Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 1 hit the nail on the head. Guild Wars 1 destroyed the nail.

I picked up GW1 as an impulse buy in 2006 expecting to play for a few months, hit
level 20 and then move onto other things. Man was I wrong.

Months(wait, years) passed and I didn’t even bother looking into other games
to play. I had found my niche. The level playing field, the choice to grind
for prestige, the awesome events, the lore, the story, the PvP, the PvE, GWEN!,
the list goes on and on.

I expected Guild Wars 2 to be one in the same. I expected the game to stick to
its guns and introduce the same kind of game that I had been attached
to for thousands of hours. (Sure Treeman wasn’t as cool as Gwen but o well.)
Until the Lost Shores it lived up to the hype.

The Lost Shores would have been great. I was imagining a Sorrow’s Furnace type
update as in GW1. New items, large area, awesome skins, go grind them if you want.
Will they be any stronger than what you have? Of course not!

Instead the Lost Shores update did some great things. It added incentive
to run dungeons, it modified rewards, it introduced new items, it added
a dungeon. It failed to live up to what Guild Wars was about.

Yes I am biased so I would be making my points from a GW1 players/I want something
different players mindset. To avoid the troll bile that would insue my points have
already been made countless times over the last few days.

Now I’m not sure if the jumping puzzle “Under New Management” says anything,
but whatever the case is Guild wars is no longer Guild Wars.

PS. If you find this to be QQ and respond to tell me such. Thanks for the free bump!

I only had a chance to experience GW1 for a few months this year. I played the GW2 beta and was so excited I bought all the GW1 games in April.

I do agree that GW1 set a design precedent that we expected and were told would be in this game. Until this patch, I was also enjoying the game. My only complaints were the DR and continuation of bugs.

But I played around it, they made adjustments to DR so I did not notice as much anymore and bugs did not prevent me from experiencing the content I liked.

Now… I just have no words. I have gone from shock to frustration to just not caring. Once I reach apathy with a game, I am done. So I know where this is heading for me. Have not played since Sunday. Will be playing other games during my Thanksgiving holiday (that is always my fav gaming time…all day baby!!!!).

When GW1 first came out it was not pefect. It was fun but it definitely lacked quite a bit and you would rely on pvp to keep you goin and even that was limited. And in my case I lvled alts to get a feel for the professions and counter.

I attempted the same mindset and am having fun in guild wars 2 but it is by far not perfect and needs alot of improving.

You mention the impact “gwen” has in gw1 but she is just an annoying fly on the first original guild wars. It wasn’t until 3 huge expansions later that she matters…

Yes the story design has gone in a different direction then in guild wars 1. They really focused on a branch type story where everything comes together. And I give them kudos for it.

Personally I feel they are going in the right direction they can’t just create guild wars 1 all over again but using new technology. They have to choose to head in new directions and try to implement things in creative ways.

So much functionality in guild wars 1 was non-existent when it first came out.

My very first MMO type game was guild wars 1 and played through all the content and was not someone who enjoyed the rep grinding. I feel guild wars 2 is headed in the right direction and will soon have so much content, story and depth that guild wars 1 had and even better in a much better game environment and tools to support.

Time all it takes is time and well money/support.

No Guild Wars in my Guild Wars. Nuff said.

I think the original team behind GW1 were gone long ago. I also feel those who believed in the manifesto of GW2 that the game should not be tedious and grindy are either gone or forced silent in order to keep their jobs. I believe the current state of the game is driven from the top down. I seriously doubt if they have internal feedback from subordinates to the top, at least that is even heard.

Sad really, it’s just another franchise name used to sell units.