Guild Wars 2

EDIT: I want to clarify before I start on this rant that I like the content! I think the content is fantastic and enjoy it! Still not a huge fan of the writing but the content is good regardless. I just think a bi-weekly/mid-season hiatus is horrible… like really really horrible.

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So miffed… this should have been an expansion. I’d be able to swallow this release structure if it was going to be consistent to the end but I just learned they’re taking a break until fall…

People are going to read this and assume I’m a self entitled brat but you know what, that’s not a fair cop-out anymore. It’s just not.

You don’t hand someone a book and tell them they can only read one chapter a week and THEN tell them oh btw you have to take a break for a couple months when they’re halfway through. It’s just… what!?

You could make the comparison to TV shows and how they’ve worked in the past with mid season breaks and whatnot but it doesn’t hold up anymore. The really solid shows are released on a very structured schedule or released all at once. Look at Netflix or a show like Game of Thrones, it comes out every week. They make sure they have their stuff done well in advance so they can meet this schedule.

I get that more goes into a game.
I get that this is part of what the LS was meant to be.
I get that not everyone is going to agree with me on this.

Despite all that, I can’t see LS as a win. I can’t give Anet the benefit of the doubt.

This should have been expansion content.

I lose context for most of what I do each episode because the last time I did anything with the story, which is pretty shallow at best still, was two weeks ago in a brief binge. There’s little to remember. I’m trying to get from one key moment to the next and then I’m told you have to sit back and wait for a few more weeks… maybe a month or two.

There’s no concrete lore added to the world, it’s all back loaded [assuming it’s there at all] and we’ve got nothing but teases to keep us going… except now we have to wait for a couple months with nothing else to do…

Enjoy! Please keep playing our game and spending money on the trading post… because that’s our endgame… and the only place to get new weapon skins and armor skins…. which are now costumes… and it’s going to continue to be like this because… uhm… we don’t have an answer for that.

I really can’t stop ranting… this is going to get deleted… the sensibilities of the people here are way too fragile… I don’t even care anymore… so disappointed with this direction… just… I’m done… I’m so done here…

Now imagine what it’s like for players that don’t enjoy LS. Each area might receive 1 real update a year since LS takes the bulk of the development resources. Take a journey to the WvW forums and see how happy they are :P

Mondo.5029:

So miffed… this should have been an expansion. I’d be able to swallow this release structure if it was going to be consistent to the end but I just learned they’re taking a break until fall…

People are going to read this and assume I’m a self entitled brat but you know what, that’s not a fair cop-out anymore. It’s just not.

You don’t hand someone a book and tell them they can only read one chapter a week and THEN tell them oh btw you have to take a break for a couple months when they’re halfway through. It’s just… what!?
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It sounds like your reading “Game of Thrones”.

DarcShriek.5829:

Mondo.5029:

So miffed… this should have been an expansion. I’d be able to swallow this release structure if it was going to be consistent to the end but I just learned they’re taking a break until fall…

People are going to read this and assume I’m a self entitled brat but you know what, that’s not a fair cop-out anymore. It’s just not.

You don’t hand someone a book and tell them they can only read one chapter a week and THEN tell them oh btw you have to take a break for a couple months when they’re halfway through. It’s just… what!?
…

It sounds like your reading “Game of Thrones”.

It both is and isn’t helping my mental space regarding this… but yeah, I am… -_-

Or do we read the announcement of ArenaNet his break?

Louveepine.7630:

Or do we read the announcement of ArenaNet his break?

I really can’t understand that but will give the benefit of the doubt cause I’m assuming English is a second language.

If you’re wondering where I read it: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/august-12-2014/
Second paragraph

Not sure what you meant if that wasn’t what you wanted to know :/ sorry

Basically means a minimum of 6 weeks to wait, maybe more.

Thank you!
Indeed English is not my native language.
Hmm …
I’ll try to be more understandable.

We have nothing else this article? No Official information?