Guild Wars 2

“(and I expect many of those left are simply only sticking around until the release of…)”

release of what lol?

Theres only one mmo which is better than gw2.
And thats gw1.
But since it’s dead and i have achieved nearly everything….. yeah i’ll keep playing gw2

Sad fact, haters will complain about the thousand small issues GW2 has, yet <that other game> has several glaring issues that still exist after 8 years. I’d much rather take a thousand small issues than 3 game breaking problems.

One of those issues is the trinity !

-running while casting
-no sub fee
-sharing nodes
-no mob tagging wars
-all classes can rez
-individual loot drops
-superior animation
-underwater combat
-no need for parties to buff others and help kill

nice attributes and I agree … so why have a I gone back to LoTRO, and, re-subbed?

simple, I got bored.

GW2 fulfills my desires for an MMO better than most games on the market. But it still falls far short of the ideal, so I probably won’t be dedicating my life to it or anything.

Good:
- Efficient and convenient trading post.
- Lots of convenience and player-friendly features.
- (somewhat) action combat.
- Attractive, semi-realistic characters and graphics. Not too realistic, not too cartoony.
- B2P. Cash shop is relatively non-evil.
- Soloable, but allows team play.

Needs work:
- Needs better action combat. See Dark Souls, Devil May Cry, Dragons Nest.
- Needs better controls, more customisation. See combat mode or my AHK script.
- Needs more skill-based, repeatable gameplay. Ranking mode, hard mode, etc.
- Needs more sandbox. See EVE. Possibly Pathfinder Online.
- Needs more PVP focus. Heck, spin it off to a F2P PVP-only client, developed by a different company.
- Needs better group combat. More incentives to build for synergy etc.

Hopefully one day a game that better meets my needs will appear, and I will switch to that. For now, I’ll lurk in GW2 whilst playing other non-MMO games.

Usually, after a month or so, I move onto another game. So far, I’m still playing Guild Wars 2 and still entertained. Granted, I wish there was more content for me to devour, and quickly, but this MMO has done what none have in the last three years.

It still entertains me.

And that’s all I’m asking in my games.

Best part is how that “other” mmo is still thriving and this games community continues to shrink. The problem is this game suffered for having no true endgame and WvWvW is just whoever can spam more AoE. Structured pvp is pretty much dead. You can’t even deny how dead the lower level zones are and how you get stuck doing dynamic events by yourself.

The only positives that I can find that actually fit into a “positive” category would be the graphics and the fact that you can die your armor whatever color you want.

Not to mention how many of you cried “exploit” when this game launched because other players did something before you thought of doing it yourself. The fact that people got banned for using the mystic forge was ridiculous.

I’ve tried out other MMOs in small fits of GW2 annoyance as well…

I always realize how bad and clunky they feel, then turn around and re-engaged in GW2, glad for what I actually have.

Also, I think ANet makes more money off of me and my guild than Blizzard does off of all of WoW. I jest, but seriously, we spend so much money in the gem store. It’s ridiculous.

Odius.4705:

My friend and I recently fired up another MMO (which shall remain nameless) to go back and play around a little bit. Before GW2 came out, I thought this other MMO was awesome… Well, let me tell you, GW2 has really spoiled me. From superior graphics, brilliant level syncing, a far superior trading post, a much more vibrant and active world, much more engaging PvP, better art design, and a way better payment model, more interactive control scheme… Guild Wars 2 topped it in every category I can think of outside of a couple bells and whistles such as a dungeon finder.

To be honest, I was shocked at how much better Guild War 2 was. Has anybody else experienced this?

Same here…I re-subbed in my previous MMO (EQ2) this weekend. Just to go back and see if I could regain the old magic. Signed up for a new raid guild. They played it some this weekend.

But the clunky artwork and stiff combat animations (comparatively)….((sigh))

I cancelled my sub again this morning. There is no going back at this point. Better games may come out, but there is no going back for me apparently.

Bonezz.4961:

Best part is how that “other” mmo is still thriving and this games community continues to shrink. The problem is this game suffered for having no true endgame and WvWvW is just whoever can spam more AoE. Structured pvp is pretty much dead. You can’t even deny how dead the lower level zones are and how you get stuck doing dynamic events by yourself.

I certainly can deny that, having started levelling a number of characters. The lower-level zones were busy, and the supposedly “empty” zones in the mid-levels were anything but. Plus I’m seeing increased activity overall, not decreased, so unless you have some figures, I suspect this is wishful thinking of a negative kind on your part.

“That other mmo” is definitely going strong in China (where the sub works differently, and they don’t buy expansions). Whether it is going strong in the West is debatable. Expansion sales eventually broke 3m, but didn’t break 4m. In the time Cataclysm sold 4.5m, Pandaria only sold 2.7m (despite arguably being considerably better gameplay-wise and art-wise than Cataclysm), so that is a pretty big change.

Personally, I can’t go back to other MMOs. The combination of sub and not being as fun just doesn’t cut it for me. “That other MMO” basically wants you to blow through levelling content at absolute maximum velocity before you are allowed to play the “real” game, where GW2 encourages you to just do what you want, and reach max level when you reach it. That alone is a huge difference, and one that makes ENDGAEM!!!!!! less vital. As for claims that GW2 has no endgame and thus people can’t play it for long, I find it unconvincing. With “That other MMO”, I’ve found myself reach max level countless times, only to quit 3-4 months later, have run out of content, and ended up waiting several months, only for the same thing to happen even faster (1-3 months), until the next expansion, then I might get 3-4 months before quitting again, and so on. With GW2, I play when I want to – not every month, but most months, and I just keep having fun. I didn’t get Pandaria, I won’t be getting the next one – nor will anyone I know. But I know I will be getting any GW2 expansions that come out.

I’ve played both GW2 and LOTRO, I tried WoW’s play for free up to 20 model as well.
The first two I still play. Sometime I just want my Dwarf Guardian to take the hits or my Hobbit Burglar to sneak around. Other days my Human Guardian in GW2 will help rez someone or my Norn Necro spawns countless minions.

Both have that thing which helps scratch an itch.

As for WoW, maybe the game doesn’t really kick in until after the ‘starter’ areas but I just couldn’t get excited. I’m not going to say it is a bad game, like I said the starter area was the only place I could play in effectively, but I’m glad I did get to try it out without feeling a buyer’s remorse over subscribing.

For the fact that when I quit playing WoW more then 5 years ago, after playing for 2 years, that I haven’t played another MMO for more then 2 months, until Guild Wars 2 came out. Right now I don’t see the day when I quit GW2, after all these months I am still having a blast playing this.

Celtic Lady.3729:

I do think of Mesmers as a feminine-style profession, I guess. The butterflies and all the purple feels girly to me. I know guys that won’t touch the profession because it feels too “girly” to them. Personally, I enjoy it, but then I’m a girl. lol

Oh please. What could possibly be more manly than not only destroying your enemy, but destroying them with butterflies while you’re at it? I mean, “Dude. I killed you. With butterflies. Yeah, purple butterflies. Deal with it.”

VOLKON.1290:

Celtic Lady.3729:

I do think of Mesmers as a feminine-style profession, I guess. The butterflies and all the purple feels girly to me. I know guys that won’t touch the profession because it feels too “girly” to them. Personally, I enjoy it, but then I’m a girl. lol

Oh please. What could possibly be more manly than not only destroying your enemy, but destroying them with butterflies while you’re at it? I mean, “Dude. I killed you. With butterflies. Yeah, purple butterflies. Deal with it.”

“Some butterflies have poison on them. You know what poison contains? Death. So yeah butterflies contain death, now you have it in you.”

lol

I enjoy GW2 for what it has to offer. It is fun and done well.

I just chuckle at some of the lists and some of those who made them acting as if this is the first time they’ve ever existed. It’s not.

I love WvW but it’s also funny how so many people kittened about Alterac Valley (original) but love WvW!

Anywho, the two things that I need to have in all my games from now on is action combat and limited ability use. Best features of GW2 as far as I’m concerned.

In GW2 you can do this:

http://i.imgur.com/dvC9gfG.jpg

I am not interested in paying 15 dollars a month for any game i already plaid 40plus dollars for.

It does not make sense.

Karizee.8076:

In GW2 you can do this:

http://i.imgur.com/dvC9gfG.jpg

Ha! Great Sailor Moon outfits.

Nope

Tera’s combat spoiled me before gw2 even made an impact in that aspect but i still enjoy older mmos for what they are ff11 and pso being my favorite mmos still to this day.

Pvp is already beaten by wow and a few others but those are older games so they have a few years of content still designing a map and a game mode together worked really well for Wow.

B2P is an awesome model but im not entirely opposed to P2P as long as i can see why it’s needed servers being the biggest reason.

Open world(btw it’s not open it’s zone based) beaten by wow because it has no loading at all unless your going to the out lands which is a whole other big open area and no such thing as an overflow server either.

TP is the same as always dominated by the mass buyers and sellers.

Community is the same as any other mmo.

Art style is really well done i love the industrial charr and the technological asura.

Dynamic events are nothing new they actually feel pretty static which is unfortunate.

Skills are pretty limited in this game so that feels like a weakness.

Crafting is in a terrible state.

WvW is awesome but i have already experienced a few games with similar concepts and it’s lacking in a lot of areas that i hope march addresses.

Legendary weapons are really cool, i have no interest in going after one atm though, and so are armor/weapon skins.

Everyone having a heal spell is cool makes healers less needed but i still miss the trinity some days because it allowed for better teamwork imo.

Combo fields are cool but barely used with actual thought which is unfortunate most of the time people just overlap them.

Music is good but I’ve liked the music a lot in wow as well the night elf area and the war drums of the orc areas are awesome.

Personal story showed me that i want nothing to do with a “personal” story in an mmo(would need 1000s of branches to make it actually personal)when everyone else is experienced the exact same thing.

Dungeons don’t really feel special they were fun the first time but nothing about them felt unique besides a few boss encounters and Fotm.

the monthly updates are awesome but they seem to be buggy and we never get information on them till the day or day before launch. So cool we are getting patches lame that they are buggy and the vagueness of communication.

I miss mounts, I miss open world Pvp, I miss kiting an open world boss to a town and watching the show.

all in all my opinion so who really cares.

Karizee.8076:

In GW2 you can do this:

http://i.imgur.com/dvC9gfG.jpg

Win!

Karizee.8076:

In GW2 you can do this:

http://i.imgur.com/dvC9gfG.jpg

Now if they were doing a more henshin pose, that would have been a complete win.

same for me, after playing gw2, a bunch of my friends and me played the now f2p tera and i quit at level 12. the only reason i quit was becuz gw2 was still fresh in my mind. its sort of sad actually that since i consider gw2 such high standard i can’t even play other mmos. gw2 actually respects my time lol.

I love how there is a serious discussion, but randomly now and then there are guys talking about mesmers T_T. Anyway, I want to make some points of my own;

-ANet made many new good things, which we often forget about and take them for granted
-They also messed up some things which noone ever forgets (and no I don’t want mounts)
-I don’t think you can compare an 8 year old game to this one, because it’s just not fair! Future games will improve on GW2 aswell, and that’s what I’m excited of and I think we all should be glad of it and happy about it.
-If you are a MMORPG player, and want to stick to one game, for now you’d be best off with GW2 for now. This will change, but only in time.
-In conclusion, I just want to remind you that GW2 made some excellent changes, which should be incorpurated into future MMORPGs, such as dynamic events, no monthly fees, mobile casting etc…

For the end, I’d just like to thank anyone that actually took time and red my rant, and I hope you understood it.