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Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

Currently, pretty much every large team event is like Battle Maiden on the Apex as played against a bunch of SO'ed Scrappers, except she's got a damage aura and the sword bomb patches have an even smaller margin for error. All the content post 40 tuned very brutally, pretty much because they want people to faceplant because repairing your gear that breaks when you do is part of the backbone of the game's gold economy.



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Originally Posted by EvilGeko

What free three months? I'm paid up through May 2013 and NCSoft has given me no indication whether they intend to issue refunds.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

Nothing.

Pretty much done with NCSoft.

Had enough experience with them over the years to know that they won't get better.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

Are they as inspirationally powerful as the buffs you get for WvW? +3% endurance gain, ooh, ahh. I meant substantive game system design, not little bones they threw in at the last minute.
I didn't realize that it was self righteous to express a negative opinion about a product that one has purchased.

Originally Posted by Starsman

So... at max level, if everyone does some big raid, everyone gets a purple drop? There is no rare purple drops in the game, unless everyone gets one? There is no rule saying "only one purple per defeat that will be randomly given to one of the participants"?

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

Who hates GW2? I don't. I don't even hate NCSoft. But I'm simply not going to continue to support a company that treats me poorly. You're more than welcome to.

Originally Posted by Mad Grim

Shared loot and xp is somethin CoH did- it was not as advanced as in guild wars (you still had to team), but it was something CoH did.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

And there we go again. Thank you, Dr. Armchair, for psychoanalysing me. I assure you, the last time people did this to me, it was very productive and helpful. But let me share with you a simple, basic fact:

City of Heroes played just fine with that mentality of mine and it never bothered me until Incarnates came out and forced teaming was forced down my throat. If City of Heroes can do it, other MMOs can do it.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

My problem with the Guild Wars community hasn't been that I've noticed any preponderance of disruptive players, in fact it has all been quite civil in my experience on two different servers. Rather, the game's design does nothing to encourage anything but pick up teams. Maybe there would be a reason to join a guild if you were deeply involved in the PvP but as someone with no interest in that I have no motivation to do anything but treat the chat as a concurrent IRC system as I wander around. The first three dungeons don't require any special coordination beyond the capability of any old PuG and there isn't anything resembling the widely unpopular yet strangely effective minimum player counts for task forces and trials.

Everyone seems to like the world events that appear but are there any that encourage any behavior other than synchronized soloing? If so I haven't seen them.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

I bought Guild Wars 2 after succumbing to Rock Paper Shotgun's hype rather more rapidly than I was hoping I would. Had I waited a couple days I would have been more hesitant to spend the money on it, which would really have been for the best. It may be the sleekest, most streamlined WoW-alike yet, but boy howdy is it ever one of those.

Who cares how refined it is when there isn't really anything to do? Your character is identical to every other character of the same class and level except as far as your preferred weapon (hint: it's greatswords) and the amount of grinding you're willing to subject yourself to to earn more shinies. Even if you go wild with dungeon loot you're still one of ten thousand spooky clones instead of one of a hundred thousand.

Nothing you do in the game matters and they never pretend that it might matter. Why am I fighting worms in this ice cave? Because a marker on my map said I'd get prizes if I did so. Why are the mole people of Greater Fireland entirely hostile and murderous yet in neighboring Frostburg they comprise the friendly townsfolk? That's a stupid question as none of the NPCs are meant to do anything but provide the expected window dressing to your generic fantasy experience. The story quests are somehow a step backwards from that; if you think it's funny to be trying to save the... world? From dragons I think??? ... because you wanted to be a circus clown but it just didn't work out at level one, the luster may have worn slightly by level 40. As will have the writing, hand-picked and un-crumpled from the dumpster behind Bioware.

The weapon skill system seems fun at first until you realize that your profession realistically has one or maybe two combinations that are competitive in any way and the realization sets in that you are on track to have either four or eight combat skills for the entire game plus an auto attack and some vaguely more varied buffs. Exceptions exist but compared to City of Heroes, mein Gott.

Top it off with one of the grindiest endgames I've personally ever seen and you have a recipe for something that will be forgotten by yours truly before Torchlight 2 comes out. I could have given those sixty dollars to charity, but I guess that probably wasn't likely. Anyone who is on the fence though? Save yourself twenty dollars and buy Dark Souls instead.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I hadn't actually seen the video as it's not up on That Guy With The Glasses, but having seen it now... It's a good review of the game, but I found myself tracing after his points and going "Don't care... Don't Care... Doesn't interest me... GOD that is a bad idea... That's team only... Don't care... Don't care..." and so on. I will freely admit I don't know enough about Guild Wars 2 to judge the game objectively, but if what Joe mentioned is what the game is about, then it quite literally has nothing I want out of a game, and quite a few things I specifically DON'T want out of a game. The "quest" system, for instance, is HORRID. I hate those communal overworld quests.

Again, that's not to say Guild Wars 2 is a bad game, but to me, it's simply innovating in a place that I didn't think needed innovation and adding features I don't care about. It's a game that overfocuses on mechanics that I don't like, set in a world which I'm not that interested for. As I've said many times before, this isn't a question of a boycott. I just literally have no reason to pay money for this.

Originally Posted by Starsman

Seems all-right.

The lack of trade is a huge one, not a minor one, for a game with loot.

Irrelevant though. I am not going to give NCSoft any more money.

Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion

heh, watched 90% of it and just was thinking to myself, "huh...most of that is what CoH had 8+ years ago and was still fun!"





Ah well...

Originally Posted by afocks

Oh Jayboh, Jayboh. Remember the beginning of the video, he is handing money over fist for a product and service? I too have handed money over fist for CoH, for the game, for the extras, for the up time. Now the people I have handed all this money too have decided that they have had enough of my money and they want their ball back. I say ok, I will never risk playing ball with you again in that case. Boycott? Don't be fooled into thinking all people are as you blindly see them. I don't care what people want to boycott. My own principles will prevent me from making bad decisions with NCSoft in the future. The world isn't always as you see it kid.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

So?

I don't want to support NCSoft or their products. I already purchased GW2 and don't find it to be anything special. I see no reason to support a company with so little regard for its customers.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I don't know if you should sub on YouTube since the home for his reviews is either on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com or on The Angry Joe Show, but you really should follow his work. Angry Joe is one of the few Internet critics out there who does what he can to be fair, informative and honest in his reviews. When he does do gimmicks and overacting, it always goes hand-in-hand with a broader point he's trying to make. If you want to know about a game, watch his reviews. Few do it better.

Originally Posted by Biowraith

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

You'll get your wish soon enough.

Originally Posted by Unknown_User

Love Angry Joe