Over the past few months the guild I’m in, and myself have become less and less interested in the game. And this isn’t the games fault. I have stated complaints and made suggestions for months about things that need to change only to go mostly ignored or just brushed off like it wasn’t a problem. Many of us have become disillusioned to the game and are just biding our time for the next semi interesting MMO. Which I never thought I would be one of those people as I was one of the people who was waiting for GW2 since the release of Eye of the north.
Many of my problems with the game stem from the lack of communication, shady practices, game breaking bugs, rushed content, refusal to balance or fix what was already there and the devs seeming refusal to take responsibility for there actions.
The Living story is rushed, grindy, and rather shallow content. It looks pretty, sure. I really like some of the things that are added. Marjory is my favorite character in a long time. Probably since Vekk. However, this isn’t enough to keep me engaged.
Crafting, which was presented to us as much simpler and easy to use in comparison to other games, ended up being time gated at the highest tier of armor and forces players to farm events and dungeons each day to get these ascended armors and weapons. I had never felt like anything was such a grind. Obsidian armor in GW1 was less grindy then this, and that was designed to be grindy. Its taxing on me as a player who wants to have her armor and weapons complete so I don’t have to worry about it in the long run. Always having to update and worry about whats next. The Simplicity of the first game when it came to armor allowed for me to sink a large sum of gold into dozens of sets just so I could have multiple looks. here, I don’t feel like I will have the same ability to do that, especially with the accessories taking up so much room along with all the armor and weapons.
Underwater combat was supposed to be enjoyable. Yet every suggestion that I’ve made to fix it has been ignored. And even worse, you have rebalanced skills without even considering that it might not work anymore underwater. Rather then try and make it engaging, like you promised it would be, you removed it from competitive play and left it mostly ignored. I wanted to enjoy underwater content, and yet I find myself avoiding it like the plague.
You promised that you wouldn’t create a rock, paper, scissors environment for PvP, yet that is exactly what we are seeing in the latest patch. You promised that you wanted a low number of highly useful and good skills, yet what you have given us suggests differently. SoV is a very very situational skill that is only good in one very very specific situation. It is exactly the type if skill you promised would never exist in GW2.
You put a cultural armor on the gem store knowing full well that it was a prestigious set of armor that people worked very hard to get. Even worse then that you made the gem store version look better. And when the obvious back lash came from that, You made up excuses like it wasn’t your fault rather then owning up to the mistake. As I was taught as a kid, any apology with an excuse attached to it isn’t an apology as the person or people apologizing believe they did nothing wrong. Yet you did do something wrong. Very wrong. And you then took it off and gave us no estimated time for a replacement and told us that you will get to it at your own time, further showing us that the problem wasn’t that important to you.
