Guild Wars 2

Do you think HOT is ready?

Before HOT was released, I was already under the impressions that HOT isn’t ready for release on the release date because there are so many things aren’t iron out.

After HOT was released, the new maps are nice indeed but it has also confirm my doubt that HOT isn’t ready with all the silly little mistakes like war room require badges of tributes but can only be bought from there, like the master of ruins daily which no longer can be done, etc. Most importantly, big issue like final story being buggy which I assume because they do not have the time to test it, many missing recipes for crafting, missing raid, problematic guild missions, etc.

So, how ready do you think is HOT?

HoT is what they promised. the base for things to come
That is how it was advertised and it is what you get.

Basic mechanics and expansions to the core game, which greatly shift the whole game towards the future developement.

However, by this definition HoT is ready, but it also wont be a completed product, because it was never advertised as such.

This is of course good and bad.
Good for them mostly, as they havent lied.
Good for us, because what we got is good enough to pass and we have the promise of more to come.

Bad, as it will never feel like a true and complete expansion, even though it is called that.
Bad, as they extended their idea of it being the base for the future appearently to everything, even to parts that allready had that base for years (story cough ).

Bugs will alwys be a problem. It is quite different from taking things out of the testing envirmoent into the live game.
You wont really get around that issue.

So was it ready for release? Basicaly yes. However that can be said for dozens of other games.
In compairson with other games, this was really smooth. I personaly had only two bugs, which were quickly resolved.

Yes, it was ready. Am I satisfied? Mostly, but then again, I do compair it with their previous expansions and I expected a bit more meat in general