said someone long ago: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/.
And I did, until HoT. I enjoyed ‘running’ a few dungeons via the LFG tool with my condi guardian, or my thief. The ‘meta’ did matter, I did not want to be a handicap for my team so I adjusted accordingly: switching skills as the fight demanded, using food, oils and exotic gear. I had fun.
I’m not the most skilled player and I don’t have much play time; my wow raiding days are way behind me. I am done min-maxing gear and practicing rotations at the practice dummies in Ogrimmar for a marginal DPS increase. Don’t get me wrong I liked that, at that time; switching a few gems and tweaking my skill rotation and then killing a hard raid boss was great. It was another time, another game.
But times have changed, real life got more serious and complicated, discretionary time shrunk. GW2 was an okay pass-time, even with all the… drama(?) and the imbalances of the past (remember necros & the cake that was decorated with candy bugs and sent to AN?).
Now, I think the game is in a terrible state, IMO; the introduction of the raids combined with metabattle.com, the lack of damage meters, tens of pages of frustrated posts on reddit and here about bugs and inbalances between professions, minimal (if any) feedback from AN created/mutated a GW2 community that was… different in the past: more relaxed, more tolerating, to a more bitter one. Many threads and pots feel acid, sarcastic and sad.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I live in a far away place called Romania. I NEED sarcasm in my daily life because things are… ‘complicated’ here. It’s sad to see it so much on the forums and in-game (guild and LFG always looking for full asc condi wars and so on) and if you play the game without many friends and a strong guild you know what I mean. If you don’t then my view may seam… alien and wrong.
For the last ten years I’ve worked in the software industry, I’m well-accustomed to bugs and features, and I don’t expect too much from a company that was unable/unwilling to create/buy/summon a Search option on it’s web-site for the last 3 years, but I expect more from you guys.
TL;DR:
@You
I remember many posts on reddit: ‘best community? that would be GW2 for sure!’ and indeed it was. Come on, bring it back, relax a bit, be more tolerant, tunnel vision is always bad.
@AN
Please don’t try to turn this into WoW or some other game that promotes elitism.