Guild Wars 2

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I was a pretty dedicated GW1 player (got about 5000 hours of gameplay throughout accounts and characters overall) and I must say GW2 was the game I had been waiting for for years... Our whole community was on toes for quite a while.

Eventually we tried the Betas and most of the hardcore players sold their accounts or just weren't happy. I was a firm supporter of the game until the last couple of BWEs, when I realized I wanted to open up Disco FL more than GW2.

The amazing, unmatched and unique PvP gameplay of the first game is completely gone.:(I kept insisting that the game will be fixed, but it won't. A person that is actually spending their time playing a product like ToR (the nerve Bioware had to release that piece of crap...) will perhaps be drooling over GW2. Same goes for WoW players (I've been a WoW player myself for a while as well). But regardless, the game mechanics are bound to become boring over a longer period of time. Everything about the game is awesome, everything except the PvP.

Our forum has enough material to publish a book with detailed content analysis done exclusively on GW2 and the juxtaposition of GW2 and GW1. It is what it is - ArenaNet (/bow) need to make money, had they kept the mechanics of the previous game that wouldn't have been possible. Their target audience is exactly WoW and ToR players, but not GW1 players that much.

I am sure you won't agree as you are feeling as I was before I spent a week playing the game. It really IS awesome, it's just not the Guild Wars 2 we were promised. It's not nearly as complex as it used to be and that will put off hardcore players. Tactical thinking and preparation are more or less left in perspective, while the focus is more on arcade-like combat. The game reminds of a mixture between MOBA games and FPSs.

I will be brave and I will say that GW2 is not the game it was supposed to be.

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BFNK
(C~Joanne.Jenkins