Guild Wars 2

I know 9 out of every 10 threads is some one complaining about some aspect of GW2 including at least 9 out of 10 of my own.

We need to appreciate that we play a game that has been developed by a company that not only produces half way decent content but also knows how to keep the lights on.

The same can’t be said for Turbine that laid off all of it’s MMO staff to pivot toward Mobile Games exclusively, that’s right LotRO, DDO, AC 1 & 2 are all going on maintenance mode.

The same can’t be said for Daybreak that mismanaged their properties so bad they cancelled the sequel to EQ2.

The same can’t be said for Funcom either since that company has been embroiled in legal fraud cases in their country of origin, and blew all of their future investments on some MOBA that blew up in their face before it even made it to beta.

Lets just be thankful that MMO companies like ANet, Trion, and CCP still manage to truck along with out the benefit of a big nanny like Activision/EA to hold their hand.

Oldirtbeard.9834:

I know 9 out of every 10 threads is some one complaining about some aspect of GW2 including at least 9 out of 10 of my own.

We need to appreciate that we play a game that has been developed by a company that not only produces half way decent content but also knows how to keep the lights on.

The same can’t be said for Turbine that laid off all of it’s MMO staff to pivot toward Mobile Games exclusively, that’s right LotRO, DDO, AC 1 & 2 are all going on maintenance mode.

The same can’t be said for Daybreak that mismanaged their properties so bad they cancelled the sequel to EQ2.

The same can’t be said for Funcom either since that company has been embroiled in legal fraud cases in their country of origin, and blew all of their future investments on some MOBA that blew up in their face before it even made it to beta.

Lets just be thankful that MMO companies like ANet, Trion, and CCP still manage to truck along with out the benefit of a big nanny like Activision/EA to hold their hand.

Who is NCSoft then? More.

My respect for Trion vanished with the ArcheAge debacle.

But I do agree with your point that ANet has not, so far as I know, had layoffs at any point in its history, no massive cuts (of course there has been some turnover and no doubt some let go for cause). My friend at ZeniMax (also a solid workplace) has been through a number of them in various MMOs and has kept me and other of his friends apprised of situations in the game industry such as has now struck Turbine. So it’s nice to see that ANet has neither been forced to such measures nor elected to use them after squeezing their workers dry.

I’m not sure what all those abbreviations mean in OP’s post, but I think the general gist of it is, Guild Wars 2 is a far better game than other games. Which I agree.