Agreed, the PvE content while casual friendly wasn't particularly great. After the first play through it was extremely boring. The PvP side had mountains of potential and if Anet didn't make an absolute arse of it I would still be playing it today (Lack of UAX at the start, handling of tournaments and the ladder and so on). Guild Wars PvE required a lot less grind than any other MMORPG but at the same time it didn't have a lot to do in it after completion, sure you can now buy expansions but it was crap having to wait for more content at the time.
Grind in MMO's is the reason people want to cheat in the first place, Blizzard et al really should come up with a way of delivering good content that doesn't require shitloads of grind and rewards players for playing the game when they want to and when they can, rather than punishing them for not spending at least half of their life playing it.
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I'm waiting until they release Ramoant Rabbit myself.
Agreed, the PvE content while casual friendly wasn't particularly great. After the first play through it was extremely boring. The PvP side had mountains of potential and if Anet didn't make an absolute arse of it I would still be playing it today (Lack of UAX at the start, handling of tournaments and the ladder and so on). Guild Wars PvE required a lot less grind than any other MMORPG but at the same time it didn't have a lot to do in it after completion, sure you can now buy expansions but it was crap having to wait for more content at the time. Grind in MMO's is the reason people want to cheat in the first place, Blizzard et al really should come up with a way of delivering good content that doesn't require shitloads of grind and rewards players for playing the game when they want to and when they can, rather than punishing them for not spending at least half of their life playing it.