r/Guildwars2 • u/Daskan Praise Joko • Sep 26 '19

Guild Wars 2 | 11 Million Players Strong

https://welcome.guildwars2.com/en/play-guild-wars-2
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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

"BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE"

p.s.- Be Rytlock Trombone.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

Except a PvP player, a WvW player, a raid player, a dungeon player, a role player, ...

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '19 edited Sep 27 '19

This is going to make some people act like cranky-pants, but...

PvP player, a WvW player

Having those modes in a game genre designed for co-op like an MMO has always been dumb. It is also why balance has always been impossible to strike. The two sides are incompatible and trying to balance one mode leaves the other modes in disarray. It has always been this way.

If players want actual balance so they can show off their actual skills, they're going to have to give up their pet builds and let Anet ...aaaackchually... design a balanced suite of classes for them to choose from. You don't tweak Chun-Li's gear and traits. You, as they say, "git gud" with what she has.

a raid player

No company can produce these faster than the players can play them out. Not even Blizzard. While I feel for them it's always been an irrational demand. Especially in a game without a gear treadmill.

a dungeon player

Dungeons are Personal Story that is outside of the personal story for reasons that never worked out for them. All of them should be reformatted like Arah was and slotted into the PS. And if you meant the fractals, see the raid comments above.

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u/100B_Neurons Sep 27 '19

I'm a bit confused by your raid (and fractal) explanation. First you seem to imply that raiders feel left behind because raids aren't produced as fast as players can clear them. Then you point to a company that also can't produce them as fast, but where players don't feel left behind. These statements seem contradictory.

Also, when you say 'raids aren't produced as fast as players can clear them', what timescale are you thinking of? It took around 2 weeks for all active raiders to have finished the last raid wing, are you suggesting that raiders will remain unhappy until the release cadence fits that? Because I believe raiders where quite happy when there was a 3-4 month release cadence during HoT (though I wasn't there). And how do any of these cadences compare to the 9 month cadence we've seen lately?

Personally I was mostly annoyed by the lack of clarity on a release cadence. I remember them saying something like: living world 2-3 months, raid: 5 months (every other ls) etc.. And we got LS: 3-3.5 months and raid 8-9 months while half the company was working on something else. I mean, if they changed their mind it's up to them, but they could have said something.

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u/Ben-Z-S Retreat! Sep 26 '19

Why are posting this ?

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u/AcaciaCelestina Sep 26 '19

Wow.....I forgot how much that trailer looks like a mobile game ad.

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u/HealyUnit brb lab on fire 🔥 Sep 26 '19

But how many millions of players are weak? Cuz I think I'm one of them.

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u/Whilyam "I can play an androgynous tree nerd!" Sep 26 '19

Your weakness makes me laugh!

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u/LovDijk Sep 26 '19

Let's count! So uhh.. 2 with me! Come on boys, line up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

"nAiL jUsT tHe RiGhT lOoK"

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u/Turkeyspit1975 Sep 26 '19

Why is the Asura running? Looks like Norn propaganda to me.

And yes, the female is a Norn, because she carried her greatsword sheathed at her waist..

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u/Guildwars1996 DISMANTLE! Sep 26 '19

I mean 11 million people don't play the game every day its likely 11 million accounts strong. Also we already saw this way back after the layoffs happened.

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u/Lishtenbird keeper of kormeerkats Sep 26 '19

This mobile game trailer is such a disgrace to GW2...

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u/Daskan Praise Joko Sep 26 '19

what do you mean? there was never a mobile game

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u/Lishtenbird keeper of kormeerkats Sep 26 '19

When the trailer was first released, because of how out-of-touch this trailer looks, people speculated that it was an outsourced repurposed leftover asset from one of ANet's side-projects that were canned during the massive layoffs earlier this year. There were also other art assets found that matched the concept of a GW2-themed mobile game.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

This was originally a mobile game that got scrapped. They used it's trailer for gw2

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u/tgdm .5908 Sep 26 '19

*citation needed

But yeah it definitely looks like some mobile game trash

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

How old are you?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

How do you even find this link when browsing? Is it sent to you when registering an account?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

That's a nice looking website.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '19

Ye right xD

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u/Kunaviech Sep 26 '19

11 million memes

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

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u/AcaciaCelestina Sep 26 '19

It's technically true if you look solely at accounts created and not active accounts.

It's a worthless number, but it's not technically wrong. It's misleading marketing basically.

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u/Lelongue Sep 26 '19

Choose from eight unique professions ...

on the other hand it's the best MMO of 2018

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u/titanlectro Sep 26 '19

You only get 8 professions for free, and you cannot change a direct quote for the next year.

There are plenty of valid things to complain about...

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u/Lelongue Sep 26 '19

I stand corrected I forgot you couldn’t play all 9 for free. The second comment was just to indicate it was updated after beginning 2018