#1 - Oct. 8, 2012, 12:09 p.m.
This is my assessment after a month of playing my dearly hyped and anticipated Guild Wars 2. It saddens me to say that this thread that I am creating isn’t going to shed good light on Anet. After playing until I reached 80, rerolling other classes, completing dungeons, competing in sPvP and WvW – all I see now are negatives about the game. GW2 has definitely lost its charm. I’ll list few major issues as well some suggestions for Anet.
Problems 1:
- Where are we on the war against bots, Anet? Since that stickied thread about botting, botting has increased! Bots that have thousands of reports against their account still farm this very moment. Anet closed their failed PR attempt of a thread (which was created 11 days ago) because people are upset enough to start posting pictures of botters. If an account has a hefty amount of reports about botting, what else is needed for the account to be banned? If my reporting accompanied by thousands of other players isn’t enough to ban an account for botting then what is? Is reporting an account for botting there for only a false sense of hope? Anet, if people are that upset, maybe you should fix the problem – or let on the progress you’ve made. Surely there has been progress. The game has been out for a month and a week. I first witnessed botting when I was level 35 a day before the official release of gw2.
- The game still feels like a developing beta. Bugs that I’ve reported in the first beta event are just now getting patched. Bots weren’t around then, but the bugs should have been fixed back in beta so when gw2 was officially launched, you could tackle pressing issues like the bots or gold sellers. I understand launches aren’t perfect, but the condition of GW2 launch (despite being better than most MMO launches) was ridiculous and the condition it is in now is still absurd. When bots outnumber the amount of people actually PvPing on a WvW server something should happen. I noticed the lack of emails from gold sellers, but what about bots? Ingame mail from gold spammers were just a nuisance meanwhile the bots hog dynamic events [1] (making it difficult for a condition build Necromancer to earn a gold especially in the higher levels,) destroy the economy [1], start alienating bot friendly classes and areas [1,2,3], and imposing restrictions such as DR onto innocent players.
- The last patch was a joke. I waited a week for a multitude of bugs to be fixed. A weeks wait only resulted in 2 bug fixes out of the 80+ currently discovered bugs for the Necromancer (and Necromancer isn’t the only class with bugs.) Anet, you said that you wouldn’t balance classes until you fixed all the bugs, yet you are altering the classes and nerfing/buffing the classes when there still are bugs with every class. Of the patch notes I only count 7 bug fixes across all professions with the rest being balance changes. Taking the average of bug fixes per week for the past two patches (simple arithmetic; [6+2]/2 = 4 only count bug fixes not balancing or changes) with 80+ and still discovering will take 5 months until Necromancer is free from bugs. And that is just Necromancer. And who knows what kind of “balance” will happen 5 months from now.
