Alliance when?

[Absurd.2947]

People who cared enough to actually understand what alliances are meant to do are long gone.

[Thomas.2564]

What's alliance's? Oh, a nother anet meme perhaps? 

Edited August 15, 2023 by Thomas.2564

[Klypto.1703]

So, what's new to add to this time capsule.  Here we go some fishing food for alliances there is going to be a tournament to see who catches the most salt spray bass in 2333.

[Absurd.2947]

Mark my words: they'll sooner release battlepasses than come even remotely close to finishing alliances. 

[Dawdler.8521]

31 minutes ago, Absurd.2947 said:

Mark my words: they'll sooner release battlepasses than come even remotely close to finishing alliances. 

Isnt their "smaller but more frequent" expansion philosophy technically that already?

[Absurd.2947]

Coming with Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure™, the Wizard's Vault is similar to a battle pass— except we think it is one of the most player-friendly battle passes around.

LMAO CALLED IT

[Ashen.2907]

I think that the title of the thread would be more appropriate if the, "when," were changed to, "if."

[devastoscz.9851]

20 hours ago, Absurd.2947 said:

Coming with Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure™, the Wizard's Vault is similar to a battle pass— except we think it is one of the most player-friendly battle passes around.

LMAO CALLED IT

This was announced months ago. The recent blogpost is just a more in-depth explanation of how it works.

But yes, big mad, no alliance news.

[Limbo.4087]

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[Super Hayes.6890]

Why didn't we just necro the "Alliances when" mega thread?

[Gorem.8104]

On 8/13/2023 at 2:03 PM, SoftFootpaws.9134 said:

i don't remember when, maybe it was in one of the blog posts, but they said alliances will be done this year (or early next year). many players have been speculating that means a december release, given that the next quarter will be focused on the expansion.

 

i do believe they said they wanted to do at least one more beta with alliances fully enabled just to clear everything.

Uhhh my sig links to their July 2021 post stating that, so don't believe everything you read 🙂

[SoftFootpaws.9134]

12 hours ago, Gorem.8104 said:

Uhhh my sig links to their July 2021 post stating that, so don't believe everything you read 🙂

i see replies like this often, and they're completely missing the context.

 

they did try to bring alliances out that year, but anyone who was paying attention knows they ran into a major queue bug during one of the beta tests which required rewriting the entire wvw back end (essentially recreating it from scratch, since the original design was flawed). the developers discussed how work on this was progressing and it was only recently completed earlier this year after the first few betas revealed it not be completely fixed ,while it seemed to be functioning properly during the last beta which has led them to start working on the actual alliance beta next.

 

this is on top of them also rewriting massive amounts of the game engine to implement features like directx 11.

 

developers are still people, and they can't just work miracles because players want it to happen. there's games still being worked on in the industry which still haven't been released after 10+ years due to similar issues.

Edited August 18, 2023 by SoftFootpaws.9134

[Marxx.5021]

An expansion is probably required to cover costs developing features like Alliances. GW2 has no monthly fee that could go into such new developments. Besides there is a public commitment to WvW / Alliances which is more as other game modes got. 

[Justine.6351]

41 minutes ago, Marxx.5021 said:

An expansion is probably required to cover costs developing features like Alliances. GW2 has no monthly fee that could go into such new developments. Besides there is a public commitment to WvW / Alliances which is more as other game modes got. 

We been saying that for like 3 expansions now. Maybe 4 but I cannot remember that far back.

[Clementine.3896]

On 8/17/2023 at 2:01 PM, Super Hayes.6890 said:

Why didn't we just necro the "Alliances when" mega thread?

Actually, yesterday there was a thread about necroing threads, I cannot remember which sub forum. Today not only has it been closed, its been completeley removed from the forum altogether. I have no idea if that means necroing is banned, because i cannot read the responses! But yeah the megathread surely should still be going

[Random dude.5089]

On 8/11/2023 at 8:21 AM, Sahne.6950 said:

Anet?

Never probably , don't forget that this systeme encourage players to transfer with gems , which is a more money for anet , like the eu server fissure of woe was slowly getting his way up to being the top eu server , and as far i remember a 2 weeks ago or a bit more the server was on high pops , and when it got his way up to being one of the best servers to be linked with its now full and you can't transfer , so lots of guilds/groups/roamers just spent tons of gems just by doing that , this alliance systeme bs is just just propaganda to keep wvw excited about alliances droping anytime mid summer like they said , you know the carrot on a stick and we are trying to bite into it , just forget about alliance , anet is very dissapointing with its wvw content , pve is all their focus right now , always will be , just as you see , not a single pvp focus was on the news exept for rewards i guess ? like thats not content , thats just giving us wvw xp boost and giving us a reason to defend objectives , nothing new , keeps dreaming lads.

[Gorem.8104]

A mod locked the World Restructuring post? The frick why? We kept that going for years. 

What on Earth is going on in these forums. 

[Gorem.8104]

8 hours ago, Clementine.3896 said:

Actually, yesterday there was a thread about necroing threads, I cannot remember which sub forum. Today not only has it been closed, its been completeley removed from the forum altogether. I have no idea if that means necroing is banned, because i cannot read the responses! But yeah the megathread surely should still be going

The thread was also started by Gaile, so i'm even more surprised they just did that. 

I thought it was one post we were allowed to keep going. 

14 hours ago, Justine.6351 said:

We been saying that for like 3 expansions now. Maybe 4 but I cannot remember that far back.

This, the game makes most of its money from cosmetics anyway, pretending expansions brings them more money is funny. 

[XenesisII.1540]

19 hours ago, SoftFootpaws.9134 said:

i see replies like this often, and they're completely missing the context.

they did try to bring alliances out that year, but anyone who was paying attention knows they ran into a major queue bug during one of the beta tests which required rewriting the entire wvw back end (essentially recreating it from scratch, since the original design was flawed). the developers discussed how work on this was progressing and it was only recently completed earlier this year after the first few betas revealed it not be completely fixed ,while it seemed to be functioning properly during the last beta which has led them to start working on the actual alliance beta next.

this is on top of them also rewriting massive amounts of the game engine to implement features like directx 11.

developers are still people, and they can't just work miracles because players want it to happen. there's games still being worked on in the industry which still haven't been released after 10+ years due to similar issues.

That's grasping for a lot of paper straws.

Oh and the queue problems are still around, 8 betas and "massive rewriting the entire wvw back end" later it still exist.

Stop making up excuses for anet.