Guild Wars 2

Having managed and moderated many different MMO forums, yes. Every single one of them are like this. The majority are complainers with a few who actually submit constructive criticism and bug reports etc.

It takes a good moderation and community management team to keep the forums civil, otherwise it’s complete and utter chaos. My personal opinion on why such forums are like this, is because those who are actually enjoying the game are either playing it, or lurking on the forums for news on Updates, Events and Hotfixes. The record so far for me seeking the amount of lurkers vs. posters on a forum is 2645 lurkers vs. 80 posters, and those 80 posters have a mouth on them.

Fans will be fans. You’ll see the same hostility, as you put it, from fans of certain music artists, console games etc. and there’s no subscription fee involved there. Not everything boils down to a sub fee.

Haragan.8470:

atticus.2897:

Grinding through level after level to get to the next best armour set or the next best weapon is extremely tiring and feels more like a job than a game.

Grinding through level after level for nothing is better. Right.

The funny thing is, there’s no actual need to grind levels. I don’t find myself doing it, I remember seeing a player around level 30-ish with 100% world completion, so there’s nothing stopping you doing that. Level means nothing in Guild Wars 2, it’s an old, flawed, boring system that should’ve never happened in the first place.

In the BWE forums, there was a bit at the top to “Select a Character”, but it never worked, I don’t know if they’re still working on it, but it looks like it’s been removed.

Just as another little bug report, if the title is censored, the URL isn’t :P

Level progression is boring to me. I want to have FUN. Grinding through level after level to get to the next best armour set or the next best weapon is extremely tiring and feels more like a job than a game, ultimately, it’s made me leave many MMOs.

Now, the armour and weapon set progression is still there, but the levelling system is almost invisible to me, I really don’t care what my character’s level is. If I level, great, if I don’t, who cares? I’ll just go explore some more, run another dungeon if I feel like it, go help a random village who’s being attacked by centaurs, I’ll do anything I want to without worrying, “Oh, am I too high level for this?”.

Obviously, this system isn’t for everyone. Some people, like yourselves, love the challenge of progressing your character’s level to the max, getting the best gear, the best skills, the best traits, but to most casual players, this has been the bane of our existence.

I personally want to thank ArenaNet for giving casual players a game to have fun playing and I sincerely hope they will pay more attention to the hardcore player demographic, as I agree they don’t seem to cater for that group of gamers.

Personally, I’d like to see a class more based around decent healing skills. I know the trinity is gone, I don’t particularly want it back, but I did always prefer the healer, so a new class with more healing, or better healing skills would be great.

I’d love to see the Kodan as a playable race as well [:

Actinotus.6410:

Does anyone know if this runs under 10.6 snow leopard?

Minimum requirements are 10.7 Lion.

We may see a Linux client at some point, but I doubt it’ll come at any time soon until the demand is high enough.

It makes me laugh really. WoW players complain all other games are just clones of WoW, then when they do try a game that dares to do something a bit differently, they complain because it’s not like WoW and leave. WoW players, be honest with yourselves, you’re never going to leave WoW, so stop trying and face the fact that you’re addicted to it

Mine are bald, hair just didn’t look right.

Male Voice actor is Steve Staley.

Widgetcraft.2793:

I find the defensive golem to be very useful for my engineer. It’s a nice little pocket tank for emergencies.

This.