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Ahh, I didn't realize he was talking about a EU-RP server. I was just totally confused!

They've already had server consolidations once...

And yeah. TOR was an example of trying to do too many things and doing all of them badly, wrapped up in a shell of pretty graphics and poor performance.

Whaaat?

Except TOR was a BAD MMO. Seriously. I played it at launch, pre-ordered it and took part in the pre-order sneak peek/betas. Had to go because my PVP guild HAD to play it because about half of them were SW-fanbois and had played SWG. My guild leader was so certain of this game, he offered to buy the copy of anyone who hated it, so everyone could try it risk-free if they wanted.

And it was TERRIBLE. The initial story/playthrough was ok, in a single-player KOTOR sort of way, but the MMO parts of the game were stapled on crooked with a rusty staplegun. And the PvP was beyond belief bad. You had to grind PvP instances to get a chance for your gear, like it was PvE - the SAME three instances you'd been playing all the way up. The PvP world zone was a buggy joke and again, mostly PvE goals. And the game itself had NOTHING for you once you hit top level other than those instances. Over and over. I paid for one month past the free one, to stay with my guild, but by the end of the second month, most everyone was "on hiatus til they fix this." And now scattered to the wind.

GW2 is a GOOD game. More importantly, it's not a sub game. People can come and go as they please. There won't be a huge sub drop when Pandaria comes out, because there are no subs. People can go play WoW's new xpac if they want, drop in for an hour or two of GW2, or just wait til WoW's new content runs out and then go back. It'll be there. And probably with quite a bit of new content, since the Anet team has committed to a lot of little free updates like Paragon did.

Nah, that's not how I meant it. More of a "yes, the GW2 people trolling threads should stop. ALSO, the other side should stop throwing monkey poop on people about it." We need unity right now, not infighting, and I'm sure that BOTH sides are driving folks away.

I'm on Tarnished Coast - the unofficial RP server, like Virtue. In fact, I stayed up past 3am last night because I ran into some Norns randomly RPing around midnight and stopped to say hi... it was pretty fantastic

Be the bigger man, then. Seriously.

Gah, Jay. Seriously, can you stop trolling while toting the GW2 sign? You're making stuff worse :-/

Sure.

If the people who are boycotting NCsoft could remind themselves not to imply that those playing GW2 are soulless, backstabbing immoral idiots, that would be super, too!

That's fine if that's what it means to you. And I don't think anyone's saying that you should personally play GW2.

But he was responding to you saying...

Which pretty much implies that everyone playing GW2 is dishonorable and "stabbing their friends in the back." Which is out of line.

Lots of GW2 people are on our side. I see stuff in map chat about it every SINGLE day. Heck, I found out about the closure in GW2 map chat. People are not blind as to what this means for the entire stable of NCsoft's western games.

That's pretty much the exact feeling I had when I read it, that it was just culled from various forum posts and edited for readability.

Yup. That's how I bought a character slot, a cosmetic armor set (sexy pirate! >.>) and a bank slot. I expect I'll be able to get everything I want from the cash shop with the silver-to-gems converter, I just can't have it all RIGHT NAO

I for one am hoping that he's not doing the "reveal-all" thread because he's going to need those secrets in the near future and doesn't want to spoil it all. When he offered to do that thread/AMA, there was no hope. Now, there may be enough that he doesn't want to spill all the beans anymore.

To me, when he does that thread, that's when I know that our devs at least will not be coming back.

It depends how big the boss is and how many people are around :P I pan my camera back as far as I can and try to keep an eye on the bosses animations, but if they're too tall so I lose the ground/red circles, then I can't. Likewise, if there's too many people fighting a boss so the fx totally lose my toon (some events are just like... where the heck AM I? What's going on? There's just this flashy thing in the middle of the screen... it's like COH without the ability to turn off particles!) then I back out and swap to something ranged if I can. Or I just smash whirlwind over and over, haha

Yes, because a bugged tooltip = NO1CURR

What, Ranger? :P >.>

Honestly, my ranger is only 21 and got 4 of those levels cooking (yay, cooking!) and I hardly feel like I have a handle on her gameplay yet. To me, the gameplay really stretched and distinguished itself post 20. Also, I duo with a thief, which means he's in melee and I can stand waaaaayyyy back and be lazy and stationary with my bow >.>

I am swapping my secondary weapon from shortbow to greatsword though, so I think I'll get a lot more workout, heh.

I found this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c..._it_out_to_be/ extremely helpful.

I find that a weird criticism of any MMO, heh. I mean, fighting mobs tends to be sort of the point, no?

That being said, I find that I mind fighting mobs LESS in GW2 because 1. I'm scaled down, so they're still challenging (yeah, that seems backwards, but I would rather get a good fight out of it rather than just one-shotting dudes as they fire their popguns at me) and 2. they tend to drop crafting mats I want.

I only watched the first 5 minutes or so (18 minutes?! I got too much ADD for that! LOL) but you didn't do anything that stood out really glaringly to me. I find my guardian the LEAST mobile of my critters. BUT, I would keep an eye on the following - when you drop to half health, if your mobs aren't almost dead, heal and swap to your tanking weapons (1H+shield/focus) so you stop taking mad damage for a while. It'll be slower to kill guys with your 1H, but if you've already whittled them down some with the greatsword it shouldn't be awful. And if you see someone winding up an attack, or they drop an area effect on you - yes, for god's sake, dodge :P If you don't like to double-tap (that's the ONLY way I dodge, but I use a Zfang gamepad) then use V. Re-bind it if V isn't convenient. But you are totally IMMUNE to damage for the couple seconds it takes you to roll. Why wouldn't you use it instead of slowly backing out of poison clouds and taking big windup hits? :P

I just don't see why everyone needs to make a new thread about it. It just feels like it's pushing everything else off the front page, do we really need 10 different "I hate you, NCSoft!!" threads? Can't we all hate them in one place?

Because it is. And it's not passionate - it's destructive, and counter-productive.

If people want COH not to die, they need to FIGHT. Yelling at NCsoft on a forum they do not read is slacktivism at its finest. It makes them feel like they DID SOMETHING, they cussed NCsoft out, they vented. But really, they did nothing but fill this forum with more negativity, more defeatism, and makes it less likely that those people - and people who read their posts - will actually do something productive.

It's a very uphill climb from here. It's very steep. The chances are very small. Stuff like this just weighs everyone down and drags the entire tone down, tires people out. It's not just not helpful, it's ANTI-helpful.

So yeah, I have a problem with it. I want this game to be saved. I want everyone with REAL passion for the game to get up, answer the calls to action, be ready to do what needs to be done if the team that's actually in talks with NCsoft NEEDS something from us.

And there are already a bunch of "omg I hate NCsoft!" threads out there. If venting must be done, add to one of them. Don't fill up the whole forum with it.

If it's just generally about a PC? Sure, a separate thread would probably draw more helpful people in who aren't especially interested in GW2.

I think we all wish that. If for no better reason than the selfishness of "YOU SHUT DOWN THE GAME AS IT WAS ABOUT TO RELEASE THE PATCH WITH EVERYTHING I WANTED IN IT!!!!"

Y'know.

No, please. This has basically become the general discussing-GW2 thread. I'd rather not antagonize the forums by spitting out any more GW2 topics, and I enjoy this thread :P

That isn't what I said, why don't you NOT lump me in with that $hit.