Neoryudo.2914

Two missconceptions: A.) all whale players would want vertical progression.B.) a game which has only 1-10% of its player base is lucrative or sees play. The rest is heavy biased subjective OPINION. You are the odd apple out. I guarantee you, with the current player base, introducing vertical progression would hit a lot more nerves than people who agree. I ask again: why would any sensible company risk this? (especially with past experiences, like when ascended got introduced). This has nothing to do with what I think or believe. It's simple market analysis and sensible competitive selection. You can try to butter up nonsense as much as you like. A certain player type was drawn to GW2, and many of them enjoy the non vertical progressive nature. You are literally not seeing the big picture due to personal bias. I have to agree with this, I came back to GW2 about a year and a half ago after losing my job and my PC dying i only had my PS4, eventually I got back on my feet and managed to get back to GW2 and one of the best things about it?? I wasn't behind anyone, my gear was relevant, I could still go fractals, I could continue exactly where i left off, I didn't need to level up 20 levels and get a gear score of 200+ to just be able to do some content. This is THE best thing about GW2. I've played so many MMO's, and they two I have spent most time in was FFXIV and GW2 and I can say without any doubt I do not miss vertical progression at all. In FFXIV you miss a patch there is a new currency, new Ilv gear, new instances, new raid. But to do any of this you have to grind new gear, make sure you cap currency for the week, buy gear with that currency. This happens every patch the same vertical boring grind. If i never play another vertical progression game again it'll be too soon.

Honestly I think if they scrapped Expacks and just worked on LW it would really screw over Arenanet, the LW is already a massive turn off for anyone who is coming in new. Most MMO's you buy an Expack and can play through the whole story to the next one for free or with a subscription. Having to then buy content updates like Living world after you just brought an expansion is confusing for newcomers, especially after paying $19.99 for hot and week later needing to pay another $19.99 for LW3. Expansions bring Hype, they put GW2 back into the news sections of gaming websites. How they handled POF was amazing, announcing it one month before release blew my mind. Most MMO's announce Expacks 9/10 months before release and its this boring slow content drip of news until the Expack hits where Arenanet was like, WAM BAM Expack is releasing in one month! I've never been more hyped for a MMO expack than PoF.