Guild Wars 2

I find responses like “choose the way you spend in game time better” are kinda missing my point (not to mention a tad condescending).

We have been encouraged to participate in this “exciting living event.” So far it just been very tedious.

For me, this has been eye-opening b/c it has dawned on me that the game has a lot of “bait and switch” and “hide the ball” mechanics/features that I find non-intuitive and, at times, tedious.

To answer the question “worth what?” I mean worth my time. There are times when I really enjoy GW2, but too often those times are buried in “2 hour searches for hidden objects” (or the like).

P.S.-And I very much disagree with any who says its not looking for a needle in a haystack. Even with Dulfy telling me where to look, it still took me two hours.

So, I was running around Wayfarer Foothills, looking for a snow covered object. I have already found 3 of the 4. I had Dulfy open in one window and was running around the map in the other.

I have pretty limited play-time, so finding that object was my “objective” for the day. An hour of bouncing between windows, coming dangerously close to spamming chat, and still nothing.

And then it hit me: there’s nothing fun about this. Running around a map with ctrl pressed down to click on an object is not fun. There’s certainly not anything “living” about it. They’ve labeled a generic, tedious needle in a haystack search as fresh, exciting new content. And, for a while, I bought it hook, line and sinker.

GW2 has many “wow this is fun moments” when it really breaks the MMO mold. But the more I play, the more I realize you generally have to slog through X number of things that are sheer tedium to get to the “wow” moments.

Starting to wonder if that ratio is worth it . . .