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My wife doesn't play Guild Wars 2 any more. She hasn't exactly made a deliberate choice to leave the game and never come back, but she used to play every day. Some time around the end of season one of the living world story, she started logging in only every week or so, and then finally not at all. She dips in for a few seconds to unlock the new story chapters, but only because I remind her that they're out.

This is the first time the two of us have been seriously invested in different MMOs. When she stopped playing GW2 as often, she dived headfirst into Final Fantasy XIV, which is totally understandable because it's a great game and I play it casually myself. Normally I wouldn't consider this development to be article material because people drift away from games they used to love and find new ones all the time, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. But this wasn't a natural split: When I told her about all of the cool story stuff happening in season two, my wife's response was, "That sounds neat. Has ArenaNet implemented precursor crafting yet?"

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"That sounds neat. Has ArenaNet implemented precursor crafting yet?"

LOL I love it.  I've heard that same line from friends that I used to play with, as well as a few family folks, too.  I don't think that ArenaNet really understands that the number of players who enjoy this "ultra-rare loot drop that can be traded with other players for insane prices" is in the single-digit percentile range.

I'm with the wife on this one.  Seriously, its easier to get all of the other requirements completed, which are actually supposed to be the "gating mechanics" of the item acquisition process, than it is to get the stupid item drop.