Curse

Siadena · Aug 31, 2007, 08:45 AM // 08:45

This is written from a PVE players perspective

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Firstly, let me say I love GWEN so far - it's gameplay and layout - enemies and story - I do like it, so props there....

...But, I completely disagree with Arena-nets boasts about players from the previous GW campaigns being "rewarded" and/or recognized in GW-2 for their accomplishments in some ways. Most of this beef pertains to the Hall or Monuments (the heros and pets part, np's there - but those aren't the ones people are really interested in acquiring). Firstly, you can't emboss or display armor unless you have complete full sets - those creative mix and matchers who made some wonferful outfits get screwed. Second - most people who play GW don't have the time to pursue multiple (max) titles for multiple chars - or even one or two in some cases - not everyone is a full time gamer out there. Most titles take EXTREME measures to acquire - whether it be raising funds to complete the max lvl or massive amounts of time. The fact that there will be no recognition for each teir is very disappointing, albeit the the recognition for a lvl 1 confectionaries should be as high as the connesseuire - but c'mon. And lastly - and probably the biggest one they killed is that of weapons. The majority of PVE'ers in Guild Wars have spent the last 2 years + trying to acquire the best of the best weapons. Now we find out that in the Hall, everything up till this point of what was a primary PVE objective was pointless and won't count for anything in the future. All the golds - tormenteds to gothics, sheilds to zodiacs, perfect staffs to Magmas, crystalines to dwarvens, rares to nerfed specialties - everything we've worked so hard on farming and acquiring - everything from the 3 mainstay campaigns is now pointless for the future. Anet is making the "future start right now" on what will count in GW2 with GWEN - since in the areas I mentioned above - Proph, Factions and NF have been systematically stripped down of significance. I agree on both making games more challenging and moving forward to the next chapter - but the official press release says they want to reward devoted gw players when gw 2 comes. You're not really doing that anet - you're rewarding only hard core gamers from this point on beginning with GWEN, and even to them - and those people who have made the 3 campaigns they're mainstay - what the series was built upon - very pointless. I love Guild Wars and will continue to plug along, but I have definitely lost my passion for playing it. It's tough to see the belittlement of what has been done to each of the 3 mains - the more previous you go, the more obsolete they have become - and now, itemwise - it's all obsolete. More people should have probably been in the think tank on this process, it's really very sad to see the turn it's taken and the downfall of the value of the whole series.