Guild Wars 2
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Presumably their is now no benefit to purchase this for another month till the next weekend event?
I am still waiting anet's formal confirmation re my key - their support are hopeless, lots of meaningless messages in the two issues I raised
It's not the loading times that affect me, it's the fact there is loading! i.e. connection to another part of the server. It's not like EVE where the warp-gates are conceivable, either, to traverse immense galactic distances. It's walking from one level-bracket area to another; a matter of steps. During that time you're made painfully aware that your client is connecting to another shard of the server, completely separate from the last bunch of players you were with. If you step back over the boundary you may not even reload the area with the same bunch of players! That's not normally something you have to consider in the more immersing, persistent MMO's.
Will leave the point now, but just wanted to clarify that it's not actually staring at loading screens that bothers me. It's the way the world (and hence the server itself) is chopped up, in a virtual space- and network- sense.
I don't see a problem with your posts at all, although it seems at times you are trying to drum your opinion into others or to keep repeating it throughout multiple posts. If that isn't your intention then fair enough, it is just how it comes across.
I think the main reason that people are happy to discuss the CJS issue is because of the amount of people who post in this thread that were affected by it.
Hopefully this thread can go back to what it was intended to without the quibbling and show what is good with the game and what others feel is wrong with it.
Need more videos, reviews, massive informative posts/sites etc.
I think the main reason that people are happy to discuss the CJS issue is because of the amount of people who post in this thread that were affected by it.
Hopefully this thread can go back to what it was intended to without the quibbling and show what is good with the game and what others feel is wrong with it.
Need more videos, reviews, massive informative posts/sites etc.
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So there will be a Queensland 1, Queensland 2, Queensland 3, and so on, on every server?
I thought the whole point about GW2 was that they were moving away from this system.
This is incorrect afaik?
Age of Conan had MULTIPLE instances of the SAME AREA on the SAME SERVER. A terrible system indeed that fragmented the playerbase, even on the same server.
GW2 does not have this. There is:
1 Main Instance for Zone A on Server X
If the Main Instance is full you get moved to an overflow instance and can queue for the main instance to which you can move alone will all other players as a spot opens.
There is 1 main instance or a temporary overflow. Not multiple instances in the same zone on the same server.
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Yup, it's exactly the same except that if the instance you are trying to zone into is full you get put in an overflow instance from which you can move back into the main, regular instance.
It's a solution to a technical problem, one that might well alleviate as the game grows and more servers are introduced. Eventually you might never get put into an overflow except for the most busiest of areas.
It's either temporary overflow instances, multiple instancing of the same area on the same 'server', forced (unplayable) queues or performance impact in areas by letting too many people in (Latency, delays, crashes etc....)
GW2 is implementing a mix of forced queues (WvWvW area for example where you need to be in the same instance but cannot over fill the area) and overflow instancing (Where you do not NEED to be in the same instance and can do your own thing while waiting for the main instance to free a spot). They are the 2 better options compared to nothing but forced unplayable queues, performance issues or fragmenting the playerbase on permanent multiple instancing.
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Well of course the obvious difference is that it's between every zone, which is more immersion-breaking than a large inter-continental ship ride. The difference in subjective player-experience is that one does not mind a loading screen whilst on a long, fairly static sea voyage; one may mind a loading screen simply when trying to step over the boundary from one quest zone to another. It's all personal preference. I'm certainly not trying to 'discredit' anything, nor 'promote' any other game. You're taking this discussion with too much of a hostile/defensive tone. I'm merely mooting out the implications of GW2's design-decisions on the 'Massive' feel of the game. For some people, their gameplay experience is affected negatively by these load-screens - for others, not. There's no real argument here, much less attempts to 'discredit' anything!
Huh? All world content in Arenanets games loads off your HDD. Only character data is streamed to and from the server. The maps and graphica load from your 25 Gb installation.
Overflow servers arent instancing! Its putting you onto a different server while the one you play on is full. I'd rather have this than log in queues.
Pretty funny quandary for the buyer to be in!They arent. If they actually bothered to correctly read and answer each email properly, they would have their workload cut by 500% because then people wouldnt have to send in 5 emails to get one thing sorted!
And the wait time for an unhelpful one line reply is 3-4 days.
I didn't have a problem with them in GW1 but then that i think was going directly through NcSoft which i feel has good customer support.
I've been waiting almost 4 days for a reply to a support message to the GW2 though, never had to wait that long previously in games except in SWTOR where i had a support message take 2 weeks to sort out.
If they read the messages and replied to them properly though, they would have less emails to sift through as people wouldn't be sending multiple emails.
Doesn't WoW have a portal when you leave Ghostlands?
Or worse, the devs creating so many servers to spread out the player population to stop queues that a couple months down the line the servers are ghost towns (like SWTOR). Overflow servers are a great thing.
As for the whole loading between zones, yes it is annoying, but it happens and it's something you will just have to deal with. If you spend your time in WvW then it's not going to be a huge issue. Even games that are heavily split in to many different zones which require loading into/out of such as EVE online still feel like you are playing with a massive group of people, even if there only happen to be a dozen in the zone your in.
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I believe that connects one expansion pack's content to the previous world's entire continent. But yes, it is the same mechanic at use there. I think it would be much worse if you had those portals between every zone, however. That portal, for instance, is near the 2 Plaguelands areas... having a portal between East and West would really detract from a player's questing and travel, imo. This is just what I'm talking about. It's not really a huge issue, just a qualitative and subjective part of the game experience.
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Seem they don't know what they are talking about... Either that or they have been done by the supplier they use?