Here’s the deal. I’ve pre-ordered GW2 two days before its launch and ever since, I’ve kept an eye on Anet’s updates on Facebook, so on and so forth.
Now that the forums are up the community has been able to share their thoughts with ease, so I thought I’d share mine.
The main thing I want to talk about is the complaints. I know this game is not perfect and no game is. However, there are some weird complains out there that just blow my mind.
First of all, Anet has not false advertised this game. If you think the game should’ve been any different then you simply have no idea how an MMO works. In fact, I was expecting worse and I still paid money for the game.
Second of all, if you thought GW2 will be the kind of game where you can spend hundreds of hours doing virtually nothing but still being compelled to do whatever you’re doing, then that’s your own fault. I’ve seen people complaining about the lack of end-game content and it hurts my brain on so many levels to hear that. Was it not obvious that what you get at level 1-40 is roughly the same thing you’ll get at end game? Was it too hard to understand that GW2 is in fact trying to keep the entire world alive and meaningful (lvl scaling) and is focusing more on the journey and not the destination? And was it hard to understand that like in GW fashion, the endgame content eventually comes down to PvP?
But you see, the problem is not the game. The problem is you. You’ve been able to spend enough time during the past few weeks in order to hit level 80 and max-out crafting, and now you’re bored. We get that. Well, how about you do something else for a change, besides playing one game the whole day every day? This is not WoW, and the only reason WoW will keep you entertained even when you get bored of Blizzard’s dumbed down raids is because it has idiotic content like trains and paper zeppelins. That’s all there is to it, even if you don’t realize it.
However, when you hit the forums and rant about the fact that GW2 is not the type of game that can replace your real life, could you be more considerate to those who have jobs and friends and a social life, and are actually enjoying playing GW2 as it is simply because it delivers a fun leveling experience, exploration worthy of a single player RPG, quick-to-join PvP and no drama / bull***?
It’s a fun game, and if you can’t see that then it’s your own fault for burning it out. Go play something else for a change, the game is free for god’s sake and you don’t need to worry about a subscription. You can come back to it whenever you want. I for one am playing only an hour a day because I also like to play a SC2 match when I get home, and I’m also eagerly waiting for Borderlands 2 to hit the EU market. But you know what? I’m always logging into GW2 as well because it’s fun, and in fact the only thing keeping me from not spending more time in GW2 than I already do is because the game runs like crap on a dual-core CPU. So until I’ll buy a new machine within the next couple of months, my eyes hurt to get into 7 FPS boss events so I can’t play for more than an hour without feeling like I’m ruining my own experience.
The bottom line is, if you’re bored of the game, no problem. Play another one for a while. You don’t need to be “loyal” to one single game at a time. But keep in mind that it’s not Anet’s problem that GW2 is not the MMO that can ruin your social life. It’s your own problem if you decide to trash-talk an MMO that does not deliver what YOU want, despite the fact that Anet explained everything pretty clearly so the answers were out there, and some of us knew exactly what to expect from the very start.
