Wasn't really looking forward to the January update, but that had some nice tidbits in there.

However, this looks right up my alley. CTF map and Guild Missions...dailies and dungeons revamp...

Good stuff. Should keep me very occupied.

Originally posted by odinsrath

you can truly say that nothing has been good sence release of this game..for those who dont know i along with many other was on the top server and top guild and a.net offered free server transfers to the wow kiddieo's that were pitchin a bioch in forums about the top server was dominating every week in wvw and it wasnt because we had more ppl than everyone..it was because we were just plain better...now the wow kiddieo's had banded together and now they are the top server only because of the sheer numbers they outnumber every server now no matter who they play..its stoopid<--  but before that they again panderd to the wow masses on forums and added even more dungeon grinds for badges..its sickening..now..NOW THEY ARE ADDING ctf? get the heck outta here -_- yet another wow flavored peace of gameplay ..this game is slowly dripping down the gutter..i really liked this game but as its life is going on / on its quickly faded to black..what ever happened to real pvp ..real wvw in rpgmmos

wvw has become nuttin but a merry-go-round..zerg take this..zerg take this ..zerg take this..no one defends ..why? because your truly cant no matter how organized you are ..sheer numbers rule all ..my final flame...a.net panders to the wow crowd and for those who are looking for a diff. and good mmorpg stay away..this isnt it..i dont think any new mmorpg will ever be diff. from wow ..a.net has showed their hand to everyone and now they are all in...all in on the wow factor and cash grab

and for those that say there was ctf before wow in mmorpg ..plz tell who had before wow i cant think of many or any at all..at least any that were good and had pvp

Right there, sir , you just nailed it. Its STOOPID

The beginnings of player generated content in a themepark based MMO. I think I like where this is going! Then being able to turn myself into a guild banner in WvW... oh, that is SO going to be abused!

This looks amazing. What a nice direction this incredibly fun and growing game is taking.

Originally posted by botrytis

Originally posted by xalvi
 

No - they collect data from all the WvW, etc on  all the professions. They already siad they do that.  They believe data not people yelling ' OH MY GOD X profession IS SO OP'. First, every profession has a weakness, learn what they are and how to exploit them BEFORE WHINING about balance. I remember the yelling, and I will bring it up again because it is classic, in Rift players yelling about how OP Saboteurs were, when the game released. Sabs were glass cannons (a riftstalker would rip them apart, if they didn't flaa through themap while shadow stepping 50% of th time - different story) and people never tried to figure out how to deal with them, they just whined, The class got nerfed and it wasn't a viable role for 9 months to a year after the nerf. This is when Trion said, we are looking at data on the damage the roles ar taking/producing BEFORE balancing.

Sorry, but you didn't think this through very well.  If the imbalance problem is because of lack of player innovation, how  is looking at statistics going to change anything?

Let's look at your example.  In the game, Saboteurs are owning everyone, so everyone complains and they nerf the Saboteurs.

Here's the fix:  Look at statisics.  They run the statistics for the game. Saboteurs are doing 10 times as much damage as they are receivng.  Conclusion it's time to nerf the Saboteurs.

If Riftstalkers were already in the game to counterbalance the Saboteurs, all Trion had to do was post "Have your Rifstalkers take a crack at the Saboteurs".  Balance problem fixed, end of story.

Originally posted by Elikal
Tbh I was a letdown but the past events and additions. I had thought GW2 would get new zones regularly. There is so much blank space on the Tyria world map, which I would be interested to visit or in case it existed in GW1, to revisit. These events in the past have all been boring. And while the changes and additions sound nice and fine, I wish they would add new zones instead. But... that's just me. ;)

That sort of content addition has two problems.  It costs a lot of money, and the bulk of the players would go trhough it one time and then go back to SvS, so the money would not be well spent.

I am totally in agreement with you that it would be nice, but that's something that subscription based games are supposed to do.

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Elikal
Tbh I was a letdown but the past events and additions. I had thought GW2 would get new zones regularly. There is so much blank space on the Tyria world map, which I would be interested to visit or in case it existed in GW1, to revisit. These events in the past have all been boring. And while the changes and additions sound nice and fine, I wish they would add new zones instead. But... that's just me. ;)

That sort of content addition has two problems.  It costs a lot of money, and the bulk of the players would go trhough it one time and then go back to SvS, so the money would not be well spent.

I am totally in agreement with you that it would be nice, but that's something that subscription based games are supposed to do.

Well LOTRO used to add new zones regularly, at least in those early years I played it. And Champions Online and STO added new regions and real quests since they went to PWI.

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Elikal
Tbh I was a letdown but the past events and additions. I had thought GW2 would get new zones regularly. There is so much blank space on the Tyria world map, which I would be interested to visit or in case it existed in GW1, to revisit. These events in the past have all been boring. And while the changes and additions sound nice and fine, I wish they would add new zones instead. But... that's just me. ;)

That sort of content addition has two problems.  It costs a lot of money, and the bulk of the players would go trhough it one time and then go back to SvS, so the money would not be well spent.

I am totally in agreement with you that it would be nice, but that's something that subscription based games are supposed to do.

Well LOTRO used to add new zones regularly, at least in those early years I played it. And Champions Online and STO added new regions and real quests since they went to PWI.

whats the point of adding more and more zones as the population spreads? this will just lead to less people in the zones that are there... the current world is plenty big as it is and expanding on and making the zones that are already there is a much better route to go imho.. new areas will come down the line but i'd rather them flesh out and improve current zones first.. also with scaling all zones are always relevant to you so anything they add or update will be worth seeing.

"allow guilds to literally create content across the world for everyone to experience" - I hope that will be even just half as good as it sounds on the paper.

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Elikal
Tbh I was a letdown but the past events and additions. I had thought GW2 would get new zones regularly. There is so much blank space on the Tyria world map, which I would be interested to visit or in case it existed in GW1, to revisit. These events in the past have all been boring. And while the changes and additions sound nice and fine, I wish they would add new zones instead. But... that's just me. ;)

That sort of content addition has two problems.  It costs a lot of money, and the bulk of the players would go trhough it one time and then go back to SvS, so the money would not be well spent.

I am totally in agreement with you that it would be nice, but that's something that subscription based games are supposed to do.

Well LOTRO used to add new zones regularly, at least in those early years I played it. And Champions Online and STO added new regions and real quests since they went to PWI.

LOTRO was (and still is) a subscription bassed game.

whats the point of adding more and more zones as the population spreads?  Replayability .

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Elikal
Tbh I was a letdown but the past events and additions. I had thought GW2 would get new zones regularly. There is so much blank space on the Tyria world map, which I would be interested to visit or in case it existed in GW1, to revisit. These events in the past have all been boring. And while the changes and additions sound nice and fine, I wish they would add new zones instead. But... that's just me. ;)

That sort of content addition has two problems.  It costs a lot of money, and the bulk of the players would go trhough it one time and then go back to SvS, so the money would not be well spent.

I am totally in agreement with you that it would be nice, but that's something that subscription based games are supposed to do.

Well LOTRO used to add new zones regularly, at least in those early years I played it. And Champions Online and STO added new regions and real quests since they went to PWI.

LOTRO was (and still is) a subscription bassed game.

whats the point of adding more and more zones as the population spreads?  Replayability .

 

thats what the DE system is for.. i have played tons of zones in this game numerous times and its never always the exact same.. i run into events in differn't parts of their chain, start new events I had never seen, find new things I missed. Also hopefully they start ramping up the new DEs and it will add to replayability even more.. with scaling you have a ton more replayability in this game anyway just due to this alone.

LotRO is "free to play" since November 2, 2010.

Just for info.

And I agree with Aerowyn - thanks to dynamic events and level downscaling, GW2 already has far more replayability than any of the linear quests based WoW clones we got served these last 8 years. Look at the latest WoW expansion for instance... only one way to max level. You level an alt? You will go through exactly the same quests again. And I could go on with most if not all games and expansions released in the last 8 years... Rift, SW:TOR, Conan, LotRO, etc, all very linear designs, all make regions under your level obsolete (what a waste of content).