Factions, making Guild Wars worse

With the beginning of this weekend, I have found that:

• Loading times across the entire game have increased.
• The number of err 7's and other disconnects has greatly increased.

I for one will be glad when this weekend is over. And hope that Factions is NEVER released, at least not in the terrible state it is in now.

Also, Alliance battles are a shamble. It's the worst mechanic ever. It makes GW like those stupid raiding partys in WoW, where it doesn't really matter what you do because you have so many other people doing stuff too. Again, this is in the current state. I'm skeptical at best as to how far the players becoming more aware and more organised can take it.

As far as I'm concerned, the game is in absolutley terrible condition, by no means fit for even a public beta release. I don't know how they are expecting to have a complete game rolled out from this within a month.

Why don't you just close the FPE NOW and let us resume our normal undisrupted gaming. I'm tired of dropouts.

all I can say is ...

It's like in Sim City, where you set the tax rate to 0% but still have citizens that complain about it

That's the best comparison ever, Asrial.

I've not had a 7 error yet.

Complaining about loading times is stupid. There's loading times because we're downloading new stuff. You are, in a sense, complaining about new content.

As far as Alliance battles are concerned, you'll see a HUGE difference in coordinated teams and uncoordinated teams.

wow......cut back on your caffeine intake...hmmmm?

*sniff* I wish I could log on and enjoy the FPE weekend, damn you for being able to log on and not appreciating it!

4 disconnects in 3 gvgs? gg anet.

And the loading times I'm talking about are when you go to say your Guild Hall, it'll download something, usually <2meg, then if you go to your Guild Hall again it'll download something AGAIN. It's always downloading something when you change areas, despite how recently you changed to that same area.

Don't get me wrong, Factions is awesome in concept and I'll be buying it. But from what I've seen so far it's going to have a hard time living upto it's predecessor as a 'competitive mmo' and in 'requiring skill'.

My guild members really hate FPE. I think its alot better than the original. Faction Battles need to be tweaked to be less repeditive, I think, but other than that its great.

I think the Faction Battles do require skill. I think we'll be seeing this the more Guild Groups get out there and less people joining randomly.

I think its very nice, though, to have a high end PvP area where people don't have to be rank 9 to get a group..

Personally, I hate assassin and ritualist.

I might be the only one though.

i just downloaded over a gig yesterday and i want to complain about all this extravagant forcing me to have more content.

as for any glitches how else do you expect to find them except to stress the system?

would you rather wait to the release and then find the bugs they are swatting now?

the way to stop the sims tax complaints is a 150% refund instead of only zero (then quietly dispose of the few that still complain)

You're still not used to it? It happened in the betas, when you first play the game and even after large updates. If you're on dial-up, I feel for you, but if not, be happy its not going to take 15 minutes to load a new area.

If the FPE is bothering you that much, go find something else to do. There's things that piss me off about GW, too, but when that happens, I log off, play another game or call some buddies up.

Ok, I don't want to play the FPE.

Should that stop me from playing the original Guilds Wars (which I've paid for) this weekend?

I hate the female assassin's dance.

But I have the Factions Preorder package already, so if I don't like Factions, oh well, too bad.

I love the alliance battles imo. It's facepaced and you don't have to wait forever to set up. >.>

Assassins are frusturating to play, and ritualists are frusturating to play against.

I hate FPE, I wish Factions never existed.

Assassins are fun to fight against.

Ritualists have a near insta-kill in a certain mesmer signet given to you as part of the PFE.

My machine crashed 2 times since the start of FPE

and when I say crash, I mean really the thing froze up. Nothing is moving on screen, keyboard and mouse all not working.

Again? If you don't like it, don't play it.

While I don't agree with the nature of this thread, people really need to stop saying this. There's no set point as how the game should or is intended to be. If people don't like it, as annoying as it might be to hear them squiel, they have a right to try and get what they don't like improved.