Guild Wars 2

When I started playing the game I gave myself 18 months to enjoy the game and hopefully see some new content story related. In January I said ok I understand they’re trying to do things differently, maybe this will be interesting. It’s been 11 months and we’ve seen 5 festivals, 1 election, 4 chapters of Flame and Frost, 3 chapters at Southsun Cove, an 8 bit game, the last 4 living story 3 of them were festivals.

So in 11 months outside of a very few hints about dragons there’s been absolutely no content about them and also a confirmation not to keep our hopes up because there will also be no sign of them for the rest of 2013, at that point we will have reached our 16th month.

So does it feel like your watching soaps every 2 weeks? To me it does and it feels like the game’s main story isn’t getting anywhere. It’s even getting hard to motivate myself doing the daily. Even when the story is interesting it keeps my attention for 3 to 6 days at most, because of the fact that it is not new content as I see it or expect it from an MMO.

Don’t get me wrong I love this game I’ve been a fan since day one 2005.
Even my support for the store is falling to zero because the new trend is to put every goodies in there and not in the game.

When was the last time you saw a weapon or armor being added to the game in exchange for any kind of game currency? I’ll try to stick around until February 2014 but Anet you’re making it harder every week. Luckyly I’ve got 8 characters, one for each profession.

Oh and to finish on a humorous note please Anet try to come up with less buttcapes and trenchcoats.

Please discuss.

I’m not going to say you’re wrong about any of what you’ve said. In fact, I pretty much agree across the board. I will say this though, Colin’s indicated that they’ve heard us in this regard, and they are working on more adventury, less party-y stuff. We also know each set of two updates (a month’s worth) takes about 4 months to make. Many of the complaints from the first couple living stories, were getting fixed this summer, IE, sky pirates vs flame and frost.

Also of note (though I don’t think ANet have said this specifically) is that a lot of the first year was spend building infrastructure for future updates. They won’t have to build Halloween from the ground up again this year, LA is already decorated, and we’ll probably see the JP and mini dungeon return (hopefully with some things as well). So all that effort that was spent making the Halloween version of LA, for example can be put toward whole new things unrelated to festivals, like zones or dungeons, whatever. Same goes for Wintersday, Dragon Bash, et al.

That probably wasn’t the most helpful response, since it can be summarized with “just keep waiting!” but I hope it gives some perspective. And if nothing else, there’s always the option to take a break. A couple months off did wonders for me.

I think a soap opera is exactly what we’re seeing here. You can come in at any time and pretty easily pick up the story…there’s stuff to get involved with, and in two weeks there’ll be more stuff to get involved with.

This is perfectly satisfying for some people and not so satisfying for other people. That’s really the long and short of it.