In other words, you played the PvE til you level capped (at a whole 20!!!) and then you did arenas and GvG until Factions came out a year later (for those who donвЂ™t know, Factions was a stand-alone that worked hand-in-hand with Prophecies.) Then you have a faction war, and more PvP and new areas (fond memories of UW farms!) Finally, the last installment, Nightfall came out, then the expansion Eye of the North. (not GW2.) When it launched, there was no MMOвЂ¦ it was an instanced RPG with battlegrounds. I want to remind you all of a little game called Guild Wars. I hope you all have fun cuting trees to the ends of time, cause I donвЂ™t. Maybe they should just disable Factions farware, PvP and everything tied to any conflict between players whatsoever (which I call Competitiveness) so the true audience of this shore of a game can finally shine. Maybe it was always destined to be an endless grind with no incentive to bring forward PvP. Maybe it is what the game was intended to be once it вЂњchanged directionвЂќ. No competitiveness to be had in what was advertised as a PvP game (which in the end, is not), no competition, no achievement, only mindless grinding for the survivors of the apocalypse. That I canвЂ™t denie, but the game is gonna be dead anyways, when nobody gives a damn about it, the casual will reign over a pile of ashes. They wonвЂ™t be the first people to top out the ole bank account at 500K but theyвЂ™ll still be playing long after all the вЂcompetitiveвЂ™ players have moved onto the next FOTM. It will be the people who formed tight groups of friends and formed strong alliances and catered to new players to keep new members rolling into the clan. Tanking requires a carnelian gem taking up a weapon slot, limiting (pvp) build diversity at the expense of threat generation. The economy will never thrive with this in effect. To be clear this is the cherry on top of a hill of crap design decisions/non-user friendly ideas.Д®veryone crafting everything, is ridiculous. I will not suck up to some kid who controls an in game faction, for the opportunity to enjoy content I paid for.

I donвЂ™t play games to engage in office politics with tweens. Ok IвЂ™m 1st in standby, get sent an invite, load into the camp, then load out of the camp because IвЂ™m kicked again. Yesterday, however, after having been on the army roster since it became available. The 3rd war I was on standby, didnвЂ™t make it in, no big deal. Ok so most people are scared, there are wars. I run flagged about 95% of the time, and have had a total of 6 ow pvp encounters. Everything is a tutorial just to be able to do the actual content the game is designed around (pvp wars).ДЇor me the turning point was yesterday when I hit 100hrs. Is a PvP game where the ONLY way of having a fair fight is being at level cap. The fact that there is no pvp-on server shows already how much out of touch they are.ДЄnd donвЂ™t make me start on the community defending itвЂ™s leveling. I cannot imagine how stressful it was for them. I cannot judge on the LD colleagues but I guess a lot of bad stuff has happened during development to end up with this pacing. The result is a badly designed game that does not do either elements well, with the most orribile level design and encounter (spawn) design i have ever experienced. The game Is essentially a PvP game stripped out of its PvP for a irrational fear of not selling. Probably my design background and my experience with the pre-wow games (waaaaay richer experiences) and pvp titles (ultima, darkfall, daoc, ) gives me more insights and higher standards but all those issues were pretty obvious right from level 5.

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