Yesssssss. Soon Arenanet will know how Paragon and Carbine felt...
Guild Wars 2 is a great MMO. Why would you actively wish a studio closure on ANet? Geez.
I don't think people wish the studio to close as much as they wish GW2 was just GW1 with better graphics. Or at least I'm in the camp. The story is fine in GW2 but everything else feels meh to me. Lacks the same kind of depth GW1 had.
Gw2 just needs to die at this point. It's a casual mess with an end game grind that would make a classic wow player blush.
It is a mess, and it's a mess because they tried to placate some marginal ungrateful hardcore demographic at the expense of their moderate and casual population. Many told them that this would not end well, but they would not listen. Reap what you sow, now they are just another cautionary tale.
While I feel bad for those that got laid off, what did they think was going to be the end result of building a whole expansion that catered to just 10% of their player base.
They had a nice little spot as a engaging casual game, with a focus on fun, and really should have kept that direction, and let the Try-Hards, Wanna-Be's and Hardcores go off to Wildstar or some other game they would not support. Instead they put in raids and kept trying to make their content harder and harder, alienating a huge segment of their population.
And while the market right now is way too saturated to be forgiving of huge mistakes, I wish them well and hope they find their vibe and are in fact able to recover from this.
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Well said.
Danny