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From Guild Leader to Guild Beggar in HoT flat
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
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MMO means “Massively Multiplayer Online”.
I agree that it do not means you should not play solo, but it’s not meant to make solo playing as “easy and rewarding” than group content.
Group content must be challenging to be interesting.
And the game must promote group content over soloing.If you can do anything alone, it’s not a MMO.
I’d agree to a certain extent but perhaps scale the difficulty if there is a solo player and reward as applicable.
When you say " the game must promote group content over soloing." I’d have to disagree with you there. Given there are a lot of people who solo, there’s a danger of alienating a big percentage of the player base.
You know that it is impossible to create content that is balanced, doable and enjoyable by all types of players? Mass/Raid, Group, Duos and Solo? They all focus on diffrent things to succeed. There should be solid part of game for all these groups but not common. It is like racial or man/woman issues. We shoudn’t be disgracing them but why they should be prirorized? They should be equal but not in favour.
But MMO games are ment and designed to be multiplayer. So promoting solo content over group content is like making loan but instead of cashout – You put that money in bank. In the end You get your money back but minus % of loan.
Wow, I cant believe im seeing all this complaining about grouping up in an MMO. Isn’t that the point? I was coming here just to say how much i enjoy it and i see this thread.
Every time I play the new content im excited that it so hard you have to group up. It actually feels like an accomplishment when you finish something. Also its a good reason to run around with your guild/friends. You do have friends, right?
Anyways, thanks Anet for some quality content. Please don’t downgrade the difficulty. There already plenty of easy content in the game. My guild and I are having a blast.Nods – some of us, however, also have a RL which keeps interrupting game play. How would you feel if 2 group members went afk every 10 minutes or so for 20 minutes? Kick them? Probably.
And that’s how my playtime is … usually a phone call every 30 to 40 minutes requiring my attention for 15+ minutes. And that’s why I play solo most of the time … and yes, we’re already talking after-work hours.
I would wait for them like always I do. First of all I don’t need to rush and I always have fun with my gaming buddies since long years now. We had this kind of situations over and over. This is not a problem afterall for thinking people with real life.
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Er – you say “lack of population” I say “lack of players” yet you go aggressive on me … take a shower, a cold one, and look up “politeness” before you post again.
As a GW1 player I know how many Zones we had (and still have) on festivities. Now you can go to the boss maps in GW2 and see how often you get the “leave map” message and also how easy it is to force a new map by mass zoning.
Time has moved on and ALL MMOs have a population problem. That is why GW2 decided to do self-sufficient classes in the first place – so that people would not be forced to look for party members to do content. They still added party only content but about 90% – 95% of the game can be played solo without the need of henchmen or heroes.
So – where’s the contradiction to anything I said except being rather rude? Had a bad day and just wanted to vent off some steam?
HoT, though, did change all that – most players and classes will be hard pressed to solo the most important parts of HoT (for getting XP to unlock masteries and getting the HP to unlock their elite spec) once the maps get less population. And, yes, that is a failed design – especially as the loot is not really overwhelming so people will (at the moment) probably still grind Silverwastes because it gives better rewards per hours spent.
And – as someone working in quality assurance – I meet developer swho so totally do not get it every day.
It’s not a matter of being a loudmouth, it’s a matter of trying to avoid boxed thinking and trying to see where things lead to. Developers have a rather focused point of view – that’s needed to get their things done (and not redesign 10 times while coding) but the drawback of this is, that they sometimes tend to not see consequences outside of their current view.
And – think the trait system that was introduced with the NPE – sometimes they can be HORRIBLY wrong in predicting the consequences of their coding.
I like HoT – but it has a few drawbacks that need to be worked on/thought over before too many frustrated players have left (do you read the feedback threads – not an ideal situation) and the extension get’s an (undeserved) bad rating because of a few (but important) bad design choices.
Now this makes real point so please forgive me past rude behaviour. Just got distracted and didn’t get whole point of Your view (honestly I sometimes feel like monster that I’m trying to fight with – but that is another looong story to chat with a glass of whisky along).
For me they should focus on group content. As I played GW1 had always fun with friends and tried many various attempts thru all encounters (both pve and pvp). In GuildWars2 i felt lack of unique style of GW1. I just steamrolled over campaing with no problem at all with my Necro. Since few days in expansion I felt that I may require to ressurect my friends from other games to mess around and check if it is doable with simple party containing pack of friends. I had no problem at all so far to progress alone but I’m still waiting for my comrades to say about fun in xpac. You never can say about fun in MMO games when playing alone. Why when someone want to play alone want to look at massive multiplayer genre? To be mainstream? Because it is “cool”? There are tons of other singleplayer oriented games out there that are ten times better than GuildWars.
For good and bad design just compare design of ArcheAge to GuildWars2. People still play this trash – yet it is poorly designed to be grindcore festival and credit cash drainer. Of course You can’t compare these to games because these are two diffrent types of MMO but when You compare design of GW2 it is still pretty good afterall. Atleast more friendly to new users.
We – as community – shoudn’t see in “money glass”. As I see most of people pay and demand. They feel like kings in the castle after they spent a cash. Everything is connected to “I buy and I demand”. This is not how it is working. People shoudn’t be buying things that they don’t like and they should only things that they like. This only can force change in game genre.
So we can’t buy and demand to fix something is broken. We can buy and give advice – feedback. But please don’t turn it into complains and demands. Feedback is something that helps game grow but not with front sentence like “I bought game and it is broken, fix blablabla”.
Anyone who don’t like – don’t buy. Anyone who like – buy. Everyone give positive feedback and not complains nor throw away grief.
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