Comments on: The death of Guild Wars 2

By: AAnet are liars

AAnet are liars — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:05:14 +0000

Causal wars 2 – PvE is a snoozefest, dungeons are just grinds, only one dungeon has multiple path selections(TA) and even then it’s still just a static path of three. Game was way overhyped and released way too soon, arena net are working on pumping out content while game breaking bugs go unfixed -_- (path 1+2 from AC anyone you got a 50% of it bugging up and you getting no ‘reward’ at the end while wasting 30 minutes to an hour). There is some ‘fun’ but the bad imo outweigh them, best to wait a year until they’ve smoothed all the crap out and even then it’s only a mediocre game at best because it’s too easy just as every other MMO to date they make the game accessible to everyone so the difficulty is a joke (yes the explorer dungeon/fractal is a joke minimal team work at best).

The only saving grace is WvW and even then that gets tedious because a zerg>skill or how the developers have coded the game zerg = skill, if you have more numbers than the other server you win, that’s basically WvW in a nutshell (sure if it’s 3:1 ratio you can still fight well in WvW but you won’t hold anything for long or win, your server is a low pop compared to the other 2 server then you automatically lose lol). And if you want PvP to be fair sPvP is a joke too because it is so far removed from the game it feels like a crappy little addon, no one cares if your good there and you don’t even obtain anything of value except some crappy points for crappy looking gear skins. Finally they are going back on their word by adding a gear treadmill to the game because they don’t have any original ideas for end game content and are trying to please all the whiners.
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By: chris

chris — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:54:23 +0000

Someone lives in their head you should come out sometime.

By: Mr. Meh

Mr. Meh — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:46:46 +0000

The only thing I would like you to go ninja edit in your article…

“Go look back at **2008**…”

WAR was release Sept 2008. In 2009 blogs on WAR would not have been all that gleaming about Beta impressions. It would have been more … angrier bloggers.

I also agree with Sprinks. They really ninja feature cut WAR from BETA to Launch. It would take 2 years to patch WAR to a suitable state to only fuck it up with a fake expansion.

Me thinks that is why they sold 800K but only 600K showed up to play. That whole buy a copy and we’ll give you full access to betas trick.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:40:12 +0000

Perhaps just a symantic quible, but it should be noted that GW2 doesn’t have “subs”. So a 1::1 comparisson isn’t really an appropriate, or even possible, measurement.

By: Dril

Dril — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:22:46 +0000

So Syncaine, when are you and Azuriel joining Massively?

By: prebzie

prebzie — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:48:37 +0000

GW2 is going to do fine and it’s going to have a ton of players for years to come. GW1 did it after all and GW1 was a pretty horrible game to most MMO players.

But GW2 is not going to be the home of all the mouthbreathing post-wow fanboys who have been looking for a new MMO since they quit wow. No game ever is.

By: whatever

whatever — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:46:07 +0000

There is nothing magic about WAR or Rift failure. Gersh is good at sucking up and major class flaws were never fixed because of him.

It’s not “oh what went wrong, no one could ever see”. Rift had Rogues as some sort of “support class” with low DPS, low single-target healing, and a decent, though hard, tank spec.

Now, more than 1/4 of Rift players picked Rogue. They picked it wanting to DPS. They were then told no DPS for them. They tried healing. Not so good except off-heals maybe. And Chloromancer does healing better. So they could “support” or tank. And not many people, period, like tanking.

Do not tell +25% of your base to “bleep off”. They will become unhappy. Other flaws were present, but there was nothing odd about Rift’s troubles.

By: Stratagerm

Stratagerm — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:48:04 +0000

There’s a natural tension between game publishers and players. An overly positive attitude can make a journalist or blogger seem like the publisher’s advocate, not the player’s.

Were I employed in the game industry I’d love him to death, but as a mere paying customer, I read him with caution.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:26:30 +0000

Yes, Syp has the truly annoying habit of being upbeat and positive about new games. I guess he did not get the memo that all real gamers are bitter and blase about every new game.

By: eudaimonean

eudaimonean — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:22:43 +0000

Ok, so you’ve identified ArenaNet’s differentiators as (1) Community management (2) No subscription (3) Graphics (4) Engine/graphics, and (5) Community management.

I’m sorry, all this stuff is nice and all, but I’m not seeing any of it as “obviously” guaranteeing staying power, with the possible exception of point two (though note that there are plenty of F2P games with item 2 as well…)