Guild Wars 2

For making such an amazing game as Heart of Thorns.
Initially I was irritated with the CTD issue and the timing of the bat wings/glider release [well before the beginning of the month when I could afford to get it], but after the CTD issue was fixed with the 64 bit beta client, and after finally leveling my weaponsmithing to 500 and getting my first ascended greatsword, and after getting the bat wings/glider thanks to the generosity of a follower on Twitter, I must say that this is by far one of my favorite games, and comes close to Skyrim. After my hellish experience with Warlords of Draenor in WoW, I thank you for providing an amazing expansion that is well worth the $100 I spent on it. The lack of a monthly fee and the ability to glide around and have such awesome graphics makes it worth so much more than my active WoW sub, and makes it definitely worth the money I spent. So I just wanted to thank you. Thank you for taking the pro-customer direction than one of my former favorite games chose not to take. And feel free to ignore the jerks who sit there and say that HoT is crap. They’re probably a bunch of trolls from the WoW forums who think WoD was the best xpac ever, that adding back flying was a mistake, and that taking away the ability to use two handed weapons from frost death knights and generally waging war on their customers’ freedom of choice is a great idea. Obviously there are customer concerns that you shouldn’t ignore, esp for those still having trouble with CTD issues, but I just want to say that you are worlds ahead of Actiblizz and their masochistic playerbase, so don’t feel like you have to cater to those adult children in any way, shape, or form. Many who play this game do so to escape the CoD-level and Tumblr-level of intelligence, attitude, and maturity that exists in the WoW community, so by all means, please don’t give them reason to follow in the footsteps of genuine refugees like me. :P

tl;dr: Everything WoW can do, GW2 can do better. You can do anything better than them.

Below are two screens I took proving your game is superior at least graphics-wise. For more awesome screens I took of GW2, check out: https://twitter.com/Guardian_Nyx/media

What is a large roadblock when it comes to getting into gaming? Accessibility, namely the system requirements. WoW has remained at the top in terms of popularity for nearly a decade due to an extremely polished user experience and consistent system requirements throughout the years. Add-on support is obviously top of the line, no other even comes close. Content quality aside, as it’s all player preference, WoW is simply the superior game.

Taggerung.5364:

What is a large roadblock when it comes to getting into gaming? Accessibility, namely the system requirements. WoW has remained at the top in terms of popularity for nearly a decade due to an extremely polished user experience and consistent system requirements throughout the years. Add-on support is obviously top of the line, no other even comes close. Content quality aside, as it’s all player preference, WoW is simply the superior game.

In your opinion. I don’t like the open world PvP or kill/node stealing so GW2 is the superior game to me.

And is WoW a popular game because it’s a good game or because there aren’t many mmos that aren’t just a thinly disguised WoW clone and people would rather stick with the one they’ve already got time and money in?

I tried WoW, and I do not like it, @ all. The cartoony childish and simplistic art style puts me off, not even to speak of how the really old style of questing and leveling trough the game feels to me. No thank you I will never play that game… not even if I had all the time in the world

- oh yes, I forgot the fact that they even want money for that too, every month, to create more of the same cr… eh, content to keep people busy haha poor subscribers

Taggerung.5364:

What is a large roadblock when it comes to getting into gaming? Accessibility, namely the system requirements. WoW has remained at the top in terms of popularity for nearly a decade due to an extremely polished user experience and consistent system requirements throughout the years. Add-on support is obviously top of the line, no other even comes close. Content quality aside, as it’s all player preference, WoW is simply the superior game.

No.
WoW got as big as it did because blizzard was the first company to discover and capitalize on the mass-appeal mmorpg market. WoW then managed to completely corner said market before any one else could get in and compete. Add in the fact that mmorpgs are odd in the fact that players typically never play multiple ones and leaving a mmorpg is often more difficult than other genres……

WoW is only dominant because of such a crazy huge headstart it had. Most of it’s systems are actually extremely outdated, inefficient, and poorly thought out, and in some cases downright punitive (gear grind anyone?), but WoW can get away with it because it has a 5million+ population and when it comes to mmos you can fix almost anything by throwing more players at it.

There’s a reason that pretty much every one of the WoW clone mmos ended up dead or with some minor population.

Taggerung.5364:

What is a large roadblock when it comes to getting into gaming? Accessibility, namely the system requirements. WoW has remained at the top in terms of popularity for nearly a decade due to an extremely polished user experience and consistent system requirements throughout the years. Add-on support is obviously top of the line, no other even comes close. Content quality aside, as it’s all player preference, WoW is simply the superior game.

“WoW is a better game.”
Lmao say that to another 1 year of NO CONTENT, 50% of it’s player base leaving, and WoD being the biggest disappoint and let down in the history of WoW.
WoW is declining faster than any other MMO out there, save for maybe Archeage.
While GW2 is doing nothing but growing constantly. Can you imagine a whole year of no new updates at all? Nothing. Not even a small living story update.
How awful.
My old guild that are die hard WoW fans still, are finally admitting defeat and heading over to GW2 because they finally understand WoW went down the toilet.

Unloveableone.6082:

“WoW is a better game.”
Lmao say that to another 1 year of NO CONTENT

How long did we stay with “NO CONTENT” in GW? Wasn’t it from the last Living World release in January until HoT in October? How many months is that again? Ah look, it’s almost one year!

Unloveableone.6082:

While GW2 is doing nothing but growing constantly.

Really? Do you have any evidence of that? Any sign that the number of active users has been increasing?

Meanwhile, what we know for a fact – and this is evidence, as opposed to empty hyperbole – is that the latest NCSoft quarterly report shows reduced earnings for GW2. Definitely doesn’t look like something that is “growing constantly”.

Xirus.9675:

Below are two screens I took proving your game is superior at least graphics-wise. For more awesome screens I took of GW2, check out:

You don’t say.. WoW is older than GW2, of course GW2 will have better graphics. I don’t like WoW’s style either, but this is no “comparision.”

Test.8734:

How long did we stay with “NO CONTENT” in GW? Wasn’t it from the last Living World release in January until HoT in October? How many months is that again? Ah look, it’s almost one year!

The new heropoint& trait system including reworked traits
New Lion’s Arch

But since you’re not a GW2-player we don’t expect you to know that.

Taggerung.5364:

What is a large roadblock when it comes to getting into gaming? Accessibility, namely the system requirements. WoW has remained at the top in terms of popularity for nearly a decade due to an extremely polished user experience and consistent system requirements throughout the years. Add-on support is obviously top of the line, no other even comes close. Content quality aside, as it’s all player preference, WoW is simply the superior game.

WoW isn’t a superior game. WoW is a different kind of game. Baseball isn’t superior to chess. Motorbikes aren’t superior to ice skates. They serve different purposes.

I played WoW and over all found it boring. I didn’t like the graphic style. I didn’t like the linear nature of leveling, I didn’t like being funneled into raids at end game, I didn’t like the constant stat creep, I didn’t like every expansion coming out invalidating every accomplishment you had, I didn’t like walls of text that lead to arrows telling me exactly what to do, I didn’t like the fact that people stole nodes right out from under me, or tagged the boss I’d been waiting for before I could tag it, or the loot system.

In fact, I think WoW is popular because of when it came out, and the size of it’s advertising war chest. That and you can play it on a potato.

The fact is, some people have invested so much money in it, it’s hard to leave, which is a psychological hold that most games can’t match.

Doesn’t make the game superior, even if you might like it better. In fact, I liked quite a few MMOs more than I liked WoW, including Lotro, and Age of Conan (though that had other issues).

Vayne.8563:

Doesn’t make the game superior, even if you might like it better. In fact, I liked quite a few MMOs more than I liked WoW, including Lotro, and Age of Conan (though that had other issues).

See, it’s funny Vayne, when you begin a paragraph saying someone else’s opinion doesn’t matter, then proceed to state your opinion as if yours, and only yours, were relevant.

Is WoW superior to GW2? Both are MMORPGs, they are very easily comparable. And WoW has been far more successful than GW2, so from that point of view, WoW is indeed far, FAR superior to GW2. And that, my friend, is a fact. Regardless of your opinion.

Vayne.8563:

The fact is, some people have invested so much money in it, it’s hard to leave, which is a psychological hold that most games can’t match.

Ah, so you say spending a lot of money in a game can have psychological effects on a player?

Tell me one thing Vayne, how much money have you spent on GW2 again?

Awesome graphics? My sword and daggers clip through my coats and can see too many sharp lines in objects typically more round in real life. The graphics are acceptable, but awesome? Play Crysis 3 on full at 4k (you’ll need some top tier hardware for it I’d wait for a high end Pascal card) then you’ll know what awesome graphics are.

“Obviously there are customer concerns that you shouldn’t ignore, esp for those still having trouble with CTD issues, but I just want to say that you are worlds ahead of Actiblizz and their masochistic playerbase, so don’t feel like you have to cater to those adult children in any way, shape, or form”

Not all WoW players are mature for their age.