Guild Wars 2

I just can’t find a poll to create because I’m quite sure more than half the population right now are kittened with the progress of the game
We need an expansion
We need progress
Living Story is a fail; Season 2
You messed the game FPS and can’t fix it yet
There are NO Guild wars
There is no new way to get prec as u stated
Expansion!
Before anyone rage on me, Im a gamer like you and this is my opinion about the game I loved; I need new enjoyable content rather than living story boring kitten
New content, new weapons, increase stats, new races, it’s really annoying opening this topic over and over and no decent reply from you guys “ANet”

I’m enjoying how the game is progressing.

I agree in fact I quit for several months because of the lack of new content. I then came back and had completely caught up in a week.

I’m a gamer (though not like you) and although I almost always enjoy new content, some of the things you desire, I have no interest in.

I think the ‘game’ is progessing. I’m curious about tomorrow, and looking forward to what may be of interest later this month.

Good luck.

What progress?       

Compared to other MMOs I’ve played, the progress has kept me interested even after two years. That’s about a year and half longer than the other games I’ve tried.

So, under that criteria, I’m satisfied.

I’m happy enough with it, though I probably wouldn’t be if I weren’t occupying myself a good ~75% of the time with roleplaying. Other players really are the best entertainment, when done right ^>^

ArenaNet’s reply will likely be at the end of the month at PAX. If they don’t talk about expansions, they’re never doing one. Considering ArenaNet wants to be different, I doubt they will fall back to the traditional model.

As for an expansion, what’s the point? It’d be just like the living story except ~4 seasons at once and after you beat it within a week, what then? Personally, if ArenaNet dropped the living story and went with expansions, I would play the game like I did GW1, ~1 month per expansion, which would be great as soon as <insert new MMO> releases.

ClaviculaNox.8762:

There are NO Guild wars

WvW is actually the real guild wars, but I’m guessing you meant guild dueling as in GW1’s GvG.

I haven’t been an active player for some time. My focus is WvW but that has remained unchanged for far too long and the recent “white swords removal” shows a frightening level of disconnect between players and developers.

I log on, finish the story update and then log off for the next month. Which is a shame and I hope this “expansion” appears to fix this.

Not really satisfied at the moment. I would like to see:

1) A permanent reward track for WvW and EOTM (similar to sPvP – with unique skins, tomes of knowledge, and other odd bits as you progress)

2) Dyeable Weapons – GW1 had it, why not GW2? Obviously color-specific rewards like the Super Adventure Box weapons and such would remain unchanged

3) Legendary Dyes – with sparkles, particle effects etc.

4) Precursor Hunt – wasn’t this coming in 2013? It’s 2015 now…

5) Changes to loot system – cause right now it’s pathetic.

6) Changes to RNG system – cause right now it’s hair-pullingly frustrating and unfair. I’ve been playing since day 1, I’ve gained over 2655 WvW ranks, and STILL had no precursor. Yet noobies that play the game for a few hours or days get them. How is this fair?

Just a few things that grind my gears and need work on, before I become satisfied with the way GW2 is going.

well i hope expansion comes whit huge content then YES right now NO i’m bored as hell ! also Progression something to make me stronger maybe Titles/Reputation farm like gw 1 that give more dmg vs something specific light-bringer anyone remmeber vs demons more dmg given and less taken !!

I would like to see:

New and better dungeons, new game modes for PvP, dueling (even instanced), less zergy open world events, better loot system (especially from bosses), class balance in PvP and PvE, reworked necro (maybe even from scratch), better pet AI, at least some trivial NPC AI in open world, less AOE spam in every aspect of the game etc.

there is a lot to work on in this game.

For me the game has not shown much in the way of progress, butthe things the OP specifically mentions would not change this.

It depends. If something big is coming, I’m satisfied with the progress. If something big isn’t coming, I’m not satisfied with it.

The problem is the lack of communication from Anet.

If everyone knew an expansion was coming this year, these threads wouldn’t even exist.

I want an Expansion.

Meaning:
New races.
New large maps (like double the size)
New classes.
New weapon types.
New personal story (or continuing the LS as a replacement for it)

But I agree with Vayne, “The problem is the lack of communication from Anet.” But maybe this will be remedied with PAX South.

I like the content we’re getting. My only complaint would be that I’d like more. Which I imagine isn’t really much of a complaint since it’s essentially like asking for a second and third helping of desert.
Anyway I think people calling for expansions are using the wrong terminology. The concept of an expansion is rather loaded in my opinion. I think it might be helpful to specifically say what expansion-type content you’d prefer (things like new races, or places or whatever is commonly thrown together under the heading of an expansion).

EDIT:

I want an Expansion.

Meaning:
New races.
New large maps (like double the size)
New classes.
New weapon types.
New personal story (or continuing the LS as a replacement for it)

Basically like this (we posted at more or less the same time in my defense :P ). A list like this provides clear topics of discussion and a clear indication of what we want.
As for larger maps, I think we need to consider the two types of maps we currently have in game. The Meta-Maps (Dry Top and Silverwastes) and the Exploration-Maps (basically all the other maps). I think that the Meta-Map concept isn’t scale-able (although we’re not really there yet, and meta-maps do have their place). I would love to see many many many more exploration-maps (with the focus being on doing events, and finding secrets and mini-dungeons etc. instead of filling up a map wide bar).

Overall with the game I am satisfied, it has easily been worth what I paid for it entertainment wise and then some.
Some decisions I don’t care for others I do, such is life. I look forward to the patch tomorrow and PAX later this month.

There is near to no progress or work done since launch, so I can’t be satisfied or dissatisfied.

Its doing fine. The new stuff is not a problem for me. Its the old stuff they can’t sort out since launch that is bugging me a bit (WvW achievements and a lack to GvG scene).

It’s stagnant….

At 2.8 cents per hour of entertainment and decreasing still… I’d say it’s just fine

Personally, I have a fair few issues, but I’m mostly pleased. That is to say, considering this is a game which I buy optional feel-good content for instead of having to pay a monthly fee, I am very much getting my money’s worth.

My issues:

• Very slow dev speed. That’s also why expansion just doesn’t hype me, at the speed the devs work on balance, issues, fixed and living story, an expansion would take 3+ years to develop for content you’d see in a X.2 patch in WoW, pretty much. I am not sure what causes this, all old people who knew the engine left, talent is fluctuating constantly, bad management, bad systems, no proper pipeline, I don’t know. Anyone’s guess.
• Alternatively, communication is terrible. If the team is actually motoring and an xpack with a full class-rework of all skills has been in the making for 2,5 years, then why would we not hear about it? Why not build more hype? Sell your product!
• No consume all / use all / uncrate all. I cannot truly believe anyone at ANet plays this game and isn’t annoyed by this.
• Similar to that, everything is in bags, crated, boxes. Why? Why not just give me the items directly and save me a few mouses. I got through two G500s and currently working through a G502 with this game, so far. :S
• No real effort put into WvW. We need map changes, map evolution, adapting battlefields, better balance for large scale battles, better siege integration, anything.

On the other hand, I enjoy the game a whole lot, even if the above may not make it sound like it. It’s awesome.

Carighan.6758:

Personally, I have a fair few issues, but I’m mostly pleased. That is to say, considering this is a game which I buy optional feel-good content for instead of having to pay a monthly fee, I am very much getting my money’s worth.

My issues:

• Very slow dev speed. That’s also why expansion just doesn’t hype me, at the speed the devs work on balance, issues, fixed and living story, an expansion would take 3+ years to develop for content you’d see in a X.2 patch in WoW, pretty much. I am not sure what causes this, all old people who knew the engine left, talent is fluctuating constantly, bad management, bad systems, no proper pipeline, I don’t know. Anyone’s guess.
• Alternatively, communication is terrible. If the team is actually motoring and an xpack with a full class-rework of all skills has been in the making for 2,5 years, then why would we not hear about it? Why not build more hype? Sell your product!
• No consume all / use all / uncrate all. I cannot truly believe anyone at ANet plays this game and isn’t annoyed by this.
• Similar to that, everything is in bags, crated, boxes. Why? Why not just give me the items directly and save me a few mouses. I got through two G500s and currently working through a G502 with this game, so far. :S
• No real effort put into WvW. We need map changes, map evolution, adapting battlefields, better balance for large scale battles, better siege integration, anything.

On the other hand, I enjoy the game a whole lot, even if the above may not make it sound like it. It’s awesome.

Pretty much agree with everything said here. Especially the use all!

I was overall satisfied up until the feature packs, and then the trait revamps came, and then the disappointing feature pack 2 with it’s NPE. It left me feeling underwhelmed and dissatisfied with the direction of GW2, so i stopped playing. With the announcement of PAX south though, my interest is piqued again, but i’m keeping my expectations low.

Zero progress. Very disappointed. GW1 was so much better with the expansions.

despite there are not many things to do to PROGRESS your character besides leveling to lv 80, getting a full exotic gear set and learning all skills and traits… i still find a ton of things to do in guild wars.

-exploring the world

-getting another set of gear besides zerkers

-pvp daily achievements (or more pvp if i wish to progress the reward tracks faster)

-collecting “rare” items such as mawdrey, home instance nods (not the gem store ones, the meta achievement ones)

-getting gold in various ways (fliping, dungeons, meta boss fights,selling stuff)

-getting ascended gear so you can infuse them and challenge your self in fractals

-guild missions

-wvw

-making a alt

-plenty more things to do

Gw2 is just not that kind of game where you focus on character progression only, where you keep leveling for ages and doing various stuff over and over to get the “best” gear in the game..so you can do it all over again on a alt,or when a new content gets released

I only care about WvW, so an expansion full of more cron scripts to fight in PvE would not get me excited at all. Particularly since I’ve found all of the Living Story to be really disjointed and uninteresting.

How can you ask someone how they like something that doesn’t exist. There has been no progress made with this game. Really it’s gotten worse over the 2.5 years and was a better game at release then it is today.

Considering my life doesn’t revolve around GW2, I’m more than satisfied. I’ve gotten a lot of entertainment out of it so far, and I’m sure it will continue to serve me well for some time yet.

I used to be a strong advocate for a boxed expansion, not unlike many of the louder people on the forums here. I used to think the game was doomed if there wasn’t an expansion announcement in the near future. That was about 8 months ago. Game is still doing well, arguably better than it was back then; people here still making those same ridiculous claims just don’t understand how little of the population is represented here, and how little the forum users at large understand about game development and running a business.

One thing is for sure: if ANet did whatever the loudest people on the forums wanted at any given time, the game would have been run into the ground long before now.

Feels like very slow progress compared to Guild Wars 1. Many updates are small and umeaningful to large segments of the game. They either leave pve pvp or wvw players out and even if they do update one of those facets that feel left out it’s not really an update or a lot of actual content. For example a LS episode, PPK/no swords in wvw, a pvp reward track only worth doing once.

A: Not.

I’ve run out of enjoyable things to do that aren’t RNG-based grind. Living Story, while giving an occasional good fight, hasn’t been interesting enough to justify long waits and shoddy writing. I can’t even AP hunt with it, because the devs don’t respect our time enough to let us bypass the story in front of easily-failed objectives.

Quality of life keeps improving, but with traits as they are and overall unsatisfying content, I can’t be convinced to do more than a few dailies before I log off. :\

Andred.1087:

One thing is for sure: if ANet did whatever the loudest people on the forums wanted at any given time, the game would have been run into the ground long before now.

This is so true it should be brought down from Mount Sinai. And we’ve seen it happen before with other MMOs and their companies. Look at what happened to Warhammer Online.

It’s like Mythic learned nothing and was blatantly appeasing the loudest voices on their forums. It was so obvious it was sickening. And the community left in droves never to return.

Here’s an example: Posters complained that the healers were getting realm points for healing. This wasn’t fair because these realm point weren’t being shared with other players. So what happened? They nerfed it. Healers no longer got points for healing. Instead, you only got them from damaging.

You know what happened.

Healers quit healing or those players left. And then? Players were screaming for the healers to heal them. Where were the healers? It was mind-boggling. And that was only the beginning of the nerfing by forum whines.

Thank God ANet learned the lesson Mythic did not.

Frankly I’m not satisfied.

My biggest gripe is that Living Story has progressed, in terms of content release and story, at such a molasses pace versus GW1, that for at least myself as a GW1 veteran, its agonizing. Like watching a plant grow.

Combine that with the fact that we never really knew ANET’s plans for the future in the 2 1/2 years since the game released and that they largely kept experimenting with content releases and content delivery, it feels like the base game hasn’t progressed all the much. Don’t get me wrong, things have been added, but for a 2 1/2 year old game, we really ought to be a lot further along than we are.

In light of the new speculation around PAX and the leaked trademark, I am really hoping we have major expansion level changes, additions, content, etc. incoming. This game desperately needs it.