Guild Wars 2

I posted before from my utter frustration because my specialization achievement was gated behind a mini game called Fallen Masks. I had already put in a couple of months of play designed to get that achievement. I had spent hours in Dragon Stand collecting crystallized ore, etc. , and then when I tried Fallen Masks I couldn’t get better than 13 masks, and I needed 15 to unlock Dark Harvest. I was so frustrated I almost uninstalled GW2 and quit for good. My son told me that this was probably due to my graphics and frames per second. He was right, within an hour of installing a brand new excellent graphics card I beat Fallen Masks. I am relating this for a reason, because even though I never have to play that annoying game again it is only because I bought a new graphics card. I do not think this is fair to people that have minimal specs to play this game. Before I downloaded this game I checked to see if my specs would play it, and according to anet they would. I understand having achievements like these for those who enjoy them, but core portions of the game shouldn’t be deprived to those who downloaded the game in good faith based upon being told that their PC could handle it. This wouldn’t be an issue if the achievement wasn’t timed, but it is timed, and it is setting up certain people (like me) to fail. And it isn’t because they suck (as I was told when I complained the first time), it is because their system is just a hair not good enough to really play this game.

I am writing this partially so that others that do a search out of their own frustration might come upon my comment and know it might not be them that is having the difficulty, it is their equipment. As it stands if I had to do it over again I might not have bought this game in the first place had I known how I would be limited by the parameters set up by anet. I would hope if one of the developers reads this that they can consider that people buy the game in good faith, if they are told that they can play it they should be able to play the core portions, and that means all of them, and not have their achievements gated behind an impossible mini game that they have no hope of beating. I tried every day for weeks, sometimes hours each day. It wasn’t my skill holding me back, so if others think that maybe they just suck at these things, it might not be them at all, but the bad information they got when they downloaded this game, their system might be inadequate to play it.