I dare you and the devs to name JUST ONE thing that has changed in the game and consequently made the game massively better, JUST ONE TRULY IMPACTFUL CHANGE to the better.
I’ll start: nothing. so far they have been too scared of taking good risks and doing the “uncomfortable” because everything they have done so far has been against players wishes or against common sense or against making the game fun for some mind boglingly unknown reason. Too scared to even re-enable the third weapon slot in PVE only.
If you cannot name any because there really isnt any to begin with, what would that ONE thing be? For me it is a tie between
1- adding the third weapon slot back in PVE only,
2- removing respeccing costs from both weapons and attribute respeccing, and
3- removing orbs as entry requirement to arenas and expeditions.
1 Linked storage.
2 Reduced azoth travel cost.
3 Ability to swap weapons while auto running.
4 Ability to purchase expedition orbs on the Faction Vendors.
5 Reduced housing taxes.
Granted they may not impact parts of the game that need changes, but that wasn’t the question. They absolutely are, “truly impactful game altering changes the devs have made since the massive player exodus”.
Perfect response: LMAO indeed. If they were truly impactful changes, we would have at least seen an extra 10k players added, but instead we are on a steady decline to an eventual slow and sure death.
The game wont see a return in players (if ever) untill there are things do do once hitting 60 that dont involve a very tedious grind. Both Crafting and GS grinding for the casual player are sort of a none starter.
Every MMO needs grinds to give players things to do whilst waiting for new content, GW2 does this well by having lots of optional grinding, most having no impact on character progression and or power (ascended armour does).
game is still in dev if you ask me. Most of their time spent putting out fires. It may get better only time will tell.
As a returning player this week, Linked Storage, Reduced Azoth travel and running optimizations were huge QoL enhancements. The housing tax reduction which I think is temporary until Dec was also a great discovery! I have mixed feelings on the orbs since no one in their right mind would still craft an orb now. All great changes from the DEVs.
Impactful doesn’t necessarily mean they have to bring players back. If what you want is for people to list things that could potentially bring players back. Ask for that specifically. Trying to change the parameters of the question, because you did not like the responses isn’t going to solve anything.