Guild Wars 2

Yeah i got the same mail. I get one for diablo 3, warcraft, and a lot of other mmo games i played like every week. Stupid kitten spam just trash them all. I still can’t believe that ppl still fall for it in 2013 oh well…

Pyro.7640:

Here is my general feedback:

Pros

• Free content with a well designed (artistically, at least) zone
• Interesting take on a leveled dungeon with a somewhat randomized 3 mini dungeons per level
• Final event was nice and fun. Great rewards…I wasn’t expecting that.
• zone is challenging. Got my butt kicked at first, made a few tweaks to my build and skills, and it’s better now. This is good so the gameplay and builds doesn’t get too slate after a while.
• Did I mention this update was free? I’ve seen subscription games that couldn’t give this much content in their updates.

Cons

• Not a lot of lore surrounding this island, the Karka, and what their purpose is. Granted, there is some reference to DSD, but not a lot of it. No personal story relating to this zone kinda sucked.
• The leveling with the FoTM dungeon is already creating community division and problems.
• The one time finale presents a problem with players who couldn’t attend, and I agree with them. Why should I receive these incredible rewards while some players receive absolutely nothing because of real life responsibilities? I don’t really have a problem with the other events being 1 time only (although i would have liked to see them as well), but I would suggest making a finale like this available for 24-36 hours, 2-3 hour intervals, so the majority of players can attend.
• Lag, wasn’t a major issue for me, but other players had it pretty bad. May need to limit the amount of players in busy locations and overflow, and create more overflow locations to limit lag.

MAJOR CON (potentially game breaking)

• The new armor tier. Personally, I am so sick of gear grinding games (raiding, dungeons, etc). I hate this mechanic and everything about it and have totally stopped playing/investing any time in other MMO’s because of it. I really don’t understand why a certain portion of players want to torment themselves with this gear grind. I refuse to do this and if Anet continues down this path I will have to question how they marketed this game to players and perhaps write off this genre all together. A few simple fixes: (1) Allow other game modes (WvW, PvE, Karma, etc) to offer ascended gear if you must keep it in the game (I heard this is already being implemented, but seeing is believing). (2) Only make the infusion upgradable instead of introducing new gear tiers; then there is some progression but it’s not overkill.

As a GW 1 vet, this is a complete 180 for you guys and I don’t understand. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume NCsoft had something to do with this. >>>>$$$<<<<

Well i have to agree 100% especially on this part:
The one time finale presents a problem with players who couldn’t attend, and I agree with them. Why should I receive these incredible rewards while some players receive absolutely nothing because of real life responsibilities? I don’t really have a problem with the other events being 1 time only (although i would have liked to see them as well), but I would suggest making a finale like this available for 24-36 hours, 2-3 hour intervals, so the majority of players can attend.

I mean i participated fully to the demolition mission which in my overflow took around 2.5 hours then there was the ancient boss. It was late for me and i had stuff to do so i didn’t manage to finish it. I only reached the steam wall with the mortars firing on the vets that were spawning. that also took around like 2 hours to get there and i had no more time to stay. I don’t find it fair that i did not get the final chest and i hope u guys are gonna do something about it.