Guild Wars 2

1. “this game is not casual friendly anymore”

yes the game is still casual friendly, only the new area is less casual friendly just like silver waste. You can’t just stand there auto attack bunch of mobs and not move an inch and be fine with it. Another issue is that people still go meta (class-cannon) when they have the options to try out a different build that would be better for them.

2. “this game isn’t for solo players anymore”

I don’t get the definition of solo? Do you mean you don’t want to see other players on your map or participate in any of your event? Because I’ve been playing by myself and encountered many events with random other players and finishing the events getting all the rewards.

3. “grinding like eastern MMOs”

There are so many events across the map, try glide down or go up and explore the map. The number of events are countless and they are all really fun to do even by yourself. You level your masteries the same way you level up back in the days. In other eastern MMOs I’ve played where you kill 100-200 of this mob to finish this daily, it is incomparable to this game. I don’t know if anyone used this as a complain actually ever played eastern MMOs at all.

Things people completely ignore when Anet has one of the smoothest launch I’ve ever seen for an MMO in years (compared to WildStar, ESO, WoW, FF XIV).
These areas are actually huge and takes a very long time to explore
The new areas looks beautiful and the music sounds amazing