I’m a pre-order, I loved Guild Wars 1 (having played since the very beginning, open beta I believe even, all the way to EOTN expansion). I purchased GW2, and it was… different, as expected from the claims of “changing the MMO” as a.net put it, but…
Don’t get me wrong, I love the game, but the state it is in right now just feels like any other MMO out there. While the trinity is more or less gone in place for “team work”, the repetitiveness is still there. Let me elaborate a bit more on this, there is still a lot of content I have not touched…but cannot at the same time; The community seems to have taken to just “farming” events. At any given time of logging into the game, I can garuntee one thing: There is a “train” in queensdale, with loads of people farming the bosses. I can even give the exact order and which bosses are done! Boar > Oak > Troll > Bandit > Spider > (some times wasp queen if available) > Boar and just repeat. This isn’t the only instance either, there are many areas throughout the game that are -heavily- infested with players doing just one event or chain of events. There are so many things in the game I have yet to accomplish because I cannot seem to gather a group to do them, and when I do manage to gather a group together, they are either too inexperienced or just incompetent to complete them. I am not getting on a perch here, I am not the best gamer ever, but some times I feel as though some people are just unable to learn from mistakes without excessive repetition in failure.
World events that I want to participate in, that cannot be done due to absolutely no interest in doing them from the community. Example: I decided to venture back to Southsun, my first time since the initial release and before it’s additions. I get there, ask what there is to do and get answered with a waypoint link and “Queen up, come now”. There is a huge mob fighting the karka queen, and it’s a crazy fight, i get downed multiple times, revived and it’s just a blast! but then everyone maps away, walks away, and just generally leaves from my sight. I explore and find some events, only to learn that they are nearly impossible to solo, if not completely. The scaling doesn’t go down to just 1 player apparently… I ask for help… no responses at all. I finally give up in doing the few events I try and immediately as I go to leave for lion’s arch i hear “queen up”, so I go back and BAM 40+ players. Are these bots? or is it just the only worth while event in the map? All I am aware of is that nothing else is “do-able” due to not having any one in the entire map to help at all.
As I’ve stated before, this branches to nearly all ranges of the game, from low level to 80 content. I’m finally aware of why I have “instant level 20” tickets for new characters, there aren’t enough players to do low level content, and if they are, they are all farming one event or chain of events in the given maps.
All in all, the game has become just like any other korean grinder out there, albeit not nearly as lengthy, but the process is just the same: Find best reward quests (bonus points for repetitive quests) and just grind them till max lvl and/or currency. The only real differences are; No healers, no limit to how many people can do them or the need to any partying. Which enables this mobbing technique this much more.
tl;dr – I can’t do things because no one is doing anything passed farming one event(s).
My achievements will take eons at this rate >_>;
This will probably be flooded with “newb, loser, baddy, get friends” shortly, instead of any thoughtful criticism, that or be told to spend more money to shift to another server, which will just be the same issue, just with more players.
(edited by WheezerX.4367)