Somehow my computer has worsened over time and GW2 has become all laggy for me. It wasn’t like this for me at first. My PC runs other games pretty well so I was planning to fix my PC so I could go back to GW2. Then I thought… why would I want that?
I haven’t played for around 4 weeks now. I logged in once or twice but I had no clue what I was coming back to. A game where you have 5 level 80 chars but know nothing to do isn’t really worth coming back to no?
Some of GW2’s features are enjoyable. And overall I really like GW2. Otherwise I wouldn’t be posting here. But with all the oppotunities to PvP/ WvwvW I am still very upset no work is being put in rewarded 1v1 PvP. Sure you can BUY your own PvPserver so you can do 1v1 games. But it’s nothing like an actual 1v1 Arena with achievements/ rewards/ armor based on that. Not everyone feels like claiming forts all day long and listening to a screaming leader while being r*ped 5 to 1 by a different server.
Untill that is introduced. I don’t think I’ll bother coming back. Which really bums me out since I love the GW2 community over most of the other games I play.
Please Anet… get working to content and platforms that people are ACTUALLY waiting for, use your imagination instead of letting the ship of the last living story crash and create a whole new story around that… it’s rather boring.
Hope to come back in the future. X
That sucks to hear about your performance in-game. Maybe your system needs some looking at or is it -only- happening with GW2? Maybe a clean re-install of your OS. Who knows?
Anyways, I’ve bolded the part of your post that is most interesting to me and I’d like to offer my view of this.
You say you want something akin to a true arena PvP mode, something akin to what is in Wildstar and World of Warcraft I’m assuming. You then tell Arena-Net to “use their imaginations”. The Living Story -is- them using their imaginations. No other MMO does something like the LS, but nearly every MMO under the sun attempts to create some arena type “e-sport” wannabe PvP game mode that leads to nothing but cheesy meta-games and balancing nightmares for the game overall.
The game has WvWvW as well, which is something -most- other MMO’s do not have. Again, something different than the norm, at least as far as “mainstream” MMO’s are concerned. World of Warcraft has never come close to having any kind of feature such as WvWvW. DAoC was it afaik, and now ESO, which received fairly negative press and reviews upon its release, unlike Guild Wars 2 which was very positively received.
I just find it interesting that you ask them to use their imaginations, yet your suggestion is to implement a game mode that is rather myopic and common. I’m not trying to attack you, just pointing that out.
Living Story, at least as a concept, is far more imaginative for the theme park MMO than an arena PvP game mode could ever be or will ever be. Just something to consider.
You’re absolutely right
That’s why I said I find some of the features in GW2 enjoyable. They do have unique things in GW2 like WvwvW and LS. They put so much effort into making it a fun game for everyone and I see that. But the things they come up with to fill the living story, this unique way of playing, is rather upsetting when you see you get to play another few months in the wreckage of the last Living story. That is where I find they are lacking imagination. WvWvW is a great platform and although I don’t always enjoy it. Many others do. So great
MMORPG’s have evolved over the years and in my oppinion there are some basic things every MMORPG should have. If you make an MMORPG lacking features as 1v1 rewarded combat (I’ve never played either of the games you mentioned, WoW and that other one, so don’t know if that’s any good :P) you are ALWAYS reliant on other players. While I want a platform to show individual skill and get rewarded for it. Sure it is hard to balance these kinds of things. But should the player be the one to pay for that? You mention e-sports. It’s not growing this hard for nothing. People are interested in playing this kind of matchmade combat. Guild Wars 2 is just one of the games that have the actual potential in making a graphically amazing 1v1 rewarded combat system. GW2 would be the only game I’d trust in making such an experience really amazing BECAUSE of their imagination on those fronts. I mean… how awesome are some of the sceneries in GW2?
The Living story content is just not cutting it for me at the moment. It’s a sequal on a repeated living story. Since I don’t lagg in other games, yea, that will be where you can find me for now. I really hope I can come back to GW2 (Without lagg) one day and say they implemented some things to give me the amazing GW2 feeling back.
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you can get higher on the reactor and look at the fire ele from up top
Sorry buddy!
