brokenrabbit.6538 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 People are throwing welcome parties where the new players pop in. Banquet tables, banners, plates of food, kegs of beer, fireworks, answering questions, helping with tasks, etc. Kinda wish I was a noob. 😞 7 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya.9075 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 It’s good the community shows new players how helpful and nice most players are. We cannot protect them from the trolls or doomsayers, but we can show them the good side of the game. Much love to the mentors, commanders and players in general making their arrival to the game as nice as possible ❤️ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farohna.6247 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Join in and welcome people! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 This is one of the things I really like about this community, the willingness to welcome and help new players. It's not totally unique to GW2 but it seems like a bigger proportion of the community is excited about new players whereas when other games I've played have expected a big influx of new players the excited people are balanced out by negative ones and out-weighed by the indifferent ones. I'm kind of disappointed I can't be in-game this evening to join in, but I'm hoping to make up for it later on and be there to greet some of the ones who don't get the game right away. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya.9075 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Just now, Farohna.6247 said: Join in and welcome people! I wish I could but I have to wait for tomorrow to join the fun. Quite the bummer. I will however join first thing tomorrow as I am free to play the game then! A bit late to the party but it’ll have to do xD it is also late in Europe now, so I’m sure there will still be new players arriving tomorrow as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farohna.6247 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 1 minute ago, Freya.9075 said: I wish I could but I have to wait for tomorrow to join the fun. Quite the bummer. I will however join first thing tomorrow as I am free to play the game then! A bit late to the party but it’ll have to do xD it is also late in Europe now, so I’m sure there will still be new players arriving tomorrow as well! I think there will be enough to welcome all week and maybe more this weekend! I look forward to logging in later to welcome them as well. Briefly logged in earlier to see many groups waiting to welcome them, setting up, having a good time, laughing about blinding them with their brilliance of gear. It's nice to see the community making a festivity out of it. A lot of people have made bags to hand out, as well as all the things OP mentioned. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysico.4906 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 We look like idiots with the welcome wagon. Jus5 let people play 1 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jianyu.7065 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 This is awesome, and I am proud of how this community shows its hand considering the Steam forums are a toxic nightmare right now. Our community is being totally disrespected over there, but the in game truth speaks for itself - which is why we all continue playing. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya.9075 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 16 minutes ago, Lysico.4906 said: We look like idiots with the welcome wagon. Jus5 let people play Now now mr or miss grumpy. I am pretty sure the mentors and players welcoming new players doesn’t surround them like vultures and stalk them screaming “LET ME HELP YOU!”. if they want to play alone they are free to do so. what’s happening is a gathering of new players and veterans talking in the starting areas. You can easily just walk past them if you don’t wish to join them. Helping new players and welcoming them is not looking like idiots. However we can discuss wether or not being toxic is 👀 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phokus.8934 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 28 minutes ago, Lysico.4906 said: We look like idiots with the welcome wagon. Jus5 let people play Especially when they have their outlandish and mishmosh wardrobes on with bright colors. That's a big deterrent for a lot of people. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arianth Moonlight.6453 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 cringe as **** and let's not forget those with severe anxiety and social awkwardness who would feel literally harassed as soon as they start playing the game... 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoni.7015 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 1 minute ago, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said: cringe as **** and let's not forget those with severe anxiety and social awkwardness who would feel literally harassed as soon as they start playing the game... I don't think those people play MMOs 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arianth Moonlight.6453 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Just now, yoni.7015 said: I don't think those people play MMOs yes they do. Why? I don't know but they definitely do (I don't suffer from those to a extreme level but I do hate when people jump at me without warning). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 53 minutes ago, Lysico.4906 said: We look like idiots with the welcome wagon. Jus5 let people play "They need to be punished with negative reviews" I am not sure the opinion of someone suggesting that ANet needs to be punished with negative reviews can be trusted regarding trying to create a positive experience for new players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysico.4906 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Sure as hell do play mmos. The whole welcome wagon is just too much. But most of these steam players we “welcome “ now you will be blasting when they screw up in raids,pvp,wvw with their meta classes 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arianth Moonlight.6453 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 (edited) 27 minutes ago, phokus.8934 said: Especially when they have their outlandish and mishmosh wardrobes on with bright colors. That's a big deterrent for a lot of people. oh yeah when I came back to the game after 3 years I was like WAT?! Was this game always so hard to look at? Then I remembered the option to turn everyone into plain-looking dummy. Edited August 23, 2022 by Arianth Moonlight.6453 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaliwenda.3428 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Danikat.8537 said: This is one of the things I really like about this community, the willingness to welcome and help new players. It's not totally unique to GW2 but it seems like a bigger proportion of the community is excited about new players whereas when other games I've played have expected a big influx of new players the excited people are balanced out by negative ones and out-weighed by the indifferent ones. I'm kind of disappointed I can't be in-game this evening to join in, but I'm hoping to make up for it later on and be there to greet some of the ones who don't get the game right away. Don't forget that there are a lot of people who are weekend-only players. I expect to see a lot of new players then as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Kaliwenda.3428 said: Don't forget that there are a lot of people who are weekend-only players. I expect to see a lot of new players then as well. That's true, but I also won't be able to get online at the weekend. That's not a bad thing, I'm doing some very exciting things instead (although not as exciting after Rage Against the Machine and Måneskin cancelled their Reading Festival performances) but it's slightly annoying that it means missing a lot of the anniversary event. I'll just have to make the best of the time I have. In a way it seems fitting, I missed most of the first week after release because I was away, and a lot of my memories of the first couple of years are trying to do as much of Season 1 as I could in the time I could be online. Edited August 23, 2022 by Danikat.8537 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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