Thank you for your comments, I did in fact miss out on LS1 and 2 and tried my best to fill the gap by checking videos and do homework on my end before engaging in the expansion that is HoT... I however wish to express an apology if I seemed disrepectful towards the devs work... I might have written the whole thing in a negative state of mind, which isn't built on rage but on nostalgia and bitterness on my end. In fact I believe Arenanet's games have allways been a beacon towards which other MMO's should aspire to... their games have flaws as all games do, but their marketing and bussiness model is purely examplary and most of all (I can't stress this enough) the community of gamers feels outlandishly positive, at least it allways felt that way for me... So ofcourse, feeling no longer in my element in this game, in which I "flourished" as a gamer... is certainly cause for a little heartbreak... I didn't see it coming either and was caught off guard.As for the "Kawai flower power" statement... to clarify I intially felt like playing an RPG with a very unique setting, rough, brutal, beautiful and Epic, then I suddenly fell down a rabbit hole and felt like I shifted into a JRPG similar to Final Fantasy Online (no offense to anyone, but it's just not my thing... I can't go from talking to a big nasty Dragon, to a talking Cactus moments after without my immersion flipping me off). I felt off put by the character designs for one, but I could eventually work past that... but the dialogues between the Npc's felt so incredibly cheesy to me and made me cringe. As for the gameplay I had experienced, which turned out to be more challenging imho, (which is a good thing) lost something in the immersion department, it no longer felt like an epic adventure but like a... game. So, what I wish to say, is simply that I understand that the team changed overtime, the game had to adapt and evolve as everything else ultimately must, and seeing how much I cared about Guild Wars, I am sorry to realize I can no longer enjoy it. If this post ever felt like a rant, my mistake, because I inteded it to be a farewell letter :).Perhaps I hoped someone would convince me that I was wrong, that the game miraculously turns back around a little further down the road.Good luck to all of you, and good luck to the team.