Why did Guild Wars 2 fail?

>>386613978
Because it didnt do what made the original so good

>>386613978
it tried to appeal to nge fans

>>386613978
i got a bit bored playing 9 different classes all having glass canons builds. getting twoshot in pve world because i dozed off dpsing all the time

>>386614086
And what would that be?

>>386613978
It was fun for 2 hours and then you realize everything is badically the same. I got to level 80 in a week and there was literally nothing for me to do

They tried to remove the holy trinitity of MMORPGs, ending up with a shitty PvE that is just mashing buttons to get heal procs and avoiding telegraphed shit on the ground.

>>386615846
pretty much. was refreshing to play a tank/healer class again in another mmo.

i dont understand mob aggro in gw2. they always seem to go for pets only. so if you want to do anything challenging make sure you have a few pet necros and rangers around

>>386613978
Because it didn't even have guild halls on launch

>action combat
>horizontal progression

>>386615846
This was a major problem for me. Quit at 65. Dungeons were no fun. Story and writing was atrocious (the very early personal story was nice at least).

>>386613978
>use name from franchise
>make it nothing like its predecessor, scrap literally everything positive about it and replace it with shit nobody wanted (level 20 cap, grind for aesthetics, hybrid class play encouraging weird experimentation and fun pvp, etc)
>replace cool devs with strong independent womyn

I will never not be mad

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>>386613978
Are we talking in the 'it's failed as a game' sense or 'it failed in a marketing sense'.

Eitherway post more Charrs.

>>386613978
Personally i fell like I never go anywhere,I leveled up a mesmer to 50 and stopped playing for a while, then before I came back I believed that I was still lvl 30, then when I noticed that I was indeed lvl 50 I was really surprised, this is because no matter how much I level I don't feel like I'm progressing. the fact that my level keep getting synced wherever I go doenst help at all.

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JUGG I SUMMON THEE

End this shit already, start spamming /v/ too.

unless that's the goal with these shitposts

>>386613978
>Get gay couples.
>Still no interspecies couple.
>Still no charr/human forbidden love,

>>386613978
has the spam bot come in here yet? I wonder how far he can go

It didnt fail.

>>386619265
It'll be gay-trans human on charr romance

>>386619386
Pls no

>>386613978
>guilds
>no wars
?????

>>386619656
Anything can be a war if you classify it as such.
>war on Scarlet in LS1
>war on the dragons (discontinued as of now)
>war on Balthazar
>war in Bandits
>etc

>>386619840
What about guild wars?

>>386619265
>Get gay couples.
What, really?

Any lesbian Charr?

>>386613978
>Have fully functional physics engine
>Do nothing with it so you can do tab targeting to capture the drooling retard demographic from WoW
>Have A list voice actors
>Give them an F grade plot and dialogue to recite where your player character plays second fiddle to an unremarkable salad man and a group of NPC's who's most interesting plot points all happened off screen.
>Have guilds
>Don't have any sort of meaningful GVG combat
>Go out of your way to punish guilds that try to circumvent this lack of feature.
>Remove holy trinity
>Don't give players a reason to interact on any meaningful level. Combat devolves into tedious button spam that's actually worse than turn based combat because at least then you can stop any time you want and take a piss.
>Have broken dev pipe line where dungeons are completely designed by the art department and no dev actually touches it till it's been completed by the art team
>Leads to a situation where almost every dungeon is exploitable as shit, rapidly building a rift between people who know how to drive these exploits and the people who don't
>Devs completely shut down the dungeon development team after releasing ONE dungeon overhaul, wondering why no one does dungeons.
>Reach around and also forget to give players single player content.
>Don't give PVP it's own rule set, leading to horrific balance and an absurd emphasis on defensive builds. Pro level games can struggle to end because no one dies so the game gets decided by the split second difference for whoever capture their first node.
>Fail to live up to one promise made in your marketing material for a 'gaming manifesto.'
>All major talent has left the company because the publisher is dog shit and notorious for exploitative tendencies with their MMORPG's, more interested in making a quick buck than buillding a community.
>What's left is the CEO who, of course, isn't going to be coding the game.


The only thing going for this game is the fact that you pay once.

The story and PvE combat is unbelievably bad.

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>>386620212
If you want lesbo cats, you should go play Xenoblade X.

>>386613978
Depends on how you define "fail". It's more or less a financial success, at least as far as I know. The gameplay is mediocre overall, but not downright terrible. As a successor to GW1 and in terms of writing, then it is indeed a failure.

I hate the gw2 music,post good ambient/battle/boss/city music

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>>386620637
Those things look kinda bad, to be honest. I prefer me some lesbian cats that actually looks like cats.

>>386613978
1. Take GW1
2. remove good and interesting bits
3. add WoW and SJW bullshit as a gap filler
4. Release GW2

>>386621062
i don't recall any lezbo charr, we have human, sylvari and asura so far. not sure about norn either.

>>386620302
It's a very functional pretty princess dress up game. You can make many variety of waifu. Smol Asura, furry Charr, thicc Norn, exotic salads, vanilla Humans. You can dress them up in heavy armor (in both slutty and functional varieties), trenchcoats (or one of the like two non-trenchcoat medium armors), and pretty princess dresses (mostly slutty). You can also spend dozens of hours grinding to get them the fanciest of gimmicky e-peen legendary weapons.

You can even spend real money (or large amounts of in game currency) to get overdesigned cash shop skins, including ridiculously styled hair in any pastel or neon color you desire.

>>386621246
>tfw I can't stop making waifus
HELP

>>386613978
just shut the fuck up and post the porn already, that's the real reason you made this thread and we all know it.

>>386620825
Sorry, it's by Jeremy Soule, the "english horns and hapsichord" guy. Almost everything after Oblivion sounds exactly the fucking same, I don't get why people like this guy so much. I mean sure, there are some nice themes here and there but it's all so bland and samey. He's the Hans Zimmer of the video game world for me.

mfw 5sig warrior

I have never encountered a class so boring to play or as overpowered

>>386621385
It's not your fault. It's significantly easier to make a fairly aesthetic slut than it is to make a decent looking male. My first character was a male Charr warrior and it was a struggle to make him not look dopey as shit. Thank god for the Inquest helm.

>>386613978
The amount of stuff that is currently in the cash shop will probably outweigh the number of things that you can obtain by playing the actual game soon. To me it feels like it's now a giant cash grab.

I am aware that you can get gems by trading your in-game gold for them, but playing the game that much, to amass that much gold, is insane.

>>386613978
One of the biggest failures of modern MMOs is the call of duty character development style.

This is where RPG elements and character building is replaced with 'hotswappable' 'weapon attachment' style systems.

Take GW2's 'specialisation' system... It's more similar to slapping on a silencer to a rifle in one fight.. and in the next fight slapping on an iron sight.

The only game that does mmoRPG development properly anymore is PoE and even then they put the spells on gems (but they DID take that system pretty far, and made it pretty flexible).

When an actionRPG has the most flexible and diverse characterbuilding system you KNOW the MMORPG market is fucked.

>>386621775
Yeah, I want to replace it, any suggestions?

>>386613978

Threw a way a lot of what made the original unique, such as the dual classing and general combat system

Had a terrible combat system, they removed the holy trinity and didn't replace it with anything worthwhile, I tried a lot of classes and it just got boring as shit after awhile, not a huge variety in builds

A nice looking world, but felt pretty lifeless after awhile

Early on they kept pushing the living story bullshit and instead of adding permanent meaningful content like new dungeons and such they just added shitty temporary quests, I know that annoyed a lot of people.

Dungeons weren't really that exciting, fractal was a little interesting at first I suppose.

There's more things, but those are some of the ones that came off the top of my head, I tried to like GW2, but it was a complete disappointment when compared to GW1 and got so incredibly boring as time went on. It's a shame GW1 died so that GW2 could live.

>>386621246
>create all these asura waifus
>pair them together

>>386613978

Very shitty devs.

>>386621783
It was overpowered like 5 years ago before anyone actually knew how to play. I know because I played it. Nowadays there's actual rotations and shit. Power isn't even terribly meta anymore now that condi is a thing.

>>386621928
The trick is to buy cheap precursors, craft them up to legendaries, and resell them for ~1000g profit.

>>386621783

I remember at launch signet warrior was strong up until lvl 40-50, but after that it wasn't as effective and you would always see shitters still running that build at cap.

>>386621783

>tfw guardian with the food that gave a shit ton of lifesteal before it was nerfed
>Could run around anywhere and grab tons of mobs and never fucking die.

>>386622251
Warriors were so generally good back then that it didn't even matter. All you needed was zerker gear and a greatsword and you were good to go.

Sometimes I miss the days of 5 warrior CoF runs. It was a simpler time.

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>>386613978
It was shit.