Guild Wars 2

But I am not enjoying my time in game. I feel no draw or need to play it.

Any players want to help this player find a new game to play? I like MMO’s, but SWTOR was bad, I tried MOP but it was to much for kids. It feels as if there are no MMORPG’s currently in the market worth playing.

Ty for your help.

What sort of games and genres do you normally like? That’s a good place to start before we give you some suggestions.

I am a fan of mecha, fantasy, steam punk, sci-fi, I really like a slot of stuff. I like some RP, and overall just love character development. I played AD&D as a kid and miss stuff like alignment and a plethora of classes. I have 4 80’s in GW2 and one who is about to hit 80. But every class I play just feels boring at 80. They really, are all very similar to me. I don’t feel like there is much in the way of variety.

I like communities but also like to be able to hit the trail and explore and see stuff for myself. I also like there to be some sense of needing to exist in game. When I played world of warcraft when it came out, I had a high warlord character. He felt like he was a high ranking official in the hordes army. He was strong in pvp and felt “epic”. I later transferred to an RP server and we did light RP, basically names and guild name were themed and we sometimes acted it out….mostly in a comical way, had lots of laughs from the community and made some friends.

I really don’t think anything exists ATM. I dont mind a montly sub, heck I prefer it because I want to see continued development and polish. This game is lacking a lot of polish to me. FRom pvp to pve and especially in crafting or the economy.

Ty for your reply in advance. I am off to bed.

Well, from my point of view it seems you played gw2 like some grind-fest, which minimises your rp if not destroys it (whatever you told about ad&d).
I’m sure as hell you won’t see anything interesting in any game played like that for such a long time. Good luck in your search though.

It’s true, this game lacks a lot of polish. Yet every game, especially the most recently released, all lack substantial polish. WoW even, when it first came out, was actually much more rough around the corners than GW2 is now. But that’s neither here nor there, because this is not a debate about which mmo is best. Not a lot of MMOs are out and about on the market right now. GW2, WoW, Tera, Swotr. Outside of that there’s a bunch of free to play models that are, well, generally unpolished.

Perhaps you should take a break from MMOs altogether? Borderlands 2 (if you’re into fps styles) just came out. If you’ve never played it, you can expect many facets of sci-fi rpg style play (experience, exploration, and stat ascension) with a solid fps experience. If you really want a fantasy experience, Dark Souls is currently 50% off for the Steam Holiday sale. That will certainly give you the epic feel. Or any of the other wonderful games which were released in the past year or two.

In any case, if you’ve tried everything in the game, and nothing works, I suggest trying something else for a few weeks. Maybe even not play video games at all, it’s a beautiful world out there. While I understand your philosophy on subscriptions, the great thing about not having one is that GW2 will be accessible any time you want to come back. Take some time off until Anet’s next big monthly event, and when you come back the time off might have refreshed the experience.

Best of luck.

If you have 4 80s and one soon 80 then yes I can understand you are bored, I would to with that amount of time invested into GW2.

I would suggest EQ2 and Vanguard for that oldschool feeling.

I recommend Medievia. It’s not really an MMO, but it is an online multiplayer RPG. It has been around since 1991, has a very friendly player base, a helpful staff, and a very strong anti-trolling policy (basically if you’re found harassing or provoking other players you’ll either be gagged, suspended, or banned).

It is a text-based game (a MUD; Multi-User Dungeon), and can be accessed on their website (medievia.com), although I highly recommend using one of the clients they suggest on their website (Medievia’s MudMaster for windows is awesome).

Anyway, good luck, and I hope you find a game you enjoy!

If its ok to suggest a non MMO game, i lost hours upon hours in Skyrim.
A great game with so much potential where you can do what you want, and with a very active modding community, there is a lot off extra content to do. Even complete turnovers to bring the world into another familiar setting (Games of Thrones to mention one).
As for MMO’s i agree with you that there is not much on the market at this point that is any different then the rest. For me GW2 was a welcome break from the Wow type off game. But if you really want to play MMO, did you try Star trek Online?

Beatsbury.1827:

Well, from my point of view it seems you played gw2 like some grind-fest, which minimises your rp if not destroys it (whatever you told about ad&d).
I’m sure as hell you won’t see anything interesting in any game played like that for such a long time. Good luck in your search though.

Actually it took me a long time to level my first 80. I leveled an Asura engineer. At 80, once I got full exotics he seemed to be no stronger than when I leveled. Everything is beyond a chore and more frustrating then fun. The other classes were leveled mostly by leveling professions to get them to 80, and get them geared to try them out. Some classes like the mesmer are just horrid to play from 1-40, only at 40 do they seem to come into their own.

I want to play an Asura and pretty much only an Asura…seeing the same stuff over and over did not help me in making the game fun, it became grindy very fast. So yes, I have lots of 80’s but its not because I “powered” and missed all the content leveling, I very much saw a ton of stuff on my engineer.

I am just finding out that regardless of what I play, its simply not fun. I have spent a LOT of money to buy gems to get gold to get mats to power level my other characters yo 80 to see if the engineer was the reason I did not like the game ( and he is partially. I do enjoy my warrior and mesmer more).

My point is, I have spent more on this game than a year and a half of wow subs. If I did not like arena net, I would have not spent it. If I did not want to play the game, I would not have spent it…but now that I have spent it and nothing is making me happy in end game…I feel like I got ripped off. I chased the carrot and it was not fulfilling, so I chased the next on…same thing and on and on. At this point I don’t feel that giving arena net any money ever is worth it because ever time I do it results in what feels like “getting screwed”.

I look at it like this. Wow kept me entertained and wanting to log in for 7 years for the most part…and a good part of that was me hating the dev team…but the community, the endagame, the pvp kept me coming back.

I want this game to be very much that…and more if possible…but for me, its just not measuring up and it does not feel like their is any real development going on.

Bottom line is simple. The people like me who have paid a substantial amount would simply like to see faster turn around times for balancing, bugs etc…but these people move to slow. So, the people who are actually funding the game are in essence getting screwed vs the people who are not.

I dunna..so much of this game, the class imbalance, arena net banning people when the blink wrong, the lack of endgame, the bugs, the constant crashes and on and on are just not worth it.

So, TLDR. I get what you are saying, but it’s not like I did not try and do it “their way”. I very much did and it resulted in money out of my pocket with no fulfillment.

Torgrim.3642:

If you have 4 80s and one soon 80 then yes I can understand you are bored, I would to with that amount of time invested into GW2.

I would suggest EQ2 and Vanguard for that oldschool feeling.

After the fist characer to 80 (my engineer, which took close to 3 months I think) I leveled the rest using professions as they are all Asura. I actually did not start that way, I started my second character with the same approach to exploring, taking my time etc. But I wanted to play with my friends in WVWVW and the low level character without traits just gets beat up too fast. You have to be 80 and geared to enjoy it. So the leveling became more frustrating then fun. So, I leveled with professions to get 30 to 50% of it out of the way.

Amaethon.8710:

I recommend Medievia. It’s not really an MMO, but it is an online multiplayer RPG. It has been around since 1991, has a very friendly player base, a helpful staff, and a very strong anti-trolling policy (basically if you’re found harassing or provoking other players you’ll either be gagged, suspended, or banned).

It is a text-based game (a MUD; Multi-User Dungeon), and can be accessed on their website (medievia.com), although I highly recommend using one of the clients they suggest on their website (Medievia’s MudMaster for windows is awesome).

Anyway, good luck, and I hope you find a game you enjoy!

TY, kinda reminds me of the Miser House game mixed with some D&D.

Noppy.1348:

If its ok to suggest a non MMO game, i lost hours upon hours in Skyrim.
A great game with so much potential where you can do what you want, and with a very active modding community, there is a lot off extra content to do. Even complete turnovers to bring the world into another familiar setting (Games of Thrones to mention one).
As for MMO’s i agree with you that there is not much on the market at this point that is any different then the rest. For me GW2 was a welcome break from the Wow type off game. But if you really want to play MMO, did you try Star trek Online?

Ya, I don’t know why I have not tried it. I LOVED Morrowind..I bought the collectors edition to get the music from Jeremy Soule…man the most epic theme of any game music.

The money out of your pocket was your decision, and yours alone. To use your personal spending as a relative meter for the game’s progression and maturation is, frankly, unfair. All games suffer from bugs, and all games suffer from imbalance, and none more so than the ones which are recently released. WoW itself, which remains a shining beacon of game development, released to the market with a hoard of bugs (pun intended) that stuck around for half a year or longer, and realistically never settled the issues of imbalance, even after eight years of development.

The business end of the situation dictates wisdom in the face of monetary influx. Even if Anet made enough money to suddenly double the size of their development team, it isn’t a structurally sound decision to hire on a slew of new developers merely to patch bugs and pick at balance optimization. Especially if a large source of the income comes from an unstable market such as the Gem store.

Your buyers remorse is entirely understandable. Especially if you’re throwing money towards an experience which has not yet purchased your own interests in turn. But this is the risk you take when you spend on an item in the hope, but not guarantee, that this spending will make you happier. Sometimes it works out, sometimes not.

At this point I think the best thing you can do is cut your losses and stop playing. Cold turkey. Delete the icons. Uninstall the game, even. Just let it go. Like I said earlier, check out something else. You said you haven’t played Skyrim yet, but you liked Morrowind? Go play Skyrim. Perhaps in a half a year, or a year, or whatever, you’ll have an itch to come back and check out GW2 again. Perhaps— Hopefully— by then it will have become the game you hoped it would be upon release.

I’m sorry to hear that gw2 went sour for you in the manner that it did. Buyers remorse sucks. Hopefully the next thing you try will work out better. Best of luck.

Well, I get your point as well, Raideen. And I fully accept that fact.
There where couple really good suggestions like Skyrim or EQ2 (I personally adore both).
All I can say is there’s still an upside in buying gw2: the game will continue to evolve I’m sure and you just could check it someday and find what you miss in it now.