DaliIndica.9041

It feels like some of the design was implemented to slow progress down for most players. The map is just a rehash of other bits of maps we have already played. The map layout is awkward to get around, people without skyscale end up using a terrible version of skyscale, again, its balanced for the very top and most dedicated players, whilst giving newer players, the people most likely to spend money, a poor experience. The story is the same bland rubbish they always pull, some of the story felt like simple location swaps from earlier story beats. Its moved entirely to events, which are pretty awful. It doesn't feel like you are doing anything other than showing up for rewards and story progress, follow the zerg or you cannot do the story. This game feels like it caters to a strange set of twitter users, and hardcore completionists gamers, every one else be damned.

3 hours to get a group for the elemental boss. The chaining of events is a nightmare made flesh, hardly anyone does this stuff anymore. The older players always have it, and have moved onto new farming grounds. New player have no hope of getting it easy, its going to take weeks of camping maps for the stupid events to take place and be in place to grab them. Better hope it shows up in a daily, so play all day every day without fail. The money is easy, 250 is nothing if you want it, its a clear goal you can get in a few different ways. But those events, well, the players who might help you are busy telling people its ok that old content just sort of dies and new players are turned away with the gulf of things that are much harder as those maps are mostly dead these days (handful of newbies are not going to cut it). So sit in guilds, sit in map chats, pester as hard as you can, and get a mount that you feel was a waste of time when you could just play a better game that isnt 10 years worth of build up with no interest in serving new players. Part of the reason I stopped playing before was watching PVP die, this is just the far slower PVE death. Handy all the vets who complain about how people should just do it, they can sit around and talk about how dead the game is and blame ANET. Good job.