Guild Wars 2

I came home today, after a 10 hour shift, and it’s the first day in a month that I didn’t know what to do in Guild Wars 2.
Since the WvW season started I leveled a new character up – an Elementalist, and fell in love with it. I started working on my second legendary…a small one, the focus, since I’ve been playing a lot of D/F on Ele. I bought a few extra bag slots for him, grinded a couple of ascended armor pieces, 50% map completion, had a pretty set goal in mind.
But today I just logged in and I felt like I did it for nothing. I only really wanted to aim for a second legendary to give myself something to do in the game seeing as there is very little else to work towards. I made a second warrior and played around on him for a bit after seeing some footage of their potential after the april 15 patch, and because I had sunrise I knew I could just pop it over to him once he hit 80 and I’d be sweet…But for what? I don’t know where this game is going, and because I know I’m emotionally invested in the company and have been for years and years and years, I feel sad. I’ve spent a fair bit of my wages on gems, which I don’t regret, I’ve managed to get a lot of the armor sets and additional things for my wardrobe.
I’ve farmed a sunrise, various pieces of ascended stuff and 7 level 80’s…but my feeling right now is that the game is at a halt. That nothing is coming for it. Temporary content, while fun, just isn’t something that the game can thrive off of. I have all this time invested, fun time, happy time, that I don’t regret investing into the game, but I want to know if that’s it for Guild Wars 2.

ArenaNet, this is a cry for help.
You have neglected to talk to us about any upcoming content for months now, and that’s not okay. I don’t doubt you are working kitten Season 2, but you need to give us something – anything, ANYTHING to plan for, to anticipate, to prepare our characters for gear wise and build wise, to give us something to play around with.
Super Adventure box would have worked so well, SO SO SO well for the current period, and there is not shortage of people TELLING you that. The WvW tournament? Great! Most players who aren’t entirely invested in a constant involvement in the mists have already done the meta and have opted out of any more involvement.
We have heard rumors from obscure places about an “expansion in the works”, and the fact that the community is so thirsty for information, so desperate for something to think about other than the admittedly stale state of the GW2 world really says a lot.
You need to love your community.
I know some people, especially on the forums, are incredibly hostile. But that’s why you have customer service reps. That is their job, to sate the hostility.
But as for the majority of us who have so much hope and love for this game, the quiet majority who would cry tears of pure joy at just about anything at this point….people like me, and I can only speak for myself, but I feel really neglected.

ArenaNet, you need to tell us something.
You need to give us something.
You need to keep us updated (take FF14 ARR management for example).
Please. The game needs something and the community needs something.
That is the responsibility of managing an MMO, and mine is simply the expectation that comes with it.

Please! (sorry for my poor typing I’m very tired)

Take it easy and take a break like I did for a few months, missing vital temporary content as well as items that could make the game more interesting.

The point is that this trend you see right now will simply continue because there is very poor ability for forums to be understood and managed properly. The forum is minimalist, simple and thus lacks complexity for the better posts/concerns to float to the top and allow CM’s to know and filter the concerns of the community effectively. The fact other forums are more popular (GW2 guru for example) than the gw2 forums , THE MAIN FORUM where discussion should happen instead of anywhere else, says a lot about the environment in these forums as well as perceptions of the forums that we have right now.

It sounds like you’ve invested a lot of time into the game and it’s only natural to feel like you’re running out of things to do – it would be the same on any game (heck most AAA titles have 10 hours of gameplay and that’s it).

At the end of the day I’m not sure what you were looking to achieve from playing an MMO? You say you look at all your progress and feel it’s been for nothing but what did you expect? It’s a video game on the internet, it can’t satisfy you for the rest of your life, nor can you ‘transfer’ achievements from GW2 into real life. It’s a game that you’ve had a lot of fun on, have probably made some friends and given you some goals in life (maybe because you don’t feel like you have many real life achievements?).

If you’re struggled to know what to do then go and take a break for a few weeks and try playing some other games or breaking yourself back into a proper hobby. You say you’re burnt out so you need to stop. If you were burnt out at work you’d take a holiday, just like you should take a break from Guild Wars.

I haven’t yet got to the stage where I’ve ran out of things to do as I’ve only been doing end-game content for a few months and haven’t even thought about legendaries (only just exploring the option of ascended gear) so I have no idea what I’ll think about this game in another 2-3 years time. However, I did play another MMO pretty solidly for 5 years before this and the only reason I kept playing for so long is because I kept taking breaks every few months and trying other things and then when I came back to the MMO it felt fresh again and I enjoyed doing things that in the past had turned into ‘grind-fests’.

Sorry I should have phrased it better, what I meant is that most of my recent time investment in GW2 has been to get good at different classes and gear them up in anticipation for upcoming content, which is why I used it in the argument of “I’m burnt out because it doesn’t feel like there’s anything coming”

Consider the recent trend in Guild Wars updates. We usually have one every 2 weeks or so. Last update was April 15 so it will only be 3 weeks on May 6th. The April 15th patch was a big one. The previous update Battle for Lion’s Arch was the end of the season 1 of the living story. Update was on March 4th and the period of time between that and the April 15 was 6 weeks. Granted we had some roll out of information between then. To be honest I love the constant updates of new stuff. Its so much better then waiting for an expansion that may or may not come any time soon. With smaller updates they guarantee that something is just around the corner. There are high hopes for the future of Guild Wars 2. New races, new classes, new maps, new weapons, guild halls, re-establishing Guild versus Guild. Really we just have to be patient. New information on what’s next would be nice but what other game dose what we have here?

Suggestions would be try the new reward system with structure PVP. The PVP rewards have improved greatly and this is what I have been doing pretty much every night. Games are fast pace and challenging. I’ve made some new friends and new rivals and teaming up with a friend on the same team or kicking their butt on the opposite team has become a lot more fun. I was in the same boat really not knowing what to do with my other characters. I had a lot of fun getting the new traits with my other characters. It was nice to play them again. Now if Lyssa and the Grand Wizard events would actually trigger when I play that would be great to finish off my guardian. Then my friend discovered how great the new rewards were for PVP. Been taking my necromancer in there and having a good time.

I feel a lot of players who got the game on day one have reached a point of comfort. Ascended weapons and armor kept us busy for a while but we kind of got use to this flood of new stuff coming in and now that we are in this low period we are like “Hey what happened?” When you really think about it though look at the game over a year. How much it has changed. Any other game out there over a year you can say the same thing? Without an actual expansion I mean.

Best of luck to you.

Canakun.8031:

ArenaNet, this is a cry for help.
You have neglected to talk to us about any upcoming content for months now, and that’s not okay. I don’t doubt you are working kitten Season 2, but you need to give us something – anything, ANYTHING to plan for, to anticipate, to prepare our characters for gear wise and build wise, to give us something to play around with.

Since they don’t seem to know what they can deliver when it is better to say nothing than to create unnecessary and incorrect expectations. People would just keep nagging them about things they said they would be doing but haven’t(yet). I don’t see anything useful to come out of that.

Grimezy.5679:

It sounds like you’ve invested a lot of time into the game and it’s only natural to feel like you’re running out of things to do – it would be the same on any game (heck most AAA titles have 10 hours of gameplay and that’s it).

At the end of the day I’m not sure what you were looking to achieve from playing an MMO? You say you look at all your progress and feel it’s been for nothing but what did you expect? It’s a video game on the internet, it can’t satisfy you for the rest of your life, nor can you ‘transfer’ achievements from GW2 into real life. It’s a game that you’ve had a lot of fun on, have probably made some friends and given you some goals in life (maybe because you don’t feel like you have many real life achievements?).

If you’re struggled to know what to do then go and take a break for a few weeks and try playing some other games or breaking yourself back into a proper hobby. You say you’re burnt out so you need to stop. If you were burnt out at work you’d take a holiday, just like you should take a break from Guild Wars.

I haven’t yet got to the stage where I’ve ran out of things to do as I’ve only been doing end-game content for a few months and haven’t even thought about legendaries (only just exploring the option of ascended gear) so I have no idea what I’ll think about this game in another 2-3 years time. However, I did play another MMO pretty solidly for 5 years before this and the only reason I kept playing for so long is because I kept taking breaks every few months and trying other things and then when I came back to the MMO it felt fresh again and I enjoyed doing things that in the past had turned into ‘grind-fests’.

Turn OFF your computer and pick up a book …

Or better yet, turn off your computer, pick up a phone, and call that cute little red-headed girl that lives down the street … trust me, you’ll feel much better.

I got bored of the GW2 Daily grind as well. I used to log in, do my dailies, run dungeons for gold, jump from world boss to world boss etc. That’s why I pretty much only play PvP. I do WvW frequently and PvE once in awhile, but PvP has held me over until the next big thing Anet decides to release.

Sadly, the biggest problem is that Anet likes to these massive updates once in a blue moon instead of constant updates like some other games. Constant updates are required to keep people entertained. Living story is a good example, but a lot of that content can be completed extremely quickly leaving people once again with little to do. xD

I’d say take a break from the game. A month or two. I took off after feeling like this while I was busy with school. When I came back, I had so much to catch up on, I didn’t know where to start.
GL!

Hi Canukin. I have felt like you in the past and I havent even tried for a legendary as that is just an unnecessary grind to me. I started to play MMOs through the first GW but the thing is we dont owe loyalty to the game or shouldn’t feel this game is all thet there is for us to play.

Will I leave the game completely and not come back to Guild Wars 2. I think so because with all the other MMOs I have played including GW1 when I find a new game to keep me involved with new guildies, the old game has moved on too much with none of my guild friends left.

I don’t have a character that has got full 100% explorers but I have 5 level 80s who have been everywhere between them and I have done most dungeons but I have more to do, (I think the harder ones that I dont enjoy so much). Its just getting guildies or friends to come along when I’m available. I don’t like pugging to be honest especially if it can be a long dungeon as an hours play can be wasted easily.

It doesn’t help I also see those friends and guildies whom I once enjoyed playing with move on from the game and people lose interest in PvE to do WvW which I also find boring because its just zerging around mostly too serious guilds doing their own little GvG battles and asking others not to interfere.

I like leveling but my problem is the game is just too repetitive and I want substantial fresh story and quest content I can actually level with comfortably and not a world boss made so incredibly challenging that the game mechanic to keep people interested is to keep players banging away at it with capped characters until they can beat it on occasion.

I was really looking forward to substantial new story, quest, dungeon content and since it hasn’t come along I have moved on to trying other games out. I still ply GW2 very occasionally but less and less often an eventually I will probably be too involved with another game.

Cleaning up China localization isn’t keeping them so busy they can’t post a word on the forums for a month. They’re cooking up something big methinks :P

OP, gotta agree with you. They started off so well, and we had lots of information about upcoming updates well in advance, but even before the current hiatus there was a dropoff in the quality of the teaser material. It once was a full and detailed summary released one week before the upcoming update, and that was great. Recently they dropped that to little more than a title or trailer and the summary drops the day of. It has been doing a lot to kill my enthusiasm and anticipation.

With the release model they’ve chosen, and I do think it’s a great one, Anet really needs to stay on top of keeping the player base up to date on developing events. It’s all we have between releases, especially during breaks like this. I feel your discouragement.