Again, it doesn’t take a team of 300 to crank out an item a week, bring back something popular or put something on sale. Real content takes months to create. What we are seeing is the work of a couple of artists and in the case of the armor they are releasing it slowly over weeks at two items at a time and we knew that 4 minis were coming over four weeks.
And for those who aren’t enticed by items may be enticed by gold for gems.
Don’t forget the game depends on cash sales of gems for it’s continued development. So we will see announcements twice a week, Tuesday and Friday, every week and you all should not be surprised and shocked any more.
welll this is the issue arenanet said they some how thought they were going to avoid. Since cash shop determines their wealth, they have to design and develop based on that.
This is why honestly, id prefer an expansion model, because then the incentive is to create new content that people want to play. Right now, the incentive is to have a gold heavy progression, (so gems to gold is valuable) and constant cash shop offerings.
I dont really mind the cash shop offerings, but my main problem is i havent seen that much really good new stuff to keep me interested, delivered in the actual game.
I think anet needs to focus on creating interesting new content, not to say they havent added anything at all, but a lot of what they did add wasnt very interesting or engaging. For me the most interesting things they have added since release were fractals, sab, and guild missions.
while i did think guild missions was an interesting progression, i dont think it ended up being fleshed out as well as it could have been, and its more suited to larger guilds, so while its interesting, my small guild basically stopped around guild rushes.
some side contents that were pretty decent were tequatl and marrionette boss fights, however, marrionete is gone, and tequatl didnt really develop a strong incentive for me specifically to do it. Also, while the fight is interesting from a large group standpoint, on an individual level, its not nearly that exciting.
but yeah, the gem store is their revenue, so it will be the focus. Until they come up with some really deep new content, that is pretty interesting, my playtime will probably be pretty low. I ve used the gemstore in the past, but since im barely playing, and have few goals, im not really too engaged with it now.
