Guild Wars 2

I think one glaring result of the Escape from and Battle for Lions Arch, is that massive world events require too much attention from Anet, and require too many competent players. OR it’s all wasted. Right now on HoD, the Knight events come and go with little or no interest. Why? People are working and involved in their daily routine. The Knights are not doable there until 9:00 PM EST or so. Otherwise the server is a ghost town. As word of the meager rewards filter down, people aren’t even logging in. Yes I know I can play leap frog, and hopefully find a higher population server, but it’s not like I can jump from server to server checking. Who has that kind of time to waste?

The LS was an interesting experiment, but it failed. It happens. The Knight battles and beyond, need to be instanced. Anet knew this going in. It’s a tried and true MMO premise. The time updating and patching etc, could have been used to design a more detailed ship. Make it a scale able instance that offers greater rewards for larger groups with greater difficulty. If Anet had followed this, it would be a screaming success. As is, it was/is a costly failure.

Ok lesson learned. How Anet proceeds from here will dictate if players stay or go. I’ve talked to people that were daily players that have gone back to other MMO’s. Some even went as far as deleting the game from their computers. And some, went back to a Pay to Play MMO! They wouldn’t stay and play for free, they left and are actually paying to play another MMO. That in and of itself, speaks volumes. If ever there was a time to say “Okay, we tried the LS, we gave it our all, and the players aren’t happy with it. Let’s dust ourselves off and move forward. We (Anet) need a real deal, tried and true paid expansion, like we did for GW1”. I won’t hold my breath though, it seems Anet is very prideful and will go down in flames before admitting they made a mistake. I hope I’m wrong.