Guild Wars 2

I think the way this game was designed is just not for someone who wants a new, more powerful set of gear every some-odd months. It just may be the wrong game for you.

DavidGX.1723:

I think the way this game was designed is just not for someone who wants a new, more powerful set of gear every some-odd months. It just may be the wrong game for you.

pretty sure they said the game had something for everyone though

No to gear progression.
Yes to skill hunt and trait hunt.
Interesting suggestions here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Hunting-Down-Traits/first
and here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Trait-Concepts-Superior-Elite-Stats/first

Lutharr.1035:

DavidGX.1723:

I think the way this game was designed is just not for someone who wants a new, more powerful set of gear every some-odd months. It just may be the wrong game for you.

pretty sure they said the game had something for everyone though

They also explicitly stated many times in many places that gear progression would be out (appearance) not up (power.)

Lutharr.1035:

people get tired of doing the same things over and over unless there is a incentive to do them. Its as simple as that. Its not a case of just fun its a case of seen it done it got the t-shirt. Now if your working towards something while it may be an illusion in some peoples eyes its still very real. Motivation is one of the most powerful things a humna being can experiance no matter if its in a digital world or in RL. It drives people.

Thanks for the details. And I definitely understand the drive a gear incentive can have. I guess I just am failing to understand why someone would want to do the content with a gear incentive when the content isn’t fun to them without that incentive. Perhaps this is because I don’t find that the gear incentive changes something I don’t find fun into fun? To me it seems like this: Person hates the job they have and have a better job offer for one they enjoy doing but choose to stay at the job they hate because of an annual bonus incentive. Me I’d leave the job I hate in a heartbeat for the one I enjoy even if the loss of the bonus meant less total income for the year.

Lutharr.1035:

Anet while they may have gamers working on GW2, they may have gamers being their mouth piece as it helps when interacting with the gamers they are speaking to. But the fact of the matter is that they are a buisness. They dont want people to put down the game and come back later. people not playing the game dont by gems, they dont put money in their pocket, which as a buisness is beyond stupid. Its buisness suicide. Not only that but when people take “a break” from games. The chances of them returning dwindles more and more each day. So the chances of them buying an exp or whatever is in the cash shop wont happen either. Again goes against the reason they are in buisness.

If Anet was owned by some mad billionaire who is paying for GW2 no matter what then fair enough. But it isnt.

The games awesome. But once your level 80 for a while it starts to get stale. people dont return to games they left because it got stale (well most wont).

That may be true for some people but the model worked very well for GW1. Many people took long term breaks from GW1 to repeatedly return for festivals and expansions and the handful of free content additions they did. In all GW1 sold over 7 million. At one point in time GW1 was #3 in the top 5 most populated MMOs. Which means at it’s peak it had over 5 million and less than 6-7 millions active players. The game is still selling to new players based on financial statements as of august 2012. So I think you underestimate the GW1/GW2 players types/market. There have been many press releases about player turn out with new content and festivals and stuff that indicated high rate of players returning. If only it were easy to locate those I’d do so and link them assuming they are still out there somewhere on the net. So they won’t be hurting if some people leave and never come back. Up until GW2 released GW1 was still making money. Granted not a lot compared to prior to GW2 being announced but it speaks loudly of as long as there is hope of new content there will be money spent on the game by old players while new players keep being added.

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