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Legendary Fury - Guild Wars 2 News
SBFord
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Legendary Fury - Guild Wars 2 News
The recent decision to ax new legendary weapons hasn't gone over well and speaks to wider issues with Guild Wars 2's development and communication.
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Joined 2004 - I can't believe I've been a MMORPG.com member for 20 years! Get off my lawn!
I guess I'll stop collecting mats now.
Still going to be playing the game. Nothing else is really catching my interest right now.
Let's just pick a direction and stick to it, ok?
"GW2 doesn’t fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn’t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun; and of course, it doesn’t have a monthly fee."
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
I guess not though.... legendaries are ridiculous to make.. but they are also the only real end game item worth going for as Anet won't drop them and no matter what changes happen in the game these legendaries will always be the top weapons available.
Besides, it's just a few weapons and collections. If ANet can't deliver that, what can they deliver? The speed at which they've been releasing content is pathetic.
I'm a MUDder. I play MUDs.
Current: Dragonrealms
I think the devs are just all over the place trying to please everyone but taking way to long to do it because teams are too spread out. They need to re-focus like how they used to do with a clear plan of execution.
What exactly are 6 employees who have already shown themselves to be slow going to accomplish in another part of the company? An entire promised feature has been scrapped for next to nothing.
So while I loved GW2 and it will go down as one of my favorite MMOs, I'm afraid it's time to move on for now. Times were good while they lasted, even though it was shorter than expected for me.
Anet has developed an unfortunate history of over-promising and under-delivering:
* Future legendaries scrapped.
* Minigames promised before the game's release not implemented until Heart of Thorns - and then being released in a horribly broken form locked behind a paywall.
* WvW being utterly unplayable for 3 years.
* Dungeons being abandoned instead of fixed after a single clumsy attempt at a new dungeon path.
* Etc. Etc.
I loved Arenanet. Guild Wars 1 was my favorite game of all time. These people used to know how to give players a great stream of content at an amazing value. Now they release half of an expansion and scrap entire promised features. They used to develop amazing PvP game modes. Now they release slipshod capture point maps, a non-functional mass pvp mode, and a barely functional stronghold mode. They used to release complex skills and trust players to be intelligent enough to work with them. Now they assume we're all retarded.
Arenanet has become the Square Enix of the MMO market. They love announcing things and seem averse to actually developing them. What delicious irony it is that Square Enix themselves have actually produced a strong MMO.
A list that reflects my grivances pretty much.
Though I quit mostly because of WvWvW rage (they never addressed the loot disparity between WvWvW players and PvEers) and because after over 1000 hours of play time I still had yet to have even a single pre-cursor object drop that I could sell to get enough gold to get the pre-cursor I needed for the legendary weapon I wanted to make, eventually I just stopped caring and left the game (around 2013).
Not understand why some people (like Jason Winter) so worry about legendaries.
For me its absolutely useless stuff. Expensive and useless. Realy, If you need top weapon, just make your ascended weapon for 5% of legendary cost. that's it.
Your need more stats, make some ascended, still much cheaper than even 1 legendary.
I really dont need another skin, I wish the real content, the real adventures, not these stupid skins.
So, I totally agree with Mike O'Blien.
C'mon, please stop crying about useless skins!
On a related note, this post Mike made recently stands out. It's hard to distinguish PR from what he really thinks, but it's still worrying. If ANet's lead doesn't think they released half an expansion, every other expansion will have this much content. That's... not good.
I agree with you, BUT the legendaries are really not the issue, sure they are something some peeps really want, but the breach in trust is the real issue here, and this is not the 1st time Anet has done this. Also the real salt is the fact the the art work for these weapons is in the game already. There are so many things that Anet said they would fix or do that have never been completed, but when you tell someone there will be content in the expan that you paid for because of the promised content only to be told sorry but the dev team cant get it done so we wont ship it is a bunch of BS!
I really like GW2 but the responsibility of the dev team does not give me any warm and fuzzys that they can get much done.
WTF?
I understand not wishing to spend $300K on a single skin (a full set would be $4.8M and take 8 years).
But something just doesn't seem right with that statement.
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
But when Gaia feels that Anet lied then I sense it's time to get worried.
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
On 1 I am spending most of my time vanquishing and when I compare the open maps of 1 with the new 3-layer maps on 2 such as Verdant Brink then I know why it takes longer.
Those maps are infinitely more complex than what they did 10 years ago.