Guild Wars 2

I’ve been pretty vocal about my life on these forums thus far. I have a good job, wonderful soon-to-be-wife and an active social life involving triathlons. However since my early youth videogames have been my primary hobby, and they still are. RPGs and especially MMORPGs are my favourite genre by far. My only gripe with this genre is the amount of time the require to do meaningful play.

What I love most about GW2 is how the game is catered to time limited players. After doing all the chores, my fiancé watches her soap series daily, and in that 20 minute frame I can get my own dailies done. By doing so I can meaningfully progress in this game. Comparing to other MMO games where a 2-3 hour time slot is the minimum requirement for meaningful play, I love how 20 minutes is enough in GW2.

Secondly, the game scales well. Some days I obviously have more time, and doing either explorables or FotM allows me to scale up the rewards depending on free time I have at hand.

I just think you haven’t played many other recent MMOs if you think you can’t progress in tiny chunks from 5 minutes to 30 minutes at a time.

But further, I’d argue that being able to do so is a deterioration of the very genre you love so much. People invest in hobbies knowing they can’t get good at it or advance without time commitment.

So by simply going it and feeling like you can progress in 20 minutes, that means they epic stories have been chopped up into literally, chores. Something to keep you busy, having nothing at all with RPG.

Grats!

Yeah I am in a similar situation and feel for me personally that the laurel system gives me the perfect balance of having something to work towards/log in daily for and yet isn’t too time constrictive to work around real life commitments.

:D

You make your fiance do all the chores? For shame. =P