Guild Wars 2

Acidic Vision, I have to 100% agree with your post above… that is what’s missing (along with a few other things, but you’re onto something there).

GW2 isn’t GW1… how many times can someone say that as “the answer” and expect to not be laughed at? No, really??

None of us GW1 lovers ever expected GW2 to be a repeat of the original. We knew that from the get-go. But there are now too many changes to the core of the Guild Wars “phenomena” that make the 2nd like a poor sequel to a great original.
I will also say that GW didn’t grow up (as some ridiculous poster said somewhere else, in much less respectful terms), nor did all of us GW fans really grow up either.
The gaming experience has changed. It just doesn’t have the team feel anymore. I have no reason to be in GW2 – nothing to work towards. I could care less about legendary weapons. I have no sense of “guild” or “team”, and I am not going to play to get on a gear treadmill or buy gold sufficient enough to ease the pain of farming.
There are other gear progression games out there – people played GW (and dare I say it, planned to play GW2) to stay away from all of that.
I do believe Arena Net staff must have changed drastically from the original core of masters who created GW and who cared enough to give GW2 a vision and breathe life into it… to a group of people doing only what they are told to do by their parent company. The “team” just isn’t there. Or at least that’s how it feels.
I’ve got so much more I could say – but let’s just keep it to a minimum…
I’m disappointed, Arena Net’s staff psychologist has completely missed the boat on guiding them to building an addicting game, and if I want gear progression, I’ll go play other games that have that niche of the gaming world really sussed out.
I don’t want GW 2 to be an exact replica of the original (just in case I wasn’t clear earlier), but I do want it to be its own unique entity without striving to be so different that its actually just the same as any other game out there, once you strip it down.
Another disappointed fan…