Guild Wars 2

…then came Guild Wars 2. You could rock up to an “Event Nearby”, participate, grab some rewards, meet some people and be on your way. Didn’t matter if you turned up a little late, sure you may only get silver reward, but it was fair that way.

What happened?!

I don’t know if it’s the mob scaling (HP too low) or perhaps that all other players are in a group and get more credit or something else, but GW2 is in a state that MMOs were in 15 years ago.

Doing EotM/WvW? Not in a group? Good luck getting bags from players/champions. Sometime you will, sometimes you won’t. Party up, problem solved.

Doing Frozen Maw? Blink and you’ve missed the grawl/totem/portals, no reward for you. Did you get an auto-attack in? Gold reward for you! Party up, problem solved.

Now, I’m not against partying up with other players. It is a MMO afterall, and there is plenty of group content out there. What I don’t like is the constant “lfg spam” and sniping/tagging mobs in World content. It didn’t use to be like this, is this something we need in the game?