Guild Wars 2

The following is transcribed directly from an online discussion I had with a friend about GW2, because afterwards, I felt that this is the kind of thing I wish people at ArenaNet would overhear and consider as they decide what direction to take this game.

It’s too bad that someone at ArenaNet seems to think that making acquiring armor sets even more obnoxiously grindy than it was initially, among other things, makes it even harder for me to defend GW2 to friends who aren’t believers. It’s incredibly frustrating that there’s so much to love about this game, and yet still so much that is annoying or broken about it that I often feel totally ambivalent about it already.

Crafting: awesome. = )
Dungeons: grindy.
Dungeon grinding: obnoxious.
It’s like, remember when WoW dungeons didn’t award badges, and everyone used to say, “If I could just run the dungeons X times and know that I was guaranteed to get my dungeon set, that’d be perfect!”? Well, GW2 dungeons are like that, only someone at ArenaNet decided that X was going to be some obnoxiously high number that nobody actually WANTS to have to run.

And worse, with the DR [ed. note: diminished returns] system implemented to limit speed runs, you can’t even grind them efficiently.

And worse, because all the dungeons have different tokens, you are so sick of having to grind the very specific dungeon you need for YOUR armor sets that when friends ask you to run one of their dungeons, your initial response is way closer to “F*** that s***.” than “Sure, I’ll help!”

The game has been out exactly one month and already I’d rather watch movies and TV series I’ve seen already than grind the same dungeons night after night.

Botting is out of control and ruining the game for me and DR takes out what little fun is left in the game. DON’T BUY IT UNLESS THEY FIX THE GAME!