Guild Wars 2

I’ll start by saying that I’m very disappointed with anet for the mess they made of wvw. But when I sit down and think about it I can’t place all the blame on anet. Sure they don’tlisten to most of what we say but why would they? Anet is company and companiesneed to make money. Ok so anet probably does listen to what we say but its just that it either isn’t practical or will cost to much. So where does the rest of the blame fall for all this? It fall on the gaming community. Yep that right, the very people that play the game and complain about it are why they can’t get what they want. So I bet most of you are thinking " how are we to blame" well its because people are so unwilling to play monthly pay games that companies need to make free to play games. Free to play games need to keep cost down as much as possible giving a lower quality game. Now I will give anet some credit here. The game itself is not low quality and it is actually a good game ..for the more casual player. I guess its not really a bad game for the hardcore player either. It’s just not one most people are gonna sink months worth of gametime into. So anet is “greedy” and just want Ur money, but that’s business. If people were willing to pay monthly then we could get all the stuff we want, well most of it. So next time you are flaming anet or any game maker for that mater just remember that you are to blame for the mess these games have become

Skimmed it. Alot of assumption in your post that they won’t do something because it costs to much money? Where did you pull that “fact” from?

I have seen them say changes take time but many people are impatient or they are patient but want to let Anet know every single day how the game they love is dying and how much they messed up while they wait for the changes that they will play anyway.

I’ll tell you what, with the way Anet is handling this game, it’s making me take sub games into serious consideration because at least they know when they kitten up they lose sure money. They can’t afford to market the game as one thing then decide after launch they don’t know what kind of the game they want it to be.

gennyt.3428:

I’ll tell you what, with the way Anet is handling this game, it’s making me take sub games into serious consideration because at least they know when they kitten up they lose sure money. They can’t afford to market the game as one thing then decide after launch they don’t know what kind of the game they want it to be.

That doesn’t stop them from doing much worse than Anet though, see Swtor and WAR.

The biggest thing is server lag. It either takes a lot of time to rewrite how the game transmits that data or
hahave to upgrade the servers/upload speed which ever happens to be the bottle neck which cost money. Time frames can be shorted by hiring more people but that cost money. The blame doesn’t fall on the game design team but on whoever sets the budget. More the point I’m trying to relay is that free to play games lack the steady income that monthly pay games have. That money does 2 things. It allows the game to spend more (generally) and it hold the companies more accountable for what they do or don’t do with the game play. You also seem to think this is lall about bashing anet which it isn’t. Anet is used more as an exampl. And as I said I’m blaming the gaming community as well for its growing resent of monthly pay games

oZii.2864:

want to let Anet know every single day how the game they love is dying

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Soon when ESO and Wildstar is out I bet my account that GW2 will lose at least half of its player base and then only Anet will act on our complains. Come to think of it, most games end up like this and then they’re closed/dead.

There is virtually no MMO ever made with this amount of stable content 12 months after release. There may be one but I cannot think of it. Most ship with incomplete classes, actual not figurative game breaking bugs, long login queues and many didn’t even ship with functional PvP. Despite its flaws GW2 is a modern marvel in the MMO space.

There is absolutely no guarantee that a sub would have added one extra feature to the game because we don’t know what sales and player attrition would be like with a more expensive game.

Buzzcrave.6197:

Soon when ESO and Wildstar is out I bet my account that GW2 will lose at least half of its player base and then only Anet will act on our complains. Come to think of it, most games end up like this and then they’re closed/dead.

GW was a popular game despite indirectly competing against WoW. Some people just don’t like a sub and ESO has a sub. There is also no guarantee that either of those games will succeed. Few MMOs have the sustained success that GW2 has in the first year and most MMOs crater shortly after release.

You want a subscription that bad? Just put $15 into the gem store every month. Easy.

There is a lot of content but most of it is “junk” content and has no actually bearing on the game. And let’s not forget that they had a playable version of gw2 almost 3 years before release so they had a lot of time to work out the bugs. Gw2 is a well made game it just isn’t made to play 40+ hrs a week

styx.7294:

You want a subscription that bad? Just put $15 into the gem store every month. Easy.

I want a better game. Most games now a geared toward the casual player. If that means I have to pay to play a better game then so be it. And I probably dropped probably 500-600$ in the gem store in 5 months and they just went and made the game worse for me