Guild Wars 2

I want to keep playing because…

I want to believe the classes are not set in stone and could have drastic changes made to them.

PvE Raid and Dungeon content might still be added without lack luster dynamic event scripts trivializing it. (give us the boss and let go of our hands)

A PvX zone might be added to WvW

WvW maps might be redesigned (less objectives, more space) to allow for more roaming groups

Culling and AoE caps could be removed allowing for small man vs zerg.

A WvW Alternate Advancement system could be added with public leaderboards.

Downed State or at least the momentary Immunity might be removed in PvP.

A publicly visible spvp Elo system with solo/duo tournament options might be added.

More Spvp gametypes might be added, arena/koth/mini WvW/dota, etc…

New Weapon Types and Classes might be added frequently.

And then i snap to reality for a bit and realize that there’s a high probability that none of this could happen, and that GW2 will always only be what it is right now and i feel a little sick to my stomach. I can’t see myself doing WvW for the sake of WvW in 3 months, Spvp is not an option for me as a solo/duo player not only in lack of support for competitive play as a solo/duo but in complete lack of variety in gameplay, and I’ve already ran out of things i want to do in PvE.

I don’t mean for this post to sound like a “i quit” post because im NOT quitting, i do still find fun in WvW at the moment. I just have a lot of concerns with the (lack of) long term goals of the game. I wish there was a Development Diary or something that gave some insight to the games future. What is actually being looked at as a high possibility and what is not changing etc. I don’t expect promises, just ANYTHING, even the slightest evidence that i’m not investing my time into a dying game with a stale future.

Though I don’t really agree with many of your particular desires, I can relate to the topic title. A lot of what I had expected or hoped for going in seems to have been done in a far more… underwhelming way than I’d hoped, and while I knew the game wasn’t going to hit the notes I’d most enjoy out of an online game, the notes I was hoping it would hit have fallen rather flat.
- DEs don’t feel like large, significant, interconnected events that genuinely add life to the world, and instead feel like insular, repetitive ‘filler’ that oversaturate the landscape and are in no way compelling. I expected events beyond a single chain that would impact one another, events taking potentially days or even a week to repeat, ‘World Events’ like the Shatterer being the culmination of huge chains spanning multiple zones, with players summoned by criers in all the major cities, etc. But… Apparently not.
- The Personal story was a horrible, disjointed mess that didn’t even make the choices it DID allow (which I’d felt were too restrictive in the first place) to be all that impactful. The ‘villain’ ended up feeling extremely generic when they had a perfect set up for something far more ominous and threatening, the orders were underutilized and homogenized into a vessel to serve Trahearne’s story, and the home-instance (which for non-humans/Charr seemed lackluster in itself) was all-but-abandoned.
-Dungeons… Well, I knew I wasn’t going to like them from the start simply due to the type of content they present, but the design has apparently fostered the growth and vocalization of a subset of the community that just puts me off of the game even more…

Unfortunately, it’s basically a guarantee that none of these issues (as I see them) are going to be addressed/changed since it would require a total rebuild of major aspects of the game. There are some more minor problems which could be touched up, but even if they were, I’m still left with a game that’s only a shadow of what I feel it could have been. And it was the game I’d hoped to get that brought me here and it is pretty much only the fact that I have already bought and played GW2 as much as I have (on top of wasting my time grinding out HoM points and GWAMM in anticipation of it) that drives me on at all… Right now I just figure I’ll check out the Halloween update and perhaps the first major content update beyond that to see if it gives any indication that there is something meaninguld to hope for going forward. Then again, that might be setting myself up as well, since Sorrow’s Furnace gave me hope for the original before Factions crushed it. :-\