Guild Wars 2

So why did you buy it? You could have previewed it first. If you don’t like a set that costs 119 gold, don’t buy it. Spend your hard-earned gold on something else.

I’m very sad to see these changes. I prepurchased this game the moment it was available because I held the manifesto’s ideals near and dear to my heart.

When I first saw Guild Wars 2’s website back in 2010, I fell in love. It was pretty much the game I had been waiting for ever since I started playing MMOs six years ago. I read GW2Guru daily, waited (rather impatiently) for the mesmer to be announced, stayed up until 3 AM to get my names saved, and was incredibly happy just to sit there in-game knowing I did not have to do anything if I didn’t want to. Farming dungeons was not required. WvW was not required. I could get my exotics just from playing the game the way I wanted to… and then after that, I could make my character look however I wanted to make her look. It was a wonderful feeling. My twelve-year-old self was at peace. I had found Guild Wars 2.

Now I don’t know what I feel. I was overhyped at one point in time, yes, but when I first played the game back in BWE1, I felt as if I had been playing the game for years. I suppose I just let myself care too much about ArenaNet and Guild Wars 2.

I’ll wait a few months to see how this turns out. If the game is changing for the worse, well… as Trahearne would say, “Moving on.”

(I will always love you though, ANet. Fo’eva. Especially Kristen Perry because I loved reading your blog posts and the sylvari are so perfect!! You did a great job on them.)