Guild Wars 2

I try to avoid the melodramatic posts that people tend to create when they feel they’ve been done wrong by someone they’ve just purchased from, but I think I finally understand some of that frustration.

Let me start by saying I followed Guild Wars 2 pretty much since a year after it’s inception. I remember sitting on vent with my friends and we would all talk about how innovative and amazing this MMO would be when it came out. I love playing games competitively, you’ll never see my name on a high populated stream or at the top of a ladder, but just the idea that there is a format for that in game is what makes me excited. Needless to say, seeing things like monthly and yearly tournaments, custom tournaments, and all the other great ideas for a game that was pretty much sold to us as something built around e-sports. All this excitement even brought me to play Guild Wars 1 just so I could grab some of the cool items from the Hall of Monuments.

But now here we are nearing almost half a year after the game’s release and I log on to try and play SPvP only to find a barren Heart of the Mists where the only goal is to mindless pug free tournaments and play in the very unbalanced and pointless 15v15 matches. None of which give me any sense of accomplishment from winning or even some sort of carrot to fetch (The idea of rank grinding for a sense of grandeur from that is sort of meaningless at this point). Theres no spectator mode for me to go watch tournament matches and the paid tournament community appears to be dwindling more and more from what was already a pretty desolate group of people.

As for the WvW, it was pretty cool at first, but unless youre a roleplayer I don’t really see the fascination. That isn’t a jab at roleplayers by any means it just feels like there is nothing you can really do to feel like you aren’t just another face in the crowd. Outside of farming the gold for commander and trying to grab the attention from the other commanders on at the time you just kind of drone around in the masses.

I’m just bored I guess, and unfortunate to say I get the same feeling from this that I did about a month after Diablo 3’s release. Sure I keep it on my desktop hoping that maybe there will be some changes that will cause me to launch back into the fanboy mode I was in the years prior to the release, but at this point I don’t even think the game could recover if they tried. All that’s left now for me is a PvE game that feels like it’s combat and horizontal progression is built for PvP.