Guild Wars 2

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Does not matter what you call them “casual”, low intesnsity", “noob”, etc. What really matters is that HoT was a massive failure. Never before has a AAA MMO had it first xpac fail utterly. EQ, WOW, FFXIV, etc all of these did not see a drop in players/income until they were three or four or more xpacs in.

These are public facts. Any one can look at the financial reports and see how GW2 income plunged. The lead designer was fired because HoT was such a failure.

So for the tens of thousands of ex-GW2 players who left because HoT was annoying (hard or easy is not the question). It failed because people did not like playing the zones. The vast majority of players did not care about hardcore raiding or eSports.

So question is did they learn their lesson. Will we get back to the orginal GW2 that sold by the truck loads. I am still not sure. But so far it seems like they are doing a few things right.

I came back to GW2 after a long absence and was really enjoying the base game. Then I hit the HoT content and not only did not enjoy it, actively disliked it. I thought, if this is where they are taking GW2, then I’m done. Really done.

So the question of whether GW2 is heading back to their original game concepts with PoF is very pertinent. I’m sure I’m not the only former-GW2 player trying to get a sense of whether PoF is more HoT or not, whether to be hopeful or simply resigned.

Anyway, I tried the demo but there wasn’t enough of it to make a conclusion about what direction the content is going or what the maps outside of the first city may look like.

The sad fact is that I so disliked HoT that I’m not going to be easily wooed back to GW2. PoF is going to have to be reviewed extensively and well-received by the community before I seriously consider it.

It took me about 10 minutes of trying various things to get how the mount worked. Once I did, it’s fine. It’s those 10 minutes of frustration in the demo that need cleaning up. A quick tutorial message, hey, dummy, use the space bar, would be immensely helpful.

I have my doubts about the opening fight sequences as well. My demo character was decked out, in a way my regular characters aren’t and probably never will be. I can’t imagine doing that fight on any of my level 80 characters as they stand now.

If you mean that opening fight to be a discriminating gateway, you’ve succeeded. There’s no point in buying the expansion when I know I could never get through that gate and on to the rest of the content.

So, in that regard, the Demo was very helpful in helping me make up my mind.

Same thing is happening to me. I logged last night and this afternoon, gigantic download. Nothing has changed, unless the gremlins were busy during the night.