How is this game these days, worth getting into? A lot of the expansions are dirt cheap for Summer Sale (2024)

Probably too much things to do on one go since the game is been going on for 10 years.
Maybe play the free campaign first before thinking of expansions and you'll see if it's even for you while doing that

Really cool comfy game, worth the time

Very comfy casual MMO. If you're looking for lot's of instanced content like raids and a big community around them you may be disappointed. The game's specialty so to speak is basically big world bosses and "meta-events". The maps are overall really nice, fun to explore. Lots of jumping puzzle, great mounts, a good amount of build variety and agency. No subscription and no gear treadmill, if you want to take a break you can come back at literally any time and get right into actually playing the game. You can level up literally just by checking out vistas, points of interest and general map exploration (ie it's pretty good at rewarding you for playing however you want).
All that said.. The playerbase is seriously moronic and kinda unbelievably bad at the game. The expansion/"living world" split of content is kind of annoying and will cost quite a bit to purchase it all (living world can be bought with gold though), and the game really pushes you to buy a lot of character and account upgrades to be comfortable (inventory slots, bank expansions, infinite salvage and gathering tools, etc). All that stuff (and skins etc) can also be bought with gold too though.

you know very well how's it's doing. it's not. it's a dying game that has been on a downwards spiral since the third expansion. GW3 is a few years away, so just wait for that.

sh*t game full of boomer troons
there's no endgame or content worth doing except for WvW
if you're a casual moron who loves jumping puzzles and pretending to be a woman then it's for you

is it still possible to play gw1? can i play it like a singleplayer game?

I know people talk sh*t about playing mmos for the story but I at least need an appealing world if I'm going to be spending 1000s of hours in it, and the world of GW2 is not appealing at all.

It got worse with every second past level 30. Mounts were good in PoF until they added the dragon, everyrhing else is atrocious. 10k hours here, don't be like me, lads, it doesn't get better.

I distinctly remember the Skyscale map being the one I gave up on the game. That's when it really hit me like a slap to the face that the content of the game was just going to the new map, and grinding for the new map currency to buy whatever it was they were trying to sell you. I think I checked out the first update of the Icebrood saga, but when I say I checked it out extremely briefly I mean it. I just didn't care about the game anymore, and I haven't touched it since.

as an MMO it is pretty bad and dead, but if you just play through the content as a mostly solo game, you have an easy 50-100 hours of decent content for cheap. Worth it as long as you're okay with it not being WoW/XIV tier of an MMO

Honestly the most fun leveling of any MMO I've played. I quickly lose steam at max level though. Not sure if I am moronic but there's so much sh*t to do at max level that I became overwhelmed. I wanted to run some dungeons but nobody was playing them and I just feel like I'm floating around wtihout any direction.

I bought the first xpac and put in about 60 hours, it's good fun despite the fact that the game does so many things wrong

Don't play through Steam if possible. This goes for any game that requires an account, especially MMOs.
Your game account will be linked to your Steam profile and you will pay extra to make up for the Steam tax.
Get GW2 straight from ArenaNet.

Terrible and only getting worse

>beat up the bigot

Only reason I'd think to play it in current year is to try and pull a girlfriend(male).

the game has gone downhill since hall of chains dropped, people only play it to grind materials, craft legendaries and sit in lions arch with 30 glowing items making noise and being obnoxious

It feels like a "play with your imaginary girlfriend" kind of game.

The expansions feel like a entirely different game compared to vanilla and dont be fooled by secrets of the obscure and Janthir wilds, they arent really expansions they are just living story being sold as one.

All I see I this thread is don't buy EoD

WvW and to an extent the instanced pvp are the only good parts of the game.
PvE content has been so heavily farmed out by skinner boxed spastics that its overwhelming for anyone getting into it, and it only really amounts to optimizing farming for specific aesthetic choices. I thought it was funny once to join a "progression group" that would go through all the raid content at a learning pace, but it amounted to basically a newbie larp. Just watch the videos we post in discord and do your rotation, its super easy :). PvE in mmo's is not fun anymore because people dont see it as an actual challenge 9/10 it isn't a challenge, they just see it as a the time cost for the rewards associated with the content and do their absolute best to optimize the fun out of it.

Post Asuras, hom*osexuals.

I played this but I've never got past lvl20-30 stage
I don't know why because It's better and more fluid than most of the MMOs I've played
Graphics are great, art style is cool, sounds is ok, exploration is cool, quests seem alright but there's just something that keeps me from playing it seriously. I don't know what it is.
I've tried 3 different toons, with different classes but it's always the same

I have 2k+ hours played over 7 years, it has some of the best open world pve (in my opinion) and THE best mount system of any mmo.
Its both casual and hardcore and you don't feel punished if you don't grind, with the exception of the mounts, you definitely want all of them and the griffon and skyscale are grindy.
That being said, there isn't a huge end game gear progression like others mentioned, ascended gear will get you through everything and crafting legendaries can be very time consuming and is more for convenience and fashion than raw power.
I say try it out, get a character to 80 and do some end game, if you enjoy that then get at least path of fire for mounts.