Source? For me, its the six people I brought to this game. One person, I even bought the game for as he was a starving student. They all left citing these same things. When I see video's about gw2 being worth it in 2019/2020, etc. I often see comments about this in the responses. The game has hundreds of thousands of players. Six people is fairly far from “many”. Please read my post about 6, as that is my personal friends I was trying to bring into this game from a gaming guild. The only part of my post that I made that was opinion would be what constitutes time-consuming. There have been players are have called anything which they could not obtain right away as being “time-consuming” or a “grind”. I’m not necessarily defending the game; I’m simply disagreeing with you. Yes, many people forget what it was like starting this game. Its been a long time. Now Anet see the numbers and steam is clearly needed to try to bring in players. Hopefully, there will be something to keep them interested enough to grind up to what makes the game fun. I'll still be there, in verdant brink, reviving new players running around on foot getting smoked by...everything. lol