After almost nine years as an active GW player, I’m afraid it’s goodbye from me. The megaserver update is what really done it for me this time, and certainly not the only reason to leave this game.
Other reasons:
• The lack of content
• The lack of rewarding content
• The lack of permanent content
• The lack of dev interaction
• Ridiculous amounts of RNG+Gold sinks
• Diminishing returns/Magic Find
• A complete zerg grind fest
• Ascended gear
• A game designed for ex-WoW players
• Lackluster major patches/updates
• Living story is rushed, poorly written, and a waste of dev time
• 2 years on and no official expansion (not even announced)
• Frequent gem store cash grabs
• Unbalanced classes
The future is not bright. There is no light at the end of the tunnel for this game. It’s been spiraling downward since day one. There’s really no heart and soul put into this game, like there had been in GW1, instead of being a niche game it’s tried it’s absolute hardest to appeal to every type of MMO player, and that’s what has failed this game. No guild halls, no GvG, no title hunting, no teamplay. Just what game did I pay for 2 years ago? Guild Wars or GenericMMO#8234?
I’ve literally forced myself to like this game, and gave it a chance to bring back the Guild Wars feel with enjoyable updates, but I think 2 years has been enough and I regret not leaving this game far, far sooner.
Man this post is right on. I can’t believe how many wrong turns this game taken since launch. It should be so much more than it is at this point. It’s been so mismanaged that it’s unreal. Even just their lack of presence on the boards since the last patch is a major indictment of how they’re handling the game.
I’m very, very cautiously optimistic that they’re slowly weeding out what obviously doesn’t work and year 2 will end up being at least somewhat better than year 1, but I wouldn’t go so far as to bet on it.
Several of those points are crazy. Gem store “cash grabs” are how we play a subscription-quality MMO without a subscription. You never have to spend a dime. It’s like complaining about taxes while living on disability or something. So silly.
Living story was rushed at the beginning, yes, but it improved substantially as time went on. And the entire game has moments of poor writing – by and large the Living Story was solid. Especially at the end as the characters from various arcs came together, it was really impressive. It worked far better than goram mary sue Trahearne, at least.
TO THE WHOLE THREAD: ANet has said repeatedly that there’s no reason they can’t work on Living Story AND Expansion content. They haven’t announced anything because they don’t want to distract from Season 2 of the Living Story. Assuming we don’t spend four months on a month’s worth of content again (Flame and Frost, we remember you), Season 2 will wrap up in about a year, and we’ll likely have an expansion 4-6 months after. That’s right on par for an MMO’s first xpac – WoW took three years, Rift took two, and TOR took a year and a half.
And it’s worth considering that we’ve had at least an expansion’s worth of game improvements and features since launch.
