Guild Wars 2

It’s the implementation of the features that was my issue with the new precursors, the guild halls and the overall design of the reward system in the HoT maps being designed to be part of huge gold grinds that are kittenty and boring and turn the game less into being about exploring a rich open world and more into an eastern MMO grindfest.

To make it even worse, they tell everyone the implementation is part of a design to make it a long term goal that players work towards over time, but then yet conveniently choose the one way that allows player to circumvent the entire long term process if they throw enough real money at their gem-to-gold market.

Now, I’ve spend $60 to support the addition of all these new features intended to be vehicles for delivering content in the future and we’re approaching a half a year since launch with the only real new content being delivered is in the form of raid wings, which are the literal antithesis to development philosophy they sold me the game on in interviews at it’s initial launch.

Fractals, the new legendaries, WvW overhaul, dungeons, living world…all still untouched which just constant vagues promises of something in the future.

Yeah, I got what I paid for, but what I actually got and the actions that followed have really marked the death of what made GW2 special and the heralding of a new era where Anet turns it’s game into a generic boring MMO that hits all the tropes so it can sell out to the lowest common denominator.

ermm……

hate is too strong of a word, is more of a complain and disappointment

when you say they delivered, can you tell me what were delivered? then ask yourself this, is there any delays? then ask yourself another thing, is the the quality acceptable?

lets not talk about not enough contents or features.
lets just talk about what i asked. ask yourself this, how buggy it was for the final story at launch, did the QA did their job properly? scribe missing recipes, do you really expect that kind of quality? is raid content delayed? is squad delayed? is wvw delayed?

again, ask yourselves what actually were delivered and what weren’t, whats the quality of those items.

Kyzonu.7504:

as far as i know, A.net didn’t lie about the expansion… every single feature/content that i saw they announce made it into the game.

in the AngryJoe interview, they said loud and clear that “this is a feature focused expansion instead of a content focused one”, so everyone who bought HOT knew exactly what they were getting.

if you put it on your mind that there would be a thousand hours worth of content, a 50-hours story or 20 different maps, even though they never even hinted at anything like that, then you have nothing to complain about…

I wouldn’t say that I hate HoT, but here my complain.

1) Fractals were butchered. And even if the situation of dungeon were made pre-hot, they were made in preparation for HoT so they are linked together for pretty much everybody. In that sense HoT pretty much cripple all of the instanced content of the game, which was one of the main reason to play for a big portion of the community.

2) A lot of half done stuff were in the expansion. It’s been 5 months since HoT and we still can’t finish Legendary back items, still only have 3 new Legendary weapons (which anet announced would be in the game 3 years ago).

3) The new guild system and guild hall seem super interesting when they talked about it. The reality is that a big portion of the feature of guild were removed from the core game and put behind grind walls in HoT. Screwing up people without HoT and small guild. But it also remove all sense of community in guild by changing the main guild currency from influence to gold. No only they didn’t any new content for guild mission, they changed a working system to a broken system, which still have issues 5 months later. A system in which you could do 1 of each type of mission each week to a system were you can end up doing 3 Treks and no challenge or puzzle a particular week. Additional, they remove all sort of guild buffs and items (like banners) and put them behind the stupidly expansive new crafting profession. The end result is that the vast vast majority of guild don’t use banner anymore because nobody will pay 30-50 gold for an Heroes banner.

4) Elite Specialisation were suppose to be alternative ways to play. Not to bring one the biggest power creep of the history of the game. They are so powerful that they are part of pretty much all meta build in all game mode.

5) On the web page of HoT, WvW is one of the 8 main category of content that the expansion was suppose to work on. But not only did HoT did nothing to improve it, it replaced 3 perfectly functioning and loved map with 3 horrible maps that seem to prove that Anet are completely disconnected from their WvW community.

6) The PvP meta that the new Elite Spec brougth was one of the most horrible one since the start of this game. Some PvP tournament team simple quit over how horribly boring the new unkillable meta was. No fun in 3vs3 fight where nobody die for 3min. At least this was mostly fix with the first balance patch, but it was made after the first PvP season, which a lot of people view as a mistake.

7) GW2 always had constant content update. I remember at the beginning of the game, they launched the Karka invasion, halloween and christmas during the first 3 months of the game. Remember that those two holiday were brand new, not rehash old content at that time. We had 8 months without new content before HoT and in the 5 months since HoT we pretty much had no new content except a small reworking of the Shatterer, raids and PvP league, with no sign when we will see LS3, WvW update or any of those.

I don’t hate HoT, but I was a fan of the game since the beginning and I don’t feel the game is as good now as it was pre-hot. Too much of the content I used to have fun with Dungeon, Fractal and WvW are worst than they used to be. Right now only PvP and Raids are keeping me in game, but only a couple of hours per weeks.