What's preventing you from coming back to/playing Guild Wars 2?

[MsSideEye]

I remember buying it when it first came out, years and years ago, and the two major things that kept me from really getting too far in it was the fact that the class I was playing at the time was kinda buggy (I was playing the pet based class and i ran into a lot of issues that seemed like that should have been taking into account when the game released) and the fact that I was inform the best way to get anywhere in the game was to rotation around the first zone i was in to level up fast.

Now mind you, I played this back when I was still my WoW headed nature (Ignore everything, get to end game), so I can't say I would have stuck with it, but I've NO idea how much the game has changed or updated since then.

[Witchblade77]

you know I came back actualy for a bit, even bought path of fire. played through a whole bunch of it and then was reminded why I originally stopped playing. zone navigation combined with lengthy grinds for unlocks. early zones are decently pleasant so ever when I would run into traversal that was not the most fun for me, it wasn't enough to outweigh all the other fun I was having with pretty zones and the like. then.... I got to freaking ruins of Orr... and at some point I just couldn't take it anymore, not only that whole area is a pain to traverse, but its also ugly (and I understand, its meant to be ugly from the lore point, but it just compounded on general unpleasantness)

but... I finally caved, got path of fire in hopes that mounts would alleviate some of those issues I've been having. and for a while - they did. until I hit traversal and navigation issues again because I couldn't unlock my third mount without getting more mastery points and I couldn't figure out how to get to those mastery points and so I threw my hands up and left. again. and I'm not entirely sure if I'll be coming back this time. like... on one hand I've spend many an hour getting lost in this game. in a good immersive way. but on the other hand, I've spend many an hour getting lost in this game... in a bad, frustrating way and I've gotten to the point in my life where I'm no longer willing to accept that degree of frustration from a video game.

[thilicen]

The game engine. Bought EoD and got halfway into the campaign before I just gave it up. An RTX3080 PC that can run anything you throw at it at 80-100FPS on 1440p struggles to keep that crap at 30FPS on 1080.. As soon as there are around 10 active characters on screen the FPS hits are ridiculous.

[PACOX]

The game engine. Bought EoD and got halfway into the campaign before I just gave it up. An RTX3080 PC that can run anything you throw at it at 80-100FPS on 1440p struggles to keep that crap at 30FPS on 1080.. As soon as there are around 10 active characters on screen the FPS hits are ridiculous.

Did you have DX11 on? I've seen laptops with 1660s get a constant 60-90fps with most things on. We found out shadows are the most "expensive" in terms of fps. I think anything past low costs you 10-15 fps.

Some people set reflections to just terrain and sky (or just off) because you waste processing power rendering reflections on water you can't see (the maps are built on water and your GPU still renders reflections off it despite being hidden).

[Flame6]

I didn't find it fun at launch.

[Kumorii]

lack of interest.

[Selah]

So, after a long sort of vacation from MMOs I came back and have been playing GW2. Bought EoD, played LWS1, then wrapped up the expansion. Then rerolled Mesmer and have been starting fresh from the beginning, mainly because I forgot so much of the game and it's lore.

Have to say, after having such an extensive MMO detox, I'm loving GW2. Progression after 80 is meaningful and motivating but doesn't feel required (yet, still working through everything) and I love the mastery system mostly. HoT leans a little too heavy on it but really can't complain after that. All told, GW2 is a great product from Anet, and the industry could learn a lot from their example. IMO.

[AcidicSyn]

The story at launch never grabbed me and now there's so much stuff to buy.

[Coldkil]

The story at launch never grabbed me and now there's so much stuff to buy.

You don't really need the seasons to play and you can just go woth expansions if you want.

However yes, they should make a hefty bulk discount on them at this point imho. I have everything so it really doesn't bother me anyway.

[Osmeric]

I never played it, and joining a long standing MMO just doesn't really work for me.

[Dilbon]

I logged in after some years and the amount of crap in my bags and mailbox made me log off.

[AtomR]

The reason I stopped playing was because the story was forgettable. I played at launch. Then played it again during the pandemic. I cannot tell you what the story of this game is. I can tell you wows stories, I can tell you FFXIV stories, I can tell you ESO story but I cannot remember a single thing about GW2. I do remember having fun in it, I do enjoy how organised the content is, the fighting feels laggy though. But I lost interest because I just kept not knowing that I was doing thing for in terms of story, so I stopped.

[Fkiolaris]

Thinking about giving it another go after deciding to drop WotLK -C (thanks Blizzard). The main reason that is preventing me AT THIS POINT is that I anjoy playing caster/range characters at the moment and if I remember correctly, GW2 doesn't really support that style of gameplay due to how combat buffs have a limited range. Also, the lack of an automated group-finder tool is another major negative for me, but I accept that others probably view that as a plus.

[Yriel]

I gave it another try a month ago and got really sucked in this time.
It's a really fun game, overloaded with a metric ton of barely explained mechanics, a shop that is squeezing you at every corner (the super-small shard bank i hate the most, followed by only 5 character slots for a game with 9 classes), a very friendly and always helping community and, strangely enough, a lot of players still doing all kinds of content.
I just finished Heart of Thorns and was surprised that, even without asking, there are players everywhere for everything considering it's an old expansion. You found a HeroPoint that has a champion boss? In less that 2 minutes some other players will appear with whom you can kill the boss. All events are still done all the time, even the bigger meta events. I haven't seen that in any other game, usually nothing is as dead as old expansion content.

[czarek]

Not interested in. Was playin some back in the days. As i remember i was bored to the tears this gameplay and graphic design. Endgame was so numb.

[VinceVega]

Endgame... everytime i played it i got bored in the end.
This is the problem i have with nearly every MMO except with FF14 and WOW.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I just finished Heart of Thorns and was surprised that, even without asking, there are players everywhere for everything considering it's an old expansion.

I haven't seen that in any other game, usually nothing is as dead as old expansion content.

Well for one, GW2 actually uses its megaserver tech to keep the maps populated at all times. The other thing is that rewards in old content are still relevant today. If you're levelling an alt then you have to acquire hero points, and if you're an endgame player then you might be farming events in old maps to complete a legendary weapon or buy a transmog armor with map currency or rare drops. GW2's endgame also does not revolve around sitting in your house or a city queuing for dungeons or raids like in WoW or GW2. For the most part, the content in GW2 is the overworld itself.

Endgame... everytime i played it i got bored in the end.
This is the problem i have with nearly every MMO except with FF14 and WOW.

What do you like more about WoW's and FF14's endgame? I could not care less about farming the same dungeons over and over for two years and farming the same raid for 6-9 months over and over on end for arbitrary ilevel increase that becomes irrelevant when the next patch hits. I do like doing RBGs to earn the new Vicious mount and the new transmog, but that's because I really enjoy WoW battlegrounds and I like dressing up my characters.

I do agree that once you beat GW2's story, there isn't much reason to hang around. I did 9 months of rated PvP every day and a month of WvW and acquired the timegated PvP league tickets, shards of glory, and Gifts of Battle I needed to make a full set of legendary armor, weapon, and trinkets. Then calculated the costs and realized I would need to drop $400 in gems to buy enough gold to buy the rest of the mats to actually craft the legendary armor, not even counting the costs of levelling up crafting professions. So I abandoned that goal, and there was nothing else the game had going for me. I had already assembled the transmog for my character I wanted (though the sad reality is that there are only a small handful of looks for Charr that look good in GW2. Sure, I could acquire a bunch of transmogs, but I would never use them as they would look bad, whereas in WoW there is a lot more transmogs that I want to acquire because they actually look good on Tauren). The GW2 PvP scene is incredibly stale, with it being 5v5 arena matches with no mounts and no new maps added in half a decade, and no new WvW map added since HoT (plus the WvW game systems have deteriorated over time). So there is just no reason for me to continue playing after finishing a new story episode.

[GamingStudy]

I'd say a few things that, independently, wouldn't be enough to make me quit but, cumulatively just deterred me from continuing to play the game.

1. I was experiencing some slight motion sickness.
2. It wasn't entirely clear to me which content "had" to be completed and which were "optional". I realized after trialing the game that I prefer things laid out to me clearly (like FFXIV does for msq vs. side quests, for example).
3. It's combat system (e.g., different skills being gear-specific) was a new system that I had to learn, and I just wasn't in the mental space to do that at the time.

[VinceVega]

Well for one, GW2 actually uses its megaserver tech to keep the maps populated at all times. The other thing is that rewards in old content are still relevant today. If you're levelling an alt then you have to acquire hero points, and if you're an endgame player then you might be farming events in old maps to complete a legendary weapon or buy a transmog armor with map currency or rare drops. GW2's endgame also does not revolve around sitting in your house or a city queuing for dungeons or raids like in WoW or GW2. For the most part, the content in GW2 is the overworld itself.





What do you like more about WoW's and FF14's endgame? I could not care less about farming the same dungeons over and over for two years and farming the same raid for 6-9 months over and over on end for arbitrary ilevel increase that becomes irrelevant when the next patch hits. I do like doing RBGs to earn the new Vicious mount and the new transmog, but that's because I really enjoy WoW battlegrounds and I like dressing up my characters.

I do agree that once you beat GW2's story, there isn't much reason to hang around. I did 9 months of rated PvP every day and a month of WvW and acquired the timegated PvP league tickets, shards of glory, and Gifts of Battle I needed to make a full set of legendary armor, weapon, and trinkets. Then calculated the costs and realized I would need to drop $400 in gems to buy enough gold to buy the rest of the mats to actually craft the legendary armor, not even counting the costs of levelling up crafting professions. So I abandoned that goal, and there was nothing else the game had going for me. I had already assembled the transmog for my character I wanted (though the sad reality is that there are only a small handful of looks for Charr that look good in GW2. Sure, I could acquire a bunch of transmogs, but I would never use them as they would look bad, whereas in WoW there is a lot more transmogs that I want to acquire because they actually look good on Tauren). The GW2 PvP scene is incredibly stale, with it being 5v5 arena matches with no mounts and no new maps added in half a decade, and no new WvW map added since HoT (plus the WvW game systems have deteriorated over time). So there is just no reason for me to continue playing after finishing a new story episode.

To each their own. Wow was always endgame farming of gear. If you don't like the endgame of current wow you probably never liked it in the first place because it was much worse AND harder in basically every expansion before.
And i like getting better gear and having something to go for.
I have every dungeon on at les 20+ because i like the challenge. Mythic we sadly stopped at dathea but there is still somewhere to go... theoretically.

And wow is soooooooooo fast regarding gear aquisition it is laughable right now. There is no need to farm anything. Mythic raid loot is useless until the wingbosses. Mythic+ gives you one BiS every week and i bought 3 sockets.

If you don't like repeating content you can only go for PvP or singel player games tbh. MMOs need to have repeating content. There is not a game in the world without it that keeps you hooked with ONLY new stuff for months on end. Or you play for two weeks at the end of every patch see it and leave again.

Mythic+ and Raid is just fun. I like the gameplay. I like that you have always something new. Raid = Progression, Mythic+=Affixes.

[Fencers]

I have to create a new account to play on Steam? Oh, brother. Such a pain in the ass just to play this game at this point.