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    The game will never die. Its population will fluctuate, as expected, swelling and waning before and after the release of new content. This is intended and expected. The very nature of it being free to play will guarantee that. People will dislike this or that as they always do. The gear thing is a major shift. One I could care less about but I recognize its impact on those who do.

    I do however question just how many are in this group. I saw more people in game than ever, even during release this weekend. A portion will wane away and would anyway its natural but the game is far from bleeding beyond the norm. Some are upset for sure, some will leave over it but I think in large part it is a extreme over reaction. They could never again add another "supposed Tier" and they may its way to early to know.

    However If I had to guess, I would place my money on a far, far large audience of people that could give two shits about this change and just as many that actually welcome it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vexies View Post
    ...even during release this weekend.
    Which was also the first free trial weekend and an event weekend...

    They have also already lost big chunks of population in the game (sPvP has lost a lot of people and their e-sport dream looks a million miles away, WvW participation has been declining & has lost another a chunk with this change as people that primarliy WvW are most effected by ascended gear, it has also helped multiple guilds make the decision to move to PS2 tomorrow), which is no doubt a contributing factor to Anet's decision to go back on their design philosophy and chase WoW hamsters like so many failed WoW 2.0 clones.
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    I loved every content patch in WoW regardless of the xpac, and it never pretended not to be a gear treadmill. GW2, on other hand ruined itself with just one.

    I can even look past the stupid obsession with one-time events and the even dumber decision of rewarding precursors with it, provided there wasn't another higher stat grind with Ascended/FoTM. The "higher stats or nothing" MMO mentality will never die; once you start rewarding that part of the brain people will keep doing FOTM FOTM FOTM to exclusion of everything else no matter how unfun it gets which is what I detest.

    Count me in with the "better off without patch" crowd. We didn't asked for this.

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    Wintersday will probably have the same concept as Halloween. Black Lion Chests awarding skins at 0.01% chance. Outcry on forums. Buff on droprate to 1%. Disclaimer: I enjoyed Halloween, just didn't bother with the chests.
    Their current revenue model is retarded. Can you imagine WoW tried selling chests with small and unspecified chance for a mount instead of just offering $25 for a guaranteed one and come close to making the same money?

    Even then, they are shooting their own current revenue model in the foot with Ascended crap.
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    Even then, they are shooting their own current revenue model in the foot with Ascended crap.
    How do you figure? Like it or not there is a far larger crowd that actually enjoys gear treadmill. Now I enjoy the game because I enjoy the game. I bought it because it was superior to the sub based games I was playing at the time it was released and not because of some BS PR fluff that I recognized from a mile away. Some have turned that in to some kind of church of Anet but I saw it for what it truly was.

    In the end the ONLY thing that mattered / matters is that I bought a superior product that provides content at a superior pace that I find extremely enjoyable and does it for free. That hasnt changed and I think for a lot of the people they feel the same. Hands down GW2 is a extremely fun, quality product with crazy amounts of content for 60 and keeps giving. NO PRODUCT out right now can match that period.

    Gear treadmill, no gear treadmill blah blah, who cares lol. At the end of the day you have a superior MMO experience that you dont have to play a monthly for. Yes Please.

    Whats more amusing is the people that do leave over this and go back to WoW.. which by all accounts is the worst of the worst gear treadmill games. You cant do a damn thing with out the latest and greatest gear. All content is gated behind gear requirments AND you PAY For that each month.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vexies View Post
    How do you figure? Like it or not there is a far larger crowd that actually enjoys gear treadmill. Now I enjoy the game because I enjoy the game. I bought it because it was superior to the sub based games I was playing at the time it was released and not because of some BS PR fluff that I recognized from a mile away. Some have turned that in to some kind of church of Anet but I saw it for what it truly was.

    In the end the ONLY thing that mattered / matters is that I bought a superior product that provides content at a superior pace that I find extremely enjoyable and does it for free. That hasnt changed and I think for a lot of the people they feel the same. Hands down GW2 is a extremely fun, quality product with crazy amounts of content for 60 and keeps giving. NO PRODUCT out right now can match that period.

    Gear treadmill, no gear treadmill blah blah, who cares lol. At the end of the day you have a superior MMO experience that you dont have to play a monthly for. Yes Please.

    Whats more amusing is the people that do leave over this and go back to WoW.. which by all accounts is the worst of the worst gear treadmill games. You cant do a damn thing with out the latest and greatest gear. All content is gated behind gear requirments AND you PAY For that each month.
    I find your defense of Anet funny because people are willing to pay $15/mth for a superior bug-free experience, especially if they like grinding for vertical progression.

    Me? I don't even play WoW, but just because it did some things right doesn't justify GW2 to keep failing at it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by freeforumuser View Post
    just because WoW it did some things right doesn't justify GW2 to keep failing at it.
    some may see what AN does as 'different' in a good way.
    But I`m not one of them(on this subject at least).

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    I just started playing GW2 this weekend as I finally broke down and bought it. I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm enjoying the story so far and am in no rush to get all the best gear. I probably won't even raid and will just level alts since that is my thing anyway. I can't see myself quitting anytime soon.

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    Me? I don't even play WoW, but just because it did some things right doesn't justify GW2 to keep failing at it.
    I never said x game did anything worse. I played WoW for 6 years but for me GW2 provides a supperior in most areas / on par in others product for FREE. So why in the hell would I pay for it and that was my reason to buy it. Others drunk the cool aid and are now mad. In the end the game plays well and is entertaining or it doesn't. Philosophy doesnt even have a place. Its not a religion its a game. Does it provide me with an appropriate amount of entertainment for the amount I spent on it? yes? fantastic. Thats all that matters.

    However I am curious what you feel GW2 supposedly failed at. Blizz does a great job and provides a great product but after GW2 I will never pay a sub fee again and to me anyone who does it simply throwing money away.

    None of the company said this and now believes that changes the quality product installed on my computer. Nor does it change the fact that I have received TWO content updates in TWO months and a extremely fun game for 60$ and no sub fee. NO OTHER GAME out today can offer that kind of value period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    I never know what to think...one thread people will say that if you're bored you "went too fast" and the game doesn't have enough content to support you. In another thread people will rave about how much content there is.

    Me? I wish I knew where all this "content" is that I hear people like you raving about. I mean, there's "stuff" around, but unless I turn into a compulsory completionist, very little of it is actual content that I want to sit down and do. Now, I'm not going to say that no one likes it, because that's obviously untrue. But I just don't see where all this content is.

    I'm sure this is where someone will chime in with a list of such things as "map completion" and "grinding for legendary"...which are about as good excuses for "content" as entering your password at the login screen.
    Honestly with the amount of complains you have I wonder why you bother launching the game at all, not only you but many players it seems which have started a kind of witch hunt against Arenanet.

    Some points agree with you like the ascended gear thing (you.should.never.break.your.own.promises Arenanet). That said i have no idea why guys still play when you have so many issues with gw2. I stopped playing the main stream MMO after having 1 trillion issues with it and I dont go and spam its main forum because I dont like X in the game.

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    Me? I wish I knew where all this "content" is that I hear people like you raving about. I mean, there's "stuff" around, but unless I turn into a compulsory completionist, very little of it is actual content that I want to sit down and do. Now, I'm not going to say that no one likes it, because that's obviously untrue. But I just don't see where all this content is.

    I'm sure this is where someone will chime in with a list of such things as "map completion" and "grinding for legendary"...which are about as good excuses for "content" as entering your password at the login screen.
    Well obviously your millage on content will vary. Personally I am one of those that do find jumping puzzles, exploration, doing quests for the sake of doing them, world completion and the like fun and enjoyable content. After years of hardcore raiding its been a blast to simply stop, smell the roses and play a game simply because I enjoy playing it.

    I do understand those that are motivated by the NEXT big thing and vertical progression but its not required by me anymore and neither am I fussed about Anet adding the the faintest hints of this (and it is a ridiculousness pale version of a treadmill) to their games. Even with more stats on this new gear it is few and far between, added slowly and NOT required to do a damn thing. The only segment of this game with ANY reason to bitch is the WVWVW people and they already said that they will ad ways to get it by doing that as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    Me? I wish I knew where all this "content" is that I hear people like you raving about. I mean, there's "stuff" around, but unless I turn into a compulsory completionist, very little of it is actual content that I want to sit down and do. Now, I'm not going to say that no one likes it, because that's obviously untrue. But I just don't see where all this content is.

    I'm sure this is where someone will chime in with a list of such things as "map completion" and "grinding for legendary"...which are about as good excuses for "content" as entering your password at the login screen.
    As opposed to doing daily quests day in and day out, and running the same set of dungeons to reach a weekly currency cap? Or grinding for skirmish marks and leveling legacies on weapons? Or grinding out skill points doing the same set of stuff to add power to a character in a game with a lower level cap, mixed in with running instances for badges for gear? - WoW, Lotro, and DCUO, respectively...

    Grinding for a legendary is no different than those types of grinds. Repetitious grind not really content? There's probably an argument for that, but then you'd have to stop calling most end-game activities in most MMOs content.

    As for map completion? Perhaps it's not content in the sense that it's something that is a result of completing content, but it does require doing all of the Hearts in the game as part of the requirement...and if those aren't content, then nothing in any MMO is content.

    Of course, I think you're very much aware of this, and either confusing what you want to do or don't want to do as valid parameters for defining what is and isn't content (I'm generally not interested in watching romantic comedies, but that doesn't mean they aren't movies), or intentionally being obtuse for the sake of baiting trolls.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    Same old stuff that's been chanted since beta. Everyone is a troll, or a plant from another game here to "sabotage" polls, or being obtuse, or....

    The only difference from then and now is that there's a lot less of you types. =)
    Or confused, and projecting their own parameters to define things in ways that support their own argument, where those parameters aren't necessarily subjective - such as saying Map Completion isn't content, but ignoring that it requires doing all the static "quests" in every zone, and then going on to say that it's not content because it's not something you want to do.

    I've seen you put forth some good arguments against things Anet has done - this isn't one of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    Yeah, see...things like "map completion" being passed off as content just annoys the hell out of me. It makes me wonder how long people will accept, "Hey, we threw some darts at the map, go to the places where the darts landed." as actual content. =(
    Let me turn that around. What would you define as "actual content"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    Same old stuff that's been chanted since beta. Everyone is a troll, or a plant from another game here to "sabotage" polls, or being obtuse, or....

    The only difference from then and now is that there's a lot less of you types. =)
    My types? what types exactly? I dont praise everything Arena Net and criticise it when its due, but some posters especially in here repeat the same things ad nauseum which makes me wonder why the heck they even launch the game at all since they have issues from events to dungeons.

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    I still play once or twice a week, but after finally experiencing dungeons, it's basically killed my interest in the game. The special events really have nothing to do with it, but they certainly aren't helping because I barely get to experience them, what with them happening like, once, for an hour, while I'm at work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kelesti View Post
    The fact that they are adding this now, after the fact that the game is out, to appease people who don't have enough "shinies" and need a sense of progression (whatever happened to the idea that "the best gear is early on, the upgrades are all cosmetic?"). If Ascended Gear was just to be for the dungeon and only useful for the dungeon, it would be Exotic Gear with an Infusion slot. It would not have higher stats. Problem is, it is higher stats, doesn't matter how miniscule it is. That someone who hasn't been playing (took time off) will legitimately be behind the curve, against their idea of super casual "this will never happen to you". And that they've flat out said straight to everyone's face, that this is a Continued idea of progression, implementing badges-of-justice ways of catching up as they push it farther... WarCraft was hated on pretty hard in these boards because it was a "gear grind" despite how long the patches were to get said gear. Why is patching in a new tier treated as if it's only a one-time thing (when ANet specifically spells it out for you that it's not), and that it being stretched out over an unspecified time suddenly makes it okay?

    The hypocrisy both of the company, and of the fans casual acceptance (or proclaiming any distaste for it as QQ, not that you've done here) is just a backhand across the face.
    Except the difference between Ascended gear and Exotics is so miniscule it really doesn't matter. You lose the ability to put runes in it and for the most part the infusions are tiny stats boosts bundled with Agony Resistance. Ascended gear has one purpose, Fractals, and that's it.

    Quote Originally Posted by zurgs View Post
    Or you wish to play WvW on a level playing field or play the product you bought on the basis it was sold to you.
    It's been said multiple times that Ascended gear will be available somehow through WvW, right now all there is is rings and a back piece so settle down. Also, if you think that your individual gear actually matters in WvW you're just not paying attention.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kelesti View Post
    Only thing I added was the words "Mass Exodus" infront of the title, nothing more, nothing less, because "So we are 2/2 up till now, when will be the next time" really doesn't help anyone.
    It's still misleading. There is no "Mass Exodus" just the same handful of people threatening to leave because they're unhappy. Sure I bet people quit over it but there's been no Mass Exodus at all that I've noticed. I still login to an Overflow in Lion's Arch since launch. People tend to overstate their case...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    I'm going to blatantly dodge that question (it's probably a trap anyway, you know how these things go) and say that I suppose there's a scale of content and different players fall in different places on that scale.

    Some people love the "map completion" thing, and would probably still love it even if there were no hearts or even vistas, just a collection of Points of Interest to bounce around from. Other people like myself would rather pass on just walking around and instead have some challenge or more depth of interaction or something.

    However, even though that wishy-washy defintion of content is true, there's still the objective definitions of development and volume/depth of content, etc etc. Frankly I don't think anyone could sit down and look at "Map Completion" and seriously say that it's in the same league of (depth/quality/volume/whatever) of content as dungeon/raid/pvp/etc offerings that you'd expect from games.

    And again, there's nothing WRONG with map completion on it's own. It's the fact that it is frequently offered up as a major and important element of the content that's objectionable to me.
    My question is not about map completion. Everyone will see content as something different. My daughter hasn't completed 10% of the world. She is happy to do the first 2 maps over and over. My 5 year old did one of the jumping puzzles on my char. I was seriously surprised and she enjoyed that immensely.

    I think it's really unfair of you to say that there is "no" content. It may not be the type of content that is your cup of tea but the amount that they have is nothing short of amazing. What do they have (as I see it):

    31 complete zones.
    30+ Jumping Puzzles
    15 odd dungeons
    8 Professions
    5 Races
    Variable Personal Stories
    8 crafting professions
    Mini games
    WvWvW
    PVP
    Holiday events

    I may have the numbers slightly out but you get the picture. They put in a lot of content. You may not like all of it all but it's disingenuous to say that there is no content. A lot of players have spent well over 300 hours in game. That's like 2 months working full time (9am-5pm) every work day.

    It's not WOW. They don't have 8 years of legacy with 10 million odd subscribers pouring money into content. MoP added about 10 new zones, 1 new race, 1 new class, some mini games and some new raids and dungeons. They also tweaked the talents. That's it. Some people got bored quickly and others didn't. IMHO the content included with GW2 was more than what was included with MoP. A lot more. It's no where near to what's included with WOW in total but GW2 will get there. They will add more content as they go along but what they included at release is quite impressive.

    Now I am asking you not to dodge again. What content do you think is missing from GW2 because from my perspective there is an awful lot in there and I am not talking about 100% map completion. I am talking about real content.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    Who said you couldn't put runes in Ascended armor, anyway? Seems to be an assumption going around.
    "Ascended items only have an Infusion slot, and not a normal upgrade slot. Bonuses from normal upgrade slots are instead built into the item itself. "

    From the gw2 wiki. You get some bonus stats rolled into the item itself based on what you use to craft it, but you lose things like 6 slot rune bonuses etc, that's in addition to a +165 stat and a +50 stat, so ofc it has a bit more stats rolled into it. The net effect should be at or near 0 when compared to Exotics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    That's only the current Ascended items, which never had Rune or Sigil slots to begin with, and where the gem typically came with the item to begin with when crafted, therefore simply removing the slot and baking in the appropriately prefixed gem makes sense.

    There's nothing saying that Ascended armor or weapons will be missing the normal upgrade slots, and in fact it'd be - quite frankly - completely stupid for that to be the case.
    Just have to wait and see, the impression I've been getting is that all Ascended gear is that way. Your bonus stats are baked into it when you craft it leaving only an Infusion slot available, which thus far is like +5 to a stat.

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    as for the free trial thing and the servers,well the servers population at any time shows how many people play at that given time not how many are registered at that server.So up till now they have quite some healthy population so there is no use to try and cook numbers with free trials.Free trials were just PR that any company does.
    No the server 'populations' are entirely based on how many accounts are on that realm which makes them a bit misleading about how many people are actually actively playing at that time.

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