5 Years of Guild Wars

I have a huge dilemma and this is more of a rant than anything.

I bought this game back in June of 2005 (well fine i got it for my birthday). I loved it. I used to give people free runs from LA/Bergen to ToA and Sanctum and always got tipped well. It was something fun to do for me when i wasn't working characters through the campaigns. Plus i met many good people that way, most of which don't play any more.

With each campaign release, I found myself playing Guild Wars more and more. New content was always a bonus. I didn't like Factions as much as NF and GW:EN was bland, but it was something to do. New weapons to get. New bossed to kill. New challenges.

I bought "stock" in Sapphires/Rubies before nightfall from my other farming exploits (thank you 105/55 monk. You served me well when you first came around) and made millions reselling to the trader. I squandered most of that on obby sets that i liked for characters I played the most.

Perma then became the farm to do. More pink flooded my storage and i had more money that i knew what to do with. I never did SC's or power traded (ugh just boring) but farming for some reason was rewarding......

Then titles. Most of them were fun (Guardian, vanquisher, skill hunter) but others just tedious (booze hound............................................. .................................................. .................................................) . I maxxed my kurzick title through abuse of DTSC for two weeks (since HFFF clicking was epic fail). I am about half way through luxon right now, doing it at my own pace and VERY slowly duo discord or H/H. It's tedious VQing MQ like a billion times. Chest running is boring and i'm 4k chests short. Wisdom is expensive and i don't have the money on me any more to fund that nor do i really have the patience to farm more Ecto (down to around a stack).

After 5 years I'm almost done with all titles I want to get. I already have GWAMM but I'm looking into Lucky/Unlucky/TH/Wisdom/Luxon. The problem is that under the best conditions, this will take me another 300 hours to accomplish (assuming farming money then buying golds). I don't think i can slave another 300 hours to doing something so unhumanly boring that it's just rediculous. It's not a matter of enjoyment but frustrating work. I feel like i'm at work, slaving away mindlessly at an assembly line putting the same damn bolt on 1983465104283560156 times.

The enjoyment is gone. I have 1 month before I get my minis (roughly) and thats about the last thing i have to look forward to. Titles. What purpose do they serve? Achievements in games, sure they're great but what happens when it crossed that point where they become so tedious they're not worth it? Why is that games that have been so enjoyed in the past feel like work and not play?

At this point I have no motivation to finish. I've taken a couple month breaks from the game before to do other things, but then i'd always come back for a couple months before not wanting to play any more.

I'm not sure i can stomach the remainder of these titles. They are so frustratingly mindless that not even doing other things while working on them, like watching tv shows (thank you windows 7 snap feature) doesn't even make them better. The thought of running chests for another 4300 minutes and then spending another 3-4 million on gold id's (oh wait i have to farm that out first which is equally boring since it's 123 then 456 to victory in the UW)just sounds like work. And for what?

We get some special random bonus in GW2. Woop De doo..... What will it be? Customized weapons that look.....not cool? An emote that shows off our e-peen in all of it's glory? It's been confirmed iirc that it won't transfer to any game altering bonuses so why bother? I've put my 3000+ hours into this game already. I've done everything with almost every class. It's just getting dry.

Just mindlessly slaving away at this tediousness is too much....

simply /uninstall

in-b4-teh-l0xx0rz!!!

Titles shouldn't have been implemented imo.

Ya, I agree, if you don't like, /uninstall, be thankful that its free.

I used to play Bingo. For various reasons, I stopped enjoying it. I haven't visited a Bingo Parlor in 20 years.

please tell me your joking Kook

what would keep people to play other than the mindless grind titles provide?

If you've lost interest, do something else. No one is forcing you to play.

PS: We don't know exactly what benefits we will get in GW2. No point worrying about it. Either you want to max everything out or you don't.

If GW2 was the type of game that would allow the transfer of game altering bonuses, it wouldn't be the type of game that's worth playing.

While I could care less about any possible emotes, I'd be perfectly happy with a unique weapon skin or armor piece to show off as long as they were balanced against everything else.

If we do get nothing but emotes? I can sell my account to someone that cares for IRL cash and start fresh.

But yeah, some of the titles are crazy stupid and they require grind that's not worth it. You *did* however get 5 years of play out of this game, that's more than your money's worth IMO. Time to take a break.

If you want to keep playing, keep away from grinding those stupid titles. If you are finally blown out bored, then move on.

Only 3000 hours played?

Guesstimating of actual time logged working on titles, the game, and helping the guild/others not counting afk and just chatting in town with people. And my actual logs shows 8k. Which probably also isn't a lot for 5 years but that is like 300 days logged in, A lot of which was spent on 9 rings.

This is true. I've spent ~$200 on GW and got 5 years out of it. That is a relatively low cost compared to how much fun I did have. I'll probably just take a break and see if i want to go back to it. So many other games to play will probably keep me away until after the summer or until it nears GW2 release.

I'd love to come back for GW2 if it looks alright and they don't make a lot of drastic changes.

I feel cheapened by reading this giant QQ post, I can't imagine how bad it must have been for you to write it but quality troll none the less {GOD I hope that was just a troll and not serious}

for an answer is case you were really being serious, SEE ALL ABOVE POSTS

Maybe give PvP a go? GW is originally a PvP game after all...
Almost got my 25th title but cba to get any more. I play games for fun and the remaining titles aren't what I call "fun". I've played twice the amount of PvP than I have done PvE I think.

You had fun, and got your money's worth out of the game. Good job. Since it isn't fun anymore, play something different. Not sure what the problem is..... Though I don't enjoy the things you seem to have enjoyed.

Simple: you stop going for titles and do something else. If there's nothing else you find worth spending your spare time on in this game, there you have it, it's game over.

Slaving...? Oh, please...

You're done and all set for GW2 with your full hall.
That's the thing I'm aiming for atm just need 2 more titles for GWAMM and after that I can finally retire from the grind.
Occasional log-ins for events or new stuff.
There are so many other games you can play while reading these fora to "keep in touch"
It's just going to be hard ignoring that voice in your head: "have to log in, just to look if there is something to do, just a moment, it won't be that long, just one more city, browse my storage just one more time, /doh 2 hours passed off to bed then, darn guild wars"

If what you say is true regarding hours played; assuming you've played for roughly 3,000 hours and the rest are mostly afk'ing hours and such, you would only have spent about ~1.6 hours a day over the course of 5 years. Hence, as far as logic goes, you have only been playing casually (again, the fact that you took some months long breaks every now and then means you'd have played more during a certain era and less during another, but it's the average hours played per day that count). If I were you, I wouldn't be as worried about the time you've invested into the game already. Instead, you can think about all the others who have been playing actively for the last 5 years and haven't done so casually, rather, played for 5 active hours a day and more.

To sum it up, you haven't been playing that intensively since you have gotten the game, so just be happy and move on if what you see no longer floats your boat.

No you don't. If you're no longer having fun with a video game, put it down and do something else.

When did video game culture shift from "Cool, I beat the game" to "This game must provide me with entertainment until the day I die, or else the game is a failure"?

You alrdy played more then the average GW player lol. Ur part of the "elite" with your GWAMM and u got more money then most people. And ur burned out. So serious.. Just quit the game lol.

But just wondering, You alrdy got LDOA? It's a fun to title to get (IMO!!) And i'm doing it myself, should have it next month. So maybe u could try that ^^