I’m gonna try to keep this as constructive as possible without whining to much, but there will be some whining:
It seems to me, that with every new update that has come out, there is a long list of achievements we should be obtaining to get some kind of meta achievement. The achievements don’t feel like achievements anymore, they feel like chores, or like those quests in other games Arena net said they abhorred, “Go kill 50 of this mob” “Go kill enough mobs to get this many trick-or-treat bags,” and I just don’t wanna do it anymore. The problem ends up being, that if I don’t want to do the achievements… there’s nothing left to do. To try to keep this post as short as possible while still remaining constructive, I just want to ask that Arenanet please stop making these carrot on a stick type achievements designed to keep up playing. You guys have an awesome creative team and I know you’re better than this. You can keep us playing just on the merit of it being awesome content. Go back to the manifesto, look through, have that be your guideline and go back to square one. Start making content like you used to when the game first came out.