Guild Wars 2

… its a 50$ game….. yes ok MAYBE some people cant do it… but.. seriously? -.- I love the GW community but u all complain more then any one I ever meet…. it takes like a week to get lvl 80, GW gives people who bought a HoT an item to lvl and EVERYONE GETS MAD, most who have used it in my guild and my F list, are people who ALREADY have a ton of 80s!, they come out a new content area, (its an MMO guys it happens…) of course they want u to buy it! and if u enjoyed the main land, u should have no problem buying it! P2W games to me are the ones u go Download for free, have free updates and content increase with a cash mail to get ALL the good things, Guild wars isn’t like that, I can buy a nice out fit… that’s it… yay…. TOTALY P2W….

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Stiofan.6720:

All the best pvp builds require HoT that makes it kinda p2w tbh.

Not quite. I’m not really into PvP, but from what I’ve heard some people made it into legendary divisions with a free account, which means no elite specializations.
Yes, in general elite specs are stronger than the base class. Anet never denied it, they always meant elite specs to be superior to regular ones (guess why they’re called elite). From what I’ve understood, future elite specs should be on par with the current ones, so there’ll be no more power creep once you’ve got at least the first GW2 expansion and one elite spec unlocked. If anything, you can call it buy to win, because after you get HoT, none of the future elite specs should overshadow your current one. Definitely not pay to win.

Also, we don’t even know whether OP was talking about PvP, it’s kind of bold to just assume that. While the power creep is present in PvE just as much as in PvP, it’s not nearly as apparent and there are still ways how to play efficiently with your base class (even metabattle still lists non-HoT builds for PvE).

This is incorrect and you are missing the point being made.

Word.

Elite specs definately make GW2 p2w in it’s current state.

If you don`t play elite spec meta in sPvP and/or WvW, you are pretty much fighting against windmills.

It’s not so much about the game being ‘pay-to-win’ as much as it is ‘free-to-play’, which always comes with a handful of concerns especially when the game encourages ‘cash-to-gold’ and ‘game currency to cash-shop currency’ (gold-gems).

That being said, ANet hasn’t stooped too far in their ‘f2p hell’, the things their competitors allow in their games is astounding. But it also shows the extent of bs people are willing to deal with in their games when even freaking GTAV has game currency for real money.