NCsoft take control of Anet/Guild Wars 2

Well if there was soemone who could
Make
Ascalon
Great
Again...

The early story before it got fucked over by the Living World was pandering to Logan being that guy. This isn't surprising since he is a white male with a leading role and the Living World devs hate him so much they ignore and shit on him.

Well if not Logan there was also Ebon Vanguard leader, Commander Samuelsson. He comes from a toyal bloodline.

gw2 had an expansion come out like the middle of last year i think pretty much flew under the radar

I will never fucking forgive the Charr for what they did to Ascalon. I still remember my first character, I was a mesmer because I liked the idea of tricking your enemies into killing themselves. I had just hit level 8 and did the small pvp quest where it randomly groups you with 3 other people and you fight off against another random team of 4. we won that pvp fight and we all cheered and said congrats. It then proceeded to put us into our first group instance I still remember the team comp.
It was me the level 8 mesmer/monk Brem, the level 7 Ranger/Warrior Kitto, The level 6 Elementalist/Monk Sammy, and Golan the level 9 Warrior/Monk.
After winning the pvp match we went off to fight stupid easy level 4-6 Charr breezing our way through laughing and having a good time chilling with our boy Rurik we killed the named Charr at the end and then the cut-scene played.
youtube.com/watch?v=PWYkFw_46uM
I will never forget the sheer anger I felt watching A'scalon fall. And I will NEVER forgive.

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Based,
Damn I need to finally readapt "Right wing Death Suads" for "Ebon Death Squads". Maybe for the next Yea Forums the musical?

After Midnight we get revenge...
MAKE ASCALON GREAT AGAIN!!!
Feel the burn, you fucking furfags..
We put Royal symbols on our flags...

And so on..

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Either way, he or Logan having the sword would end the ghost suffering, but those "writers" wouldn't care about that.

>would end the ghost suffering
I would prefer the "Return of the King" scenario. Kill all the furfags south of the wall first, then go to rest.

wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Corporal_Bane
It can happen after getting all the humans back into the settlement.

Considering how unbelievably stupid the management is in ANet, their side projects must have been a moba (after their attempt at esports with PvP stronghold) and some mobile gacha. Only an idiot company like ANet could put its one and only cash cow in maintenance mode while working on side fotm projects, lead those projects to failure and not expect the gook overlords to jump in and fire everyone involved.

Yeah and it really shit
>move most of your team to make some games that isn't your main fanbase
>give your golden goose to a bunch SJW writers because they work for peanuts
>be surprise when not only your project fail, but the goose is killed while the SJW pat themselves on the back while banning anyone that speak against them in the forum and reddit
>everyone get fired and the main game is shit

At this point it can either go very well (the remaining staff is not as incompetent as the staff that left) or very badly (the remaining staff finishes the game off for good).
Considering Mike O'Brian is apparently still the CEO, I expect nothing but bad news.

>play story mode
>99% of main characters are mary sue weemen with supah powahz
>1% of characters who are male are either trash, furry trash, or evil
Huh, really makes you think.

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ArenaNet should have cleaned house a long time ago. GW2 is going to go the way of City of Heroes at this rate.

The game is own by NCsoft 100%. This is a more realistic approach
>They release nothing (including no Living World) but cashshop shit until there almost nobody but whales and the "hardcore"fags that only does Raid < 30% of this happening
>Let Mike do whatever he wants, but the game is so shit he can't really improve on it < 10% chance
>Kill the MMO < 60% chance

The biggest crime was the rape of the PvP and Skill System.

If I were Mike and I were to make the next Guild Wars, I would purposely make it take place before Guild Wars 2. Make it so the story would retcon Guild Wars 2, Time Paradox style, but it will erase everything about Guild Wars 2 so the event there never happen.

Come on, you know the first option is going to 100% happen.
It always happens when a game like this sees their player population drop like a lead balloon. It's after this attempt at milking their current fanbase fails, that option three happens.

Well its what those reddit and tumblr dumbfucks always wanted. It pisses me off these fucks are the target audiences now and I have to watch the franchise I grew up with get fucked like this.

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Would be a perfect way to introduce pic related.
wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_Utopia

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WHERE THE FUCK IS CANTHA
WHERE ARE MY TURLE NIGGAS THE LUXONS AT
WHERE ARE THEY ARENANET

FUCK SUXONS
I WANT KURZICKS

their kimchi overlords were completely asshurt about cantha existing, so we'll never get to visit that continent again

Game is in maintenance mode. After they somehow kill Krakafhasjdlkfhasjkdfhaskjldh, they will stop updating the game.

SUCK SAP U FUCKING HOT TOPIC TREE HUGGER

I like the way the thief plays, way better than wow's rogue.

>erase everything about Guild Wars 2 so the event there never happen.
Sounds good to me and make Utopia lore the basis of a new game

GO SUCK A TURTLE DICK AND GET RAPED BY KANAXAI

Story mode is what is killing this game.

>Focus most effort on single player instances.
>They are only played once because there is no reason to repeat them.
>Map quality and replayability suffers as a result.
> Explorable locations are entirely dependent on where the story goes next.
>They can't hype content in advance because it would spoil "muh so important story".
>People stop playing because nobody even knows if content is on the way.

If they don't change their content delivery alongside this restructuring, the game won't last beyond one more expansion. That is if you are being optimistic.

TAKE IT BACK YOU....YOU... DOUBLE TENGU!

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It feels way better to be able to stealth whenever you like mid-combat and leave with your insane mobility. Too bad that's trash game design and players hate fighting against this shit. WoW has stealth right.

>wvw dying because there was no new content for years
>balance is shit
>anet adds mounts to wvw

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Said story mode goes down to jerking off the sylvari and their mary sue overlords, your Tumblr guild, or watch how much a failure and a passive aggressive cunt your character is. It tries to take itself serious, but the dialogue is amateurish and they tries to joke too much.

This. The SJWs might be gone, but you can't fix their legacy on Guild Wars 2. Everyone that will now start the game will have to experience their writing.

what's subtlety and vanish?

>The sole attractive straight white redheaded main character has a half-black son

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this game is a pile of sjw shit.

>Focus most effort on single player instances.
This in particular is what's killing the game.

>3 balance updates per year
For me it was enough to just read scourge and mirage skills and traits to understand how fucked pvp is.

>the game won't last beyond one more expansion
It's cute you still think this game is getting another expansion after this news.

I enjoyed GW2 but goddamn GW1 had some fantastic world design and music

youtube.com/watch?v=zKrBUDLGlhw
youtube.com/watch?v=LA8GKXPeqXQ

>the black guy is name SUN CHASER
>had a one night stand with Eir
>we get a halfbreed
This isn't what Jora fought for.

You still have over a minute CD on that. GW2 thieves can literally stealth mid combat whenever they like. Also damage doesn't break stealth in GW2 and there are no sound effects or partial stealth visibility when the rogue is near you. There is no real counter play.

>That is if you are being optimistic.

>there is an entire living world season where he's talking about his mom every 10 seconds

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gw2 is the only game that has necromancy approaching the diablo style of necromancy (plus the similar appearances for the player chars)

god i dont want to lose the best class in the game (dervish is 2nd)

It just boggles the noggin, my man. Where did Sunchaser even come from? How did he even exist? Feels like black Norn would be rare as hen's teeth.

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>Fractal dev deleted his tweet where he said the majority of people playing GW2 never touched his content
Poor guy.

>tfw gw2 will canonically end with kralkatorrik killing everyone
good

I'm pretty sure the majority of gw2 players didn't even get to max level.

They do more balance patches than 3 per year. But it doesn't matter how many they do, their balance patches are trash. They are too afraid to make big changes and instead go with an incremental approach that doesn't lead anywhere.

The meta for pretty much every game mode is nearly identical to how it was on the expansion launch. Instead they should be making huge changes to give other builds a chance for a bit and shake up the meta.

No. Fuck that guy. The bad and the good should be thrown into the same open, unmarked grave. Guild Wars 2 is going to die with a whimper in the digital backalleys of the internet, and none shall mourn it's passing. Everyone involved with this game should see that yes, their game will die unloved and unmourned. Nobody will care, nobody will cry. The writers, even, should sit back and realize that, as Guild Wars 2 draws to a painful, shameful close, that people still care more about Guild Wars than Guild Wars 2.

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>Kaineng background theme
Holy shit the memories.

Lineage 3 when?

That's what happens when you kill off fucking BOX ART CHARACTERS without any suitable replacements.

They deserve to die for killing off the old Lion's Arch. Was the best main city in any MMO ever and then they butchered it and made it in this bland-as-fuck seashell town

>GW1 had some fantastic world design and music
Don't even get me started.
youtube.com/watch?v=SMPX8q3zaVs
I still listen to this every night while trying to sleep, I love the Guil Wars world so fucking much. The lore was interesting the kingdoms were vivid and diverse in visual/theme/feels.
The characters were fucking amazing, Prince Rurik the eternal Bro, Master Togo the great teacher, KORMIR THE FUCKING HYPOCRITE THIEF WHO LITERALLY RELEASED SATAN AND BECAME A GOD FOR IT.
I loved it all...
And then the Koreans came and ruined everything.
>You will never explore the shiverpeaks for the first time ever again.

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Still waiting for an actual sequel to Guild Wars

>They deserve to die for killing off the old Lion's Arch.
>mfw my roommate convinced me to try GW2 well-after Lion's Arch was a smouldering ruin
What was it like, fren?

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Lions Arch was not kill by the Charrs, the Titans, the Mursaat, the White Mantle, or even a God. No, Lions Arch was kill by a fucking mary sue. Even better, that tranfucker shove his trangender self insert in one of the most busiest part of the new city. The other busiest part of the cities have two kids roleplaying as lesbians.

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>Unannounced Mobile Game (Development started 2016)
>Unannounced Game (Development started 2015)
>Unannounced Live Service Game (Development started 2017)
Guild Wars 2 brings in above average revenue for NCSoft, but ArenaNet has not turned a profit as a studio since 2015 due to having multiple titles in the works.
They were still hiring for the mobile game as of last month. What fucking mobile game takes ~3 years to make? Reading the NCSoft report, it sounds more like ArenaNet has been blowing cash on projects that are literally going nowhere, so no wonder they're cutting 25% of the workforce loose.

>The other busiest part of the cities have two kids roleplaying as lesbians.
user, you got to give credit where credit's due; at least the kids roleplaying as lesbians are a boy and a girl. They could have easily made it two girls or two boys.

It was like this comfy, laidback pirate town full of wooden bridges, hidden locations and jumping puzzles and stuff with lots of nature and water running through it.

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No, I won't. They weren't hiding about shoving that shit and using kids as their mouth piece. I miss the time when they were just playing hide and seek.

>If they don't change their content delivery alongside this restructuring
I'm pretty sure NChink Soft stepped in exactly because of this. ANet didn't want to make an expansion and the gooks wouldn't have any of that LS shit because expacs are what prints money.

>be GW2
>the healing has begun
>close office for two days
>cancel patch
>update gem store
>profit

>tfw no femcharr wife

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In 2018 there were like 4 or MAY BE 5 balance update which didn't almost completely consist of bug fixes.

This was the point I knew the trannies and steampunk yeastie beasties had won.

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That feel

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Bought the collector's edition eh mate?

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atleast that fucking tranny sissyboy who did the music is also gone

This is honestly the only good thing I can take out of this whole debacle. That at the end of the day, Guild Wars 2 is going to die unsung and unremembered. It's kind of depressing to think that somebody could devote themselves to developing a game for almost a decade, and when it finally dies it's like all that work never happened. Never existed.

that entier story line with scarelt was utter garbage. not only it was a snore fest it was time limited the whole "living world" consept is trash

You can go to old lions arch in current GW. It's in the main story. You get a black lion key too.

I stopped playing three months after buying it (this was 2014 btw) once I realized I not only had no idea what I was doing, but I walked into a game whose plot was incomprehensible, like walking into a movie an hour in and trying to make sense of the thing. I only ever encountered the "main cast" twice, once when they talked to my character like we somehow knew each other, and another at some weird beach thing where all the characters were in swimming clothes.

play GW1 now while you still can

Everything in GW2 is so fucking shit other than the world design (especially the expansion zones) and movement systems, which are the best i've ever seen in an MMORPG.

private servers when?

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>GW2 dev team gets fired
>redpilled GW1 expansion pack announced "Retaking Ascalon"

>jerking off the sylvari
You've been lagging behind! Now the only race that matters is the asura.
The very idea of black norn makes no sense, they come from the far shiverpeaks so at worst they'd be eskimos...
>new fractal instabilities
>fractal instabilities in general
Pure cancer.
>They are too afraid to make big changes
Actually they did make some huge ones, mostly to mesmer.
Illusions attack once, then pop and become clones forcing you to keep summoning, and signet of inspiration is no longer a buff factory. Unfortunately, as you said, they have no idea what they're doing and 60% of balance changes backfire.
I hope you mean the old GW1 Lion's Arch. Old GW2 Lion's Arch was one of the ugliest, shittiest maps in the game.
>that tranfucker shove his trangender self insert in one of the most busiest part of the new city
And when you talk to xer, you compliment xer for xer bravery.

Imagine dedicating your life to a game and then, when the company finally kicks you out, your fans spit on you.

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>The very idea of black norn makes no sense, they come from the far shiverpeaks so at worst they'd be eskimos...
You can't possibly think, even for a second, that ArenaNet would not find a way to get an interracial relationship into their game, do you?

And what makes it even more shameful is how had they *pussyfoot* around it. Like, you never *meet* Sunchaser, you never *hear* Eir talk about him, it's all this hush-hush ex post facto bullshit built around mollifying the fact the last remnant of one of GW2's more memorable NPCs is a whiny, shitty, boring mulatto.

FUCK ME FUCK ME FUCK ME HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I don't think I have ever been more hyper for a videogame than when this shit appeared to promote the upcoming GW;faction.

The thread is pure gold

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I have GWAMM and don't feel like doing it all over on another character

Probably never, since it hasn't happened so far. The game has been neglected for too long

>The game has been neglected for too long
it got a graphics update like a year ago

>interracial relationship
Eskimos aren't white though, but I do understand that SJWs only understand black and white.
>the last remnant of one of GW2's more memorable NPCs
>Eir
>memorable
I mean, come on, user.

>I hope you mean the old GW1 Lion's Arch
No, i meant the old GW2 Lion's Arch. GW1's Lion's Arch was just a bland, boring city not deserving of my attention
>Old GW2 Lion's Arch was one of the ugliest, shittiest maps in the game.
People like you is the reason why we got the current LA with muh pretty seashells and and pretty floors and pretty sea-themed buildings. The layout and design old LA was miles ahead.

Is this true? I remember most of their mods for BnS were SJWs that literally permabanned anyone who even suggested IP blocking Brazil might be a good idea considering they were destroying the game economy at launch.

was just updated on the 5th too

what did they change?

Not him but Eir was clearly meant to be a masturbation poster girl for many male players. You could imagine how they react when the SJW in charge of getting rid of Destiny Edge (yes get rid of Destiny Edge because one of the VA want more money) decided to make her a coal burner.

know what's retarded?
they wasted millions on that instead of updating the game engine to use something other than DX9 or even build templates.

>MMO is doomed to die
>On the subreddit for said doomed MMO, threaten meanies with permanent ban from subreddit
>The subreddit that's probably going to shut down in a month anyway

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>gw2 release
>literally the most hyped i've ever been for an MMO
>it's incredibly fun and new, pvp is fun, love all the classes, world is amazing
>living world or whatever the fuck happens
>scarlet
>does a 90 degree nosedive into the ground
>goes literally nowhere for years
>fast forward to now
>only content is gem store garbage

literally how did this even happen?

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>they killed balthazar off because hes a the literal personification of toxic masculinity
its time to let arenanet die. And ncsoft will take the mantle of villain when in reality it was a mercy killing and the true villains will escape to shit up other companies.

gw1 is shit, all the fun builds were nerfed long ago theres nothing left.

>I mean, come on, user.
She was on the box art, user. She might not have been narratively memorable but you can't deny her prominence in promotional material. She was the big, sexy redheaded chick. She was *the* fapbait. And they hooked her up with the only black Norn in existence because the developers couldn't fathom the alternative.

didnt you know? the living world was what the playerbase wanted.

While it understandable that the profit made from GW 2 launch was directed to WildStar thanks to NCsoft's involvement, what pisses me off is that they gave resource to this fat fuck and she made sure all the content is about her fanfic. Having NOTHING for a year would be better than having the shitfest that is the Living World by Angel McCoy.

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>literally how did this even happen?
GW2 is probably the only good example of how SJWs can, in fact, kill your game.

I remember excitedly playing the beta with a bunch of Yea Forums people. All the crazy stupid shit we did in world events was great. Never saw the game close to that populated outside of Lion's Arch after.
The Original servers still available? They killing them soon or something?
Whats the tl;dr on getting that title? GWAMM

You give all the control of the content to a team of SJW fucks. That is literally the reason. It because of them that we are still team up with shitlords like Braham.

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>a woman named angel

hard pass

>when in reality it was a mercy killing and the true villains will escape to shit up other companies.
There's something to be said about how Jessica Price was jettisoned from Paizo like hot garbage, and she barely lasted a year with ArenaNet before getting the boot.

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dwayna statue, home

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Am I the only one that likes Guild Wars 2? Granted Anet can be a bunch of fucking ninnies a lot of time but I genuinely wish the best for the game and want it to be the best it can be.

Granted I never played gw1 so I never had that attachment lingering over me.

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I never understood the cognitive dissonance that goes into waving the banners and preaching to the choir about all that socially inclusive politic... And then you add gaudy Victoria's Secret-esque accessories to the shop.

You know whats funny? She tries to inject her shit in GW 1, but the old guards told her to fuck off. Here is a line from that dev interview that got mysterious killed.

>To better frame my comments and because many of you aren’t familiar with me: I’ve been working on GW2 for 5 years and 9 months. Prior to my employment, I was a GW player for several years. I did some freelance at that time for ArenaNet to help write a GW atlas that never actually got published, but it meant that I spent a lot of time learning the world

i swear to god if they announce shutting down of the guild wars 1 servers, i don't know how well i'm going to get over it. a friend and i were talking about the possibility and just thinking i'll never see my characters again got me really bummed out.

I played till lvl 30 in the beta then never played again, I think I only toyed around with the other races till lvl 20 something after launch but just completely lost interest, having no roles killed the fun for me

We couldn't even get student uniform because a bunch of dumbasses think this lead to pedo.

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Why does the tranny deadname herself? Not very convincing writing.

They wanted to do this for a long time but didn't want backlash, you'll see lots of companies doing this now activision fired lots of hangers on from blizz.

I like GW2 just fine and played the shit out of the original GW. However the way the developers have consistently missed the mark in so many areas is baffling. WvWvW had massive potential too but what a colossal fuck up that turned out to be.

Don't forget swimsuits too. They could have literally printed money and chose not to.

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What backlash? What fucking backlash? Everyone's praising their decision - in fact, everyone's fuckin' thrilled they held out for so long to cut out the tumor, they're still going to die from the shock to their system.

What even happened? I remember being away for a year or more and logging back in and the city was changed.

>Whats the tl;dr on getting that title? GWAMM
get literally every other title in the game, almost

you get a choice between 3 titles to grind for at the endgame. Either spend about 2000 platin on party consumables (food, fireworks, etc.), grind yourself to level 20 in pre-searing ascalon or get a pvp title. All of these are majorly shit choices.

Other than that do pretty much everything. Get every skill, explore 100% of the entire world map, kill every single mob in every single zone in the entire world, max out all factions, get every single elite skill, etc.

It was fun when I did it in prep for gw2, took me about 800 hours over 30 days (and ~50$ for the platinum). I'm not sure if some of the consumable titles can be acquired considering the dwindling population may not supply you with enough consumables to begin with.

However seeing every single zone in the game thoroughly, killing everything there is to kill and having a character with full access to all skills and elites was a very fun experience.

It pretty idiotic. PvP is the eternal endgame that could last forever. The dev from GW 1 realize this and profit from it. GW 2? No, it Living World shit with bad story telling and shit characters.

Those gaudy Victoria's Secret butterfly/angel wings are actually pretty kosher for the "socially-minded" crowd. They represent freedom and transitioning and shit like that. It's outfits like and that get them in a fit, because it's "too sexy" and "sends a message they don't want."

Well la dee da, they sent the message they wanted and look where the game is now.

Yeah I know what you mean, especially in balancing. I still don't understand why Herald got a rework when Renegade is sitting right there barely even being used.

If i remember things right, GW1 is cheap as fuck to maintain and almost everything in the game, support-wise, is almost entirely automated now. I also seem to remember one of the devs mentioning something how GW1's server are so cheap to maintain that it'll probably stay online forever.

Bad writing and Mary sue happen.

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i do recall that as well, and i hope it's right. Either that or one of the guys still working on the game """""accidentally""""" releases the source code for the game before it would be shut down for good.

If you want to know why their balancing is the way it is, just look at the first class that they decided to rework. FUCKING mesmer!!! Literally the most perfect class in the game that needed a rework the least by far.

GW1 veteran here. I think GW2 was pretty decent as far as MMOs go, but to be fair I never really liked most MMOs to begin with. GW1 was a co-op RPG anyway. I still put a lot of hours into GW2 though, mostly thanks to the guild I was playing with. I also joined a 'hardcore' WvW guild at one point, it's pretty fun to take down enemy PUG-zergs with a group of 20ish players.
What eventually made me quit was how the expansions completely fucked over any form of balance the game had, PvP/WvW-wise. I wasn't too keen on sPvP, especially compared to GW1, but at least a lot of different builds were viable before the expansions came out. Last time I checked everyone was running faceroll condi cancer builds.
And now we're n 2019, with no true spiritual successor to GW1 in sight. I wish there was a modern game what could scratch the same itch.

>"unannounced" projects
>guild wars will not be affected

suuuuuuuuuuuuure

>how did this even happen?
ANet pandered to whales big time. Whales are lazy bronies who only play PvE open world because CUTE DWAGON and PAWTICLE EFFECTS and therefore ANet disregards PvP/WvW.
>Having NOTHING for a year would be better than having the shitfest that is the Living World
And with HoT we got both! Almost a year of content drought AND a shitty living story season.
But Angel McCoy is long since gone, so at least there's that.
How about Overwatch and anything made by BioWare?
Braham is the least aggravating of the new chucklefucks. Taimi is lolrandumb xD child genius who trivialises every plot point, Rox is a cunt who ignores you and only wants Rytlock senpai's barb, the lesbians are literally NOTHING more than cardboard cutouts whose only trait is being lesbians. At least Braham fucked off for most of LS3 and all of PoF.
>being a mesmer
>xe used to have medium armor when xe was a dude

Overwatch is dying due to reasons completely unrelated to their adherence to diversity, and BioWare was brain-drained by that bug from Starship Troopers before getting forced to make that social justice tripe.

I'm not sure why they reworked phantasms the way they did. Nobody was really complaining about them on the forums. Doing a 1v1 with a meser that can shit out 3 clones and multiple phantasms is pretty annoying even if they can only attack once now. At least the Deadeye rework kinda made sense since they didn't wanna encourage the "hide in invisibility for 40 seconds and one shot the enemy" strats even though it was pretty hilarious.

Judging from the people who got fired and I'm guessing raids are now dead for real.

It's not only about why they decided to rework a system that worked fine. It's also about them having no idea how to prioritize. There are plenty of classes with huge flaws that need help and they decide to rework their mesmer babies first. Their balance team is completely directionless.

It's kinda weird how mesmers are their pet class now. I remember back at release it used to be all about warriors

For that to really work they would've had to be smart enough to build a combat system where pve and pvp use similar strats. To this day pve regularly uses only about 20% of the actual game mechanics.

>Recruiting devs for a mobile game
Yeah no, just fire them all.
>Gaile gray fired
Big fucking loss
>Be Gaile Gray
>Show up on twitter, say hi
>Watch reddit be happy, receive praise
>Myjobhereisdone.gif
>Disappear for a few months
>Wonder why the players aren't happy about being left in the dark
>shockedpikachu.jpg

Probably some of the balance staff either left or went to work on those other "unannounced projects". The ones that stayed being mesmer fanboys because of muh unique class.

now NCSoft will finally change all that

but some still remain
until they are not all fired I have little hope for them

The sooner the mmo genre dies the better. There isn't a single one worth playing right now, and the industry needs a huge revamp

It would be pretty ironic if NCsoft took control and saved the game. The company is often viewed as one of those evil greedy ones, but I don't know where that perception came from. They are not even close to the worst. In fact they gave ArenaNet too much freedom to do whatever they want.

this.
white manlet was right…
white manlet was right all along

I like GW2 as well and play regularly, but that doesn't mean I condone ANet's shitty policies.
>implying SJWs know about actual LGBT matters
They're just doing it for virtue signalling, I mean all lesbians are abysmal characters in abusive relationships and all black characters are stupid and rely on the player to wipe their ass.
You do know that ANet isn't doing the layoffs, right? That's entirely NCSoft.
Vegan Harley Quinn lolsorandom'd her way into the plot and destroyed Kessex Hills and Lion's Arch among other things.
Mesmer is way too retarded op and every attempt to nerf it has made it even more op. It's basically unkillable and shits out the most useful buffs like there's no tomorrow.

>burn the forest down
>wow at least the vermin are gone now

"If only you knew how bad things really are"

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Did someone say "Scrapper"?
One of the last things she did was claim that the balance team have no obligation to tell the players what they want to achieve. I guess they can't just admit they have no idea what they're doing.
>I don't know where that perception came from
They have no issues with closing down a game and have done that with City of Heroes. Wildstar too but that game had like three players so it sort of made sense?

do you think the gem shop will update today?

so wait, mobile game or something incoming?

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Pic related is absolutely based and it saddens me that even some of the greats devs are laid off.

Also people complain about the sjw stuff and well i cant disagre its kind of noticeable in the story. However the sjw story is way better than anything the vanilla story had to offer.

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Good riddance indeed, this big scale MMO was a mistake by their part, greed made them bite more than they could chew and had to sell their souls to the chinks to keep it alive.

That would be the greatest punch to the gut they could do. Even your company doesn’t like the puritanical bullshit you put in the game.

>Mesmer is way too retarded op and every attempt to nerf it has made it even more op. It's basically unkillable and shits out the most useful buffs like there's no tomorrow.
They were terribly designed to begin with
>haha lets create a class that'll abuse the terrible targeting system and make you feel stupid while fighting them!

gw2 didnt have a single good story

PoF has a very enjoyable story. Probably the only story I enjoyed in any mmorpg.

youtube.com/watch?v=MUe64FtLs3U
song #4
/afk

Mesmer in gw2 is so fucking different from gw1. It's like whoever designed the gw2 mesmer beat their fucking dick to IW mes and designed the whole class to be retarded like that build.

>they had 400 employees before the lay off
>300 now
>witcher 3 was made by 250 people

FFXI had a way better overall story than any FF up to IX and certainly better than any other mmorpg.

I never manged to enjoy the combat in this game

Lol.

I mean, from IX onwards.

Does anyone have the image showing all the quotes of gw2 devs saying they never played gw1 andhow gw1 was trash or whatever?

not really.

a lot of wildstars problems we're caused by the dev team themselves the game was fucked from day 0 ncsoft was pretty hands off until they noticed shit was going bad

The only layoff I cared about was Anet Ben, who volunteered to get out of there- smart move on his behalf probably, but that means whatever intelligent thought was behind all the fractal changes is gone for good

Based Autist, and you are right.
I hope Gwen mindfucks every Charr to death with her nighmare spells.

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user is right, though.

>muhh guild wars 1 great muhh best game ever
So why are you not playing it right now?

i am though

Is there a vg guild?

>online game was fun to play when it was still populated
>it's dead now
Not hard to figure out on your own, user

i'm sure there is. i wouldn't join a guild based around this site if it was the last guild in the game. you should ask there though if you're interested

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Yeah but I just need some casual guild

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I still play it on a regular basis, it's just not the same without an active playerbase.
I think most people just want a modern successor with a similar skill system.

i honestly wonder how many more studios need to be closed before devs stop exclusively pushing sjw crap and having a massive hate boner for straight white men

this. I want to play my monk in gvg like the good days.

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I think GW is one of the few games where the healer classes actually took skill. Good monks were respected back in the day.

I have played GW2 for like 500 hours and I can honestly say

S

>playing monk
>looking at the party window for more than 2 seconds at a time
>2005-2019
damn right, user. nothing felt better than catching spikes, casting guardian right as the dev hammer was going down, or cancel casting to bait out D-shot.

>damn right, user. nothing felt better than catching spikes, casting guardian right as the dev hammer was going down, or cancel casting to bait out D-shot.
Are you me?

Played Guid Wars 2 for 500 hours in the span of 3 months. Was pretty fun and got really into it but lost interest back when the new expansion came out. Played it's story but since it had no map events like the previous expansion there wasn't really anything new to do and I got out of my routine.
Did they kill Braham yet?

depends, were you infuse or RC?
>mfw RC casts spirit bond as the A/P spike assassin called his target
>mfw the spike lands and the targets health barely drops
>mfw i cast patient spirit and it's like nothing happened at all.

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>PoF has a very enjoyable story. Probably the only story I enjoyed in any mmorpg.
fucking how?

>the most "successful" mmo in recent history
That's more likely to be FF or even fucking TESO by a large margin and everyone knows that, except you apparently.

i have played this game for 3500h
I WASTED GOOD PART OF MY YOUTH ON THIS SHIT
I WAS SO FUCKING STUPID

S S S S S S S S S S S S S S SS S S S S S S S S S S

i will spit on this shit until my mouth feels like sahara
laugh at me, i deserve no better

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>implying they're going to kill any of these epic progressive kids
lol?

>personal story
>get cucked from the main character seat by a faggot plant
Never not mad.

Prior to FF and before ESO went free 2 play GW2 was the runner up to WOW tho.

>do story missions from the living story patches
>spend 90% of the time listening to characters talk with no way to skip the dialogue
Quality game design

desu he went full kormir on players character.
its funny how they did not learn a bit.
still, nf story >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything gw2

'it cant be helped'

RC always. There is nothing better than catching spikes with SB.

That shit is so good. I still replay factions from time to time to this date

Was there a better feeling than saving up money for months and then finally going out into the FoW and buy your Obsidian armor?

True, FF did have to be relaunched and ESO was never much to talk about, but then that hardly configures as recent history.

>any mmo
WAHHH WAHH EVERY PLAYER IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HERO THIS DUMB WAHH
>you are not the sole super hero
WAHH WAHH STOP STEALING MY STORY WAHH

actually remembering to bring gold and mats

took me 2 times to remember to bring it all

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Jesus christ.

GW1 is a bad mmo, it's clunky, far too many mechanics are obscure bullshit, it doesnt really allow single play as the henchmen and heroes are trash but it also doesnt give you any good tools to find people, the skill system while creating unlimited possibilities makes the game unplayable for anyone but autists. There is a reason why nobody cares for it anymore except for dumb virgin dweebs

Finally this shitty AAA industry is crashing down.

well, desu gw prophs solution was much more elegant. they didnt singled out any hero outside of party. you and your friends were the heroes in that story. it was about your party.
in factions npcs played bigger role mhenlo and tojo (or whatever his name was), but still all (you and him) were considered heroes equally.
gw nf should just made a bit different story. you do 99.99% of shit in this game and kormir, who is rather unlikeable hero in later parts of the game, like a negress she is steals your godhood, wtf

how many hours of gw did you play. 50? you genuinely lie. with 7 heroes you can and cons you can clear almost every end game hm area. and your opinion on skills is plain bad
what a brainelt tier opinion

Look at the alternatives, WoW? FFXIV? Those stories are so bad that the dump I took this morning is more compelling. Before some tranny starts sperging, yes I've played FFXIV all the way through to Stormblood's main storyline.
If you did all the way back to FFXI, maybe.

Dude, these two games have a far better story than anything GW2 shits out LMAO

>WvW update delayed a whole week the day before it was suppose to be released
Way to go Anet

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No, they don't. WoW has more retcons than story and if you genuinely believe the story in FFXIV is good, stop watching so much fucking anime since it's clearly rotting your brain.

>a mount
Not like the update was worthwhile, unless you want to kill PvE players for a week or two.

>how many hours of gw did you play. 50? you genuinely lie. with 7 heroes you can and cons you can clear almost every end game hm area. and your opinion on skills is plain bad
>what a brainelt tier opinion
lol like 200 hours and yeah I am a brainlet, but the brainlets are the reason why games sell, not the autists on Yea Forums

I just wanted a reason to log in after having completed the last living world story.

Well it clearly shows that your brain is rotted considering you enjoy gw2 story.

>tojo (or whatever his name was)

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>GW1 is a bad mmo
It is, because it isn't an MMO, it's a co-op RPG.
>clunky
True, which is why a lot of people wanted a proper sequel with fluid controls.
>it doesnt really allow single play as the henchmen and heroes are trash
The vast majority of the game is perfectly soloable with 7 heroes.
>but it also doesnt give you any good tools to find people
True, but back in the day you had guildmates to rely on if you had an active guild.
>the skill system while creating unlimited possibilities makes the game unplayable for anyone but autists.
Not really, the game was complex for sure, but it was pretty accessible to casual players as well. Even if you lacked creativity you could always copy/poste a build from PvXwiki.

are you new here? or are you from reddit?

Factions had the best OST

oh come on, gw npcs arent the most memorable ones
especially factions. this whole campaign can be beaten in like 8-10 hours

guild wars died when gw2 came out. this is nit guild wars. its complete shit

No, I just dont get my opinions from nostalgia goggles and Yea Forumss hivemind

I sure didn't. Bought on release day, my highest chracters got to 28. Used the boost tome to lvl 50 and lost interest within 5 hours

Never finished GW1 strory, but always had hope of reconstructing kino Ascalon. I was very mad at seeing the Charr still occupying it in GW2. And surprise surprise, it's still an ashen wasteland after all this time.

i literally have been finishing all the campaigns (except for eotn which is SHIT and it marks the beginning of the downfall of the series. and i fucking hate these pve skills they introduced) in the last 2 years and played like 300-400 hours since 2016 (with over 1.5k total)
by far im not the most experienced out there, or even here, but i think i have a better grip of the game than you will ever have. and my opinions come from relatively fresh experiences

the game is still very enjoyable and it has a lot of good and rich mechanincs.

Guild Wars 2 was so fucking bad lmao.

Guild Wars 1 on the other side...

GET WOKE GO BROKE

When will companies learn that pandering to a group that doesn't play video games isn't going to make them money.

wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_Wiki:Love4ArenaNet

Leave you #Love4ArenaNet here, goys!

Heavensward base story was top 3 story of all Final Fantasies

i liked GW2 and played it for 2k hours

WvW was fun

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Fuck off, faggot

i would if i could

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>falling for bait

Source. I've been playing since release and I never saw anything indicating that. It was always multiculty UN feelgood times and they only gave the other sword to logan so he'd appologise to Rytlock for being a cuck and chasing his half nog queen.
Sidenote if it never gets updated again this will itonically be the perfect end
>Aurene is dead
>No way of persuing Kral and even if they kill him everything will be destroyed anyway
>If they don't reality is going to colapse as he eats the Mists.

>henchmen and heroes are trash
user, when you dont' have heroes, henchmen work fine. when you have heroes, you can literally gear them up and change their skills and attributes to what you want them to be. That says a lot about your skill in the game, huh?
>skill system makes game unplayable for anyone but dumb virgin weebs
you're just grasping at this point, many many builds work fine in pve.
>no good tools to find people
what is the lfg system? it's not worldwide, sure, but it's fine for looking in the main hubs. you're the definition of fox and grapes

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*afk's in your path*

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>the sjw story is way better than anything the vanilla story had to offer
I'll take Trahearne over Taimi any day.
It's hard not to feel stupid playing GW2 anyway.
Eir emerged from the Mists to tell him to stop being a faggot. There's been hardly any development after that because the story went to ~my little sparkly dragon daughter~ but Braham seems to be improving.
In PoF's defence, getting rid of Taimi for a while was a winning move and it made the commandah feel like a main character again.
But ANet seems to only focus on the story, so at least they could try and make it decent.

>WvW was fun
Aren't you THRILLED for the new siege cat?

needs chaos gloves

Same. Being there when we were all scrubs at TC at t4/t5 then slowly improving until our zergs can actually duke it out at t1 was the last, best feel I had playing with others.

Its for the best. GW2 at launch was fun but it was all down hill from there.

hey gorth!