One point I’d like to make about the lack of first person is that it takes away from the ability to make good films and machinima in GW2. I remember in GW1 there were some excellent videos. Does “And a whole lot of candy cane shards” ring a bell to anyone? I couldn’t find that video but there was one group that did a series of really great news casts!
I did a couple of videos as well (here’s probably the best one… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sncddMzDxoE). That’s one of the things that really bugs me about GW2 is that we have a beautiful world to play in with gorgeous graphics, but there’s no way to enjoy it or use it the same way we could with GW1 since we could zoom into first person there. That video would have been quite impossible to make if I hadn’t been able to zoom into ‘camera man’ mode, and I have to say it’s really been inordinately discouraging to me. :/ I can’t even take good screen shots without having to finagle my character or crop them out…