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Simple thing, but kind of ugly and inconvenient: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1bgpcnw/the_realm_of_dreams_achievment_title_bug/

Kaineng City being futuristic doesn’t means that the entire game will now be reformulated and be “cyberpunky”. I think the new cyberpunk theme for Kaineng and Cantha itself fits perfectly with the lore of this region of the world of Tyria, as they developed independently through the years, isolated from the rest of the world. Furthermore, I expect that other regions and continents have their own culture and different styles too. You can’t expect that all the regions in the world have developed in the same pace as the medieval humans of Tyria continent, the Asuras and Charrs themselves are more technological than Tyrian humans, different races on different regions develop in different ways, even the real world is like that, some countries are more developed and richer than others. GW2 it’s a fantasy game, so I personally like ANet to mix medieval with some futuristic and steampunk things just like in Final Fantasy games.

Yep, they're "telling, not showing" right now lol.

I hope I'm totally wrong, but the form they announce things with their marketing isn't really good, btw, so we don't know clearly nothing about EoD, just superficial things that are presented almost on a bad impressions form, so we don't know what they are doing or what are their intentions, building hype is different from building concerns, and hiding core features (apparently) behind the "we'll not show you this because it's spoiler" it's ridiculous.

It's absolutely a really gorgeous place with so many details on it's architecture, but it's completely empty in terms of gameplay, there's nothing to do, even on the livestream they spent like 25 min just running through the area and showing a lot of NPCs that also don't do nothing, it's a place to be AFK, just that, I think don't even RP can be done there since there's nothing, the NPCs are like lazy peons with no purpose of existence. They announced that there will be showed gameplay content on the masteries, although they didn't showed any gameplay. Developing this place as open world, they could had so much better ideas for gameplay like being a part of a meta event, a world boss in there, a strike mission or even a whole new raid wing, imagine the enemies, bosses and mechanics that could be implemented on that huge and gorgeous place. That was really disappointing. As more as I look to EoD features, I see what I was most afraid of, a big mistake of some (*Blizzard*) MMO companies that always led them to lose a lot of the playerbase, the complete disconnection between what the vast majority of the playerbase wants and what developers want, it sounds like they're building the game just for them with their strange ideas, not for the playerbase, and the public response for that is simple, they quit your game, just like it's happening with WoW right now.

About being a job I think that there’s a lot of mmos that aren’t nft and already feel like a job by wasting your time on grinding/farming things for hours everyday, but they are non-paid jobs that gives you virtual things (stronger equipments, mounts, etc) that only have value inside of the game, inside a fantasy world, meanwhile the company gets what have real value, your money. So for the boring grinding and pay-to-win games, it would be better to play one that at least I can extract real value from it by selling nft items, terrains in game and other stuff for real money that I can actually use in the real world. And for those who play p2w games, already exists these same p2w mechanics in nft mmo, just as Mir 4 that it’s getting successful just because the nft system, so people have the type of thinking that I mentioned above in this comment that at least the game gives them profit, but the game itself is really trashy. Although I think we will have aaa nft mmos in the near future brought by the big mmo companies we already know (Square Enix, Pearl Abyss, NCSoft, Zenimax, etc) that will both bring the fun you can expect of a aaa mmo and the chance to make a little bit profit from the game by the nft system.

Yes, I’m not an expert on that, that’s why I’ve put “enthusiast”, in any part of the text I said I’m a expert. And yes again, you can spend your money too in NFT games, just like every investment you can’t expect to invest nothing on it and have huge profits. About the player experience, the NFT mmos we got now are really trashy in gameplay mechanics, lore, etc and I said that on my text, don’t know even if you read it btw. But sure that will come aaa mmos into the nft world in the near future, as big companies already known for developing successful mmos just announced they are making their own aaa mmos. And when that begins I see that we will have good mmos with the same or better quality of GW2, FF14, ESO, BDO being produced, so you can have fun meanwhile you make a little bit of money in this free time you’re spending playing, of course you’ll not get rich with that, but it’s better than just thrown your money to companies to buy things on theirs in-game stores that don’t offers any financial return to you, just your time and money being spent uselessly. And don’t get me wrong, I like to play just for fun too on my free time and spend my money on things I like on the game store, but I have to admit that isn’t worth my time and with nfts I could be doing both, having fun and earning a little bit. Maybe it wouldn’t work to implement nft into an already established game like GW2 as some comments just said, I don’t know about the technical side of it, I’m not a programmer, what I gave was just a suggestion, a sketch of idea, of course ANet would have to look to the technical side of it. But if ANet ever does a brand new nft mmo I would be one of the firsts to give it a chance, why not? I see here that there are lots of comments of people that don’t understand the concept of nfts neither the concept of crypto-currencies in general and appears that they never ever really invested into the crypto market nor played any nft game.

Yes, but the opportunities for scammers are endless with government money too in that world, or pyramid schemes just began with cryptos and never existed before that? 🤔

It’s been such a few months since I’ve been hearing about awesome NFT MMO projects, I think it’s a promising future that all the big companies are already looking forward to, as for example EA and Ubisoft just manifested positively about NFT games, other companies such as Pearl Abyss and Square Enix just announced they are already producing their AAA NFT games and there are rumours about Black Desert going this way too. As a enthusiast of the crypto world, I’m seeing that this will be the future of the online games industry in general, in special of the MMO industry, because in many ways the type of thinking: “Why I would spend my time farming/grinding gold or whatever there is in this game, if I can do the same in an other game with NFT that offers me the same or better fun playing with dungeons, raids, world pvp and all the other good stuff a AAA MMO can offer me and it even pays me for playing? My time has value, and that’s why I need to be rewarded for spending it, because other way I could be just earning money instead of playing, but if I can do both in a game, why not?” will begin to get heavy on players minds. I see that the metaverse is opening a wide variety of opportunities for both players and companies, as companies can earn big profit from small taxes applied into the NFT transactions of buy/sell. Now it’s a good time since all this thing of NFT just began to appear massively, it’s the chance to be one of the pioneers AAA MMO that adopts the NFT system, because sincerely, there aren’t yet high quality MMO games in this system, for example, people play Mir 4 just because of NFT, but the game is trash, completely a “cash-grab auto-mode mobile” MMO, but I can asure you guys, it won’t take long for us to see the first AAA MMOs to show up in the scene, because the big boys I already mentioned in this post (and I think many more other big companies will adopt later) are looking forward to the possibilities of this system, and they’re already producing their AAA games on that. I could extend this text way longer on this topic, but now I want to know from the community of this game that I like so much, what do u guys think? Would be viable to implement without breaking the game’s economy or just impossible?

I think we should expect some new content and features reveals about EoD until it’s release in February, since they said in the very final of this post on the “Until Next Time” part (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/arenanet-studio-update-july-2021/) that we’ll have more livestreams organized along this year to show more features of the expansion besides those showed on the 27th July. As said in the post: …”so while we won’t be spoiling things, we still have lots to share between now and release! We’ve planned more Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons livestreams through the rest of 2021, and they’ll each bring you more news about the expansion.”.