Guild Wars 2

I have been playing another game, primarily, as of late, and they had a big content update today.

For all the hype leading up and excitement by the players after, the actual volume of content was trivial. No new maps, no new events.. Just a few new primary items, one weapon (no functionality change) and a bunch of really low quality clothing skins.

Three months since release on the PC platform,

Oh, and did I mention the items are also significantly more expensive than what was available before

Even when it’s quiet in Tyria, we get showered with content in comparison.

Nothing like some perspective to put expectations in order.

Thanks for all the efforts, ArenaNET.

ANet did such a great job of churning out content in 2013 that our expectations have been set very high. To be honest, I wouldn’t mind content coming out a little slower than it did back then, but the current drought is killing me. I had a good experience the other night taking a group of novices through CM2, but other than that my routine has been log in, do 3 dailies, log out.

But yes, we do have it better than other MMOs. I started playing one with a pretty good reputation and got up to a quest where you had to kill a boss. There were about five people crowded around the boss, killing it as soon as it spawned. Because the boss didn’t scale up nobody was getting the drop they needed. Apparently the solution was to go onto a less populated “map” (essentially manually switch to an overflow map) and do the event there. When I went to the forums and said on one of the many complaint threads about that event that the event was poorly designed, offering a number of ways that the devs could have solved the problem I was called whiny and told that all MMOs have this sort of problem. No. Not all MMOs.