A break or the end?

Today I logged into GW2 first time after a week. Those that know me know that it’s not very typical of me. What did I do? I got the login chest and logged off. A week after a living story episode.

Strange.

I enjoyed the story of the Daybreak although it was far from perfect. The Domain of Istan is my favorite map in GW2. And yet… I don’t feel compelled to do anything else. I’m not motivated to do new achievements (and I’m about 300 points from 30k AP), collections don’t interest me anymore (and I’m a completionist) and after finishing map and story it feels like I don’t have anything to do ingame without getting bored.

I got to the point of realization that I’m not the target demographic of Anet. Yes, sure, the gemstore mount fiasco had probably some influence on my whole attitude now. I’m sure that the recent statements of MO affected my love for the game as well. Quite probably the general mood of the community had also something to do with it. And I’m sick of arguing with dumbasses.

I’d never guess that I’ll be sometime at the point where I’ll just do the story and map and will be done. Don’t get me wrong, this game is the best MMORPG I’ve ever played. I love this game, I love its developers, each one I’ve ever interacted with. This game has given me thousands of hours of enjoyment. And yet… I feel like I’m pretty much done with regular play sessions.

Not because of my disgust of some individuals, business practices or attitude of the high management of Anet. Rather because of I guess I’m really someone that’s not in Anet’s target demographic.

And I’m bored ingame. 

A lot.

Because of all this stuff I stopped creating GW2 videos some time ago. And now I’m not even motivated to draw anything related to GW2 because it reminds me of the state the game is in and stuff that pisses me off because it even exists here.

I’ll log in for every story patch and expansion. And I'm sure I'll enjoy them. But for how long? Who knows.

Maybe new expansions will spark again my passion for this game.

Hopefully.

Honestly, I doubt it. Things that would bring back my excitement are highly unlikely to happen or already impossible to happen. But I’m naive and I’ll never learn. 

So here’s to hoping.

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Day #5

Hand. Simple as that.

Day #4

Something simple for today - an ordinary ear

Day #3

I aimed to study and capture the muscle structure of an arm. To be honest, I'm quite satisfied with this result.

Day #2

Feet have always my nemesis, I see that I need to work especially on the toes. But at least now I can grasp the anatomy of the foot.

Drawing Challenge restart - #1

So I came home today from work, I'm exhausted and tired as hell and then I watched a drawing video. Again one fact caught up to me - If I won't train, I won't get better. So I started some Anthony Jones' video (the man is my primary inspiration in drawing, he's incredible) and started drawing. It's a little therapy and calms me down. 

So I'll try again, each day to draw something and get better. Today is day number 1.

What to expect when you're expecting (an expac)

Those that follow me on Twitter have probably seen my mention about shitposters trying to come up with leaks but not even putting a little effort to make it seem real.

These leaks always make me think: What if one of them is true? What if the expac 2 shall be that lame? The specific leak, I'm talking about talked about Mount mastery being the one major feature of the expac. According to it the expac shall be pretty small, no new playable race or profession. No big news, just this mastery, new maps, short story and elite specs.

Sounds lame, doesn't it?

Let's think of what can we expect from the expac 2 at first:

• New elite specs - this is pretty much given. I'd be very surprised if they didn't come with it.
• New masteries - it's Anet's system of engame progression, again, pretty much given.
• New maps and story - obviously
• New fractals and fractal changes - Fractals are a good system for Anet that enables them to make a content in much easier way than for dungeons.
• New pvp maps and changes - with the current development, in my opinion it's quite logical.
• WvW content, maybe 3. map - well, there needs to be something, Anet won't leave out one mode.
• Raid content - praised by the players, engame content that offers challenge, again pretty much given.
• New gemstore content - sorry I had to :D

I don't know about you but I'm missing here a big feature that would attract outside players. A feature like Revenant was - a new profession. Or feature like Tengu as a new playable race. 

I don't think that we'll ever get another new profession. With revenant we now have 3 professions for each armor weight, it seems pretty whole. Playable race is however a perfect candidate for the second expac IMO. The question is whether will Anet do something big as a new playable race. I'm not going to get into discussion about features being too difficult or time-consuming to do. 

Another interesting features could be player housing, new crafting professions, a reputation system etc. There are many possibilities. But these seem like not BIG features although cool. These don't seem like the features that would persuade new people to buy the game. And as any other company Anet needs to persuade people to buy it and get as many new people as possible to do the same.

To be honest, if there won't be a new playable race in the second expac, Anet will have to come up with something incredibly awesome and big to persuade me to get it. I still feel that I can't come up with many possible features that would really excite me. That list of pretty much sure features just doesn't do it for me. 

Do I expect too much?

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