Guild Wars 2

My wife and I were talking about the game. She does not play mmo’s or rpg games.
She did watch me play GW1 and play GW2. She also viewed some of the videos released by Arenanet during production. She noticed that the game play was kind of lacking vs what they advertised. Granted hardware changes, programs get better.

She knows how much I liked playing GW1. Her best question was. “It seems like the players of the game were expecting GW1 on steroids. Why did they change it?”

Yes I think That was exactly what I was expecting from the game. I’m not playing as much as I did when it was released. I play for about and hour a day then move on to something else.
I really hope they can get the bugs and other problems fixed. There is no way for me to tell them how to fix their problems. For one I’m no programmer. IF you are a programmer please help them out if you like the game.

Oh and another comment she made was. It seems like some people want the game to fail so then they can say “See nothing can beat WoW.”

Those are her thoughts so take them anyway you want. I will still continue to play.

No one wants the game to fail. How ever Anet is doing a great job on making it happen. People are tired of WOW and have been tired of WOW. Trust me on this the first game to get it right will kill WOW’s player base in 6 months tops!

I am actually loving the game right now despite the differences between it and gw1, really the only things I would like to see are:

1: Less brutal dungeons, instances are meant to be something people do for fun and loot with their friends, as it is right now I can see certain one (cough cough AC) devolving into a harsh meta for what is and isn’t going to work at all. I have no problem with the idea of no tanks or healers but for pete’s sake can we nerf the hp on enemy trash mobs a bit? It is seems ridiculous they can one shot non-armored classes and than survive all 5 players throwing everything at them for two minutes. Either give them high health or high damage NOT BOTH, I mean really you know something wrong when getting to the boss is when you take a sigh of relief.

2: More skills, look I can get wanting to keep pvp balanced and have everyone know for certain what they are facing (for instance, see an enemy guardian coming at you with a greatsword, you can tell what he is going to do and prepare for it) but the fact of the fact of the matter is casting the same 5 skills over and over can get a little dull, maybe make it so one or tow skills are interchangeable with others

i played gw1 since beta weekends and i’m content that i’ve played it enough. as for gw2, i expected pretty much what arenanet said would be in the game and i got pretty much what arenanet said would be in the game.

i’m not entirely sure what you expected.

Some people are upset because GW2 is not GW1 part two.

Most of my friends who don’t play GW2 just say “It looks like runescape with better quality.”

All of my friends who do play GW2 say “ kitten I’m still like 40k karma away from that Tier 3”

It’s different from GW1 and not quite other games, and that’s the best mix. It’s like a multiplayer skyrim.

@WoW comment:
Okay. WoW may be good and all but my God, who cares if WoW fans want the game to fail and stuff or will never be beat. As long as we all like the game it’s all that matters. GW2 can use some improvements but it just came out…It will shine tons more later down the road, I assure ya.

Chaz.1835:

2: More skills, look I can get wanting to keep pvp balanced and have everyone know for certain what they are facing (for instance, see an enemy guardian coming at you with a greatsword, you can tell what he is going to do and prepare for it) but the fact of the fact of the matter is casting the same 5 skills over and over can get a little dull, maybe make it so one or tow skills are interchangeable with others

Really, they just need to fix the bugs in the skills/traits etc. It’ll open up a whole lot of flexibility in builds.

There are a lot of issues in the two classes I play primarily, and I’d assume from extrapolating from that, that there are issue with every proffesion. Traits that don’t function at all, traits that only sorta do what they say…or do something else entirely. Skills that only work while on perfectly even ground, or toss you through solid objects and get you stuck… etc etc. These thing tend to be avoided in selecting a build, lol…so you have fewer otion in that regard.

There are quite a number of builds I’d love to try out… ya know, if they worked.

Unfortunately we live in a world where what you believe is more important than what really is. Marketing campaigns are a good example of this. Arenanet are no exception to this. Like it or not, they advertised GW2 just as other companies advertise theirs…by embellishing, exaggerating, focusing on what they want you to see and making sure that you interpret things in a positive way even though they never actually said that.

I don’t think I can change this type of behaviour in marketing for the whole world or even a small part of it. I guess it’s just the times we live in or it’s just human nature in general.

All you can do is see for yourself if your interest is peaked.

I played GW1 for many years and when they announced GW2 they were sure that it’s what the player base at that time was asking for. As with anything on this scale, you can’t really honestly make that statement. Some people will agree and some will not.

I was not positively impressed during the beta but I gave it another shot on launch and I do like GW2 now.

But yes, it has bugs and plenty of them. It’s a real MMO now and any MMO has a fair number of bugs when they come out. Partially because perhaps games get released too soon but also because it’s simply a part of releasing something a big as a MMO.

There may be some people who want to see the game fail to prove WoW still has it but I think that’s a very small group. Most of the doom prophets here I would think are simply people that are disappointed with the game and are so upset with it that they need to game to fail to be vindicated. Really, it’s nothing more than petty human emotion. As with any product, some people will end up disappointed. There simply is no game that everybody likes, just as there’s no car brand or movie title that everybody likes.

What you also have is a lot of people that have been trained for gear progression endgame in many other MMO’s and simply don’t get what they’re supposed to do in this game and so they get bored. There is tons of stuff to do, but they don’t see it because they look at the game with the holy trinity/raiding/gear progression eyes and so through those eyes they look at GW2 and see nothing. Well, they see a few things that resembles it and create things like Karma grinding but then when it’s nerfed with DR, they freak out, because it destroys the last bit they were holding on to.

In my view they should either open their eyes to what this game does offer or they should accept that this is not the game they were looking for. Instead they come here foretelling the fall of GW2 because they need it to fall to prove them right. In the end it won’t help them or anyone else though, cause whether the game fails or not, makes no difference to whether you like a game or not. And once you are disappointed and don’t enjoy a game, the best thing to do is to let go and move on.

Companies set up part of the problem by advertising the way they do. Then players take over and make it worse themselves and yet all that really matters is whether you enjoy the game or not. When you do you play it, when you don’t move on. That’s how I see it.

Call me Mr. Tinfoilhat but I still believe that this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing is what´s going on on these Forums

I love GW2 i think it have its issues and im sure that Anet will fix it in due time.
One of he main differences between GW1 and GW2 in my opinion is the leveling concept, I will use my favorite campaign Nightfall as and example, the player could leveled from level 1-20 in istan, it was a fairly small place and gave the player a lot to do, finishing istan gave the player the ability to see the rest of elona, a huge area that was purely designed for max level players, while in GW2 the player have 3-4 areas designed for level 80, In my opinion a max level player could have done a lot more in GW1 then in GW2. Yes GW2 have the scaling system and it is fun to be able to play with lower level friends but this system feel like an upgrade for GW1 hard mode.

There is a game you like so much and you hear that there will be a second game, you automatically start thinking new game will be exactly the old game with better graphics, and then you buy the new game, play it, don’t like it because it is not the old game but the new game.

Dude, stop that okay?

Soulwatcher

your kidding right…. no one game will ever kill wow. it has to many hard core fans even if some super amazing awesome game come’s along alot of WoW fans wont play it unless it WoW2 or something made by blizzerd

Valkyrie.2678:

There is a game you like so much and you hear that there will be a second game, you automatically start thinking new game will be exactly the old game with better graphics, and then you buy the new game, play it, don’t like it because it is not the old game but the new game.

Dude, stop that okay?

man if I thought that way when i was younger every sequel ever would disappoint me. Zelda: Link to the past man that kitten not Zelda why cant i shoot his sword with full harts any more, Why dose my boomerang have such short range? whats with this spin kitten, why do i have to hold down right bumper to block. what do you mean i have to upgrade to lift this rock???? ETC ETC