Guild Wars 2

They don’t force you to complete world-discoverey… like it or not, the WvW-World is part of Tyria/the world of GW2 and its just logical that you have to discover it to see the whole world.
Second, looks like they work on that kind of “problem”, many ppl complained to visit fractals for the monthly-achievment. Soon you can choose what you want to do for daily/monthly(?) achievment (choose 4 out of 6 possibilities). Maybe they rework world-discovery too?

+1 for OP, great post.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

CURRENTLY, the only way to acquire ascended rings is through Fractals of the Mist.
CURRENTLY, the only way to acquire ascended back items is through the Mystic Forge.
CURRENTLY, there is no way to acquire ascended items for any other equipment slot.

Nobody can tell us what they’ll do, but you can’t deny that NOW and for a long time (I don’t think the next ‘big’ content-patch will be released this year) the players are forced to run the new Dungeon: New Gear => obtained by Tokens => Tokens drop only in Fractals => Fractals have a ascending level, loot is getting better each lvl => Players who can’t play the new dungeon NOW fear to fall off (and – for now – they will).
Edit: If ANet would tell us now: ‘Guys, calm down, in about 1 month you can buy ascended gear for ~60k karma/each or from “regular” dungeon-tokens…’, I think a lot of people would be satisfied.