Guild Wars 2

I’m not one to make a rant thread but good lord. After finding out all the changes made to help “new” players get into the game easier has left me more confused than any new player probably has ever been in the game and NO I’m not talking about the trading market changes or the story missions they cut out.

Being a GW1 player, that game was a little hard to wrap my head around getting into. GW2 however I saw as a huge dumbing down from GW1 and VERY easy to get into but now Anet has seen it fit to dumb it down even more.

It’s like Anet sees brand new players as (I hate to use the word) kittened. They can’t grasp anything to do with the game and quit forever in about 1 hour because they probably find it hard to walk around.

I just made a new human ranger and I’m not having the fun I use too leveling this character like I did with my other characters because I now feel like I’m now being punished for being able to grasp the idea of being able to login to begin with.

It’s almost like these are the scenarios Anet has come up against with new players.

Weapon Skills

New Player “OMG why can’t I use all my skills the second I make a new character! What’s this I have to beat enemies to slowly unlock the rest of them! I’m so confused, I HATE THIS GAME!”
Anet" Ok here, we now made it to where each level you gain you unlock a new weapon skill. Feel better?"

Vistas & points of interests

New Player “HOLY CRAP I DON’T GET ANY OF THIS! I HATE THIS GAME!”
Anet" OK OK here now you unlock them based on your lvl because they higher you get the smarter you will grow not just in game but in real life also."

Down skills Utility skills and Elite skills.

New player “First normal skills and now all this. DEAR GOD I think I’m having a heart attack trying to take all this in. Again I HATE THIS GAME!”
Anet “OK once again the more you lvl the slowly you will unlock these skills because as a new player you are dumb not just in game but obviously in real life too.”

New player " YAY I like cake!"
Anet “good for you here’s a reward”

My first run in with a point of interest “Oh it’s a landmark like a fort or something else” Vistas “It’s a cut scene that shows the area around me and may show me something I didn’t notice or missed neat.” Unlocking skills “I have to kill stuff to unlock them OK I got it.”

That was just 3 examples. Anet stop acting like new players are complete idiots and GW2 is there first time on a online game. It might be but GW2 was already so dumb down a 5 year old could figure it out in a day. New players and players just making a new character don’t need their hands held the way you are making it seem like they do.

God forbid new players simply play the game like everyone else has to figure out everything with or without other players help. I try to help new players anytime I can or point them towards the wiki if it has something to do with crafting or something else that may not be easy to explain.

In short the game doesn’t need to be dumb down anymore!

Seriously. If a new player has an issue there is always a bunch of people helping them out. That’s how it was before. If someone asked what is such and such for, people would answer. Now that kind of interaction is being curbed. Believe it or not but actually DO like to answer questions and help others, especially new players.

This is a PC MMO not a single player iPhone game that even my 5 year old self could figure out before the update…

I saw in another post something say along the line “this update wasn’t meant for you”, so who was it meant for?

I would love to see an example of a new player having a hard time grasping the basic mechanics of the game.

Not only that but if we now make a new character we too have to put up with this hand holding death grip and the feeling like we have one of those child leashes attach to us.

Yes, more, MORE!

I thrive on your bitter, bitter tears and exaggerated sense of self-importance

I don’t know who they are. There is apparently “tens of thousands” of them and they are also responsible for the China client which ours seems almost like a port of, so maybe they got a bunch of 6 year old Chinese kids.

I really don’t know. If they want to keep these changes, it should at least be totally optional. I really wanted to start an alt yesterday morning but I’m not putting myself through this.

Andred.1087:

Yes, more, MORE!

I thrive on your bitter, bitter tears and exaggerated sense of self-importance

Self-importance, no. Yes to not keeping silent my opinion on Anet treating new players and existing players as complete utterly empty minded idiots.

If you choose to stand by silent as Anet treats you as a 3 year old be my guest but that doesn’t mean we all have to do the same.

Kamui.4038:

I don’t know who they are. There is apparently “tens of thousands” of them and they are also responsible for the China client which ours seems almost like a port of, so maybe they got a bunch of 6 year old Chinese kids.

I really don’t know. If they want to keep these changes, it should at least be totally optional. I really wanted to start an alt yesterday morning but I’m not putting myself through this.

Exactly, I forgot to mention this new update should be optional. Maybe new accounts made after this update should take this on but already created accounts that are let’s say a year old, this should be 100% optional.