Guild Wars 2

Many Pesky Monk.3140:

Why would Anet want people to just leave and only come back when theres new kitten? No they want players playing all the time, just like any other gaming company. A gear treadmill is a way, albeit cheap, to keep players playing the game. And like I mentioned, can actually be fun if done right. That’s all.

What your (and seemingly ANet’s) line of reasoning neglects is that many, many people bought this game among things -because- it didn’t have a traditional gear treadmill. Heck, even in games having a conventional endgame only around 10% of the playerbase actually seems to do those raids. It’s not like hardcore types are a majority or so.

Also – their economic model is actually set up in the way that does -not require them to keep all players playing the game every single day the way a subscription game does. No, they don’t want to lose them completely, of course. Funnily enough I can see a lot of players indeed quitting over them introducing them gear progression gameplay now.
I will wait and see – but in all honestly, I am done with being regarded and treated like a second-class player because I don’t raid (or super-dungeon, or whatever ANet will call the frustratingly hard instances you get the 1337 gear from). I quit regular MMOs because of “endgame”, you know? GW2 looked like the safe haven for people like me, where every path of playing could lead to the same goal, and not only ‘raiding’. Seems that principle is out of the window now. And this is makes me not a happy panda right now.

Many Pesky Monk.3140:

Or, you know, you could find another game?

Well, I for one came here because GW2 did -not- have a silly ‘endgame’ that made all other content either obsolete or worthless as soon as your character reached maximum level.

The question is rather why don’t -you- play another game if you want that sort of content. It’s not that not pretty much every other MMO has a gear progression race, no? This game was advertised as being different, which is why I bought it. “Endgame” is a cuss word for me, you know? Is it too much asked for that the product I bought doesn’t do a bait and switch on me now and becomes just like every other MMO?

Well, for a game that was promised not to have a silly gear progression race, Ascended armor smells a lot like ‘gear progression race’ to me. I am very much not impressed by this idea. If I had wanted to do grind ridiculously difficult instances over and over to get 2% better gear that will be invalidated every two months by 2% even better gear ad infinitum, I could have bought WoW.

Bad, bad, bad, bad idea.