I purchased this game at release, super excited for a new MMO, some cool new things, a new world that wasn’t a wow expansion. I got the game, smashed the levels, jumping from zone to zone as fast as i could, hit 80 and then was seriously disappointed, I’ve leveled alts since then, on and off. Trying to get that same fix of a great game from leveling up as i first time but i didn’t, something wasn’t right. Was the game rubbish?
No!
The game was perfect and everything it should have been from the very beginning but i didn’t see it. Its not an MMO, its my story! The clues were there from the first intro but all this living world, its not content, its a freakin’ journey! Its an adventure, i can log in and be the absolute boss in this world, a commander of armies, i can feel amazing along my journey but its online and i can do all of that with others. Its a single player 10.000 + hour story game with the interaction and everything of an MMO. This is a redefinition of MMO. Why hasn’t this clicked for me until now! I’ve not even completed the vanilla story and Ive just got back into doing it and its revealed the meaning of this game.
Arena Net, Phenomenal job.
1 year, 10 months, 16 days of playing this game, quitting, playing and quitting i finally get it and it looks like I’ve got one hell of a journey ahead of me!