Guardian is by far the easiest to play, but there are a TON of them right now if that’s an issue for you.
Elementalist is probably my go-to-suggestion though, they’re both good and in demand and have a lot of dynamic stuff to do in their fighting. Engineers are similar but you don’t really get into the meat of the class for quite a while.
Mesmers, be warned they’re another ‘hard to get going’ class. There are a few talents and skills that are almost necessary to make the class really sing, and you don’t get them until pretty late. On the flip side, you’re going to learn a lot of stuff in the meantime, you really have to play the game early on (as compared to guardian who can kind of punt everything)
I mained a ranger for a long time, I’d kind of stay away from it. Some of the things are cool, but the pets are a huge PITA, and all the rangers I know end up getting so annoyed at them :p
Warriors are even easier to play than Guardians.
And there are TONS2X of warriors out there.
Dear Anet, gift me Cantha or Elona and I will give away a precursor for free… well, when I find it that is.
Firstly, great effort.. nice job!
On the other hand, I don’t really think there is an ’’issue’’ to solve. I simply don’t think that Anet has issues finding a new ’’meta’’, they rather want it to be this way.. for now at least.
So they took a chess game out….big deal. Many quests were improved. Overall I feel the NPE is a huge improvement. Not everyone agrees with that but the gate does in fact swing both ways. I have leveled 2 characters to level 80 since that patch and have another to level 45. Its really just not as big a deal as some say
Sure it’s not a big deal. The point though is why? It was just one of those little side-activities that gave the world a feeling of life. Of fun. Of flavor. It was conflicting with nothing. It got in nobody’s way, and gave a little grin to people. Why take it away? Surely the New Player Experience is only lessened by removing something that livens up the world. The NPE is not for you. The NPE is for new players. Wouldn’t a new player be more blown away with GW2 if he stumbled across a little side-game of chess he could participate in, than if it were merely static background? ANet takes away from the game when they take stuff away from the game. Even something as trivial as this. And eventually the little things add up.
Alot of the things started to change after the chinese release and it is really not certain if Anet has alot to say in these matters.
Anet takes care of development. Yes, Ncsoft used to give them alot of freedom and they probably still do however Ncsoft as the publisher in addition to chinese publisher can affect the way Anet directs the game. Gaming publishers take care of the profit department and if they require a game taking a specific direction to make more profit, I don’t hink the devs have so much to say about that.
I do agree that GW2 may attract more people if it became easier to understand however getting rid of the mini-games and some of the more casual details in the early zones is a bit hard to understand as it can’t really affect the gameplay in a negative way.
Seems like we are just ending with another ‘’OMG, THE GAME IS DYING’’ thread.
Good luck. I fancy such useless threads because of all the rubbish.
Let’s put it this way: the solution isn’t by tweaking the stats but rather by re-working the entire game so the bosses and other kind of monsters can function in a way, requiring other types of damage instead of direct damage. Additionally, the monsters’ damage have to be descreased to allow healing/support classes to be effective since it doesn’t really matter how much you can heal nowadays when the boss can one-shot you anyway.
Now, even if this was done perfectly by Anet where the game ends up being about action combat and yet about different classes. The result is basically a more complex game which is not the selling point of GW2. Hardcore players are simply not the targeted playerbase, GW2 is targeted towards casual people and therefore such a change will probably never happen.
If the game is already merging servers in china, obviously the game format is showing major trouble on keeping players interested in GW2. In a corporate point of view, the numbers is the end game! I fear, no matter what Anet do, unless major changes to the game format from what it is to something similar to WoW, the game will never reach out to a newer player base. Even if the game is sold for free & has new content! For the last 3 years they put there theories into practice, some works… but in the end, the answer is right here right now. Players are leaving & are leaving for good. I only got one thing to say….Anet.. do something intelligent!!!
The chinese playerbase and the western playerbase has totally other needs. I highly doubt the chinese players have the same issues as us.
Also, please stop the talking about major guilds leaving.
It is so childish and shows such an ignorance towards the nature of MMOs that I don’t even wanna comment about it anylonger.
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My predictions?
Wildstar will dwindle and be F2P by April.
ESO will carry on also, but no major developments come and it is on life support by year end.
WoW will do a major engine upgrade, many people complain it now runs badly but re-sub anyway.
GW2 will at least announce an expansion, but unlikely to launch before August.
TSW will run out of expansion ideas, and have a ‘history’ phase of some sort where players enter another time zone.
Yea, I agree with these more.
I disagree with the predictions that ESO will go F2P, won’t happen anytime soon if ever.
Wildstar on the other hand needs a miracle to survive as a pay to play title.
Well, hopefully better content for TSW, I sadly don’t really enjoy the gameplay but I usually return for the expansions and the superior story they bring.
That is assuming a diminishing userbase is something normal and expected.
Every single game ever released have a diminishing user base from the moment it is released.
Orly?
We all know that WoW is on a league on its’ own and honestly speaking, not only because of the circumstances it had but also because it was the better game back in time.
Otherwise, it is really normal with today’s MMOs to see the population sink. No, server signs is never a good sign, but I have also never heared of a big MMO title that increased its’ active-playersbase since what… perhaps 7-8 years.
Ironic note: according to this thread, the majority of GW2 players are TSW supporters and/or players.
In reality, GW2 has an active playerbase that is at least 10 times bigger than TSW.
Is TSW bad? not at all, it was one of my favorite MMOs and the story is superior to GW2. Why am I commenting? because I know that many of the people who are complaining here about GW2, praising TSW haven’t even played the game and they are just doing to prove a statement ‘’we are not happy with GW2, so we will show that we are commited to other MMOs’’.
I respect feedback alot but this forum has always been a place for ultra-negative-mode. I have played WoW for years and I hated that aspect with their forum. And it is the same story here. Both of WoW and GW2 forums are filled with complaints, people who are hating on the game, the developers and making fun of all the people who still enjoy the game and YET, they await positive responses from other players and/or staff.
If there’s an expansion next year, I’ll be shocked. No press? No annoucement? No trailer?
Not happening.
There is a difference between announcing an expansion and releasing an expansion.
Also, if they announce it in the first quarter of 2015, they can still release it. I have never heared of an expansion release that took 1 year after the announcement.
I don’t think we will ever get an expansion, but I am happy about that because I would not be able to help myself but grind through every bit of content ASAP which after I had done there would be nothing for maybe a year or more. With the living world I CAN’T grind through everything (I mean the story itself not each episode) and that actually makes me care more about what is going on. I hope they have another 2 or 3 living world seasons complete by end of 2015 but hopefully not an expansion (unless they do the same size LS updates every 2 weeks along with the expansion)
If Anet is gonna release an expansion, it means they have a seperate team working on it and therefore Living World and expansion are both gonna be released. On the other hand, I do believe that the Living World will take pause when the expansion releases.
Personally, I find it highly possible that an expansion will be announced this year. If not, then I really doubt that Anet will release any expansion if the game doesn’t start to die.
Now, where is the expansion gonna take us? the first scenario is as mentioned, to the rest of Tyria. Therefore, the Living World was simply setting for the expansion-release and the whole thing was planned from the start. Because honestly speaking, I don’t see us fighting an elder dragon in the Living World. Which also means that Anet is probably planning 5 expansions, 1 for each dragon.
The second thought is simply that the expansion is going to take us to a new contenent while the Living World is gonna take care of keeping Tyria alive to not leave a content deserted. It is going to be complicated with the lore though. I would see it possible to connect the dragons with other continents however, how are we going to explore a new continent and yet fight a dragon? if the fight is going to happen in Tyria, it means that they will work on a new contenent AND on opening more lands in Tyria and the whole fight with the elder dragon, which seems like… too much for an expansion perhaps?
The Secret World is a better game, get over it.
As said, usually garbage games like GW2 and WoW end up with the most success and biggest popularity. Good games are usually empty for some reason.
Something that WoW and GW2 has in common is that both of their forums are full of people hating on their own game.
I guess both GW2 and WoW are failures at the end of the day.
I think every game forum I’ve been to has this.
MMO’s with smaller fanbases usually end up with a more peaceful community who is rather dedicated. TSW is one of those smaller, positive communties.
It is not released yet.
Something that WoW and GW2 has in common is that both of their forums are full of people hating on their own game.
I guess both GW2 and WoW are failures at the end of the day.
TSW community is bringing in guilds to vote for their game. It is not really a surprise they can win.
To make a long story short, let’s put it like this: in the first place, just because Anet states stuff, doesn’t mean they are exactly true which is something that many people have trouble understanding. Yes, it may ’’trick’’ people into buying the game but hey.. this is an industry and Anet is selling a game. Eventhough not everything is true, alot of things can be considered great according to the manifesto, if you had the proper mindset while playing. Just because Anet says you won’t need to grind, doesn’t mean there won’t be grind. And just because Anet says there will be dynamic events, doesn’t mean they won’t repetitive. Some people just get their hopes too high and forget about the financial and technological situation.
On the other hand, I can agree that Anet, with time, have gone farther and farther away from their original concept. The game has more grind now, forces you into doing stuff and is not as open as before. However. I disagree that it is bad for GW2 or for Anet. Anet just realized that to get the most profit, they have to keep some of the main concepts from traditional MMOs, like grind, RNG and the power to push players into playing the content they want you to play. Is it good for you as a player? well, it depens on what you like to play, you may like the game more or less this way. Is it good for the company? well, I don’t really think that Anet and Ncsoft are as stupid as people believe them to be. GW2 has never been a longterm MMORPG, it was a casual experience from the start and when they already released the game that way, got a gigantic success in the west. Now it is all about going back to the more traditional ways to get the most profit, because leaving the game as a ‘’fun experience where you do what you like when you like’’ won’t get so much money as it seems.
Don’t be too surprised if they announce an expansion soon an don’t be surprised either if you see GW2 as active 2-3 years from now. That alone is enough for the company, 5-6 years of success with millions of dollars, owning one of the west’s most played MMOs in addition to the huge popularity the game got via release. There has basically never been an MMO as commercially successful in the west as GW2 since WoW. Does it mean, it is the best today? maybe not, but it doesn’t really matter for the company. They already got the popularity they needed for the title. Now, it is all about going forward.
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This is just a casual matter that people disagree upon, no actual point of re-working the whole system again.
What’s more important perhaps is that… well, maybe more in-game skins? I don’t know if I am the only one, but eventhough most people who play the game can get skins from the gemstore by exchanging gold, it doesn’t feel as rewarding. It surely brings more money to the company this way but perhaps some new skins implemented in the game would make the experience refereshing from now to then.
“Play how you want” is not equivalent to “Do whatever you want and still get all the rewards”.
That’s on a vertical scale. How about a horizontal (timeline) one, which is the concern of this topic?
“Play how you want, with rewards” yesterday is not equivalent to “Play how you want, without rewards from yesterday” today.
What about “the most powerful rewards” in the form of enjoyment from the game, the feeling of freedom, the feeling of being emotionally attached to a world which, unlike real world, has very little restrictions here and there?
This enjoyment is fading away as more and more restrictions are placed – those which want to “streamline” (official), or “pigeonhole” (unofficial) the player’s experience.
I will put it this way. Anet simply realized that the majority of their playerbase are casual players who, in many cases, have issues exploring the entire game. What happens next is a change of ideology. Why bother with the content for people who are mostly vets when the majority of their playerbase is consisted of newer players? The content Anet is doing is to get as much profit as possible from this majority. If you disagree that they are a majority then I do honestly believe you should talk with the company and teach them how to get money. Otherwise, I do believe that we agree that GW2 is a popular title, with a huge fanbase. And if a change in ideology is going to get more profit, they would probably do it.
I’m very close to hitting the uninstall button myself. The issue is, for me, there’s just no other comparable MMO out there. Let’s face it, ANet has very little competition in the MMO market they compete in.
Instead, I’ll probably just stop signing in. Maybe one day these things will improve, but I know that will never happen. ANet has invested their time and resources into turning GW2 into… this schizophrenic handholdy mess, and I don’t think they’d change it back.
This game is pretty much the most commercially successful title in the western MMO industry since WoW. Since no MMO have gotten the same commercial success and popluarity via release as GW2, Anet doesn’t really have that big of a compitition. Quality doesn’t matter by this point, the game is too popular and will be profitable for at least 3 more year. All they needed was a successful and hugly popular release and they totally got it.
I understand, but doesn’t that bother you a little?
I’m also a fairly casual player, and the game has appealed to me less and less as time has gone on.
It does bother me indeed. I wish Anet have made the game better (according to my preferences). I wish I can see more zones, better balance, more diversity and would rather not see old concepts getting changed, in many cases, to the worse. However, I also don’t believe that the solution is to sit and complain, threatining the company by leaving the game and telling all your friends to not buy it.
I am not directing that to you apparently, but speaking in general, that alot of the ’’feedback’’ threads rather create drama than actually solve the problem. These threads seem to also motivate Anet to change old concepts all the time where some of the systems have been re-worked mutliple times by this point. It is fact that the company and the players should understand: the community will never be happy with the game. There will always be people disagreeing with others.
So I wish there would be more feedback threads rather telling Anet to go forward than keep on changing what is already there. I believe the game could be much better but it seems we are just stuck at re-working the systems over and over again and everytime there are complaints. Quite frankly though, everytime something new introduced (no rework) we usually hear this: ‘’It is good but too late, they already ruined the game. Instead of adding new stuff, they should make their old systems better’’.
Being here for a while, I believe that being too negative will rather take us backwards than forwards. The whole ‘’I am gonna leave, what are you gonna do now?’’ never works. This is not a gameshop in your street but a multi-million gaming studio with a game generating millions of dollars. As long as no catastrophe happens, all the ‘’angry threats’’ don’t really lead to the puropose they were made for. We have seen it in GW2 for the past years and in other MMOs for tens of years.
Instead of taking hours to comment hatefully on every thread in GW2 forum, maybe come up with an idea, maybe it will be useless but you are wasting your time eitherway. Maybe a voting with people introducing their opinions? So at least you would have an argument to be supported. Yes, we usually hear about ‘’hundreds of comments on a complaints-thread, listen to us!’’ but when checking the thread, the comments are usually about people fighting about what they want. You hardly see anything that people agree on and therefore blaming the company later on seems useless, eventhough the complaints may hold alot of truth.
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I’m very close to hitting the uninstall button myself. The issue is, for me, there’s just no other comparable MMO out there. Let’s face it, ANet has very little competition in the MMO market they compete in.
Instead, I’ll probably just stop signing in. Maybe one day these things will improve, but I know that will never happen. ANet has invested their time and resources into turning GW2 into… this schizophrenic handholdy mess, and I don’t think they’d change it back.
Let me remind you now, that during the ‘’golden days’’ of GW2, there were tons of people complaining and whining about how they need a CHANGE. Now, alot people seem to believe that what they think is good, should be worked on by Anet. Not realizing, that Anet is a company wanting to get profit, not a vocal minority who are old vets, complaining about their nostalgia days and if not, complaining about why the company doesn’t work to make them happier.
The game is casual and the MAJORITY of the players are casuals. Alot of these casuals do turn into vets eventually too. Meaning, that as long as the changes are good for the casual/new people, it is profitable and therefore good for Anet. There is nothing called ‘’I am a vet, if I leave the game will die’‘. People said this 2 years ago and the game is still going. Even if GW2’s population goes down by half, it will still be profitable and a single expansion would bring in millions of dollars.
This game is pretty much the most commercially successful title in the western MMO industry since WoW. Since no MMO have gotten the same commercial success and popluarity via release as GW2, Anet doesn’t really have that big of a compitition. Quality doesn’t matter by this point, the game is too popular and will be profitable for at least 3 more year. All they needed was a successful and hugly popular release and they totally got it.
Good luck with your next amazing MMO. You seem to have discovered an MMO-industry that we stupid people don’t know about.
PS. Now, this is not meant to offend you but I just want to mention something since I find the whole situation of whining annoying instead of giving realistic feedback. I have been here for a while, everytime a patch comes alot people starts to complain, reasoning that the game is dead and they would leave. Next patch, the same exact people do the same thing. It happens so much that I don’t think many care eitherway, there are those who believe GW2 shoul be heaven, complaining that it is more garbage than any MMO in the industry, and yet they stay here… to make themselves suffer I suppose.
SRy but Anet can’t listen to anyone because the voices in there heads say: “DO NOT LISTEN TO PPL”.
If Anet didn’t listen to people then they wouldn’t change their game.
You should have figured that out at least.
Eitherway, good luck, the game won’t change as it seems, so you may as well leave it behind and find a better MMO making your dreams becoming a reality. One way or another, you are just stating that GW2 is becoming garbage and I don’t think ANET cares as long as they are getting money. And if you believe that you are better than ANET at deciding which system can make the most money, then you should be working at business managment instead of playing the game.
Bottomline is, you can leave if you don’t want to play this game since you seem to think it is garbage and one way or another, ANET won’t really beg you pardon and roll the game back.
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After playing in the jumping puzzle for around 30 minutes, I get disconnected from my character, and when trying to login the game crashes so I have to restart the client.
Happened 3 times for me and only in the jumping puzzle. The game works fine for me as long as I don’t stay in the jumping puzzle for too long (not too sure, but if I guess there is a reset for the jumping puzzle. If there is then I tend to get disconnected everytime it resets).
Far fewer choices in pve for those who only do pve. This is an amazingly crappy change. I thought we were going to get more options not less. You already did Less and people HATED it. You can’t be that clueless Anet.
Add more options!
‘’You can’t be that clueless Anet’’
Do you really imagine the game to made based on your needs?
It should be the other way around. You play because you like it. You don’t play if you don’t like it. It is good to give feedback but it is annoying to see players insulting the company when they, themselves, have no idea what they want and they keep complaining, not realizing, that 2 months ago, there were complaints about the exact opposite of what they want now.Sweet so I don’t play, I don’t spend money in their gem store, they don’t make any cash. Great!
I don’t know if you realize it but the world is not about you, you are just a small part of it and sometimes what you want is irrelevant. You may need to grow up a little bit before realizing that instead of threatining people with your money.
Far fewer choices in pve for those who only do pve. This is an amazingly crappy change. I thought we were going to get more options not less. You already did Less and people HATED it. You can’t be that clueless Anet.
Add more options!
‘’You can’t be that clueless Anet’’
Do you really imagine the game to made based on your needs?
It should be the other way around. You play because you like it. You don’t play if you don’t like it. It is good to give feedback but it is annoying to see players insulting the company when they, themselves, have no idea what they want and they keep complaining, not realizing, that 2 months ago, there were complaints about the exact opposite of what they want now.
TSW is a game with an amazing story-line. When you are done with the story, it is kinda over as it doesn’t really have the best gameplay and is lacking in many aspects. On the other hand, I can proudly say that I had my fun there.
Aside from that, GW2 is one of the most successful and popular titles in the west and these two aspects doesn’t specifically have to do with how good the game is but rather how popular and how commercially successful it was.
All in all, GW2 may lose vs ESO because of ESO’s huge fan-following and the fact that it is a much newer game. Generally though, GW2 will probably end up vs WoW in the finals and will indeed lose and take a 2nd place.
I typed KITTEN out manually, so this is a legit title.
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I am a level 80 mesmer from using tomes and crafting.
I now have some experience on my mesmer in PvP.
I wanted to play WvW with guildmates because I feel decent enough at mesmer now.I have no traits in PvE or WvW.
I need to pay gold that I don’t currently have to unlock traits.
I need a TON of skill points that I don’t have because of buying skills, to unlock traits.I can’t play WvW with my guildmates on my level 80 mesmer tonight.
TY for this new system that I recently got the displeasure of experiencing.
I will probably not be telling my friends to buy Guild Wars 2…Ok so, you skipped your way to 80 without experiencing most of what the game has to offer on your character … .
Is there anything in the game you are no longer able to do once you hit level 80? When I powerleveled my characters to level 80 I had access to everything they had access to at level 2 plus much more. I went back on my level 80s and did the low level personal story quests, dungeons, zones and crafting with zero problems.
I could be wrong now though. I haven’t leveled a character to 80 with the new trait and npe changes.
Point is that people skip to 80, ignore all the content and then complain that there is no content. Just because you are 80 doesn’t mean you are finished with the game for the exact same reasons you have mentioned: GW2 isn’t really bound that much by levels.
On the other hand, why do people await everything to be gotten easily? do you automatically get full-geared characters when you start a new character in other MMOs? do they unlock everything for you? You already have played the game before, therefore you have no excuse for spending some extra time in dungeons to get gold and therefore unlocking the traits.
If this would have been a Harry potter MMO then you would have had to avada kedavra your way forward.
Anet doesn’t have a problem with money and I don’t think they have a problem with content either. I do believe though that they still have an issue as to who to introduce this content.
Eventhough Living World 2 episodes have had much better quality than Living World 1, it is still hard to be statisfied. People get annoyed when waiting for a new episode in a TV-series and it is even worse when you wait for a new episode in an MMORPG, a game that people usually play daily. If Anet starts with long pauses where they create the content and then release it all at once then people would complain that too much is coming too soon and they get confused with all the new story-lines that they stop caring about the Living World.
The Living World has simply not been the most impressing method. And as Anet never EVER says anything useful in advance, the players will never know what Anet is doing. If the team for the Living World is consisted of 20 people, what are the other 200 doing? Are they just sitting down to take maintain the servers and release ads? It is just hard to understand and the logical explanation would be: ‘’they are working on something else’’.
Now, it has been over a year since Anet said that they are working on something else aside from the Living Story but what is it? wether it is an expansion or something completly disappointing, Anet has to say something, because GW2 players simply seem to have no idea whatsoever as to what Anet is actually doing and what they can await from the game.
That’s how MMOs are like. The experience is even worse in most other MMOs as there is no downscaling and therefore higher levels won’t even bother checking lower level areas or dungeons and if they do, they will usually ruin the experience for the new players since they can one-shot everything.
It is so funny to see people complain about how ’’easy’’ and ‘’dps-focused’’ the game is.
You should have been here during beta when the first 10 pages were filled with complaints that the game is too hard and Anet lied about it being casual.
GW2 wasn’t always easy, it used to be challenging. But thanks to tens of threads to tune the game down, Anet decided to take the casual path and believe it or not, if the content was to be tuned up again, there would be thousends of complaints to tune it down again.
But you get Wintersday. Again.
The same present at christmas for the third time in a row.
It is like a kid gets the same toy from his/her aunt every year, and she expects him/her to be greatful. Yeah, the family will say, “It is free so just act as if you like it”, but in truth the kid is deeply disappointed.
So thank you ANet for yet another Wintersday! Yay!
Anet takes care of you to make profit.
Your family takes care of you because you are a family.
There is a difference huh?
Let me put it this way, GW2 is still one of the most popular titles in the west despite the release of a couple of big titles. Most of these titles flopped with ESO being shaky despite the title behind it and Archeage getting raged at because of exploits and pay-to-win aspects. Meaning, that Anet doesn’t even need to do much to compete as the market is empty in the first place. What alot of players don’t realize is that despite how much you hate on forum, saying that the game is empty, the fact is that GW2’s playerbase isn’t anything close to little and there is no reason to go on with desperate strategies and WONDERFUL surprises when the game is already running too well. Players will leave, you say? Well, believe it nor not, all Anet has to do is to release an expansion and it will renew the game’s lifespan for at least 1 more year.
Most MMOs in the market are POOR nowadays, therefore awaiting a game to make your dreams become a reality isn’t realistic. Yes, I would love to agree with you and see Anet react and introduce beautiful content. I would love to see Anet to make me feel the joy of playing this game like I once did when I started. However, I can’t just lie to myself that it will happen because I don’t think it will. All I ask for, realisticly, is an expansion sometime in the future. Aside from that, I don’t await Anet to change alot as the industry isn’t compitive enough to be worth investing extra resources when your original resources are already working.
MMOs aren’t for you and no, GW1 was never an MMORPG.
PS. My intention isn’t to offend you whatsoever but most of your complaints are just ’’normal’’ things in MMOs. You will always have to grind, you will always find inconsistency. There is almost no MMO who have had a balanced class system and having issues to do events is just another given thing when the MMO is 2 years-old and people won’t bother exploring areas anylonger. Regarding the traits locks etc. As mentioend before, most people who complain about this are veteran players running alts. A new player doesn’t know enough to even understand what traits are and they are usually confused and may end up being 80 without understanding the game properly. Also, a player who can’t unlock traits, will probably not be useful to you in WvW eitherway.
I don’t think many would feel they are Ascalonians after a gap of 250 years. You were born in Kryta, you grew up there and your whole family were also born there. We are simply talking about your ancestors being from Ascalon and honestly speaking, a few people would feel any connection to some anscestors who lives 250 years ago.
I also bought World of warcraft because I thought in-game graphics would be as good as those in the trailer but they weren’t.. omg, what am I gonna do?!!
I would love to have an expansion and more group-based content, like raids or something simliar to dungeons, requiring more people to accomplish.
I thought they did a sequal bit called Guild Wars beyond. It bridges the gap between Guild Wars 1 and Guild Wars 2.
This might be what you are looking for.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_Beyond
It was meant to be an ’’expansion’’ and it was cancelled.
It will be funny if GW1 beats GW2
Won’t happen. Despite the hate GW2 gets, it is still one of the most popular titles in the west. This whole voting may as well end up with GW2 vs WoW in the finals.
Leave polishing games to Blizzard and innovation to Anet, that’s how the industry should work, with different companies doing different things.
There is alot of companies, including Blizzard, who have a superior budget and who have decided to go with the module of creating games based on ‘’already successsful concepts’’ with some additional tweaks here and there to make the experience more polished. Anet won’t be able to suddenly enter that field of the MMO-market and compete with gigantic companies.
Anet is good at innovating and comping up with crazy concept and sometimes does work and sometimes not. The result is GW2 which, despite the hate on the forums, is one of the most successful MMOs in the western industry since WoW’s release. It is also, one of the most popular titles overall. There is simply no need to change the formula when it is already working for Anet.
There is no themepark MMO without grind. GW2, on the other hand, gives you the choice between grinding for cosmetics or enjoying other parts of the game. For me, like for many others, GW2 is a casual MMO that I enjoy playing with friends. I login when I want, enjoy some duengons, some WvW, experience the new Living world chapter and then go back to my real life. This is the MMO that LETS me do that.
People who wanna play hardcore have the option to grind to rather look cooler which is more of a prestigious thing rather than the ‘’I grind, I get more items, I better not see you again’’ that you can find in other MMOs.
We have a bunch of MMOs already focusing on the gear treadmill and powerhousing. For me, GW2 is good the way it is. Apparently there are downsides but since there is no perfect game, there is nothing to complain about.
One of the biggest complaints last time was that the season was TOO LONG! Apparently, people tend to forget about such ’’minor’’ things on these forums. The change is what players asked for and I would assume it would look like that:
Season 2 first half > feature pack > season 2 second half > christmas festivals > season 3 first half > feature pack > season 3 second half > expansion
People in these forums never believe in any positive change happening in GW2 and whenever it happens they complain about some details while if it doesn’t happen, they complain about the lack of content. -Sigh- at least be realistic and stop the assumptions. But hey since you have your assumptions of Anet not doing anything but these maps during that period of time, I also have mine, that I already metnioned. I will remind you of this post someday, because I know its what gonna happen somehow..
If Guild Wars 2’s are dying than no MMO in the western industry, aside from WoW, is alive.
If you want to run dungeons and play other content with friends, join a guild. There is alot of friendly guilds welcoming new members helping them. That will boost your gaming experience immensely.
I like it ergo it’s fine.
Ok then.
p.s. What Anet said before launch barely counts as an argument (see the manifesto for reference).
People who saw the mainfesto and believed Anet would introduce a game outta this universe with a technology never seen before, are either ignorant or don’t know the limits of current gaming engines.
Living story will be paused after the 4th release and guess what time is that… end of august, meaning Guild Wars 2’s anniversary.
Mind sourcing that? I don’t mean to sound like a jerk, but I want to see where ANet said it before I start speculating.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/22/guild-wars-2-trailer-teases-the-dragons-reach-part-1/
‘’The Dragon’s Reach: Part 1 will be the penultimate fortnightly Season 2 release before the Living World goes on a mid-season break.’’
There is a low possiblity that a site like Pcgamer would come up with such a statement outta the blue since it seems so specific.
Living story will be paused after the 4th release and guess what time is that… end of august, meaning Guild Wars 2’s anniversary.
The Living story patch-skip means Anet is releasing something else for the 2 years anniversary so the possiblity of SAB returning is quite big by this point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game
Read this first then try with a new post.