Guild Wars 2

Vayne.8563:

Neural.1824:

nexxe.7081:

Alexander.9810:

• The fact that you have not committed to a release date for HoT and still hype it up while it’s in early beta shows that you guys do not have the confidence to set a date, do not have enough staff to have that confidence, and will probably release the expansion “unfinished,” which might be a subjective word to you, but, again, FFXIV Heavensward will be a “finished” product. They’ve already gone into detail about what you’ll be getting, a lot more than your cute little “we’re nowhere done yet, even though it’s been 3 years to work on an expansion, but here’s where we think we are and where we think we’re going.”

This is the only part i agree with, but the rest of your post is biased, or unworthy of replying to.

It’s really astonishing that Anet hyped an expansion, with nothing else to do in between.

They get everyone hyped, with no release date in sight. Do they really think people are going to wait? The hype for HoT is dead now. It might be alive within the community, but i’m talking about outside of it. They should have kept interest in the game with upcoming content updates after the HoT announcement, but they failed at that. it’s going to be almost 6 months since the announcement, with nothing to look forward to. GW2 is so boring right now.

I think this ties in with his commentary about Anet being short staffed. Everyone is, apparently, working on HoT right now, so everything else is virtually ignored unless it’s a raging fire. Maybe if NCSoft wasn’t siphoning off all the profit to appease Nexon there could be more devs.

To appease Nexon. You’re apparently not following this game at all, are you? Anet would do NOTHING to appease Nexon. They’ve never done anything TO appease Nexon. Nexon doesn’t like how the game is run and wants changes and Anet refused to make those changes.

A bit more reality and a bit less conspiracy theory is needed on this forum.

Read more carefully. I said it was NCSoft attempting to placate Nexon. All that is flowing down hill. Arenanet is tethered to NCSoft, and by one way or another, they are under pressure to meet numbers. This applies some restrictions to their choices.

Reality: Nexon has almost 15% share of NCSoft

That said, I think NCSoft and Nexon are indistinguishable from one another. Neither make anywhere close to quality games.

The hyperbole in OP’s post is through the roof. Now I’m not saying that the things he points out are problems Arenanet shouldn’t improve upon, but these are peanuts compared to some other MMOs on the market with much more glaring issues.

Any game is going to have its PvP community be somewhat toxic (which I personally haven’t really found in this game). GW2 doesn’t need the trinity for its PvP to work, you’re just looking at it from your own personal tastes without considering how it makes more sense for what the game is. Either way, specializations are moving classes towards more defined roles.

Yeah, GW2 has its share of problems, like any MMO. Updates have slowed, PvP hasn’t changed much. But considering what we’ve gotten for the price of the base game (which was as low as $10 for some), and considering how good HoT looks, I’m satisfied with GW2.

Honestly you should just go back to FF14 (which btw, has one of the largest gaming studios out there backing it) if you dislike the game this much.