Guild Wars 2

dakaiez · 19 Sep 2012 at 12:56

It's normally a minimum of 30 minutes, if not more once they have announced they are looking into it.

Teaf · 19 Sep 2012 at 12:58

All working now, back into the game.

bemaniac · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:06

So far has GW2 had more hours of downtime than the 7 years of GW1?

cr!spy · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:06

wab said:
We re-opened 2 days ago, need some different types in would need to sign up at our site and apply www.mmo-guild.co.uk

Cheers mate! Signed up and applied.

Reemul · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:07

bemaniac said:
So far has GW2 had more hours of downtime than the 7 years of GW1?

Nope, not at all.

Dist · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:28

I wish the Desolation community was like the community from when I played DAoC. I was in eternal battlegrounds for a little bit today after the servers came back up, and Kaeyi Dream from Somnium has a commanders badge and tried to lead people rather than everyone just running randomly, and yet there were some people insulting here saying why should they follow here, others insulting her for not giving the orders they wanted given etc... and eventually she logged off.

I'm not surprised that out of the 5 commanders on desolation that several of them hate it because if the idiots in chat, I even saw Arknor there complaining about the commander, yet when someone suggests that those complainers try lead, or give orders they suddenly start trying to give excuses.

The GW2 community is really disappointing at times

rogueblade · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:31

How active are the Immortals on Planetside 2?

Teaf · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:33

Dist said:
The GW2 community is really disappointing at times

Think it's just people on the Internet in general these days, most are total asshats.

jas72 · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:38

Dist said:
I wish the Desolation community was like the community from when I played DAoC. I was in eternal battlegrounds for a little bit today after the servers came back up, and Kaeyi Dream from Somnium has a commanders badge and tried to lead people rather than everyone just running randomly, and yet there were some people insulting here saying why should they follow here, others insulting her for not giving the orders they wanted given etc... and eventually she logged off.

I'm not surprised that out of the 5 commanders on desolation that several of them hate it because if the idiots in chat, I even saw Arknor there complaining about the commander, yet when someone suggests that those complainers try lead, or give orders they suddenly start trying to give excuses.

The GW2 community is really disappointing at times

sorry but your friend needs to toughen up if you want to manage computer nerds... she has to ignore chat and don't respond to people moaning.

jas72 · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:40

flibby said:
Think it's just people on the Internet in general these days, most are total asshats.

I don't believe that the only ones that are in /map are the ones who have finished the game and are now trolling ignore them and the game is still pretty nice.

you want to see real asshats just read youtube comments.

ColEx · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:45

The commander needs respect from the players in the community, its not going to work if someone random nobody steps up and tries to lead and tell people what to do.

Dist · 19 Sep 2012 at 14:58

ColEx said:
The commander needs respect from the players in the community, its not going to work if someone random nobody steps up and tries to lead and tell people what to do.

The problem is, those without the commanders badge don't even try, and those with it have trouble earning respect from random players as they just insult the commanders rather than trying to assist them. I've played many previous games that didn't involve a commanders badge or such things, but players still followed others, they didn't need a blue icon above their head. At the very least there are guilds that have put together 100g to get this badge which is more than most people to try and organize WvW, and if you don't like a commander then simply don't follow them, yes they can just ignore the insults but the point is they shouldn't have to.

InKursion · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:00

Dist said:
The problem is, those without the commanders badge don't even try, and those with it have trouble earning respect from random players as they just insult the commanders rather than trying to assist them. I've played many previous games that didn't involve a commanders badge or such things, but players still followed others, they didn't need a blue icon above their head. At the very least there are guilds that have put together 100g to get this badge which is more than most people to try and organize WvW, and if you don't like a commander then simply don't follow them, yes they can just ignore the insults but the point is they shouldn't have to.

WvWvW is one big mess. Interesting concept, disastrous result. GW2 isn't 'hardcore' enough or punishing enough to new players to incentivize or encourage them in any way to be 'serious'. To have a community that wants to work together to get stuff done, you have to have a semi-hardcore, serious atmosphere in game. GW2 fosters idiocy, casualness, and noob-play. No wonder when a commander logs on to bark out orders, a bunch of weekend-warriors giggle and find it slightly ridiculous.

bemaniac · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:11

haha 100G down the drain and everyone ****s you off in public channels. I love it.

ColEx · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:15

InKursion said:
WvWvW is one big mess. Interesting concept, disastrous result. GW2 isn't 'hardcore' enough or punishing enough to new players to incentivize or encourage them in any way to be 'serious'. To have a community that wants to work together to get stuff done, you have to have a semi-hardcore, serious atmosphere in game. GW2 fosters idiocy, casualness, and noob-play. No wonder when a commander logs on to bark out orders, a bunch of weekend-warriors giggle and find it slightly ridiculous.

I couldn't agree more.

Maybe overtime though if GW2 keeps enough people interested in WvW, and the server creates tighter community, WvW could become a better experience for both random players and commander badge holders.

Dist · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:16

Well it's not down the drain, the guilds who have it can still use it to help organize WvW for their own guild/allied guilds and if this keeps up they will just do it entirely for them and not do anything in WvW with randoms at all.

Jano · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:17

Not really sure what you expect to happen. As far as I can tell everyone has been saying how WvWvW is just one massive zergfest anyway, will take a while for things to get organised.

InKursion · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:21

Jano said:
Not really sure what you expect to happen. As far as I can tell everyone has been saying how WvWvW is just one massive zergfest anyway, will take a while for things to get organised.

Assuming it'll ever change from this random state of disorganised zergs is very... optimistic. That implies there's a hidden skill curve or strategy that new players are 'missing'. I don't think WvWvW even has a skill curve. It's always going to be a large zergy mess. Again, interesting concept on paper, disastrous result.

Nemeses · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:24

Dist said:
I wish the Desolation community was like the community from when I played DAoC. I was in eternal battlegrounds for a little bit today after the servers came back up, and Kaeyi Dream from Somnium has a commanders badge and tried to lead people rather than everyone just running randomly, and yet there were some people insulting here saying why should they follow here, others insulting her for not giving the orders they wanted given etc... and eventually she logged off.

I'm not surprised that out of the 5 commanders on desolation that several of them hate it because if the idiots in chat, I even saw Arknor there complaining about the commander, yet when someone suggests that those complainers try lead, or give orders they suddenly start trying to give excuses.

The GW2 community is really disappointing at times

Once we get this

, I will set this as guild only, (better be able to set it to guild only) ..think as most people in the guild knows I like to lead WvW, but I also have zero tolerance for bullst!
I'm pretty sure if/when we get 30 players in with all the correct equipment w e will do fine.

I think as a guild once we start we will be OK, we will also get to know other players/guilds that we can invite into our runs, and we will also know who to make sure is never in ..**looks down!

Arknor whining never, he never whines :eek:

rogueblade said:
How active are the Immortals on Planetside 2?

Not a lot but there is always a few playing (4 right now that I can see on mumble) it most of the day, once it is out we will be extremely active

, lots have already bought the Alpha deal

Rhaos · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:24

Those with Commanders badges really do need to just ignore the ******* idiots who give them ****.

I'd rather listen and follow someone with a Commanders Badge then follow the zerg. Even if we get wiped. Either way were going to have to otherwise we'll never get the upper hand over the other rrealms we are fighting.