Marina Demeretmonde.1064

Lots of stuff missing....:/ I don't play enough to try to figure this out, between this and dailies....well, a new map will always keep me interested, but geeze. I should be notified of that happens and what is being done about it without coming out of game to try to figure it all out...really ruins the "being in the moment" of play. ALSO, I worked #$%^&*() hard for skyscale...and now they just are given out? Really? I mean, I think it is great everyone gets to fly, that is wonderful, but my time is the only possession of ANY REAL value in life. When you devalue my efforts this way...why play?

Definitely a way to slow down our gold, our achievement score, and make us play the way WE DON'T want to play...been a veteran since GW1 and the track of this game seems to be to reduce rewards over time. Have contributed SUBSTANTIALLY out of pocket on gems. But now I can't plan how long the dailies will take and work on my "achievement score for faithful attendance" . That used to be a relaxing part of my day, but I think...well, it has been a good run.

No npc at gate...my time is really more valuable than this. But discovered...he is a ghost...when do ghosts come out? Not in broad daylight, that is for sure!

No npc at gate...my time is really more valuable than this.

Voice chat is not for everyone...anyone with the slightest hearing or environmental sorting issues is not going to have fun with this...and everyone who does not do well with it is being shouldered out...I had to beg to get in a guild, because they all say discord is required (even though it is not part of the game, and I imagine there is data collection going on...nothing in life is free). I go absolutely crazy neurologically if two people are talking at once...now I get to listen to layers of noise in the game since Drizzlewood and now "realistic" in EOD, so much that I I am dead before I know what the npcs are saying as thints...add real people who I care to see win, when reading map chat and trying to stay alive for progressively LOOOONNGER and more complex mechanics is hard enough (thank goodness I can read that after the battle and maybe do better next time. Well, to people who expect everyone to be as good as they are with their twitchy fingers, that makes me a permanent noob/pug/stupid etc. So I live on the edges of the game, where, fortunately, there are kind people, most of whom have seen some IRL adversity. Lots to do, but hard to play...if anyone knows of a "no discord" guild or one devoted to "bad players" like me, I would love to know about it, because I put in the effort, even if I don't get the results. Little escapism here....BUT I love the game anyway. Long winters and zero social life make this better than most places to be. I appreciate so much Anet's real effort to be inclusive and include variety and solo options.

It is not easy for my older working fingers, but a lot like fishing, in that there is skill + luck...just be glad you don't stink or have to tie knots and do the rigging, lol. I would love to see this refined to actual good spots, and types of fishing...fly fishing would be awesome because it is so detailed and requires matching flies to habitat, and weather. So many things...bonuses for non-barbed hooks, catch and release, types of reels, etc. I love it when the game teaches. Sure beats finding barracuda in inland lakes, lol.

Reasonable suggestion, but I try being a "good" team member and leave the board better than when I arrived. The parallel with IRL was pretty profound and I could not avoid getting emotionally involved. That is one thing I have always liked about GW2 story telling, but not when dealing with humans on the other end of the pixels. Now I have visited 10 times in the last week and nothing is any different, except there is no one standing on the steps any more and so all effort is being applied to the "next to weakest". Sooo similar to world events, right? The only way as a solo player I have any chance of getting things in the game that I am physically barred from (complex team play/arthritis). I would do it all PVE if I could. Being forced into certain types of content (killing actual players and endlessly repetitive play) leaves me no choice but to be cannon fodder...or to bot like the guy in the golem suit. SMH

Then you can have fun by yourself...the word starts with "M" because I won't be there.

Sooo much to do and see. Welcome back! (solo old fart player)

Thank you! "Yet" being the operative word...the sound is so overlayered that I have to read the map chat and survive at the same time to figure out what is going on...or there are so many ppl in a battle that I cannot see a thing, lol. As an older player I like to peel the game like an onion, and map exploration is always my number one (and greatest) pleasure. I think we should be mindful that we are in the first week of play of a monumental achievement...far more complex than the average car. Let's try to be a little patient, and all try to provide supportive, constructive, and helpful feedback to this place where, hour for hour of "involved entertainment", there is no better deal around.

Can you blame people for exploring with their strongest character?

Oh joy...and I bought 21 thinking the would make the currency, lol...having played for hours and hours...not much loot, 'less you like fish.

I am just going to give up on this part of the game...a boycott...let them see how much fun it is to play with themselves. I don't play with bullies and not on fair terms. This is a game. If there is no one at the gate to kill, both those guilds and ANET might get the hint. Went in again last night, and tonight, and in the middle of both days...same situation...only now, since we are barred from getting any experience, they seem to have all of it, and where I could make an occasional kill or get some guards for a quick daily, that is no longer possible...I cannot scratch the people up front farming us. That is not a game, and ANET wastes more of my time...how much of my time is wasted by ANY corporation for their convenience means I go elsewhere. Cantha is wonderful...sooo much work, and it IS hard to make everyone happy, but I have tried to suggest changes that might make it possible for it to be more of a game. If they had to take the whole field every hour after a frequent reset, and if we could build a golem or arrow cart without having to go to the borderlands.... 😕💔

Thanks for the time in replying. I think it is a very hard thing to keep everyone happy...if they balance the game so everyone can play on fair ground, the hard core base gets upset. It amazes me how much people "game the game"...interesting, but I would rather play as it was intended.

I have now spent 17 (maybe more) hours running to another map for supply because we can't get past the front steps in WvW. I have been verbally abused and have watched some players standing around to get their experience at my expense. Reported the guy in the golem suit who runs against a wall for hours...he is back...day after day. But can I blame them really for cheating in such a negative space? Hmmm, maybe I should try it...sounds like more fun than being a carpet for many feet. While I have been running supply, repairing, and fighting futilely, I have been thinking about Ukraine. And wondering why I think this is fun...I don't...honestly, I don't take pleasure in any kind of play killing real people with a layer of pixels between us. I think about how they feel when I kill them. I sincerely wish there were ways to get each reward with all forms of play. As an older player without jumping skills and nothing to offer a team, I think about quitting a lot. The incredible beauty, the animals of this world, the mounts, the wonderful maps and scavenger hunts, metas (that don't "get better" by going on endlessly), maps where I can actually occasionally eat a bite of food or sip a drink...can we do one based on "spring"? Grothnar is SO beautiful! Those are awesome, and I hope they..and you...are around another 10 years. Suggestions: Reset the WvW map every hour like Drizzlewood and others. Only allow the same number of people into a map from each server at the same time. Have a supply depot near the starting WP. Oh, and throughout the world there should never be "invisible walls"...honestly...even just a film of colour or a dotted line would save my arthritic hands a lot, lol. Killing people that hit them? Really? Boooring. Y'all other players who will jump to "dis" me and put me down for feeling that the way to bring more players in to the game is NOT have locked doors that need 10 people to get in...you are so lucky to have your health and be able to do all game types...I dream of being as good as you and would love to go, but only make you angry when I do...I am slow and get confused. Yet you treat me like I am stupid and out to bring you down. Too many of you take your success as an opportunity to kick others not a glamorous as you...why? What is wrong with you? Anet, you ask too much...this is a game. Yakslapper? That is not an achievement...that is a stupid waste of time...yup, sure tells me something about the person with the title. No one I would like to know. Ceaseless repetition is no way to bring in customers. Nor is "hiding" the repair heart away from a WP or having one WP per map. When design becomes "how do we slow them down so we can do less design"...well. Not a good business model. "Is this fun?" Hmm, I could be PAID to do some mindless repetitive thing if that was how I wanted to spend my time. Fun is NOT the guy calling me lascivious names in WvW...enough of that goes on IRL, thank you. It really seems there are no consequences for being awful or cheating. I don't even know if my report was acted upon. Fun IS the mesmer who helps me through a JP and sends back the gold I try to give her. That is not just fun, but moving, because I would never have seen that content I helped pay for without her. Fun is not going through 89 steps and all my gold to get my legendary to a step where a fractal with a JP is required that I will never be able to do because of my hands/eyes, and a special mouse. Oh well...but that leaves a pretty bitter taste. The good writing, the emotional involvement with characters in story lines (oh Tybalt), the music, the sets, and the excitement of finding a new place in Tyria when I thought I had been there and done that.... Sadly many story lines are too difficult to play...the. MAIN. Story. Line. The game has been around so long you need to start to be mindful of aging players. People like me who have been around since...Pong. Careful about the layering of sound...the sound/music is awesome, but if I am fighting, I cannot hear/read because too much is going on...so I die. Instructions are poor at best (I spend more time researching online how to do things than I spend in-game, and that is sad). Overlapping sound is so complicated...it is nice in an ambient situation like in the cities, but not life or death when 5 things are happening at once. If everyone is talking at once? Anyone with any hearing issue is going to have problems. Maybe a way to split the main character shouting instructions from the background? It would be great to maybe have a way to report and recognize the people who make GW2 an amazing place! Titles and commendations based on the real actions of altruism I see so often. That part of the community is moving and reassuring, at a RL time of colossal division and stupidity in the face of mortal threat, and at a time where immune compromised people like myself have been "at home" for years now (since before COVID19). I was crying in frustration last night as Mag shoved us down our own throats for hours and hours...good for them...but how do we even feel like we have a chance with no supply and greatly and consistently over powered in numbers? They are like a super power rolling over a smaller nation, with no resources or way out. In the PvE, there need to be more solo options...maybe make a "solo" run for each of those instances and dungeons, fractals, etc. no new set designs, lower rewards (ok, no problem, rewarding teamwork is good, in spite of my inability to make a good team member). I would pay gold to walk through a JP, Strikes, or Fractals just to see it and be able to walk around with time to look, because I love what you do. On a lot of the content, teams want to WIN....I know I am a "bad" player (in spite of the fact that I am doing my VERY best pretty much all the time), so it would be only self-serving and avaricious for me to join and lessen their chances of winning...just for a skin. So no...lots of us are NOT here for fashion or even acquisition. But if you look in your files, you will find, that I (and many, many) other people who have profound limitations are your biggest supporters (sure beats watching daytime TV)...but on the eve of an expansion, the spectacular failure of the WvW balance has me thinking. The shift from emphasis on animalistic topics to "technology" is likely to not be interesting to me anyway. The shift from the jungle to the city is so like where we are going as a species. Sooo many parallels in the game and the story telling are allegorical to current issues. One more little suggestion...I would grind WvW (which I really don't like for the reasons above) for weeks if there were an "unlocked dye" reward track, or for mounts, etc. The emotes are great too. But think about why you want to herd people into play that is not fun. I did leave for a long time...not because I was angry, but because of some of the issues above. I don't have to be happy all the time, but honestly? This is often my ONLY escape, and I would rather not be outside of this masterpiece of creativity. So don't think I am not appreciative...I am. Totally. The fact that a culture has risen up in and out of game is a huge feather in your cap...it is almost as interesting as the game itself...so keep moving towards FUN options for everyone, please? For those saying "well no one forces you here," I say...please don't be so shallow, lets help the game towards a future?