Hello to hopefully a dev, not a QA tester but someone who can actually fix things. Cause as far as I’m concerned I’m not even sure Anet uses QA, cause there is a ridiculously high lack of quality well after a year into the game. If you can see where this is going I’m pretty miffed at the current state of the game and all this hype over the Feature Patch…
This patch includes most of the stuff that should have come ages ago. Anet is notorious to play things off as working as intended, it’s like the Dota2 developers came over n started making GW2 or something. If you can’t be bothered to fix simple tooltips, why should I bother loggin on? The simplest of issues have plagued GW since release, and sure a lot of them have been fixed and some cool content has come out, but the Anet solution to keeping the game alive is put more crap in the gem store. And for the players not keen enough to realize it, the living story is in large part a way for Anet to release more items in the gem store that coincide with it, in case you all missed did notice. Sure the content lines up with the story line of Tyria but I’d enjoy the game a lot more if you all would stop pushing crap from the gem store and work on a game worth playing.
Lets take League of Legends for example. This game has a much larger community than GW2 and there are some simple reasons as to why: free to play, simple, and constant updates. Now I’ll admit the only reason I purchased GW2 was because there wasn’t a subscription fee, I’d go back to console if I wanted that. And hey another thing GW2 did pretty well, the combat is pretty good and simple, there isn’t a hud taking up half my screen of icons to skills I don’t use. Constant updates, yeah that doesn’t mean the gem store… I played LoL in beta, it was so bad back then it wasn’t even funny. It looked bad and the combat was so unbalanced it wasn’t even funny. But it’s now the single largest game in the world. Wonder why. Because they made the GAME worth playing, not the F’in skins worth buying. If you dress up a kitten with gem store items it’s just a shinny kitten . You all should really do yourselves a favor and not kitten the bed after this Feature Patch, please.
I really like most of GW to be honest. I like that you can style your character with stuff from the gem store, I really like the combat (for the most part), and I’ve meet a lot of people that make the game worth playing with. But some major changes need to occur or this game will keep dying. Like Spvp, it’s a joke more than half of my S(Y)olo que games are 4v5’s which happen to not be in my favor, and hardly anyone wants to bother playing it cause the balance team doesn’t have a F’in clue half the time. Do we need to talk about how many teams not players TEAMS spvp lost during the Dhumfire patch? And again sure things are getting better but it’s well over a year into the game, Anet… get your act together. I’m not sure what you all are doing, drawing in coloring books maybe, but I have a hard time believing it’s working on the game. If you don’t make the Spvp worth playing you wont have a player base. If you don’t have a player base then you have no teams to compete. If there is no competition your games dies, no sponsors, no live streams, nothing, people more on to something worth playing. #doyouevenesportsAnet . And also, why isn’t there a 2v2/3v3 Arena? Is it because we want it and you all only want to produce things we don’t need? Cause it’s not to focus on perfecting conquest. Like I said you actually have to get community involvement and constantly update the game for that to happen. When LoL started really growing it had weekly patches, and they would record a patch video to show players where the game should be heading. What does Anet do? More gem store crap and Dhumfire. There was so much hype for GW2 pvp when it came out there were pvp players trying to pick up the game from multiple genres, but instead of making an effort to hold on to all these players giving GW2 a chance you just acted like the game was great and working as intended.
So now the game is filled with what’s left after a year of we plan to get around to it fixes and overall a lack of progress from the GW2 Dev team. Sure you can make cool stuff, I love a lot of the gem store items, everyone loves to look like a bad kitten . But all that stuff stops being cool for me when the game isn’t worth playing. The what’s left of spvp quite frankly is people who dodge que, and the what’s left of that want to play decap endi, or pet farm builds like spirit ranger and minion mancer necro.