Guild Wars 2

Giere brings up a good point with his “wall of text,” and a huge chunk of the message would be lost if he tried to compact everything into three sentences. Just because something can be summarized does not mean it should be. Using that logic, one could say that instead of a company making a game where the player actually plays through it to experience the story, the company could just create a four panel comic that tries and fails to express the story in its limited space. Or they could just look at a picture of, say, the Eiffel Tower and say they visited it instead of taking the time to travel there and enjoy the wind-up of the journey of getting there.

Onto the original post, I completely agree with Giere. A campfire, being able to sit in chairs, just something that isn’t running from one mob to another and one map to another would be welcome. I thoroughly enjoy my time in Guild Wars 2 (and when I used to play Guild Wars 1, for that matter), but sometimes I just need a break from the constant activity of leveling, or grinding for gold, or working on world completion. Dropping a chair or campfire on top of a mountain or on the shores of a lake would be a perfect break while still staying logged into Guild Wars. I have even suggested to my guild members that we use certain areas as a “guild meeting area,” but it would feel awkward with everyone standing around.

Please break some more molds of the MMO genre, Arena Net, and make Guild Wars 2 into an even better paragon of the new generation of MMOs by letting people make connections with each other instead of the fleeting and brief contact of a dungeon run.