Guild Wars 2

This for me was my big disappointment in the event. Stuff happens with things like lag and broken NPC’s etc and I’d suspect lessons will be learnt on those fronts so I’m not crying over the fact that maybe bits of gameplay weren’t perfect, no evolving MMO I’ve ever played is perfect let alone one where the paint is still drying from release.

However I think one thing that is and should be avoidable is the fact that if you happened to miss the few hours some content was up for then you never ever got to see it. I may be naive in thinking this but whilst big one off events to kick off a scenario are great having every aspect of a big huge event happen almost exclusively in one place (lion’s arch in the main) and that once that event is done there were no recursive events that gave at least a flavour of the kick off event is a massive mistake and yet one so easily avoided.

Why not simply have level appropriate content in many zones? Why couldn’t we have Karka incursions in lots of places? Why only one huge invasion at LA that once over you had no chance of feeling “involved” with? If you missed the first event for whatever reason you were simply consuming content and not getting involved in the story which from the outside seemed fairly epic.

I mean there must have been so much effort into planning, designing and creating all that stuff that packaging it up into chunks that can only be consumed by the lucky few who were on at the right times? It seems a total waste. Could there not have be “organised” boat trips to Southsun that “signed up” to and then all left at the same time (On the hour\half hour?) like queuing for battlegrounds? You hit the instance of the island with a butt load of people and everyone gets to roll through the story side of the content together and then we go back to the usual world/overflow servers for the on going stuff?

What I was left feeling was that I was in a queue for tickets to see my favourite band but only got tickets to see 15 minutes of their set because I wasn’t in the queue first.