#like not even as a 'hey play gw2' but in... more ppl knowing about it

[gglitchshit]

<-bearer of the curse (guild wars 2 brainrot of 3 years and ongoing)

[blackjackkent]

Reverse Unpopular Opinion meme:

Your choice of one of these topics!

GW2, writing, Karlach and/or travel

(Reverse Unpopular Opinions: "Ppl send topics and instead of salt or hot takes, you MUST talk abt smth you like about it. Good excuse to gush abt smth you already love, OR think and find smth positive to say.")

Hm. Easy mode here is Karlach bc we all know how I feel about her. :D

I'll pick GW2. I haven't been as active in it lately as I was last year because BG3 fandom has been taking up so much more of my time, but I still really really love it and it's easily the best MMO I've ever played. (Not that I have tremendous MMO experience, but still.)

My favorite thing about it is the community, which is SO strongly geared towards mutual support. I don't really how this compares to the "average" MMO, but the way events are structured (particularly map meta events), everyone is encouraged to come together and work on things as a group and support each other in accomplishing goals.

And the game's culture reflects this! Toss a line in any map chat - "Hey, trying to get the Balthazar's Rest HP, can anyone come and help me out?" and odds are like 95% that some rando will come swooping in to help within a few minutes. Guilds (like one I belong to) form up with the express purpose of running events and helping/guiding/teaching other players.

As someone who REALLY thrives on being able to help other people with things, this is an environment that I find really enjoyable to hang around in and it's one of the big draws that keeps me coming back.

(As a counterpoint, though, I also enjoy that you're not really forced to interact more than you want to with other players. Even in group events, it can be a very impersonal thing where you just help each other out and go on your merry way, and none of the story stuff requires you to have anyone else with you in order to complete it.)

GW2 is great. :D I wish I had many more hours in the day or perhaps several more sets of hands, so that I could spend all my time in BG3 and GW2 at the same time. XD