GW1 had a different type of skill. It’s also find this really amusing: Your double-standard, with regards to how you to expect any sort of respect for how well you say you played that game, when you don’t show the same sentiment who play GW2 better than you do.
I love how elitist always attack others instead of the issue at hand. It forces others to go on defensive, and then they change the topic altogether. Finally they get the thread locked, which puts a huge grim on their faces.
People pointing out your double standard is extremely valid. When I played GW1 for a couple of month prior to GW2, I didn’t think anything ways actually all that easy, but hey, I didn’t expect to beat everything in GW1 within 4 months. So what I am confused about is the difference of your attitude towards GW1 and GW2 content. Did the so called challenging content become trivial 2 months after released in GW1? Don’t forget GW1 released for a 8 years now, skill and awareness and experience do grow with time, same will apply to GW2.
When GW2 just launched beating the AC explorable paths were considered such an achievement, and look where we are now. Truth be told, I have never seen any MMO so casual friendly as GW2, for one there is no subscription fee, I can’t see how any MMO can be more casual friendly than that. Secondly there is a downstate, then defeated state, it already give you more window to make mistakes. Lastly regarding when people are able to rez zerg, I personally have never seen such a unbelievably unpunishing death system . WoW was considered a revolution for not substantially punishing players in an MMO, but I don’t recall being able to get back into combat if dead, save one or two combat resurrections. People need to start seeing encounters as a closed environment and deal with it as such.
Regarding your statement about 25 minute changes, you are simply assuming that such a so called good players does not exist. As a matter of fact, I would say 70% of the dungeons can definitely be done in under 25 minutes even at the overall skill level today, and as time goes by the time will only decrease. I personally don’t see a problem of having a few long dungeons in there. Your assumption of 2 hours a day is extremely arbitrary. People already have pointed out for you that the path you are talking about does not take 4 hours as you stated, my first time in Arah path 4 took around 1 hour 40 minutes. Also, you have mentioned yourself that you haven’t done path 4 yet, maybe give it a try, and judge for yourself. You might know your guildies well, but their opinion certainly does not reflect the general population, nor you. After saying all that, we have to get back to the beginning. What makes you so certain that a dungeon that can be done in 25 minutes will not take the not prepared, less experienced people more than 2 hours to complete? Arah path 3 can be done in 25 minutes, just saying. So the way you have backed up your arguments is extremely contrived. I do see some merits in making contents bite sized. But I don’t see any problem with having a few longer ones in there, because like I said, most of them can already be done in under 25 minutes.
Lastly, your notion of casual people doesn’t yet have access to everything is extremely flawed, as someone have already pointed out. Nobody is charging casual players 2 pennies for every hour while giving a free pass to more invested people. If the game provides 1000 hours of gameplay, everyone who have paid for it have access to all of it. People who play 10 hours a day gets there in 100 days, people who spend 2 hours get there in 500 days. I personally don’t see how that is making any game inaccessible. It all comes down to these knee jerk reactions. When you see an achievement that takes a total 10 hours to complete, immediately people see it as inaccessible to them because they are “casual”. I do think playing for 2 hours and complaining for not being able to get 8 hours worth of reward ridiculous.
Lastly, if you put yourself in such a high position of being able to provide positive and relevant feedback, don’t start bashing others halfway down your own thread, and if you have a passion against elitist behavior, don’t act like one when you talk about GW1. Self contradiction takes away a lot of credibility, just a token of advice.
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