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Was the game overhyped? Yes
Is the game worth to play? Yes

But now to the real critic. I just want to talk about the PvP, because that is the main focus of mine. The biggest problem right now is that the pvp servers are down in Europe. So i couldnt play as much as i wanted. But when it worked, the experience was great because of the big diversity of skills. You have so many options how to play you character. Some people say that their are too much options, but thats okay for me.

i agree with this, for me its been a blast leveling my engineer talking on guild chat or on Mumble server. I logged on WoW to see the new changes and I will quote Steve "Not tonight" was my thought and it has been since last week.
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My account is hacked. Waiting on a trouble ticket to get my account back.

I will do it when I get home.

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As someone who wasn't all over the hype for GW2 (I am happy playing Rift so didn't care too much about its release) I can say the game is definitely very good.

I bought it to pass the time while waiting on the Rift expansion and have been enjoying it a lot. But then I enjoyed GW1 so knew Arenanet would bring out a good game. As always it is the decisions on builds that I like most - which weapons to go with, which traits, what utilty skills are best with my build?

Will the game last you years? I don't know about that, I always considered the GW series a casual play kind of game but then again I know people who played GW1 solidly for 5 years, so given how much more there is in GW2 some will definitely find years of joy. But with a one of cost it is definitel worth getting and will certainly last longer than any single player game you might buy.
Also, if you are a big PvPer and have friends to do it with, it will definitely last a long time.

Regarding the bans, I guess it depends on your stance. Personally I am happy Anet are taking a tough stance, it is about time someone did. Anyone with sympathy for the exploiters clearly don't realise the impact they hae on the game. 1 Weapon exploit for personal use, no big issue, but 100s or 1000s? You can single handedly destroy an economy for the server it happens on which can ruin other peoples gameplay. Hell, I am not even happy their bans got reversed to suspensions, but I suppose people sometimes deserve a second chance

And if you give yourself stupidass names you should be suspended just because people are sick of others ignoring naming policies games have.

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Any idea what software could clean that up? MalwareBytes found nothing.

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The game is beautiful, and engrossing. The quests are fun, the combat is fun. I find the crafting extremely grindy, and the whole "discovery" thing gets old quickly after you realize it's the same old sh*t every tier - just higher level mats. That's nothing new for an MMO, though, most have grindy crafting. Here's the problem - for me, I don't see it having any longevity at all. I've already stopped playing (at lvl 41 guardian). The dungeons and group events completed soured me. Dungeons involve dying over, and over, and over, especially as melee. I'm an experienced MMO'er, and at first you think having no "trinity" is a great idea - but after a couple of runs through AC, i changed my mind. It's boring as hell. Everyone just runs out like a chicken with their head cut off, dying. There is no flow, the mechanics are laughably simple (just extremely punishing). For most of the fight, you just stand there pushing buttons, watching the boss' huge HP pool drop, then BOOM! you're dead. Maybe the boss is telegraphing something, but you can't see through the ridiculous flurry of AOE. I'm not a noob by any means, I am adept at avoiding mechanics. The loot rewards are stupid and useless. Combine this with what they refer to as "group events" - which pretty much involve standing in another giant jumble of AOE watching a ridiculous HP pool slowly drop - and I see no future in it for me. The levelling up and questing and exploring are great, but the part I love most about MMO's is garbage.

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The game is worth it, hands down. As I've stated in other threads, I'm a huge fanboi of this game, and one of the first (if not the first) here on DSLR that have been waiting on this game for years, and it doesn't disappoint.

Character creation, backstory, starting areas, the zones themselves, combat skills, combat animations....they all had a lot of work put into them and it just shows through everything you do, especially if you realize what it was like before in prior games, and how much "ease of use" and intelligence they've put behind a lot of the functionality.

I would really be surprised that someone coming from WoW wouldn't enjoy the game from at least a "pretty good" to a "damn, that's digital crack" level.

There are more times than I can count on 2 hands (and still occurring) that I've seen a zone, a creature, something that's made my jaw literally drop...it's just well done and beautiful.

Buy it, you won't regret it. (And as far as the banning thing goes, you can pretty much judge for yourself by the responses given here. Most of don't want to put up with the stupid names, idiotic attitudes, and on and on...so, as with everyone else, I find it refreshing (as with many things in this game) that ANet is taking a hard stance on this shit....just makes me love 'em that much more)
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The game is beauty. Many times I'm just in awe of the art. The gameplay is really fun and innovative compare to WoW. After this I don't see why anyone would pay for a sub game of the past anymore.

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