Guild Wars 2

I mean it’s been in the nearly dead forum status for a long while. GW GURU was the best and most populated forum of GW for a long while.

the only official forum GW had was for support only

There didn’t used to be an official forum. It died when the official forum started up. Naturally, people started posting here when this became available.

GWGuru was great because it got a solid population before there was an official forum, a sub-reddit, or really much of a wiki (GuildWiki had a lot of overloap with guru people). In contrast, GW2 had a wiki and a solid reddit base before the game came out.

Plus, it wasn’t very useful for certain types of discussions — the conversation would always escalate quickly when it came to builds, balance, and “what has ANet done for us recently”. (It was great, of course, for price checks and for people getting specific help.)

Are we talking GWGuru or GW2Guru?

I’d guess GW2Guru was impacted by the official forums, even though many said they would never visit the official forums.

I’d guess GWGuru isn’t visited much because of the population of the game.

Like others said there wasn’t really an official forums for gw1

As others have mentioned, once the official forums come online, the community moved here.
There is, however, the fact that GW2guru turned REALLY toxic shortly after the game launched. It quickly became where everyone that disliked anything, and sometimes seemingly everything, about GW2 went to go on long winded rants about the game. And God help you if you posted anything positive about gw2 or anet there.

The Greyhawk.9107:

As others have mentioned, once the official forums come online, the community moved here.
There is, however, the fact that GW2guru turned REALLY toxic shortly after the game launched. It quickly became where everyone that disliked anything, and sometimes seemingly everything, about GW2 went to go on long winded rants about the game. And God help you if you posted anything positive about gw2 or anet there.

Sounds awfully familiar…

Ayrilana.1396:

The Greyhawk.9107:

As others have mentioned, once the official forums come online, the community moved here.
There is, however, the fact that GW2guru turned REALLY toxic shortly after the game launched. It quickly became where everyone that disliked anything, and sometimes seemingly everything, about GW2 went to go on long winded rants about the game. And God help you if you posted anything positive about gw2 or anet there.

Sounds awfully familiar…

Trust me, what you see here is nothing in comparison, irregardless of Anet’s tendency to delete threads they don’t like.

Those in charge of GW Guru were responsible for thousands of players losing their GW1 accounts.

They were corrupt. They stole credentials from their users and attempted to use them wherever they could to gain access to e-mail, or gw1 accounts.

They did not allow fun in any way shape or form.

I was banned from the site for making my password “gurublows.”

How on earth could someone know that unless they were looking through everyone’s login credentials?

Forget that.

I was not about to allow them to continue their tyranny for Gw2.

I used to hang out on the guru.
Under the same user name too. Think my avatar was an old martial arts master.
Oh, and I hung out on gwonline. Wonder how that site is doing.

I used to go there during GW1, but combination of official forum, reddit and detailed wikipedia sort of killed it (i think?)

I know I’ve been back there a few times in the last few years, but when you see months/year old posts on the front page you know it’s derelict.

Dead like the game.

Because terrible F2P games usually kill any chance at 3rd party fansites. People come in, go “THIS ROCKS!”, then hit cap, then see the F2P system, complain on the forums, and then go play something else. Its the cycle of things. Tis why the leveling up experience is less grindy, and the post cap game is all about the grind, unless you spend thousands of dollars on gems, or millions of hours. Your choice.

People on GW2Guru had immense hopes for the game, but after seeing what was advertised as little more than trivial, they all moved on.

slamfunction.7462:

Because terrible F2P games usually kill any chance at 3rd party fansites. People come in, go “THIS ROCKS!”, then hit cap, then see the F2P system, complain on the forums, and then go play something else. Its the cycle of things. Tis why the leveling up experience is less grindy, and the post cap game is all about the grind, unless you spend thousands of dollars on gems, or millions of hours. Your choice.

People on GW2Guru had immense hopes for the game, but after seeing what was advertised as little more than trivial, they all moved on.

Guild Wars 2 was buy to play back then. Not free to play

guru mods banned and infracted any posts that didnt fit with their views and or agenda, on the GW1 guru page they either allowed or caused many accounts to be hacked and had multiple instances of malware in the pages and links on the site

Defiling Treekiller.1632:

guru mods banned and infracted any posts that didnt fit with their views and or agenda

As someone above said, albeit about some different aspect of that forum, sounds familiar …

Just a flesh wound.3589:

slamfunction.7462:

Because terrible F2P games usually kill any chance at 3rd party fansites. People come in, go “THIS ROCKS!”, then hit cap, then see the F2P system, complain on the forums, and then go play something else. Its the cycle of things. Tis why the leveling up experience is less grindy, and the post cap game is all about the grind, unless you spend thousands of dollars on gems, or millions of hours. Your choice.

People on GW2Guru had immense hopes for the game, but after seeing what was advertised as little more than trivial, they all moved on.

Guild Wars 2 was buy to play back then. Not free to play

After a few weeks and the game is in the ‘bargain bin’ then there’s no real difference between B2P and F2P in the context you’re trying to argue.

After being a member since beta, I left GW2Guru a couple of years ago because of capricious and unpredictable moderation.

The first time I received an infraction (which is something that almost never happens to me anywhere), it was explained as literally a difference of opinion over what the infracting mod thought I should have posted. No rules were cited, and I couldn’t find anything in the Forum Rules & Guidelines justifying it, but I shrugged it off as an anomaly.

When it happened again a few days later, I was again unable to understand what rule I had broken, or how I could even begin to know how to avoid being infracted again, so with a potential account ban seemingly inevitable if the pattern persisted, I decided to simplify the process by scrambling my password and never going back.

Worked great. No problems since.

Majic.4801:

After being a member since beta, I left GW2Guru a couple of years ago because of capricious and unpredictable moderation.

This pretty much sums up why Guru died, it went from a place you could post your views to a place where you can only post what Anet deem is acceptable while having no direct input, there Mods became way over zealous, this is what finished them off.

These forums in the early days where heavily moderated by over zealous mods also, but it seems to have died down here, and you can give input be it bad aslong as its somewhat constructive,

But in saying that given the way these forums are used, I would say that Reddit is the official communication platform now.

Kerin.9125:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

slamfunction.7462:

Because terrible F2P games usually kill any chance at 3rd party fansites. People come in, go “THIS ROCKS!”, then hit cap, then see the F2P system, complain on the forums, and then go play something else. Its the cycle of things. Tis why the leveling up experience is less grindy, and the post cap game is all about the grind, unless you spend thousands of dollars on gems, or millions of hours. Your choice.

People on GW2Guru had immense hopes for the game, but after seeing what was advertised as little more than trivial, they all moved on.

Guild Wars 2 was buy to play back then. Not free to play

After a few weeks and the game is in the ‘bargain bin’ then there’s no real difference between B2P and F2P in the context you’re trying to argue.

Bargain bin in a few weeks? Not the prices I was seeing. Not within the first 2-3 months that are under discussion here. I remember because I used to post on that forum back then and remember how it got negative and so fast.

It was b2p, not f2p at the time.

Defiling Treekiller.1632:

guru mods banned and infracted any posts that didnt fit with their views and or agenda, on the GW1 guru page they either allowed or caused many accounts to be hacked and had multiple instances of malware in the pages and links on the site

Can confirm. I got perma-banned from GW2Guru for arguing with super-moderator over ridiculously insane infractions .

I skipped GWG as soon as they moved to Curse and required a new account for a whole lot of rubbish I didn’t want. Not entirely surprised to learn they’d been storing passwords in plain text. (That’s why you don’t use your account ID or password on third-party sites…)

anet killed guru, so yea.