Laurie.1698

I don't feel that it is, in fact, I've been gone a good long while and well a group of us are coming back to GW2. I am a GW1 player actually. I know that I have an extreme amount of "catch up" to do now, since the last time I played was before mounts.....but I'm excited about coming back and so are the others in my group of friends "hey I miss GW2, lets go back and have some fun!!" Its downloaded all the information since I left and I'm excited about getting started again!!! Great thing about it is that you can do that, stay away for a bit, then come back when ever you feel like it. No sub, maybe some expac's but that is the beauty in it for me....its always there to come back and have a blast in for as long as you want. I do not think its dying at all...:)

Not playing any game at any time for any reason on a tiny little screen when I can play on a 65 inch screen. I hate mobile games...hate them. I see people squinting down at a PHONE everywhere i wonder why they play anything on something that little with no controls, no room to see anything, I wonder what happened. Sure, you are out an about take a phone call, even a text, but playing a game or watching a movie on that tiny thing is madness. Go out be with people run errands, go home...play watch movie on a large screen TV or monitor. This has been brought to you by My Opinion Only...LLC. I find it to be sheepishly backwards to play a game on A PHONE...PHONE...PHONE you know? Call? Text? Phone.

Several things are. I've played GW1 and 2 from the very beginning. Now however, I'm an expansion behind having not ever purchased or played PoF. Foremost, I am a crafter, legendary maker, lore buff. None of which seem to be going anywhere anymore in the grand scheme of things. By that I mean, the importance of them has dropped down to nothing as far as game improvements go (to me...look I get you have your own feelings on this, this is mine). I don't like raiding at all, even the concept of it. Its very exclusive and niche dictated. That counts me out straight away. The dependency on jumping, bouncing, mini games I really don't like at all but are now prevalent play, even to obtain legendaries. I get it...its become part of the GW2 experience now, I understand that, but that is a huge part why I haven't been playing for quite some time now. Cringe worthy dialogue. Rehashed maps. Festivals based on jumping, bouncing, I don't even bother with. Used to be, there were alternative ways to participate in festivals, not so anymore. End boss fights that are long, tedious, not explained niche moves that can't be countered but by some unexplained find out yourself after trying obscene amounts of times down to your undies, frustrated, angry, finally get through it hating it with a passion when your done, fights. I despise that and so no longer finish seasons because of that. I don't play to get so angry I have to get up and walk outside, shut the game off and not return to it for months at a time. This time, the months have turned into years almost. So I don't see that changing (another time to say...this is MY opinion...you have yours, I don't expect this to change, I don't expect to change your mind nor do I want to do that, this is my opinion alone) others have stated the same in my small group of people I play with or have played with. I bring up coming back and hear an audible groan and statements of "yah that last boss fight to finish the story finished me before I finished fighting that awful mess so yah no I'm done...go play it but without me. If I can't see the end of the story I don't want to see the beginning either" The game and I have seemed to have taken very different paths. That happens sometimes in gaming. I love the lore, I love the stories, I love the art, I loved my character I had all these years. Years of great gaming. But its different now, since the most awful for me jungle expansion that literally led me to put my character away and walk away completely. I watch the forums, I watch videos, I keep up with news, changes, in hopes that one day I'll come back. I liked this living world season video I saw at the announcement Nov 30th. I did not like the presentation of it. I might try it just to see...has it changed. Have I changed. My jury is out for this season...I'll see. I do feel like I've gone separate ways with a best friend, trying to find ways to get back to the way it was but unable to do so. Not the games fault, not my fault. It just is what it is. I'll hold out hope always but I doubt I'll ever come back.

Still together today, still playing games having fun. What if I would never have asked in chat "can someone tell me where these elusive rares come up a? I want a legendary and I need a fate for the one of my materials to make it out of, I am in the wrong place?" And someone answered..."I'll be there in a sec. I might be the legendary your looking for.." A joke. That wasn't LOL..he still my legendary find. Thanks Arenanet.

If you are going to respond to something I am saying, please quote me directly so I am notified. Anyway, I am speaking in generalities. If you are looking for exceptions you'll find plenty, but when looking at the market as a whole the exceptions aren't as important as the mean flow. There is a certain age window in which our expectations are normalized, and if we aren't in the window then we aren't going to get it. I'm an obtuse person who has experiences in a lot of places, and I can definitely tell you that outside of our current age demographic and closely knit social circle, things like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Inhumans are the silliest things ever. As for whether or not it is childish, that is a much bigger debate. My short answer is yes. One sentence did not require a quote in my opinion...I'm sorry I responded and used one sentence of your previous message. I don't follow marketing nor do I care to, I'll leave that to the already over-saturated "marketing" field. My age has not normalized, nor has it changed my point of view. My circle consists of 20 somethings to 80 somethings, sometimes younger depending on who's kids are there when I visit and I guess I don't have a demographic circle nor a close knit social circle of any type of age demographic at all. Nothing is childish to me...life is too short to do that to myself. I don't debate. Its only my opinion. I have lived in 17 countries, 40 states, I contract for myself installing servers and networks for hotels, businesses, companies. I guess I will never fit anyone's demographic. I don't have a window, a door, or a circle. I have never had what some consider a "normal" life nor do I want to have one. Black swans should always be considered when observing anything, however, their opinions are just that, opinions. I'll leave it at that .

odd, I saw someone saying "if you were born before 1980 then you think MMO's are childish" I was born way before 80's, in fact, graduated high school in the early 80's. I played Atari, heck I even played pong on the TV when that was a great thing. There were no computers in my school at all, not the library, not anywhere. Most of early college too. I am and have been a server engineer for over 20yrs now. I played Daggerfall for hours on end, UO (Ultima Online), I love the MMO genre and came from the early days. I don't think its childish at all. "I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.' C.S. Lewis. Being female, it was a little bit more difficult back then to not be labeled "receptionist" or things like that, and gaming and computer work? well, sometimes we were not as welcome as we are now in this time period. I am glad for that. I will always have fun in MMO's, I love the time I get to spend having fun with computers instead of work on them all the time. Staves off the burn out and always brings loud laughter and big smiles when I get to play.

I've heard him called Steve since the first halloween took place in GW2. I think its great for personal reasons, my ex was named Steve so I enjoy the fact that the horror is named Steve. LOL...but I do say "Steve spotting...better run" still.