Guild Wars 2

Algreg.3629:

I N C A.5148:

Rather then just getting nothing, and being lumped into everyone else.

You´d have some very mild sympathy from me if you were talking GW1, but around here, you are even less special than you think you are in GW1. This is a different game. It puzzles me how you arrive at those ideas. Why stop there? Give me the power armour my CoH character had for years as a skin here?

You are not special. For me, this is one very quirky post. But I guess your claim of feeling “lumped in” with all the newer GW2 peasants will make you really popular with them.

yours sincerly, a GW1 player of some years who does not think he deserves any special treatment at all.

You bringing your CoH armor is totally different because its a game not made by the same people. And you never transfer gear regardless in any game regardless. You are missing the point.

I am saying even If I didn’t get something for 120 months old, that’s fine, But If they did do something that would say a lot because Anet never has and never will do anything like this. Anet didn’t listen to the players back in gw1 and they still don’t now. I am asking however for them to show something, some kind of appreciation for the people who have been around since day 1. Like I said if im not in this group that’s fine. Yet this isent about me or you so im not going to bash anyone.

So my question for the Devs is still what I originally posted. But if you have been around since the beginning, you WILL know that Anet only cares about appeasing the masses, because that bring in numbers.

So I would still like them to do something for the 120 month people, even if im not in it, that’s fine, just do something to show appreciation. Yet im not holding my breath, because Anet will do what it always has done, and always will do.

Well the Anet hacking was hilarious because everyone knew they would have to roll back the servers, there was no way they could let X amount of ecto into the economy and not have it ruin it overall. It was so great because EVERYONE knew how broken it was, it was just a matter of time to see when they would roll the servers back

I think the contest is great, but WOW had their 10 year statue they sent out to their players. I know WOW is a pay to play model, yet I know all the people who were eligible felt pretty special. It would just be nice, to see a little something, even if its just a letter sent to our ingame mail saying “Hey this is Anet, thank you for being with us since the beginning, have a nice day” ya know? Rather then just getting nothing, and being lumped into everyone else.

I know its ivory tower thinking, yet they hopefully do realize the difference between someone who has been with them for the last 2 years vs. the last 9-10 years. That’s a long period of time, lol its longer then apparently 50% of the marriages in the US hahaha…….

Very Respectfully,

Me

Ohh and also the wedding in Lions arch! I cant believe I forgot to add that too! Ohh the memories

I know she wont remember me, but It was so beautiful…..

Dear Anet Devs,

I logged into my gw1 account to see how old it was, It said 118 months which is quite old. Its the same account tied to gw2. I was wondering what you will be doing if anything special for those of us who are still here from the olden days of Guild wars 1.

Those of us from back in the true olden days remember the how great it was to be a warrior with healing breeze and also to sell in lions arch, and when you changed the chat system to “local” and “trading” and everything else. Also my favorite is when the servers broke and ecto sold for like 1 plat each because you were hacked and you had to roll back the server! I bought like 50 stacks of ecto! That was the greatest day ever!!!!

These among many many more things that we true old players have seen.

So I am wondering if there is anything you will do for us, the people that have been with you since quite literally the very beginning. I know I am not the oldest, but 118 months (not including the days because you cant see them) is quite, quite very long.

Very Respectfully,

Me

I just want to let you know…. after reading the final post again, my eyes began to well with tears. I love this game and the experiences and friends i have made, even friends i have met on gw1 that i later met in real life when we all flew to one of the guys house for a week. But i just cant anymore Anet…

Dear Anet

I am writing to let you know you have an “ok” game. I played gw2 in the beta, i have seen the ups and downs for everything you have done. I have stuck through the good and the bad alike. However over the past 6 months, i just cant do it anymore. I cant continually look past the glaring inadequacies of the game. I played gw1 for 6 years, i even played in the gw1 beta! Gw1 had its ups and downs to, and hard mode was the thing that killed gw1 in my opinion in every way by taking out the need to be interactive with other players. But now, now i see you doing the same things you did in gw1, always promising us things, always saying “we are working on it” to just push it back and push it back. Yes you give us new content every 2 weeks in pve, yes you have SAB (best thing ever) and some other great side distractions. However at the end of the day everything that you are doing is just to preoccupy us with some sort of new short term goal. Nothing, and i mean NOTHING you have released has stuck, or fixed the same problems you had on day one. Yes, some things are neat, but the problems that were there on day one, are still there today. I have no reason what so ever to log in and play the game. Yes there in some sort of new content to tide me over till the next 2 week content, but its nothing concrete. All your doing is putting ducktape on a leaky hull to try and patch the problem until another leak appears. The only time i log in, is for holidays and thats simply because im hoping you will give me something similar. I dont want some brand new mind boggling story that i have to complete, i want to see LA in christmas mode and all that it entails and smile because its the same as last year and its consistent as a whole. However now i digress, let me get back to my point.

The problem you had after 3 months of release was and still is player retention. I played gw1 for 6 years not because of the new content every 2 weeks, but because i knew logging in, it would be the same as when i last logged out. And now even after all this time, you have still not given me, us, the community, the one thing that would keep players playing is GvG and HA. Everyday i logged into gw1 to go HA because i wanted to be that cool r3 person, then i wanted to be that cool r6 person, and then i wanted to be that cool r9 person, and then i wanted to be that r12 person, but then said “LOL im good at r10”, but it gave me a goal, a goal that gave me purpose to play and interact, a purpose to hop on vent or ts everyday and talk with my guild mates about anythign whether it was new test spike builds, new gvg builds with modified runner builds, and even pve to go do dungeons/story simply to get gear. HA and GvG bring people together, give us back that fun, that enjoyment, that desire to go bambi someone and be like “NOOOOOOB” lol. Even when having a bambi was lame, it was still a way to make me feel good about playing.

WvW is just a zerg, 3-5 big blobs moving round countering each others blob. Yes you can break off into small groups, but in high ranked servers, its ultimately not practical. current structured PvP is just a hot mess. there is no spike builds, no iway builds, no singet spikes, no crappy yet incredibly enjoyable VIMWAY builds, or paraway, or w/p pressures. Its all just people running the same things and the only difference is who can split better. And with all this being said, I cant play guild wars anymore. I have lost hope and trust that you can fix the problems that have been around since the beginning. I have lost trust and hope that you will ever give us HA and GvG, and if you do, you will do it 2 years from now when the games dying just to bring it back to life.

In conclusion, I have played guild wars for almost 9 years in total, and spent a quite literal countless number of hours online. I cant do it anymore Anet, If and when you ever release HA and GvG (which i doubt) ill come back. I know im just one person, and i know this may never get read, and i know that you always say you have other things to do, But for once just give the players what they want, and stop giving us things YOU want us to want. I love you Anet, and i love Guild Wars, but i just cant do it anymore. I dont want to chidly say “give us this X or i quit” But you have had over a year, and almost 9 years of my total time. Like i said before, I just cant do it anymore….

-Mez Inca