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I certainly didnt mean it to be a troll. I still love Gw, I still log on almost everyday, its just getting shorter and shorter, just cant be bothered trying to find the Zerg or the Commanders tag. We all play for different reasons thats for sure. From a Gw2 customers perspective no one is talking about Gw2 in the gaming forums I use. People wonder if its still going. Really looking forward to any new expansion,,there are so many map areas to open up. Thanks for all replies.
I’ve deleted what I’ve been trying to say for 10 minutes now, not sure how to word it.
Personally I’ve been bored with this game for 3 or so years now. Why do I keep playing? Perhaps its the amount of money I’ve spent on it, maybe it is because of the time I’ve spent with it? Who knows, I just finished crafting bolt, something I was so excited to have finally as my third legendary, the second I crafted it I couldn’t care less about it. It might as well not have existed to me.Why is this? For starters I’m impatient and I will use my credit card to get gold to help speed up the process. Why? Because I don’t feel like opening chests following dozens of grey default model characters around some crappy desert with weird plant monsters to earn some money for hours with no end in sight.
It’s honestly weird. That is the “meta” of this game, being impatient and wanting things when you want them, not when you deserve them.
People want content, people want prestige. People hate working for things they want, they hate spending time doing things. Aren’t those the ‘precursors’ of the first?
What is prestige? Something you’re PROUD of for ACCOMPLISHING?
What is content? Something you spend TIME to DO?
Not in guild wars 2. prestige is non-existent, because the prestige of legendary weapons is flooded with CC-warriors such as myself. Nearly anything is bought or nerfed to be easy to get.
Content is sped through and ignored to the best of the players ability.
In some games, players spend years to get something their proud of, and in the end feel the prestige of having. Now imagine if you were time gated 365days to get a legendary weapon. What an uproar there would be! Wow I can’t even imagine what it’d look like. Because I tell you now, the toxicity I saw about people needing to wait 14 days or what have you for a few things in HoT’s list of legendary weapons. OH and trust me, even I was furious when I had to wait 19 days for charged quartz to finish bolt, instantly I regretted now saving my gold and buying zap.All in all, it is a shared responsibility between the majority of the community(maybe 70%?) and the developers. We give them mixed messages constantly of what they should be doing, and they get confused of how they should move forward. We wanted content so they gave us HoT, we cried for nerfs so they did. They gave us raids for hard content, we cry to make it harder.
Meanwhile there are those who take their time and enjoy the game, those who have played for 2 years or so now, and have just gotten their first level 80, those who just got their legendary after 3 years of farming.
To those players, I truly envy you, keep enjoying the game for what it is, and not for what you want.Well, I managed to finish writing this, it is a lot less “shame on you” towards the community as I originally had it. I hope it doesn’t come across as that, especially as I am one to blame. If this topic could actually go somewhere that’d be awesome, honestly!
I have been playing Gw2 since beta (previously Gw1). Gw2 has gone so far into the open world in PvE that it has just about taken all of the adventure out of the game. So many people playing PvE are now it for the commercial side,, farming, zerging. I have come across so many PvE who are so bored. Everyone is doing the same as everyone else. I look at the map screen longingly at Crystal Desert and other areas that are not opened yet craving a bit of something different rather than the huge zergs that just run around doing what everyone else is doing. Bring back a bit more instanced PvE for people who just want to solo – maybe some heroes!!! so we can craft armour and weapons for them,, have a rule where if you are in a party each player can only bring a certain number of heroes. I am so bored with Gw2 and I am not the only one.
I have to say I wasnt that excited about HoT until the last few days. I am loving it..maps are awesome,, loving the music. Those who dont like it well…there are plenty of other games to play. For me HoT has given GW a new lease on life. Having played GW1 and GW2 since release,, I wasnt sure you could deliver. But In my opinion you have, it is not what I expected and I am glad. Love flying… getting really good at left and right banking..to hit the mark with pinpoint accuracy. Exploring is so much fun. Will right more once I open up some more areas and experience more events. Great job.
Doing the Betas sort of spoilt a bit of the adventure for the first part. But overall I am very happy with HoT. If you didnt realise it before GW2 and HoT are really designed for team or group play. Trying to do some of these areas solo is almost impossible, thats fine just realise that this is a game to play with friends not single person.
The Music is just awesome,,, shades of Lord of The Rings, just very different from the recycled GW1 music (not that I minded that too much).
The maps and scenery are beautiful, and very deceiving there are about 4 levels to most areas so having the Wings makes exploring a lot of fun From the top of the canopy down to the Tangled roots below,,different creatures and biosphere.
I am still in the process of opening up areas so still much more to do. By about the 4hour mark I am wanting to get out of the Jungle and into something like desert or different scenery.
Love the new creatures,, very different and you don’t really know what some of their capabilities are other than that they want to kill you. Day night transition is not that noticeable unfortunately,, I would like it to be a lot darker at night.
Have been saving the Pers story and just exploring,, so cant comment on the story at the moment. As I said up front, I am enjoying HoT and for the price of the base game it is very good value for money. Looking forward to killing a few more hours tonight with friends.
Ok so we are about 7 days out from HoT release, I have seen absolutely nothing in the gaming stores. Does Anet a HoT advertising campaign planned . This game is worth more than a word of mouth release advertising campaign.
See you in game.
This is my 2nd BWE. I am enjoying much more each time I play.
I would like to see the day/night transition cranked right up so that night time is a lot darker (even have a full moon). I am not sure of what other beasts you have in store for us, but wouldnt it be great to have night time beasts that everyone hates and actually fears. Especially, if they are caught out in the open as the day transitions to night.
Visuals are awesome and I cant wait to see the actual game. The flying was a lot of fun (first time for me didnt get to try it last beta),, I do like the way that your flying energy runs out which means you have to manage your flights and cant just go zooming around everywhere.
Keep up the good work; Looking forward to the release.
My points from the Beta: Revnant – A bit dissapointed still trying to work out what he/she is,, a healer or a warrior…from initially being excited about the new profession I am not sure I will make a Revnant now after the Beta.
World and Scenery: Awesome,, very good… I did the story which wasnt too bad, then once I exited,, it just seemed to degenerate into the boring zerg fest of silverwastes. I think this aspect will get very boring very quickly.
I am hoping that GW2HoT PvE can capture some of the adventure and magic of GW1, which was really based around instanced play with a good storyline.
I would just love this game so much if you bought back heroes,, not everyone is in a huge Guild, and heroes allows players to do missions which they wouldnt be able to do solo.
All in all I feel no hype or excitement for GW2HoT there was a sameness about the beta which meant that I played on and off for about 4hrs then logged off and played something else.
I have prepurchased and I certainly dont regret it,, I am hoping that GW2HoT can deliver that same sense of adventure that GW1 did. Yours in PvE.
Just wanted to know where GW2 are compiling the feedback for HoT?
Thank you for all the open and honest comments! I really hope GW2HoT can keep us playing after the initial surge. Got to be better than living story which everyone gobbles up in about 3 days. Be interesting to see what they have planned as far as advertising once the date is announced,, it will be the hype that brings new players. Old players just want something new. All the best.
I ask this as a GW1 player and GW2 since Beta. I just see current GW2 as a huge zerg fest (Silverwastes as an example). Once you have finished PvE story there is not much else to do once you have done the dungeons.
There is a lot riding on GW2 Heart Of Thorns (HOT), there is so much competition around for the PC Gamer (Witcher 3 is awesome). I love GW and GW2…but I am so bored with GW2 that I now just log on daily to get my reward and log back off.
I know I am not the only one,, as most of my friends from GW1 and GW2 are the same. Really hoping that GW2HoT can excite us again… with PvE…we do not need the huge zerg fests that are currently occuring in GW2… just so boring… Give us some real story… (Instanced) If people want zerg fests then go to WvW.
All the best looking forward to HOT.
Have played GW1 since about 2005, and GW2 since release. My GW2 experience now is logon,, see if my friends are there then log off. There’s nothing in the game that makes me want to get on now. There is no real sense of I had better not fail in GW2 I loved the Underworld in GW1 it took tactics to get through it,, one party wipe and you are kicked, GW2 is just too easy there is no real risk. While I still love the game, more in the way I am hanging out for an Expansion or something,, a whole new area or race. To be honest at the moment the game is just downright Boring. But I live in hope.
I have been playing GW1 for about 7 yrs and GW2 since it was released. While I enjoy the living world I feel it is not the best way to gain new players. The gradual drip feed release of new content ‘preaches to the converted’, we all love this game. But does it bring in new players? I would say that it doesn’t necessarily, unless by word of mouth. I really feel that GW2 does need all of the hype and advertisement which goes with an Expansion pack. All of the gaming forums that I talk on have stopped talking about GW2. Anet needs to get them talking again,, the suspense of the Expansion, the advertisement and sneak previews of whats coming will get new players interested. Apologies if this topic has already been discussed to death. GW2 has a very loyal following, but if you want more to play you need that Hype. All the best and keep up the good work.