Guild Wars 2

It’s great that we get minis through the holiday (though very cheap that we can only create “2 free” and the rest we have to buy from the gem store); however I’m upset that we still have no Polymock arena going for this game….we still have no Shooting Gallery….we still have no Moa Racing.

Why is it that of all the mini-games we’ve had added to the game since launch, a whooping 1 of them has been permanent while the rest have be ‘holiday specific’ temporary?

—Costume Brawling: Permanent game feature.

—Reaper’s Rumble: Halloween only.

—Inquisition: Halloween only.

—Snowball Mayhem: Christmas/Wintersday only.

—Bell Choir: Christmas/Wintersday only.

Oh but look, we have an infinite version of the consumable bell that can be enjoyed as a musical instrument year around. Too bad it’s a “very rare drop” that barely anyone will have. The ONE item that might have brought a permanent musical mini-game play to the game….and it’s not obtainable by any other means than a very seldom hitting RNG system.

What irks mean the most is Polymock, which was described as using minis to fight in a pokemon style battle arena set up by the Asura, is yet to be in game or any word of it.

Even worse yet is the way they’re releasing these minis into the game as such that it’s giving a very horrible image that Polymock will never be done pre-expansion and we’ll never get to see it in the solo release version of this game. Some minis are super rare, but that doesn’t mean obtainable only by going swimming into the lava pools of Mount Malestrom, or deep into the cave of the Karka nests, no…they’re “rare” because of an RNG system that makes people have to spend anywhere between $10-100 to get certain ones (all account bound, mind you…so you cannot buy from other players), and then others require finding multiple of the rares to combine and make a super rare one.

So, will we ever see Polymock this side of 6 month mark of the game’s life cycle?

Will Polymock (if it ever exists) cause a revamp of the mini pet system?

It took WoW how many years to add pet battling?

Polymock would require a complete revamp of the mini pet system, something I feel could easily take a year of hard effect to accomplish.

The game has been out 6 months. Be patient.

I like to keep this link handy for reminding myself what activities were going to be for the game.

For something that was “built into the game”, “part of the cities” and was “in the game already” way back in 2010, they seem very absent from the world.

I doubt we’ll see them any time soon, if ever, though I’m sure you’ll be comforted to know that people managed to get into the polymock arena area during the BWEs and it’s an actual place with buildings and stuff.