Not really a whine thread, just thought I’d provide my current thoughts on a part of the game-type I invested heavily in last year.
#6.) No Community
Every other part of this game has a forum, and active participation from the GW2 community to discuss that segment of the game, but I don’t even know if General Discussion was the right place to put this list, lol. Nowhere is there a place that labels or even implies discussion of activities in the game. How do you know if people actually like Keg Brawl? Without any outside-game participation, the game doesn’t evolve. The meta doesn’t change and the game doesn’t garner enough interest to develop for. Perhaps it’s in large part because of the problems listed here that we know everyone doesn’t like Keg Brawl at this point.
Which makes it difficult to understand why it’s even still in the game. It’s a slap in the face to anyone (mostly me) who desperately wants Keg Brawl to be more, and a chore for the other 99.99999% of players who purchased and still play this game just so they can get another achievement point for their daily participation. And I don’t enjoy being slapped.
#5.) No Support
Because the game doesn’t have any competitive support such as leader boards, or cosmetic rewards more than a single title, no one will or should care about this game type. So if Anet does not think it’s worth developing further into, and clearly the entire GW2 community doesn’t enjoy it as it currently is, then why is it still in this game?
Maybe at one point they planned for activities to be worth something, but now you can’t even list them as a feature of the game. More people actively engage in the sport that is Lion’s Arch map chat than do people who even acknowledge Keg Brawl’s existence in this game…
#4.) Every game has blatant server-side lag
Seriously, is Anet hosting the servers for Keg Brawl (and possibly the other activities) in the bathroom or something? It’s always suffered from horribly weird and buggy up and down lag spikes that lead to so many obnoxious glitches.
I can’t fathom why Keg Brawl, a game of 10 players in an instanced version of Hoelbrak, lags more frequently, and in larger magnitude than any I’ve experienced in my entire time playing in World versus World.
#3.) Rampant afk’ers for daily achievement
As if you needed any more of a reason to take this dog out back… Keg Brawl is the only activity on the rotation that is a team based competitive game-type, so it suffers a lot more from people who join an activity and AFK just to get a daily done while they go make some hot chocolate.
It makes anything aspiring to be a competitive game-type a joke when 20 or 40 percent of your team is comprised of leeches. You’re pretty much asking people not to try and win, but only to be happy with their daily activity participation and move on.
#2.) Only available once a week
This is one of the worst offenders, because if we can forget for a moment that this game is terrible, and pretend there’s someone… anyone… out there who enjoys this game type enough to spend more than a single game playing it per week, you’ve artificially limited them to being unable to play 85% of the time.
I would love to hear the reasoning behind that, because I honestly feel sorrow for people who enjoy any of the other activities who couldn’t get one extra day to play, say, Southsun Survival because ArenaNet’s artificially keeping this Spirit-of-the-Wild forsaken creature alive by shoehorning it into the rotation…
#1.) Still can’t play with friends
Every other part of this game allows you to play with friends. From something as simple as your personal story, to huge fundamental mechanics of the game like guesting or waypoint/fast travel that exist so that you can enjoy the game with friends. You can even play hot-join PvP with friends…
However, the activities, which are expressly for fun and offer such a wide variety of play experiences that can appeal to both the humbly-casual and the hardcore-competitive, still carries on with the gross oversight that you are not able to enjoy this with your friends?… Sadness everlasting.
Tl;dr: Serelisk uses General Discussion as his soapbox for ANet conspiracy to overthrow his enjoyment of Keg Brawl
(edited by Serelisk.6573)