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I Stand corrected then. I still think that's a decision that aged poorly and it's not properly optimized in the first place, not taking proper advantage of multiple cores.Of course we are talking of something a decade old - I thought it was a great game and still think it is - but that's the point, it's a decade old tech. TBH both are fair to me. Either a remaster or GW3 would be fine for me - we are talking years anyway. I just hope they have a long-term plan. I'd hate to see GW2 becoming niche and dwindling. I really hope they are planning on staying current and ahead of the game

I'll rephrase, GW2 is working as intended.GW2 is not a WoW copycat and does not target only existing players of the genre. It also targets people who are absolutely new to gaming and mmo. So the game is designed to lean heavily on the CPU. This means the game runs on most systems (for example, it runs on my laptop with an integrated intel GPU and it is playable). The downside is that people with high-end systems have not as good gameplay as with games that are designed with a different mindset. This effects gets stronger where people have a high-end GPU, but a CPU with huge amounts of cores where each core in itself is poor.This is in my opinion as designed as it was the same with GW1. That also played on my low end laptop with integrated GPU and had the same complaints from people with high end systems. The main issue here is the entitlement. A company makes designdecissions and people with a high end system thinks they are entitled to a system that performs perfect on their system. The fact that this would mean the game would play lesser to those with lesser systems is to them of no importance. I didn't research far on the issues, but from what I learn, I can't agree with you: there's lots of people with issues, and the game doesn't take advantage of multiple cores properly, and seems to be instead highly dependant on high speed single cores - which is really an old issue with games in general and is becoming more and more obsolete, expecially since AMD got back and it is now pretty much standard for budget gaming. Even if it was a deliberate choice (which, to be honest, I highly doubt due to the attention to design and the initial push to exploration, views, etc), it's really aging really bad really fast. Do you want to try gaming without having a gaming PC? There are lots of cheaper options including phones, consoles, and streaming nowadays.Also, MMOs are a really poor point of entry due to their complexity. GW2 is indeed a bit more new-player friendly than other games, but to be fair, not so much as you might think. It's still an MMO with lots of systems layered on one another. There's also the issue of personal preference. I'd not personally play a game at 5 fps, and I don't know many people who would. I can't see how entitlement fits. I played GW2. I still do from time to time. It runs good on my PC. But I really can't consider that "well optimized".My SO plays on an old 2012 PC, gaming casually. We tried to play together GW2 a few years back, did run poorly and was therefore poorly received, went on to another game. For comparison, we played current WoW and Black Desert for months on that same PC. I keep citing MMOs because I realize it's a different use case from traditional games. Still think GW2 is the odd one in the bunch so far for not addressing the issue. Thing is: if you game, you probably have a dedicated GPU, even a really cheap one like that one or the one in my laptop. If you game, you usually cheap out the CPU.If you don't game, I have a really really hard time believing that GW2 is a sensible and viable option for you to start, anyway. I'd love to see stats on that. Pretty sure it's extremely rare. If you can only game with an integrated card, I'm sorry to hear that, but please realize you are the absolute minority on PC and you should not expect games to be optimized around your situation. Also please realize that updating does not necessarily mean it won't run for you anymore.

I play a lot of MMOs and I hear this comment a lot - "More content, who cares about future-proofing" - the problem is: you actually need to future proof. I played GW2 a lot, I still open it from time to time, but in recent years I have been completely unable to get a single one of my friends on it. It just looks too dated. There is plenty more modern / remastered alternatives to play. And sadly, that goes for me too. When I started playing, I was in awe. I have hundreds of screenshots. I loved the environment and the exploration so much... today I log in from time to time, I still enjoy the gameplay, but sadly it really feel like playing a really old game at this point. Which is a really really bad thing for me, GW2 has so much great stuff I'd love to play it more still. It's only going to get worse. Every online game I still play from the last decade has done something of sorts. See WoW, EVE Online or Warframe just to name a few of the old ones, who did a great job updating and still pretty much run on every teapot in your house. If you don't iterate on your tech, you are risking becoming a niche old game (i.e. less community, less income, less content) - and I'd hate if that's where GW2 ends up. This is honestly just not true. GW2 does not run well at all. I have a really really beefy modern build, in GW2 I get the same framerate I get in Monster Hunter World, fully maxed, with high resolution texture pack installed (and additional 40gb DLC). It's a night and day difference in graphics. Just 2 years ago with my old PC/CPU I was having way better FPS in Black Desert Online than in GW2.With my laptop, I can play all of the games I cited above way better than GW2. I did hours on those, lower graphics but no biggie. Not true for GW2 (moreover, why should I play GW2 with low FPS / low setting when I can play another good game that at least runs smooth?) Last but not least, streaming is already here (I'm currently playing The Division 2 with some friends and my SO and they are all streaming it, we are playing hardcore, no issues. Side to side with my SO I can ofc see difference with mine - 4k HDR - but really, it's still good enough that it feels like sci-fi to me). And updating your tech takes time anyway. If Anet is really in such a position, I must say, it is more important than ever to have a long-term plan. Creating content as fast as they can to keep current players engaged can only get you so far and has so many points of failure. While I doubt support for DX9 will cease or any other GW2-breaking events will take place, the game it's gtting older. New players have plenty of alternatives. Performance is not good enough to justify. While I admit the game so far has great retention (because it's really good), all trends seems to indicate a slowly reducing player base. I'd be ready to bet the main issue is that the game looks and feels old, even compared to older games that got updated.I realize this is anecdotal but I'll write anyway: one time at my place after getting a new input device (an Azeron FYI - loving it) a few friends of mine asked to try it out and I let them on a few games, one of which was WoW. They used to play WoW (and GW2 for what matters) with me, and they got surprised by how much better WoW looks now compared to what they remembered. They both ended up playing again with me for a while. I had no luck trying to get them back in GW2, even if they admitted the gameplay was better. It doesn't have to happen all at once. Pretty much no one does it that way (I'd cite BDO as an exception, but truth is, that was probably quite feasible for them to do).Just plan it, for years to come, a piece at a time. I lack both expertise and knowledge of the current state of the game to suggest anything. But as a developer myself, this is something that needs to happen. And the more they wait, the worse it'll be and the greater the possibility it'd just be too late. ^ TL;DR: this