Guild Wars 2

Edit, I got the answer ty

The demographic has continued to move to older players. When I began in 1997, the average age was about 24 – 26 years old with a 80% male population. As games have expanded their bases and catered to a variety of niche markets, that demographic has changed. Now, we have an average age of around 34 years with a 60% male population.

There are many theories to why the populace has gotten older. The leading idea is the introduction of alternative entertainment sources like a stronger platform market and viable iOS markets drawing young players away from MMO’s.

There are a bunch of sites that correlate this data like The Daedalus Project (Nick Yee), mmorpg.com, mmo-champion and various mmo blogs.

Galtrix.7369:

Priam.8079:

Dante.1508:

Priam.8079:

So I have been trying GW2 for the first time over the last two weeks.

I have tried every class and every race except the salad people. I can see where the game has it’s strengths and weaknesses. Granted, two weeks doesn’t give you a huge perspective.

The only class that I seem to be able to play at all is the Guardian. To me, this is a major disappointment.

I have been an MMO player for years, from Ultima Online to Everquest, Star Wars, RIFT and WoW, I have played a lot. I used to raid high end content in WoW a few years back, but now I think I am becoming “that guy”. The guy who is mediocre or bad at gaming.

Guild Wars 2 should be in my wheelhouse. I should be excelling at the game. Instead, I find myself dying every night at least a half a dozen times. The game has continued to be frustrating to me. Meanwhile, I am surrounded by a really nice community that seems to be doing well.

So what if you find that you are “that guy”. Is Guild Wars 2 a much more difficult MMO than the others? Or am I at the end of my hobby?

I’m bias with this game to the negative, so bare with me.

The game is good on some levels but compared to many MMO’s it lacks Depth (and longevity for me).

I found leveling alts up to be the only real flavor i enjoyed, sadly the game does not like my play style much. For what its worth the classes are all very similar to each other so there isn’t very much in them.

Sure Ranger has pets but they don’t work very well etc, so we have DPS on all classes traits and skills do very little (ran around for months with no traits on my Engi made zero difference to my game play) and the skills are all similar on the classes most get a version of each others skills..

The content has become steadily harder even PvE over the past year to appease the complaints but its made it a lot harder on new players, open world is just a leveling tool events are all for lv 80 and the grind has taken over most aspects that were fun.

Achievements are generally grind based etc jump puzzles and PvP are only fun to a select few that like that game play etc. Dungeons are end game and quite repetitive with low rewards for the risk involved.

I sadly am having more fun in the games this game said it would not be. maybe this game doesn’t fit your style of play or just feels too different.

At least you are honest. For the first time in sixteen years I am without a compelling MMO to play. When I sat for six hours at a spawn point in World of Warcraft waiting for a mob to spawn to have a chance at getting a mini-pet, I realized it was time to leave.

I am not sure where I will land, but trying GW2 is at least keeping me busy.

Thanks for your post.

You realize you are part of a very, very small minority in the WoW community that does an event for a minipet, right? And you left a game that focus’s .0005% of its attention on minipets (WoW) just to come to a game that focus’s about 20% of its attention on minipets. And you’re doing the same thing in GW2 as you did in WoW, except you do it longer and again and again. I guarantee you’ll spend more than 6 hours in GW2 collecting minipets. I do not understand your reasoning there

Hi Galtrix,

The pet example was one small part of my leaving WoW after nine years. The whole island that was introduced pre-SoO was a slap in the face. After having played since December to achieve my legendary cloak, and spending hours in normal raids AND LFR, to see a player fresh at 90 walk onto an island and open a box to get gear close to mine was a big factor in my exit.

I was a mini-pet collector though, and some of the pets required camping and RNG to even see it. Sitting and waiting for a mob to spawn, or an event to begin only to not get the pet was a huge waste of game time. And before you say MMO’s are a waste of time, I would disagree. MMO’s are my hobby.

It took a lot to walk away from nine years of game play, but it was time.

P.S. I will never “collect” anything in an MMO again. The payoff has never been worth the effort.

Dante.1508:

Priam.8079:

So I have been trying GW2 for the first time over the last two weeks.

I have tried every class and every race except the salad people. I can see where the game has it’s strengths and weaknesses. Granted, two weeks doesn’t give you a huge perspective.

The only class that I seem to be able to play at all is the Guardian. To me, this is a major disappointment.

I have been an MMO player for years, from Ultima Online to Everquest, Star Wars, RIFT and WoW, I have played a lot. I used to raid high end content in WoW a few years back, but now I think I am becoming “that guy”. The guy who is mediocre or bad at gaming.

Guild Wars 2 should be in my wheelhouse. I should be excelling at the game. Instead, I find myself dying every night at least a half a dozen times. The game has continued to be frustrating to me. Meanwhile, I am surrounded by a really nice community that seems to be doing well.

So what if you find that you are “that guy”. Is Guild Wars 2 a much more difficult MMO than the others? Or am I at the end of my hobby?

I’m bias with this game to the negative, so bare with me.

The game is good on some levels but compared to many MMO’s it lacks Depth (and longevity for me).

I found leveling alts up to be the only real flavor i enjoyed, sadly the game does not like my play style much. For what its worth the classes are all very similar to each other so there isn’t very much in them.

Sure Ranger has pets but they don’t work very well etc, so we have DPS on all classes traits and skills do very little (ran around for months with no traits on my Engi made zero difference to my game play) and the skills are all similar on the classes most get a version of each others skills..

The content has become steadily harder even PvE over the past year to appease the complaints but its made it a lot harder on new players, open world is just a leveling tool events are all for lv 80 and the grind has taken over most aspects that were fun.

Achievements are generally grind based etc jump puzzles and PvP are only fun to a select few that like that game play etc. Dungeons are end game and quite repetitive with low rewards for the risk involved.

I sadly am having more fun in the games this game said it would not be. maybe this game doesn’t fit your style of play or just feels too different.

At least you are honest. For the first time in sixteen years I am without a compelling MMO to play. When I sat for six hours at a spawn point in World of Warcraft waiting for a mob to spawn to have a chance at getting a mini-pet, I realized it was time to leave.

I am not sure where I will land, but trying GW2 is at least keeping me busy.

Thanks for your post.

Thank you all. This community continues to impress. Thank you for all the feedback.

So I have been trying GW2 for the first time over the last two weeks.

I have tried every class and every race except the salad people. I can see where the game has it’s strengths and weaknesses. Granted, two weeks doesn’t give you a huge perspective.

The only class that I seem to be able to play at all is the Guardian. To me, this is a major disappointment.

I have been an MMO player for years, from Ultima Online to Everquest, Star Wars, RIFT and WoW, I have played a lot. I used to raid high end content in WoW a few years back, but now I think I am becoming “that guy”. The guy who is mediocre or bad at gaming.

Guild Wars 2 should be in my wheelhouse. I should be excelling at the game. Instead, I find myself dying every night at least a half a dozen times. The game has continued to be frustrating to me. Meanwhile, I am surrounded by a really nice community that seems to be doing well.

So what if you find that you are “that guy”. Is Guild Wars 2 a much more difficult MMO than the others? Or am I at the end of my hobby?

So I have a couple of friends that had planned to play with me on a server. They suggested a specific server. I started playing about ten days ago. Since that time, they have decided not to play. I am on a low population server and I have been advised by many people to find a more populated server.

Seeing as how I am new, I have no connections to the server I started on. I know that this is an often asked question, but what servers would people recommend?

I am hearing Tarnished Coast, Blackgate and Jade Quarry. At the same time, I am hearing that some of these servers are often full and unplayable.

Anyone have any advise?

Thank you for all the mature, respectful suggestions. Appreciate it. Staying with the Guardian until I better understand the game.

DusK.3849:

I honestly find it difficult to believe you’re a “twelve year MMO vet” when you’re saying stuff like “I rarely see anyone in the zones I am adventuring in”, as if that same problem doesn’t exist with just about every MMORPG out there.

Hi Dusk, you are right in that population at lower levels is not specific to GW2. However I have not seen anyone today in Brisban Wildlands, no one.

I am trying not to be negative (not coming across well I know). I want to like the game because it is honestly challenging.

To answer everyone else’s question. I have a Mesmer at 20, an Engineer at 25 and a Guardian at 31. Saying that, maybe I am playing too much.

I stopped playing the Mesmer at 20 because I was just running in circles and dodging every opponent I faced. Watching some videos on strategy and build, they were still running around in circles at level 80.

The Engineer is fun, but I stopped at 25 because I kept dying over and over and I felt that I was missing some tactic. It felt lost.

The Guardian has more durability, but I still feel like I am missing something.

I am not giving up, but I am frustrated. Trying not to quit.

But everyday I find myself unhappy at one thing or the other. This is coming from a twelve year MMO vet.

Today it was a non-group event that saw me killing over forty Inquest NPC’s that continued to spawn in a stream, preventing me from taking back a way point.

Yesterday it was insta-death from mobs. No red circle, no way to judge a dodge or defend, just a simple one shot.

I am new to the game, but I die easily a dozen times a day. I rarely see anyone in the zones I am adventuring in.

I really want to like the game, from the graphics to the basic break with traditional MMO’s. But the game leaves me frustrated more than fulfilled. The crafting system required me to spend an hour on Google to understand it. The combat is either balanced or overpowering.

I will say that the player-base is more friendly than most.

I have to ask, does this ever balance out? Or are my two options for combat back-pedaling on every fight or having to play a heavily armored class.

I feel like I am missing something huge in the game, like if I understood something I would “get it”. Right now, I am fighting to keep playing.

Coming from a WoW player, and an MMO player since 1997, this game is one of the most difficult I have had to play.

The classes are unbalanced in that some you can dominate from the beginning, while others you have to really be on top of things.

I like a lot that the game has to offer, but there is so much that is difficult to overcome, or is poorly designed (ie: dying and choosing a way point to rez that says it is clear, only to find it surrounded by mobs and dying again.)

I have only been playing for a week, and I am on the fence as to whether or not I like the game.

This game is nothing like WoW, and makes the challenge of WoW look like the Sims.

My opinion.

Awesome answers, thank you so much for the input.

I just received a 2000 gem card. Is there a guide or does anyone have any thoughts on smart ways to spend the currency? I just started playing about a week ago.

Thank you

No, I am not throttled. For example I was able to load all of World of Warcraft complete in about eight hours. I am now at eight hours for Guildwars 2, having 16% complete. I am on wireless, so I am going to move my rig into my office and hardwire it to the router. I hope that helps. This should be downloaded and playing by the days end. Anything else is really unacceptable.

The title says it all. Only 1% downloaded after 2 hours.

I have turned off all my security to my computer and my firewall. I am averaging about 50 KB/sec. Obviously this is unacceptable.

By contrast I downloaded Star Wars last week in about four hours. At this rate I can expect to download the game in 200 hours. No.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you