1. There are a lot of people who keep comparing this game to GW1, which I think is just plain dumb. I played Prophecies from day 1 before it was even call prophecies and even though I had IMMENSE fun leveling, after the story quest was over there was nothing to do but replay the SAME zones to get completion and to do FoW/Underworld runs which cost 1 plat per team(at the time I would estimate 1 plat = GW2 100gold) and for underworld required that a monk come with a specific build or the team would be 1 shotted by ANYTHING, which would then kick everyone out and would require another 1 plat to reenter. PVP was strictly stupidly broken builds. Waypoints were free because the alternative would be to get a team to fight back to where you wanted to go, in some cases team wipe = start all over.
GW2 cannot stay and GW1 because its a totally different game, not like most generic console game(like HALO, which is me just hating) where you can LITERALLY just keep adding .2 to the original(HALO 1, HALO 1.2, HALO1.4 etc).
GW1 is still up and totally available for people who like dual professions/theory crafting 1.1million skills/Heroes(which i think personally TOTALLY changed the game from being multiplayer) so please stop requesting a GW1.5 out of GW2, its not, will never be, and thank heavens for that.
2. Legendaries…this is an easy one
Its too hard/too grindy/RNG sucks/Mats too expensive…GOOOOOD!! that just means if I eventually get it, you still wont have one. Look on the up side at least this grind isn’t required for you to move on to ‘the new raid that will make 3 months of grinding this raid gear useless’. THE END. DO NOT DISCUSS
3. Having a problem about how the game is then move on, its your own fault for buying into the ‘hype’ and not looking on the 1 million videos and articles that were available long before the game was available for prepurchase
FYI Arenanet NEVER said there would be no grind, what they said is there would be no grind that was necessary to progress, which i still see holds true
4. BUGS will always be apart of game development whether its 2004 or 2012, especially when creating something NEW. If this is a problem then treat games like how I’m sure most people treat other form of software, wait awhile for the developer of whatever software to work out all the kinks before purchasing. Outside of that, EXPECT BUGS!!!
5. YES Arenanet did something NEW. A mmo where events lead into other events and consequences are apart of the levelling experience, where each event, no matter how small has a story behind it. Where theres no such thing as quest hubs, or quest logs, or grey quests(how i HATED this), or mounting up and cursing when something 20 levels below you manges to dismount you(hated this in RIFT), or dungeons have 1 and only 1 path that can only be completed once per day, or raids that become the bane of ones existence once its on farm and can only be completed once per week which made the week of gaming that game only 2hrs, or buying a game only to have it totally and utterly change on me once I hit level cap(ENDGAME is just a feature to keep people playing/paying)
Im not saying games that are like that are bad, just saying it no longer interest me and im sure many like me.
If in any other game you reached max level and are FULLY geared what else is there to do other than to sit be quiet and hand over your money and WAIT? This Happened to people within two months in my guild in rift when I was in maximation. The sole purpose was to just go to raid once per week to get other people geared. So how I see it, at least there are still many goals to work towards no matter how slow and long it might take or simply stop playing until some new content has been added