Comments on: It’s Here!

By: Esteban X Ramirez

Esteban X Ramirez — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:28:00 +0000

Isn’t that typical of ANY fan? It’s logical that a fan is going to defend what they’re backing.

By: Odeezee

Odeezee — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000

haha, that is not it at all. EU servers were “Low” to me all throughout the BWE and i played for 90% of it. and what does timezone have anything to do with it when this is a limited beta event and people were playing around the clock regardless of where they lived?

By: Venca Hanke

Venca Hanke — Sat, 05 May 2012 20:23:00 +0000

Nah, just the fact that EU and NA has different timezones made it look like the other continent has low population ..

By: easytoread

easytoread — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:43:00 +0000

If only I had known! That would have made such a difference…thanks

By: Odeezee

Odeezee — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:27:00 +0000

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European servers were over populated on “High” or “Full” when American servers were on “Low” making me think that maybe the 24/24 split wasn’t the best of ideas.”
wrong, ALL servers were High/Full EU AND NA, u just did not see it as you are connected to a different data center so all NA servers looked low and vice-versa from the NA for EU

By: Lycronis

Lycronis — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:56:00 +0000

Rightfully bash their game? How can “bashing” be anything close to rightfully? Voicing concerns or dislikes is understandable, but bashing is to the extreme and just plain stupid. But then again, this is coming from you, the person that thrives on spewing your negativity in EVERY single GW2 article. Big surprise there! You say, “What an amazing community.” and my response is, “What an amazing troll!” Go back to playing your beloved Tera and just stay away from the GW2 articles since you loathe the game so much.

By: jazzbrownie

jazzbrownie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:42:00 +0000

The gate from the mists only tries to take you into the Eternal Battlegrounds, which is the map in the middle. If you take the gate from the mists into Lion’s Arch, however, you end up in a plaza that lets you pick between any of the four WvW maps.

I know it’s a little late now, but it’ll be good to know for the next beta weekend.

By: Sharuko

Sharuko — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:31:00 +0000

Ah the typical GW2 fan, gets sensitive when people rightfully bash their game. Then turns around and bashes all other games. What an amazing community.

By: Tom Attwood

Tom Attwood — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:27:00 +0000

Europe seemed to have the most problems with the servers, me and my friends had a lot of problems to start, but when we finally all got in and were in the same server we had a whale of a time, however I don’t agree with you saying its ready to launch with a few tweaks, its far from it.
At the moment the game is very CPU heavy and needs optimization, changing the graphics made little to no difference in performance because of this. I recall anet them selves saying they’re going to make sure that as many computers as possible can run the game, so there is a lot of work to do in that area. European servers were over populated on “High” or “Full” when American servers were on “Low” making me think that maybe the 24/24 split wasn’t the best of ideas. In some cases spawn rates were far to high, having a mob spawn behind you in a cave happened far to often and you’d just end up dead as a result, as well as this the frequency certain dynamic events being repeated was far too high and really took away from the game, for example I would help escort this guy from shaemoor garrison then a few minutes later he’d want escorting again. In the Ascalon 15-25 zone there were quite a few renown hearts that were just overly tedious and took far to long to complete or the alternative objectives weren’t clear enough, one in particular was the one where you have to capture flies/bugs in jars and feed them to the cows, I found myself getting bored and just walking off to somewhere else after a while. Like you mentioned missing audio also occurred a lot more often for me. There was also a point in the personal story where two characters speaking after one another had the same voice actor, which was very off putting, don’t know if it was a place holder or intentional but hey. and finally overflow queues just didn’t work, I also found it a pain that it didn’t ask if you wanted to move your party to an overflow opposed to just yourself, atleast then you could play with your friends easier.

You can definitely see why the game is still in beta but it doesn’t change the fact that it was awesome, never has a game made escort missions as fun as they are in GW2, and god damn the shadow bethemoth was epic. The game has so much content it is insane, the difference in personal story from my friends was crazy and this is easily multiplied by 5 because of each race. As for the world, it is so detailed, in lions arch I swam under the city through some pipes and found myself in a hidden cave where all the order of whispers were gathered carrying out their operations, I’ve never encountered anything quite like that in an mmo before, its pretty insane.

By: David Romera Fragoso

David Romera Fragoso — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:35:00 +0000

I touched one in WvW and that was the most I could do. My clones/illusions kept him busy every time I had to heal myself, but I couldn’t take him down either. After 5-10 min we just kind of stopped fighting and wandered off in opposite directions. Fun!

But yeah I know what you mean, can’t wait to try the other classes(and races) next beta event.