What did you do?
Not saying this game is going down or anything just telling what I and a lot of other old gw1 players feel. If ya majority think everything is fine and like the game, please enjoy:)
The problem is there are a lot of old Guild Wars 1 players who quite like this game. And while I agree that the game is quite different from Guild Wars 1, there was a point in time, actually quite a fast point in time, when everything was explored and until a new expansion came out, that was pretty much it. All you were left with was making new builds and farming old areas.
I think people are viewing the past through rose-colored glasses.
I also ultimately think Guild Wars 2 will be more successful than Guild Wars 1. I think it will make more money and it will have a bigger fan base.
Not to say it’s perfect, because it’s not, but there are plenty of people who played and enjoyed Guild Wars 1 who also play and enjoy Guild Wars 2.
It was a big hit because it was a) free and b) provided a differing online experience to other mmo’s at the time, many concepts of which have been copied in so many mmo’s today. Probably the biggest of these was the hero/henchies. Being able to solo pretty much everything of consequence in PVE was a massive draw of the time. It’s still impressive today.
However, I’m playing through hard mode atm with my guild. Prophecies itself has a worse story imo than I think people remember. Overall it is more epic, but the missions in Kryta and Maguuma are so long..so dull and so life sucking, the journey itself is a slog. Here is where GW1 loses it vs GW2 for me I’m afraid.
Also, the achievement grind equivalent in GW1 was in many ways worse. Titles needed so much xp, so much grinding out the same content over and over. I’m torn over the ap system here as it promotes a way of playing I can’t decide is healthy for the game or not, but I don;t agree it is worse than its predecessor.
I loved GW1 (eventually) at the time although it took a while to really come together. NF and EOTN really brought a better class of storytelling to the game and this is where the epic should have carried on in my opinion, into GW2. The level cap and no gear grind was also expertly implemented. I doubt we will see a game that does these aspects so well again.
That said, I love GW2 as well. I certainly don’t find it boring and I try not to compare the two games too often. They are and rightfully so, very different games – each with their own strengths. My biggest yearn is, like yours, they really didn’t do enough to bring the lore forward.