Guild Wars 2

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Well I can only speak for me personally. I quit because of vertical progression and because fractal levels were reset. I don’t find enjoyment or challenge in any of the new content and the story telling is too light for my appreciation.

And yet your still here in the forums? Lol

Karma consumables made perfect sense when introduced for the let you share karma with other characters when it was character bound. I’m sure at some point they’ll take a look at it, but it’s really not hurting anything leaving it the way it is.

One possible idea for the future would be to, instead of removing them, use them as ingredients in future recipes. For example, when creating furniture for a guild hall or housing area it would be nice to build the place up with a lot of good karma, you know?

VOLKON.1290:

Karma consumables made perfect sense when introduced for the let you share karma with other characters when it was character bound. I’m sure at some point they’ll take a look at it, but it’s really not hurting anything leaving it the way it is.

One possible idea for the future would be to, instead of removing them, use them as ingredients in future recipes. For example, when creating furniture for a guild hall or housing area it would be nice to build the place up with a lot of good karma, you know?

Wrong thread? Bummer…. =P

<———-GWAMM and 50/50 HOM. Still alive and having fun!

2005’er checking in.

I am just waiting for Guild Wars 3

WingLegacy.7159:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Well I can only speak for me personally. I quit because of vertical progression and because fractal levels were reset. I don’t find enjoyment or challenge in any of the new content and the story telling is too light for my appreciation.

And you are still here in the forums? Lol

Just because someone quits playing a game for a while doesn’t mean the passion and love for said game isn’t there anymore. It’s just buried under other feelings that are stronger such as frustration.

Been a GW player since launch day of GW1. Insert not so fond memories of groups laugh-crying profanities at Alesia: The Worst Healer Ever during the Fort Ranik mission.

I have 3 GWAMMS, 3 50/50s and I am still playing actively, 2 of GW1 friends still play (they even have more AP than me). The rest are either really casual or have quit completely, they mostly just level up characters and quit once it’s level 80.

And here’s a screenie of me casually browsing for a dungeon..

Yes, I just clicked on each and screenied, I didn’t sit there for 10 mins on each trying to look them up. This is what people see who want to go on a dungeon.

7/12 had no listings.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

VOLKON.1290:

Karma consumables made perfect sense when introduced for the let you share karma with other characters when it was character bound. I’m sure at some point they’ll take a look at it, but it’s really not hurting anything leaving it the way it is.

One possible idea for the future would be to, instead of removing them, use them as ingredients in future recipes. For example, when creating furniture for a guild hall or housing area it would be nice to build the place up with a lot of good karma, you know?

Wrong thread? Bummer…. =P

I um… oops…

You didn’t see anything!

I started on the first day of Head Start, but I never played GW1 – it was before I gave “MMOs” a chance.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some people who did play GW1 joined after Wintersday last year for whatever reasons, too.

Heck, I had the game but missed 90% of Wintersday because I wasn’t able to play for a while – so I consider this my “first” one since I’m actually doing things not just showing up confused on the last day and somehow ending up with some skins (I have no idea what happened).

Chuo.4238:

Yes. ArenaNet has done an amazing job of alienating and driving off their Guild Wars fanbase. I’m pretty sure that they feel that Guild Wars 2 was not designed, marketed, nor intended for the type of player who loved Guild Wars. I actually think that ArenaNet considers Guild Wars as some kind of embarrassing skeleton to keep in a closet as much as possible.

This would be why Guild Wars fans are a very small minority of the GW2 population.

1)You and your guildies are not representative of all GW1 players. I know certain ones that stopped playing because of real-life issues, not because the game “sucks” as it does for you and your friends.

2)I doubt ANet is “embarrassed” of GW1 at all-it is a great game, but just very different from this one. There are many principles even now that are common to both games, however. Basically, it is GW going MMO without trying to become like every other MMO-that will 100% guarantee that it wasn’t going to be like GW1, but not that the company was “rejecting” or “ashamed” of their old game standards or playstyle.

3)There are many new players that have never played GW1, and that is good, not bad, but you have no evidence other than your own personal experience for your last claim (“only a few GW1 players still play”). IME, GW2 isn’t indeed for EVERY GW1 player, but that’s true for 100% of all other games out there, and many other “old” players have embraced it just as well, if not more on occasion.

I believe too many players were expecting GW1.5, and while that’s would have been a nice game, no doubt, that was probably never intended for this game. Those players will be understandably feel “alienated”, but it’s just that they didn’t adapt or plain not enjoy (which is valid) this game’s feel. And as aforementioned, many people are just busy with new real-life ventures or projects, or just chose other games because it was more fun to them-that doesn’t “prove” that it was GW2’s purpose for GW1 players to leave, or that ANet “betrayed” them (especially when it wasn’t meant to be GW 1.5 or just a graphical update?)

No offense intended; I know why many GW1 players don’t like certain things, but people are individuals, not just “a GW1 player”, and they may differ from you, even if they played the original for over 7 years.

kimeekat.2548:

Been a GW player since launch day of GW1. Insert not so fond memories of groups laugh-crying profanities at Alesia: The Worst Healer Ever during the Fort Ranik mission.

To be fair, Lina wasn’t much better.

And Rurik was the worst “hero” NPC ever, going after every single enemy mob on his own.

Lunar Sunset.8742:

I have 3 GWAMMS, 3 50/50s and I am still playing actively, 2 of GW1 friends still play (they even have more AP than me). The rest are either really casual or have quit completely, they mostly just level up characters and quit once it’s level 80.

And here’s a screenie of me casually browsing for a dungeon..

Yes, I just clicked on each and screenied, I didn’t sit there for 10 mins on each trying to look them up. This is what people see who want to go on a dungeon.

7/12 had no listings.

Its Winters day. Every body’s busy with their achievement.

Only speaking from my own experiences. Six+ yrs of GW1 GWAMM 50/50 HOM came here with all my GW1 close friends (72 ppl) and a good part of my old 500+ 10 guild alliance from GW1, I kept in contact with most of the guild leaders as I was one also. Three of my close friends out of the 72 that came to GW2 remain and play very little now. I know of only one mbr from my old 500+ ppl alliance remains. All of these players were die hard ANETfans and longtime GW1 players / Vets, most of them since 2005/06. Many left for different reasons but a reoccurring theme as to why they were not happy with GW2 was most of the stuff they loved about GW1 was not put into GW2 (FoW, UW, DOA, guild halls, GVG, HOH, allot of lore ect) and they felt let down. Maybe expectations were just to high after waiting for 5 years on GW2 launch I cannot speak for them all. I have two accounts one in Euro and one in NA because allot of my GW1 friends were from Europe and with the separation of the two regions allot of them were really, really upset about not being able to guess between the two regions when guessing was put into place and quite shortly there after or returned to GW1. I know for my circle of GW1 friends that was a huge issue and they were not pleased at all. After all those years of playing together in GW1, freely between districts they were dumb founded why ANET did that and quite. Anyways those are my own experiences and in no way reflect all GW1 vets/ players. I still see a fair amount of GW1 titles running around. 90% of my time playing GW2 now is in WvsW. I am not a fan of LS or the time gated stuff they have added. GW2 is simply a very different game and ANET seems like a very different company from the one I support for all those years but in time all things change. Sorry for all the text :P

Forgot to add been here since BETA and yes I enjoyed Wintersday last year so not my first wintersday but have Zero interest in it now. Maybe cause everyone in my guild has quite lol. OFF To WvsW I am sure there is something that needs to die there

RubiBayer.8134:

We save the livestream chat logs in case we ever need them for reference, so we went back and double-checked, since “most” is kind of a strong word. The actual quote is:

[12:13:27] <guildwars2> Yegor, this is the first Wintersday for a lot of people. ~Rubi

This is true–new people join Guild Wars 2 every single week.

Question answered direct from the source, thread closed. Mod should lock this….

I’m a gw1 player that did not buy gw2 when it came out. I was disappointed by many things mentioned in previous posts (gw2 being vastly different from gw1). I wanted to wait for cantha of gw2, then I was hoping I can play cantha to death.

But then…

I got gw2 after several months when a friend gave me a friend trial code (or something along the line? cant remember exactly). I initially thought the story has promising aspect (hence I put the money down), but then slowly the game disappoint me further. I stopped playing after a few days of purchase. (started as thief, because I thought “lol, stealth is one of the most kittened mechanic that break every game I have played in my life; if i cant beat them, join them” behold, it was indeed a lol fest back then with thief being super op with perma stealth etc going on)

Many months later (came back to gw2 last week), I was kind of bored and I saw my gw2 in my hard drive, so I decided to give 2nd chance. This time I dropped every expectation I have for gw2. Now thief has gotten nerfed pretty hard, but matter not, I have zero expectation of greatness.

Now I have been playing it for a week or so, finally reached lv80 (stopped at lv30ish previously), deciding between whether to go for ascended gear or different class to try things out. Spend most of my time in WvW right before the season ended, got majority of my lv40~80 in WvW. I played sPvP, PvE boss chase, just finished apathia story part, have not entered a single dungeon.

My opinion on a grade for gw2 is… conflicted.

high expectation mode: GW2 = bad game
zero expectation mode: GW2 = tolerable
confidence in the gw1 Anet = big fan
confidence in the current Anet = zero
confidence in NCsoft = negative (experience from lineage 2, exsteel, aion; worst of all, if ncsoft really prevent existence of cantha in gw2, I will remember it rest of my life; like I remember how sega screw me in my favorite games [shining force 3, valkyria chronicle etc]… and how sonic used to be so cool but not anymore)

I played GW1 for a week when it came out. Got GW2 when it came out and play it most of the time. I’ve re-installed GW1, but I’m finding it quite frustrating.

Still have my mini pet griffon from last years Wintersday.

Former GW1 player here, not a GWAMM though, but a Flameseeker which was my target all along. Been playing GW2 since betas and planning to be here when you’re all gone
Am also one of a handful remaining of a 100+ strong guild which included both GW1 and “new” players – most of which have left regardless of background due to lack of guild/raid content and endgame/progression.
I’ve dug in and am waiting in expectation of great developments on the lore side, potential expansions, new races, professions, playable areas, etc. To quit the game in its first year is rash; luckily though GW2 has no sub-fee so people can return if they see something cool coming.

After all, there’s “only” WS/TESO on the horizon which isn’t very strong competition

pulupulu.9730:

I’m a gw1 player that did not buy gw2 when it came out. I was disappointed by many things mentioned in previous posts (gw2 being vastly different from gw1). I wanted to wait for cantha of gw2, then I was hoping I can play cantha to death.

But then…

I got gw2 after several months when a friend gave me a friend trial code (or something along the line? cant remember exactly). I initially thought the story has promising aspect (hence I put the money down), but then slowly the game disappoint me further. I stopped playing after a few days of purchase. (started as thief, because I thought “lol, stealth is one of the most kittened mechanic that break every game I have played in my life; if i cant beat them, join them” behold, it was indeed a lol fest back then with thief being super op with perma stealth etc going on)

Many months later (came back to gw2 last week), I was kind of bored and I saw my gw2 in my hard drive, so I decided to give 2nd chance. This time I dropped every expectation I have for gw2. Now thief has gotten nerfed pretty hard, but matter not, I have zero expectation of greatness.

Now I have been playing it for a week or so, finally reached lv80 (stopped at lv30ish previously), deciding between whether to go for ascended gear or different class to try things out. Spend most of my time in WvW right before the season ended, got majority of my lv40~80 in WvW. I played sPvP, PvE boss chase, just finished apathia story part, have not entered a single dungeon.

My opinion on a grade for gw2 is… conflicted.

high expectation mode: GW2 = bad game
zero expectation mode: GW2 = tolerable
confidence in the gw1 Anet = big fan
confidence in the current Anet = zero
confidence in NCsoft = negative (experience from lineage 2, exsteel, aion; worst of all, if ncsoft really prevent existence of cantha in gw2, I will remember it rest of my life; like I remember how sega screw me in my favorite games [shining force 3, valkyria chronicle etc]… and how sonic used to be so cool but not anymore)

I can understand you, it’s different, and lost it’s uniqeness(that’s how I feel). Feels like more of an average MMO instead of something unique that was created by the Guild Wars series. I’m not talking about the features or something, it’s just the overall feeling.
It’s great and all, but doesn’t have that unique feeling anymore to me. That’s why I’m disappointed.

sadatoni.6524:

I played GW1 for a week when it came out. Got GW2 when it came out and play it most of the time. I’ve re-installed GW1, but I’m finding it quite frustrating.

GW1 has a completely different challenge level – one bad pull and you screw up a whole mission or hours spent in a dungeon which you even had to pay alot to enter. Haha, I still have GW1 installed – I need to get through Winds of Change to conclude the Beyond “expansions”.