Guild Wars 2

Do you think Anet has done enough on the feature pack to keep players going to another MMO from leaving or bring back players to GW2?

While the pack does have some nice things like the wardrobe, I am not sure it will have any effects on players who are bored or who have left. What are your thoughts?

Actually I don’t think Anet has a problem stopping people from going to another MMO. Those that are going were going anyway. Those that weren’t going were staying anyway. I doubt very much this feature pack changed whether anyone was going or staying.

The only thing it might have done is made some people come back that had already left.

There is a new game type for PvP: Team deathmatch, I can see many player (including myself) spending many hours in lobbies like this just testing builds and having a fun time just killing/being killed by other players. I can see this opening up a much more social side to PvP rather than the very hateful playerbase we have in there at the moment.
A new PvP “reward track” is now being opened which allows players to gain most of the crafting materials in the game, new weapon and armour skins, dungeon tokens, champ boxes . ect… this will bring a lot more players to PvP and bringing hours of Profitable gameplay our way (It will also start a multitude of PvP only guilds I can guarantee!)

People who play the market for profit will now have a rapidly changing economy to play around with and experiment with along with the new mystic forge changes that are sure going to open up new areas to profit out of……I know you may not understand the interest in making cash in the bucket load in games but people like me (business, economy major) find it very entertaining to see how much you can get out of ANY economy.

I see many players in the near future changing their looks for hours a day because of the new wardrobe system and spending hours of gameplay trying to collect every piece of armour/weapon in the game. This will also encourage people to work towards legendaries now that they are account bound and not character specific.

WvW roaming parties coming back! With the new LFG system in place we will be able to find new people online that wish to roam and just have fun rather than zerging the map. This opens many more social/recruitment/efficiency opportunities for people that do WvW more often than not or Guilds that are looking to increase their numbers.

The balancing part of this patch along with the new traits also ad hours/days/months to the game because many of us like to just sit there and come up with interesting/unique builds for both PvP and WvW. I plan to spend many hours just swapping out traits and weapons now because the new build possibilities are immensely large.

Hope this answers your question or at least part of it.
-Lord Boots

Nage.1520:

Actually I don’t think Anet has a problem stopping people from going to another MMO. Those that are going were going anyway. Those that weren’t going were staying anyway. I doubt very much this feature pack changed whether anyone was going or staying.

The only thing it might have done is made some people come back that had already left.

Very much this. Not every game can satisfy every player. Those that are leaving probably don’t like what GW2 is offering which is fine. Those that like raids won’t like GW2 very much, those that like trinity ditto etc. Rather ANet focus on making GW2 a better GW2 than making GW2 a very bland same-y MMO.

I’m back for the feature pack. I appreciate this is a small sample size.