Guild Wars 2

I logged on today for some of my dungeon running, and.. felt so uninspired. Why bother? It’s all going to be second rate soon, anyway. I might not want these skins OR these stats by the time they’re done rolling out another tier. I -was- going to transmute myself a new ‘damage’ set of gear… and now, in my mind, it’s, “Why bother?” I’m going to need my stones for when the best gear actually comes out – and who knows when that’ll be? All of my time spent in dungeons or elsewhere until then will be utterly wasted. In other words, I’m made to wait for the gear I want and everything else ingame in the meantime is rendered obsolete, rendered a waste of my time when I know I’ll only be left to replace it soon anyway.

Ultimately, I logged off without doing anything. I read up on other games like Vindictus and Tera before eventually going back to LOL and I had a good time tonight at home without GW2 while I ponder my other options. I’ll find something else, and by the time they roll out the ‘real’ next set of gear I might have moved on.

They’ve tried to please everyone and instead alienated the core of their fanbase. They’re going to look back on this and wonder, “What the hell were we thinking?”

You are jumping to conclusions. You don’t know if they will update the dungeon rewards in the future or not. Or if there are reasonable forge recipes to upgrade your gear to ascended.

(although a bit of clarification on how they will implement this in the future wouldn’t be entirely unwelcome)

You might as well ask yourself: “Why live if I die anyway?” or less dramatically “Why shower I get dirty again anyway?”
The main question is: Do you enjoy doing these things? If not, then why bother?
You don’t have to have everything, do you?
I think more likely you will think back and say: I was too impatient and immature to see the bigger picture.

You say soon… they do one content update a month, not all of them are going to be big ones like the November update. December for example is likely to be most around Wintersday.

So in this patch they are giving us rings and back slots. Next patch might not be till January and only introduce other jewelry slots. It could be a full 4+ months before you see a full set of gear.

Your totally over reacting.

Of course my conclusions are drawn from the same small section of information as yours, but mine have some logic and reasoning applied to them.