Dear ArenaNet (if you’ll ever read this post).
I’m an absolute fan of your game, playing it since the very start, and it has never left my hard drive for more than 2 days. As my income is not so big and I live in the region of the world where Heart of Thorns was quite expensive, I had to collect money for it for quite a long time, but finally managed to buy it, and since then I had an absolute blast, reassuring myself that this is truly the best MMORPG I’ve ever played.
But since Spring Quaterly Update the game became unplayable for me. On all of the HoT maps and WvW (which I started playing most of my GW2 time), after approximately 15 minutes, or during events, or while having more than dozen players on screen, my FPS is running unplayably low, completely locking up my computer. I’ve NEVER had such problems before in GW2 (mind you, I play for 4 years, and had not changed my hardware since). The only option for me when this FPS drop happens is to restart my computer. I also play different games, and have no such problems, even if the requirements for these games are higher than those of GW2. Here is my specification:
4 GB Ram
4×2.4 AMD Athlon II
GeForce 9800 GT
and a 100MB/s internet connection
Yeah, for those of you that would say my computer is crap – maybe it is not the newest one. But hey, I still meet the requirements, and these are not minimum. Before the Update i was able to play on medium graphic settings, with some of the set on high, but now even the lowest are too much. And I would repeat myself – I don’t have any problems in any other games I play.
I also saw, that a lot of people have similiar problems to mine since the Update. I encourage you to write in this post. Maybe ArenaNet will finally do something about it, because well, if this situation will continue, we will have a massive scam – a game that is unplayable on the system specification that it recommends.
Please, ArenaNet, do not turn your back on your players and restore the game performance to its previous state!
