Guild Wars 2

This post is not going to be constructive as I’m not interested in suggesting any solutions to the situation and mostly just need to vent my frustration, but I’m typing it anyway.

I’ve been playing this game since day -3. For almost a year I was pretty poor. The most expensive purchase I did were two pieces of T3 cultural armor and a couple of bank tabs via gem exchange. They say, you are supposed to just play a game however you want and you’ll get resources for whatever you want, …eventually. I don’t know, I guess I did every possible thing wrong, because after 11 months I had two digit amount of gold and one digit amount of valuable items. That one digit being zero. And that was ok. Legandaries were so far out of reach, I kinda resigned from ever getting one, and there was nothing expensive I wanted enough to force myself to farm. I was at peace.

And then came Deadeye and champion loot. Secure, easily quantifiable farm one can jump into anytime and jump out before throw up reflex kicks in. In about a week I gained same amount of gold I managed to save after a year. Then, with ascended crafting I dumped some excess materials I had lying around. Golden title achievement ticked. And with it appeared this stupid idea. That maybe, just maybe, it was doable, maybe it was worth the effort. It’s just some hundreds of gold. There are ways now! And look – they just said after this market shakeup they will avoid causing any more instability for some time. No more moving goalposts, right? Right?! The worst that can happen now is precursor crafting/hunt will be released before I’ll be able to buy it.

And so I farmed. Not going into details here as I’d rather not remember that period. By December I was able to place buy orders close to the top of the stack.

Then reality kicked in. After all, you weren’t going to maintain release cycle, you weren’t releasing anything addressing precursor acquisition this year; apparently, you are not releasing any features for at least 3 next months and by doing so you’ve bumped my target precursor price 25% in two weeks.

I trusted you to keep 3 promises*. Now I’m burned out, tired, with a bunch of gold I have no will to spend on anything at this point, just laying there reminding me of the time I’ve wasted. Serves me right, I guess. It pains to understand how easily my situation could have been both solved and avoided and how none of it is going to happen.

Happy Holidays.
See you next year. Or maybe not. One can only hope.

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