Just a side story.
I played Guild Wars 1 since launch. I bought every campaign when they first came out. I bought the expansion when it came out. I played that game a lot and really enjoyed it, and watch ArenaNet destroy their PvP and force either GvG, RA, or facing bots in JQ. I was fine with it though, because the gameplay in the game wasn’t broken.
Once GW2 was advertised I instantly wanted to play, and spent 5 years looking at the game and nearly crapped my pants every single time an update about the game was released. I watched nearly every video, and the only time I ever “fake” called in sick to a job was the day the first beta event started so I could be one of the first to play.
I spent a lot of money to go up to Seattle to play the game at Pax Prime for a mere FORTY MINUTES. That’s how into the game I was. I was extremely excited when I heard the release date announced and instantly requested August 25th off so I could play the game all night. I spent over $1000 on a new computer to play this game on max settings without any lag while recording. I also bought all the recording and editting software to record this game. I have also spent $170 on gem purchases. I could have been like a lot of people and bought gold (which I spent some gems on) through bots, but I decided to give my money to ArenaNet because I respected them as a company. Now, I’m somewhat regretting it….
Things were great, but then WvW became the meta. PvE is dead in nearly every server, and all there is to play is WvW. I don’t have much of a problem with that, seeing as I enjoy WvW.
There wasn’t too much of an issue with culling in this game, but it was bad to the point you’d never see what killed you until you were already dead. Zergs would wipe simply because you couldn’t see people.
ArenaNet came up with a brilliant idea. Make it so you can’t see your allies but not your enemies. People stopped complaining about thieves appearing to be permastealthed, or be attacking you constantly without seeing them. People stopped complaining about Portal bombs. No one had much of a problem, except some people claimed they lagged.
Now ArenaNet has changed it back to their terror of portal bombs being the ultimate “tactic” simply because teams are abusing culling. But what is ArenaNet’s brilliant solution? Nerf Portals? Fantastic.
It just amazes me how my gameplay can be ruined and I sit there dead because teams simply rush you and you never see them coming. You never know they are there. And buying the best computer money can buy won’t do a thing about it, simply because ArenaNet’s client has terrible culling issues.
I’m telling you now, as a long player of your games, you NEED to fix this culling problem. Nerfing classes isn’t going to make things better. I feel cheated, and I feel this game is completely broken in WvW because all people are going to do is abuse the culling issues that are in this game.
People have also been saying what I’ve agreed with. What has been buffed in this game besides Warrior longbow? It seems ArenaNet made these wonderful classes, but all the time they get nerfed into Oblivion rather than the real issues with this game being fixed.
I could make a huge list of things you’re doing wrong. Such as, why are dungeons being ignored besides exploits to make them quicker and more annoying instead of making them dynamic (LIKE YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO DO. LOL TROLL IN AC IS SO DYNAMIC!) but instead you’re working on a dungeon such as fractals that goes against your previous philosphy (and for some reason it takes until late January for this problem to be fixed).
Point is, you need to fix culling. That should be your priority. At this point, WvW is basically your game until you start making PvE worth doing besides fractals and AC runs to make money. So, fix this ridiculous crap. Stop making this game feel broken. I earned my computer through working my butt off at my job. Why is it I have to suffer because some people with cardboard box computers can’t run the game on max settings or else they get lag?
I don’t care if the enemies are pixel boxes, at least allow me to SEE THEM.