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It would be nice if there could be an opt out option. Not a fashion wars player. Dont like flash, fluff and glitter. But i do like a immersive classic look for my characters. People who lazily copy without any inspiration being the standard is not a favorite of mine. It also takes away social interaction even more, its already at a decline for some years now. Its always nice if a new player asks may i ask what that nice weapon, armor etc is. This is even more everything on the antisocial 'dont talk to others ever' pile.

In my opinion it doesnt even need to be full control support everywhere. Controller support for flying mounts especially, underwater and gliding would be a blessing. This is why i have stopped playing guildwars 2. When you are a somewhat older gamer (40 plus) like me, overuse of mouse destroys you wrists etc. because of strain injuries. Its good that controller support has started to come back over the last years in pc games, in the mid/second half of the 90's it was normal using joysticks, flight sticks, steering wheels, pedals etc. And then it suddenly was forgotten and you had the generation after that claiming that pc is supposed to be only keyboard/mouse, what is absolute nonsense, the pc was great because of it input/controller flexibility, its good that that is returning.

Eh no. Arenanet used to have creative vision in content design/creative design. That has been lacking since the second half of Icebrood Saga already. No new ideas, endless recycling, narrowing of gametypes, simplification of everything/less polish/an immense amount of asset reuse (that was not the case with the Hot expax or the Pof expac). The last 4 years are not on par with the almost 8 before that. Its obvisous there are a lot less resources/people working on it. Most are with high probability working on mistery game x that has not been presented to the audience yet.

Its like earlier mentioned other gemstore items (Wp unlocks for example), to cater to lazy whales. No twisting, denying or excusing around that. It certainly is not in the category of regular 'Quality of life'. And it does impact the game because the actual gamer is being exchanged by people who see it as their expensive toy store, it polutes the actual gaming community,.Does not affect the actual gamer? It does, you are not the priority anymore. Recycling everything, no creative ideas, no presentation or presence from the devs, not even a decent trailer of the latest expansion confirms this. A 180 degree change from the time the studio actually cared (Core, Hot and Pof times).

Welcome to Whale wars. I already see the change for the last few years. This is again a item (like the paid level booster and wp unlocks) that is pay to progress. Its obvious that Arenanet has permanently changed since the mass layoffs 4 years ago. The heavy NC Soft influence is noticable since that time. Add to that the decrease in creativity and productivity, a lot of recycling, minimals unique assets and functionality since EOD and even more since SOTO, compare that to HOT, POF, LS3 and LS4. The narrowing of PVE design to a minimal level.

What you can already do for years and years. Getting rewards for playing. What has that got to do with the topic of daily login reward freebies? A thing arenanet themself implemented years ago. I have your answer: nothing. You give freebies for years, you take away freebies. Ofcourse many players will not like that. A logic conclusion. Just one second of thought before posting something is enough. Really.

Or the higher probability. Many 'realistic' players stay silent because there is not much too talk about, nothing to get excited for. Its not for nothing that the new expac is not being talked about at all outside of a handful of people on this forum and reddit. And its not for nothing that there has been no expansion reveal stream/event and stream/video showcases by the devs at all, like Hot and Pof had a good amount of.

More or less the same revenue compared to earlier years actually is not so good. There has been alot of inflation (the last 3 and a half years especially),money is worth alot less compared to 2019 and before. Something that always seem to be forgotten with comparisons. Just like movie box office comparisons are unfair, and the box office record lists are nonsense without inflation correction over the years.

Why? Just ignore them. Totally unimportant. Its not a popularity contest over here. What use would it have? The only thing i can imagine is certain oversensitive persons could use it to track down people ingame who gave a Sad/Confused face here and there. Yes that is how crazy online/internet/online gaming has become over the last years. Getting demoralised by a Emoji 😅

Ok that got me thinking. People who go from FTP to SOTO would not have any elite specs anyway, right? I can already envision the complain posts 😅. Thinking about it more: Does that not mean they cannot use certain weapon choices also? In the process devaluating the weapon choice/skills/freedom selling point of the Expac? I wonder how that can work in anyway.

Thats the same thing as saying i payed for mario, but dont want to do the actual platform/jumping content. In this case its not even the case. Its optional content, you dont have to play. Just like im not interested in Raids, Pvp or WvW. Unless you have a completionist mindset, but you should only do that if your up to it, else not. Im super oldschool. Started playing games in the mid 80's (C64). There was no option to continue if you died a few times, over was over, no saves for most if not all games also.. Gaming now is much easier with all the handholding now. I am not a JP (or mario) expert, but still like to do it and laugh it of and try again when failing. When things get to difficult for me, i accept that and do other things after some tries. Its not that there is not a infinite supply of many different kind of content.

In my opinion: Since EOD i would call this generic 2020's anime cyberpunk, Scify. Thats why i stopped playing for some time. Dont like the change (or even lack) of Artistic vision and style compared to the past. It does not feel Guildwars to me anymore (or fantasy).. Is there even a Artistic director anymore? And a talanted team in the artistic/creative department? Or is everything outsourced now. Add to that the lack of effort, theres almost no unique assets anymore only recycled, from maps to creatures, terrible texture coloring choices and so on.

I just returned, with the intention of playing again. Tried every suggested and known workaround, from basic to technical. It gets permanently stuck just before the minimum point of 'Playable'. I have invested multiple hours today troubleshooting this problem, no luck. The laptop i use handled Guildwars 2 (and downloading) without any problems even a few months ago. I now regret deinstalling 🥹I did that because of needing some gameless rest time, and not getting tempted to play, that was difficult with the game icon staring in my face every day 😅

That is not a solution, its a non official workaround madeup by some community members. It does not solve the problem. Its still there, more and more people experience the problem, and after over a month there is no fix from arenanet nor even addressed.

That will be many existing players. Mostly of a limited age demographic. I dont understand the comparison of livestreams with a limited time with the player count of one minute of a day. Apples and oranges comparison. They missed the Mark by not having a sale for the expacs with the steam release and the 10th birthday. That would be much better marketing. We had many in the past, even slashing the price in two (Pof+Hot), none now. It seems there is only heavy gemstore focus.