Guild Wars 2

Zerging about mindlessly from point to point with a giant blob of players is encouraged and rewarded by the game. Because of the ridiculous AoE limitation of 5 players, when the opponents blob reaches a critical mass, there is no way to stop them from taking even a fully upgraded keep. This makes for frustrating and repetitive gameplay.

That is curious. I advertised in a giveaway thread in r/games and all my invites were gone in about 10 minutes.

Crater.1625:

There’s no progression, and your character doesn’t get stronger.

New content that is meant to be at the top level of difficulty will be designed and balanced around the maximum power level that a player can maintain.
It doesn’t matter if that maximum power level means a full set of Exotic gear, a set of Exotic gear with two Ascended rings and a back brace, or a full set of Ascended gear – the actual content, and the actual difficulty level, is going to be balanced around the maximum. The player won’t be any stronger relative to the actual content. The player will only be stronger relative to older, outdated gear.

It’s a treadmill. You have to keep running, you have to keep upgrading your gear, but you’re always stuck in exactly the same place – you’ll never be stronger than the toughest content in the game, because that tough content comes pre-calibrated to take the best equipment into account.

And if you don’t choose to run on the treadmill, what happens? You get weaker as time goes by, because that new content is targeted at players with “Maximum Equipment”, and the “Maximum Equipment” you used to have is now only “(Maximum -1) Equipment”.

So the player never gets stronger, even if they keep upgrading their equipment. Players instead get weaker, if they don’t upgrade their equipment. The only people that are satisfied by this sort of vertical progression are people who enjoy the process of upgrading equipment. And once they actually have the new, “stronger” equipment, they’re right back where they started, waiting for the next round of equipment to run the treadmill backward a little more so they can run to catch up to where they were to begin with.

It’s a farce, and a waste of my time. People are right to flame it.

Spot on. This seems to go right over some peoples heads. It’s all an illusion, you never actually make any progress at all if the line keeps getting moved each time you get near it. On the other hand, the ones who do not take part in such a playstyle gets weaker and weaker the longer they stay away from it.

Feels like they are simply putting a band-aid on the bigger problem, wich seems to be a lack of variety and challenge of the so called endgame.

Very dissapointing, feels like a bait and switch to me. Surely there are other ways to expand and improve the PvE endgame then to simply add a power creep?

Anet should know that the so called hardcore raiding crowd will never be pleased. Even in WoW wich is supposed to be all about the gear “progression” you will have many people who burn trough content as fast as they can just to sit around in Orgrimmar and spam trade chat with “I’m boooooored”.

Supposedly Anet thinks this change to the core game will make people more active, how ironic then that this is the first day since launch were I have abosoluteley no desire to log in.

I just finished getting all exotics on my two 80s… As dramatic as it may sound, if they are truly adding a treadmill I may be done here. I simply don’t have the time or motivation for that stuff anymore. It is one of the main reasons I quit WoW…