Well, not if it's moderated imo. In almost any other topic on these boards you will get moderated for much less avoiding of the topic. I would understand if the post is talking about GW2 and comparing features there with GW1. But it's ONLY about GW1. Nothing else. Maybe not the best example, but when Blizzard was giving a WoW pet to those who bought SC2, imagine me talking only about SC2 in strictly WoW-related topics.
I don't get you tbh. What do I care if we have an entire forum, when this is the only topic wiht general discussions and information? If anything, exactly because there's a whole subforum now, things should be more separate.
P.S. Haha, funny thing is, the way the debate goes reminds me of the way GW2 optimists vs pessimists debate goes ^^ "I don't see how it can bother you". Well, just cause me =/= you, that's why. Same reason why lack of factions or lack of dueling would bother ME. Stop looking at things through your own prism and disregard the opinion of others. It's the same behavior in every other GW topic out there - trying to invalidate the opinion of the others.
P.S.2 A quick browsing through the forum showed this -
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...ments-Progress . As you can see, it's done and it's working, 5 days 5 pages, people are posting and it's dedicated to exactly the same stuff. So can we redirect all GW1 posts there, please? :/