Guild Wars 2

I didn’t realize how bad this was until watching that hilarious and fantastic video:

I have over 20 level 80 characters across several accounts…I enjoy building up new characters. Shortly before the recent patch I started another new character, my first one since they changed the trait system. I reached level 30 and saw the requirements (map clearing, gold, skill points) to unlock all the traits and immediately stopped using the character. There was no way I was going to go through all of that even a single time after having experienced leveling in the past (suddenly an adept trait was worth 2-3 hours of my time to unlock by clearing a 70-80 area??, or p2w…) .

I find the new system absolutely mind boggling. Even if they only required it for your first character it seems unnecessarily tedious (with later characters leveling as they did when the game first came out).

The more recent design decisions (clearly focused on boosting gem sales) give me the impression that they’ve hired a recently graduated MBA with no gaming experience and lots of clout. I can picture a meeting where his/her ideas are presented and developers, for the sake of their jobs, go along with whats said – knowing how badly they’re going to be viewed by the players. (Disclaimer: My experience with pure business MBA graduates has been poor, I’m sure there are good ones out there though!)