The newest content really was my breaking point. After trying out the new 1man dungeon for good 15 minutes I close the game and uninstalled. Why?
First off, the dungeon seemed extremely cheaply done. I get thrown into an instance without any intro or cut scene to kill a boss I know nothing off. Maybe I would’ve known more about him if I actually read the dialogs, but after suffering through the nickelodeon personal story, I decided that GW2 wasn’t ever going to be my source of interesting story. The boss fight itself was extremely boring and minigame-like. I think I remember you saying about your game that “you actually play the game, not the ui”. And here I am searching the GOD kitten CHAT for tells on what to do.
Second, I think this game is the best example about the most infuriating trend in gaming there is… Advertising a complete product and releasing only a part of it. Rest of the content is promised later. To me this borders on illegality. Everything you have added to this game has been more or less complete bs and undone. WvW talent build? I respect you enough to grant you this: You cannot be as stupid as to think that dealing 5% more damage to guards would make any difference or give the players any sense of incentive. You release this rotten crap that you plan on improving in the future. Like a bakery selling raw dough as bread… Do not even get me started on sPvP in this topic, that’s been incomplete from release to this day.
Third, you seem to have no clue what direction you’re going with with sPvP. I think at some point you wanted to have the names of the best players carved in a monument in the heart of the mists. Now we have “friendlistboards” that players without a team get nil from. Before this we had the Qualifying Point system, that was even more horrid. We also had 8 -team free and paid tournys… 2-team paid and free tournys (“tournament”… there’s some irony there)… then you removed the paid tournaments and tickets altogether and made free tournaments the main tournament system.
You also made a couple more maps. Beautiful yes, but it doesn’t matter which textiles I’m running on, if the game mode is kitten, classes/builds horribly tuned and the combat spastic spam fest the sPvP crap is going to fizzle out. “E-sports! It’s gonna happen!” Please… a game needs to be entertaining to watch for a wide audience to gain enough of a mass to actually get a decent competition going. Right now we have unkillable bm rangers grinding bunker eles for 10minutes and horrible teams dying to on-point aoe only to get resurrected a second later with a whatever utility and continuing to win the team fight. Someone summed this up really well in another topic with something in the lines of “there is never going to be a top 10 plays of the week video about gw2”. Why? There is no skillful play here. Only mesmer-porting to the right node with more players or mist stomping someone if the res signet happens to be in cooldown.
Fourth, the pve is a joke. Grinding automated, over hyped event loot pinatas that either lag like hell or die literally in 2 seconds. Fractals? Jesus… you are forced to play the same content to play more of the same content. Dynamic events? Please… the centaurs raid the village when I go to sleep and the centaurs raid the village when I wake up. Dungeons? I have yet to be in a dungeon run that actually CLEARED the dungeon… for every corridor, event or boss fight there is a gimmick that makes it able for players to skip the badly designed and tedious mechanics or needlessly long bossfights designed by ArenaNet. Call it Gimmick Wars 2 for accuracy. WvW (yes, this absolutely is pve) I cannot really comment on because I never enjoyed following blue dots in the map for hours and never really focused on it. I don’t know… maybe some enjoy it.
So after playing on and off for almost a year, I’m off. It was a bad run. Horrible. I started playing with a group of dozen that withered to just two in less than a month. If you had chosen the subscription payment method for this game it would’ve sank a long ago like sw:tortanic.
Ps. Read this, don’t read this, delete this… I don’t care. I had to summarize my experience from this game. Would get a refund if I could and won’t check replies.