finkle.9513

I dont get some of these threads... if there is negativity, then people are not happy... dont complain about negativity... fix the cause, listen to peoples issues... Anet is not great at listening and is very stubborn, they are now reaping that stubbornness ..

I dont understand why other players have a issue with players not being happy.. there is obviously reasons!!

> @"Trise.2865" said:

> "I watched two episodes of a series and it didn't deliver an entire season's worth of content. Waste of time!"

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> You can go now. No sense torturing yourself over something you decided not to like. See you when you get back!

ye see you for the next 1 hours story game play.. back to Acheage

It just sprung to mind

That didnt GW2 use to be challenging, didnt we have to think about the mechanics.. there where mechanics on the final boss, but I just steam rolled it all I had to do was chase him then dps him down... same for the map events.... I remember needing partys to compleat bosses - what happened to co op gaming..

I dont feel immersed, challenged or entertained

I read a comment that Gw2 has become like WOW... I guess it really has.. and its so far off the GW model. GW1 was and still is hard..

Personally I think a story that takes 20mins to complete, is far from ideal

- I am so bored of the same format of game play:

map

small story

few events

collection and achievement

Its just the same over and over again for at least 2 years, just this time with saga's they are smaller

There is absolutely no incentive for me to invent hours into completing collections, repeating events, unlocking achievements... Ive done it all on other maps, I just see it as a massive time sink a method of trying to to retain players in game, but the rewards for these come back to the fundamental issue of the game.. n The time> rewards are depressing, the rewards are useless(a mini) (a chest) pfft, I have no need to craft anything, I have no need for gold, I have no intention of the extremely poor drop chance of chests , I gave that up a long time ago having done Auric basin for 1 year x2 a day. It all boils down to at the end when you have gear you like, when you have done your crafting... what more is there.. its a pointless game after this.

Are we really allowed to give feed back?

Or should the title be renamed "positive only feedback" everything else seems to get removed

finished story in 20min

I have no interest in time sink into useless collections and "achievements" that also equate to useless

Why is the format always the same, but seriously convince me to stay in game and invest my time here... whats the point of it? some chests that have a 1% chance of a infusion? Im done with this pointless game play, I did Auric Basin for 1 year twice a day and only ever got mats, that I dont need so I get gold, that I also dont need.... there is no point to any of it...

If the team is as small as 20 people and they all work 8 hour days, thats 160 hours per day.. what are they doing in the 160 hours a day, 800 hours invested into a 5 day week doing what? and for 2 months per sarga 6400 hours to create ? seems excessive, so what are they doing with their time?

I am sure new players think its great, but unfortunately this event as many others is exactly the same every year, for the last 6 years!!

> @"Magnus Godrik.5841" said:

> Gw2 is a great pay for entry game. You can literally enjoy everything without paying a single dime. No sub fee no and pay to win is great business model.

But its got to be a fun meaningful experience, that makes you feel good.

Washing dishes and hoovering the floor is a awesome introduction into be a home owner and its free also.

Funny there never seems to be a issue with developing items for the cash shop.. always seems thats the priority... maybe when they are down to the last few thousand players, they may change their ways and listen to the player base? but even then I wouldn't be so sure, been so stubborn and defensive to date even when made huge mistakes.

I dont see any point they never want to hear from us, let alone acknowledge the player base has a point... their answer as always to requests is if we have to do it, we will do it our way.... they will not listen to you or anyone else on the forum.

played since launch many 1000's of hours and never dropped a pre cursor... so what the chance of a top infusion dropping.. I dont even bother trying anymore I have much better thing to do with my time

answer to the title is = $$$

left before they start rolling out care bear mounts, giraffes and multi coloured unicorns?

> @"Rasimir.6239" said:

> > @"finkle.9513" said:

> > its empty, have the mobs not turned up? its like the opposite of HOT map where you can move for mobs.. one extreme to the other , actually very underwhelming, very little content, Im bored of collections (same rinse and repeat for years) its a worst game mechanic than the old questing aka wow. I cant even be bothered to continue playing, every time there is new content I always hope there is something innovative.. its just sooo the same!

> That's the difference between civilization (Grothmar) and wilderness (Heart of Maguuma).

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> What kind of innovation are you looking for, if none of the new events and activities interest you?

I dont know that beyond my pay grade, All I know is nothing has changed over all these years, same recycled format and process. Just because I see a problem does not mean I have the answer, that my friend is for people who are trained, experienced get paid a lot more than me and are a hell of a lot smarter than me to come up with..

They get boring and are scared to evolve as it may dispute the cash shop, players get bored and go looking for the next thing..

its empty, have the mobs not turned up? its like the opposite of HOT map where you can move for mobs.. one extreme to the other , actually very underwhelming, very little content, Im bored of collections (same rinse and repeat for years) its a worst game mechanic than the old questing aka wow. I cant even be bothered to continue playing, every time there is new content I always hope there is something innovative.. its just sooo the same!

half arsed version, with all the work putting items in the gem shop? It seems Devs spend more time on gem store item, it seems content is made to fit in with maximum profits from gem store in mind.

Yes But worked better... the whole event takes to long for the reward, its fine as a one off but the map is designed to be repeated many times.. and its soo soo long compared to other map metas.

GW2 classic?

pfft all the things that GW2 needs... can you really see time investment into this subject?

Nobody taking it serious after the boss one and realising the drop rates make vanilla Wow look like Mario world!

> @"RiyazGuerra.9203" said:

> I share your disappointment over the current state of Istan, but pre-nerf Istan would just resurrect the 24/7 Istan farms, which is what Anet does not want. Not only does it hurt the economy, but serves to draw the population away from the other maps and that is not good for the health of the game.

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> BUT, something needs to be done, meteor-farm Istan is a narrow utilization of the map.

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> I would argue for a limited buff for the map in order to make it a more attractive destination. By default, you will have access to one set of chests per day (Palawadan meta and Great Hall (GH). BUT, change it so there is a 'participation bar' (similar to that found in the Tangled Depths and Auric Basin metas) that gradually fills as the individual player participates in events throughout the map. Once this 'participation bar' fills, then the full array of chests are available to you for the Palawadan and GH metas. The number of events required to fill this participation bar should be carefully calibrated so that it is **not so low** as to practically enable a pc to loot the full array of chests every time the meta is available with minimal event farming. Let's call this newly restocked (chest-wise) meta resulting from participation a 'meta-reset'.

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> If possible, consider capping this 'meta reset' so that is occurs x number of times per day. Once or twice would be ideal, to discourage 24/7 farming.

This is BS... Anet did want it, as they did want leather farm that was also nerfed... Anet introduced both as they introduced new items that people where not happy about ie "requires lots of leather" - lets make a leather farm - fixed, "Grifin Mount costs 200g" lets make a gold farm..... then people farm too much leather, and leather farm gets nerfed, people farmed too much gold - gold farm gets nerfed ... the problem is created by Anet, to mask another problem created by Anet... People wanting to farm is not the problem!

It is failing

To many decisions that favour short term profit, instead of long term player retention - long term money

bad implementation of WVW mount - just for skin sales

bad Implementation of skyscale mount - behind a stupid time gate - impact on them not selling skins - just a example of bad decisions being made!

neglected PVP

neglected wvw - some changed but very little in years

Fractal - again very little

In-fact the recurring theme is that the bare minimum seems to have been done....

Story - become boring again short term content that is completed, then maps never again to be visited... its all just boring same old rinse and repeat content with unimaginative collections, achievements that seem pointless wastes of time inputted for the sake of creating a waste of time to try and keep players in game... added to that players now see the various different carrot dangling with loot box rewards being such a ridiculously low % that its a pointless use of time to be involved...

There have been so many bad decisions, all that seem driven by short term gains... that we are now seeing the long term impact as we are further down the line.

There needs to be some big business model changes by Anet, if they want to keep GW2 going.

Just bored, every part of GW2 is dull... give me a reason to play... sick of short time scale content, with boring collections and worthless achievements with pointless rewards, sick of carrot being dangled with loot boxes for events being ridiculously low, that its pointless to grind for, Sick of no effort put into WvW or PVP and lack of knowledge at the changes made effecting the long run, have mounts in WvW been a success? or was it for short term profit? Are there more people in WvW now or less? just for a increase for 1 month... I am sick of the bare minimum being done, yet every decision is weighted toward draining money of customers oppose to improving the game for the long run.