Guild Wars 2

stupid people on forums man they are the haters u not gona see happy people posting here this is not the majority at all dont worry me personaly LOVE this game best mmo ever lots of content f2p fun mehanics awesome movment and skill sistem

I really really love Guild Wars and Guild wars 2. they are really really good games. the art/imagery is the best the combat is dynamic the music is beautiful Amazing storylines although this one seems much more whimsical,but hey i like fable.

Barabbas.8715:

JMadFour.9730:

Reading this forum as a new player, I get the impression that this is one of the worst MMOs on the market.

The mood around here was generally much more positive before Nov 15 and the terrible patch.

As a ranger, I noticed this. I used to check on the ranger forums for all the negativity around poor skill changes and imbalance in the class, but the general GW2 discussion was always a positive place. I actually would check the main forum and other class forums looking for negative posts, but could rarely find any. This helped me decide to stick with the game but reroll my profession.

Now there is much more turmoil in the general chat which contrary to popular belief is not something you always see in MMO forums. Class forums are another story alltogether.

I like the game for what it is. To me, it’s not a serious MMORPG, it’s more of a single player game that you can group with people for. I play it during some downtime.

But this game is in a really weird spot. ArenaNet marketed this game towards players of other MMORPGs with promises of fixing a lot of the issues that exist in those games, while trying to be innovative, and keep the GW1 crowd interested… Then reality sank in. The cons to no vertical progression quickly surfaced (lack of people to group with, lack of interest in content, etc). That brought out a lot of complaining from people who wanted a game where you have no vertical progression, yet you have to level to 80, seems pretty vertical to me.

Then there was a HUGE misunderstanding about “not having to grind”. A lot of people took that as “there will never be a single grind in the game”. ANet never said that though, they just said that you would have other options than slowly farming something. But the MMORPG community is very good at misunderstanding things… Do a little research on the Mists of Pandaria beta launch to get an idea.

Most of the problem in this game is that they just lack the content for the people they targeted. When you pull someone from an already established MMORPG, there’s things they’re going to expect.

It’s a good game, I like it, but there’s a reason why some other games are still strong and on top after 8+ years, it’s a quality that’s not going to be matched any time soon. I like the ability to stay casual to this game.

But the forums are always very loud in these games. Also, the no subscription charge lets a lot more kids get an easier time getting onto the game since it’s just a one time charge to be able to log in and play

Just started 1 week ago and loving it so far. Whats not to like?

I like GW2. The last game I played was Everquest 2, the forums were just as negative there if not more so.

Personal opinion, Best mmo I EVER played!
Games I played:
World of Warcraft, (its been out HOW many years and nothing new has been added?)
Runes of Magic (GRINDDDDDDDDDDD Would have been fun without it)
Earth Eternal (R.I.P.)
Battlestar Galactica online (fun and actually decent for what it is, but I like this more.)
Allods (I have to spend MORE money to compete? seriously?)
Vanguard (. . . . . .)

probably a few others, not enough to care to remember them. lol.

this game eliminates EVERYTHING I find annoying about other mmos and Is not work but is actually FUN and they did a brilliant job with it, its not perfect and there are some issues, but they are minor and this game started grand and will get even bigger as time goes on. (just don’t judge the game by the forums. . . its not like judging a book by its cover, its judging a book by the graffiti some random guy scribbled in a Stephen King novel.)

I have 2 lv 80 and 3 other alts that will be 80 eventually. I do have fun on this game, but I also have pure frustration when the community just fails to be nice to one another (example: Orr) and give help and work together when it is needed. My only complaints until the bad presentation and lag fest of Lost shores was the abysmal community. Other-wise, I’m pretty content and will keep leveling alts until GW 2 closes up shop.

If you want a player that you can rely on to help you in almost everything (except areas I lag and freeze up in such as wvw and Southsun), you can drop by in tarnished coast.

Love the game….the fact that many are posting with probs to me indicates most actually care and want issues addressed because they want to continue playing.

I am so addicted to this game. The only reason I am even on the forums is because I can’t play right now.

The problem is that this game was advertised as a skill based MMO, but ended up being an easy-mode game oriented towards casuals. Leveling up to 80 felt unsatisfying, and at level cap there was nothing meaningful to do. For a supposed “skill-based” MMO, there weren’t any rewards for actual skill, just grind. Then, instead of fixing the core problems of the game, and adding difficult content and sandbox mechanics, ArenaNet took the lazy way out and just added vertical progression, and a terrible one at that.

Absolutely love the game.

Waking up every morning to put my daily vote in for game of the year. Never done this with any other game but I feel moralely obligated to given how truly awesome this game is.

like many others, i was in love with this game for the first 500 hours, after which ANet just kinda lost me. the open world has been left to rot while they introduced gear grind concentrated in one dungeon.

i find the new events and content updates really lame and childish. Lost Shores was a mess and now the island is dead. so the content updates added nothing to my experience. all the while the selling point of the game (DE’s) remain bugged, and unadjusted for both rewards and difficulty scaling. not to mention deserted because everyone is in freaking Fractals grinding away. this was the biggest slap on the face for the loyal fanbase to cater to the gear grinders who left the game anyways.

the only thing im looking forward to is the balance update on the 14th so i can explore more builds, and WvW is always good.

Game is great.
In game community is great.

The forums are a cesspit. Best ignored by players and developers alike most of the time.

This game is great, I really enjoy it. I realize not everyone is satisfied with all of it, but there seems to be a lot more negativity than is required.

Every online game forum is like this; filled with passion, admiration, hate, and trolling.

The ones that do the quitting threads are the ones that are either trolling for attention, or have just given up hope that certain changes in the direction of development will be made.

Then there are many people, myself included, that just like to look at the potential a game has to offer and want to help mold it into it’s most exciting form, but can’t do much from the outside other than provide constructive criticism (which never ends up yielding much lol).

You get all types of players on forums like this one; lot’s of emotion and passion for a game, running wild.

Guild Wars 2 is actually really well done and I do like it.

Well ive been playing it for three days now and I love it so far. Its a nice change of pace.

I’m really enjoying myself leveling. Content is varied with fun dynamic events, the world seems huge with well designed buildings and areas that seem realistic, and the personal storyline is interesting and I feel a real part of it since I get to choose my path. I will probably quit at 80 as it’s just a grind then and sPvP and WvWvW seems completely pointless and lame.

Conncept.7638:

Zenyatoo.4059:

Yes. A little bit.

The problem is GW2 was billed as skill based, no vertical progression, easy stat cap, and “everything is endgame”

This entices a lot of people, because they were looking for something different in an MMO.

However with one of the recent updates, Anet took a massive dump all over the promises they’ve made, and having not fixed any of the serious issues players are having, within a month of them being made, has started to drain any goodwill Anet has.

The game was, and possibly still is fun, but it’s not what it used to be, and quite a few of us are very disappointed in the route Anet has decided to take.

There should be an ‘in my opinion’ somewhere in there. This is not fact, I don’t agree with it, and in my opinion, I don’t think most players do either.

On which segment?

The part about how the game was billed? Watched the manifesto.
On how people were enticed about it? Read the early forums posts
About Anet taking a dump on their manifesto, and not fixing issues within a month of them being serious problems? Read any topic regarding the manifesto made within the past month. And also go do a fractal run, then logout to simulate a dc, and try and get back inside.

About how quite a few of us are disappointed? Perhaps, but I can say with 100% certainty that more than just myself are disappointed. The only thing subjective about my post would be in the words “quite a few” and how you define them.

to the OP do yourself a favor and play the game and find out for yourself. and btw fyi ppl always complain about something last i checked metacritic gave gw 2 a 90

Fuz.5621:

I have a shocking revelation: The people who complain and hate the direction took by anet with the game (ascend, grind, etc.)… is because they like the game.

Yea pretty much. I used to really, really like the game. I want to love this game. But I thought ArenaNet had standards, and however buggy, I thought the game had potential. I was willing to forgive them for releasing it in such an unfinished state, mainly because I thought they’d worked really hard for a very long time in a labour of love, and circumstances all but dictated that something finally get released.

But instead of moving in the right direction to improve things, the bugs go unfixed, the economy is in a shambles, the game is infested by bots and goldsellers, and they release new, hastily cobbled-together content that adds a grind for better gear that’s out of this world.

And there’s still no GvG. This game should not have the words “Guild Wars” in the title at all. I do wish they’d have called it something else….

Anyway, I keep hoping for ArenaNet to realize what they’ve done and try to rectify it, but the more I see posts from them on Reddit, the more I suspect that they know exactly what they’ve done, it’s deliberate, and calculated to eek out as much cash as possible from their players. They don’t care if the game is fun, just so long as we’re paying.

I’m not opposed to them making a living, but this behaviour really isn’t any different from any other game out there, which means that Guild Wars 2 isn’t special any more.

Which is a shame, because in the heady days of Guild Wars, they cared about the game and the community, and we had a blast. Now I’m just left out in the rain, feeling manipulated and disappointed.