It is in full awareness on this forum and throughout the MMO community that GW2 is a broken game. What was a fun and casually played MMO has now become a mess through the use of disoriented updates that the user base never asked for nor deserved. Through much debate and complaints in the form of asking, begging, and trying to reach out for compromise the GW2 community has fallen on deaf ears of Anet’s developers.
Where has the support gone?
At this point everyone in this game should face the facts. The support that the players of GW2 believe they should get differ from the support Anet deems acceptable. All changes that Anet has made to the game has downgraded what had made it fun in the first place. Think back of how often Anet has listened to the user base and taken aback what they implemented to be unpopular with the community; trait system, dungeons, fractals, SAB, key farms, skill sets and more. Everything that once made GW2 fun and unique was extinguished by the constant updates which downgraded the uniqueness more than upgraded GW2 into what it could have been.
What was the user base expecting?
GW the first was an amazing game in my own opinion. Fans of the first were expecting to play a entertaining experience that was believed would be delivered the same support combined with the new and improved combat system in GW2. What was supposed to have been delivered was not through updates nor through the use of the living story DLC, etc. but instead through new world experiences of expansions which delivered whole new continents to explore with amazing story lines, a vast aline of new skills to test to mix and match into with an expansive line of new builds, a majority of new dungeons and perhaps fractals to explore, and a fresh experience that didn’t deliver on the same old “We have to kill the dragons over and over again” mentality. While some may enjoy GW2 living story it is not the experience that was promised to all of us in the beginning and the truth is every GW2 player is missing out on what could’ve been.
How to fix GW2?
Bottom line is to stop playing the game. No more complaints that fall on deaf ears of the Anet developers. No more begging and pleading for things to change for the better only instead to have the good parts of the game be taken away from us. GW2 is being downgraded into oblivion and the only way to wake Anet up is to stop supporting it in anyway shape or form. Do not buy Gems from the gem store, do not play into Anets consistent downgrades that they disguise as an “update.” Just stop playing the game in general. Stay away for a month, two months, however long it takes until we are promised the respect that the user base deserves. Don’t get trampled over and laughed at anymore by these devs that don’t care about your wants or desires.
For those who are absolutely dedicated to GW2 and claimed that Anet could do no wrong, for you I have this to say. I was just like you once, long after the guild I once had a blast playing with gave up on GW2 I kept coming back hoping that something new would come around that would bring them all back. I grinded daily’s, fractals, world bosses and dungeons day after day hoping for some big change that would be considered a game changer, but it never came. I tried other guilds but was always lost in the mix of the click so instead kept the everyday grind going. I spent well over $200.00 into the gem store of this game hoping my support would lead to some expansion but it was to no avail. Finally reality sunk in after Anet nerfed the key farm and I realized through an epiphany, Anet doesn’t care about its fans. That is the bold honest truth and you have to wake up to it.
Think of an analogy, you the players are a starving prisoner and Anet is your prison guard. You fear what is on the outside world because you feel safe in your prison cell that is GW2. The doors are open and you are free to leave but Anet comes along with cake crumbs and throw them at you every now and then. The prison guards say here, we are good to you and you don’t have to leave. This of course keeps you happier for a little while longer, but what you don’t realize is that those cake crumbs are coddled with a price that degrade your cell just a little bit and sometimes a lot more each time, and now what was once a luxury resort has become the prison you dwell in currently.
Maybe someday the epiphany will hit you as well as I know that my nor anyone else’s words can change the mind of a die hard fan, but to those who know and have their eyes open to what GW2 has become, please stop talking about it and take action until Anet fixes what they broke and delivers on something more than what is right now in GW2.
