you're saying is not a huge problem. It's a problem for you. The issue here is that you expect every single game to be made for or appeal to every single player. You want to be led around by the nose and this game was designed to be something different from that. The fact that you can't just google what to do at any given time is why many of us are here. It's about having choices and options instead of a linear path. It's true you may not like this. I'm just not sure why we should care. If you don't like the game, that's fine. I don't like plenty of popular games. You're not the only one that even has that opinion. But what you're complaining about, which is an issue for some people, is a draw for others. Oh my god, there's a level of complexity that means I have to figure some stuff out without being spoon-fed a path forward! Whatever will I do. And trying to dismiss any response to you by prelabeling it fan bois is exactly the kind of tactic that detracts from your opinion. What you're essentially saying is agree with me or you're a fan boi. It's okay if you don't get the game. I don't mind that. For every post we get like yours, there's a post by someone who loves the game. So maybe it's okay that you have this issue.

It is marked on the map. Do you know those little diamonds in the bottom right corner of your big map? Those change levels. What's on each level is show. Therefore, yiou can see what's on your level, and each level below you. Clicking on the second diamond from the bottom clearly shows the icons for both the tp and the bank.

I like the way most of my characters look, but with 60 plus characters, it's a lot of mouths to feed. It's probably easier now that I have all legendary armor and weapons, but the time to get a look that I really like is time consuming and I have less time than I usually do, so it's slow going to go back and get them all. Some of them are wearing outfits that I quite like the look of, and I'll probably not even change those. But my main characters, the ones I play most often, all have looks I really like, as well as a few themed characters including a lizardman called commandersaurus, a norn pirate named Captain Arghh, a necro named Cynesa Shadowsoul, my most expensive creation to date, and my sylvari chronomancer Ivymere. Even my sylvari ranger, Thrist, has a look I love, even though it cost me almost nothing to get that look.

Wow, memories. I was in Mara in GW 1. It feels like ages.

Where are you getting the 50,000 number from? Where are you getting any numbers from? I get it. The stronger you feel about something, the more like you are to believe that it's obvious and everyone feels that way. This is a deeply divided playerbase. There are tons of casuals who don't like heart of thorns. There are lots of hard core players who really like Heart of Thorns, but most people are somewhere in the middle and they're not as evenly split as you seem to believe. I've watched a whole lot of people who didn't like Heart of Thorns warm to it, and then start liking it, and the start spending real time in there. You can pull numbers out of thin air as much as you like, but Anet has the numbers and you do not. Heart of Thorns kept a lot of players in game that would have left if it wasn't here. For some of us (and I'm not a hard core player myself), it remains the height of this games design potential and has not been equaled since.

Prove they're a majority. Do you know what Anet have that you don't? Stats. They know who goes where. You're just believing something strongly and stating it as a fact.

This is factually wrong. I don't get this entire tendency of people to generalize saying why people do what they do. You may like to talk about HoT more than play it. I've completed all four maps of HoT more than I've completed any other map in the game. I think I've completed Verdant Brink on over 40 characters, and I wouldn't mind doing more. I'm an outlier as I don't like AB as much as the other zones, but they're all fantastic and I enjoy playing them. And when I go to HoT, I see more people in the open world there, going around doing things than I do in say PoF. Just my experience, but I wish people would stop generalizing about what people feel or want. Tell us what you like, sure. But if you're trying to speak for me, you're doing a pretty bad job.

The spider mount isn't new. The jackal made it into the game and the spider mount never did. So no, very unlikely we get it.

Free players can join us. They can buy the game.

I can help with mursaat tokens on a US server. This weekend is pretty rough timing wise, but hit me up in game or PM me here and we can set up a time.

Dude, I loved that show!

Yes, the company that produced Guild Wars 1 was angelic and lovely and wonderful and they shared everything whether it damaged the game or not, whether it would cost them sales or not, because they loved us so much. But the company that makes Guild Wars 2 are horrible terrible business people who don't care about us at all, and they are willing to not say anything to us, because they're all greedy money grubbers. I don't think the company direction has changed as much as you. I think the company learned how rabid this playerbase is, and how quick they are to turn when they're not happy. After years of basically having flash mobs every time something happened, they learned. The problem isn't that the company has changed. Guild Wars 2 didn't have an official forum. It wasn't quite the same situation. I get it. You're personally unhappy with the game, and of course, you're not alone. But then, a lot of people were personally unhappy with Guild Wars 1 at various points. Anet doesn't treat the community badly. But if they were just breaking ground on a new game, and it was going to be years away, they not only had no obligation to share that news, but it would be moronic for them to do so. If you don't think so just look at some of the posts on reddit about it. It was always going to take at least five years to make a sequel. And the moment they mention it, it causes a panic. In this case it was mentioned by a third party, who did Anet no favors. And for people like me, who enjoy the game to this day, they did us a disservice.

This is a strange thing to say. Anet ANNOUNCED an expansion. They told us Utopia was coming. Then they took it off the market. They had to say something. ANY company would have to say something. So they did. Right now, they didn't HAVE TO say something, so they didn't. They'll announce it when it's in the best interest of the game. Not everyone hates the new expansion for example. There was thread on reddit saying it was a great expansion and it got pretty heavily upvoted. Sure a lot of people don't like what we're getting now, but the same was true when HoT came out. A lot of people didn't like that either. I also remember a lot of people not being happy with EoD. And a remember people a month after POF came out complaining about that expansion. I like the new expansion, so far. I haven't judged the whole thing yet, because I haven't seen the last episode either. At any rate, using two completely different situations to say Anet used to care more, when the two were obviously different situations is just drawing conclusions with no real evidence. If Anet hadn't already announced the expansion that they were never going to deliver, do you have any evidence that they would have told us as soon as they started working on it?

Sure, but it was already affecting their current game. They announced it specifcally because they'd already announced an expansion which they were no longer making. In that very specific situation, they had a very specific reason for announcing it. Otherwise, how could they explain an announced expansion never materializing? It was the lesser of two evils. The point remains, business reveal what they reveal when the timing it right for them.

Expressing my opinion is invalidating your thoughts? You posted a comment on a public forum and expect no one to disagree with that opinion? That too isn't a reasonable expectation. Your thoughts aren't invalid just because I have a different opinion. What I stated in my opinion of your thoughts. At the end of the day, this is a discussion forum. If you don't want people to respond, it might not be the best place to post.