Originally Posted by
Fencers
I never said such. You are sorta having a fantasy conversation.
I am eager and interested to see what Anet do with 5-man content as endgame. The rest of your post is unrelated to my comments and kinda... um, not good.
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Yea, but am I really eager to plow through GW2's sparse dungeons when D3 and it's ladder rankings and RMT AH are around the corner? If I want hack-n-slash dungeon romps, I will personally get in other games I find far more intriguing to that style- Vindictus, Rusty Hearts or Diablo 3.
That was an aspect which kept me lukewarm in GW1, personally. When we [me+guild] ran all the elite missions it was sorta over. And the PVE missions/dungeon content was slow coming and easily consumed. Most of those missions were pretty simple and not particularly engaging or rather, compelling.
Whereas we were busting our knuckles in Sunwell 4 nights a week with glee. And eager to farm it more, more, more. Even now, in Rift's Hammerknell, we get more folks online than can fit into the raid size of 20- like 3-4 nights a week.
In GW1, we did our ZQs and logged. The only thing about GW1 that kept me playing once I ran all the missions was the fact I didn't have to pay monthly for GW1. Very few B2P or F2P MMOs of decent quality were out at the time. So I kept my EQ2/WOW subscription and played GW1 as a side game.
However, times have changed. These days we got Diablo 3, Rift, SWTOR, new WOW Xpac, Secret World, Archeage and slew of remarkably high quality F2P/B2P games in the pipeline or already out.
When Anet announced GW2 will be a "true MMO" and still remain sub free I thought "Oh awesome!". Then I played Rift and SWTOR, D3 and Wildstar betas and thought, "Anet has their work cut out for them now."
And that's where I am at on the state of GW2 now; seems like a lot of cool ideas. But Endgame? Endgame has me worried as a long term experience for anyone not interested in PVP. More competition than ever before is on the market and the competition is good.