Guild Wars 2

The last cliffhanger was annoying and tedious enough, did we really need another?

I was hugely disappointed at the length of the previous episode. I was expecting maybe this episode to make up for it, but it was just as short, if not shorter. The quality is pretty good IMO. It’s 9001% better than other MMOs I’ve played. It’s just not enough. I’m dying for an expansion here…

Oh and enough with the cliffhangers! Please find a better way to wrap up each episode! Seriously consider expanding the scope of each episode’s story component, even if that means we have to wait a little longer than 2 weeks. I promise I’ll come back to GW2. I would rather spend a large chunk of hours playing infrequently than spend a tiny bit of minutes playing hyper frequently.

I have to agree. This is, by far, my least favorite episode. Between the insane, you must die, jumping to get the golden badges, to the grind to get crests for achievements, to the farming bosses in hopes of getting the right organs, and re-farming to get ‘the other half’ of the same bladder, restarting the story over and over again because a part failed, forced to re-watch cinematics repeatedly, and forced to act stupid because the plot demanded it, this is all nuts.

Very much the wrong direction. Again, remember, ANet said there would be no grinding in this game.

Now it’s here with a vengeance.

When the Silverwastes appeared I thought that this will be really interesting change. New story + new map mechanics, it was very promising. But with every episode it’s getting worse and worse to the point I don’t even wanna do it anymore, just like Scarlet or Dry Top. Jesus, just hire real gamers, they know what gamers want. This is so dull I don’t even know what to say.
I don’t really care for the story, but since this game is story based, I just wanted to believe I can still enjoy this game some more than daily achievement grind and logout. This story could be interesting, but not like this… not 10 min waiting when they’ll stop talking and let me play. Plus I hate Kasmeer Marjory duo, but this is just my personal opinion.
Even worse is that Anet said they’ll never make us grind. And what is this? First, they screw up and let people earn hundreds of gold from countless bandit chests, now they create gold sinks and make us pay for their mistakes and spend gold for skins that should be a REWARD for completing this broken living story. It was my goal to complete the luminescent armor (even though I don’t really like it, but it’s better than nothing), now I regret all the time spent on previous parts, because I refuse to grind even more, and pay so much for my “rewards”. What kind of logic is this? Where is this going? I think I need a break from this game, I’ve lost interest even in dailies since there is no perspective :/
More jumping puzzles, coins and repetitive events are not endgame.

Donutdude.9582:

Evening Tyrians.

As much as I am enjoying the new living world storyline, I’m getting angrier and angrier at the length of the episodes – they’re getting shorter and shorter. I managed to finish this one in about 30 minutes of gameplay. No, I did not intentionally rush through. I read all the dialogue, listened to various NPC interactions and so on.

If this is what it’s going to be like, I’d prefer longer development times and less frequent episodes so we can actually get an episode that takes longer than half an hour to complete.

Dude, seriously ? I thought it was great. The stealth aspect of it and getting new skills and being someone else was awesome. Felt like the Animus in Assassins Creed with the memory retracing thingies

I dislike that while it is “content” it’s all focused around achievement points.

Do our story again but this time don’t do THIS. Or do it like THIS. Your reward for playing through again? 50 bandit crests. Yay!

Achievement points publicly on display are one of the roots (yeye roots in seeds of truth) of evil in this game.

I kind of hope, in the back of my mind that while they are turning over 30-90 min content bites every 2 weeks that they are working on something else.

Like 10 new big maps to explore with big dragon events like Teq/Trip trouble. Increase the duration between normal event spawns (like Karka/Jormag etc) so people will want to go to these maps.
Make pre cursor scavenger hunts(or craftable w/e) release a whole bundle of new Fractals and a new dungeon here or there. A big new Story pack [like the personal story] (that you dont have to pay for per chapter if you decided to take a break from the game (Being made to pay for content because you had RL or just didn’t feel like playing is sick)

Stop rehashing Halloween and the Expected repeat of last years Xmas events. Stop time gating/locking off content.

I wasn’t disappointed with the episode itself. They are just so short. Talking as someone with friends coming back to the game now and then its so disappointing to hear their reactions to “I have to PAY for living story that you got for free? Nah I wont bother”

The price in Gold is a LOT for the CASUAL gamer.

If you had to buy just 4 of them then that is 1000 gems. Right now that is 300 gold. 300 gold could buy me a lot of things why should I spend it on something other people got for free just because they had the fortune to log in when I was unable to?