Guild Wars 2

Ouch thats sad. I hope my friends dont get bore and help me, if not i guess I just have to shout for people to help in my story.

Well aaron I dont mind they coming with new gear and new stuff. What frustrates me is that they dont do the dungeons or events or puzzles easy to manage and after hours of hours spent and you finally achieve the challenge is just a red gear with no attributes or less attributes than the one you are wearing now. That what is dissapointing to me and it kills the fun for me as well. That is the part that I am referring in the game. But if after me spending hours of fun I get something useful in the game then it will keep me playing cause I know my hard work will pay off, other than just cosmetic. And I think that is why people are not playing as often or criticizing the game.

Oh I didnt know that to kill Zaithan you need the group of 5. That sucks, Im always playing alone lol, well i guess thats good, I will never see the end game

Well hat may be a great idea for future updates from ArenaNet. I do find the dungeons very frustrating and unbalanced in my opinion. I wish either I can enter with my level if they are going to keep it with only 5 players or lower the players but allow raids.

Yes Tearthy Flame, thank you for reading my point of view in detail. That is exactly what I mean.

I don’t mind to play another character when I finish the first one, but again for what? For a different Story? Is like working at Burger King flipping burgers with no rewards on doing a great job, quit the BK and go work for Taco Bell. Same food industry, same treatment, no reward but different uniform. Motivation, rewards and goals is what drives a game in my opinion not just the same content with a different look.

But I am glad there are players out there that are willing to do it, those are the ones that keep the games alive for years with only 10 players in the whole map -_-

ok if i understand some of your points are that there is no reason to complaint about the game because there is nothing else to do after you clear the basics, so can someone tell me then based on your comment what else keep you playing after you do your story and reach level 80 and can’t do the dungeons?

So Autopsia, tell me what else I can do when I clear the map and do my story. What else can I do to like the game other than the season events?

Because when I said GW 2 is dying, again I didnt mean it in a way of one more week and is going to evaporate in thin air and will never exist, if that is your comparison with GW1. I know I wrote a lot but please read and understand my point of view. I do agree that a lot of players that left the game are those that finished the game in 1 week but I am not one of those.

Oh yes I agree Raksha.8049 but I wanted to believe that wasn’t true, because as soon as those comments start hitting the internet and youtube and blogs, ArenaNet and other testers started to write stuff that you can do even when you hit level 80 and dont find anything else to do, but when I read their suggestions they are all the same: create a new character, learn crafting, work for the legendary weapon and bust yourself for cosmetic stuff.

But I do agree with some of the guys here, you pay the game only once and thats it which is the beauty of this game so I won’t feel that I am burning my money and be force to play every day. And thanks to the hardwork from ArenaNet and their team I know they will always come up with new events per season.

I guess I just like the game so much that I feel worry that players will have to make schedules to play lol. “lets only play on season events” instead of having something interesting and rewarding to do every time you play, no matter when you play it.

Well i do appreciate the comments and the feedbacks. Definetively there is no need to attack others people opinions just because is different than yours. Im sorry that I gave you the impression that I am a 24×7 player because the assumption is far from the truth. I play the game when I can, maybe I didnt mentioned when I said I was level 80. But I just turned level 80 and I discovered like 60% of the map only, so I am not a addicted player like some of you implied.

Also my apologies if the title of the thread gave you the impression that I was saying the game will die tomorrow and we need to find something else to do because that wasn’t the point either. But based on what I read I do have to disagree and here is why in my view.

How many overflow messages you get now? Barely non in my side, which tells me either players are not playing at the same time as when the launch days or there is not that many players playing at all. I am helping a friend that started a few weeks ago so I am visiting with him lower level maps and when I am alone I go to my higher level maps and I barely see anyone playing and I connect a different times. I don’t see players in front of dungeons anymore, the world map is not as active as before. When before a Dynamic Event will get active and a whole battalion of players will show out of now where, now you have to scream for players. So for me the game is not as active as before.

In reference to some comments about me expecting better stuff other than just cosmetic stuff I think is a misconception from your part saying that this game is not about achievements or work hard to get something better but is just for fun. If we are going to play games now with no goal, then why they just dont leave the character at level 1, why there are better weapons and gears? In reality the game does have goals and great rewards while you level slowly. For example I am saving to get the Cultural Gear for my level 80. So I do know I have things to do in the game.

But my point was, what is next? Yes I ado applaud ArenaNet for the monthly events, I think that is what I call a hard work team in order to come up with full maps, npcs, rewards, etc in less than a month just for us to continue enjoying the game.

But I still think that with hard work should come good rewards. Dying in a dungeon which is completly unbalanced so at the end I get 5 items, 3 that I cannot use, 1 that will turn me into a turkey and 1 that is lower than what I have is not rewarding or motivating at all. Other than of course play with your friends. But your comments of not expecting anything and just play for fun I won’t say is wrong because that is your opinion but I dont agree. Because that for me translate to “work and not get paid, just work because you love your work”

My point is, I am foreseeing that as soon as I finish my story and clear the whole map, I won’t have any motivation to continue playing. Because I won’t get any benefit of spending hours doing any of the previous task other than visual. So even though I do appreciate the effort from ArenaNet of making the game as fair and different as possible there are a lot of things that they need to do to keep the players playing for 10 more years until they release a newer version (unless they come up with expansions). But they need to reevaluate certain areas of what they need to change in order to keep the players playing. Maybe make the leveling harder, make the dungeon worth playing for something, same as the jumping puzzles and all the other hard challenges during the game. I know the idea behind that was not to have players grinding the dungeons and having better gears or more advantage than other players, but what does it matter in PvE, if anyway in PvP everyone is 80. So is not that if I grind a dungeon and give me a super sword I can kill anything faster, first because I get downlevel and second because I cannot fight anyone in PvE. But at least that will give you motivation to go back to the dungeons. And grinding the Dungeon Coins is fine with me that way people buy whatever they want, but make it worth it.

One thing that have me frustrated at this point like I mentioned before is that I want to do the dungeons, just to experience them because I think they are fun. But really only 5 players against 50 or 60 foes, that don’t die with one hit, out of those you have 3 or 4 Elite or Champions that kill you with one shot, traps and fires that also kill you in 1 or 2 shots, then you have to keep respawning on the waypoint, not counting all the repairs you have to do. Can’t we do a RAID to make it fair? Or let me go into the dungeon with my real level and keep it at 5 players, that way we can help lower levels to finish them. I mean I think the dungeons are completely unbalance and unfair and again for what purpose. Is becoming more frustrating than fun. Additional to that, even tho you guys removed the holy trinity so you are not dependent of other players not doing a good job, now I feel the same as with the HT shouting in the map searching for people that want to play the dungeons. And at the end for few golds, 60 Dungeon Coins and an Achievement that doesnt even increase anything on your character?

Oh and starting a new character just for me to see a different story is out of the question, because I know I will have the same end as the one playing now. Reach 80 immediately and get stock doing nothing else.

Sorry for the long post and I do hope that someone really pay attention to the forums. I do love the game and the mentality behind it and it will be very sad to see this game die just because lack of motivation or things to do in the game.

This is a question that I see a lot on facebook, forums, youtube, etc. At the beginning I agree with a lot of people that will post videos of things to do after your reach 80. Even ArenaNet has some links from other websites and blogs that write “what to do after 80”.

I don’t even know if ArenaNet will read or ever read anything on the forum but here is my personal opinion.

First I do love the game graphics and music. The Dynamic events keep you busy from minutes to almost an hour. The removing of the holy trinity I think was a great idea because during the course of the game you can almost solo it without the need of a Tank, etc. Having the PvP and WvW everyone at the same level I think it was a great fair idea. I played other MMO games and I feel frustrated when obsessive players will spend hundres of real money to get better gear or upgrades, etc and you never had a chance to play because you get killed in one shot. In general I do love the game.

Now to my complain. I reach 80 and I still have things to do, i haven’t clear the map yet and still doing my story. But I think one of the problems that this game have is that leveling up is too easy and fast. I mean between, stories, vistas, discovering zones, dynamic events, killing foes, etc you get too much XP and that help your character reach level 80 too fast causing the player to get bored. Why bored? I will use my example, like I said I am level 80 and I still haven’t finish the Ascalon Catacombs in Explore Mode and I will love to go back and finish all the paths but in reality for what? To get a visual gear with no attributes better than what I have right now? What about crafting? Well I can start doing crafting but for what purpose other than make gold, since now I have to go back to the low levels and start farming material because my crafting level are very low. But what will motivate me to do crafting now? Ok what about play to get a legendary weapon? But for that I need at least half million karma, not counting all the other stuff I need to get a weapon. Ok what about jump puzzles? But after dying 20 times in one puzzle and spending at least 3 silvers every time I use a waypoint I end up broke. And getting gold is this game is very difficult in my opinion. I don’t see the purpose of my friend spending 3 bronze to move to the same waypoint as I am but for me it cost 2 silver. WTH? Just because I’m 80 means I have money lol. Give me a mount then and I won’t mind riding the map or give me a longer speed boost so I can run longer distances.