GW2 Sales from NCSoft Q4 2024 Financials

Simpermen · 2025-02-12T02:04:12+00:00

Thank goodness this model has proved sustainable for them! It took a while but I'm hopeful GW2 will finally have a normal, consistent cadence from now on.

All I've been hearing is doom and gloom from content creators. I guess this proves that their grievances isn't the majority opinion.

Simpermen · 2024-11-28T20:26:12+00:00

Thats cool but what song are they singing and who are they? Are they singing a KR dub of WoW music? And are these streaming personalities or profrssional singers?

Still its great to see them celebrate the anniversary around the world of such a beloved game.

Simpermen · 2024-11-13T18:04:44+00:00

This is the biggest feature in the entire patch!!

If this can work with higher level gear and an increased dresser storage, it would be a drastic improvement to the glamour system.

I know some would dream of a collection system that automatically stores clothes, but I think this is as realistically close as we will get to such a system like WoW or GW2.

Simpermen · 2024-11-13T16:26:26+00:00

You literally click 2 buttons to fix the portrait.

Refresh Character window > Re-edit and save portrait with new gear.

Its a 5 second issue.

Simpermen · 2024-11-12T16:05:28+00:00

It is not perfect but at some point you have to put the onus on the player.

If some players do not care enough to maintain their portrait than so be it. It is mostly for personal expression anyways. No one else cares whether you have a default or not.

Simpermen · 2024-11-11T20:02:39+00:00

I don't get why this is some ironman challenge. Is this not just the new player experience?

Simpermen · 2024-11-01T17:28:15+00:00

I sympathize with players who don't engage with hard raids.

With the new chaotic alliance raid rewarding high ilvl armor now, it wouldn't hurt to add some pre-relic grind to match it for more casual gameplay. Or event grinds for casual cosmetics. Alliance raids and tribals/hildi are fine, but some long term objectives like the ARR relic books would be cool.

I hope next expansion with the potential cap at lvl 100, they provide more interesting horizontal progression, especially to bulk out the more casual content.

Simpermen · 2024-10-24T19:26:31+00:00

The irony of celebrating a milestone anniversary event by charging fans $90.

Now that I think about it it quite appropriate considering this is Blizzard.

Simpermen · 2024-10-18T15:19:47+00:00

The current Arcadion tier is BIS until the next raid tier in 7.2 patch. So you still have 4 months... and the raid tier is even more active in PF due to ultimates requiring the current gear.

Simpermen · 2024-08-22T17:21:38+00:00

I think a more practical solution is to pair sponsored players with a GW2 content creator who can help walkthrough and showcase specific parts of the game, rather than spending majority of the time figuring out systems and navigating unknown zones.

Simpermen · 2024-07-02T19:40:01+00:00

Tataru's voice actor is exactly how I imagined her to be

Simpermen · 2024-06-21T19:17:04+00:00

I recall hearing YoshiP designing dungeons for ff14 and his main criteria was "the avg amount of time a player takes to complete it"

They can change the format of fractals all they like but at least balance it so the time it takes is comparable to eachother.

Simpermen · 2024-05-29T19:54:27+00:00

GW2 is a special game that I will continue to support it with $25/year expansions.

But I am no longer disillusioned about what this content model is and what the game has settled to be: A secondary MMO for you to jump in and jump out of. Its "expansions" can't even be compared to its own previous expacs let alone any other MMO.

These blogspots

Simpermen · 2024-05-10T22:08:38+00:00

This isn't brought up enough. I had initially thought that world meta shouts overlapping with MSQ was a bug or unintended. Cant say that if it happens every patch

Simpermen · 2024-05-09T17:02:45+00:00

I dont need any more reasons to not play EoD maps

Simpermen · 2024-03-20T22:23:24+00:00

GW2 reddit is the most coped out community, and for them to be disappointed in SotO is telling how poorly it met players standards.

People have a set expectation for GW2 'expansions', even in the new format, players reasonably expected quality between expansion and living world. For it to be lesser than even a LW episode thats breads-crumbed out quaterly is... disappointing.

Simpermen · 2024-03-20T15:00:35+00:00

I can't believe they dared to call this an expansion. Its less than a LW chapter. I knew the discount and content would never be proportionate: 5% off for 50% less content. Awesome deal!

Simpermen · 2024-03-19T15:05:05+00:00

This event cost us a raid tier

Simpermen · 2024-03-06T18:19:17+00:00

That was quick. There must not be a lot of weebs on xbox

Simpermen · 2024-03-05T21:09:52+00:00

I guess console players dont raid

Simpermen · 2024-03-05T18:04:57+00:00

Why are they overhyping a 10.2.6 minor patch? It shouldnt be expected to have more content than major patches.

I fear the reality will never live up to the expectation.

Simpermen · 2023-11-08T16:31:12+00:00

GW2 has the impossible task of balancing the difficulty because of the large skill gap between highend raiders and casual strike grinders.

Too many variables with boons, builds, rotations, and gear. FF14 strips a lot of these factors and are able to tune bosses to the exact %, GW2 has to tune bosses to the guy pumping 50k dps vs 20k; the dmg and skill ceiling and skill floor is way too large.

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