Mizuira.8245

So all these Gacha (mobile) games are not P2W? You often have free trials and you can get the same Characters. It is just people can throw hundred of dollars to get them faster, same as hero points in GW2 now. We don't have the same definition of P2W if it is not...

As a player from GW1, I never though I would see this one day. I'm so disappointed by Anet move...

Welcome to SOTO. Downgrades everywhere and replacements are marketed as "new content"... Enjoy 🤑

Well, apart from legendary items, I see 90% of the playerbase using only BLTC armors/skins/outfit. It became so rare to see someone wearing dungeons skins or armors set/pieces from HOT/POF. Infusions are the exception but for bad obvious reasons (shinyyyyyyy!!!😅). But it was not my main complaint. I complain about endgame contents. You can have hundred of news skins every month out of the BLTC, if you need to do the same content over and over to get them you have no real horizontal progression. Prob is not about the rewars themselves but how the system reward works. IT IS SO BAD BECAUSE WE NEVER HAVE NEW CONTENT. As the OP says : "The only way of progressing (horizontally) is by farming gold by any repetitive activity". If Aned add new various content (fractals, raids, strikes, open world meta events, hard collection with various objectives, special PvE boss, specific PvP mode or PvEvP mode) there will be a sign of progression because each content has something unique to promote and offer. We maybe got 2 fractals and 2 raids in 3 years, copy/paste bosses from story in strikes et nothing new from open PvE since HoT with the same mechanics. Stories don't even have CM modes like in season 2. So yeah, main problem is no new content, therefore no horizontal progression as you are just farming gold or easy instancied content for weeks/month 🤮

The main issue is this game has nearly no endgame. You have Fashion Wars but 90% is locked behind Black Lion Market. Anet barely offers a new fractal or even a new raid per year. Dungeons are abandonned, strikes are just a copy/paste story bosses with no challenge. PvP is the same since 2012 : no new game mode supported by Anet (deathmode only for some weeks, Bastion never got an update or a new map). WvW is exactly the same since HoT, no support for 5 years now. The only thing Anet is offering : story and open world PvE for farmers. You like it or you leave. That's why no one talk about GW2 anymore or about End of Dragons coming soon. FF14, TESO or BDO have far more support every year than GW2. GW2 has an awesome business model with no vertical progression, it is the more casual friendly MMO on the market. It's the only reason the game is still populated. If you are looking for content, don't pick GW2. If you have no time to play or just want chill gameplay not using brain, pick GW2.

There are no new raids, of course people don't play them and devs will see more players on Strike or open PvE. Same as PvP, no new game mode, no more E-sport so less players are doing it. You really think people don't play dungeons nowadays because they don't like dungeons? Give the community some raids, at least 2 per year and you will see players doing it. But we are talking about ArenaNet, they were more than 300 people and unable to do something more than some stories missions and open PvE events. I don't even know how it is possible to be that much and never been able to add dungeons, fractals, raids, PvP modes, etc at a regular rythm... 😅

Shing Jea feels like a Sword Of Legends map... I'm still looking for the "Shing Jea Island" touch from GW1. Echovald is HoT 2.0 with less cool monsters (humans, wallow...) and without the Kurzick gothic atmosphere. So far EoD is a fully recycled expansion (e-specs animation, reskin monsters, HoT environnement, etc.) 😬

As a start they could also create real new assets and not re-using everything from HoT... But they didn't and now spit at GW1 fans 🙃 I already played in Maguuma years ago and don't see the point to go on Echovald if not for nostalgia or Kurzick "vibes". At least they admite their failure, saying themselves they didn't play GW1. Not a surprise their earnings for Q3 2021 is so low, they are even unable to sell a full fanservice expansion 😂

Exactly what I though when I saw the stream... How could they think it will give a GW1 "vibe" to just add some cathedrals in a Maguuma type environnement ?

Well I just saw a Maguuma reskin so far... I didn't see anything I loved in GW1 and Factions is my favorite game from GW1. A big disappointment : F tier 😑

Nice fail... I don't know how you dit it but good job ArenaNet, even with a full fanservice expansion you are not able to sell it. I miss the old Guild Wars and the HYPE when HoT got an announcement. GW2 is slowly failing in the mist, laughted by MMO players, behind WoW, FFXIV, TESO and even SWTOR. Fishing is not a great content you know.

HoT maps were the best open world content before the multiple nerfs. Old good times 😢

But the point is they already released pre-orders and people already bought it. Even the ultimate edition. So Anet say "I'll give you more details later" and people buy a 30-50-80$ pack without even knowing what it may contains. "This [...] is an entire circus" is what I'm thinking about this situation. I feel sorry because your arguments are basically "I/we don't need it" or "is too expensive for Anet" . It sounds like an excuse for everything we didn't get in the annoucement. And I personally don't care about excuses, I hoped for CONTENT and not in 2023. As a GW1 player from 2005, the bare minimum is not even what has been announced.

But we saw : - no new dungeon - no new race - no new class - no new fractal - no new PvP mode - no new raid - no new PvE mode - no real Cantha video IG - only 1 elite spe "First Look" means the BIG POINT to sell the expansion. Pre-orders come just after so you don't only show "the cover". Would be like selling a book only with the first page showed but you don't know the synopsis, the autor, the number of pages, if stand-alone or not, etc. The vendor doing this is BAD. Anet did a poor job to present the expansion and you can only talk about what has been showed. So yeah people are disappointed.

Other games give new raids, dungeons, races, PvP mode and sometimes big housing features or completely new features. Without a full year with any new content. EoD gives only maps/jobs/story and... FISHING 😂 Then GW2 fans will complain about GW2 lack of content, lack of players for fractals/raids/event or that PvP matchmaking is horrible. Will be too late 😉

This expansion is a joke. Nothing really new, any content with replayability and even story gives less hype than HoT/PoF... Anet is ready to sell deluxe/collectors for the last hardcore fans 🤣 So disappointing...

For easy to travel and casual playing we have all the core maps. Let some people to have others experiences on the game. HoT got nerfed pretty fast because players were not ready. PoF is a joke, the hardest part of the expansion is to be able to ride your mount with mobs around. Failing events is not even possible... Some advices : your eyes must be open when playing the game. And there are many skills, not just "1".