Guild Wars 2

My friends and I played gw1 for years and eagerly awaited gw2. We loved it at first.

Two things have spoiled it for us.

1. rng/gambling/gem store weapon and armor skins for my friends as they are really into gearing up their characters in looks they like and they HATE rng/gem store chest methods combined with ingame-temp-content-small-rare-chance of getting it. Quite frankly this makes the company look overly greedy and manipulative of people with poor impulse control. We don’t buy the chests in the gem store. We have been buying other items that we like (you know what you are getting when you buy it items) because we wanted to “support” anet. Now we are not inclined to purchase more items from the store.

2. Permanent beta-like temporary content with the following problems.
- forced jumping puzzles
- instances that need “raid-like” coordination and planning combined with temporary achievements and rewards. This would be fine if it was permanent and the rewards were good enough so that people would continue to do the content. But it is neither.

If this was permanent achievements and rewards so that we could work towards it then good.
If it was temporary easy content then ok.

In watching the video interviews and seeing the posts on the plans, I guess my friends and I are out of luck. As best I can tell, this is how it is going to be from now on.

My question is, am I right? Is this how all new content will be from now on? I’m finding it more annoying than fun at the moment. Yes there are things I like, but those things are mixed with enough annoying things that make me want to rage quit and drives me away from the game.

I’m not whining or trying to be a entitled-easymode-learn-to-play-carebear. I’m just trying to decide if I want to devote anymore time in this game. If the majority of players prefer it this way then who am I to want it to change for me and my friends. I just want to know if there is going to be content for people like my friends and me. If not, I have my answer.

Well, I don’t know if it makes any difference, but they have said that the next update will not involve mini-games or jumping puzzles, and will instead focus on massive scale dynamic events. One of the devs seemed to hint that it will have something to do with Divinity’s Reach, perhaps a massive rebuilding effort of the collapse.

As far as the RNG stuff goes, they will probably not get rid of it. It is their primary way of keeping items rare and generating revenue. We have already seen steps towards improving the system though, i.e. fortune scraps that can be used instead of a the golden ticket. I hope they continue to improve the system for those of us who have terrible luck, but I doubt it will be completely abolished.

I had a lot of trouble with the high tiers of the aetherblade trials in the most recent update, but there are plenty of other things to do that don’t involve raid-like content. All-in-all, the new content seems to be branching off into more diverse territory, and I think it will only continue to improve.

You have to remember that we are only just beginning to see the efforts of living story after they reorganized to having four separate teams producing content. The end goal is to create deeper, more involving content, so let’s hope we really see some awesome stuff happen in August!

The two are not independent. The reason for all the temporary content is to get people to log in more often, and the reason to get people to log in more often it to tempt them to spend money on the gem shop. And rng stuff from the gem shop is making them a lot of money.