Honestly, such posts never seize to amaze me.
You played this game for 2000 hours… what are you complaining about? That Anet can’t shove you a new content at the insane rate you consume it? You just nitpick really, any sensible person would see straight through your post, you are bored and you expect Anet to somehow magically revitalize your experience, despite you basically seeing every nook and cranny of their world.
You are done here, you won’t be getting expansion-worth of content every month (despite some Anet PR bullkitten), they can’t do it, especially not for people who fanatically play this game for hours upon hours every day and probably will finish whatever Anet throws at them short of a real expansion in half a day.
I now understand why all the content we’ve been seeing is temporary. It’s not a gift from A.net, it’s not the passionate work of designers who couldn’t care less about money – no, the sad truth is, it’s just an attempt to get people back in the game before the stuff expires. None of it is for the sake of lore or immersion, don’t let them bullkitten you – it’s the cold reality of a game that, like many, has turned rotten because of the desire of both developers and publishers to cash in on a product, rather than provide an experience worthy of remembrance.
Please… Are you really that naive? This game is not some sort of philanthropic project by NCsoft for kittened kids or something. This is business and NCsoft pays the bills and makes demand. And no, NCsoft is certainly not a bunch of passionate gamers. They are your usual bunch of people who want to make money.
Every game studio has their more passionate and less passionate crew, there are guys who are living and breathing with their “baby” game and there are those who just want to bring in paychecks home. In the end though, both of those cases need to get money from somewhere and this somewhere is an organization that wants to see profits and it’s their right, because as horrible as it may sound – you NEED them, without NCsoft, there would not be any Guild Wars as we know it.
This works both ways, on one hand people who do it for cash know that if the game fails – they will go down with it, but at the same time the passionate guys also realize that they can’t do whatever they want, because if it would be their way – the game would never come out to begin with and would have updates once in a millennium.
So yeah, this is the cruel reality and neither devs nor NCsoft can be blamed for it, because despite all their shortcomings they did pull out a great product with amazing value. And you can’t blame NCsoft for wanting to make money, that’s what they do and heck, in my opinion they do it in a good way, because they make stuff that let’s people have fun and does good.
Now banks on the other hand…
