Remember when they added greens to GW1?
Greens had the same stats as maxed golds.
Except greens didn’t have higher stats. Crybabies wanted higher stats and back then a.net did the right thing and left the stat cap as it was.
Also the sky wasn’t falling back then. No idea where you got that from. Evidently you weren’t there.
If I can’t play Guild Wars 2 at work, I won’t work in Guild Wars 2 either.
Delayed content is eventually good. Rushed content is eternally bad. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
Delayed content is eventually good. Rushed content is eternally bad. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
As the others said. And there was no blogpost saying “Yes, they ARE indeed better than your old items (at least by a little) and I hope you’re as excited by that as I am!!!!”
Not only that, but when Greens were introduced they added a specific way for a player to get a max stat item with a specific set of bonuses, whereas before that you had to just hope that you got lucky and got a weapon with 1) Max damage, 2) Max bonus stats, that 3) Had the right combination of upgrades that you wanted.
And every character got a free Green with the stats of their choosing when they completed a campaign.
They offered no mechanical advantage over weapons that were already in the game.
They reduced the amount of grind required to find a weapon with a specific set of stats.
And nobody complained about them adding Greens in the first place.