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Guild Wars 2: Did PAX Miss The Headline? - MMORPG.com
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Guild Wars 2: Did PAX Miss The Headline? - MMORPG.com
Guild Wars 2 his always a growing pains over the last seven years. We've seen the first stumbled steps of the Living World franchise and two expansions, to varying degrees of success. This year game director Mike Z stepped out on stage at Pax West to announce the latest major update to ArenaNet's premier MMORPG.
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I want more expansions really. I'm happy to pay for them. I only pay for gameplay content in games, not consumables or cosmetics, ever. The QoL features in the cash shop are easily obtained with in game gold as long as you're consistently playing and I have pretty much everything now already.
They need to get their heads sorted, put out another good expansion and stop adding artificial grind to every new cosmetic or feature with each and every living world episode. It's not the way to retain players anymore, it's a way to lead them to the uninstall button. Times have changed.
and you are one of reasons gw2 is a shadow of what it was
Speak sense if you want to contribute.
When they were focused primarily on living world and promising no expansions, the content updates were far more frequent, and it was always more exciting to see what would come with that. I think this combined with it being a 6 year old game are why the game is where it is right now. The content is just too infrequent for a game that age to keep people interested long-term.
The cash shop has always been where they made their money outside of game sales, but some of the items in there are really expensive (mount skins) and they've taken to selling chairs for you to sit in which I honestly find really lame, as well as hiding really nice cosmetics under RNG with the black lion chests encouraging people to gamble. Outfits on their own are reasonably priced but more often than not they've been underwhelming or flat out ugly, from the time since launch to today, outfits for the most part didn't start to look good until Path of Fire. They're relying on "whales" at this point with their business practices rather than making sure this model is palatable to the average player, especially since the game is probably best played casually at this point with how infrequent their updates currently are.
What he said is right.
GW2 is not pulling in enough revenue to justify NCsoft paying for the development costs and distribution of another expansion.
GW2 is only makinga couple million more per quarter than NCsoft's worst performing game, Aion. However, Aion is on a skeleton crew that only puts out a major update like every other year but GW2 had several full teams putting out a lot of content regularly.
So, GW2 needs people spending money on the cash shop but they can't go full pay to win and risk losing what players they have.
Maybe they can put out a phone version of GW2 soon to save it.
Anyway, that's not what they meant. akarionlog regularly complains about the expansions themselves and where they've taken the design choices for the game. That's what they meant, they didn't want the expansions and what comes with them.
Unfortunately there wasn't much to start with.
It's a mini LW episode,a prologue to LW season 5 that is now called Saga and who gives a bunny's butt.
That the the new zone will include activities and lore is nothing to report on.
Unless we now should be excited and grateful that we don't get content empty maps.
As a veteran this is my message to the game that I very much care about.
"Dear GW2/Anet-
Please unf**k Fractal instabilities that no one asked of you to f**k in the first place.
Unf**k WvW and PvP combat because it has gotten to the point of memes and elf butts.
Announce that you are working on a new expansion and serious updates for the competitive modes.
And maybe then you can get back my 20 moneys per month.Until then I'd rather buy a pizza or two.
Enough with the kitten."
GW2, I think, has had two of the better expansions in MMO history. I do hope they decide upon a third at some point. Living World Episodes are nice, and I'm excited to head north to immerse in norn/charr lore, but expansions - as others have said above - do bring a lot more to the table in one hit.
- New Expansions
- New Races
- New Classes
- New Weapons
- New Game Systems
- New Dungeons
- New Meta Events
- New Masteries
- New Mounts and Quests to Unlock Them
I don't want:Anyway, the game and community are better off without you.