Guild Wars 2

I keep seeing people posting how this game is a trailblazer and I have to point out some facts for them because this isn’t anything new we’re seeing here.

Recently it was revealed the newest addition to the masteries line-up to be the dragon hunter. Now what I found most troubling about it wasn’t what it was called it was that once again we’re seeing a trend that already exists in mmo game development regarding a type of combat. Crowd Control. CC has been nerfed since Nov 2012 in this game and it’s directly affected many of the classes that relied on CC for years now, yet instead of fixing one of the most major problems with combat in the game they turned it into a “feature” of the expansion.

Several games out there including the elephant in the room have used this method to sell their expansions, this is nothing new. It’s really a bad development move too if they decide not to make any other changes to the combat prior to the expansion releasing because combat is extremely important in an mmo and to take something that shouldn’t have been nerfed in PVE and put it in as a new “feature” when there is plenty of room to fix what’s already been broken is not a very honest thing to do.

As always I’ll be watching closely.

tigirius.9014:

I keep seeing people posting how this game is a trailblazer and I have to point out some facts for them because this isn’t anything new we’re seeing here.

Recently it was revealed the newest addition to the masteries line-up to be the dragon hunter. Now what I found most troubling about it wasn’t what it was called it was that once again we’re seeing a trend that already exists in mmo game development regarding a type of combat. Crowd Control. CC has been nerfed since Nov 2012 in this game and it’s directly affected many of the classes that relied on CC for years now, yet instead of fixing one of the most major problems with combat in the game they turned it into a “feature” of the expansion.

Several games out there including the elephant in the room have used this method to sell their expansions, this is nothing new. It’s really a bad development move too if they decide not to make any other changes to the combat prior to the expansion releasing because combat is extremely important in an mmo and to take something that shouldn’t have been nerfed in PVE and put it in as a new “feature” when there is plenty of room to fix what’s already been broken is not a very honest thing to do.

As always I’ll be watching closely.

Ummm, they said they’re making changes to CC and introducing a lot of other features prior to the expansion…apparently you’re not watching closely enough. If it’s not in the Heart of the Maguuma or Elite Specializations it’s most likely not tied to the expansion. Not sure about the core masteries though…

OP you do realize that claiming there is nothing new out there, and that everything that can be done, has been done before, is not anything new and has been stated repeatedly before right?

By elephant in the room, can we presume you mean Everquest? The MMO thay WoW copied? Cause we all know every Johnny Come Lately gives WoW credit for everything they stole from EQ.

Though I did notice WoW has some new implementations comming in thay they are stealing from GW2.