Guild Wars 2

I feel the same way. I also rarely if ever post here.

I was one of those vocal players against mounts, and to be honest, I am still against them in Guild Wars. Never needed them in GW1, nor in GW2.

But this? These mounts are amazing. They feel like beasts you ride, they serve a function and have personality. (As a dog person…that raptor is absolutely fantastic)

You dismount them for interaction and the way the raptor winds up to throttle into full speed, then slides a bit when stopping…absolutely fantastic, and this is what I think is mounts done right. Better than any MMO.

I really hope the Anet team doesn’t change the above mentioned things about the mounts. People just need to get used to something different, same as I had to do with these mounts in my beloved GW.

Dungeons award tokens…which u exchange for cosmetic gear…so…there’s ur reward, can’t comment on WvW cuz I don’t PvP much…but then again, when I do, I don’t do it for rewards.

Once again…a reward is not always gear with better stats…a reward is what a person deems worthy of getting for doing a certain activity…what might not seem a reward to u, could be a reward for someone else.

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Except… this game- GW2- is a grind until max level, which is unnaturally high all things considered. This game feels exactly like any other grind- except it’s a grind without a reward to it.

It really feels like they’ve missed their mark, and badly.

There is a reward to the “grind” as u call it…it’s cosmetic gear…just because u don’t see it fitting to be called a reward for ur effort doesn’t mean that everyone else doesn’t either.

And if u know anything about Guild Wars 1 u’d know that they actually did not miss their mark…

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Adakhar.5386:

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Adakhar.5386:

I don’t get…and probably never will get, what it is that drives ppl like the OP and other users to this game.

There’s apparently very little they enjoy and what they do enjoy isn’t good enough so they want it to be what they imagine it should be.

I get some of the things some ppl wish, I don’t share those opinions…but I get them, yet being so many other games that offer them, why should a game that other ppl enjoy for what it is change everything so a minority is happy with it and stays? Which in the end will turn it into X generic MMO out in the market…it only shows that some are alergic to any sort of change in their routine.

Yes, gear progression might not be the huge transformation from Guild Wars 2 to X generic MMO…but in combination with it and stuff like mounts, 25man raids, factions and other stuff which has been mentioned several times in other threads will transform the game into something most ppl in GW2 do not want…something we did not look forward to when buying the game.

tl;dr: The game was advertised a certain way, ppl bought for it and love/hate it for it…if u don’t like the game the way it is, there’s no shame in finding something u like…but don’t go ahead trying to “ruin” it for others.

I can speak only for me but what do you do if you are happy with 80% of the game and unhappy with the remaining 20%?

You try to give feedback. Bad idea in this game, you are swarmed by fanboys and… well I ranted about that in my original post. The level of fanboyism in this community is extreme, it’s destroying every form of constructive feedback.

The game has very dedicated devs behind it, it has wonderful graphics and introduces some nice concepts to the MMORPG genre. But it lacks progression in any form and if you give feedback why it’s boring you are bitten by rabid fanboys.

Well, that’s because I created this thread…

Very well, I understand what u mean, and it’s completely valid to give your feedback to try and improve the game, but u have to accept that what u consider an improvement will clash with what others consider an unwelcome change.

Yes, I can accept that. What I can’t accept is told to leave or go back to WoW everytime someone criticises “their” game. Funny, first they tell you to leave, a few months later they whine about empty servers…

U don’t have to leave the game, but if u don’t like it u probably will. That doesn’t mean u “HAVE” to like it the way it is either. In my case I said u could find a different game as a suggestion, not an attack.

I can only recommend to see the game as what it is, and either enjoy or hate it for it. A free to play MMO to play with ur friends, socialize, explore a “magical” world and obtain pointless cosmetic gear for ur character. At the same time u can play a different game which offers a different play style that u might prefer at the time. But currently (and I hope that doesn’t change) there’s no such thing as gear progression other than a cosmetic one…in MY personal opinion…that’s just the way I like it.

Our opinions differ…but so does the game from what it is that u suggest.

Cephei.2610:

Adakhar.5386:

I don’t get…and probably never will get, what it is that drives ppl like the OP and other users to this game.

There’s apparently very little they enjoy and what they do enjoy isn’t good enough so they want it to be what they imagine it should be.

I get some of the things some ppl wish, I don’t share those opinions…but I get them, yet being so many other games that offer them, why should a game that other ppl enjoy for what it is change everything so a minority is happy with it and stays? Which in the end will turn it into X generic MMO out in the market…it only shows that some are alergic to any sort of change in their routine.

Yes, gear progression might not be the huge transformation from Guild Wars 2 to X generic MMO…but in combination with it and stuff like mounts, 25man raids, factions and other stuff which has been mentioned several times in other threads will transform the game into something most ppl in GW2 do not want…something we did not look forward to when buying the game.

tl;dr: The game was advertised a certain way, ppl bought for it and love/hate it for it…if u don’t like the game the way it is, there’s no shame in finding something u like…but don’t go ahead trying to “ruin” it for others.

I can speak only for me but what do you do if you are happy with 80% of the game and unhappy with the remaining 20%?

You try to give feedback. Bad idea in this game, you are swarmed by fanboys and… well I ranted about that in my original post. The level of fanboyism in this community is extreme, it’s destroying every form of constructive feedback.

The game has very dedicated devs behind it, it has wonderful graphics and introduces some nice concepts to the MMORPG genre. But it lacks progression in any form and if you give feedback why it’s boring you are bitten by rabid fanboys.

Well, that’s because I created this thread…

Very well, I understand what u mean, and it’s completely valid to give your feedback to try and improve the game, but u have to accept that what u consider an improvement will clash with what others consider an unwelcome change.

For example, u say it lacks progression in any form, but some might not see that as a need for the game to improve. I for example, played Guild Wars for many years, and there’s no progression beside a cosmetic one…even less so than in GW2 since u get max stats very early on. And yet me and many others considered progress, to get better looking gear to make our characters look and feel stronger…even though it didn’t improve our stats at all. U might say that’s just an illusion, but it felt like it was enough for me.

I didn’t like how in say…Aion or Swtor…u had to get better gear to be accepted in certain content “FORCING” me to do content I didn’t want to do in order to see the one I wanted.

What I’m trying to say is, the game was intended to be this way as a similarity to what the original GW had in the game and as such there is no actual gear progression, which ppl like me actually enjoy :/…it’s just a different game for ppl with different tastes.

Ok…usually I agree to anything that has to do with traveling using the waypoint…idk about the cost, it hasn’t bothered me yet but I can see some getting bothered by it because it shouldn’t prevent someone from playing with someone else, but…telling others to walk…or that it is a luxury, debates everything that has been said before by other users when say…the mount topic appears…

Some say they want mounts and the counter argument is that there are waypoints…
I don’t want mounts,hate them…just so we’re clear on that, but if ppl tell others to walk, then mounts start looking quite attractive. Waypoints shouldn’t be a luxury, they should be quite norml considering u find them for map completion…there are so many, and they were easily used in GW1 for travel…not to mention the above statement of mine, considering this the alternative to mounts…which I love (it being the alternative).

I don’t get…and probably never will get, what it is that drives ppl like the OP and other users to this game.

There’s apparently very little they enjoy and what they do enjoy isn’t good enough so they want it to be what they imagine it should be.

I get some of the things some ppl wish, I don’t share those opinions…but I get them, yet being so many other games that offer them, why should a game that other ppl enjoy for what it is change everything so a minority is happy with it and stays? Which in the end will turn it into X generic MMO out in the market…it only shows that some are alergic to any sort of change in their routine.

Yes, gear progression might not be the huge transformation from Guild Wars 2 to X generic MMO…but in combination with it and stuff like mounts, 25man raids, factions and other stuff which has been mentioned several times in other threads will transform the game into something most ppl in GW2 do not want…something we did not look forward to when buying the game.

tl;dr: The game was advertised a certain way, ppl bought for it and love/hate it for it…if u don’t like the game the way it is, there’s no shame in finding something u like…but don’t go ahead trying to “ruin” it for others.