WIP is BS and unacceptable regardless of it being a single -or multi-player game. If key order winners aren't implemented you're being deceitful and lying.
Especially since the 5years of "when it's done" spouting...
Also, afaik GW actually didn't have this "yea so erm we need another year to erm "finish" the last part of the game." By this time (8months after release) GW's PvP meta had settled down and was considered the most balanced it ever was throughout the game. Compare that to GW2, do you feel like the game's meta is close to settling down? Is the game feeling like it's balanced? Are there actually meaningful leaderboards?
I'm sick and tired of people saying "it's normal products need work after release" NO IT ISN'T. Just like it isn't "normal" that cars have to be sent back to the factory due to a manufacturing error in the breaks... If something isn't working (properly) you don't release it PERIOD (a . doesn't make the actual point clear
). I seriously can't fathom how people are OK with this "we'll patch it in later" attitude. It's one of the reasons why I stopped playing skyrim (a single player game) and also why I'm anoyed with GW2's PvP.
Since you actually touched on it. There were bugs fcking everywhere! It took 2months for a vista or POI to get fixed in kessex hills, yea "high level"...
And no just adding maps and features isn't what they need to do at all. They need to fix ranger, necros, engineers and warriors so they are competitive. Get a frigin MMR system that works (seriously is it that much to ask? copy paste an ELO code and you're done...) balance bunkers, portals and vertical movement skills (treb shortcut is one of the most important ones...).
Sorry but your post pissed me off. You're acting like this is normal and it isn't, this is horrible service and shouldn't be tolerated. It doesn't matter if it's EA, A-net/NCsoft, Bliz or w/e other frigin company out there: you can not promise "features" and then need 3/4ths of a year to implement them...