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Since launch legendaries have had no stat advantage over any other weapon. They're just a skin, and most of them are ridiculous looking and I personally wouldn't waste my time going for. The quest to gather everything and do world completion culminates in the reward of displaying the skin, it's an achivement, just like the hundreds of others in the game. Why is this one so particularly upsetting to you?
Actually, the guy who wrote the article is the one without "a fucking clue." Ironic that you referenced it despite its inaccuracies, makes you look like you don't have a clue either by assosciation. Despite all his doomsday babble, here we are two years later and no new gear tiers have been introduced (go check out SWTOR if you want an actual example of a gear treadmill). The world didn't implode, the game stayed the same, and the people crying about it two years ago look even more ridiculous.
Honestly, the neckbeards crying about this are really doing the gaming community in general a huge disservice, which is expected because the basis is selfish and immature. For $25 on sale there's no other game out there I can think of that gives a remotely similar value for the amount of content available. The issues some are whining about are so esoteric or infinitisimal it's ridiculous, don't let it turn you off. You can buy the game, level a few characters and have a blast with WvW, boss runs, zergs, playing with friends, pick up groups, PvP, etc. and never have any issues.
This is already false because the new traits and associated prices didn't even exist before the patch that changed this.
So make some choices, what's the problem? Or do the PVE quests which are regularly run by everyone. The game is more than a character creator. Personally I enjoy a quest or achievement that gets me to do something I normally wouldn't attempt (PvP monthlies, WvW Season achievements, etc.).
Bolded the parts that are blatantly wrong. First, the NPE does all those things, I know, I just played through it. You should experience it yourself before going on a tirade and looking foolish. Secondly, the game isn't gold starved. You can literally sell anything and make several gold an hour. One of the main reasons for a lot of the changes we see is to manage the games exploding economy from the influx of players. Managing inflation is a must in a modern MMO, if you don't understand that, you shouldn't be discussing it.
You're just sitting here sulking when you can't refute any of the rebuttals I've made. Maybe you just sit in a city for hours complaining about how much the game sucks and that's why you have no gold or achievements. For anyone that actually plays the game and wants to enjoy it, there's no barriers.
Games are a business, businesses need to make money to survive. I'm quite happy not being forced into a monthly fee to keep playing, like the cash shop allows. I come back to the game every few months and enjoy it.There's a lot of nonsense being thrown about here by people that clearly don't play the game and have some personal vendetta because they haven't left their mom's basement since GW2 assualted them. Whatever, not worth my effort to continue correcting this nonsense when I'd rather be playing anyway. To reiterate, no one forces you to do a thing in the game, there's no gear treadmill; specifically: the top tier Ascended gear introduced 2 years ago hasn't budged, and the armor is <5% higher stats than the readily available Exoctic gear that is now dirt cheap compared to launch (funny how that was never mentioned).
There's a lot of ignorance being displayed by people who think ANet is a charity and should cater to their specific needs and play styles, like the people that work there don't need to eat or make a paycheck. Oh, all while never paying a monthly fee, don't forget that one either.
For $25 on sale the game is a ton of fun and offers a lot of content, value-wise I don't think there's a competing title out there atm. I'd suggest pick it up, try it out for yourself, you can always come back because there's no monthly fee.
. I'm actually planning on trying it out again since my guild is making a chapter there, but I doubt much has changed since I made my posts over the last while (and got flamed for the exact same criticisms that people now are leveling ).
Cool, we'll all be having a blast
I see this posted now and again and don't quite understand how or why this thought process came to be. I guess people heard the words "cash shop" and got out the pitchforks before they thought about it. Explain how lowering drop rates would funnel people to the cash shop.