Guild Wars 2

There are two things that are being mixed up in this thread, they are similar though. One is Market Segmentiation, the other is Profiling. Market segmentation is a well known fact that has been researched for a long time and it is the base of how professional adveritsing works. Profiling, on the other hand, is based on anectdotical evidence that can or can’t be true. We grow in a society and most people follow a similar path, that is the base of how market segmentation works.
Once you end HS and start college, people face competitivity, raise to the top of your class, earn respect. Sometimes it is based on their appearance. In most cases competition is so hard that people look for shortcuts, don’t have the time to enjoy the process and everyone around them is an enemy. Even if they try them politely and team up, at the end, in most cases, if a person threat their position they have no qualms in crushing him or her. This is one of the segments that MMO are addressed at.
Once people get a job and start climbing the ladder, gaining financial stability, they become more relaxed, have kids and raising them, becoming more tolerant of mistakes, more patient. This is another segment that MMO developers try to predate obviously, because of the underlined phrase.
These segments are not hard cut, and there are obviously noticeable exceptions, but I see GW2 having a good balance caring for both.
Can an older player perform competitively if he wants? Yes, [opening brag bracket]during my last days in WoW I was among the best geared Rogues in my realm and had ranked WoLs in almost every fight in Firelands and Dragon Soul[/closing brag bracket], and I know that I was not the only one. The difference is that I really didn’t care about it, I cared more for seeing the boss die, working as a team, having just simply old fun. The other people (younger) was more interested in topping the DPS charts (even if it meant a wipe), in proving something, making a drama when the guild fell one spot in the WoW Heroes ranking.
If you believe that GW2 don’t care for the obsessive competitive people, just check this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/PuG-Stupidity/first#post3163559
I’m with Vayne here, I don’t like to PuG. I don’t want to be exposed to the scorn in my leisure time

Hello, sorry for the necro, but this is something that interests me a lot.

55 years old gamer here.

It is GW2 geared toward older audience? I can tell you why I love GW2. Is that a symptom that I am an older gamer? Perhaps, I leave it to you, the reader, to judge.
What fascinates me first and foremost from GW2 is the aesthetics. Wherever I look, every single screenshot is a work of art, that helps me with the inmersion, that essentially is why I game, to escape for a few hours of my daily routine, recharge batteries and wake up the next day ready to do my part improving society.

I was in a Guild (not in GW2 ) that was “geared” toward older audiences supposedly with the goal of “minimize” drama. The fact that being older guarantee less drama is a common belief. However, I saw in this Guild as much drama as I’ve seen in Guilds where the GM was a 14 years old girl. The ability of generating “drama” is not a trait that is associated with age, but more with the attitude of the specific player.

I like to play with older gamers because of the social aspect (that has nothing really to do with GW2 or other game specifically). It is common to us to have kids of different ages, talk about them (as much of it is comfortable to share), enjoy music of certain era, similar activities, and talk about topics that are not what someone in their late teens/early twenties would be commonly engaged. Most of us are over the stage of giving priority to “earn respect of the community showing our mad skillz” But that doesn’t mean that we are necessarily crippled regarding the eye/hand/mind coordination required to use a mouse and a keyboard to make our character to do what is needed, as good as anyone else regardless of his/her age. It is not that what is asked is a streneous physical effort that only someone in his/her prime is able to do.

I see that there are some folks replying this thread that are getting it right, so if they don’t mind I will copy their ID and say Hello!

Now…get off of my lawn.

I was able to finish alone all the quests but the last one (that is a 5-man story mode dungeon). For almost all of them I was about the level suggested. (Note: I was struggling with a long standing bug in “Forging the Pact” and I continued leveling, once I was able to complete it I was overleveled for a handful of them afterwards).

I did NOT have any special gear (so don’t allow EdwinLi’s advice to prevent your progress)

My advice? Strategize, look for elements around the area that could allow you gaining an advantage moving out of line of sight or, be smart kiting and pulling, in one word, be patient and plan ahead.

Possibly the fact that I was not top notch geared made me taking longer to defeat the challenges than what other people claim (the ones that will tell you “l2play noob”) but at the end, I finshed the Story, in my own terms

OK, finally could do it. The only thing that I did different this time was that I didn’t ask the scientist about his team or what were they looking for, instead I selected the option to start moving out right away.

Arquillius.8379:

Honestly, I didn’t have a problem with getting through forging the pact, but then again I went in a number of levels over the quest requirement, with a full compliment of food, repair canisters and revive orbs, just in case. I believe I killed all the enemies as well, and rather easily too. Oh, FYI this was on a theif.

I am LEVEL 71!! 9 levels over the recommended level and still, bugged, stuck in my progress. What is going on???

Still not working, cleared everything, and the researchers don’t follow. Any idea about when it will be fixed? I am following the guidelines of the quest by the book. It doesn’t make any sense you needing to do “special tricks” not explicitly written in the quest to make it work.

Same here. The second team refuse to follow