GWEN Let Down

To quote the review in PC Gamer.."ANET must have phoned this one in" Sad but true like many others I was looking forward to the release of Eye of the North but was really let down. Don't get me wrong anet was fantastic with the graphics as always but content wise the game itself was a let down.
All it is is more title grinding for what? nothing.No new content,guildhalls,no new playable races just title grinding. Big deal your efforts at placed in the Hall of Monuments....again a big whoopie do ...who cares...it serves no purpose except to show you spent hours upon hours grinding for something useless.


And now they are cracking down on the gold sellers...had not ANET screwed up so badly with the economy then there would be no need for such services. No one wants to bust their hump for hours on end in hopes "which is very slim" of getting something out of a chest or a drop that might be worth something. Even in game your paying for things that aint worth it.
For those who played through the first 3 installments of Guild Wars when you first sit up your guild hall it was 100 gold for each thing you wished to have..now ANET has added 3 more things you can add to your hall as well...at 10 plat each..someone was sniffing fumes when they thought up that one LOL.
You buy keys to open chest and 9 times out of 10 it's a crappy purple with stats so bad that was not worth the money you spent to buy the key. the only thing anet got right with this one is the graphics and the art as always some of the places in GWEN are breathtaking and truly amazing.

Perhaps ANET will get it together in Guild Wars too but at this rate I will not be buying it the moment it hits the stores ..This thread will not be up long ..over time I have noticed it you do not have anything positive to say about GW the thread gets locked. go figure lol.

QQ more...

I think GWG has a policy about threads like this... time to enforce it.

i think other NPCs for the hall were 50-100k... not 100g...

if u dont like gwen, dont play it

no the other NPCs were 100 gold each. the new ones will cost 10k each which is pretty stupid

your about 3 months late for the bash on gwen threads bat

When it comes to the GWEN chest drops, I'm 100% up for a rant.

Yeah... right..

Anet owes me some money back cause I know I paid more than 100gold for guild hall NPC's. But the 10k price seemed very reasonable to me, I was expecting the price to be around 50k each.

100,000 gold. go look at your guild lord.


no new content in GW:EN? did you even play the game? visit any dungeons? do any quests? gain any heroes or PvE skills? get some of the rewards? explore the explorable areas?

GW:EN has loads of content for the PvE player; a lot more than Factions had.

The main storyline isn't too long, which is good for most people as they have many characters. taking them all through a long campaign requires a lot of time, so it's cutting down on the time required to be spent ingame. That's more grind? You don't know what you're talking about.


..and for the record, GW:EN chest drops are no worse than anywhere else in game. People just cry more because they have to use lockpicks and they break. Try opening the locked chests in hard mode. That's where the golds are.

Yay, another whining/complaining/poor-me thread. Completely non-productive, useless, and dumb.

Go do all the dungeons and you'll see GWEN has MORE content than any other expansion.

And wow, you're whining about not being able to get rich quick. Maybe people shouldn't be able to get rich with little to no effort?

GWEN was exactly as I expected and I am very pleased with it.

Sorry you didnt get everything you wanted on a silver plater.

If you don't like the game, don't play. Yes you wasted your money, happens all the time.

How much longer before people start realizing that GWEN was an EXPANSION!! Not a NEW STAND ALONE CAMPAIGN but an EXPANSION.

GWG mods don't lock threads because people criticize GW... GWG mods lock threads because people WHINE about GW. There's a difference there.

EDIT: For the record, your whine about GWEN only offers more titles to grind for... I'm assuming you're just complaining err sorry I mean WHINING about not being able to access the armor crafter unless you've hit r5 of whichever title. There's this... Hero's HandBook you can obtain which you can redeem for reputation points. R5 can be obtained with you simply playing through the storyline but making sure to pick up bounty where bounty is available.

Haha! Were you really expecting that from GW:EN?

So the 18 dungeons, new areas, quests, skills... all those aren't really content, huh? Or maybe they're just inconvenient to whatever twisted excuse for an argument you think you're making...

No, the goldsellers mess up the economy. People who think like you and try to justify buying gold based on greed mess up the economy. It's Anet that has to go fixing it.

And of course, your facts are wrong as people have already pointed out.
Then don't buy the keys, buy unids instead. Simple.

The OP is having a QQ session with false facts and is a little delusional.

Nothing to see here.

Bottom line Anet post on this forum from time to time and the admin obviously has sold his soul and become their W h o r e, "oh look at me i got Anet posting on my board"
When this happens boards become sterile and moderators become lock happy, this board suffers more than many!

- I wonder why that is? Really, we can't help you if you fell that the game is crap and everything ANET has done or is doing is wrong. The most logical solution in your case is to stop posting on these forums and get something better to do for your spare time. No one is forcing you to be here and people are getting sick of this endless whining over nothing.

since you knew that from the start then why did you post what you did? Seems like trolling to me.

It's worse that you actually quoted PC gamer.

New skills?
New condition (Cracked Armor)?
New monsters (Jotun, dinos, etc.)?
New quests?
New races (not playable though)?
New armor?
New weapon skins?
New titles?

You are right, GW:EN didn't add anything new. Titles are something to grind for. Some are done while sitting in a town, some are done while completing missions, some are done by killing monsters in explorables, but all are done by some form of grind. You can do EVERYTHING in the game with no grind, at all. Want a set of armor, and need rank 5 of a title? The game will give you rank 5 just by playing it. Rank 6-7 is barely out of reach, its only the top ranks of those titles that require any grind.

Try looking at what was given, not what you wanted. If you are not satisfied with what was given, stop playing.

Really? Could you show me some of these boards that get locked? I see people whining and complaining all the time on these boards, and no lock. the fact that people are still posting here is a great example.

Epic dumbassery

You sir have won my "stupid, badly written thread of the day award."

congrats you are the 1 millionth Pre-Searing Cadet newbie to GWG to post your QQ thread Welcome and good by.

Hey, Cracked Armour isn't GWEN addition

New reskins?

Cracked Armor is not exclusive to GW:EN, but it was not available before GW:EN, and with the exception of the change made to Weaken Armor, no skills caused Cracked Armor before GW:EN skills did.

Not all of the new armor are reskins, but thanks for trying. I am one of the people upset with reskins, but some of the new armor is..... new.

The thing is, you can not own GWEN and still have access to skill that causes Cracked Armour.

Yes, 'new' indeed... People have different standards for 'original' and 'new'.

Wow, just when I thought we'd seen the end of the classic "I hate EotN for a stupid reason, please point this out to me in 8 pages of replies" threads. You're about two months too late to be taken seriously by anyone, OP.

As for the crying about having to "grind":

• Grinding is nothing new. Look at FoW armor, Kurzick/Luxon armor, Sunspear/Lightbringer ranks, etc. The difference between GW grinding and grinding in other MMOs--as it always has been--is that that grinding is not required to compete on the same level as others. This has not changed for EotN.
• Learn to use this.

OP is completely correct that ultimately, all EOTN brings to the table is more title grind with little reward for performing it.

However, to their credit, Anet has said that after EOTN they are scrapping GW1 expansions and making GW2 instead because they couldn't make "the best GW experience" with GW1. So hopefully that means they are aware that they couldn't really do all that much new with EOTN and that's why they decided to stop trying to do new things with expansions and cancelled all further expansions so that there can be new things in GW2.

I'm sorry, are you new here??? Did you miss all the threads after the release??? Do you know what a search button is???

I suggest you go QQ somewhere else, since none of us care.

You, kind sir, have chosen a very fitting name.

My problem with the PCGamer article is they reviewed GWEN as a Chapter.

They expected too much. It's still Guild Wars after all, what did they expect, a whole new game?

FWIW, I thought the cutscenes, visuals and voice overs were the best ever. The quests were fun, and at least tried to keep away from Fed Ex.

Of course, vanquishing areas to get armor does not appeal to everyone, but they quickly fixed that by making the Books easier to cash in. And it's just for armor anyway.

All in all, GWEN is a great addition to Guild Wars, but by no means a susbstitute for a Chapter!