Guild Wars 2

ipan.4356:

Ashen.2907:

It would take tens of thousands of developers to keep up with the rate at which players can (potentially) consume content. If it takes 50-100 people to produce x in a year, how many would it take to produce x in a day?

An entire team’s work for a year, completed in one day.

If it is doable , can you name a single MMO that has released an entire expansion every day for a year ? Even one example.

Just to give one example that entirely disproves what you are saying:

One fully randomized, procedurally generated dungeon would delay all content release related problems.

Not that that is the only thing they could do – but technically, a randomized, procedurally generated dungeon would create an ‘infinite’ amount of new content – for people to play while waiting for other things, like new dungeons, new zones, etc.

Sounds like a grind to me. I might play it once or twice, so where is my new dev created content on day 3?

ipan.4356:

The Manifesto promised ‘no grind’.

To me, this means I should be able to access content in the game without needing to do any excessive farming (excessive: repeating any piece of content more than three times, and for any reason other than I find it fun and want to do it).

This game is nearly 95% farming. I’m still working on outfitting my 7 (soon to be characters with a full set of exotic gear plus sigils and runes. I have no legendaries, no ascended.

Bosses – whether they be world, or dungeon – should have chances to drop exotic, and even legendary, items. The chance should be high enough that we shouldn’t have to repeat content more than two or three times to get it. Dungeon token rewards should be higher, or not capped every day.

GW2 was promised to NOT be a treadmill of any kind – but it IS.

Hey, we have the same definition of grind. And guess what: I haven’t felt any need to grind stuff out. Ever. I guess that means, at some fundamental level, you just don’t like the content in the game. And that’s fine — the game can’t possibly be awesome for every player.

I feel bad that you aren’t enjoying anything enough to want to repeat it. I hope you find another F2P game that you like more.

ipan.4356:

Vayne.8563:

ipan.4356:

Oxidia.8103:

You don’t want to farm? Simple. Don’t.

Translation: Move on to a new game, don’t spend any money here.

Oh come on, really? So many people have already said farming is a choice and you continue to insist that it’s not. I choose not to farm. I don’t farm. I’m still playing this game.

Therefore your translation is in error.

If you’re playing, you’re farming, because there isn’t anything else to do in the game, except farm.

So if I RP that’s farming? If I play Southsun Survival because I enjoy it, that’s farming. If I’m doing jumping puzzles for the fun of doing them, that’s farming? Give me a break.

ipan.4356:

If you’re playing, you’re farming, because there isn’t anything else to do in the game, except farm.

I think you’re playing the game wrong.