Guild Wars 2

I’ve played since day 1, and really had few complaints up until this weekend. After the debacle, did the One Time Event do more harm than good? I tried to participate Friday & Saturday, but after the catastrophe I completely gave up and did nothing on Sunday. What kind of message did this send to the “Free Trial Accounts” given for this weekend? Speaking from personal feelings, after completing two L80’s and hoping this “expansion” was going to give more enjoyment, I feel let down and have kind of lost the “thrill” of GW2 after the event. I’m not saying I won’t play anymore, or won’t come back, but I really feel no overwhelming desire to continue playing. The event was horribly planned, horribly executed and caused so much frustration across the board that I really wonder how they plan to deal with the PR fallout. I have played MMO’s for years (since UO & DAOC) and can’t remember this much global frustration for any event AFTER initial release of a game. Initial release is always a crap shoot, but with ANet’s experience and 2months after release, I feel there was no viable excuse for the shiite show that was “EPIC” Lost Shores Update. I guess I’m just very disappointed that they would even release something this unprepared…

Sadly, I have given up. I haven’t logged in for the final episode, and really don’t care. This has really soured my opinion of GW2. After having 2 L80’s and honestly enjoyed the game from day 1, I was hoping that the new event and content would refresh what was become a rather monotonous experience. There is only so much you can do after 80, and my true love was the WvW. A long time DAOC fanboi, I was hoping that WvW would get some love as it just hasn’t had the same fulfillment of past experiences. I’m hoping that ANet will pull some magic out of their hat and fix what has been an abortion of an release, but something has changed in my mind. I just don’t feel it anymore, and even less after this weekend.

After all the chaos, bugs, lag, etc I gave up doing any of the scheduled events. I decided I would give the new zone a shot this morning and spent an hour with a group of about 8 people running thru the area. Although I give the artists great credit for making it look great, we killed 4 veterans and 2 champions and we received ZERO drops. In fact, the only thing I’ve gotten in the new zone were a few scales off of the lizards and some passion fruit. I’ve really enjoyed GW2 but this new event/zone is an abortion. It really makes me not want to play anymore which is really sad. Hopefully something is done or I fear the attitude of the player base will really suffer.