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I think it’s because the game itself is too simple.
All I know is I had around 10 thousand hours playing GW. I’ve only got a few hundred in GW2, and I’m frustrated and bored with it.
Overall, I think it’s just because the quality is so mediocre.
All of the content feels like it was rushed, and just wandering the open world gets to be pretty repetitive. F&F content was WAY over-hyped. There are clearly many mechanics designed to keep OCD types playing, but that kind of game lacks any imagination or flair to me. TBH, this game feels like it’s “the bare minimum” to keep people interested; rather it just seems to focus on driving people to the gem store.
So yea…thousands of hours in GW, just a few hundred in GW2.
GW2 is somewhat innovative in a few nice ways, but overall, the poor quality of the design/implementation has driven me out of it. Being bored and/or annoyed is not fun.
But hey, perhaps they’re laughing all the way to the bank because of gold/gem sales. You don’t have to make quality if you can get the annoyed or obsessive types to spend money in the cash shop, because RNG is so bad.
Whatever. GW2 is the biggest disappointment to me in gaming because I loved GW so much and this game has completely departed from that philosophy. Which sucks to be ArenaNet, because if they hadn’t driven off so many of the GW old guard, they’d probably be making lots of money from what would have been their most loyal fans.
So they clearly could give a crap about keeping the old community going. ArenaNet today is not the great company that made Guild Wars.
Sigh. I eagerly anticipated GW2 for years. It’s a shame, but I’m playing other things now.
Same here. Although, I don’t believe it’s because the quality is mediocre. I think it’s down to a far too shallow learning curve. Someone somewhere in the design process forgot that computer games are about learning and exploration. As soon as a player has learned everything and explored everywhere within a game, you’re going to have a bored user who will most likely want to do something else. I am, of course, ignoring the social aspect of the game.
As a friend of mine put it: “GW2 is a mile wide, but an inch deep.” Sounds like you’re saying pretty much the same thing.
Pretty much.
All I know is I had around 10 thousand hours playing GW. I’ve only got a few hundred in GW2, and I’m frustrated and bored with it.
Overall, I think it’s just because the quality is so mediocre.
All of the content feels like it was rushed, and just wandering the open world gets to be pretty repetitive. F&F content was WAY over-hyped. There are clearly many mechanics designed to keep OCD types playing, but that kind of game lacks any imagination or flair to me. TBH, this game feels like it’s “the bare minimum” to keep people interested; rather it just seems to focus on driving people to the gem store.
So yea…thousands of hours in GW, just a few hundred in GW2.
GW2 is somewhat innovative in a few nice ways, but overall, the poor quality of the design/implementation has driven me out of it. Being bored and/or annoyed is not fun.
But hey, perhaps they’re laughing all the way to the bank because of gold/gem sales. You don’t have to make quality if you can get the annoyed or obsessive types to spend money in the cash shop, because RNG is so bad.
Whatever. GW2 is the biggest disappointment to me in gaming because I loved GW so much and this game has completely departed from that philosophy. Which sucks to be ArenaNet, because if they hadn’t driven off so many of the GW old guard, they’d probably be making lots of money from what would have been their most loyal fans.
So they clearly could give a crap about keeping the old community going. ArenaNet today is not the great company that made Guild Wars.
Sigh. I eagerly anticipated GW2 for years. It’s a shame, but I’m playing other things now.
Same here. Although, I don’t believe it’s because the quality is mediocre. I think it’s down to a far too shallow learning curve. Someone somewhere in the design process forgot that computer games are about learning and exploration. As soon as a player has learned everything and explored everywhere within a game, you’re going to have a bored user who will most likely want to do something else. I am, of course, ignoring the social aspect of the game.
It did take a bit of co-ordination, but I don’t think you should remove it just because it’s a bit tricky.
In fact, now you know how to do it, won’t it be really easy next time?
Agree. The queue times are ridiculous. It really needs some sort of solution.