Guild Wars 2

I have been playing GW2 for about 3 months now, and my time interacting with other players in GW2 has been absolutely amazing. It seems everyone is always so eager to be helpful and friendly in this game, where in other games everyone was always so eager to be an a*hole. Anyone else feel the same way about this awesome game?

It is a friendly game for the most part, but quite a lonely game as well i’m finding as i am levelling, i think i’m at laughing gulls forever alone, so that can be frustrating when there are group events but no one to do it with, not that i feel entitled for others to help but they can’t be completed on ones own.

As David Guetta would say “Just a little more love”

Have to agree that GW2 community is one of the friendliest around. Perhaps it has got to do with the design of the game. Here in GW2, the game mechanics are designed to prevent unhealthy inter-players competition (that is not the same as the usual pvp/WvW).

For example, in gathering, each player has their own set of resource nodes. Your gathering does not take away resource nodes of other players. There is no need to fight over resource nodes.

There is no factions here. So there is no such claims as biased design or nerf against specific factions. With no factions, you don’t have faction specific classes. There is also no specific class specializing in tanking and healing etc. Every player can play with the same array of class choices and features. No griefing over differences thus.

At the same time, in pvp/WvW, all players identity are masked off. No personal targetting is thus possible. This encourages player to deal with the game play and not the individual player. At the same time, when you die, you spawn at a safe location and not in the original place of death. No camping of corpse is thus possible. Personal vengeance against specific player is thus minimized.

If the original game manifesto is to be believed, this game don’t encourage gear grind and gear should not make a significant impact on game play. Through this, you will not create “class” difference among different player. You don’t get classed into different category based on what you wear and not how you play. You would not need to be subjected to “gear check” before being allowed to participate in group-based activities like running dungeons. And for that, you also don’t get kicked out of group for arbitrary reasons. But with the introduction of ascended gear, this dynamics may change.

The kind of crowd in the game is very much determined by how the game designers want them to be.