I really was not going to post this because 99.9999% of the
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complaining.
This is a strange post. If there have been no updates for a long time, then this is exactly the same game that “you and 100’s of others” enjoyed. ANet hasn’t killed the game in this case, it’s the fickle player base who think they’re something more than customers who get loads of gameplay at fractions of a penny per hour.
It is absolutely baffling that there has been nothing done
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takes longer now kind of mentality.
Not really that baffling. There was no intent to have it in the game in the first place, so players took it upon themselves to shut people out of borderland maps by having their GvGs at the windmill at south camp. On highly populated servers, that’s individuals not contributing to the game mode but taking slots away from people who want to play the game properly.
Anyway, after enough people complained/whined/cajoled/threatened/occasionally-had-a-rational-point an area was built for them. That is ANet responding to the player base. As for the game “technically” being called Guild Wars 2, if you can’t get that it’s called that because it shares a history and lore with the previous game, then nobody is going to be able to explain it to you.
And how things were a year ago with the staff and resource/hours that were available, six months was right. Since we’ve only seen one map come out in that time, that’s what Devon would have been talking about. Something more recent, with changes in staff and resource/hours? Who knows? Until they break out a new map and then tell us how long it took from start to finish there will be no comparison. So nobody lied to you.
Honestly some of the biggest guilds that promoted the game, promoted WvW, got those new players into WvW and GvG’s and got them hooked are down right leaving the game. I have quit uninstalled the game and will not play a game where the game mode I enjoy to play is neglected so much. I loved the time I played I loved my 100s of hours as a commander and my 1000s in WvW alone but what I don’t love is the disrespect as a player.
In what way are you worthy of respect? You’re a customer, who paid a one-time price of what, $65.00? And you have had thousands of hours of playtime in WvW alone? If we take thousand*s* to mean at least two thousand hours, and we apply that for every year that GW2 has been around (two), that gives us four thousand hours of playtime. Note that is the same amount as a full time job.
That means that your $65.00 spread out over your four thousand hours of play has meant that you have been getting one hour of play for the insanely unreasonable and disrespectful rate of $0.016. Can you imagine? A cent and a half for each of those hours that you say you loved so much. Truly, you have been wronged.
Guess what? People leave games. People leave jobs, people leave relationships, people change what they do. It happens. So what? You got thousands of hours of play out of this game before you decided to uninstall. That is a testament to a solid game by any metric.
WvW is dying and there is nothing anyone can say to tell me it is not. Yea people still go in it but you can tell, the commanders that have been around for so long have no enthusiasm no heart for it they are just playing because there is nothing else to play.
If there’s nothing else to play, then one wonders what you’re going to do instead now that you’ve uninstalled. Maybe the commanders you know are unenthusiastic because they have a bunch of unimaginative players with cookie-cutter builds whining about how the game never changes while they themselves do exactly the same thing over and over again.
So thank you anet for making one of the best game modes that I have played in years of gaming, but also thank you for destroying that game mode.
Since it’s the same game mode (because of the lack of substantial changes you noted earlier), it’s the people who have destroyed it. Overstacking servers? Check – ruined lots of gameplay and communities. People who look up builds or ask someone to just give them a build without trying things themselves and possibly even discovering something new? Check – boring people doing the same boring things that everybody else is doing. People getting stroppy and feeling like having a bit of a public flounce when nobody would even notice if they left? Check – nothing like a “I’m going to whine even though I’m never going to play again” post to make everybody finally see the light.
ANet destroying the game? Try the selfish player base which has far too many entitled only-children types that don’t care a jot about how their actions ripple out and affect others who play the game.
Trollnado Ele – Ehmry Bay
