Guild Wars 2

Hey community,

I might get hate posts here about how unbalanced everything actually is and that my post is just stupid or smth. However, I still want to write that thing. So deal with it

I rarely played GW2 since January. Only did monthly in 2 or 3 days and then went off again (before January I played almost every day at least 2 or 3 hours). I tried many other MMO games, that are out there. SWTOR (payed for some months to enjoy all the features), TESO (beta), several free to play MMOs and such.

I have to say, after comming back, the devs have done, despite the “profession XYZ is totally over-/underpowered” threads, a good job. I like how each profession playes so much differently than the other and that sometimes you have the feelin of playing even a different game when switching professions. And seeing the huge differences in playstyle GW2 is, especially in comparison with some other games out there, very good balanced. There are some issues with some professions, I admit that. But that doesn’t interfere with my enjoyment of playing my part in the game.

Considering that GW2 finances itself via a one time puchase and then only microtransactions we are getting a nice game, where you don’t have the pressure of “I pay for it each months, so I gotta play it.”.

I for my part will start playing more GW2. Because I like the fighting system and the different styles of all the professions. Smth that I have missed in other games.

This are my 2 bits.

TyPin out xD

Coming back after a long time not playing, may give you the impression that everything it’s just roses here… or not that bad. That’s true to a point, especially compared to other games – because most are even worse. But the WvW of GW2 has a long list of expected changes, that makes the experience more bitter each day. Anet is silent, or makes promises, and then doesn’t keep us updated on the progress made towards those – account bound wxp and the commander system improving would be two examples, but there are still the skill lag that becomes worse after Living Story PvE updates, hackers and grievers doing the same thing as ever and seemingly being ignored, long list of bugs, the need of reworking the PPT system or replacing with a better one, keeping WvW fresh and improved as the only end-game that most WvW players are interested in GW2.

Just play it for a while, and then you can see that we don’t hate Anet or crying about how bad this game it is — it’s not, just frustrating parts become more and more so, as time goes on, especially with nothing to look forward to.

Anet could even ask us to pay for a WvW focused expansion, where those who pay will get extra features, and the rest will get it for free – if they would want to focus on those things that are expected by most of us. If not, we will do what we can, still have fun from time to time, and then being frustrated again, because that always comes back and destroys the fun part.