We probably should have known … that Gyla Delve wasn’t an exception but the new normal. I now wish GW2 could have gone gracefully into Maintenance mode during Icebrood Saga instead of becoming a Walking Dead parody.
Here is my take: remember City of Heroes? Has nothing to do with the codebase, I’d say. It’s just NCNet now, mate. Like ActiBlizz. It’s not a flesh puppt yet, took a while for Blizzard, Bioware and Co as well. But it’s not going to get better anymore.
Half a season of Living World over twelve month for almost full price. Fuck me that’s grim.
Do you think we would get more content, if we’d paid more? I even doubt that. They simply can’t deliver more content and give us rewards instead.
And Amnytas isn’t even a complete map. Mabye a quarter of a map cloned 4 times with rmostly recycled events which are disabled whenever the meta runs. The only unique feature of this map is its lag and FPS drop.
We don’t pay Anet, we pay NCSoft. NCSoft gives Anet a budget. NCSoft has a history of shutting down perfectly fine MMOs because they’re not profitable enough, pretty sure that’s what happened to GW2. Except that it’s not been shut down, instead it runs on like 25% of its season 4 budget or whatever. So no, we won’t get more of we pay more. And yes, the entire “mini expansion” is just recycled and repeated content ad nauseam. I can’t see the design loop of “go get glowy orbs with your skyscale” anymore, it happens 25 times per event, acrpss 90% of events.
necropola@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
We probably should have known … that Gyla Delve wasn’t an exception but the new normal. I now wish GW2 could have gone gracefully into Maintenance mode during Icebrood Saga instead of becoming a Walking Dead parody.
lulztard@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
Here is my take: remember City of Heroes? Has nothing to do with the codebase, I’d say. It’s just NCNet now, mate. Like ActiBlizz. It’s not a flesh puppt yet, took a while for Blizzard, Bioware and Co as well. But it’s not going to get better anymore.
Half a season of Living World over twelve month for almost full price. Fuck me that’s grim.
necropola@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Do you think we would get more content, if we’d paid more? I even doubt that. They simply can’t deliver more content and give us rewards instead.
And Amnytas isn’t even a complete map. Mabye a quarter of a map cloned 4 times with rmostly recycled events which are disabled whenever the meta runs. The only unique feature of this map is its lag and FPS drop.
lulztard@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
We don’t pay Anet, we pay NCSoft. NCSoft gives Anet a budget. NCSoft has a history of shutting down perfectly fine MMOs because they’re not profitable enough, pretty sure that’s what happened to GW2. Except that it’s not been shut down, instead it runs on like 25% of its season 4 budget or whatever. So no, we won’t get more of we pay more. And yes, the entire “mini expansion” is just recycled and repeated content ad nauseam. I can’t see the design loop of “go get glowy orbs with your skyscale” anymore, it happens 25 times per event, acrpss 90% of events.
Pretty sure that’s it.