Guild Wars 2

This game is good, no doubt about it. Especially the way from start to the level cap. It’s been an amazing joruney and refreshnes from other mmos.

But I wonder: What do this game got, that make me want to keep playing it?

When I got my legendary, I actually thought: ‘’Now I’ve completed this game’’.
That was months ago. And since then I haven’t really felt that I want to keep playing to get newer stuffs. I’ve already got the ultimate reward. But that’s not what i wanted to bring up.

It’s the character progression, feeling that my character is getting better..
What I don’t like is that my character have unlocked all the skills for all types of weapons at ~lvl10-15. And after that I’m using the same skills the rest of the game.
The utility skills is another story.

I think I know the mind behind it. Keep the UI/skillbar as small as possible(?).
But hey, I want to learn new skills, it’s fun. I gives my character bigger variety of killing stuffs, a more in depth of how I want my character to be like. Sure, keep only 5 skill-slots in the bar. But let me learn new and change what I want in slot 1,2,3,4,5.

Utility skills is skillpoints only. Why isn’t there other requirments. Like completing dungeon x or completing event a,b,c. (WvW,PVP can have all the skill/utility unlocked for fariness) But when it’s to pve it’s not the same thing, make it harder to get everything!

I feel the same with Gear. Let it be the same gear-lvl in WvW, PvP. But in PvE let there be higher, more unique drops that’s got different gear-lvl. Dungeons with different tiers that gives different kind of loot. (higher tier gives better drops etc) That makes people feeling that they get some kind of reward for completing something hard.

Give some love for the end game in PvE.
Right know I feel this game is more like an introduction to the MMO world. It’s not too hard, it’s too equal, overall it’s pretty easy game.

I feel there’s not much to do when I hit 80. Too easy to get the best gear and after that im just jumping around. Well maybe, in the end. This game is not for me.
The currency in this game is time/money. Not much about how good you are as a player.

My big question is:
What is it that makes you keep playing this game!?

I think most people and devs would say simply the “Living Story”, and content released after.

Ideally, you keep playing the game because you simply enjoy it. I feel this is an attainable goal, however they have a long way to go in regards to properly balancing open world content difficulty (it’s too easy) and getting all the traits/weapons/etc balanced as to create more engaging combat and more builds for players to customize and use.

1) Fractals. Serious, I think I’m addicted to these things.
2) The Eternal Battlegrounds jump puzzle (aka the Murder Pit).
3) World boss events. Yes, I was doing these before the upgraded loot. Love the epic feels.
4) The World. Got my map completion months ago but still discovering things to this day. It’s gorgeous.
5) The Community. Best, funniest, friendliest community of gamers I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing with.
6) Collecting all teh things. Gear, weapons, skins, pets, dyes, toys, etc.

But no matter what goals I may have for my play sessions, I can find anytime I log in to be completely swept away doing something completely different. Game is distracting as kitten because it’s so much fun!

GW2 PvE lacks the challenge we had in GW1, and lacks more methods to get items.
But the rest is fine overall.

My friends, seriously, i play to be social, if they left i’d probably have zero reason to stay, not much has been added since Halloween to be considered worth staying for..

Six month old MMO is a six month old MMO. Every single six month MMO I’ve ever played has the we don’t have enough content thing on the forum. Content takes time to make. The game takes time to make. Bugs take time to fix. It’s all about time.

In two years time this game will have a ton of stuff. No game company can put out an MMO that has enough for you to do, particularly if you have like a legendary after two months.

Content burners will be in the same box no matter how much content a developer offers.

I play because I have fun with my friends.

having a game i can play, simply, for love of the game? priceless.