Is this game worth trying?

[Corgimeister]

I saw youtube vids about this game, and Im still not convinced. Is it worth trying? is it completely F2P? is it Pay2Win?

[Aurora]

When the free version of this game launched, it was called a Play for free game instead of f2p. Implying the free mode is more of a demo. And that holds true.

The free mode is really there just for you to be able to see if you like the general idea of the game. If you like the free version, then you are going to like the paid stuff, since it's very different (in a good way). Raids are the best I have ever played.

As for P2W there is none. I have over 2 000 hours in the game and have never spent any money on boosters or whatnot. In terms of boosters I have full bank of them and almost never use them, since you never feel constrained by not using them in any way.

[gameshogun]

Originally posted by No mic:

Originally posted by Corgimeister:

I saw youtube vids about this game, and Im still not convinced. Is it worth trying? is it completely F2P? is it Pay2Win?

It's not worth it f2p. You need to at least B2P it, otherwise you can't own mounts.

Seriously? All because of mounts? Since this is your criteria, I am assuming here that you are a gamer from the "mount generation". Guild Wars 2 is way more fun without mounts. The simple "conquering" the jumping puzzles and discovering places you thought is impossible to reach, is itself an "achievement unlocked" -- which by the way usually have in-game achievements associated.

Mounts, especially the flying mounts, made these challenges easy in Core Tyria and HoT. Besides, mounts aren't a thing anyway before your time. :)

[ROFLpl0x]

It's a noob game, OP. It's baby's first MMO is what it is.

Here's what you do: Get the free version and head out to the far side of Queensdale. There you'll find a particular boss named Champion Zirh or something along those lines. It's only like level 10 or something, but don't hit it. Just stand there and watch her destroy whole groups of level 80s in ascended gear.

They'll tell you "It's cuz level scaling!", but it's not. It's because they're nabs who only know how to zerg. I leveled a Mesmer from like level 30 on just that boss in garbage tier green gear. Never even replaced it until I capped. And yes, you can level to the cap right there on the start map.... doing one single event. Takes about 3 months and that's it. Whole game is like this. It's unreal.

Oh, but it's pretty. Hard to deny that. That's it, though. If you want something deeper than a wet washrag (or a wet diaper in this case), GW2 ain't it.

[Angoril]

Originally posted by ROFLpl0x:

Just stand there and watch her destroy whole groups of level 80s in ascended gear. They'll tell you "It's cuz level scaling!", but it's not. It's because they're nabs who only know how to zerg.

In as long as I've been playing this game, I've never seen anything like that happening... ever. In case it has though, since apparently you did nothing but level all the way to 80 on a single champion, is there any game out there where every single person playing is on the exact same skill level? I'm pretty certain with all your "expertise", you are a pretty big noob in several games yourself too.

Games are there to be fun, not for an e-penis contest. If that's all you care about, that's really your own issue mate.

[ROFLpl0x]

Originally posted by Angoril:

Originally posted by ROFLpl0x:

Just stand there and watch her destroy whole groups of level 80s in ascended gear. They'll tell you "It's cuz level scaling!", but it's not. It's because they're nabs who only know how to zerg.

In as long as I've been playing this game, I've never seen anything like that happening... ever. In case it has though, since apparently you did nothing but level all the way to 80 on a single champion, is there any game out there where every single person playing is on the exact same skill level? I'm pretty certain with all your "expertise", you are a pretty big noob in several games yourself too.

Games are there to be fun, not for an e-penis contest. If that's all you care about, that's really your own issue mate.

I don't care what you've seen and what I am in this or that game isn't the issue. We're talking about this game and the players in it. On average, they're a bunch of nabs. The whole game is designed in a way that you can totally fail and still succeed. It literally gives you attendance trophies just because you participated.

It's Hello Kitty Online with a different skin.

[Angoril]

Originally posted by ROFLpl0x:

I don't care what you've seen and what I am in this or that game isn't the issue. We're talking about this game and the players in it. On average, they're a bunch of nabs. The whole game is designed in a way that you can totally fail and still succeed. It literally gives you attendance trophies just because you participated.

It's Hello Kitty Online with a different skin.

Fail and still succeed? The heck are you on about? If an event fails it fails, that's it. Better luck next time. The fact that it gives less than half of the karma it would if the event had succeeded is good because most people don't really have time to waste.

When you come around blaming others for the way they prefer playing a game, which doesn't affect you in the slightest, you can't then turn around and say that what you are doesn't matter. So unless you're an expert in every single game you've ever touched, why does the way others play bother you? Should we expect some video of you clearing some dungeon path solo or your expertise in GW2 ends with an early game champion?

[ROFLpl0x]

Originally posted by Angoril:

Originally posted by ROFLpl0x:

I don't care what you've seen and what I am in this or that game isn't the issue. We're talking about this game and the players in it. On average, they're a bunch of nabs. The whole game is designed in a way that you can totally fail and still succeed. It literally gives you attendance trophies just because you participated.

It's Hello Kitty Online with a different skin.

Fail and still succeed? The heck are you on about? If an event fails it fails, that's it. Better luck next time. The fact that it gives less than half of the karma it would if the event had succeeded is good because most people don't really have time to waste.

When you come around blaming others for the way they prefer playing a game, which doesn't affect you in the slightest, you can't then turn around and say that what you are doesn't matter. So unless you're an expert in every single game you've ever touched, why does the way others play bother you? Should we expect some video of you clearing some dungeon path solo or your expertise in GW2 ends with an early game champion?

I'm not talking about events, mouthpiece, but individual players. Where did you learn to read?

[Angoril]

Originally posted by ROFLpl0x:

I'm not talking about events, mouthpiece, but individual players. Where did you learn to read?

Exactly where you learned to avoid questions. What can you fail at and still succeed? Even as an individual. I hope you're not about to bring up group content because I have seen no MMO so far that punishes you if you're dead when the rest of your group succeeds. And what about the "participation trophies"? Wouldn't those be for events or what are you referring to?

[xyz]

It's the best free-to-play MMO on the market. It doesn't really have the best of anything but the group PvP, sPvP, PvE and cosmetic stuff is really good overall.

[Cassian]

literally no pay to win. The only things you can buy in the shop is vanity items. The most P2W things they have are the infinite gathering tools. Which just allow you to gather without having to buy new tools each time they run out.

[Ramon]

Originally posted by Joker:

Originally posted by ÐåŕķMệşşịäħ:

The fanboy that assumes I have 0 hours in the game.

I own Guild Wars 2. I bought it before it ever went F2P. I easily put in over 1k hours into the game or more. I had a maxed out warrior, guardian, engineer, thief, and necromancer. It started off good then as time progressed it got worse and worse. They ended up making unnecessary changes that ruined the game. They nerfed builds, items, professions, made the gold farming (dungeons) worse, and mat drop chances were lowered.

The server populations ended up dying off to the point where it got so low that they had to start merging servers to try to make up for it. But even the merging didn't fix the problem. When they merge 2 dead servers together it's still dead. That's why the game eventually went F2P later on. A lot of people moved on to other games already. My guild went to World of Warcraft, Black Desert Online, or The Elder Scrolls Online.

The only positive thing GW2 has going for it is the fact you don't need a monthly subscription. Other then that I still don't think it's worthwhile to go back to. I'd rather wait for a Guild Wars 3 instead.

They changed the dungeon system because everyone was just farming Citadel of Flame path 1 over and over again (since it was the fastest path). So they changed it to a daily reward for each dungeon path. Pretty much everyone I saw back then loved this change, since you no longer did the same content over and over ..
Since then the open world dungeons are no longer where you farm gold, they are mostly just played for getting gear/skins/achievements and so on.
Fractals have taken over dungeons.
Gold farming has only gotten MUCH MUCH better over time.
Items are cheaper and gold is easier to farm.
META events are what most do for gold farming. But there are plenty alternatives, like fractals and raids, even PVP is not that bad either.
You earn gold for most stuff.
Getting mats has also only gotten easier, and they are a lot cheaper now. Most legendary weapon has gone from like 3.5k gold to 2-2.5k gold, and the gold much easier to get.
New mats are now earned on the living story maps from doing content on those maps.
Nerfs to builds are bound to happen in any game. Just look at WoW for next expansion, sucks to be a warrior ey?
There's always plenty of options and easy and cheap to adapt to new builds.

There are still queue's for WvW, it's doing just fine.
You can do META events even at 3 AM on a weekday.
While Guild Wars 2 is not the most popular MMO it feels much more alive than the most popular ones thanks to megaservers and all maps being relevant.
You wont find another MMO where you will find people on every map

Uh-huh. And they viciously nerfed all the routes to any profit or fun that you are describing here to deliberately limit gold and to force gem sales as a result Hell, they even nerfed in-store fluff like the Candy Corn Gobbler (look up that fiasco if you are uninitiated) after people bought it. The people running EQ2 suck, are of mediocre skill, and their only motivation is to squeeze and profiteer from their customers - who they clearly hold in contempt. At least the chief egomaniac finally left when they got bought out, and it was his idiotic "vision" of not having dedicated classes (and so much else bad stuff) that drove this game into the ground. In short; used to be fun, not so much now, but it is pretty and voice acting can be great.

[Ｍｏｏｎ]

It is worth even paying 100$ is the best mmorpg out there but of course I still prefer my old Guild Wars 1

[Ardenwolfe]

I stopped playing about three or four years ago. Guild Wars 2 was my longest-played MMO to date. It's an awesome game, but there tend to be periods of long content droughts. Also, effects in PvP tend to get classes nerfed in PvE because of whining. With every patch, I had to adjust my class due to these nerfs. And, in the end, I never played PvP outside of the daily/communal rooms ... before they got gutted too. After that, my wife and I gave up. It wasn't worth our time anymore. Copy and pasted content three years in a row tends to make you feel that way after a while too.

That and my experiences on the official forums were the worst I'd ever encountered anywhere from any MMO before or since. That was the final nail for me. But I hear that Gaile, their forum Team Lead, got fired. Her and over one-hundred other employees.

Draw your own conclusions.

I will say I started looking into the game again because of the newest expansion announcement. I'm tempted. But I don't know if I want to try to catch up after three or four years of missed content.

For you? I would say try Guild Wars 2. The base game is free. In that way, you can find out for yourself.

It's a beautiful game with a thriving population from what I've seen recently. But beware. The nerfs are still very much going on with every patch, from what I've also read. And with a new expansion coming? Expect even more to tame the power curve.

It happened with the last two expansions, so I expect it to happen with this newest one too.

Fair warning and good luck.

[toot]

Dont listen to the idiots the base game even the free version has tons of content that will let you decide if you want to continue playing. Heart of thorns to me was a bad expansion but Path of fire was amazing. HoT did add the glider though which boosted a lot of main world exploration. Even so its entirely fun even free (with some limitations) still def worth a shot and prob the best MMO ever made imo

[Ardenwolfe]

I'm currently back and playing. Having a blast so far. Don't know how long that's gonna last, but I'm having fun. Again, the base game is free. Can't hurt to try.