Guild Wars 2®

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an MMO that doesn't run away from you if you take a break, burn out or something like that. And when you do return back to the game after a long break, Ready to carry on whatever you were doing or to experience something new. While realizing the very gear you had before taking a break is still effective in whatever you were doing. That's guild wars 2 to you. Breaking the mold when it comes to some of the typical MMO mechanics and features you see out there. Just figure out what you want to do when you have levelled your first character and off you go wherever it is. Even tho there is a lot of content in the game, just remember that content is not going anywhere, it doesn't disappear into thin air. Take your time and enjoy the game. Get into a guild, find some buddies and go head first into a danger or something. GW2 offers enough opportunities for that. Don't mind the hour counter on steam. i have too many hours in the game through the non-steam client. I recently started running the game from steam (with anet login), ever since i swapped to linux. deemed it a bit easier to do that way.

no pay to win, no subscription, a world brimming with content, you're not behind if you're an irregular player, one of the best mmorpg experiences overall

This is the definitive MMORPG. It's the only one I've ever played where very little is required of you and everything and I mean Everything is encouraged. No gear treadmill, and yet there's still always something you could be grinding for if that's what you want to do. This is truly a game to live in.

HATE the monetization, the store, 100s of things to buy each costing around 5/10 euro's. Its not p2w but the conveniences you can buy are ridiculous. You can buy 18 bank tab expansions for 600 gems each or a bit cheaper when its discounted, 600 Gems cost 7.5 euro's or you can trade in gold for gems which is a nice addition but still, 18? I know you also need income for the game but come on focus it on more fashion or other things which dont inconvenience the player. Gameplay is fun and easy to get into(thief and necro), very fast paced in pvp, which could be fun. I wouldnt recommend going in as a new player untill you get your elite spec. you'll die alot going in as a noob who doesnt understand the class yet. Story was oke at most parts, some good voice acting. Last base story mission was odd, Living world 1 was horrible, skipped 2 straight to HOT, nice maps there, story is oke overall and really good at certain moments unlike many mmo's. Good community, lots of helpful people so you will pretty much be able to play anything the game offers faster than most mmo's. Again Living world 1 was so horrible that i almost quit. Why spend time on something where i afterwards think: why am i even doing this? After reading some reviews on the other expansions i decided to not get them as I will have those moments again im sure, so time to call it quits. There are also way too many items and currencies, insane item bloat where you will need the wiki to get around if you want to keep playing longterm. At some point you dont really progress anymore, you can reach the gear ceiling pretty fast, gold is easy to get, which gets you full exotic loadout and then its only ascended gear which is the highest tier statwise, this will take some time to complete but its not necessary to play most content. This could have been the best mmo out there but again, horrible monetization like most mmo's sadly, if this irks you, dont play it. They're all just mediocre time sinks.

I am not an MMO player. I like the idea of mmos and I really enjoyed New World so when they decided to pull the plug on New World I wanted to see if there was something like it out there. Literally everywhere you go online people say the most amazing things about this game and glaze it like it's the next coming of Christ. These are my problems with the game personally. Some MMO vets might say something dumb like "eerrhhhh *slllrp acshhually thatsh jusht cuzh ur bad" But I really don't care 1. There are extreme predatory microtransactions in this game. I paid 20 dollars at a garage sale for this game back in 2014 and played it for 5 minutes and never gave it a chance. The fact that you have to pay for build slots and bag slots is the most insane thing to me. I understand that the game is free to play now but come on they purposely make your inventory fill up almost instantly so you are more inclined to pay money for bag slots 2. Expansions are strange in the way that they tell you you will get something in an expansion, but to actually get access to the thing in that expansion you have to grind so much for. Example given- To get the flying mount everywhere in the games world and not just only in the expansion zone, you have to do many many steps to "grow" your own flying dragon. These steps require you to travel all across the world and spend large amounts of gold in order to get the items to finish this small quest which by the way, some are super time gated in which you need a specific item that you can only get once a day and you need 20 of them if I remember correctly. So you want me to wait 20 days to get something in the game that everyone said I could get in this expansion and then I have to continue this fetch quest even more afterwards???? 3. The game uses a hybrid system of the classic mmo tab target and action oriented combat. This would not be a problem if it was done properly, but in my opinion was poorly implemented. I played with the action camera as I hated holding right click just to move my camera and I wanted to play the game like an actual game and the amount of times my character is targeted on someone or something else when i'm looking no where near that thing is astonishing. It works great for aoe attacks and such but for regular attacks it can be weird. 4. This game has the most cancerous pvp I've played of any game ever period, and that is what I mainly wanted to play in this game. Long time players will tell you that you can do great in pvp just hop in and have fun it's not that bad, and that is true for the structured pvp mode. However, it takes me literally 2 hours to find a match without someone leaving queue restarting the search for players. The highly populated pvp mode is called world vs world and it is an open world map with bases that three factions can fight over. It can be very fun, however if you want to actually play the game instead of being part of a hive mind of 30+ players just wildly spamming abilities, you're going to have a very hard time. There is an insane amount of stuns and blocks and fears and traps and knockdowns and blinds and you will be trapped in them forever. I love playing a game I can't play and I love it when someone presses one button and kills me when I can't play the game. You can break cc but there will just be 5 more hitting you in the next 2 seconds so why even bother. All coming from people who have been playing everyday for 14 years with builds that are so annoying that you cannot touch them at all and these people will actively hunt you down and ruin it for you. I even encountered a newer player complaining in chat how they just insta die to cc as soon as they walk out no matter what even though they looked up a build and had the right gear. Long time players will just say you're bad and to get good and bla bla bla excusing poor game design and predatory practices because their precious guild wars 2 is perfect in every way how could you possibly not like this game it's the greatest thing ever thought of let me just stun the servers for this game forever so no one can play it 5. Living World There is a separate "Expansion" to the game in a different tier from the rest that are called living world seasons. These were meant to bridge the gap between expansions. The only problem is that you cannot buy these outright from steam or arenanets website. You have to buy the microtransaction currency in game to be able to purchase these at all and you have to buy them all separately. What kind of game does this? I was really interested in getting these before I went defcon 1 and annihilated this terrible game from my pc. The sad thing is some of these seem to have a lot of effort and content behind them but some people will never explore it because of how you have to buy them. If they just put them all in a bundle on steam like any regular dlc it would be so much more accessible to the average player but I think this is just a ploy to get people to look at the in game shop and be more inclined to spend even more money. I get that Arenanet doesn't charge a subscription for this game and need to make money somehow, but the way this game is monetized is the most offensive middle finger give me money thing I have ever seen from any game, and I bought every expansion except for janthir. 6.This game is extremely grindy. I mean, extremely. If you want the cool stuff, you're going to be timegated into next year with how many days you have to wait to get specific items and currencies, and yes, there has to be at least a thousand different currencies in this game all with weird ways to obtain them. The only thing is that "legendary" gear in this game is no better than the previous tier of gear stat wise, it just looks cooler and you can choose what subtype of stats it has on it at anytime. So really you are doing all this grinding just for a cool skin. Hundreds of thousands of hours for a skin. A skin. One that all the no lives already have. As I mentioned before there is an extreme timegated grind for a mount that you can only get through an expansion. You paid for the ability to spend weeks to get said mount. So you didn't pay for the expansion for the mount you paid for the ability to grind your life away to get the mount. Have fun bud get to it. 7. As of writing this review there is an event that introduces serious gambling into the game. You can gamble materials for lootboxes that 9 times out of ten will give you worthless items all for the chance of getting a rare cosmetic item that you can sell for thousands of gold on the trading post. Did I mention that you can buy gold in this game with real money? Most things in this game can be bought with real money. Which means you can spend real money to get gold to buy the materials that you can trade for the lootboxes. The game is introducing gambling to unsuspecting kids/young adults that you can actually lose real money on and that does not sit right with me at all as something that can lead to real trauma and issues in the real world, but like everything in this game, it gets looked past because it's "guild wars 2 and it's the best game ever thought of" All of this culminates into one of the objectively worst games i've ever played. I should have truly forgotten about it when I played it for 20 minutes 12 years ago but my yearning for a New World type game brought me to this steaming cow patty again. You nerds can say what you want in your little echo chamber with your 15,000 hours+ but I don't see how anyone can play this and enjoy it. The pve is okay, but it's just as boring as any other mmo pve. If the game had true open world pvp like New World then it would be a little better but the fact that "open world" pvp is locked to a mode with set bases is a little disappointing. tl:dr This game sucks too much money for too little pvp is the worst i've ever seen community is brainwashed trash

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Way to much unskipable dialogue. I wasted $100 just to hear yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap.