Guild Wars 2

Dee Jay.2460:

I don’t think Guild Wars 2 has any coherent design direction whatsoever.

Decisions are made ad hoc, with no greater concept or vision to follow, with no thought or consideration for a greater plan.

They created what was originally a good MMO with an interesting twist and turned it into…..something with no concept. Guild Wars 2 “endgame” is essentially a gold farming contest. The richest players are those who watch trading post data all the time and manipulate markets to everyone’s disdain, not players actually playing the game. sPvP is shallow and while fun at it’s core, horribly balanced and unfun in practice. And then there’s Ascended gear, something NOBODY asked for and NOBODY wanted and yet still came despite it conflicting with ANets original manifesto.

Guild Wars 2 is a mess of a game, quite frankly. It’s like all the clever people who actually knew what the hell they were doing left the game and moved on to newer projects as soon as it went live.

I agree with some of this (especially about spvp lol, its so unbalanced). And you’re right about the goldgrind fest. The rich people never have to worry about making gold again because they can use the TP to make sure that they almost never run out, because their rich enough to invest and flip items for huge profits.

That being said, I still find the game fun, and while I really really want to finish a legendary, I’m going to try to make the rest of the kittenty gold farm portion of it as fun as I can.

I mostly wish we had a better idea of the direction this game is going in, since there really hasn’t been much since the wardrobe quality of life update. And its frustrating when so much isn’t really known.

nearlight.3064:

I mostly wish we had a better idea of the direction this game is going in, since there really hasn’t been much since the wardrobe quality of life update. And its frustrating when so much isn’t really known.