Guild Wars 2

Fortuna.7259:

Mirta.5029:

I don’t think that you know what pay to win means or have ever even seen a single pay to win game. I have 2 level 80s with full exotics, not a single cent was spent on gems and no I did not grind. All I did was collect everything on my way trough the zones and increase my magic find. Both money and tier 6 items are not a problem to me. On top of that I never actually needed the best gear tier to be able to do dungeons and level 80 zones on my level 80. Where exactly did I need to pay to win?
Also Tera Online is doing quite well as an MMO.

Did you miss the memo about vertical progression going forward?

I still don’t see how the progression is vertical if I can skip exotic on my newer chars and I don’t oppose gameplay. If you choose NOT to play and pay millions for it it’s your choice. You will not have an advantage over people who played though. The same way in Planetside – you can pay to level up, but in the long run it won’t give you an advantage.

The memo about vertical progression forward is very very old.

[URL=http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/19873-level-cap-increase-in-expansions/]Vertical Progression Promise[/URL]
[URL=http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/19473-interview-gw2-qa-cd-projekt-conference/]Vertical Progression Promise 2[/URL]
(Search for the question about Expansions)

And, as always, they continue to state that they want to keep the curve shallow.

That’s in the AMA.

Given how they’ve done the shallow curve so far, I would take it to indicate that although there would be vertical progression, it will not lock you out of content.

Also in the AMA are the pieces where they state that the Ascended gear was meant to be released at release but wasn’t ready, and then the things to keep Ascended from being a grind were meant to be released with FotM, but weren’t released because they weren’t ready.

They also acknowledged that those were big mistakes and apologized.

So, to summarize this continuing silliness and what’s in the AMA:

Vertical Progression: Always expected at a shallow curve
Gear-based gating: Designers have decided they’re unhappy with it
Grinding One Dungeon: Mistake based on decisions to release part of the mechanic, but not all.

So… You can either decide that they’re lying through their teeth or take them at their word that they’re trying to rectify their mistakes.