Guild Wars 2

Sirge.8934:

I know I wouldn’t want to do PR on this. This community makes me sad. It’s been nearly a week now of constant hate and RAEGEEGE!!!11oneoe1 at Anet on these forums.
And how can they reply? Anything they say will be broken down, needlepicked, turned against them, and then saved to file to use as evidence against them 5 months down the line. So its better for them to say nothing at all.

Not anything that they say. Just anything that they say that isn’t accompanied by doing something about it.

ckeeton.4907:

Oh ok so were all mad on a POTENTIAL gear treadmill despite the designers saying they dont intend to make the game a gear treadmill but to have some sort of vertical progression for people who enjoy that sort of progression. you people need to chill out

A gear treadmill is when your character is 100% maxed out, then something is introduced that means your character is less than 100% maxed out, and you have to grind to get back to 100% maxed out, which is exactly where you were to begin with.

Adding vertical progression (at the top) of a game post-release is, by definition, a gear treadmill.

It doesn’t matter if new equipment is introduced every 3 months, every six months, or every two years.

It doesn’t matter if new equipment takes 100 hours to get, or 50 hours, or 2 hours.

It doesn’t matter if the newer equipment is 100 stat points higher, 30 stat points higher, or 5 stat points higher.

Adding any statistically superior equipment to a game after people have reached the maximum is a gear treadmill, and for many players, that’s a dealbreaker. It’s not a matter of degree. It’s a Yes/No, all-or-nothing issue.