Rawr! Guild Wars 2 why?

RAWR!

So... I have basically quit GW2 because of the patch that launched ascended weaps. I was already getting wore out from the constant bi-weekly grind of 'new content' (which is actually a ton of tiny temp contents designed to distract you from the fact that only 3 perm things have been added to the game since it has launched, over a year ago, and 1 of which is why I quit)

They perm changed everything in the game related to gain for the player. You can no longer control your own gain with a couple hours work a day, but now you would have to grind for years for the same thing you could have had before.

Example. They killed karma. A Jug of karma used to be able to be used with buffs, such as from guild, from boosts, from food, so on, to 95% more gain, just like any consumable. This means a jug of karma was worth almost 8k karma (7.8ish). They removed that the patch before, and said they would increase how much karma you get from consumable karma items. It was 6k before, now it is 6.2... Even besides that, now, after this patch they launched, you no longer get a jug from dailies, or dungeons. Dailies you get a drop. A drop is 600ish karma. That is a loss of karma, daily, always, from everything already, and on top of that, dailies and dungeons are cut by 1/11. That is more than 90% LESS than you ever got before.

My legendary I was working on just got murdered. So much for obsid shards....

It gets better.

They killed Magic Find. I had a full, ascended included, set of mf gear, besides my other set which I had for dungeons and dps. They announced that mf would come off of gear and that everyone would get handed 20% and salvage for the rest, and could get up to 300% account wide. Sounds great, right?

I salvaged 6 toons worth, with full bags of loot, with 18 slot bags, and got 7% karma. 27% karma after all that work in exchange for my almost 300% I had before on my gear. On top of that, I also did the math, and it would take literally MILLIONS of salvages to actually hit 300% at the rate at which you gain it. ON TOP OF THAT, the fact that I already had a full, ascended included, set for deeps means that I would have to salvage my mf set, since I didn't need a second dps set, yet, I CANNOT salvage my ascended, nor can I mystic toilet them. 3 months worth of laurels are now worth 4 silver each. There is NO other value or point to them. Cannot even give them to another toon or anything. Cannot even try for an ecto and hope I get 20s out of it.

Anet already reduced drops 22%, killed cof farming, and destroyed me ever believing I could get the bi-weekly acheivies by catering them to 5% of the gaming populace, instead of wanting to cater to the Majority of their players. They completely murdered loot, and in exchange for what? Some account bound crafting mats that I will never use? More that I cannot gain anything from?

These were NEEDLESSLY drastic changes. The math is HUGE.

Everything has become, and is continuing to become that you cannot gain anything by playing the game. So I left. The only things I miss are the account wide banking, access to the trading post from anywhere, and how cute my asura is. Besides that, just the people I met in the guild I was in. The game offered me nothing else in the long run after all, because I am a collector, a completionist, an explorer. They took away my ability to collect, denied me any way to complete, and didn't give me anything more to explore.

I am NOT the only person who was displeased, or even posted such on the forums. The changes are perm. Why, GW2? Why?

I am playing elsewhere now. I will waste no further time or money on you.

Rawr!