I am a casual player, and I enjoy Gw2 for it's fun game play. It is THE game for casuals like me. I do not need to join a raid group and work on tactics for hours on end to feel like I am part of a group accomplishing something together. Whenever I have tried a new meta-event, I have read up on the mechanics and become better over time. Even though I experienced some of these events as quite difficult for me, I always enjoyed them. Even when I was not all that impressed with my own performance 🙂
I just tried this for the first time. It took quite some time to finish the pre-events before we even meet Soo-Won, and then a long fight that ultimately failed. It was the least fun I have ever had in Gw2. I have read many of the complaints here, and I agree with all of them.
The visual clutter is extensive. There are so many things going on at once, making it hard to follow.
The mechanics seems excessive, to the point that players have a hard time getting to the boss and dps it. I do not think it is a lack of total DPS at this point. Just that it is so difficult to get to the boss in the first place.
The length of it in total is not casual- friendly.
The success of it is tied to the turtle mount, which is horribly dissapointing.
Great care should be taken in meta events like this, where one really cannot pick your team. You will have players, like me, that just enjoy an event - and have little to none experience in raids. I still expect to be able to join any open world meta-event, where I try my best to be useful.
My 2 cents.