Guild Wars 2

You get a lot more for your money than someone with a free to play account does. They are seriously limited, and they don’t get access to the expansion.

You don’t have to believe me; just open a free account, find out for yourself and if you still think you’re being ripped off, then try asking Anet for a refund.

I know there are more than enough Central Tyria MPs than are required to unlock all the mastery tracks, but a good number of them are locked behind things I don’t enjoy at all eg FotM, Jumping Puzzles (spit curse), grinding Season 2 living story to get all the achievements etc etc.

I wish I enjoyed those things like others seem to; heck, I wish I didn’t suck so much at some aspects of the game, but we’re all different (thank goodness). I could just get better like some people ‘helpfully’ suggest – But I just don’t enjoy some things enough to repeat them enough to get better at them, so that advice just blows up on the launch pad, I’m afraid.

I’d appreciate it if Anet could come up with a system of earning CT MP – and other cool things – without locking them behind activities which evidently a lot of players find tedious and frustrating. We were able to avoid doing those things prior to HoT, and yet we still got our jollies and progressed in the game on other ways. Like being able to get all the HPs via WvW. What a fab idea. Could this principle not be adapted and extended to other rewards and other areas of in-game progress?

It’s good not to be alone in my frustration, but I have concerns that this just isn’t going to be addressed, or even acknowledged by TPTB. I’ve played GW since Prophecies and although there’s still a lot about the game I enjoy, the amount of stuff I don’t enjoy seems to be increasing, at the expense of the things I DO enjoy. I’m concerned if this continues, it’ll tip the balance too far the wrong way for me and I’ve loved this game far too long to be elbowed out now! I have crossed my fingers (and all other extremities) in the hope the devs work something out.

Mine is crawling between 2 and 100 kb/s. I’ve still got 5cm of progress bar to go before it’s playable. It’s going to be a long day XD

I think it’s impossible for companies like Anet to enforce or to police age limits, but they have to put it in the user agreement if the game contains material that isn’t suitable for under 13s. I guess it’s intended to absolve them of blame, should a parent try to complain about anything their pre-teen might encounter in-game that they find offensive, or difficult to deal with. Not sure where they’d stand with the chat, some of which I feel too young to read, at the tender age of 50…