Ah, I love how people are so quick to jump all over the OP for writing up a personal opinion piece yet the same people who spend enough time to add “complainers” to their in game friends list so that they can stalk them don’t have any valuable counter-arguments to the OP’s points.
Probably because the OP is mostly right.
It’s like deja vu. I watched the same thing happen over on the forums for SWTOR. In the beginning, all was good. A few months pass and people start complaining, fanboi’s unite! The most common responses to the complainers were:
Go play something else if you don’t like it, or
I don’t know why people come onto the forums and complain, or
Gamers nowadays expect the devs to accommodate all of their wishes,
Oh, wait, its the same thing I am reading here.
We all know what happened to SWTOR, the very thing all the fanboi’s enthusiastically stated would NEVER happen, the game went F2P.
But the problem is, GW2 is already F2P, or B2P. There is nothing they can do to increase player participation rates short of giving the game away for free. Every single person who leaves the game is one less person in a low level zone playing alts, running with a group of people in WvW, signing up to play sPvP, looking for a dungeon group, etc. And it is noticeable, regardless of what some people insist they see when they play.
I was in a guild of 100 people, who were part of an alliance of, I would guess, at least 800+ people on HoD. It was created by people who enjoy WvW, which is what GW2 was supposedly created for. It is now November and the guild has about 10 people left that play each day. The alliance is gone, the people left the game due to lack of fun in WvW. That’s probably 700+ people no longer playing.
So, everyone, continue to defend the game, attack the complainers, debunk their issues. But don’t complain when, later on down the road, you look around and realize there’s no one around.
