Guild Wars 2

Well, what can really be said?

I have only been playing for a few weeks and must admit to enjoying the game a lot.. Having played numerous MMO’S over the years it was finally nice to see a relatively polished game from stage one: That said, the recent event “Lost Shores” was just that: Lost.

The first stage was great, I was able to play with very few issues, maybe the occasional lag spike, but nothing drastic. The second stage, well: Log in, see my party members moving on the mini-map whilst I was stood perfectly still waiting for skills so activate. Then to crash with an error box. Great fun… Really it was.!

Now I find out that players were switching alts in order to get more loot.! Really? And I must admit, after reading/hearing about the loot I am extremely disappointed. Not in the loot itself, but because the ones who tried to play yet couldn’t get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING: Even if they managed to complete the first and second stages.. Oh, and I’m not including Karka shells or crab meat in that. To top this: People were getting “named exotics” from the end event, whilst the ones who couldn’t play got a whole in their gold/silver.

I am not normally a complainer as I understand that games/events of this scale take a lot to sort out, but come on: I have a pretty decent computer (Can run nearly all games on max settings) but even on low GW2 during the event was (for me) a hideous, unplayable mess. And from what I have read: I am certainly not the only one.

The event, the new area is (as I understand it) free content, and for that I applaud ArenaNet. And tbh, providing a game that you have no monthly sub for is outstanding, so lets be honest: complaints really should be at a minimum.

But whilst providing an experience that surpasses other games, for some, a lot by the sounds of it, were thrown back to archaic connections and unplayability.

Will we see anything done about this? Nope, the event is over and all of our complaints/moans will go unheeded… Will the same happen in the next event…..?

Probably.