Guild Wars 2

I would like to know where the attitude keeps coming from in all these forum threads I read when I have spare time and forget that this place is bad for my health.

‘The attitude’, of course, is that this game should be teeth-grinding, cheek-clenching, blood-curdling, utterly-impossible-without-cybernetic-enhancements, make-Souls-games-look-like-candy ultra mad hard. That missing one dodge, or failing to pull off a perfectly optimized DPS rotation, or bringing non-Berserker gear/traits, should cause you to not only die, but cause your character to delete itself, your game to uninstall itself, your computer to brick itself, and your house to burn down.

Nobody wants to play that game. That’s not what Guild Wars is. Could the game as a whole use some more interesting enemies? Sure. Do those enemies need to be three times stronger than any PC whilst also attacking in groups of 10+? No, stop that. Sure, one or two Challenge Zones or what-have-you, a’la the original game, which push organized player parties a lot harder than the base open-world content would be appreciated. Everybody deserves a slice of the pie, and realistically things like dungeons should be a whole lot more difficult than they are.

The entire game, however, does not need to be an exercise in frustration. This is not Dwarf Fortress. Knock it off.

Yes, I have.

I’ve also had stretches of a few months where I played virtually no GW2, and was not charged thirty bucks for my inactivity.

And every time I’ve bought gems/bought something with gems, I knew exactly what I was getting and got it immediately.

And if something didn’t appeal to me, I wasn’t forced to spend money on it anyways because “this is what you get this month.”

I know full well I’ve spent more on GW2 than I would have most any sub game. I also don’t care, because I have the money to spend and because I vastly prefer concrete, buy-this-thing transactions over “please pay us X/mo for the privilege of playing this game we already made you pay a box fee for.”

One of those is a company selling me things. The other one is a company withholding things I’ve already bought if I don’t continue to pay them ransom subscription fees. Guess which one I’m willing to support?