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I find the open world content just endlessly enjoyable. Combat mechanics make it especially fun. Like I said above, best single player MMO of all time.
 
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Nija

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There is just an incredible amount of content in the game right now. Holy shit. Then again, my characters had13 birthday boxes waiting for them when I logged in, so I've been away for a minute.
 
Hekotat

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Nija said:
There is just an incredible amount of content in the game right now. Holy shit. Then again, my characters had13 birthday boxes waiting for them when I logged in, so I've been away for a minute.
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I feel like everything after path of fire was a massive decline in quality, writing and world building. Its sad to see as I've played this game a ton and quickly lost interest post PoF.

They really started packing on the ridiculous time gated quest steps in the previous expansion to the point I stopped playing like 3 steps in.
 
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Sylas

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tried to login to my old account and appears to have been blocked, had to use a new email to create a new account
 
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Anyone playing GW Reforged?

It’s easily been 15 years since I played but I have super fond memories and wondered how it holds up.
 
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Zindan

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Tilluin said:
Anyone playing GW Reforged?

It’s easily been 15 years since I played but I have super fond memories and wondered how it holds up.
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Same game as it was before. I haven't tried it because I only have negative memories of it, lol.
 
Grim1

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Interesting video. For those of you who hate the gay, it gets very rainbow around 3/4's in. GW2 is still one of my favorite mmo's but I've always hated it's writing team.

 
Hekotat

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Their original writing team was great, the way they hid bits of relevant info all around the world that only happened between NPCs. They did a stellar job, then it just went into the shitter so quickly. Really sad to see.
 
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GW2 is the only game that has an active RvR (WvW) that isn't totally fucked by management.
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Heh wvw is one of the most neglected areas of gw2, and when they decided to make changes recently it's only been for the worse, that have fucked with the foundations of the mode. Removing named servers for randomized monthly worlds with randomized populations for the purpose of breaking up bandwagons and spreading out the population more evenly, but really all it did was let those bandwagons have an easier time stacking guilds for free, that basically led to no differences in populations as the same imbalances exist. Weakened objective game play in a number of areas and turned the mode into mostly a blob vs blob death match. Screwed up scoring changes, which I guess in the end doesn't matter anyways since winning or losing a match doesn't matter any more either, other than trying to avoid a certain world with certain annoying players that take over an entire map and spawn camp for days.

Don't get me started on their balance team either, the amount of dumb changes they've made over the years, promoting mass boon spam super sustain game play so squads are running 3-4 support 1-2 dps meta groups to run over everyone. Few years ago they had to get rid of the lead balance dev for bragging in a secret discord channel about making biased changes for the classes they played, when someone plastered the chat up for the entire community to see, replaced with yet another biased idiot that doesn't look like he even wants to be there these days.

Wvw is still one of the best modes I've played, it's a shame how much it was wasted by it's management, I'm sure eso fucked up their rvr pretty bad at this point too, but wvw is pretty fucked up compared to it's old days, it's just sitting in maintenance mode now.
 
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Grim1

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Xenrauk said:
Heh wvw is one of the most neglected areas of gw2, and when they decided to make changes recently it's only been for the worse, that have fucked with the foundations of the mode. Removing named servers for randomized monthly worlds with randomized populations for the purpose of breaking up bandwagons and spreading out the population more evenly, but really all it did was let those bandwagons have an easier time stacking guilds for free, that basically led to no differences in populations as the same imbalances exist. Weakened objective game play in a number of areas and turned the mode into mostly a blob vs blob death match. Screwed up scoring changes, which I guess in the end doesn't matter anyways since winning or losing a match doesn't matter any more either, other than trying to avoid a certain world with certain annoying players that take over an entire map and spawn camp for days.

Don't get me started on their balance team either, the amount of dumb changes they've made over the years, promoting mass boon spam super sustain game play so squads are running 3-4 support 1-2 dps meta groups to run over everyone. Few years ago they had to get rid of the lead balance dev for bragging in a secret discord channel about making biased changes for the classes they played, when someone plastered the chat up for the entire community to see, replaced with yet another biased idiot that doesn't look like he even wants to be there these days.

Wvw is still one of the best modes I've played, it's a shame how much it was wasted by it's management, I'm sure eso fucked up their rvr pretty bad at this point too, but wvw is pretty fucked up compared to it's old days, it's just sitting in maintenance mode now.
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Oh man, I can't agree more. But no matter how much they have screwed things up over the years, there is still a queue to get in WvW on the main map during most of the day and a queue for all maps on friday night. Also, whenever I'm in there there are new people playing. It's not perfect by any measure, but it still works.
 
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Xenrauk

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Oh man, I can't agree more. But no matter how much they have screwed things up over the years, there is still a queue to get in WvW on the main map during most of the day and a queue for all maps on friday night. Also, whenever I'm in there there are new people playing. It's not perfect by any measure, but it still works.
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Ebg will mostly have a queue because everyone goes there first to get action quickly, especially from pugs that need directions. Friday night is reset night so everyone wants to play on new matches against new foes. It does get queues in prime time est, but mostly depending on the alliances on the worlds, I've been on worlds with two accounts in the same match and one world can have 4 maps queued while the other one barely has 1 queued.

Wvw does have it's level of loyal veterans that play every week to maintain that population for sure, the new players are usually there to get gift of battle/conflux, they're forced to if they want legendaries. Still the best game mode I've played, I'm just sad how much they screwed it up by letting it rot for a period of time, and then doing stupid changes that has turned it into a deathmatch mode instead.
 
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Animosity said:
They are a Seattle based company, so explains their writing and hiring.
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This is kind of funny because didnt one of the founders fire a couple of their senior devs because they crossed the line on twitter or some shit? Wasn't that one of the catalysts for gamergate?
 
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