To answer your question Tal, no, Guesting hasn't been implemented yet.  My understanding is that they want servers to balance out a bit still [which is why server transfers are free at the moment] and Guesting will come later.

Oh, and Ash, it took all of two days to get the Trading Post working properly.  How's that Ladder Bug coming along?  Can you even long in right now, or are all the servers down because they added a point sale to the store?

If I had enjoyed GW1 for more than a month I'd probably be trying out GW2.

That being said, I want DDO with the UI, map, update mechanisms, and server infrastructure that GW1 had. They did do a lot of things right on the technical side.

Cale wrote on Sep 13^th, 2012 at 9:38pm:


I didn't care for GW1 either what have they changed that might get me to buy GW2

Cale wrote on Sep 13^th, 2012 at 9:03pm:

Lol.  I'd make a snide comment but ArenaNet is famed for their lack of downtime on GW1.  Apparently they figured out how to roll patches and updates into production without taking the game offline.  Amazing concept.  That's one of the things that surprised me about DDO and most other MMO's.  They don't think anything of taking you offline for hours at a time.  As an IT professional for a Saas/Cloud product for businesses we can update without our clients being down.  It's really not that hard if you have redundancy and the right gear in place.

Truth be told, though, Turbine's patch schedule works well for me as I am rarely on during weekdays from 6am-10am U.S. eastern time.  Even the downtime last night was fine as I was doing family stuff.  It worked great tonight when I was online. 

As for the ladder bug, that's a great punchline, but it's really not that big a deal.  I could care less if they never fix it.  There are other things I'd rather see done.

This thread makes me sad.

Ragedancer wrote on Sep 13^th, 2012 at 5:17pm:

If you wife is not serious about protecting her account, and it was hacked from a guild website, then why would you try to blame someone else.  How hard is it for people to get the word 'unique' though their head?

Interesting The End Game Reimagined https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-endgame-reimagined post from ANet

livefreeordie wrote on Sep 13^th, 2012 at 10:34pm:


Wait, you're saying that I shouldn't have used the same login ID and password for my email, facebook, DDO game account, DDOVault account, and bank account?

I agree with angry joe.

I'll look into saving up $60 worth of tip money so I can buy it. It may take a while though, because college kids don't understand what tipping means.

GW2 is amazing. I can run it at the highest settings without worrying about lagging my balls off. The higher level dungeons especially arah beats citw in every single way. Combat is fluid and active. You actually have to dodge and switch weapons and time abilities.

I didn't leave to join guildies in previous games. I shot down Rift. I ignored Star Wars. I neglected Diablo 3 and Secret World. I caved in finally and so far I'm dumbfounded why I stuck with DDO for so long.

Arenanet has made an absolute gem. If they continue to add new content the game will continue to do very well.

Sham wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 5:22am:

This.
They looked at Gw1 for comparison, and built the game to handle more players than it does.  But ANet has made such a gem that even in their best case scenario they didn't expect the kind of reception that it has received from players and media.  That's the reason certain things broke during/after launch such as queue times for WvW, BLTP, etc.  Because those things couldn't handle the load they were getting.  Those things couldn't handle the load they were getting because the game is WILDLY more popular than anyone there ever expected it to be.  The game is that much more popular because it's so fucking good.
That's a wonderful problem for them to have.  That's the best possible problem that they could have, to the point where I'm wiling to overlook it as long as they say that they're on it.
Because, you know, they actually communicate with us about these things.

How does GW2's character customization compare to that of DDO's?

stainer wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 10:00am:

I don't mean looks, though that sounds pretty cool. One of the things I really like about DDO is that if affords a great deal of customization on the mechanics side between race choice, class choice, skills, feats, enhancements, and multiclassing options (and now epic destinies and twists), it gives me a lot to think about .

Not sure low customizability would be a definite deal breaker for me, but it's one of the reasons that I've never really played another MMO.