The Guild Wars 2 Thread

p.s.

Castanova is spot on 6 months per almost obligatory explansion/dlc/mission pac/episode (whatever they call it)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_Wars

Three stand-alone episodes and one expansion pack were released in the series from April 2005 to August 2007.

 

Get cracking them, Ulminati.

 

Except that you're not forced to buy it if you want to play, or you can wait for a hefty digital distribution discount.

 

Ye, right.

You will just sit around and wait for discounts while all your friends are doing new campaigns.


p.s. I am not explaining that this game is not "totally awesome". Why bother, 90% of fans would move to another "totally awesome" game in a month.

Check how many Diablo 3 fans are playing it now. Probably most moved to GW2 already, wanna bet? )

 

For me it's not being bound by sub thus having a feeling that I need to play only/mostly because I have month paid. Of course it's like paying for a sub money-wise if they keep releasing regular x-packs but I have no problem with that if the content is worth it and it keeps me interested all the time.

Then again I'm wasting my time replying to "hur dur you probably loved D3" guy

 

It's a pretty typical MMORPG with the (huge) perk that you can play at your leisure without feeling like you have to because you shelling out money every month. From the little I played of it, it seems like a big grindfest with a more fun/interactive world than the typical MMO.

But yeah, they sucked at monetizing the original Guild Wars and I'm sure they'll do a better job at it this time, aka more constant DLC/expansions.

 

))))))))))

problem identified

 

Devs said that there wont be GW1 styled expansions this time

 

Btw if anyone lands his jewish hands on some kind of a trial key for this, I'd be interested (altho I doubt those will be up anytime soon since it's just about to launch, but eh)

 

You realize that you get content for free when you pay sub?

That same content that you have to buy in case of "no monthly sub".

 

A lot of the monetization seems to come from the gem store. you can buy xp boosts, magic find boosts etc for "gems" which you can buy for real money. There's also a gem/gold stock exchange where you can buy gems from other people at whatever rate the market will bear using ingame gold you get from quests. Occasionally, chests drop in the game that require special keys to unlock, buyable with gems. (Like Team Fortress 2 crates). I also got one of those keys as a story mission quest reward.

 

Free2Pay

 

you realize that gw1 had actually free stuff released for it and that mmorpgs with subs still release paid expansion packs?

 

Well the game runs perfectly fine (considering). I dont even have all the options on lowest. Now to see if i actually like the piece of shit

 

Btw what servers are the american bros playing on? I already picked but i guess its free to switch for now

 

While we're asking for stuff, does anyone know of any good guides for classes. In paticular I'm trying to figure out which skills and traits to grab for my elementalist, as well as what weapon setup to go with.

 

I'm on Maguuma. My friend bought me the game and told me I had to play there. He chose it because its apparently the Something Awful 'official' server or something, I dont fucking know.

 

I thought you were taking it slow Zed

 

Meanwhile, us lowly noobs who've been mainlining PvE are barely breaking lv 20

 

People are gonna hit the level cap before the game is even officially released. I thought it'd take a month to get more objective thoughts about the game but at this pace I might get a sober review as early as next week!

 

Who gives a shit about people hitting the cap? It's inconsequential.

How would one go about joining this supposed Codexian guild?

 

Are you referring to how the game unlocks all skills and gives you all the best equipment when you PvP? True. For a second there, I thought the "RPG" part of MMORPG might actually mean something!

 

So codex guild is in yaks bend? Just making sure