Surprisingly, GW1 is still relatively popular. There are still massive events held by Guilds, there are server events held by ArenaNet, and the fact that most people who play end up getting sucked into a MegaGuild by proxy (that’s just where everyone plays…) it left me with sort of a worse experience overall in some form. Don’t get me wrong, the game is great, and the community is too but playing during the golden years versus playing now, there is a clear discrepancy between what was fresh and new at the time and what is overplayed. There are tons of bots. The large Guild communities focus on end game min-max, and you can’t really do that without the pcons (consumables) that are extremely expensive. The largest Guild there and it’s leader participate in mass-botting (even though they deny it, I know they do because I became an Officer for a bit when I played and met the real faces behind the wealth of players in game and they all bot) and there is incentive to mass recruit new players so the cycle can continue.
Other than that, Maple Story has been giving me a crazy nostalgia trip as of this last week and I don’t think I will be stopping playing that anytime soon. I put WoW on the backburner for now as I grind out on MS.
I had a similar experience with GW1, go figure.
Surprisingly, GW1 is still relatively popular. There are still massive events held by Guilds, there are server events held by ArenaNet, and the fact that most people who play end up getting sucked into a MegaGuild by proxy (that’s just where everyone plays…) it left me with sort of a worse experience overall in some form. Don’t get me wrong, the game is great, and the community is too but playing during the golden years versus playing now, there is a clear discrepancy between what was fresh and new at the time and what is overplayed. There are tons of bots. The large Guild communities focus on end game min-max, and you can’t really do that without the pcons (consumables) that are extremely expensive. The largest Guild there and it’s leader participate in mass-botting (even though they deny it, I know they do because I became an Officer for a bit when I played and met the real faces behind the wealth of players in game and they all bot) and there is incentive to mass recruit new players so the cycle can continue.
Other than that, Maple Story has been giving me a crazy nostalgia trip as of this last week and I don’t think I will be stopping playing that anytime soon. I put WoW on the backburner for now as I grind out on MS.