Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to say that so far most of the announced feature pack updates do look very good. Today they also announced that guilds will finally see when guild-members where last online. Hopefully ‘last represented’ will follow soon just as better rights tools.

I do have a little bid mixed feelings because so far all the positive changes that I have seen are the type of things many people including me expected to be there at release or at least being implemented during the first year.

Also the cash-shop focus (what I complain so much about) is still very much visible but that will likely not change until Anet would decide to go for an expansions-based model in stead of cash-shop model.

By now I had expected all those things being there for a long time and having had an expansion with a lot of new content. But that was based on the idea that GW2 would a a true B2P model that worked mainly with expansions to generate income.

So that are the mixed feelings.

However the changes by itself are very positive so I wanted to have said that.

Devata.6589:

Also the cash-shop focus (what I complain so much about) is still very much visible but that will likely not change until Anet would decide to go for an expansions-based model in stead of cash-shop model.

This game is definitely not cash-shop focused. 90% of the items offered grant cosmetic appeal or convenience only. The only way to “buy power” is through boosts or Gem > Gold.

Check out Nexon games sometimes. Their cash shop includes tons of items that would be comparable to +9 Sword 300 Power 300 Precision 10% crit 300 Toughness 300 Vitality 300 Condition Damage : $59.99

That is a cash shop focus.

It is argueable an expansion would work if it got releaed quickly because alot of GW2’s mechancis are purely experiemntal and it takes time to see the actual good and bad stuffs regarding them.

ArenaNet is starting with actual updates now and tbh thinking with the idelogy ‘’this should have been there before’’ is a bit discouraging as it is a bit, meh. WoW took a long time before it started to get stable and if GW2 actually follows that path, seeking for that stable state, it would hopefully do amazing in the future.

Tbh I don’t have any doubt regarding ArenaNet’s capability of releasing top notch content. I am more worried that they decide on another path that generates more money, well, sacraficing the quality part. Anet seem to be a high quality content company if they want to and the worrysome thing if they + NcSoft decide on another path for the game.

Otherwise, I am confident things will go to the better, if as stated, Anet’s goal was from the start to experiment and do actual improvments, not doing dodgy strategies for profit.

So much negativity on the forums so I’ll just leave this post here -

Love the wardrobe and dye changes. Eager to see what else is in the rest. QoL upgrades that also serve to drive cash-shop sales are win-wins in my book. Much better than gamble boxes to get sales imo.

I am really disappointed by what I’ve seen revealed thus far. These changes seem to be superficial more than anything. Everything they’ve revealed could have easily been added in a regular monthly, or bi-weekly update. I was really hoping this update was going to have additions and expansion to the already existing core gameplay, not a wardrobe for my skins. There is nothing in this update that will add to or improve the already existing gameplay. Granted I haven’t yet seen what the other features are, but I really doubt that they are anything significant. I am really starting to lose hope for this game… Arenanet you have a great foundation and concept with Guild Wars 2, please start building on it.

Lightyears.8624:

Devata.6589:

Also the cash-shop focus (what I complain so much about) is still very much visible but that will likely not change until Anet would decide to go for an expansions-based model in stead of cash-shop model.

This game is definitely not cash-shop focused. 90% of the items offered grant cosmetic appeal or convenience only. The only way to “buy power” is through boosts or Gem > Gold.

Check out Nexon games sometimes. Their cash shop includes tons of items that would be comparable to +9 Sword 300 Power 300 Precision 10% crit 300 Toughness 300 Vitality 300 Condition Damage : $59.99

That is a cash shop focus.

Cash-shop focus meaning ArenaNet generates is main income with the cash-shop in stead of for example box sales and expansions. Want to discuss more about that then I have another thread about that: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/A-focus-on-micro-transactions/first this thread has another subject.

Little detail. The person responsible for many of those things at Nexon is now an ArenaNet employee responsible for these things in GW2.

Ikorolch.8421:

I am really disappointed by what I’ve seen revealed thus far. These changes seem to be superficial more than anything. Everything they’ve revealed could have easily been added in a regular monthly, or bi-weekly update. I was really hoping this update was going to have additions and expansion to the already existing core gameplay, not a wardrobe for my skins. There is nothing in this update that will add to or improve the already existing gameplay. Granted I haven’t yet seen what the other features are, but I really doubt that they are anything significant. I am really starting to lose hope for this game… Arenanet you have a great foundation and concept with Guild Wars 2, please start building on it.

Well you are then looking at it from a content viewpoint. I agree there, like I said I expected these sort of features at release or at least being implemented during the first year. I also would have expected an expansion by now and in that expansion I would have expected the type of content you are talking about. So I am missing the same.

However, the features by itself, while to late are good (ignoring the cash-shop focus). It are many of the things people did want. So looking at that it is good. To late but good.

Ikorolch.8421:

I am really disappointed by what I’ve seen revealed thus far. These changes seem to be superficial more than anything. Everything they’ve revealed could have easily been added in a regular monthly, or bi-weekly update. I was really hoping this update was going to have additions and expansion to the already existing core gameplay, not a wardrobe for my skins. There is nothing in this update that will add to or improve the already existing gameplay. Granted I haven’t yet seen what the other features are, but I really doubt that they are anything significant. I am really starting to lose hope for this game… Arenanet you have a great foundation and concept with Guild Wars 2, please start building on it.

One would guess that they would leave the juiciest stuff last?

I for one am hopeful, but then again I’m already happy with a lot of the stuff they’ve shown so far. It can only get better for me from hereon.

Amazingly, ArenaNet specifically said this would be a Features update, rather than a Content update. And, also stated they wanted to separate the two now.

I can’t imagine why one would expect content, when they stated there would not be any.

I would say this…..

My expectations of this game are so low at this point that the “feature” patch actually looks amazing even though it has absolutely no content and most of the items included in it are things that should have been done last year.