Guild Wars 2

Stormcycle.4208:

Sixpax.8360:

I have to agree that this is the best MMO (in my opinion). It’s not perfect, but there is zero appeal to all other MMO’s now that I’ve played GW2. I just can’t stomach playing an MMO where the following are part of the game design:
1) A subscription fee
2) Punctuation marks over NPC’s heads (what is this, Sesame Street?)
3) Quests that you have to use your imagination to buy into (centaurs attacking the town my eye)
4) Raiding (/puke)
5) Kill stealing and resource stealing
6) Quest competition instead of cooperation
7) Gear-based PvP
8) Level disparity discouraging cooperative play in lower level areas

I agree with everything you said here. Especially the subscription fee part. How can anyone pay for a subscription fee in an MMO anymore after seeing the ones out now that are F2P and higher quality than anything that has been released before?

I can’t believe people still play an 8 year old MMO and act like its the greatest thing ever, and they pay 15 dollars a month for it! Look how long they take to release a content patch as well. Paying for nothing.

Mostly agree with Sixpax except point one. When company manage to hold enough subscribers for some time after release then game becomes more likely stable and often growing. F2P was always for lower grade milking cows that are in beta state with few features, otherwise no one would sub for longer than three to six months.

I’m wondering how is GW2 superior to this 8 years old MMO while almost everyone who played this 8 years old game after some time in GW2 won’t play it for free.

Mackdose.6504:

Astralporing.1957:

It had potential to be a great game. Unfortunately, it seems that potenial is now being wasted on trying to make it a WoW clone. And it that category it will never be better than the original.

Where do you see this game becoming a WoW clone? I still have an active sub in WoW and this game is a night and day difference. Care to substantiate your claim?

“Gear treadmill” doesn’t count as an argument on the grounds that it’s not required to see all current content, and the stat difference is negligible currently. (Basically there is no “treadmill” because there’s no content gates.)

Dev post about Agony clearly says there will be point in dungeon where you will have to stack resistance to progress further. Actually it sounds more likely Treadmill of The Mists only but there will be side effects outside of fractal too. EOT

Alucielyse.4791:

Agreed with Rakhar. Although I feel like this is probably another butt hurt post about Precursors and how hard they are to get.

For some people this is nothing new and they wanna puke while seeing xxxx chest with rare l00tz at cash shop in yet another f2p game. Personally I’m sick of games revolving around chests or any other slot machine like things. You would actually have to pay me well in order to make me play it.

OP: ‘Bugs aside, you have to admit that GW2 has the best PvP and PvE content in the MMO market right now, and all this while being a recent release.’

Could you help me and link to source please? Would like to see who said that and how he supports his statement.

I did real almost all of it and you guys don’t make any sense. The OP is just suggesting that ANET makes profit on something that already happens but only swindlers are getting their share. Not gonna explain it to you cause he is kittening right and kittening clear though no one seems to be able to comprehend it.

Rift! I’d quit rift just because I had no time for raiding and could tank dungeons blindfolded. Now there is crap load of new dungeons, housing, new maps, +10 to level cap and they don’t have black lion chests\con…something chests\mystic toilet and dimnishing returns so you will more likely fill shortage with GBP\EUR\USD currency.

Vinny.6924:

These times shall be known as the porous bone depression.

Say goodbye to a good chunk of player base. Which can be translated to profit.

Earth to Anet. Come in Anet.

Can confirm it with what I’ve done after finding out there was another loot nerf. Simply asked for refund yesterday and got my cash back in couple of hours. Funny thing is that even after having cash back my account was working flawlessly so I decided to sell all stuff and try to get precursor as I hear it has increased drop rate. I guess I spent about 40g and this gamble took a while as I was selling back some better exotics. Effect? No sign of precursor. TBH I didn’t quit because of gear tier up but because such ninja nerfs of drop rates (it’s always because of bots, bugs, exploits but in real it’s because of higher cash shop currency sales) and second event that is not only with chest in cash shop but with only chest. Game doesn’t differ much to korean style milking cow, but everything will come with time.

None, one WoW player was eager to try it about month ago and I talked him out of this.