Just to add to this: this problem akittens core ended up causing me to stop playing. I started at launch, but am a casual gamer that probably won’t get more than 30 minutes of game time at any point in a day. Even still, when my first alt made it to Orr, the gate to Arah was bugged and the quest to open it would not start. It was fixed while I was engaged in another alt, but by the time I got that alt to the end, most players had “finished” and were back to grinding. Its been that way ever since. I have one of every class sitting at the gate, never finding a party. I don’t have the time to troll the chat areas to build a group, and even if I did, no one will. Anyone in Orr or willing to go to Orr is only interest in grinding. To be frank, that was true within the first two months. Are events, etc., work well and are fun everywhere but Orr. Once there, the community (at least on the server I’m on) stopped caring, and it was all about the grind.
Its disappointing in that Guild Wars one got that dance figured out so well, especially in Nightfall. In some ways, its not A-Net’s fault that the community stops acting as one in Orr, but still. You made a game that supported any party size until the end, when you force something that the community itself just dropped the support of. And you did the same in some of the “living story” points. I stood for an hour at the gate to the last dungeon of Flame and Frost on the second day, but everyone that wanted to do the dungeon did so the day before, so no one was there.
