Issues with GW2

[Centaur]

Ender, I have come to expect that from quite a few other companies. But I have always been naive enough to believe that ArenaNet was different. ArenaNet have made it clear from the start that, even if their development process is extremely iterative, they don’t reveal anything until they are sure about the functionality that will be made available. In some situations (for example with attributes and traits), when they had reasons to change how they had initially announced the system, they publicly announced and explained that change. So yes, if ArenaNet announces a certain feature, it can generally be seen as a promise that this feature will be in the game as described.
And for all the announcements they made about the functionality I summarized in my post above, they never ever told us that they had changed them until after the release… let alone why. And especially if that ‘new direction’ suddenly goes in against everything they have been hammering on that the game wouldn’t do or be (such as the grinding), then yes, I definitely count that as a broken promise.

[mayito7777]

I was not planning to ever write another post after all the insults I got from Fey, but this situation, I was there in GW2 forum and saw your topic and I support you 100%. I was reading your topic and got deleted, then the next topic where you posted informing that you got an infraction was also deleted.

I have to say I saw this coming and many jumped on me saying I was wrong, even here in this forum. But now time has proven that my worries and mistrusts were fully right. ANET has fallen on the trap of better gear more grind. Sad to say I had a little hope that it wouldn't happen but it did.

Hopefully this path does not get deeper and deeper, otherwise we all are going to be very disappointed.

Last post unless something bad like this arise again.

[Agemnon]

Like how I had doubts (but was still open to the possibility of) SWTOR becoming a F2P cash shop game. Their "best" and "rarest" items will now (surprise!) be obtained from RNG packs purchased with real money! Good thing I abandoned ship months ago.

There's nothing wrong with better gear, so long as obtaining that gear is accessible through either crafting or buying off the TP and only dungeon going for cosmetic gear. People don't do content for the content itself anymore but for the rewards. Although now that I have my legendary I'm traveling the world in not-Orr places, just because. I'm not playing nearly as much anymore though.

[bokiz333]

Centaur, if you're really done (but you seem to be still in "quit but wait and see" mode), give your stuff to your guild before you go . That's what I did. Put a bunch of my (non sould bound) stuff into my guild bank. Sucks that siege is soulbound or at least I haven't figured out how to deposit it.

As my last act of random kindless, I'm going to mail about 1g per person I see on my WvW map and is being active. (I have about 35g left)

No reason not to help out people who will continue to play the game and giving them useful materials.

[Centaur]

Well, I'm not saying that I will never return. I may very well return in the future, if ArenaNet manage to turn this around and fix at least some of the sh*t they are in (most notably, the gear grinding). It's entirely upto them now...

I guess that's the good thing with a subscription-free game... I can just keep it around and check periodically to see if anything has improved.

[Mr Crow]

When you get an "infraction" from the bods over there, what does it actually entail? A ban from the forums, the game itself or is it just a warning?

Thanks.

[Centaur]

Infractions are warnings... if you collect several of them, you can get banned.

[Delvoire]

Shame on ANET for not making a perfect game right out of the box.

this has settled it. I'm never playing again.

[Jim Hunter]

Shame on ANET for not making a perfect game right out of the box.

this has settled it. I'm never playing again.

It's not about the flaws that were there, it's about A-net reversing a core principal of the game. I honestly wouldn't have as much of a problem with it if they were more up front about what's going on, the way they have always been in the past.

They are trying to sell this like it's a great thing instead of a knee jerk reaction.

[bokiz333]

Shame on ANET for not making a perfect game right out of the box.

this has settled it. I'm never playing again.

lol...did anyone up to this point say they're walking away? No, and all those issues (and more) were present since launch. This was just the last...well I refuse to call it a straw to minimize it...this was the 10 ton house that crushed the camel. Nobody expects an MMO to be perfectly smooth from the launch but there should be some minimum standard and I think things like security and non invisible players are probably some basics. But still played the game and good luck finding thread where I compained about it.

But this is a huge change to core principles of the game and a very important issue to many GW2 players. You're either missing the point or intentionally posting a very invalid sarcastic misguided post.