Guild Wars 2

1) By PvP I’ll assume you mean the instanced team vs team. I agree with you, as it stands PvP is only for fun and learning your class. But Anet should probably try to promote the esports aspect of their PvP system, so my guess is that a few months from now, PvP will definitely get mediated.

2) Guild wars is related to the lore of the game. Play your character’s story quests and you should understand.

3) I was once a Knight online player myself a few years back. And seeing your name pop on the chat with each kill did give a very rewarding feeling. But KO players are not really demanding when it comes to UI comfort. Introducing that system will make people rage at the spam in their chat window.

Also, bear in mind that GW2 barely is 3 months old, you can’t really speak about “killer” reputations so early. My guess here is that there will absolutely be a similar rewarding system implemented at some point. I mean, just look at the scale of the WvW map, it’s impossible that Anet won’t do anything to promote the feeling of accomplishment and pride in that map.

4) To compare this to knight online, if you go with your max lvl character to solo a Troll Captain or a Dread Mare for example (I don’t remember much of the KO monsters so these two will do) you’ll more than likely get your kitten wooped. If we consider Troll Berserkers, which are a bit weaker, they’ll still be a good challenge, you won’t ever 1 or 2 hit it. So I really don’t think this point is valid, GW2 has a great PvE world, making it too easy wouldn’t do it any good.

5) That would make no sense in GW2.. In Knight online, you HAVE to spam your potions, while in GW2 you might never, ever use a single potion in your whole gaming experience. Food lasts 30 minutes, so at worst, it’s one double click every 30 minutes, unless you want to switch Food, which in itself isn’t that bad really.
But I guess adding an optional hot key bar for that wouldn’t hurt, but I don’t find it to be necessary.

I understand most of your points, but I have to say that, as you know, Knight online is heavily centered towards Hardcore gamers, it’s impossible to succeed in that game as a casual. GW2 is practically the opposite, it does everything to appeal to casuals while hardcore gamers such as yourself tend to feel weaker than what they’re used to.

As you said, give it a couple of months, you can’t have a definite opinion of the game at such early stages.