Guild Wars 2

I don’t understand why people think that because someone has critique that they hate it all so much they shouldn’t play at all.

This is like with everything. There are good things and bad things, there is no black and white. There are things in the game I LOVE LOVE LOVE.. and others that I hate. Everyone is allowed to say the things they don’t like without hearing “well then don’t play”.

I have been with GW since shortly after the first game came out, with GW2 pretty much from the start. I love this game. Just because there are things I don’t like in the expansion does not mean that I should stop playing it, that’s bs.

Just saying.

I do agree that ‘hiding’ some things behind the premise of a meta success can be frustrating. Like in Tangled Depths it is apparently really hard to get the whole event done. As Luac said he has not seen it once, I cannot remember seeing it either. Something is not balanced in the mechanics and then there are hero points or vistas and such that cannot be reached, so map completion (or mastery points) is blocked.

Also some event chains seem to be harder than they need to be, so it can be frustrating as well. And for me who loves the PvE aspects but does not like to do PvP/WvW etc it also is frustrating that I’d have to do them to get certain things (which is no fun at all for me) or pay a lot of gold to buy things. It does put a bit of a blow on things that there are no alternatives for folks who really only want to do PvE, or for the PvP players who don’t wan to PvE. That could be done better.

I personally did not think that Luac was overly dramatic. What I see is someone who is frustrated with a game he loved for a long time, and speaks from his own experience. He doesn’t try to speak for everyone, so I can take that easily. While one might not share the same experience, that does not make his less valid. Sadly I have to agree with his observation that if something negative is said, people come up and start to insult or ask how you dare to not speaking glowing colours (No idea if that happens here since I am not around frequently, but in game I saw it many times). So I commend him for speaking up in hopes that something might change, despite the danger of being verbally smashed for it.

Since we have been with the expansion in actual game play (not beta testing) for a bit now, there is a great chance for rethinking balances and adjusting it to more realistic and less frustrating levels. I think that would be a great chance for Arenanet to figure out if all the mechanics they implemented really work or not.

In either way I do hope that the fun comes back for you Luac! Let’s see what the future brings.

Love that idea, it could be a lot of fun!