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The wonder is, that anyone still plays this game… I brought a lot of WoW players with me in the hopes of finding a game worth sticking around for, but after the story-lines end, it plays more like WoW 2004 (Yes I know the differences in play, follow the general idea) than it does a game developed today…
Most of those people have returned back to other games, some due to the lack of cohesive strategies because of the lack of clearly defined player roles and the added complexity that creates when deciding group composition, some left because of the lack of any sort of Looking for raid functionality and the requirement to stand at the door or in town shouting your wants and desires like a street beggar, brings back memories of ancient WoW days that most of us were glad to be rid of. Some have left because of the endless grinding required to build up crafting skills making things that nobody wants and are for the most part worthless to anyone until you have maxed out your crafting skill.
The repeating area quests are nice, but really nothing new except for the pace of changes in the global storyline; those are nice…
The content of the stories themselves are far better crafted than in WoW, but again, once the story lines are done, you are left with pugging and without an automated LFR or LFG system, it’s almost painful to participate in.
There are so many things that make this game unique and a pleasure to play, yet there are many lessons that have already been learned by Arena Net’s competitors that they inexplicably refuse to address.
A shame really, but worth checking in on now and then to see if things have progressed at all in the hopes I might come back to it at some point…
Until then, back to WoW it is… I’ll pay the monthly for the features GW2 lacks, but the second GW2 learns how to make this less of a chore to participate in, I may just be back…
you shouldn’t have to depend upon an outside source to find groups… this lesson was learned long ago by all of Arena Net’s competitors; why they haven’t learned that particular lesson yet continues to boggle the mind…