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AmyLynn, on 19 April 2013 - 12:47 PM, said:

Ah, well ya if you need to modify your game client, then ya you should get perma-banned lol.

No it's hardly revolutionary it's just different from most of the other ones. That was touted as the reason it's like it is for the crying casuals who didn't have unlimited time to play an MMO everyday but wanted to be at the top of something in a game. Well this is it for them. Just like GW1 it's easy to max out your level, easy to get maxed out gear and easy to get into pvp. Everything is easy and candyland and romper room so most of them are happy now. The only bad thing about a game like this is "there's no point" in playing it really especially if you're hardcore playalot type. But, what draws in the hardcore playalot types is there's no stupid monthly fee.

WOW is too old to start playing now and most of the others as well. The newer ones like Age of Conan and Warhammer are just lame. Guild Wars origional had a great experience it just didn't have any vertical progression and that's what a game like this needs for the hardcore. When Anet gets up off their laurels and see this they can draw a massive crowd from WOW and other MMOs. Just make a game like GW1 (with lots of skills and heroes) with no monthly fee and progressive vertical gameplay and the numbers will come.

I still play GW1 the most. I go back every week to play the Zashien quests and get the travelers gifts. I just like playing with more than one character and GW1 lets me do that with heroes or even henchies if I don't mind their builds. I like groups in rpgs I just don't like PUGS.

"Pure grindfest so we can play barbie dressup with our avatars!"

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How uttley stupid is that. So much for a global community of gamers, meeting up across boundaries to enjoy and learn from each other. Honestly...

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bcbully1, on 20 November 2012 - 06:14 AM, said:

The community is dumb, that's exactly how it is. This is very evident considering how many fell for ArenaNet's "promises" about things which were and are outright impossible. What everyone doesn't seem to understand is that MMORPG players need to be guided and that's where gear gating comes into play. It sets a goal for all players to achieve before they can overcome a threshold should they want to progress further. These people have proven to be superior than the rest. It is necessary as it seperates the wheat from the chaff, the good from the bad, the weak from the strong. Such system did not exist in GW1 so players themselves decided to create a system of their own which functions the exact same. Knowing this, ArenaNet simply decided to add this barrier themselves. What does it matter if its players creating this barrier or the developers themselves? It is existent regardless. As you can see, this is in mankinds very nature.

A reason to play again.

Sadly, a glance at GW2LFG shows just how screwed you are if you're a new player looking to do story modes to unlock explorables.

Currently, 14 of 307 entries on the board are for story mode - and of those, four are dupes from the same guy, and one is an idiot who selected CoE Story but put "LF2M FotM 5. No Magic Find. Ensure you're on an NA server" in the description.

So 10 out of 300+ groups. GW2 is basically at the point now where if you didn't start playing at release, you're unlikely to ever run a dungeon (other than Fractals) until ArenaNet finally crack and add a proper dungeonfinder.

GW2 is at its best when it's not an MMO.

The personal story ends around 50 anyway. Then you start Traherne's.

I agree with the sentiment of the OP about feeling no connection to the world. The voice acting, the writing, the "cutscenes", everything about it was abysmal. guild Wars 1 's story wasn't great, but it was a significant step above this. Maybe other devlopers will take note and realize you can't mask that kind of thing with a bunch of bells and whistles and shiny things. Botching the story was a huge turnoff for a lot of people, including me.

two maces, on 25 November 2012 - 05:48 AM, said:

Hard to call an article a troll when it brings up some very valid points.

AWWWW reminds me of a Facehugger <3

And how everyone laughed when I said this would happen 6 months ago

Expect major "convenience" items available through the cash shop that helps "casuals" obtain what they want in the game (Ascendant Armor).

inb4 they already have your money

Don't worry, if history has taught us anything, there's plenty more grind coming for GW2.