Since when has a single raider used text chat :/

Voice recognition software just isn't good enough right now for all the interactions required in an mmo. The simple commands wouldn't feel natural at all.

I've not played an mmo that has enemies on radar, but in gw2 and planetside 2 you can't see healthbars, and in gw2 no names until they are close.

Being occluded in any way really should remove the interface stuff for them though. Or just give everyone stealth like in aoc / teso etc

Still love it, though TSW is a nice companion game to it, with its more oldschool mechanics and dark theme. 

Since GW2 is b2p you can put it in the same section as any other b2p games and it stands up very well in my opinion.

Good news :) It was a bit easy. Hope they do the same to CoF :p 

And the colour coding is much appreciated. I wish all posts were as concise as this one.

Originally posted by patlefort

Originally posted by Popori

Originally posted by cronius77
some of the people defending this garbage is borderline pedos . If it quacks like a duck it is a duck.....seriously make all the rational arguments you want to about this crap if you want to see half naked little kid pixels you are borderline pedo . Say Korean Art asian beauty , whatever you wish but its still images made to look like KIDS half naked. Live in your fantasy world all you wish but go ahead and get caught with images similiar to that and see where you end up.

And if you go around murdering people in a game you're a murderer, right?

or is that the other standard?

Not that I care if it's censored or not, but lets pick a side and try to stick to it.  Either you are what you game or you're not.

Do you play games for the sake of murdering people? I can however guarantee that 90% of people who pick this class will do because of its look.

and many people play an mmo for the combat system. It goes both ways. I'm an artist and I think censorship is pointless in something that's already M, regardless of what it is. It's just insulting to the legitimate players.

Either way they could at least have censored it in an artistic way, like with tera they don't look completely out of place.

Originally posted by aerinndis

Originally posted by emikochan
hmm I thought the settler path was all open world stuff. If that's not the case I am now sad.

It is. The settler path has nothing to do with housing.

Well what can you actually build, if not settlements?

I'm not going to get my hopes up, so i'll enjoy it a lot more when it comes out :) 

It will definitely get enough people to make a worthy community, I don't care for millions+ 

Since I'm currently playing gw2 this does interest me, the community is really nice in my experience (visiting a friend and watching while she played :p)

Probably because it's a forced grouping game, so you have to be nice or be exiled.

Originally posted by DeaconX

My lady and I are both gamers... and both play MMO's... unfortunately, we tend to like very different games.

 

She's all about TERA and I'm enjoying GW2 and TSW.  I play some TERA with her occasionally but I can never play it for very long before I get sick of it.

Oh my gosh me and my boyfriend are the exact opposite. I love GW2/TSW and he loves TERA. How do people even play that game T_T it's so bad...

If you're going to have that many factions may as well just have purely player created factions like in EVE.

And having the ability to vote "no pvp" would end up like EVE china, where everyone allied into one super alliance to grind pve.

Originally posted by Rthuth434
Police the game like they used to do.

mmos used to be a lot smaller, it's much harder to police these days.

The main policing is done by players, ostracisizing antisocial people. 

Alas many mmos these days don't have the power in the player's hands.

tbh the gw2 system just needs a couple of tweaks, you can already spec towards tankyness and healing, but the coefficients for toughness (threat) and healing are a bit low, if they were higher the roles you can already spec into would be more visible.

My support characters do make dungeons go more smoothly, I love how you can tank things for a short time and then have to get out. I just loved the Age of Conan system back when I played it, where cc and protecting yourself (And your party!) was important, since healing was limited like in gw2.

I love pulling mobs off my squishy party members, all tanky setups allow you to repeatedly disable enemies just like tanks do in trinity games. Support spec allows you to save people's lives, just like in trinity games.

The main issue in gw2 is that there isn't much difficult content once you understand the mechanics and conditions.

tl;dr It's not the system that's broken, it's the implementation  - most games are not trinity and they work fine.