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Arewn, on 18 March 2013 - 05:29 PM, said:

Bleed cap?? Do you mean the maximum size of the bleed stack?? That does not indicate crappy gameplay. GW1 had a bleed stack size of 1. It was an excellent game. (If on the other hand you mean another certain technical term, tell me).
And the impermanence isn't a problem. The scripted impermanence is. That is not the result of it being an MMO, but a result of certain design choices.

As I said, GW1 was niche, I agree, but it did extremely well for a niche game.

Doctor Overlord, on 19 March 2013 - 12:14 AM, said:

But games like Mass Effect and Sim City are different. They exist in genres that have a lot of good games. GW2 does not. In the MMO genre there are a handful of games that even fulfill their purpose of offering a social experience together with the gameplay, and even fewer where said gameplay is actually interesting. To damn the genre even more, the biggest player in it falls in neither of those categories.

Yes, GW1 was a niche game, ANet attempted to create the "CoRPG" genre, which turned out to contain one game. However they could have made GW2 that too, kept progressing. I'm fairly sure that they would have sold tons on release if GW2 was GW 2.0 so to speak. They chose to not do that. With the influx of new people into the company from other studios that previously made (failed) MMOs, as well as large parts of the GW1 talents seemingly leaving, it was probably an obvious choice to make an MMO.

That doesn't mean that it wasn't unfortunate, though. I would much prefer another CoRPG.

Doctor Overlord, on 18 March 2013 - 03:56 PM, said:

No, there were plenty of tasteless people who liked (or at least played) GW1 too.

I'd say that playing to play with your friends is a good reason to play MMOs. And yes, GW2 is more adapted to that than for example WoW. But note, that is not actually saying anything good about GW2. It's just saying that it works as it should. Like if you go buy some food and you notice that you can actually eat the food. Or you buy a car and you find that you can actually drive it. Well big whoop, that's kind of the point. Earlier MMOs were defect pieces of junk, and GW2 works at least a little bit like it should.

Rickter, on 18 March 2013 - 03:59 PM, said:

...and all you're saying is that other MMOs are even shittier than GW2. Which is absolutely true. I literally could not agree more. But are we to lower our demands to meet the standards of people who have accepted utter mediocrity for years and years?

El Duderino, on 18 March 2013 - 04:55 PM, said:

You know why he cares so much. He wants to tell himself that it's a game worth defending.

Rickter, on 18 March 2013 - 03:42 PM, said:

GW1 is one of the best selling PC games of all time. In the MMO (or MMO-like) genre, only WoW is "harder hitting" if you count sales. GW1 was niche, I agree, but 7 million units is quite a wide niche.

Also, there were lots of GW1 players who bought GW2. Far from all of them had GWAMM. Many of those who do, me for example, don't show it.

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Lordkrall, on 18 March 2013 - 01:33 PM, said:

But HA isn't comparable to tournament, and a PvP hotjoin match takes longer than an RA match usually did
Besides, RA matches start every 30 seconds, you'll always get in as long as there are at least 8 people waiting to enter, so the average waiting time is the same for 100 people in the queue and 400 000 people in the queue