A WoW fanbody. Blizzard has stolen so many ideas from Arenanet and WoW's zones are far more bland than any GW2 map. That's not even difficult though because WoW zones are typically lifeless and cartoony to a lazy degree. WoW is a bad game and sticking with it through all the terrible expansions and decisions is sad but thinking it's still good is almost delusional. You think Blizzard is a better developer than Anet? That perplexes me because imo they never were. WoW fanboys never go into detail about what is actually good about the game. Say whatever you want but you can't explain why because it isn't true.
I mean I like mmos in general but if you think I am a wow fanboy there is basically nothing I can say or do. You have already created your own narrative. Thanks for your participation.
@@reburox You said Grizzly Hills is the best zone in any MMO. Also you could have just said you're not . I think you know WoW isn't good anymore but you're nostalgic for it and so you project that onto GW2.
Anet did a good job in janthir. If you ignore the bugs in the events and npc, the map looks pretty good. Also we get some nice features, like homesteads and warclaw remake
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this. The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
Is there anything this game could do for you to not hate post? You had a pretty positive view of at the very least the open world, homesteads, spears, and all you can say is "the game is failing at player acquisition", "the expansion is good but the game is still bad", "Arenanet clearly don't care about the game, just throw out a questpack and embrace the gamble". And this whole video pretty clearly ignores the large amount of content coming in the future -- legendaries, fractal w/ CM, raid... Also, why are you hating on player acquisition but then also hating on them adding tutorials to the expansion? Unlike what you said, they did this in End of Dragons too, essentially copy pasting some questing abilities in towns like Queensdale to the expansions. Why is this something you take issue with? By nature of this expansion being disconnected from the Dragons means you WILL get new players who jump in right at the new expansion. This happens in WOW too. I distinctly remember you complaining about the skill level of GW2 players before too, not being able to dodge or CC, so...? You also fail to address why metas are sustaining for map population, and that's profitability -- these maps will stay relevant as long as there is content that is enjoyable or profitable for players to do that require them. Notably, the legendaries will require these maps heavily (and legendaries requiring certain maps is a major boon, look no further than Vision or Aurora keeping a steady stream of players in LWS3/LWS4), the achievements, repeatable hearts (which are made to be profitable and it is absolutely not fair to criticize the profitability or repeatability of the maps until we see what maxed hearts are giving), collectible goods all contributing to Homesteads, repeatable hearts, etc. Also, world bosses very frequently get slotted into meta trains. This video is so unfairly harsh, as are most of your videos to be fair. From the claims of them copying Grizzly Hills (wrong, it was inspired by an Anet dev travelling to a European country IIRC) to the average GW2 player/very loud minority hating the map (wrong, the maps are pretty widely appreciated).. I also think it's quite poetic that the video clips you chose to use were you doing actual z DPS on a meta while essentially leeching/not being in the squad doing the event.
at least people talk about the game. Unfortunately you are so hyper fixated on defending something that you are unable to understand the bigger picture. You are the best example why Guild wars 2 stays in the shadows. Guild wars 2 is great that's all there is right?
@@reburox You avoiding a reply from someone with actual points is pretty telling of how you handle the understanding of GW2 and its community as a whole. As Vamana said, the clips you edited on this video just show how you neglect to interact properly with the game's systems.
@reburox Your fellow Guild Wars 2 'Hater' LionMeows, seems to have realized that farming hate for a game that is considered to have the most positive community in any MMORPG wasn't worth his time and moved on. Check his videos. Your dedication surpasses his, but for how long? Then again, you could just have created this channel not for monetary gain and just pure hatred of the game. What-ever happened to you, "Say your main was banned for botting / RMT", "Your friend stole your Chak Infusion", "Your Guild Bank was robbed by your Officer", what-ever it is, I truly feel sorry for you. 😔
LionMeows seems to only have 1 gw2 video comparing it to WoW. Didn't watch it yet. Iirc, this is the guy who made completely unhinged takes, right? He must've deleted his videos of it coz I can't see them. That or I'm thinking of another cc
@@daze4135 Omg you're right, LionMeows only has 57 videos left on his channel. Bro literally wiped 90% of his videos, guess I can't use him as an example no more. He literally brought out like 2 - 3 react videos per day. Maybe farming hate viewers wasn't profitable after-all. Either way, I'm sure Reburox knows about LionMeows since I saw him posting on LionMeows GW2 videos and agreeing with him. Wonder if Reburox will follow suit? Or maybe his hatred is that deep, he will go on....
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty Rip bozo. Guy has a legit mental illness, I think, so I kinda feel bad for memeing on him. Is why I blocked his channel. I can take criticism content, thats fine, but his was completely off the rocker
I got a spoon loot from Tequatl, organised the run, get really involved researched mechanics, run a meta build, but that one guy that pressed 1 next to me fresh account, bad gear, and I had to revive 24 times that fight fight dropped a precursor while he played Genshin impact and watched a netflix show on his main monitor...pretty much thinks GW2 is boring, but buys every cute skin in the shop, because while it's boring it's amazing to play on 2nd monitor. Think about it. You might find a problem that is not me and valid criticism about GW2, that happened way too often anyday, everyday. I think that is pretty toxic, yet I am portrayed as the toxic person for pointing that out.
yeah the tutorial hearts in EoD while pretty nice felt also out of place after the start where you had to jump fight and even use the special action key
I love how Mightyteapot went from 47.9k viewers to 1.9k within the hour we has off of Twitch's front page. It turns out people couldn't care less about 2 hours of dialogue.
GW2 takes a completely different approach to the generic style of mmo's, as is evident in many reviews. GW2 does everything different, from questing and exploration to mounts and events. This can be a put off to some or attention seeking for others. Regardless of that, the approach that GW2 took in regards to not competing to be your primary mmo, but rather your secondary dip in and dip out mmo, puts it in a place where it will always have a healthy and fluctuating player base. People whose interests are piqued by this unique approach to mmo's stay and make GW2 their main game, while others can always come back to the game with little to no barriers since the game is horizontal progression with no sub fee.
does the game still disconnect randomly during story missions? leading to repeating said dialogues and mission. and then it disconnects again for some strange reasons
@@reburox reason i asked is cause this has been happening to me since the first xpac till EoD. Every single xpac and some reason they never have a hotfix for this issue.
I know this might not be a satisfying answer, but there is only one person I know who had a similiar problem and it stopped when she changed her ISP. I am not through it yet, but I heard the story missions are way longer, so if they don't have checkpoints set up in the story missions it might be even more annoying to redo the missions if you indeed run into a disconnect.
I actually prefer something like GW2 that keeps it’s old content accessible, even if it becomes a Gala Delves, rather then pave over it completely, if only for the sake of game preservation (but also, I still frequent core Tyria maps and there are still folks all over). I’m not too concerned with them adding combat features to mounts like the chain pull atm-part of me feels however that the sheer freedom of general movement of the Skyscale was kind of a pandora’s box. It is super fun and convenient to get around like that and I’m glad they’re implementing a lot of map verticality to complement it, but if we’re talking changes that was definitely a huge change that removed the need to contend with terrain features, and by extension reduces the time players general spend exploring a map. It was a bold move that I’m ultimately happy with, but yeah any changes like that run the risk of backfiring if they’re not careful. Lastly I’ll just say on that note, the movement and skill expression are just fluid and fun in Guild Wars 2, which along with the gorgeous environment design keeps me coming back. And if I ever get bored, I can take a break even for a long time, and come back knowing I won’t have meaningfully fallen behind, and all that content is there waiting for me (and with no subscription on top of that).
This new expansion absolutely not worth the price. I wouldn't even pay half its price. and I really suggest you shouldn't either. What new expansion is currently doing is; - re-purposing already existing spear as "new weapon", - re-labelling traits to prevent them working with "new weapon" instead of revamping old and outdated traits because that's the easy way, - re-purposing already existing mount as "new mount", - introducing new problems to justify "new mount" mechanics, - introducing a glorified trophy showcase calling it "homestead" which aims to provide a time sink rather than a meaningful improvement to any of the game mechanics, - introducing "new recipes" to this "homestead" to increase this time sink rather than integrating already existing furniture system of guilds, - increasing visual clutter with spear abilities despite all the complaints about visual clutters??? - adding instanced content which caters to a very small part of community (except fractals) instead of re-vamping instance system to make them more accessible to everyone, - adding a new map but introducing it with one of the worst visual clutters and debuffs in game (corruption), - making absolutely no attempt to integrate this new map with existing systems like Thousand Seas Pavilion. If you believe Anet will probably improve these in the future or this is only the first part of the expansions, hate to break your bubble but historic data shows the opposite. "Hoping" the rewards will improve has been a hopium for GW2 players since its release and many long time players can tell this exact response as well. Without any solid claims by developers you shouldn't hope for any improvements. Previous expansions still haven't even been integrated with existing systems like above. None of the prevalent issues are improved upon by Anet. Instead the expansion strategy has always been just dumping new mechanics on top of other ones and making previous ones less and less relevant due to poor integration like all those mounts that was one of the main sale point of Path of Fire expansion, how often do you really see them around maps they aren't designed for compared to skyscales? I played the game a lot with 5000+ hours but noticing all these small details and the lack of Anet response really made me realise how little Anet is caring about the game. They don't even care about marketing, the summer bikini sale was the first meaningful marketing decision they had made in the past 5 years. That would be a tell-tale sign for any other game that the developers don't care about game mechanics and don't intend on making big changes anymore.
I am pretty sure Arenanet is setting up for 'maintenance' mode. Shaping Development for Gw2 into something that can be handled by a smaller team. I would like to hear what arenanets vision is for Gw2 is but unfortunately they don't talk.
@@reburox Your Comment: "I would like to hear what arenanets vision is for Gw2 is but unfortunately they don't talk." When you have the opportunity to take to a platform where Arena Net staff regularly watch, aka "Mighty Teapots Tea-Times", you can ask about Arena-Nets vision yourself. The Mighty Teapot is trying to get in contact with you, have a chat about your views and takes on GW2. Yet you don't reply to him at all. Why pretend like you have no means of doing so, sheltering yourself within the comments section of your own videos. You can see how any individual can assume that you are being disingenuous by making such comments, when you have the opportunity to bring up your issues to a much, much larger audience, where more-than-likely will include A-net staff.😔
If only they would make a skip the talking button in doing missions.. God I love this game, but I aint here for the story at all, and in this game they talk.. oh boy do they talk and talk and talk, I rather be in my own mind think on my own stuff for real life, and do brain dead quests like kill 10 mobs here... I do not pay money for games to stand still and listen for WAY waaaay to long lol. Skip button please
I mean the story is an interesting part of a game. But yeah a game that is marketed as 'do what you want' it feels weird that you are forced to play through an almost one hour long 'click through quest text' section.
One thing that is kinda concerning for me in GW2 is that they are trying to implement mounts to the combat or encounters for a long time, only to justify the lack of interesting content and say " we added a new mastery". Yes, a mastery that was not needed before but now they added a a problem so you will need the new mastery.examples: End of Dragons, use ur turtle to break the defiance bar or break a wall or remove the specific shield: examples: You need turtles to remove the green shield from Jade monsters at the Gang War Meta event. You need turtles to break the wall at The Battle for the Jade Sea Meta event or Gyala Delve Meta event. Secrets of the Obscure, use ur skyscale to grabs orbs, use your skyscale to fireball to the eye of the boss after you try to become a mime . The fireball of the Skycale is the most useless skill in the game for a mount and it have created a bunch of bastards leechers who only mount up, use fireball 1 time and get 100% of the reward. Now they are modifying the already existing warclaw, I do not have a problem with a reform of a mount, but do not sell me the mount 2 times, It is like the MEME of Lisa Simpson buying Malibu Stacy " its the same Stacy, but with a new stupid hat" .
I actually love watching your videos. I disagree with a ton of what you say but I love that you say it because it makes me go, "Hmmm how do I feel about that?" and that either lets me reaffirm that "No I like that" or I go "Eh he's got a point and I agree". Never while watching though do I not actively think and assess the game which is pretty wild. I love watching some feel good yay guild wars 2 videos of course but I actually get to have a serious conversation, albiet one way, about one of my favorite games. Not the best game mind you, but one of my favorite, in all its silly mess and scruffy bits. I heard about your channel and was told it was hate bait but honestly underrated content creator. We don't have to like or agree with all content that gets made about things we like but just like a well balanced diet or a good mental state sometimes you gotta eat your veggies or have some real talk. Thanks for filling that role man, you do it well. Look forward to more in the future.
I'd rather them fix all the core maps and add content to old maps rather than continue to spread the already thin player base through even more maps. Hell, why not even have expansions that require previous expansions? For example, you want to do an expansion in Dzalana? Require PoF so that you can use all the PoF maps in the story instances. Or do like they did with mounts and have the relevant maps unlocked by buying that expansion, so there is more than 1 way to get a map.
I like the idea of including maps of previous expansions. The problem here is that the content of these maps is linked to the situation at hand during the original expansion - for PoF having Balthasar, Joko and Kralkatorrik around. This needs to be figured out somehow. I don't think requiring another expansion will work out. It just makes the acquisition more confusing and adss potential of people feeling scammed as they didn't understand they need another expansion as well.
very nice and based video While i do not agree with everything you raise some good points and its very entertaining to watch! Anet marketing will improve surely
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this. The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty from my perspective, you don't need to explain your point of view to other players in a "LIVE STREAM", specially when you already made a video about it and if you think someone is wrong and want to explain why, there is the comment option. To make a comparison, Mukluk tells half-truths or even wrong facts in his "I try X class" videos. Does Teapot try to call Muk out and ask him about it in the TeaTime? No. Why? I don't know, maybe it will bring more innecesary toxicity to the already small GW2 streamer/player community. Or maybe they can't because of external causes.
@@drdc007 All you are doing in playing on the semantics of questioning specifics. The fact of the matter is, all these GW2 content creators have at some point of another joined up and participated in conversations about GW2. 'Tea-Time' is just what Mighty Teapot labels his, other streamers have their own. The fact of the matter remains, if Reburox is such a "Genius" that his perspective is something no other player of GW2 can even comprehend, then why not converse with other Content Creators who can "QUESTION" and "CHALLENGE" each of your views, rather than remain isolated from the rest of the Community and spew out "Opinions" of the matter. From your response, I can tell that you are being disingenuous to the matter at hand, from that point alone, I can tell that your views align with Reburox, hence why you make such absurd claims in his defense. My point remains, if Reburox is a "Genuine" and doesn't mind having his views challenged, why not take up Mighty Teapots offer? 😉
every new expansion brings in new players and brings back players that havnt played in a long time. Ofc it's good to teach basics for that purpose? Not a waste of development at all
As a new player (joined in May I think?) all I can say is it took me an ungodly amount of time to begin to understand how to play the game, all its systems, the plethora of currencies, etc. And in all this time I’ve only managed to complete base game personal story and SotO. I have done 1 chapter of JW since launch because… I just don’t have the time after doing my daily pvp for backpack, daily fractals, dragonstorm, daily crafting, etc. and I don’t see the point of skipping that for JW story beyond warclaw and spear acquisition. There are so many time gated things you feel like there’s a laundry list of things you have to do daily lest you fall significantly behind on your self-appointed goals. I love the game though, mainly due to combat and pvp, the build-crafting and how easy it is to switch specs/class according to what I feel like playing. So I’d say yea, GW2 doesn’t make it easy on new players for sure but the game itself is, IMO, the best MMO on the market for combat and pvp. It’s such a pity Anet seems to only care about pve.
My Intention is to provide talking points. If I say Gw2 is amazing it only results into comments that are worthless. I DO NOT HATE GUILD WARS 2 nor is my intention to clickbait. I want people to share their opinion and if people agree or disagree with me it at least shows me that people still care. An MMORPG is only as alive as its community is and guess what... Guild wars 2 is great that's all there is right?
> "I do not hate Guild Wars 2 nor is my intention to clickbait" Your home page videos: "Let's DESTROY everything good about Guild Wars 2", "There is No Guild Wars 2 Community", "Goodbye Guild Wars 2", "The META that KILLS Guild Wars 2", "Guild Wars 2 has NO direction". Let's be honest here, this comment of yours is nonsense. You can have objectively controversial or negative opinions about the game and back them up evidentially and critically, without misrepresenting the game. I'm not just a fanboy who jerks the game off. I consistently do decently end game content, have played the game for quite some time, and I have a long list of grievances with the game that I'd love to fix or talk about. Here are a few (first few are even JW specific!): 1. Content release schedule, specifically to this expansion, is utter trash. There is NO long term goal for players to work towards for this first quarter prior to actual repeatable content like raids and legendaries get released, and that means players are going to objectively get burnt out repeating the same overtuned, buggy hearts for rewards that are necessary for content that hasn't been released yet. 2. Unintuitively included storylines/seeming lack of 'commitment' to certain bits: in this expansion the following categories have been teased but thoroughly underexplored: White Mantle, Bloodstones, Titans, Koda (there's more I'm missing). They're clearly trying to pose Saul as a good alternative to the other demon-child White Mantle like those twins we meet. Why is this like a singular interaction, some interactable journals, and otherwise no content in the story? The Bloodstones are hardly touched on again which SUCKS because a new player jumping into this story will have no clue about the Door of Komali or the history of bloodstones and magic in Tyria, so why don't they rehash the importance of the bloodstones and what exactly the White Mantle are using innocents for? The Titans also have a rich rich history with the Flameseeker Prophecies and a bloody battle with the Mursaat, why are we not getting any actual backstory (since we have characters like Malice who are actually invested in our opponents being Titans because of the history Charr have had with them)? There was even a hint that Waiting Sorrow had something interesting happen to them when they were trying to act as the Voice of the Lowland tribe, that caused her to essentially run away in defeat and join the Astral Ward. Is Koda a potentially dangerous entity? This was skipped over pretty quickly in the story 3. A lot of the events in the expansion don't go far enough in complexity -- the first map is about as complex as the Bog Queen, which has a non-evolving design that ultimately consists of 4 identical subsections slapped together. The lack of progression in this fight could be construed as a monotony rather than a progressive fight. Other events in the map rely on repetitive use of the chain ability on the Warclaw. This is incredibly necessary expansion on your thought about mount combat breaking the flow of the game in your video. The second map has a boss event that was actually made more impactful and fun as a result of a game-breaking bug, and as it stands is instead a slightly more scuffed version of Dragonstorm where the two need to be killed at the same time, but across the map. Which is fine and could've been AWESOME if maybe the squads had to swap bosses halfway, or the bosses were dynamic and moved, but instead it's just kind've a cool-ish fight with a slight complexity added to when you burn the bosses that is otherwise sort of flat. 4. The LFG system could use an insane overhaul -- why is there no control in a party? Why can blocked players still join? Why can't you request players type in their role to be accepted into a party? Why is there no way to ban players from joining? Why is the LFG system so bloated? Why is the LFG system dead in GW2? 5. Power creep is a very valid discussion to raise when talking about the weird makeup of the GW2 community -- the overwhelming majority of the community is kinda bad at the game, so the devs intentionally make builds stronger to provide a means in which players can compete without long rotations. Yet, these buffs make actually good players blast through content like never before, with 15-20 second Vale Guardian phases. As a result, end game content is trivialized and now you have a paradox where either the endgame player is mad content is too easy, or the noob is mad content is too hard. There's a very clear balance point to be made here about the usefulness of difficulty modes, and can be USED as a means to bring up how GW2 instanced content is lacking in complexity and depth and quantity. Notice how all of these are framed as critiques of the game and story WITHOUT framing it like "GW2 is dead" or other doom takes? You're right, raising a discussion around the game is important because otherwise the content in this game is monotonous build discussions and story reactions. Meta discussion is always interesting. However, meta discussion can be deleterious to a game or its community when a creator repeatedly makes inflammatory content and then doesn't interact with the community to clarify, like you're now trying to do here, that the game isn't actually, well lets use your titles here, "destroyed", "has no community", "killed", "directionless".
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this. The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
@reburox Your fellow Guild Wars 2 'Hater' LionMeows, seems to have realized that farming hate for a game that is considered to have the most positive community in an MMORPG wasn't worth his time and moved on. Check his videos. Your dedication surpasses his, but for how long? Then again, you could just have created this channel not for monetary gain and just pure hatred for the game. What-ever happened to you, "Say your main was banned for botting / RMT", "Your friend stole your Chak Infusion", "Your Guild Bank was robbed by your Officer", what-ever it is, I truly feel sorry for you. 😔
@@VamanaGW2 Ok my next title will be: 'The LFG system could use an insane overhaul -- why is there no control in a party? Why can blocked players still join? Why can't you request players type in their role to be accepted into a party? Why is there no way to ban players from joining? Why is the LFG system so bloated? Why is the LFG system dead in GW2?' Fell free to make that thumbnail for me. If you don't understand the system don't even try to argue with me. this is not reddit. Thanks for your participation. btw. all your points are completely wrong everything you mention are just a symptoms. You cant even see the real issue.
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty listen. I see your comments and some are really good. However... you don't need to post the same comment multiple times in addition to that your comments start to contain lies.. I don't really like that.
Do you honestly think the story in this expansion falls flat, because this imo is pretty amazing. Also, the new maps are really awesome and it's so nice not having a meta event on a timer. I will 100% be spending 90% of my time in janthir for the foreseeable future. Hopefully the homesteads system will be a primary focus for rewards and keep these maps important to players, and as they develop it in the future they will bring relevance to the old maps and areas.
No the story is good but the start was for sure not for everyone. It was way waaaaaay too text heavy. Yeah the maps are great but The majority plays meta trains and the first map has no place in that Meta train system. That's why I think they have to create something that keeps those maps worth while.
GW2 is not perfect. None of the others are. The fundamental problems are the game itself and the people's expectations of what it should be. If anyone forgets how it was from start, might start going back from the basics. When I started this game, I am afraid of the gear grind treadmill. But then learned this is an exploration RPG. You pick up some start areas like story, then get lost in the hearts (tasks) or be pulled to an event/event chain. Mounts is a testament of that exploration-based design. I draw this to the rifts system of D3 where the map instance changes everytime. For me, as long as it tickles my curiosity to explore, I'm game
GW2 has it's downs like every other game out there but it has it's ups also: - group events / metas are the best out there. i haven't seen any game coming even close to the zerg scale this game has - mounts... do i even need to explain. after using these mounts, whenever i try them in other games, they feel .... bland, boring - bugs... i haven't played wow or ffxiv lately but personally i have found very few bugs with even less game breaking. Now i don't want to sugar cote it. most of them will never be fixed, especially the ones that don't break the game but still, keep in mind. it was released with almost no beta test aside from weapons from the player base. that is a plus for the devs from me - NO DOWNTIME/Maintenance... EVER. New patch or expansion, no problem, exit the game, download it, go back in. No 8 hours maintenance every week, just saying - No subscriptions, no "seasons pass" and the convenience items, you buy them once with card or ingame gold and have them forever - Combat. Simple to get into, extremely hard to master... in some casses. One day i am 11111111-ing in some meta event, next thing i am playing "the piano" in a raid/strike/fractal. Something for everyone. Plus the animations are on point. There are others but i will stop here. Please understand that these are just my 2 cents and you are free to agree/disagree. Are there other mmos out there that do some things better. Hell yes, but there are other things gw2 does better.. a lot better. Pick your poison since i don't think there will ever be an mmo who does absolutely everything right. For me gw2 's plusses makes me ... tolerate the minuses
I hate metas, it's just a clutter of nameplates. I've played this game for 7000 hours. I don't get why people keep thirsting over these stupid metas, most group events don't even scale decently . I'd rather do more 5-15 man content in open world instead, stuff that actually reasonably scales. Oh wait they can't do that because of player builds performing so vastly different.
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this. The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
I went into your vid with an open mind. While I didn't agree with any of the points you had I still respect your opinion. However, the way you include little bits of snark in the vid like here 3:57 is giving mixed messages. At this point this isn't just a funny joke, its actively mocking the GW2 playerbase. When you put that kind of stuff into content people are going to feel attacked and won't want to listen to a single thing you have to say. I felt a little like that as well when your jab at the playerbase came up.
Other videos you make usually feel deliberately contrarian to the point I can't take them seriously but for this one you at least shed your fake shell of rage bait for the most part so I guess it's worth commenting on. 1. (Mini-)Expansion being the wrong label for SOTO, JW and upcoming expansions Why would this cause wrong expectations for new players? They do not have the context of what prior expansions meant for the game and ANET has been explicitly clear in what expansions will look like from now on so how is this label misleading? The label of expansion can mean so many different things for different games and as long as they are upfront with what you are getting, it's the correct term. The new expansion model still includes: - New gameplay features - New combat features - New story - New maps - New masteries - New endgame content - New skins - New achievements - Reworking old systems and more. Everything old expansions included. Sure the overall scale has been toned down but that doesn't mean the fact it expands the game in big meaningful ways is wrong. What exactly about this makes it not deserving of the expansion title? Calling it quest pack or map pack is genuinely misleading as it dismisses all of the other above mentioned features. 2. Player numbers and player retention You're getting these impressions from where exactly? Random reddit posts with people announcing in a lengthy text as to why they are leaving the game as if they were a plane departing from an airport? Unofficial third party websites that make up numbers? Sources would actually help you prove your point. 3. Tutorials belong in the core game, not the 5th expansion Agreed. Should be part of the new player experience and this is valid criticism. However your example of the first story mission taming the new war claw is not really a good example. I think this is supposed to show that these are wild animals who have a lot of energy in them and need taming. And that they are affected by the person riding them. If they get jittery, that affects the warclaw. This doesn't have any gameplay effects but it adds nice backstory and personality to the animal. Better example would have been the heart where you are taught dodging, using cc, etc. like they did in EOD 4. Open world reception in this expansion It is a minority. The vast majority of the people I know and people I see online are in love with the new maps and a lot of them are even saying these are some of their favorite maps. It's true that a lot of people only focus on making money when looking at open world and their meta trains and as such some of them are rating them quite low but I believe that if I enjoy a map, I will return to it purely for the sake of actually enjoying it. I am sure people with an exploratory mindset agree with this statement. Old maps are not necessarily bound to die quickly though because they are associated with acquiring a lot of exclusive things like armor skins, weapon skins and legendaries. 5. Sometimes content is good and sometimes bad This just a general effect of live service games. One aspect I will agree with you on is the bugginess. Yes, games have bugs in general, however gw2 is really really heavy on them and usually on high traffic content like the metas and boss fights especially. This is unacceptable and I agree with you here. 6. Mounts are becoming their own combat tool and your concerns I can overall see where you're coming from with this and it's a valid concern to raise. However I think it adds a bit more dynamics to fights. The way mounts are utilized in combat right now is I think a great middle ground and where it should stay. If it keeps moving further however where just staying on your mount seems more advantageous than fighting yourself i wholeheartedly agree with you that they should not go that far. 7. Housing cashgrab/not connected to expansions Housing does connect multiple expansions and the way it is right now is pretty anti-whale because a lot of the furniture needs for example map currency or other things that you can only acquire through gameplay. Yes, they will be adding stuff to the gem store in the future, however we don't know in what scale and how much it will cost yet so using hypotheticals as basis of your argument seems not that well thought out. Once they release overpriced furniture and it actually becomes standard practice to use only those I will agree with your argument but not as long as it's purely based on vibes like right now.
#3 "However your example of the first story mission taming the new war claw is not really a good example". In my opinion it is a good example, because,in Path of Fire, when you tryed to obtain a raptor you borrowed one, when you tryed to obtain a Springer or a Skimmer, you borrowed one, they were trials and tutorial at the same time like, hey look, here is a ranch of dinosaurs? Instead, they made you obtain your warclaw. It is a good example of bad placement of content. I mean, WHY is this here and not in the original expansion where this mount comes from? The answer is simple in my opinion, they sold you the same mount, twice, but with extra jumps. The same way they sold everyone Skyscale but with extra fireball, only to make a Legion of Leechers who only press 1. Now you will have infinite leechers with the extra endurance just hitting anything, maybe not, they might stay with skycale, its safer in they sky. 6# "The way mounts are utilized in combat right now is I think a great middle ground"? Middle ground? Skywatch + Amnytas is "Middle ground" ? Skywatch is use your mount to pick orbs, jump the plataform with ur mount to pick orbs. Amnytas is hit everything with your new Fireball + Mount for more orbs + Yoga + mount for fireball again.
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this. The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
Intro: Not a good start saying I don't take you seriously why should I take your comment serious? 1- The whole 'expansion' feeling is mangled by stretching it across a whole year. You might have fun but other parts of the player base get nothing they enjoy for a very long time like pvp, wvw or instanced content players. You don't get a 'building up' experience you get something that is cut into pieces. 2- Are you joking? Just look around you. Check your friends list. Look at the PvP leader board and the rank numbers. Look is active in wvw. Look viewer count on twitch. Check the stats on wvw websites. Check steam. Scroll down your guild. Check your static squad. Same 10 people? .... Just because it is fine inside your house it might rain outside. Numbers are going down everywhere you look. 5. There has to be a standard If everything Anet does is a throwing stuff at a wall and see what sticks is not a situation worth developing. Why do you think this time you have no strikes? Because they are testing how many people engage with raids compared to strikes. It is basically testing and therefore a gamble if people like it or not. 6- Lets talk again if sometime in the future you play a raid wing while you spend 80% of combat time on a mount. 7- Housing is literally a Cashgrap look at the system it is easily to spot. You hit a wall very quick and you only have to solution to solve it time or money. What do you want me to do anyways? Should I make guides like everybody does. Making reviews by reading quest text? Is gw2 a game where I just play in silence and just absorb information? Why the do you think I keep going making videos where I get harassed in comments constantly? At least people show me that they care for the game if that is what I have to do to see if gw2 is still alive so be it. Anyways you have your mind set up I am just farming hate views.. thanks for your participation.
totally agree, the only mmo i truly felt i was playing wrong. The best part of GW2 is the first character you make and the leveling process. After that it pretty much falls off. My biggest gripe is the customization being such a farce. Everyone looks like a power ranger
Yeah that yearly content stuff sounds great at first but I don't think anet put a lot of thought into it. They can design maps for sure but.... everything else slowly but steady feels like a joke ... unfortunately.
The lack of mature themes, and the over emphasis on throw away/joke lines certainly feels detremential to the seriousness of world building. Like remember how we where introduced to this Demon race as these supposed threatening antagonists? And then have a poolparty with them in the second map of the story/expansion.(Wizards tower)
@@reburox For me this type of releases with unfinished content or maybe untested? , feels like " lets release everything we have half way, it doesnt matter, gw2 players know that we dont fix bugs after release, lets release everything before gw3 is out"
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this. The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty if you keep using your copy/paste response to protect a streamer it doesn't look good for you. He will not have sex with you. Grow up, form your own opinion.
@@nd6886 the cult is always right ... criticism just means we have played too much and should take a break from the thing that we actually enjoyed. And if we truly enjoy it we should shut up and eat whatever is on the plate... I'm tired boss...
@@nd6886 That's odd bc all the guilds I know of are packed full. Most of the servers are full to compacity as well. Maybe....just your guilds are dead. Huh.
A WoW fanbody. Blizzard has stolen so many ideas from Arenanet and WoW's zones are far more bland than any GW2 map. That's not even difficult though because WoW zones are typically lifeless and cartoony to a lazy degree. WoW is a bad game and sticking with it through all the terrible expansions and decisions is sad but thinking it's still good is almost delusional.
You think Blizzard is a better developer than Anet? That perplexes me because imo they never were. WoW fanboys never go into detail about what is actually good about the game. Say whatever you want but you can't explain why because it isn't true.
I mean I like mmos in general but if you think I am a wow fanboy there is basically nothing I can say or do. You have already created your own narrative.
Thanks for your participation.
@@reburox You said Grizzly Hills is the best zone in any MMO. Also you could have just said you're not . I think you know WoW isn't good anymore but you're nostalgic for it and so you project that onto GW2.
Anet did a good job in janthir. If you ignore the bugs in the events and npc, the map looks pretty good. Also we get some nice features, like homesteads and warclaw remake
None of it has any meaningful longevity once it's done. It does not build community in the game. GW2 is the best MMO-to play together alone.
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this.
The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
Lol salty that Mightyteapot doesn't contact you?
Is there anything this game could do for you to not hate post? You had a pretty positive view of at the very least the open world, homesteads, spears, and all you can say is "the game is failing at player acquisition", "the expansion is good but the game is still bad", "Arenanet clearly don't care about the game, just throw out a questpack and embrace the gamble". And this whole video pretty clearly ignores the large amount of content coming in the future -- legendaries, fractal w/ CM, raid...
Also, why are you hating on player acquisition but then also hating on them adding tutorials to the expansion? Unlike what you said, they did this in End of Dragons too, essentially copy pasting some questing abilities in towns like Queensdale to the expansions. Why is this something you take issue with? By nature of this expansion being disconnected from the Dragons means you WILL get new players who jump in right at the new expansion. This happens in WOW too. I distinctly remember you complaining about the skill level of GW2 players before too, not being able to dodge or CC, so...?
You also fail to address why metas are sustaining for map population, and that's profitability -- these maps will stay relevant as long as there is content that is enjoyable or profitable for players to do that require them. Notably, the legendaries will require these maps heavily (and legendaries requiring certain maps is a major boon, look no further than Vision or Aurora keeping a steady stream of players in LWS3/LWS4), the achievements, repeatable hearts (which are made to be profitable and it is absolutely not fair to criticize the profitability or repeatability of the maps until we see what maxed hearts are giving), collectible goods all contributing to Homesteads, repeatable hearts, etc. Also, world bosses very frequently get slotted into meta trains.
This video is so unfairly harsh, as are most of your videos to be fair. From the claims of them copying Grizzly Hills (wrong, it was inspired by an Anet dev travelling to a European country IIRC) to the average GW2 player/very loud minority hating the map (wrong, the maps are pretty widely appreciated).. I also think it's quite poetic that the video clips you chose to use were you doing actual z DPS on a meta while essentially leeching/not being in the squad doing the event.
it's ragebait for views at this point tbh
"GW2 shamelessly copies Grizzly hills"
"WoW Dragonflight was heavily inspired by GW2 mount system"
ACTUAL RAGEBAIT
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@@thefacts4440 okay what do you think I gain from views? if I get one ,100 or 10k nothing will change.
at least people talk about the game. Unfortunately you are so hyper fixated on defending something that you are unable to understand the bigger picture.
You are the best example why Guild wars 2 stays in the shadows. Guild wars 2 is great that's all there is right?
@@reburox You avoiding a reply from someone with actual points is pretty telling of how you handle the understanding of GW2 and its community as a whole.
As Vamana said, the clips you edited on this video just show how you neglect to interact properly with the game's systems.
@reburox Your fellow Guild Wars 2 'Hater' LionMeows, seems to have realized that farming hate for a game that is considered to have the most positive community in any MMORPG wasn't worth his time and moved on. Check his videos. Your dedication surpasses his, but for how long? Then again, you could just have created this channel not for monetary gain and just pure hatred of the game. What-ever happened to you, "Say your main was banned for botting / RMT", "Your friend stole your Chak Infusion", "Your Guild Bank was robbed by your Officer", what-ever it is, I truly feel sorry for you. 😔
LionMeows seems to only have 1 gw2 video comparing it to WoW. Didn't watch it yet. Iirc, this is the guy who made completely unhinged takes, right? He must've deleted his videos of it coz I can't see them. That or I'm thinking of another cc
@@daze4135 Omg you're right, LionMeows only has 57 videos left on his channel. Bro literally wiped 90% of his videos, guess I can't use him as an example no more.
He literally brought out like 2 - 3 react videos per day. Maybe farming hate viewers wasn't profitable after-all.
Either way, I'm sure Reburox knows about LionMeows since I saw him posting on LionMeows GW2 videos and agreeing with him. Wonder if Reburox will follow suit?
Or maybe his hatred is that deep, he will go on....
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty Rip bozo. Guy has a legit mental illness, I think, so I kinda feel bad for memeing on him. Is why I blocked his channel. I can take criticism content, thats fine, but his was completely off the rocker
GW2 isn't profitable for any content creator what are you on about? 🤣
I got a spoon loot from Tequatl, organised the run, get really involved researched mechanics, run a meta build, but that one guy that pressed 1 next to me fresh account, bad gear, and I had to revive 24 times that fight fight dropped a precursor while he played Genshin impact and watched a netflix show on his main monitor...pretty much thinks GW2 is boring, but buys every cute skin in the shop, because while it's boring it's amazing to play on 2nd monitor. Think about it. You might find a problem that is not me and valid criticism about GW2, that happened way too often anyday, everyday. I think that is pretty toxic, yet I am portrayed as the toxic person for pointing that out.
yeah the tutorial hearts in EoD while pretty nice felt also out of place after the start where you had to jump fight and even use the special action key
I love how Mightyteapot went from 47.9k viewers to 1.9k within the hour we has off of Twitch's front page. It turns out people couldn't care less about 2 hours of dialogue.
Show me where GW2 hurt you.
@@Godravage My wallet.
GW2 takes a completely different approach to the generic style of mmo's, as is evident in many reviews. GW2 does everything different, from questing and exploration to mounts and events. This can be a put off to some or attention seeking for others.
Regardless of that, the approach that GW2 took in regards to not competing to be your primary mmo, but rather your secondary dip in and dip out mmo, puts it in a place where it will always have a healthy and fluctuating player base.
People whose interests are piqued by this unique approach to mmo's stay and make GW2 their main game, while others can always come back to the game with little to no barriers since the game is horizontal progression with no sub fee.
And obviously, it's not working.
this expansion so far is only half there is still 2 more maps and more story to go we got to wait for it
does the game still disconnect randomly during story missions? leading to repeating said dialogues and mission. and then it disconnects again for some strange reasons
have a look at en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/149613-guild-wars-2-janthir-wilds-launch-week-known-issues/#comment-2166518
Did not happen to me during this expansion. I remember it happened in EoD and I had to redo the whole thing.
@@reburox reason i asked is cause this has been happening to me since the first xpac till EoD. Every single xpac and some reason they never have a hotfix for this issue.
@@arnoldchand4144 hmm never happened to me besides EoD. And so far haven't heard anything like that from others during janthir wilds.
I know this might not be a satisfying answer, but there is only one person I know who had a similiar problem and it stopped when she changed her ISP.
I am not through it yet, but I heard the story missions are way longer, so if they don't have checkpoints set up in the story missions it might be even more annoying to redo the missions if you indeed run into a disconnect.
Is possible for a new player to start at this expansion? Or do i need to start from de begginner? Ty
you need to reach max. level first but if you buy an expansion you get a free level boost.
Soo basically yes.
I actually prefer something like GW2 that keeps it’s old content accessible, even if it becomes a Gala Delves, rather then pave over it completely, if only for the sake of game preservation (but also, I still frequent core Tyria maps and there are still folks all over).
I’m not too concerned with them adding combat features to mounts like the chain pull atm-part of me feels however that the sheer freedom of general movement of the Skyscale was kind of a pandora’s box. It is super fun and convenient to get around like that and I’m glad they’re implementing a lot of map verticality to complement it, but if we’re talking changes that was definitely a huge change that removed the need to contend with terrain features, and by extension reduces the time players general spend exploring a map. It was a bold move that I’m ultimately happy with, but yeah any changes like that run the risk of backfiring if they’re not careful.
Lastly I’ll just say on that note, the movement and skill expression are just fluid and fun in Guild Wars 2, which along with the gorgeous environment design keeps me coming back. And if I ever get bored, I can take a break even for a long time, and come back knowing I won’t have meaningfully fallen behind, and all that content is there waiting for me (and with no subscription on top of that).
This new expansion absolutely not worth the price. I wouldn't even pay half its price. and I really suggest you shouldn't either. What new expansion is currently doing is;
- re-purposing already existing spear as "new weapon",
- re-labelling traits to prevent them working with "new weapon" instead of revamping old and outdated traits because that's the easy way,
- re-purposing already existing mount as "new mount",
- introducing new problems to justify "new mount" mechanics,
- introducing a glorified trophy showcase calling it "homestead" which aims to provide a time sink rather than a meaningful improvement to any of the game mechanics,
- introducing "new recipes" to this "homestead" to increase this time sink rather than integrating already existing furniture system of guilds,
- increasing visual clutter with spear abilities despite all the complaints about visual clutters???
- adding instanced content which caters to a very small part of community (except fractals) instead of re-vamping instance system to make them more accessible to everyone,
- adding a new map but introducing it with one of the worst visual clutters and debuffs in game (corruption),
- making absolutely no attempt to integrate this new map with existing systems like Thousand Seas Pavilion.
If you believe Anet will probably improve these in the future or this is only the first part of the expansions, hate to break your bubble but historic data shows the opposite. "Hoping" the rewards will improve has been a hopium for GW2 players since its release and many long time players can tell this exact response as well. Without any solid claims by developers you shouldn't hope for any improvements. Previous expansions still haven't even been integrated with existing systems like above. None of the prevalent issues are improved upon by Anet. Instead the expansion strategy has always been just dumping new mechanics on top of other ones and making previous ones less and less relevant due to poor integration like all those mounts that was one of the main sale point of Path of Fire expansion, how often do you really see them around maps they aren't designed for compared to skyscales?
I played the game a lot with 5000+ hours but noticing all these small details and the lack of Anet response really made me realise how little Anet is caring about the game. They don't even care about marketing, the summer bikini sale was the first meaningful marketing decision they had made in the past 5 years. That would be a tell-tale sign for any other game that the developers don't care about game mechanics and don't intend on making big changes anymore.
I am pretty sure Arenanet is setting up for 'maintenance' mode. Shaping Development for Gw2 into something that can be handled by a smaller team.
I would like to hear what arenanets vision is for Gw2 is but unfortunately they don't talk.
@@reburox Your Comment: "I would like to hear what arenanets vision is for Gw2 is but unfortunately they don't talk."
When you have the opportunity to take to a platform where Arena Net staff regularly watch, aka "Mighty Teapots Tea-Times", you can ask about Arena-Nets vision yourself.
The Mighty Teapot is trying to get in contact with you, have a chat about your views and takes on GW2. Yet you don't reply to him at all.
Why pretend like you have no means of doing so, sheltering yourself within the comments section of your own videos.
You can see how any individual can assume that you are being disingenuous by making such comments, when you have the opportunity to bring up your issues to a much, much larger audience, where more-than-likely will include A-net staff.😔
If only they would make a skip the talking button in doing missions.. God I love this game, but I aint here for the story at all, and in this game they talk.. oh boy do they talk and talk and talk, I rather be in my own mind think on my own stuff for real life, and do brain dead quests like kill 10 mobs here... I do not pay money for games to stand still and listen for WAY waaaay to long lol.
Skip button please
I mean the story is an interesting part of a game.
But yeah a game that is marketed as 'do what you want' it feels weird that you are forced to play through an almost one hour long 'click through quest text' section.
It's funny how GW2 players talk shit about MSQs when the dialogue and cutscenes are skippable in FF14.
One thing that is kinda concerning for me in GW2 is that they are trying to implement mounts to the combat or encounters for a long time, only to justify the lack of interesting content and say " we added a new mastery". Yes, a mastery that was not needed before but now they added a a problem so you will need the new mastery.examples:
End of Dragons, use ur turtle to break the defiance bar or break a wall or remove the specific shield: examples:
You need turtles to remove the green shield from Jade monsters at the Gang War Meta event.
You need turtles to break the wall at The Battle for the Jade Sea Meta event or Gyala Delve Meta event.
Secrets of the Obscure, use ur skyscale to grabs orbs, use your skyscale to fireball to the eye of the boss after you try to become a mime .
The fireball of the Skycale is the most useless skill in the game for a mount and it have created a bunch of bastards leechers who only mount up, use fireball 1 time and get 100% of the reward.
Now they are modifying the already existing warclaw, I do not have a problem with a reform of a mount, but do not sell me the mount 2 times, It is like the MEME of Lisa Simpson buying Malibu Stacy " its the same Stacy, but with a new stupid hat" .
Another banger, keep going.
I actually love watching your videos. I disagree with a ton of what you say but I love that you say it because it makes me go, "Hmmm how do I feel about that?" and that either lets me reaffirm that "No I like that" or I go "Eh he's got a point and I agree". Never while watching though do I not actively think and assess the game which is pretty wild. I love watching some feel good yay guild wars 2 videos of course but I actually get to have a serious conversation, albiet one way, about one of my favorite games. Not the best game mind you, but one of my favorite, in all its silly mess and scruffy bits. I heard about your channel and was told it was hate bait but honestly underrated content creator. We don't have to like or agree with all content that gets made about things we like but just like a well balanced diet or a good mental state sometimes you gotta eat your veggies or have some real talk. Thanks for filling that role man, you do it well. Look forward to more in the future.
I'd rather them fix all the core maps and add content to old maps rather than continue to spread the already thin player base through even more maps. Hell, why not even have expansions that require previous expansions? For example, you want to do an expansion in Dzalana? Require PoF so that you can use all the PoF maps in the story instances. Or do like they did with mounts and have the relevant maps unlocked by buying that expansion, so there is more than 1 way to get a map.
I like the idea of including maps of previous expansions. The problem here is that the content of these maps is linked to the situation at hand during the original expansion - for PoF having Balthasar, Joko and Kralkatorrik around. This needs to be figured out somehow.
I don't think requiring another expansion will work out. It just makes the acquisition more confusing and adss potential of people feeling scammed as they didn't understand they need another expansion as well.
very nice and based video
While i do not agree with everything you raise some good points and its very entertaining to watch!
Anet marketing will improve surely
Quote: the playerbase since 2012. XD
copium
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this.
The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty from my perspective, you don't need to explain your point of view to other players in a "LIVE STREAM", specially when you already made a video about it and if you think someone is wrong and want to explain why, there is the comment option.
To make a comparison, Mukluk tells half-truths or even wrong facts in his "I try X class" videos. Does Teapot try to call Muk out and ask him about it in the TeaTime? No. Why? I don't know, maybe it will bring more innecesary toxicity to the already small GW2 streamer/player community. Or maybe they can't because of external causes.
@@drdc007 All you are doing in playing on the semantics of questioning specifics. The fact of the matter is, all these GW2 content creators have at some point of another joined up and participated in conversations about GW2. 'Tea-Time' is just what Mighty Teapot labels his, other streamers have their own.
The fact of the matter remains, if Reburox is such a "Genius" that his perspective is something no other player of GW2 can even comprehend, then why not converse with other Content Creators who can "QUESTION" and "CHALLENGE" each of your views, rather than remain isolated from the rest of the Community and spew out "Opinions" of the matter.
From your response, I can tell that you are being disingenuous to the matter at hand, from that point alone, I can tell that your views align with Reburox, hence why you make such absurd claims in his defense. My point remains, if Reburox is a "Genuine" and doesn't mind having his views challenged, why not take up Mighty Teapots offer? 😉
every new expansion brings in new players and brings back players that havnt played in a long time. Ofc it's good to teach basics for that purpose? Not a waste of development at all
What new players? Lol, GW2 doesn't cross their mind.
@@nd6886 I see plenty new players every expansion
@@thehasen6037 congrats, you found the bots/alts.
@@nd6886 damn why are you so bitter lmao
@@thehasen6037 because this new dev team ain't cutting it and Anet sat on their "laurels" for too long.
As a new player (joined in May I think?) all I can say is it took me an ungodly amount of time to begin to understand how to play the game, all its systems, the plethora of currencies, etc.
And in all this time I’ve only managed to complete base game personal story and SotO. I have done 1 chapter of JW since launch because… I just don’t have the time after doing my daily pvp for backpack, daily fractals, dragonstorm, daily crafting, etc. and I don’t see the point of skipping that for JW story beyond warclaw and spear acquisition.
There are so many time gated things you feel like there’s a laundry list of things you have to do daily lest you fall significantly behind on your self-appointed goals.
I love the game though, mainly due to combat and pvp, the build-crafting and how easy it is to switch specs/class according to what I feel like playing.
So I’d say yea, GW2 doesn’t make it easy on new players for sure but the game itself is, IMO, the best MMO on the market for combat and pvp. It’s such a pity Anet seems to only care about pve.
put a space between the hyphen and the first letter. That outrages me!
My Intention is to provide talking points. If I say Gw2 is amazing it only results into comments that are worthless. I DO NOT HATE GUILD WARS 2 nor is my intention to clickbait. I want people to share their opinion and if people agree or disagree with me it at least shows me that people still care. An MMORPG is only as alive as its community is and guess what...
Guild wars 2 is great that's all there is right?
> "I do not hate Guild Wars 2 nor is my intention to clickbait"
Your home page videos: "Let's DESTROY everything good about Guild Wars 2", "There is No Guild Wars 2 Community", "Goodbye Guild Wars 2", "The META that KILLS Guild Wars 2", "Guild Wars 2 has NO direction". Let's be honest here, this comment of yours is nonsense. You can have objectively controversial or negative opinions about the game and back them up evidentially and critically, without misrepresenting the game. I'm not just a fanboy who jerks the game off. I consistently do decently end game content, have played the game for quite some time, and I have a long list of grievances with the game that I'd love to fix or talk about. Here are a few (first few are even JW specific!):
1. Content release schedule, specifically to this expansion, is utter trash. There is NO long term goal for players to work towards for this first quarter prior to actual repeatable content like raids and legendaries get released, and that means players are going to objectively get burnt out repeating the same overtuned, buggy hearts for rewards that are necessary for content that hasn't been released yet.
2. Unintuitively included storylines/seeming lack of 'commitment' to certain bits: in this expansion the following categories have been teased but thoroughly underexplored: White Mantle, Bloodstones, Titans, Koda (there's more I'm missing). They're clearly trying to pose Saul as a good alternative to the other demon-child White Mantle like those twins we meet. Why is this like a singular interaction, some interactable journals, and otherwise no content in the story? The Bloodstones are hardly touched on again which SUCKS because a new player jumping into this story will have no clue about the Door of Komali or the history of bloodstones and magic in Tyria, so why don't they rehash the importance of the bloodstones and what exactly the White Mantle are using innocents for? The Titans also have a rich rich history with the Flameseeker Prophecies and a bloody battle with the Mursaat, why are we not getting any actual backstory (since we have characters like Malice who are actually invested in our opponents being Titans because of the history Charr have had with them)? There was even a hint that Waiting Sorrow had something interesting happen to them when they were trying to act as the Voice of the Lowland tribe, that caused her to essentially run away in defeat and join the Astral Ward. Is Koda a potentially dangerous entity? This was skipped over pretty quickly in the story
3. A lot of the events in the expansion don't go far enough in complexity -- the first map is about as complex as the Bog Queen, which has a non-evolving design that ultimately consists of 4 identical subsections slapped together. The lack of progression in this fight could be construed as a monotony rather than a progressive fight. Other events in the map rely on repetitive use of the chain ability on the Warclaw. This is incredibly necessary expansion on your thought about mount combat breaking the flow of the game in your video. The second map has a boss event that was actually made more impactful and fun as a result of a game-breaking bug, and as it stands is instead a slightly more scuffed version of Dragonstorm where the two need to be killed at the same time, but across the map. Which is fine and could've been AWESOME if maybe the squads had to swap bosses halfway, or the bosses were dynamic and moved, but instead it's just kind've a cool-ish fight with a slight complexity added to when you burn the bosses that is otherwise sort of flat.
4. The LFG system could use an insane overhaul -- why is there no control in a party? Why can blocked players still join? Why can't you request players type in their role to be accepted into a party? Why is there no way to ban players from joining? Why is the LFG system so bloated? Why is the LFG system dead in GW2?
5. Power creep is a very valid discussion to raise when talking about the weird makeup of the GW2 community -- the overwhelming majority of the community is kinda bad at the game, so the devs intentionally make builds stronger to provide a means in which players can compete without long rotations. Yet, these buffs make actually good players blast through content like never before, with 15-20 second Vale Guardian phases. As a result, end game content is trivialized and now you have a paradox where either the endgame player is mad content is too easy, or the noob is mad content is too hard. There's a very clear balance point to be made here about the usefulness of difficulty modes, and can be USED as a means to bring up how GW2 instanced content is lacking in complexity and depth and quantity.
Notice how all of these are framed as critiques of the game and story WITHOUT framing it like "GW2 is dead" or other doom takes? You're right, raising a discussion around the game is important because otherwise the content in this game is monotonous build discussions and story reactions. Meta discussion is always interesting. However, meta discussion can be deleterious to a game or its community when a creator repeatedly makes inflammatory content and then doesn't interact with the community to clarify, like you're now trying to do here, that the game isn't actually, well lets use your titles here, "destroyed", "has no community", "killed", "directionless".
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this.
The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
@reburox Your fellow Guild Wars 2 'Hater' LionMeows, seems to have realized that farming hate for a game that is considered to have the most positive community in an MMORPG wasn't worth his time and moved on. Check his videos. Your dedication surpasses his, but for how long? Then again, you could just have created this channel not for monetary gain and just pure hatred for the game. What-ever happened to you, "Say your main was banned for botting / RMT", "Your friend stole your Chak Infusion", "Your Guild Bank was robbed by your Officer", what-ever it is, I truly feel sorry for you. 😔
@@VamanaGW2 Ok my next title will be:
'The LFG system could use an insane overhaul -- why is there no control in a party? Why can blocked players still join? Why can't you request players type in their role to be accepted into a party? Why is there no way to ban players from joining? Why is the LFG system so bloated? Why is the LFG system dead in GW2?'
Fell free to make that thumbnail for me. If you don't understand the system don't even try to argue with me. this is not reddit. Thanks for your participation.
btw. all your points are completely wrong everything you mention are just a symptoms. You cant even see the real issue.
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty listen. I see your comments and some are really good. However... you don't need to post the same comment multiple times in addition to that your comments start to contain lies.. I don't really like that.
Do you honestly think the story in this expansion falls flat, because this imo is pretty amazing.
Also, the new maps are really awesome and it's so nice not having a meta event on a timer. I will 100% be spending 90% of my time in janthir for the foreseeable future. Hopefully the homesteads system will be a primary focus for rewards and keep these maps important to players, and as they develop it in the future they will bring relevance to the old maps and areas.
No the story is good but the start was for sure not for everyone. It was way waaaaaay too text heavy. Yeah the maps are great but The majority plays meta trains and the first map has no place in that Meta train system.
That's why I think they have to create something that keeps those maps worth while.
GW2 is not perfect. None of the others are. The fundamental problems are the game itself and the people's expectations of what it should be. If anyone forgets how it was from start, might start going back from the basics. When I started this game, I am afraid of the gear grind treadmill. But then learned this is an exploration RPG. You pick up some start areas like story, then get lost in the hearts (tasks) or be pulled to an event/event chain. Mounts is a testament of that exploration-based design. I draw this to the rifts system of D3 where the map instance changes everytime. For me, as long as it tickles my curiosity to explore, I'm game
GW2 has it's downs like every other game out there but it has it's ups also:
- group events / metas are the best out there. i haven't seen any game coming even close to the zerg scale this game has
- mounts... do i even need to explain. after using these mounts, whenever i try them in other games, they feel .... bland, boring
- bugs... i haven't played wow or ffxiv lately but personally i have found very few bugs with even less game breaking. Now i don't want to sugar cote it. most of them will never be fixed, especially the ones that don't break the game but still, keep in mind. it was released with almost no beta test aside from weapons from the player base. that is a plus for the devs from me
- NO DOWNTIME/Maintenance... EVER. New patch or expansion, no problem, exit the game, download it, go back in. No 8 hours maintenance every week, just saying
- No subscriptions, no "seasons pass" and the convenience items, you buy them once with card or ingame gold and have them forever
- Combat. Simple to get into, extremely hard to master... in some casses. One day i am 11111111-ing in some meta event, next thing i am playing "the piano" in a raid/strike/fractal. Something for everyone. Plus the animations are on point.
There are others but i will stop here.
Please understand that these are just my 2 cents and you are free to agree/disagree.
Are there other mmos out there that do some things better. Hell yes, but there are other things gw2 does better.. a lot better.
Pick your poison since i don't think there will ever be an mmo who does absolutely everything right.
For me gw2 's plusses makes me ... tolerate the minuses
I hate metas, it's just a clutter of nameplates. I've played this game for 7000 hours. I don't get why people keep thirsting over these stupid metas, most group events don't even scale decently . I'd rather do more 5-15 man content in open world instead, stuff that actually reasonably scales. Oh wait they can't do that because of player builds performing so vastly different.
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this.
The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
I went into your vid with an open mind. While I didn't agree with any of the points you had I still respect your opinion.
However, the way you include little bits of snark in the vid like here 3:57 is giving mixed messages. At this point this isn't just a funny joke, its actively mocking the GW2 playerbase.
When you put that kind of stuff into content people are going to feel attacked and won't want to listen to a single thing you have to say.
I felt a little like that as well when your jab at the playerbase came up.
Other videos you make usually feel deliberately contrarian to the point I can't take them seriously but for this one you at least shed your fake shell of rage bait for the most part so I guess it's worth commenting on.
1. (Mini-)Expansion being the wrong label for SOTO, JW and upcoming expansions
Why would this cause wrong expectations for new players? They do not have the context of what prior expansions meant for the game and ANET has been explicitly clear in what expansions will look like from now on so how is this label misleading? The label of expansion can mean so many different things for different games and as long as they are upfront with what you are getting, it's the correct term. The new expansion model still includes:
- New gameplay features
- New combat features
- New story
- New maps
- New masteries
- New endgame content
- New skins
- New achievements
- Reworking old systems
and more. Everything old expansions included. Sure the overall scale has been toned down but that doesn't mean the fact it expands the game in big meaningful ways is wrong. What exactly about this makes it not deserving of the expansion title? Calling it quest pack or map pack is genuinely misleading as it dismisses all of the other above mentioned features.
2. Player numbers and player retention
You're getting these impressions from where exactly? Random reddit posts with people announcing in a lengthy text as to why they are leaving the game as if they were a plane departing from an airport? Unofficial third party websites that make up numbers? Sources would actually help you prove your point.
3. Tutorials belong in the core game, not the 5th expansion
Agreed. Should be part of the new player experience and this is valid criticism. However your example of the first story mission taming the new war claw is not really a good example. I think this is supposed to show that these are wild animals who have a lot of energy in them and need taming. And that they are affected by the person riding them. If they get jittery, that affects the warclaw. This doesn't have any gameplay effects but it adds nice backstory and personality to the animal. Better example would have been the heart where you are taught dodging, using cc, etc. like they did in EOD
4. Open world reception in this expansion
It is a minority. The vast majority of the people I know and people I see online are in love with the new maps and a lot of them are even saying these are some of their favorite maps. It's true that a lot of people only focus on making money when looking at open world and their meta trains and as such some of them are rating them quite low but I believe that if I enjoy a map, I will return to it purely for the sake of actually enjoying it. I am sure people with an exploratory mindset agree with this statement.
Old maps are not necessarily bound to die quickly though because they are associated with acquiring a lot of exclusive things like armor skins, weapon skins and legendaries.
5. Sometimes content is good and sometimes bad
This just a general effect of live service games. One aspect I will agree with you on is the bugginess. Yes, games have bugs in general, however gw2 is really really heavy on them and usually on high traffic content like the metas and boss fights especially. This is unacceptable and I agree with you here.
6. Mounts are becoming their own combat tool and your concerns
I can overall see where you're coming from with this and it's a valid concern to raise. However I think it adds a bit more dynamics to fights. The way mounts are utilized in combat right now is I think a great middle ground and where it should stay. If it keeps moving further however where just staying on your mount seems more advantageous than fighting yourself i wholeheartedly agree with you that they should not go that far.
7. Housing cashgrab/not connected to expansions
Housing does connect multiple expansions and the way it is right now is pretty anti-whale because a lot of the furniture needs for example map currency or other things that you can only acquire through gameplay. Yes, they will be adding stuff to the gem store in the future, however we don't know in what scale and how much it will cost yet so using hypotheticals as basis of your argument seems not that well thought out. Once they release overpriced furniture and it actually becomes standard practice to use only those I will agree with your argument but not as long as it's purely based on vibes like right now.
#3 "However your example of the first story mission taming the new war claw is not really a good example". In my opinion it is a good example, because,in Path of Fire, when you tryed to obtain a raptor you borrowed one, when you tryed to obtain a Springer or a Skimmer, you borrowed one, they were trials and tutorial at the same time like, hey look, here is a ranch of dinosaurs? Instead, they made you obtain your warclaw. It is a good example of bad placement of content. I mean, WHY is this here and not in the original expansion where this mount comes from? The answer is simple in my opinion, they sold you the same mount, twice, but with extra jumps. The same way they sold everyone Skyscale but with extra fireball, only to make a Legion of Leechers who only press 1. Now you will have infinite leechers with the extra endurance just hitting anything, maybe not, they might stay with skycale, its safer in they sky.
6# "The way mounts are utilized in combat right now is I think a great middle ground"? Middle ground? Skywatch + Amnytas is "Middle ground" ? Skywatch is use your mount to pick orbs, jump the plataform with ur mount to pick orbs. Amnytas is hit everything with your new Fireball + Mount for more orbs + Yoga + mount for fireball again.
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this.
The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
Intro: Not a good start saying I don't take you seriously why should I take your comment serious?
1- The whole 'expansion' feeling is mangled by stretching it across a whole year. You might have fun but other parts of the player base get nothing they enjoy for a very long time like pvp, wvw or instanced content players. You don't get a 'building up' experience you get something that is cut into pieces.
2- Are you joking? Just look around you.
Check your friends list.
Look at the PvP leader board and the rank numbers.
Look is active in wvw.
Look viewer count on twitch.
Check the stats on wvw websites.
Check steam.
Scroll down your guild.
Check your static squad. Same 10 people?
....
Just because it is fine inside your house it might rain outside. Numbers are going down everywhere you look.
5. There has to be a standard If everything Anet does is a throwing stuff at a wall and see what sticks is not a situation worth developing. Why do you think this time you have no strikes? Because they are testing how many people engage with raids compared to strikes. It is basically testing and therefore a gamble if people like it or not.
6- Lets talk again if sometime in the future you play a raid wing while you spend 80% of combat time on a mount.
7- Housing is literally a Cashgrap look at the system it is easily to spot. You hit a wall very quick and you only have to solution to solve it time or money.
What do you want me to do anyways? Should I make guides like everybody does. Making reviews by reading quest text? Is gw2 a game where I just play in silence and just absorb information? Why the do you think I keep going making videos where I get harassed in comments constantly?
At least people show me that they care for the game if that is what I have to do to see if gw2 is still alive so be it.
Anyways you have your mind set up I am just farming hate views.. thanks for your participation.
I guess doing a iceland inspired map is = copying wow now lol. Wow didnt invent nature
exactly.
totally agree, the only mmo i truly felt i was playing wrong. The best part of GW2 is the first character you make and the leveling process. After that it pretty much falls off. My biggest gripe is the customization being such a farce. Everyone looks like a power ranger
-Tons of bugs
-Childish writing
-Spears balance is all over the place
-If you're not into housing, there is nothing to do
Yep, it's Janthir time~!
Yeah that yearly content stuff sounds great at first but I don't think anet put a lot of thought into it.
They can design maps for sure but.... everything else slowly but steady feels like a joke ... unfortunately.
The lack of mature themes, and the over emphasis on throw away/joke lines certainly feels detremential to the seriousness of world building. Like remember how we where introduced to this Demon race as these supposed threatening antagonists? And then have a poolparty with them in the second map of the story/expansion.(Wizards tower)
@@reburox For me this type of releases with unfinished content or maybe untested? , feels like " lets release everything we have half way, it doesnt matter, gw2 players know that we dont fix bugs after release, lets release everything before gw3 is out"
For those who still believe that Reburox is a "Genuine" critic of the game, who is telling it how it is and everyone else is a shill or white knight defender of GW2, think about this.
The Mighty Teapot is one of the, if not the largest content creator of Guild Wars 2, he viewed a couple of Reburox's videos on stream and tried to get in contact with Reburox to have a discussion about Guild Wars 2. Anyone can go to Teapots channel and see that he constantly brings on content creators on his "Tea-Times" for discussions of Guild Wars 2 that last multiple hours each time. When his viewers asked him why he 'Teapot' hasn't done a tea-time with Reburox yet, he stated "He doesn't reply". Very interesting..... 🤔
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty if you keep using your copy/paste response to protect a streamer it doesn't look good for you. He will not have sex with you. Grow up, form your own opinion.
you dont even try with the "th" xDDD
lol true. xD
sorry I mean Omegalul
The ONLY real review. GOOD JOB. Haters gonna hate
this game is proof that so long you create something serviceable to a crowd of fanatics, you make easy profit.
And if you question the cult of Anet, despair.
@@nd6886 the cult is always right ... criticism just means we have played too much and should take a break from the thing that we actually enjoyed. And if we truly enjoy it we should shut up and eat whatever is on the plate... I'm tired boss...
The game is not bad. Maybe, just maybe....you have shitty taste in games.
Well as it turns out, almost all of MMO players have a shitty taste in games then.
@@nd6886 No. Just this guy and maybe you.
@@Godravage And all my dead guilds.
@@nd6886 That's odd bc all the guilds I know of are packed full. Most of the servers are full to compacity as well. Maybe....just your guilds are dead. Huh.
@@Godravage Yup. If you check the members, you'll see they haven't logged in a year. Guess what happened around that time?