Guild Wars 2

Hellkaiser.6025:

What’s with this “they need a carrot on a stick, those poor saps” garbage I’m hearing, that CARROT is a GOAL, the problem with GW2 is it’s lacking enough varied GOALS in the game that you can set yourself. Take a good look at some of the best games, they have inherent optional goals which challenge how you play the game, and reward you with achievements or unlockables by doing so, even the oldest games had high scores to keep you playing and offer a carrot and a stick ironically it was just a measuring stick, it’s part of gaming at it’s core.
Saying that “you don’t need a carrot on a stick” is like saying a game doesn’t need goals set out for you. And yet I’m aware you can set yourself goals, that’s great and all but usually that happens AFTER you’ve completed the ones the game sets for you, how many players don’t enjoy the path to what goals GW2 does have to the point they stop trying to achieve it? honestly? how many?

From where I’m standing quite a lot, and yes if you believe goals aren’t part of gaming, you’re looking for a simulation NOT an MMORPG the difference is key.

Sure, you can have your own self-imposed goal outside what the game sets for you. The game doesn’t limit you with that either.

If you want to grind/farm for something that was intended to be acquired after months-years of hard game play and luck, which basically doesn’t even add any bonus required to cover end game content, i.e. Legendaries, within a few months, go ahead.

If you want to run dungeons 1000 times a day for gold and ascended rings that give you at most a hundred more power than your exotic ones -against end game bosses that have a million life and require half an hour for 20 people to kill- go ahead.

Nobody is forcing anybody not to be a high-standard perfectionist. The option is there if they want it. For a price.

BUT when people start complaining that the devs and the game is increasingly making it more difficult for them to attain their self-imposed carrot on a stick, that’s where the problem lies.

Tell me one good reason why they shouldn’t make it more difficult for you. Some items are called “Legendary” for a reason.