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There are people who couldn’t play core Tyria solo either and complained about difficulty. Should we make the game easy enough for them? If we did, how many other people would leave.
Either some form of vertical progression should be added to allow players to casually play through older content, or the difficulty of the core game should be reverted to how it was in beta.
Just look at the people calling the core game easy for example. Why is it easy? Because they’re overloading on vertical progression to make it easy. Not only does HoT not offer any form of that, it’s also no longer balanced for low geared levelers, so suddenly they no longer have that crutch. Most MMOs are like the core game, where the difficulty is faked due to vertical progression, but that’s also what allows everyone to play through it. Here, those who can’t are expected to group up or quit.
The lack of a traditional experience can also be a major problem. New players simply following the story for example will end up in HoT wearing only rares with no upgrades or accessories. Traditionally, the first few quests would provide you with everything you needed.
I’d love hard modes of the old maps, like in GW1 where you had to clear them out. But they are so big, it might not work. I dunno.
Why is it that Anet doesn’t seem to care about this? Why didn’t they predict this and build some kind of notification so that new players know why the map is empty and how to find maps that have other people?
Of course ArenaNet cares. Earnings are down 25% compared to the year prior to HoT’s announcement. They simply don’t have the resources to waste and even if they did, it’s far too late to matter. They’re better off forgetting HoT and focusing on the next expansion, as that’ll actually sell the game.
At least for now, GW2 will continue to get new players. And those (who don’t read the forums lol) will buy HoT. And then they will come to the forums and make exactly the same complaints. And because Anet has done nothing about it, HoT will cost them some number of those new players.
So I disagree that they should do nothing about it. Its not like HoT is just one small part of the game. It is an entire expansion that is practically required if people want enough HP and MP.
It’s an issue for sure. They’ve stuffed around for several years now, changing this system and that, while content and the quality of the content has suffered horribly. HoT was the culmination of a rushed delivery, and bad execution.
I can’t help but wonder if their giving up on making Guild Wars 2 “different and unique” from other MMO’s, with things like Raids being added (how very dull and predictable) is as reaction to their game vision failure, and falling revenues.
Whatever happens HoT is a still a mess for new players, and it will only become more and more of an issue, unless they re-balance a lot of the old HoT maps. It’s a bit like the old personal story and season 1 – a mess that sits like an eyesore and they won’t or can’t fix it. Some of the very recent content is very good though, so maybe they are getting their act together.
We better hope the next xpac is AMAZING, because if they stumble like they did with HoT, it won’t end well.
If so how? On the wiki it’s listed and their is no indication it’s disabled.
In preparation for xpac announcement perhaps?