Precursors do drop from the chests, but very rarely. I’d love to say you should be able to get everything ever from just playing WvW, but not only is that not going to happen, it’s not good for the game as a whole. We will continue to do what we can to improve the rewards available from WvW and there are some developments specifically relating to skill points that are coming soon to the game as a whole, but honestly if you want to get all the things in the game, you have to play all the game. Branch out, I suspect you’ll enjoy it. And WvW will still be there when you want to play it.
This is how I translate this most of this response:
“WvW is not the primary aspect of GW2. Its a side activity that offers some fun (and we will continue to keep trying to add bits of more fun), but if you want to really get a majority of what the game has to offer, you must play PvE. If you are looking for a complete package, large scale, open world PvP focused game, GW2 is not that game. If we were to focus on making GW2 that game, it would disrupt and hurt the PvE game we intended to be the main focus of things.”
The truth of the matter is that the devs created a car that looks like a ferarri, but drives like a yaris. It was a smart marketing move, because it sucked in all the large scale pvp gamers, despite the game not really being a game focused primarily around that. Unfortunately, it means that the next game that DOES offer large scale pvp, as its primary focused gameplay, gw2 wont be able to hold on to a lot of players who are only hanging around because of it.
Again… maybe if anet saw some sort of monitary gain from WvW players… but, in order for this to happen, they would have to sell WvW stuff on the gemshop. The permanent finishers are a good example of something that appeals to a WvW player, and has pretty much zero use outside of PvP. Others have suggested custom siege skins, custom commander pins, etc etc. All good ideas of things that could add a dollar value to WvW players for anet.
Will they do any of this? Doubtful. A year is a long time for a mmorpg in todays industry. This isnt EQ1 or UO, where taking 2+ years for decent changes and such to be added were common and gamers were willing to wait. Today, that sort of deployment plan just wont cut it. Too many other games on the market that gamers can run to if their current game is lagging behind.
The sad thing, Anet is sitting on a goldmine. WvW’s foundation is perfect, its just lacking pretty much everything that could be built upon it. I think the thing that upsets me the most is seeing what WvW could be, but isnt, and likely will never be. All because the people with the money seem to think they know what gamers want, better than the gamers themselves.
