Krazzar

Tranquility, on 17 May 2013 - 05:10 AM, said:

This might show you the personal problem you have. You don't pay attention to the stories even heart activities have, let alone the stories around event chains. That means nothing will make you happy in this regard.

To directly respond to your comment, if you know where the areas are to kill "certain enemies" why is that a problem? You don't care what you kill. It's obvious you just want to mindlessly kill things over and over. I would try some other game if GW2 is too much thinking for you.

El Duderino, on 17 May 2013 - 02:49 PM, said:

They stopped working on it because there is no appeal, you can get into the chicken-before-the-egg argument if you want, but businesses don't just drop a project that has potential and demand. GW1 has neither and hasn't since EOTN's release.

This can be a problem if you run the flamethrower on engineer. If you even look away from your target you can miss every single time, no matter where the flames land. I've become used to it and work around it now, I have a separate targeting button on my mouse (the far right click on a G600) and have found looking around with left click will not break target. I have become used to taking my finger off right click when I want to look around.

Isn't there an option to require targeting? We all can't get in GW2 now but I could have sworn you could turn off autotarget.

Tranquility, on 10 May 2013 - 07:44 AM, said:

Yeah, I don't agree with this. I only have two zones left to complete on my engineer and I can't really remember doing them all. I guess I was just too entranced by the little stories going on around me. Last night I completed the Hiarathi Hinterlands by doing a bunch of events back to back. It was pretty cool to go on all those adventures and learn about what was going on. I guess if you do the same hearts in the same zone over and over again, especially if you do the "heart activities" it can get boring, but I think it's more of disengaging from the content then complaining it isn't engaging. For the vast majority of the events I was alone, I only really saw one or two people around hearts. You choose to play it the boring way. If you don't care about the little stories in the world it's going to get boring for you.

I wouldn't say it was a desperate attempt to just be different, it's a different way to structure story and content. There are small stories all over the place instead of having it shoved down your throat or held in front of your face all the time through quests. GW2 does that very well, if you don't care about that you're going to have a hard time. GW2 isn't like other MMOs so if you like being led by a stiff leash you should probably play all those other MMOs that do that. I'm not saying you're wrong or giving the "GTFO" speech, I mean you should know what you like and that not all games are for everyone. I don't like most MMOs for a variety of reasons and GW2 is a mix of attitudes that differ from those MMOs and I appreciate that.

Cube, on 16 May 2013 - 08:49 PM, said:

They could add gems to GW1 quite easily. They have a million other currencies in the game. GW1 is just dead, it isn't what the market wants. It has some nostalgia factor but no drivers to keep anyone. Even if they added gems there's no real reason to do so, people spend money on games they have a strong connection to and expect to be playing for a long time, a game from 2005 just doesn't have that appeal.