Personally, I’m just not playing GW2. I actually roll a new character in GW1, Presearing. To my surprise I actually have been having far more fun, despite already having over 3,300 hours logged in GW1.
Good for you. Why are you still here then…? Not trying to be offensive (much..).
To let ANet know they’re making a series of dire mistakes, in the hopes they will tomorrow have a meeting, try to recover from their hangovers and tell one another, “Oh man… we messed up guys. We messed up bad.” And then fondly remember GW1, and drastically remodel GW2 to be less terrible.
While i understand your point of view, problem is that opinion is only other half of the whole.
So which one they should listen then? Others say they want sense of progression, that usually means gear, title or achievements. All of them are grind in the end.
Then others say they don’t want to grind stuff.
I think people asking for gear progression are just ignorant players from other MMOs that don’t know any better, and aren’t really missing the treadmill. They’re instead missing that sense of persistent progression and identification with their avatar, and they falsely related that to the gear. I agree the game is missing that (sense of continued progress). But caving in to WoW players that aren’t trained as designers to begin with is only going to turn the game into a standard MMO, not the manifesto driven game it was advertised as being.
ANet usually isn’t prone to knee-jerk reactions, so that tells me that either this was an especially stupid move on their part (and they’ve attempted several of those already – remember as far back as energy potions during alphas?) or… or, it was something they’ve been planning for months, and probably since release. And the backlash was something they never expected because they failed to recognize that to players not in the know, this would not be a “finally, the tier they couldn’t add right away” moment, but instead a complete betrayal of the core tenets of their design philosophy. Considering the amount of content behind this patch, I am almost certain this is something they had planned on from the start, player complaints or not. So on the bright side, they aren’t imbeciles. They’re just misguided.
