I m reading the thread and so far none of the things listed were things that were announce. 

So far everything has fall under "things players wanted but Arenanet couldn't implement BUT will after release features". None of them were things Arenanet intended to implement but did not.

Dynamic Level Adjustment was touted in early PR as going both ways in open world PVE.

According to the official wiki:

"In early beta builds, a character's effective level could be increased by joining a party with a higher level character. This has been removed and dynamic level adjustment now only scales characters down in level"

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_level_adjustment

Originally posted by ennymith

Dynamic Level Adjustment was touted in early PR as going both ways in open world PVE.

According to the official wiki:

"In early beta builds, a character's effective level could be increased by joining a party with a higher level character. This has been removed and dynamic level adjustment now only scales characters down in level"

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_level_adjustment

And this was a wise decision.

Traits were supposed to be like this:

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/traits-overview/

but ended up like this:

http://www.arena.net/blog/play-your-way-jon-peters-on-traits-and-attributes

"You acquire traits by completing profession challenges scattered throughout the world. For instance, you walk into an inn and persuade a shadowy stranger into telling you a rumor about a mysterious tome full of arcane knowledge. Or you challenge a legendary swordmaster to a duel while exploring Divinity's Reach."

I really liked the idea of this, too bad they scrapped it :(

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

Originally posted by ennymith

Dynamic Level Adjustment was touted in early PR as going both ways in open world PVE.

According to the official wiki:

"In early beta builds, a character's effective level could be increased by joining a party with a higher level character. This has been removed and dynamic level adjustment now only scales characters down in level"

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_level_adjustment

And this was a wise decision.

+1

Upscaling in PvE is a bad idea, it makes players skip content and actually makes levels obsolete altogether (which isn't necesarily a bad thing, just there seems to be a lot of folks that need that sense of vertical progression).

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

Gotta love how the negative people (or the 'invaders' from other games) list up things that have NEVER been promised as being part of the initial release of the game.

You can look the feature list on the official site. Every single thing is in game as of BW2.

yeah. The topic is very misleading. People will think there are launch features missing.

Gw2 is already a very polished feature packed mmo compared to other garbage MMOs at launch.

Originally posted by ennymith

Dynamic Level Adjustment was touted in early PR as going both ways in open world PVE.

According to the official wiki:

"In early beta builds, a character's effective level could be increased by joining a party with a higher level character. This has been removed and dynamic level adjustment now only scales characters down in level"

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_level_adjustment

Originally posted by seridan

Traits were supposed to be like this:

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/traits-overview/

but ended up like this:

http://www.arena.net/blog/play-your-way-jon-peters-on-traits-and-attributes

"You acquire traits by completing profession challenges scattered throughout the world. For instance, you walk into an inn and persuade a shadowy stranger into telling you a rumor about a mysterious tome full of arcane knowledge. Or you challenge a legendary swordmaster to a duel while exploring Divinity's Reach."

I really liked the idea of this, too bad they scrapped it :(

Those two "examples" aren't features that have been removed - but changed after testing them during beta, which is what a beta is made for after all.

Looks like the profession challenges have been renamed to skill point challenges - which aren't bad either, and can be just as varied (I had combat ones and lore related ones).

Originally posted by seridan

Traits were supposed to be like this:

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/traits-overview/

but ended up like this:

http://www.arena.net/blog/play-your-way-jon-peters-on-traits-and-attributes

"You acquire traits by completing profession challenges scattered throughout the world. For instance, you walk into an inn and persuade a shadowy stranger into telling you a rumor about a mysterious tome full of arcane knowledge. Or you challenge a legendary swordmaster to a duel while exploring Divinity's Reach."

I really liked the idea of this, too bad they scrapped it :(

These have simply been changed to skill challenges. Same idea, different name (though I do kind of wish there was something more to trait acquisition).

Originally posted by seridan

Traits were supposed to be like this:

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/traits-overview/

but ended up like this:

http://www.arena.net/blog/play-your-way-jon-peters-on-traits-and-attributes

"You acquire traits by completing profession challenges scattered throughout the world. For instance, you walk into an inn and persuade a shadowy stranger into telling you a rumor about a mysterious tome full of arcane knowledge. Or you challenge a legendary swordmaster to a duel while exploring Divinity's Reach."

I really liked the idea of this, too bad they scrapped it :(

This is kinda how Skill points are distributed now, along with getting them through leveling.  I was dissapointed that they scrapped this acquiring traits in the world idea, but I'm glad they kept it for something important like skill points.

Originally posted by stragen001

Originally posted by Butregenyo

Guild Halls,

Observer mode,

trait/build templates (importing exporting sharing),

New sPvP modes (announced),

personal housing (in addition to personal instance),

live content team (actually it will be there after launch but they will take their time to renew the content)

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These features are comfirmed to be done after launch.

This is a shame and quite a surprise. The Build templates system in GW1 was really useful and worked perfectly. 

Does anyone know if it is possible to link items into chat in GW2 yet? I think that may be part of the delay if not....

The templates system in GW1 didn't come until later either.