I see people here with very wide opinions about what direction GW2 should go in. I also see people requesting features that I know many people would actually despise, and there are many more features that Arenanet has implemented into the game that many people believe goes against the philosophy of the game.
My question to you all is; what features do you not want to see placed into Guild Wars 2. Feel free to elaborate. Some of the polarizing features I think about when I ponder this question are often:
Mounts
Gear grind
Level cap expansion
Zerg content?
Difficult content
More temporary content
6+ member dungeon parties
Volunteer subscription fees
Pay-to-access zones
Feel free to explain your reasoning, and include some features I didn’t list. I’m very interested to put together some of the different opinions this forum has. I know many people wouldn’t mind some of the things on the list I’ve mentioned, but I know others would quit over it. What are your thoughts? Again, this is not what features you would like to see, but what features you do not want to see.
What I think WOULD be nice is a recurring-gemstore purchase thing. If people wanted to, they should be able to pay $20 a month to get the 1500-1600 gems. It would be a nice QoL change that I’m sure people would take advantage of.
The rest I don’t really want either, but I could tolerate.
If GW2 had been a subscription game from the beginning, and that had actually pushed design decisions more along the lines of an MMO, instead of what it currently is, I would have happily paid a monthly fee.
BG: 52 alts, 29 lvl 80’s.They all look good, so I am done with the game: Oct 2014
As for your examples, other than “Volunteer subscription fees” and “Pay-to-access zones” as being the least wanted of those mentioned (would never return if they were added), I would go with “Gear Grind” as being my least wanted from the list (would also never return if it was added beyond what there already is).
I’m actually afraid to mention what I would least want added to the game (read: never), as they may actually end up adding it in since that seems to be what their thing is now (chasing NA/EU players away now that they have China).
Plus, some of your list is more than enough to make people never log in again if they were implemented (again, that seems to be their intention so can probably expect them).
Well it’s not on your list but my least wanted feature was their change to Kit Refinement on engineers.
But if I had to choose I’d say “More Temporary Content”, temporary content is terrible, it doesn’t allow people who like to play other games to switch when they wish, and it doesn’t allow players the ability to do anything meaningful. Such as right now, there’s a timer on the Queens event which means it will be gone and guess what, that’s the key reason why I’m not even bothering with trying to grind out the 1600 tokens I need for a backpiece or another such piece of gear eyecandy. It’s a ridiculous design, that and the whole Elitists trying to boot people out of the 6 boss event because we don’t all wear Zerker armor.
Some of the ones on your list would probably make me stop playing, but honestly the only one that would make me uninstall-the-game-and-never-log-in-again angry would be raising the level cap.
