Guild Wars 2

Here’s a big GW2 info post on MMO Champion.

Here’s a blog post someone wrote months before the game released about GW’s “endgame”.

Within those two posts, you’ll see every major aspect of the game people are complaining about, things any informed consumer has known about for a long time that the uninformed masses coming into this game expecting another WoW clone are shocked to discover; no holy trinity, the game’s content itself is the end-game, limited skill bar, active combat, extremely difficult dungeons, the list goes on.

The bottom line is, the only way you could be “surprised” to find out that this game is the way it is, is if you managed to completely ignore everything ArenaNet has been saying about it for the past three years. And you have nobody to blame for that but yourselves.

I’ll close with a positive note: Kudos to ArenaNet for giving us the game that they’ve been saying they were going to give us.