Looking at how American companies, especially tech/gaming companies, work this past few years. I can tell you that the preferred response to users when they do something wrong is the bunker down approach.
Mass Effect 3 was THE last big fight/example of this.
Once they said enough to justify their position, like Jon Peter did, they will bunker down and totally ignore us. Letting us rant till we run out of steam and then maybe down the road release something to “pacify” us once we get tired and are willing to accept whatever they give.
Not saying that ANet will do it (although it looks like it), or they will be that bad (FYI, they are better then most). But that seems the norm that most USA gaming companies act now days to some extend.
So basic-ly now we wait, the wait of the disillusioned till better things come. With hope as our guide, till all hope is lost. It is sort of like perm bleeding in GW2, except with hope instead of hp.
There will be new content up already on 22th October. And I have not even kill Zhaitan yet (too busy running dungeons).
Sadly I would have preferred them to fix the bugs then new content but oh well.
So yes GW2, will be expanding and people will get more to do. As with any hardcore player, you will burn out content super fast. And no 2 month old MMO I know have that much content at 2 months only.
I hate the holy trinity. I don’t want to wait for that class we need to do a dungeon -or worse, like in EQ1, to do anything at all. I especially hate the way only one class/spec usually is accepted for a single role in the trinity, leaving the other classes/specs technically meant for the same role out of luck. Even without the trinity you can and should work together, it’s just less obvious, and feels more organic. You feel more like a character in a world, and less like a piece of a puzzle, or a cog in a machine in GW2.
I like the downed state. It gives you a way out, even in solo pve you sometimes can get up again. In WvWvW I found it only helped to get up again in fights where enemies could not DB you, otherwise you were dead.
I love dungeon gear being cosmetic only. Nothing worse than a big gear grind just so you can grind for more gear to get more gear, just so you don’t fall off the threadmill and get left behind of new content. I don’t need nor want that kind of motivation, I do Dungeons for fun when I want to, and I like not having to do them to advance. I like not having to grind dungeons in a certain order just to get to a point where I can do the “endgame”.
Totally agree with this post.
On other note:
If people do not like GW2 or find it not competitive enough, please leave and find a game that suits you. Exit Reviews are one thing, but to keep on pushing your view point in a forum of a game you dislike/hate is just plain dubious.
If you do not like the game so much, you should have left. Why are all the haters still hanging around the forums, posting posts after posts on a game that they find “bad”? Constructive critic is one thing, but this has gone beyond anything constructive.
Do you not have other games to play or things to do? What purpose or goal do you have loitering about, pushing your points as if they are all that matter? Ignoring any other view point? Why or what value is there from that? Is it because you get some entertainment or joy from this? These are not constructive activities and it griefing in it’s purest form.
Please leave.
Also our pets are just plain bad at Orr or pvp, dungeons, etc etc.
So many times, my pet has died because of AOE, ever after I dodged and recalled my pet to me out of AOE. The “special” thing would just stand in the AOE going “errr” to death.
Also WT, melee pets attacks are just plain bad against anything that moves. Also F2 is near misses if the enemy just moves a millimeter.
Not to talk about how the heck our range skills always bug out and give me obstructed, invulnerable, missed when the enemy is in our face mocking us.
And then Anet decide to nerf SB, WT heck, seriously.
My first ever post on the forum. And it is a complain, shocker… But I cannot stay slient while the class I love to play dies a slow painful death.
I really got to say, ranger as a class is ok… wait for it… till you play any other class (unless that class is ele). Seriously, although we are not seriously broken in any one specific area, we are sub-par in all areas except traps (in dungeons and pve).
We are broken is so many small ways, just finding a build that can try to keep up with others in dungeons or pvp or wvwvw is a full time job in and of itself.
I am really disappointed with the SB nerf, as it was by far the only weapon that does ok damage in any situation. LB just plain does not shine in dynamic situations, especially in narrow places and the sword is a great weapon if you have a death wish.