Curse

Phantom Knight · Jul 05, 2005, 02:45 AM // 02:45

1. Please put in the armors that are shown in posters or on the box arts. They are no where to be found in the game. One of the monk's armor look like the one on the box art but somewhat different. Others classes have no armor that look like those on the box art. They are on the boxes as a part of advertisement, so why not deliver what you advertised.

2. Please put in some incentives to increase activities in international districts. Online games boasted that you can play with people from all around the world, but they neglected to tell you that you probably won't be able to since there is no reason to or no good thing but trouble (language barriers) from playing with people from other countries, so there won't be anyone there to play with. Guess I should learn to read between the lines (^_^). I noticed that when a group from international district win in the Hall of Hero, the credit is given to the country of the leader of the group, not to the internatioinal district; therefore, making international district never to have the favor of the gods. Please give credit to international district when it win in the HoH so that international Temple of Ages have favor of the gods and access to fissure/underworld. This will give pve players more chances to go to fissure/uw and reduce the cursing/racism from one region toward another when one have to favor of the gods. I realize that this will cause a flood of people coming to international district ToA when it have favor, but this might be fixed and it won't last long. The other 3 regions US, Europe, Korea can still take favor away from international district. One against 3, international districts won't keep favor for long, thus the flooding of people wont be long but enough to give pve people more access to fissre/uw when they unluckily come from regions that don't have favor often; regions that have lots of casual gamers; those that the game specificly designed for, casual gamers. (Changing server is a bad option because of the 5 times limit on it.)

3. Please put in a fissure/underworld materialist that can craft shard of obsidians or glob of ectoplasm from other materials that can be found in fissure/undwerwold like Demonic/Dark/Shadow remains,... that are drop more often. This would be a great help to drive down the cost of shard and glob, not too much but would provide a little help and reduce the trememendous amount of time spending to farm either places fissure/uw which is not fun at all. The game updates seem to fix a lot of farming places lately, saying that the game should be more enjoyable playing with quests and missions and not with a farming attitude that spend countless hours to farm for money or materials. So why not help us out by given us a way to convert other abundants materials into rare material that we need (it's globs ecto and shards that i'm talking about, not other rare materials).

DrSLUGFly · Jul 05, 2005, 04:04 AM // 04:04

1- superficial, no comment
2- very good idea. I started playing on the Korean servers and so I always played international. Because of always playing international I never knew that there were dye traders, rune traders, material traders... they leave so much stuff out of the international district.

As you said, it would be nice if there was an added incentive to go there.
3- can't comment, I haven't yet spent that much time in the UW or FoW.

johnnylange · Jul 05, 2005, 06:00 AM // 06:00

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Originally Posted by Phantom Knight

1. Please put in the armors that are shown in posters or on the box arts. They are no where to be found in the game. One of the monk's armor look like the one on the box art but somewhat different. Others classes have no armor that look like those on the box art. They are on the boxes as a part of advertisement, so why not deliver what you advertised.

2. Please put in some incentives to increase activities in international districts. Online games boasted that you can play with people from all around the world, but they neglected to tell you that you probably won't be able to since there is no reason to or no good thing but trouble (language barriers) from playing with people from other countries, so there won't be anyone there to play with. Guess I should learn to read between the lines (^_^). I noticed that when a group from international district win in the Hall of Hero, the credit is given to the country of the leader of the group, not to the internatioinal district; therefore, making international district never to have the favor of the gods. Please give credit to international district when it win in the HoH so that international Temple of Ages have favor of the gods and access to fissure/underworld. This will give pve players more chances to go to fissure/uw and reduce the cursing/racism from one region toward another when one have to favor of the gods. I realize that this will cause a flood of people coming to international district ToA when it have favor, but this might be fixed and it won't last long. The other 3 regions US, Europe, Korea can still take favor away from international district. One against 3, international districts won't keep favor for long, thus the flooding of people wont be long but enough to give pve people more access to fissre/uw when they unluckily come from regions that don't have favor often; regions that have lots of casual gamers; those that the game specificly designed for, casual gamers. (Changing server is a bad option because of the 5 times limit on it.)

3. Please put in a fissure/underworld materialist that can craft shard of obsidians or glob of ectoplasm from other materials that can be found in fissure/undwerwold like Demonic/Dark/Shadow remains,... that are drop more often. This would be a great help to drive down the cost of shard and glob, not too much but would provide a little help and reduce the trememendous amount of time spending to farm either places fissure/uw which is not fun at all. The game updates seem to fix a lot of farming places lately, saying that the game should be more enjoyable playing with quests and missions and not with a farming attitude that spend countless hours to farm for money or materials. So why not help us out by given us a way to convert other abundants materials into rare material that we need (it's globs ecto and shards that i'm talking about, not other rare materials).

1. Blah, petty ranting...

2. Actually, you are playing with people from around the world, (it's called the internet) unless we all speak the same language and/or are very fluent in diffrent languges, there's going to be those language barriers. (Thats just common sense) International districts were meant for those select few who might happen to have a good friend over seas that can speak each others language.

3. I'm not sure if I agree with this either. Those materials are the super rare items that weren't really meant to be obtained easily. Kind of like trying to get to Draknor. If everything was made to be so easy, where would the challenge be?

Lastly, Anet has done a really great job on this game and making improvements weekly. Hell, there's no monthly fee!

UndeadKillerX · Jul 05, 2005, 06:16 AM // 06:16

2. Add Chinese Already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sandman Uk · Jul 05, 2005, 06:20 AM // 06:20

Section 2 and 3 I agree fully.

I beta tested the game and was sure there was no 5 move rule then. Within a day I had locked myself in the Euro servers. When I asked about being transfered to my guild in the USA servers I was told that it wasnt a problem as I could team up with them in the international servers.

But when it comes to the hardest part in the game we would not be able to party and I was left alone. So this statement from Anet is false. I was forced to leave my guild due to these issues.

Because of the issues of favor for Europe more and more lvl20+ PVE players are migrating to the other regions to access Underworld and fissure. The more that goe the less chance we will have of favor in the future.

crazy diamond · Jul 05, 2005, 08:34 AM // 08:34

1. Those armors are seen on unique NPC characters. So yes they are in the game, you just don't get to use them.

2. Like the man above said: You are playing with people from around the world. On top of that the game is meant to be competitive between realms. The international districts are there so that you can team up and group with people from other realms without having to actualy chamge. Its an extra, they didn't have to put it in, but they did.

3. If they did that the armors wouldn't be as unique as they are meant to be. If they make those easier to get they'll have to put in something else thats harder to get just to give endgame players who've done it all something else to do.

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Originally Posted by Sandman Uk

I beta tested the game and was sure there was no 5 move rule then. Within a day I had locked myself in the Euro servers. When I asked about being transfered to my guild in the USA servers I was told that it wasnt a problem as I could team up with them in the international servers.

I beta tested too. And I don't remember it either. But thats what happens, the game changes. What a concept, huh? Even so its blatantly obvious that there is one now. If you weren't paying attention and got yourself locked from your original realm, its your own goddamn fault.

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But when it comes to the hardest part in the game we would not be able to party and I was left alone. So this statement from Anet is false. I was forced to leave my guild due to these issues.

It's not a false statement because you can group with them in the International districts. It's not Anets fault that your guild won't group with you.

Stop blaming everything on Anet. This isn't EQ.

dargon · Jul 05, 2005, 05:40 PM // 17:40

Uhm, he's talking about going to the underworld and fissure of woe. Given how those two zones work for gaining entry, the international district won't work.

crazy diamond · Jul 05, 2005, 07:45 PM // 19:45

He mentioned UW and Fissure when talking about how he feels people are moving from Europe to USA, thus making it harder for Europe to gain favor; not about how they don't work for the international districts.

And since he's stuck in Europe...

Phantom Knight · Jul 05, 2005, 08:34 PM // 20:34

1. I spent lots of time explored the games since I beat the game pretty early on and couldn't find any NPC with those box art armors. I thought it would be nice if the game has what's shown on the box. But it's optional though since most advertisements are not strictly following the truth , there's always exaggeration and glamour (^_^) . Maybe it's best they spent time adding in quests and contents. I guess it's ok the way it is as many of you seem to think so.

2. I was just trying to find a way to increase interaction amongs different regions and *mostly* a way to increase access the FoW/UW a little more *just a little more* to relieve stress for those frustrated pve that spent time waiting for favor and has no better thing to do than cursing other regions, promoting racism and negative politics. Well, I don't mind much since there's not much bad talk toward America but still...it's sad to see the dark side of people when they don't get what they want.
This is my first online game so I read the advertisement literally. It's said that online game can be play with people around the world. "Can" is a tricky word. You can but you probably won't be able to most of the times due to one reason or another: no incentive, language barrier, no one there,.... "Can" is just a possibility that has not happened, nothing more. I should learn to read between the lines. But nevermind this, like one above said, it's for those few who have friends oversea.

3. Ok, I was just throwing this one in hoping that one of the developer was drunk while reading this and actually do it

lol. I know that the whole purpose of making FoW/UW super hard and rarely drop super rare materials is to keep players coming back to the game and to have something to do while waiting for the expansion. Otherwise, most pve players would just move on to other games after beating the game, did all missions and bonuses, and explorer every single cormer of this world which didn't take that long since this game is design for casual gamers. It's a smart move on their part and i'm sure the devs are smiling as many pve suckers like me

who keep coming back to the game, spending countless hours going to FoW/UW, practically living there

. So, I don't think they gonna change this place or take up on my suggestion anytime soon if ever.

Despite all this, Anet did a good job for a no-monthly fee and was very helpful; they email answer most my important technical questions in a very timely maner. Very good technical support. Since this is my first online game, I had lots of high expectation and enthusiasm. And as in life, you know what happen when you have too much enthusiasm and too high expectation. Nothing is perfect

. I posted this when I still had lots of enthusiasm and expectation with this game. So don't get mad if you disagree with all of this completely. *Sigh* I guess it's time I take on a casual gamers attitude as this game was design for, casual gamers. I guess I spent too much time trying to get every rare armors, items, trying to see this game as I envisioned. It's time for me to move on from this game. I'll stop spending time on Guild Wars for now and go back to console gaming or other stuffs. I'll check the official updates and come back for new quests and added areas. But it's time to leave. Good luck to those of you who still have missions/bonuses or still chasing after your perfect vision of this game. It was a good starting online game for me. X-play from G4tv gave this game a 3 or 4 out of 5. So, it's a good starting.

Racthoh · Jul 05, 2005, 09:50 PM // 21:50

In regards to #2, that just wouldn't work. Since everyone can go to the international district, there would be no reason NOT to be in it once they get the favour. Everyone would just PvP in the international HoH that way the favour would be active at all times for all players to access the FoW/UW from the international districts.

Unless I misread you're point there are #2, I can't see that being implemented.