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Anet needs to learn the difference between ad hominems and urgent criticisms. The tone of the criticism has absolutely nothing to do with its validity.
I just don’t get this always stay positive philosophy anet has. For example if someone punches you in the face you don’t just go " oh please don’t do that again have a nice day" you tell the off or run. In reality every decision you make is going to have positive and negative consequences. Ignoring the problems is only going to fuel the fire.
Bumping I want answer to this too.
I think it’s become pretty apparent at this point that “the living story” is nothing more than a minimum work/maximum profit model for the game. Unfortunately since AN income comes from micro transactions they have no incentive to make any REAL content as long as community drones keep buying gems.
Anet has been jerking us around with half -/ assed temporary content for a year now and you are all complaining that something PERMANENT to work for is being added to the game. I don’t think this community has it’s priorities straight.
I am of the complete opposite opinion. If an MMO is so unengaging that you have to play an alt to keep entertained then you’re doing something fundamentally wrong as a designer. I think Anet is taking one step in the right direction with ascended. Now they just have to make PERMANENT CONTENT for the next step of gear to be used for.
WvWvW should not even be part of the legendaries in the first place.
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Minimum work? Really? I’d love to see your explanation as to how adding entire dungeons, PvP game modes, JPs, voice acted cutscenes, new items, and yes even RNG items and then taking the time to remove them 2 weeks later is minimum work. If anything it requires significantly more work to add then remove content than it requires to add and leave content.
I mean really, please enlighten me as to how releasing the Aetherblade Retreat or the Molten Facility (which everyone agrees were legit dungeons) or Mad King’s Clocktower and other JPs and then removing them is part of a minimum work maximum profit model?
Do you people even think before you speak anymore or do you really just dislike the game so much you will just say anything to make the point that GW2 sucks and the devs are wasting their time releasing new content?
I agree that certain aspects of the game could use improvements, but to say that bi-weekly content releases are minimum work is just plain ignorant and makes me sadfaced
When I say minimum I mean the required work compared to other models. A subscription model can only survive if your playerbase is interested in the game, an expansion model is heavily influenced by content and reviews, GW2 model is similar to TF2 in that all you need to do is add “skins” “hats” and as long as the game is free players keep buying into rng. That being said with the exception of jumping puzzles the temporary content has been pretty lackluster as compared to the main game.
Unfortunately they have no reason to stop with temporary content. It’s a minimum work maximum profit model fueled by people buying into rng. It keeps the gears turning and the cash flowing. If you really want to see a change then simply dont buy gems.
I think temporary content is a blatant ploy to squeeze money out of people. Why ever make legitimate repeatable content when you can make time constrained RNG alleviated by the in game shop to make loads of money?
The game was fantastic until about a month or two after you hit 80. Then the only real things left to do is repeat the same dungeons or farm until you go mad in PvE, play that horrible zergfest joke for a PvP WvWvW, or play sPvP which is so fundamentally broken there is no point in playing certain classes. WoW hit the same kinds of dead ends IMO. GW1 handled content way better.
At least with Riot games they give straight answers to issues of the game showing facts and numbers unlike anet that says things like. “It’s something we’ve been talking about and it’s on a list and it will come out when it’s done.”
The enitre leader bla bla kitten its crap , whyy so what if u are first u geting something special ? do people will blow u xD nooo its just there for no lifers to feel beter deal whit it xD
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
This again jeez
this thread needs more beating a dead horse pictures
Ill beat the horse until it turns to dust and then take a tray and beat the dust. This subject needs to be addressed by anet. Achievement leaderboards are absolutely meaningless otherwise.
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Because sales totally determine the quality of the game. By this logic the garbage that is call of duty is one of the best games ever made.
Oh no someone said a swear word what ever will we do! Honestly society needs to get over it.
Clearly the next thing they will nerf is flamethrowers so Engineers will finally be completely unviable.
Agreed. One time events are a complete waste of resources. Why spend so much time to make content that is later removed from the game. It makes 0 sense and makes nobody happy.
As a latecomer I was honestly baffled when my friends told me about Karka invasion and how it was a one time event. How on earth would you think that is a good idea in the first place and even CONTINUE to make more one time events as “content”. It reminds me of Square Enix’s attitude of “we don’t care if you dont want it, we’re gonna make it and you’re gonna like it”
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