Guild Wars 2

It’s only been a few days since the new content went live and we’re already seeing the consequences of it. They’re visible even on the forums. The big guilds are the only gate to the new content and high end gear and they know it. And they know they can make demands. Of course not everyone will, there are some very nice people out there. However, as they say, power corrupts.

I’ve seen something similar happen in another MMO. The only end game raid there (and means of getting high end gear) was dominated by two large groups. One of them allowed my faction to join. The price for that was that every time they saw me join the other group for any other content (PvE or PvP) I was harassed and threatened to never have access to end game raid on any of my characters.

When I started playing GW2 I was so happy that it was free from politics like that. Now I am extremely dissapointed.

The ironic thing is that I finally left my previous MMO for good after one of the devs stated on the forums that some of the changes in the next patch were made to “funnel people into big orgs”. I refuse to be “funneled”.

I want to enjoy this game with my friends and family. I don’t want to be bossed around by a big guild just because they have strength in numbers and got a seal of approval from the game developers to bully everyone else if they choose to do so. This is wrong.