fungihoujo.8476

From time to time, I am inconvenienced by people who are not playing in the extremely specific manner that I have chosen to play. Thus, everyone else should be inconvenienced all the time.

Games evolve over time, and content that was new five years ago is not going to be the focus now. For every one player that has spent five years replaying vanilla maps over and over, there's 100 players that found completion tedious and are eager for this opportunity to do it quickly and hassle free. You don't get to use your minor and occasional annoyance to stop considerably more players from enjoying something new.

> @"Manimarco Devil.1790" said:

> The griffon mount needs to be removed. This is exactly the type of mount of WoW uses and it kills content. People are allowed to bypass too much by using them. Ground mounts are more prone to being attacked and stopped via things like tar traps. Flying bypasses everything and will only make future content warped in order to accommodate it. Flying effectively renders the other mounts obsolete. Why raptor jump or skimmer when you can simply fly? (The bunny and jackal are still somewhat protected as the bunny can increase vertical distance more quickly and the jackal can use sand portals.) The meager counterargument is that the griffon cannot go past its initial height. But with the bunny and griffon one can bypass a majority of the map. (reach nearby high point -> fly) Mounts and gliding may add some amount of fun but they have also succeeded in removing any challenge the z-axis provided in this game. Mounts need to be more specific to dealing with environmental challenges and less about going 100mph past everything.

New content was designed with gliding/mounts in mind, so there's nothing new that can really be considered something that can be bypassed. As for old content... c'mon, you really care that much that some people might be able to pass mobs or easily do things that came out 5 years ago? Anyone who wanted to be challenged by the z-axis in this game has already been challenged by it- anyone who hasn't done those things will now be more likely to do so (heck, just the speed of the raptor, the only mount I have so far, has increased my willingness to do old content) which actually INCREASES content for players, not decrease.

But we can bypass some mobs... oh dear? Seriously, you're concerned that people might use mounts to get past hordes of trash? That's the pristine content you want to preserve? I don't know anyone who puts 'world trash' down as one of the top 100 things in an mmo they enjoy.

So we can travel across maps faster... good- best change GW2 has made, they're almost a modern mmo rather than an old fashioned one obsessed with how to restrict players. And let's not kid ourselves- your concern here is that Anet is lowering restrictions on non-competitive, open world content.

How about riding backwards, with your feet stretched out as you casually lounge, arms crossed behind your head, content with the world?

Are there even horse mounts? We have a lot of people talking about riding real life horses, but I'm pretty sure none of you have rode a bunny before.

... at least, I hope not...

Considering how pissed off it'll make some people, I'm all for it. It's kinda like dying your armour pink- just knowing it bugs people makes it worth it.

> @Vladish.3940 said:

> Personally I am never getting jackal of the griffon mounts. In five years of CASUAL gaming, I have never been over 2g mark. At this point I don't know if I will be even able to afford a skimmer :/ Not everyone is interested in fractals or raids, or farming. Some of us only play story elements, and I mean, exclusively those. And there is nowhere near enough gold to be made there.

There's like 10 hours of story in the entire game- like, do you play 5 minutes a week? 2g is a daily, frankly you can finish it by accident, to be playing that long and have never completed it once you'd have to have intentionally gone out of your way to avoid finishing it, mind boggling.

But y'know what, fine, you only do the story- you should feel relieved to know you'll never need the jackal or griffon.

> @Hitman.5829 said:

> > @Ariurotl.3718 said:

> > It's the market. Things don't always work out as you expect, of which fact I'm regularly reminded by my Aqua Satin dyes I've got listed at 187.69.69 (yeah, I know, nice) and will never sell.

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> Like i said, orichalcum nodes were completely unnecessary because the market had shown that the price was fair and there was good supply of materials, now the market has been flooded with orichalcum. What anet did was "print orichalcum". Just like when USA prints money!

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Says who? Who decided the market was fair? The guy sitting on a massive stockpile of it hoping the price will shoot up at some point?

The fair price is the price that the market decides is fair- which, right now, is one silver.

I have motion sickness too- it's definitely the way the camera moves with mount turns and strafing. The odd movement of the raptor is unsettling- which makes me worry a bit because it's a feature so it may never be fixed.

An mmo with xpac launch issues? This is like complaining that after rain there's puddles on the ground. Sure, an effective drainage system should eliminate that, but nothing's perfect and after a few days the problem's gone.

If you're doing two year investments on commodities I think you need to expect there to be potential for large price changes. You made a bet, you lost- welcome to the market.

It was a bit of a challenge- but throw to where he's heading since there's a delay. Once I figured that out it became rather smooth (and once I found out where all the ingredients were and stopped getting stumped when he picked a new one suddenly).

I understand people are going to say 'well I have a physical difficulty'- but that's going to make anything challenging; jumping puzzles, the old arena fights, fractals/dungeons, etc... and nerfing something because it's difficult would lead to everything being nerfed.

This one really isn't that hard, and it's different. I think some people are frustrated more because of that, and it being right at the very start so everyone's given it a try.

But c'mon- asking for a nerf to content a day after release? That's just sad; if you still can't get it in a month I'd say revisit this, but I imagine by then there'll be guides up and enough tips that most of you will have put in the time to achieve it.

You can't treat gem store sales as if it's inconsequential when it comes to a game like this- that's a massive amount of money for a f2p game. Nor can you ignore box sales for xpacs. GW2 simply doesn't come out with new content except when it's behind a pay wall- living story, xpacs all cost money. Other than that I think they've come out with three zones since launch- Maguuma Wastes and Southsun iirc. And even then, these aren't complex zones with stories and new mechanics or goals- they're more of the same in a blur of zones that almost all play the same.

My point is- since launch, other than the things they require you to pay for, they don't really add anything to the game to justify a sub, they barely justify it being a f2p game frankly. While engine upgrades and the such would be great, I feel like most of what OP is asking for a sub are what other mmos would just call 'typical patching', even if some mmos admittedly do a poor job of it (GW2 included).

I cringe at the idea of paying for what is normal behaviour, I even cringe at the thought of doing it for minimal content additions. If the game's going to add a sub, I'd definitely want steady content patches including meaningful additions and evolution of the game outside of xpacs. As it is now, well, they add some stuff with xpacs- zones, mounts, flight, hero classes- as well as a bit of story, so that's worth money imo. If they want to charge subs- let's say industry standard 15/month- are they going to add content every 3 months or so?

I'm honestly kinda doubtful they will- and without that, subs don't belong.

GW2 is a very successful mmo, probably one of the most, and it's raking in a lot of money for very little in return- let's not give them more ideas to milk money and potentially ruin the game. Because let's face it- they could still be making bank and adding story, content, and fixing up engine issues at a profit. Giving them excuses to milk players for more money is just enabling more greed- and it'll come with limitations, it always does with f2p subs.

Think about it this way- what can Anet offer? Gems? You can already buy those. Bags, bank space- why not have that as part of the gem store? Access to constant new content releases- oh, those don't exist. They don't really have anything that can't just be earned through gems- and when you want to push a sub (and trust me, if they change their direction from being against subs to having them, that's a major change in strategic direction and it won't be for 'oh, we hope a few people might sub' it'll be an all in 'we need 500k subs' or so) you want to push it hard. They'll take things, and say 'if you want it back, sub'.

Guaranteed. I'll eat my words if I'm wrong on this- smash my face right through my monitor and start chomping down.