Guild Wars 2

When they announced that the Hearth of Thorns will be the first expansion to GW2 I was a little worried. But as soon as Mike O’Brien started talking my fears were washed away, here is why.

I played a lot of MMORPGs before GW2 and the one thing that always turned me down as much as I liked it, was the EXPANSION. But why you may ask? Expansions are supposed to be good, right? They bring new life to the game, new thrills, etc.

Well they do, but the ONE thing that always turned me down was the endless grind. You put all that effort into leveling your character, gathering gear and then once you think you are done, they hit us with new expansion. Then we have to start all over again. New lvl cap, new gear and so on and so forth. When Mike O’Brien said that the lvl cap will be intact and the existing best gear will still be the best, I stood up in my chair and clapped from joy.

Well done Anet, WELL DONE INDEED! Finally I can continue to play my favorite game even after the expansion comes out! GOODBYE to endless grinding, welcome new fresh ideas!!!

Anet, other companies need to start learning by your example, you are different, but different in a good way. I can not thank you enough that someone like you came along to the gaming industry. Gaming industry needs a fresh start! My thanks will not stay only on words in this post I will continue to support you with my money as I was before.

Thank you and I hope you will continue to go in this path.

Yea it’s cool, but we’ll see if the rest of the content will be any good.

I’m excited that legendaries will still be top, because I’m still trying to get one! It would be disheartening to have done all that work, finally get a legendary, and it be not the best gear anymore.

Omnia Wind.2108:

I’m excited that legendaries will still be top, because I’m still trying to get one! It would be disheartening to have done all that work, finally get a legendary, and it be not the best gear anymore.

Exactly! Someone that speaks my language =)

Don’t get me wrong, this is not about if I like what we get or not. For now I am fairly neutral.

But just at looking at the features this seems to be a pretty standard MMO expansion:

- New region(s): check
- New class: check
- Vertical progression system: check (like in AoC and soon in ESO too)
- Sub classes: check
- New battleground (WvW): check
- New pvp map/mode: check
- Guild housing: check

There is absolutely nothing new or fresh with those features. They are pretty much copy and paste as far as it looks right now.

Arguing that there won’t be a new tier of loot doesn’t make this all new and exciting, I see it more like one less feature. Other games have avoided to raise the level cap before (AoC, FF etc.).

Just saying. While the new stuff looks good, it is the most traditional bunch of expansion features anyone could come up with.

^ It’s all about the details.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Don’t get me wrong, this is not about if I like what we get or not. For now I am fairly neutral.

But just at looking at the features this seems to be a pretty standard MMO expansion:

- New region(s): check
- New class: check
- Vertical progression system: check (like in AoC and soon in ESO too)
- Sub classes: check
- New battleground (WvW): check
- New pvp map/mode: check
- Guild housing: check

There is absolutely nothing new or fresh with those features. They are pretty much copy and paste as far as it looks right now.

Arguing that there won’t be a new tier of loot doesn’t make this all new and exciting, I see it more like one less feature. Other games have avoided to raise the level cap before (AoC, FF etc.).

Just saying. While the new stuff looks good, it is the most traditional bunch of expansion features anyone could come up with.

Lol yea for expansions is all about new stuff so…

- New stuff: Check.

The level cap thing, I am so happy that it wasn’t implemented that I almost screamed of joy when I read it… But before that I read something in the lines ‘Advance beyond level 80’ and I realy fealt like I was going to throw my PC in a bonfire. But all is well I just missunderstood. So fresh or not, it is not many games that havent rised level cap on an expansion so this is rather fresh to me atleast.

Yea that all stands but the thing is that they can focus on improving our gameplay experience instead of just throwing at us new lvl caps and new gear that we need to collect.

I’m just happy that my hard progression towards some items and gear will NOT go to waste every time new expansion comes along, that’s all.

Now they can spend their time on important things like gameplay experience and character progression instead of wasting time on inventing new gear and skills that comes with new lvls.

That’s why I welcomed their idea, that’s why I though of it as a fresh idea, that’s why I’ll keep playing Guild Wars 2 AND that’s why they will get my money!