Guild Wars 2

So I entirely missed the “75 words or fever” part… too much disappointment to fit in that few I guess.
TLDR version:
The Good: Fractal, new weapons, new skins
The “Meh”: New zone = new currency, bank tabs (took way too long to get there)

Bad: Dialogue. Story. “Mastery” (what is it even for?) Dialogue. Male Charr voiceover. Playing any other race than human just breaks up the story writing.
Terrible: The combination of dialogue writing and voiceover. Please don’t do that again.

TexZero.7910:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

TexZero.7910:

You could start by working on the baseline economic problems that cause people to auto farm. That’d be nice. So it likely wont happen.

That’s just absurd. The “baseline economic problem” is that people want money. Period. You can’t fix that.

Or maybe just maybe there are people farming the materials there whose rate of acquisition are substandard compared to their usage. You know like leather/linen.

But you’re right it’s absurd that we have nice things.

This. Really. I’d say THIS is the main reason behind the majority of AFK-farming people. You need those resources for “endgame” gear, which is absolutely necessary for things like fractals and raids and getting it via “normal” farming (that is, actively running around, killing things) actually gets you less of those resources than going AFK. And , as stated before, AFK = zero effort.
That’d be the main problem. Most people do not want to extensively farm. Most people want to play the game they bought and invested time and further money into.

How about putting reward chests with a reasonable ammount (not just 1-5 scraps) of crafting materials into, let’s say dungeon rewards? Fractals? A selectable chest just like the once-a-day HoT hero chests. Just resource-oriented. Chest of tier X cloth/leather/ ore/wood… Yes, there already are crafting bags, but as far as I can tell they do not give the basic materials.
Do something more fun than either running around for two hours killing the same mobs over and over again or going AFK for hour and a half and get what you need .
Positive reinforcement instead of an endless ‘hunt’ for the few people who truly just want to stand in place and listen to the swoosh of their autoattack.

P.S.:

They’re not forced to farm.

Sure… they can also get the mats from the TP where their low drop rate drives prices up. So they need gold. Whiiich you can get in viable ammounts only by – you guessed it – farming.
Or playing the TP. Because everyone loves when the best source of income in a MMORPG is maintaining excel sheets for a virtual stock market.

Same, at first I thought it was just WvW but then I decided to check out the “Scarlet wars” recap and I got lag even in the conversation …and then the screen just turned black. No error, no nothing, just a black screen while music continues to play. What the heck is this ?