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Bug John · Aug 05, 2009, 09:51 AM // 09:51

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Originally Posted by Ariena Najea

Since what I posted was apocalyptically vague, let me clarify.

I am of the opinion that a balanced (idyllically, not PvX nonsense) group of all human players should be able to be more effective than the alternatives. The best example I can give is for Permaform Underworld Speed Clears. A team of eight skilled players in a balanced team (geared to the area of course) should be able to complete the area more quickly than some nonsense team with seven permas and a Vale helper.

Players should use knowledge of the area to their advantage and work their builds around the expected obstacles, but there is a clear difference to me at least between Build Wars in PvE and overpowered gimmicky nonsense*.

*Disclaimer - not everything on this page is ridiculous.

I think I'll never understand why people want to decide how the game has to be played by others, it's a kind of egoistic behavior that seems a bit out of place in a video game. You would feel better if others used the kind of build you like, poor little thing...

So "balanced" builds that are ok, but what exactly is a balanced build ?

I'd like to see you against Mallyx with your "balanced build without overpowered shit", just so I could /point and /laugh (like a wammo in spamadan) at how much you failed at understanding what PvE is about.

Toxic OnyX · Aug 05, 2009, 01:48 PM // 13:48

whats makes me lol is that people expect anything different.

Devs. said there will be new content release every 3-4 months

I said in April on here and to guildies it was never gIng to happen as they can't even get anything out on time other than pointless weekend events (which are no longer exactly an event more of an expected feature) and even more pointless holiday events in which ppl stand on the 9 rings for 3-4 straight days

XTH - killed by a-net, skill balances poorly thought out and never released when they are supposed to be and usually buggy, content updates always late and usually buggy

The honest truth is this game is in it's death throes, like many I barely even log in once a week to say hey to guildies or mates and then log off again, the games was dying a year ago, it is now as good as dead.

When it was fun it was fun, but it is time to call it a day and move onto the next chapter, but it is unlikely you will see much of GW2 for a while as the parent company has Aion being released in September and I would bet $100 that there is a clause that will not allow anything to compete with their MMO from there own stable, which means it will be October 2010 earliest you will see any GW2 beta

Karate Jesus · Aug 05, 2009, 03:54 PM // 15:54

Just out of curiosity, has anyone from ANet given a statement on whether or not the content update will be this month, on or off the record?

I know Regina has been hinting that it will be delayed until the Second Coming, but I would just like some official word. It's been 4 months, it's been another quarter (doesn't the quarter technically end right before October?), and we've heard nothing.

Can we get a little loving here, ANet? Regina, if you're reading this thread, beg the top guys to let you say something....hell, anything. I'll live with, "No content update in August" if it's all we can get.

Targren · Aug 05, 2009, 04:27 PM // 16:27

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Originally Posted by Avarre

Not entirely impossible. Gimmicks roll through PvE because you can always specialize a build to knock out an area. Increasing spawn randomization, in terms of positioning/group composition would limit the effectiveness of exploiting aspects of the zone. There would always be weighted builds that can do better in certain areas, but there's no reason to punish good build design.

And yes, I am making a distinction between clever build design and gimmick builds.

Obviously it would take a heavy amount of game redesign, but so long as we're talking theoretically...

I agree with you entirely, actually. I was "talking" with someone else about this in the infamous UWSC thread. Spawn randomizing would cream UWSC, certainly, but it leaves two issues open:

1. Would the death of UWSC actually renew interest in "balanced" PUGs in UW, or would it simply turn it into another farmer-only ghost town, a la DoA?

2. The "randomization" would have to be limited, like they are in prophesies areas, and done carefully. A pure random setup would too often lead to frustration when you run into a group like 4 WOH monks and 5 domination mesmers (to use my own personal hatred as an example).

With regard to #2, I'm not sure Anet is willing or able to put the time and effort into being that careful at this point.

Vel · Aug 05, 2009, 04:39 PM // 16:39

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Originally Posted by Kain Fz

Honestly, I wouldn't mind buying a guild wars shirt about ingame jokes and such.

Always wanted a shirt that said, "WTS Althea's Ashes for 200g"

Targren · Aug 05, 2009, 04:43 PM // 16:43

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Originally Posted by Vel

Always wanted a shirt that said, "WTS Althea's Ashes for 200g"

Even better... they should do some sort of cooperative deal with one of those custom T-shirt companies.

I made my girlfriend a shirt with one of them, based on something she said she liked on TShirt-Hell ("What I really need are Minions").

I put that on the front of the shirt, with a GW logo and 5 or 6 Bone Horrors, and on the back a screenie of her character with the overlay
"<HER CHAR NAME>
-Necromancer" Up top, and

"Because dead men don't talk back" below. She loved it, even though it came out like crap because the stupid site didn't mention printing limitations (A new Murphy's Law: unlimited colors aren't). Damn thing looked like the bleached it 6 times before mailing.

Jensy · Aug 05, 2009, 05:30 PM // 17:30

Wait, what? o_O Why's everyone/anyone assuming that there will be a April-ish update this month? We've had absolutely nothing as far as news goes. Nothing at all to indicate that tomorrow won't just be new tonic/map rotation/bug fixes.

Just a little confused here o_o

Karate Jesus · Aug 05, 2009, 05:51 PM // 17:51

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Originally Posted by pansy malfoy

Wait, what? o_O Why's everyone/anyone assuming that there will be a April-ish update this month? We've had absolutely nothing as far as news goes. Nothing at all to indicate that tomorrow won't just be new tonic/map rotation/bug fixes.

Just a little confused here o_o

"Content updates will be done separately from the monthly maintenance and occur every three to four months."

April was 4 months ago. Everyone is assuming they were going to stick to that schedule. We were all foolish for believing Anet could get it out in that time frame with only 1 person working on it.

Mister_Smiley · Aug 05, 2009, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Anet has lied a few times in the past, so do you really expect them to put out another patch like Aprils in 3-4 months, i expect it not to come till Oct probably, or maybe not till end of the year. After all this is Anet.

NeHoMaR · Aug 05, 2009, 06:25 PM // 18:25

I tried to read this thread, but it looks pointless to me. The only I want is:

INFO ABOUT THE NEXT BIG UPDATE.

Karate Jesus · Aug 05, 2009, 06:28 PM // 18:28

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Originally Posted by NeHoMaR

The only I want is:

INFO ABOUT THE NEXT BIG UPDATE.

Here's the info we have so far:

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There ya go. Hope you enjoyed this thread!

Lishy · Aug 05, 2009, 08:07 PM // 20:07

This is a skill balance update. Not content. You can ask Linsey herself like I did, though she may or may not respond.

Elephantaliste · Aug 05, 2009, 08:24 PM // 20:24

wait & (don't) see...

Lishy · Aug 05, 2009, 08:54 PM // 20:54

Man, I wish anet had more manpower to update gw1. But realistically, hiring more people would be pointless since most of us already own gw and they would lack profit, that is, unless they make it an update we must pay for like the bmp. That would be nice.
Though, a pay for 7 hero update could be nice.

Yoom Omer · Aug 05, 2009, 09:21 PM // 21:21

Whether A.Net fails at maintaining the game can be discussed, however there's no doubt they SUCK at everything involving communicating with the playerbase.

Didn't one of their targets was to keep in touch with the community? Well, then, not telling us a thing for 4 months is no that, You're doing it wrong.

They just hope we'll stay faithful and hope that something will come. I can understand wanting this to be kind of a surprise, sure, but then they could say that they have an update ready for 31.8 and that they can't tell us what's in it...

Lishy · Aug 05, 2009, 09:30 PM // 21:30

Yoom, that was their goal. But if you've seen their office, you'd know how chaotic it is. Harsh truth is they aren't in the position to handle everything. And I bet the content update isn't too far in progress either. Which is why they REALLY need the man power.

(Methinks they should just make a feature to pay for more hero slots so that they can make an actual PROFIT and hire a new guy)

Karate Jesus · Aug 05, 2009, 10:35 PM // 22:35

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Originally Posted by Kain Fz

(Methinks they should just make a feature to pay for more hero slots so that they can make an actual PROFIT and hire a new guy)

They made a profit off of the April update and are already going to hire another person to help out Linsey. Let me find the quote where Regina said that, so I don't get "source?"d.

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Originally Posted by Regina

Because of the success of the update, we've been able to get resources to hire another designer. This will help Linsey so much with the workload. This hiring process has taken a while, but this is pretty normal when it comes to hiring. The team has high standards, and they've been looking for the most qualified and best candidates.

From this incredibly hard to find, archived topic.

Lishy · Aug 05, 2009, 11:05 PM // 23:05

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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus

They made a profit off of the April update and are already going to hire another person to help out Linsey. Let me find the quote where Regina said that, so I don't get "source?"d.

From this incredibly hard to find, archived topic.

That's great. But as a fan, I want anet to somehow make an even bigger profit so we players get better updates

Let's hope next content update has more microtransations. Methinks the content update will be in september like it did in the update we got MOX.

doxology83 · Aug 05, 2009, 11:11 PM // 23:11

in my mind they should have kept making expansion packs. i would pay for those. i didn't pay for anything out of the last update. if they would have put out expansion packs and added some classes with the new content it would have probably led to people buying more character slots as well. and it would have kept income coming in at a fairly steady rate. i'm not sure why they didn't keep releasing expansion packs. we are now at 2 years with nothing new and guild wars 2 still not in site.

i think if it continues to go this way arena is going to lose guild wars players and these are going to be gamers that won't come back even if guild wars 2 ever comes out because they will believe that arena doesn't support there games in a big way in the long term.

i also think that a lot of guild wars players will be trying out Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited because even though it has a store and what not you can do everything minus a few side quests in the free version. not only that you earn points to spend in the pay store just from playing the game. so guild wars is going to have some serious competition in the free to play mmorpg scene very soon. unfortunately it got pushed back a month until September 9th. but i am looking forward to it as are a lot of the people i know that play guild wars.

arena needs to get going with whatever it is they are doing.

MithranArkanere · Aug 05, 2009, 11:28 PM // 23:28

Prophecies could use a revamp too.