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Its about time

Post by ElhonnaDS

Hello peoples! So i wanted a good view of opinions on here regarding something that was bugging me and is finally taken care of! Playing wow for a long time and climbing my way up to 11k achieve points before dropping it left a sour taste in my mouth. I always kept at the game and kept moving forward in hopes that all my work would come together to some greater reward and i was bothered it never did. I mean we all know the achieves are great and hard earned but it felt empty that they didnt build up to something.
Also another point before continuing the game got dreadfully stale. Too much of the same. They could of gone in many more directions and improved the game more than they did before losing me forever.
So i ended up on guild wars 2 and wow is it a lifesaver. The game came out strong and they did fall into a stale stagnant point after release but they now have the game going sky high with their visions. They release new content every 2 weeks now what? And it isnt bullcrap content or recycled like wows yearly events. Its fresh and they also have great rewards that go with them.
A moment on holidays. Halloween. My wow halloween. Amazing. I loved it and it was so cool. Got old after the second years recycle. Gw2 might of had only one halloween but it was better by bounds. So awesome with new ways of playing. The mad kings clocktower was so innovative.
The achieve system. Wows was the best.... Until this month when gw2 released the best reward system i have seen. It has leaderboards. Great interface. And a reward system for total points earned. What would have been sooo hard for wow to do this. I love accruing my account bonuses for my high ap score. Its what was missing from wows achieves.
So tell me people what you think about all this. Those of you who still play or quit forever like me. What they could of done to keep you. And why the heck they wouldnt follow gw2s best achievement system of any mmo so far.

Post by Frostshamadin

I prefer games I can't faceroll, thanks.

Post by gunstarr

I prefer games I can't faceroll, thanks.

I agree! Achivements are not why I play WoW. GL with your new adventure benbop.

Post by Jkpman

They could of gone in many more directions and improved the game more than they did before losing me forever.

Guild Wars forums are that way ---->

Achievements are meaningless, just a lame attempt to draw in console users imo.
Anyway why are you here, the game has lost you forever, nobody here cares why you left, and if you have any suggestions then shouldn't you be telling Blizzard?

Post by UncaToddly

Achievements are meaningless, just a lame attempt to draw in console users imo.

I disagree. Then again there are plenty of people who think that PvP is all the rage and I just find it pointless. Neither my wife nor I have been "console users" (not to say that we haven't played console games years ago) and my wife loves the achievement aspect of WoW. We met in Everquest and spent 7 years playing that before we switched to WoW back before BC came out. When the achievements were introduced she really liked them as they gave her goals that she could accomplish outside of the standard "kill this, loot that, turn in there".

To say it is simply an attempt to draw in console users is like saying the only reason they added the black human option was to try to draw in the African American population.

JMHO

Post by lankybrit

GW2 has many things going for it. Unfortunately, End-Game isn't one of them. I was seriously playing GW2 for a long time after quitting WoW because of CRZ. I got to max level and tried to run a dungeon, and it was horrible. I came back to WoW that day, and ran a MoP Heroic and it was a blast. Fortunately I found a CRZ-free backwater of WoW to play in, and haven't played GW2 since.

In other words, achievements are pretty meaningless, and it's the stuff like leveling and end-game that really matters.

Cheers.

Post by ElhonnaDS

I tend to get a lot of achievement points racked up just doing what I was doing anyway, and I may occasionally go and finish the last one or two parts of one where I've done most of it coincidentally, but the only ones I really work for are the ones that have some tangible reward (pet, mount, title), or one ones that represent challenges (Ahead of the Curve FoS, etc.).

I don't know how I feel about having awards for levels of overall achievement points. On one hand, it would be a tangible reason to grind other achieves, on the other it would change it so that no achievement existed for its own sake anymore and it was all just another grind. I think I'm happy either way.

Post by Frostshamadin

Guild Wars achievements are absurdly easy though, so the rewards wind up losing any sense of exclusivity. I can't even tell you how many people I see in Guild Wars with 100% achievement completion, acting like it's some end all thing to brag about. If you just want a game to zone out in and have fun, then Guild Wars is fine, but if you want to actually challenge yourself it doesn't compare with World of Warcraft.

I'm not even trying to insult Guild Wars. It's a fun game, it just has a low skill cap. It's because of this, and how competitive the MMO player base is, that it's been so unable to keep up with wow.

Post by Jkpman

Yeah this is why for the most part they are pointless, I do like the ones that award mounts/titles but they should be Challenges or rewards.

Achievement points just stinks of Xbox. - FIFA XX - Well done you scored a goal, 10 pts, Logged on 10 pts.

Post by PhantomScourge

Hey benpop, thanks for your advice! My WoW time expired a couple of days ago and I was going to redeem this pre-paid 60-day time card today, but I've decided to check out Guild Wars instead.

Its about time

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