Guild Wars 2

Crackbone.5710:

Where are the thousands of hours?

Bottom line, ArenaNet needs to keep people playing. It’s obvious if you read between the lines with this entire update that their current course wasn’t going to pay the bills over time.

Plans change and reality has a way of making ideas fall back to earth.

I suggest that if you enjoy Guild Wars 2 whatsoever, you embrace these changes.

They might just be what keeps Guild Wars 2 afloat for many years to come.

I enjoy this game because of their original endgame philosophy. If this change goes through in the way it seems to be, I won’t give a hoot about it anymore. It’ll be just another MMO.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/21/guild-wars-2-interview-monetization/

“Here’s what we believe: If someone wants to play for a thousand hours to get an item that is so rare that other players can’t realistically acquire it, that rare item should be differentiated by its visual appearance and rarity alone, not by being more powerful than everything else in the game. Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games — we leave the grind to other MMOs.”

What happened?

Betrayal.

I bought this game to escape from gear grind as they advertised in their manifesto. If it’s as bad as it looks, I want a refund.