Guild Wars 2

It’s funny seeing you people put this article down, because I read it and found myself nodding my head to a lot of it.

Like, “yeah, I know that feeling”. “Yup, that’s what I saw too”. “Hey, if I was willing to pay a sub fee for a game, yeah I would be going there too”…. and much more. That article was spot on, and a nice fresh change from the sort of material that Massively usually puts out.

This game was marketed as a no-grind game (because Anet doesn’t make grindy games), with horizontal progression for cosmetic rewards as end game. I bought into that hype and I’m not at all happy with the direction this game has taken since then. Everything, absolutely everything has gotten more grind as time goes by, and we’re still stuck with either RNG your mats away to obtain a precursor, pull out your credit card, or grind your face off.

If anything I’m surprised it has taken this long for this sort of article to be written, but then, most of the online gaming websites depend on access to the developers and publishers for their material and they don’t want to offend the source of their material.

This pirate is looking at 50, and keeps on sailing. Remember…

Old age and devious will beat youth and enthusiasm every single time.

I’m sure they’re watching with great interest to see if it works. There’s probably some guy at NCSoft thinking, “dye evaluator? d’oh, why didn’t I think of that….”

Seriously. They never learn.

Are you people so completely not listening to us that you’re going to do this again?

Never mind the vocal minority. Your own metrics must have shown you that we WvW players simply avoided the Living story mobs in borderlands and the Eternal battleground unless the yaks were affected. Living story mobs don’t belong there.

There is no reason for players from the blue or green borderland to invade the red borderland and kill living story mobs, and for that reason alone, the living story mobs don’t belong in WvW.

I think I need to go find that interview with Colin J. where he said something to the effect that “if we listen to our players we’ll be ok”. Something like that.

Anet doesn’t admit make mistakes.

OP shouldn’t worry about “not getting it”. A rather large number of players are never going to get this content because it’s gated and smaller guilds simply can’t play.