What the .....

I very rarely post on forums but today I was hoping for some sanity - and to have a small rant!

I had a graphics card crash 3 months ago and today (FINALLY ... thank God) I am back and able to game, no more relying on an on board card to only able to read the news but back gaming!

I logged on to GW's, waiting for everything to down load and 'woohoo' I was back ... only to be in Lions Arch and wondering if I had instead logged on to a teenage dating service. Instead of the previously irritating 'WTS' I was met with a stupid log of what can only be calling a teen geek dating service.

This wasn't just in Lions but in every main town and in every district I went to. The responses to my question if "Anything new happening since I've been outta the game for 3 months due to graphics probs" resulted in varying responses of 'depends - are you hot?', 'Wanna cyber f*ck for the info?' to 'aw come on baby you know you only asking coz you want me' . It left me wondering why I was back!

Ok I maybe female, but guys - us women gamers can actually be here for the art of gaming you know!

Is this really what the game has become? I caught one old friend on line who praised the next chapter but my experiance today left me wondering what has happened to on line gaming? I use to love coming home from work, having dinner then settling down for a couple of hours away from the hustle and bustle of real life and sharing skill and intelligence with some good gamers - good in conversation if not always in gaming!

I met one person today who was willing to give a genuin gamers insight everyone else wanted cyber sex - so please all you out there who write here, give me some faith back in the game because from what I saw today I want to go back to NeverWinter and only PVE (ALONE!).

End rant and thanks for listening!

......Never had that happen to me, you must just be a magnet for bad districts....

Must be that one night. the only area full of teen talk i would say would be the two started areas. Pre Ascalon and Shing jea. Besides that its much better in other areas. Must have been bad luck,.

yeh its sad.. i typically stick to talking with my guildies who are just as bad sometimes but they only joke.. and it doesn't really offend anyone in our guild.. uncluding the females who actually are worse than we are

But sadly.. i as a male know what how you feel, of course i got bored playing through the game with 3 male characters so i made 2 females (necro and monk) and well necro just happens to have some of the skimpier (sexier ) outfits and i get spammed that from time to time "CYBER ***K FOR ECTO PLOX" and i just hit the ignore list.. its so annoying but best way to get rid of it is to ask all questions about 3 months on forums and not in game and keep local chat off

some new items have been added, other than that nothing really. new farming builds made, but hey, im sorry for the problems you've had with the immature teens

That's why I never go there.

Couple of quick reponses to the fast feedback I had ...

Yup fully agree it might have been a one off / bad time to log in but also nice to know others hit that ignore as fast as I do!

And second, definately right I should have had the sense to log on to guru first and ask what are the good updates in the last 3 months and what do I check out first! But in my defence, no graphics card for 3 months I just wanted to get in there!!

Thanks though for showing me not all are idiots!

I would definetly suggest checking out the guild wars site for the game updates...not sure when the "major" adjustments were made...armor nerf..some other skill nerfs...and several buffs to the assassin and ritualists.
Also Nightfall is to be released at the end of next month. Hrmm..i believe there was some changes to GVG with the victory or death time frame and some new NPCs put in..

I am sorry to see that GW has come to the above mentioned abuse. I always play a male toon (since i am a guy) :P so I haven't personally seen any of that...only thing i can say is max out your ignore list and/or make a male toon or stay away from dist 1-2 in most cities

I have to say my experience thus far has been pretty positive. I haven't run into the teenie crap other than once or twice in the past couple months and even then I just switched districts: problem solved. Hope you have better luck in the future

A simple question: Are you on American or European sever?


Personally I play on europoean servers (even though I live in Canada). I have only 2 male characters out of 10 (I'm a male player), and I hardly ever have problems with moronic people. Then again, I for the most part try to keep my female characters somewhat decent looking.

And I thought most of those idiots had moved on to Great Temple of Balthazar lol.

Sorry Seren; with all the other hubub due to other special events in the game, people have just forgotten to post about this on forums.

Thursday is now ladies night in GW

JK: well, not much in the last 3 months really. Online store is up, like it or not. There was a double fame weekend a while back if HA's your bag. R3 has lost what meaning it had to many "upper tier" players.

There have been several shifts in Cantha; Kurzick's have been making some serious pushes in AB. Actually, that was about the time the Keys folded on the Luxon side.

You're logged as a Wa/Mo: they gave eviserate a small nerf. I've been running Cleave/Dismember(Dismember got a buff) and its been doing well in PvE and PvP.

henchmen supposedly got a boost to their AI. I have yet to see a difference.

The big change is upcoming Nightfall. If you like PvE, wait a while and get reaquanted with old friends. the story looks to be much more involving than Factions.

And they tweeked the faces again. Some of the female rangers look like that guy from the 80's show Beauty and the Beast.

Those are the highlights I guess. PuGs are PuGs, elitism is everywhere, All chat is NOT your friend and we're never getting an Auction House.

Welcome back

Ya...

Its normal. However, the high amount of adolescent banter you saw may have been a fluke as most here have already suggested. As with most all online games, there is a vast population of hormonal teenagers with short attention spans, so when they get bored of gaming, they resort to chatting mischief.

We are always gonna see it, but take hope! There are also the large population of mature, fun luving players who can help you enjoy your GW experience! Im glad to see a lot of people already respond and empathize with you, so i hope you keep gaming knowing that not ALL your GW gaming will be that bad... =P

cheers!

Everyone thanks for your support - needed to let off some steam last night but giving it another shot today and hoping to run in to friends. Its a shame to know the idiots are still about but then guess they always will be just looks like I was really unlucky last night.

Minus Sign, really appreciated your highlights especially your advice concerning Nightfall

Curse You - I am on European Server but was jumping to US last night as well.

Thanks everyone once again and I wish you all fun and very few idiots!

seren you dont need to be female to get sad little kids wanting to cyber you, all you need is a female char. thats the reason when i remade my monk recently i made a male one even though i HATE the male monk faces.
one thing though, ascalon pre searing is way worse for stupid kids harrassing female characters than lions arch.

Oh no, I find HA worse. So bad I refuse to play ele or rit there anymore unless I have a full guild team and we jump straight from our hall with only the count down till entry.

Seren, your Welsh?

So ...are you hot ?

goddamn i'm funny

Guess those clothes for the female chars are just too damn sexy then - doesn't matter if even hairy legged males are wearing them! I have to wonder why they come on a game to try and get their kicks though, plenty of idiot little kids chat rooms about!

Lady Lozza, yup I am Welsh - though living with my Dutch husband in Holland who ironically I met on line!

... and yup Dahnel, I am damn hot *grin*

sooooooooooooo, the truth comes out

Thought so a friend of mine is called Seren, rather unique name. She is Welsh - so is her hubbie, and he is hot...

Did I say that aloud???

Anywho, back on topic - my all channel is off. Has been for a little while when I got sick of the teen-talk. My guild channel is also facing the cut at the moment... For the same reason.

Probably the biggest change that you'll notice is that the henchmen AI is now smart enough for them to use res sig in combat...just not smart enough to res sig a monk first if you and a monk die, and not smart enough for the monk to res you until like 2 minutes has passed.

I regularly have male Warriors chase my little monk in black Ascalon armour or my Ranger in 15k Druid and after a while PM me asking - do you have a bf? or something along those lines. After a while chatting, I casually mention I'm a guy playing a female character. Their reactions are priceless. Hoorah for messing with sexually insecure little teenagers.

Now there is a new spin on it - messing with kids minds *grin* now I have just plain evil thoughts!

Great to hear different views on the updates btw - looking forward to putting that new AI to the test!

I play mostly female characters, and I'm a guy, I'd rather watch a female than a guy while I play. That said, I'm married and have a son who is 13.

I see the sexual harrassment all the time, not as bad as you experienced, but pretty bad most of the time. With the lighter harrassment I usually do what -Loki- does, tell them I'm a guy

In the rules of conduct point 3:
You may not use sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language.

Do what I do, when the harrasment is a little over the top, report them. Take a screenie, make a note of the time (include timezone) and send it off to Anet/NCsoft support. Don't tell the person that you reported them unless you want a stalker or even worse harrassment.

It is the members of the GW community that hold the power to elliminate alot of this immature harrasment, don't just put up with it, do something about it.

Presear is where people have constant naked danceparties 24/7.

LA is where those naked danceparties last for about 7 hours a day.

Droks is where people dance naked on their own... but don't leave a female char afk there. The wammos you know... the wammos.

As you can see, they do it less the further you go into the world.

In fact, in some areas, people try to be as fully dressed as possible (FoW armours) and they discuss GW isntead of eachother!

Man, I hope somebody hits on my female character...

I'd love to see their reaction when I tell them I'm a guy!

Thats usually crap you see in presear... Stupid idiot must have learned how to post his char >_<
I would say report crap like that... its BS, this game is not a yahoo chat room >_< If you are looking for a/s/l then do it elsewhere >_<!!!!!!

Uhh... what? I don't frequent LA, but I've never seen that...

If you go to great temple, though, you'll see all kinds of stupid chat.

Ugghhhhh

The Great Temple is the worst place in the entire game. Saying the chat there is stupid is being too nice to them.

Keep local chat off or risk your sanity.

The temple of balt is one of the most fetid cesspools of stupidity I have ever had the misfortune to visit.

I don't think I've ever been wammo'd. Then again, a female warrior in full kurzick plate probably doesn't do much for teen fantasies. And I'm generally not stupid enough to stand still (or worse, /sit) when I'm playing my ranger or monk.