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GW2 Dynamic Events ARE revolutionary, I can't wait till they are evolutionary!

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  • mikahrmikahr Member Posts: 1,066
    Originally posted by Doogiehowser

    Taking existing features from other online games as well as single players and packing them up in one game is not revolutionary, it is simply just improving on what already exists.  

    UO was revolutionary..EQ was revolutionary..GW2 not so much.

    UO wasnt revolutionary it was just copy of single player games, EQ also wasnt revolutionary it was just "3D" (also been already done so not new or revolutionary either)

    No MMO was revolutionary ever, they all just copied something.

  • TorgrimTorgrim Member CommonPosts: 2,088
    Originally posted by jpnz
    Originally posted by Torgrim

    Why are you guys keep babbling about one single DE is dynamic or not.

    The game ITSELF is dynamic, no other MMO has ever done this before and still I see people in this thread that says it has been done before countless times.

    Why can't you naysayers just look at the bigger picture here and stop straw arguments ona single DE chain.

    Tyria is in a constant flow in all zones, things happends all around you wherenever you there or not amd that IS dynamic world.

     

    We aren't actually, try to keep up.

    The OP states that DE are 'revolutionary'.

    Well, that's not factually correct.

    Space Rangers did that and that was released 11 years ago.

    X-series did that and that was 14 years ago.

    Elite did that (kinda butchered the execution but it gets a pass since it was released in 1984!)

     

    Is it new for an MMO to do that? Not really, EVE Sancha-invasion does that, Rift's Rift mechanic is similar as well. From a game design point of view, the OP is factually wrong.

     

    What the heck does 'quest hub mechanic' has to do with anything?

    DE has been around for a while in game design. Essentially its nothing more than a series of YES/NO states.

     

    Please read my post again you complelty missed my point.

    If it's not broken, you are not innovating.

  • xAPOCxxAPOCx Member UncommonPosts: 869
    I cant believe this conversation is still goin on....

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  • TorgrimTorgrim Member CommonPosts: 2,088
    Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard
    Originally posted by xAPOCx
    I cant believe this conversation is still goin on....

    What I can't believe is the lack of moderation of some posters who are obviously here only to bash the game and insult its players in the process (anyone enjoying GW2 can only be a delusional fanboy right?), which are both behaviors which are against this forum's rules.

    But if one dares answering in the same way they address people, he gets immediately reported and moderated.

    It's just another forum where the moderation defends the trolls instead of favoring a constructive community of people who actually play the game and want to talk about it. If the rules against personal attacks and excessive negativity where applied, this place would be much more pleasant for everyone, and more players of the game would actually regularly post here instead of having the forum invaded by negative haters who for most aren't playing at all, and obviously never have played it enough to even know what they are talking about - yet they are permitted to keep on spamming negative nonsense and misinformation.

    But whatever... *shrug*

     

    Yep these boards are a joke.

    If it's not broken, you are not innovating.

  • KuppaKuppa Member UncommonPosts: 3,292
    What has to be looked at its the big picture. There is where gw2 makes strides, not just the individual bits and pieces.

    I just wish the conversation was more constructive and less random bashing as many have taken to.

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  • ZorgoZorgo Member UncommonPosts: 2,254
    Originally posted by Torgrim
    Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard
    Originally posted by xAPOCx
    I cant believe this conversation is still goin on....

    What I can't believe is the lack of moderation of some posters who are obviously here only to bash the game and insult its players in the process (anyone enjoying GW2 can only be a delusional fanboy right?), which are both behaviors which are against this forum's rules.

    But if one dares answering in the same way they address people, he gets immediately reported and moderated.

    It's just another forum where the moderation defends the trolls instead of favoring a constructive community of people who actually play the game and want to talk about it. If the rules against personal attacks and excessive negativity where applied, this place would be much more pleasant for everyone, and more players of the game would actually regularly post here instead of having the forum invaded by negative haters who for most aren't playing at all, and obviously never have played it enough to even know what they are talking about - yet they are permitted to keep on spamming negative nonsense and misinformation.

    But whatever... *shrug*

     

    Yep these boards are a joke.

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  • FelixMajorFelixMajor Member RarePosts: 865
    Originally posted by Dream_Chaser
    Originally posted by Torgrim

    And there I stopped reading the rest.

    Because you have a low tolerance for reading? Really, you supply no reason as to why you stopped reading, and making text red doesn't magically provide one.

    I understand why he stopped reading.  He didn't need a reason for majority of people would actually understand why he stopped reading XD.

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  • mikahrmikahr Member Posts: 1,066
    Originally posted by jpnz

    There was, it just wasn't seen properly.

    The original elite had an 'event' where you'd get a collection of ships coming at you because you became a target.

    It was suppose to be a 'group' but since back in the day we didn't have the tech, they came in one at a time in irregular intervals as they travelled through space to get to you. This is just one event out of many btw.

    But if Elite is too old school, I can point to X-Beyond-The-Frontier if you like? Which was 1999.

    Or Space Rangers? which was 2002.

     

    Derailing aside, the OP is factually wrong in that GW2's DE isn't a revolutionary idea nor is it a new game design.

    Sorry, but youre stretching it beyond limit.

    In the end you can just argue its just bunch of zeros and ones "taken to a logical conclusion" and theres nothing revolutionary or original about any software ever created.

  • kartoolkartool Member UncommonPosts: 520
    Originally posted by Scalpless
    It's not about who did them first. It's about who did the right first.

    We're still waiting on this to happen.

  • Gaia_HunterGaia_Hunter Member UncommonPosts: 3,066

    Regardless of who introduced PQs/Rifts or Dynamic Events first:

    - people in WAR levelled by doing quests/instances,

    - people in Rift levelled by doing quests/instances,

    - people in GW2 level by wandering around the world and having Dynamic Events pop up on them.

    I can see a difference and I prefer it.

    Others don't and they can be happy playing Warhammer online and Rift without doing PQs and Rifts,

    Currently playing: GW2
    Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders

  • ZorgoZorgo Member UncommonPosts: 2,254
    Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

    Regardless of who introduced PQs/Rifts or Dynamic Events first:

    - people in WAR levelled by doing quests/instances,

    - people in Rift levelled by doing quests/instances,

    - people in GW2 level by wandering around the world and having Dynamic Events pop up on them.

    I can see a difference and I prefer it.

    Others don't and they can be happy playing Warhammer online and Rift without doing PQs and Rifts,

    ....I levelled in WAR and Rift by using a combination of features, including and sometimes primarily PQs and Rifts.....

     - the same as I did in GW2...using a combination of all its features.

    Who exactly are these people who didn't use rifts or pq's? That's delusional.

  • TorgrimTorgrim Member CommonPosts: 2,088
    Originally posted by Zorgo
    Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

    Regardless of who introduced PQs/Rifts or Dynamic Events first:

    - people in WAR levelled by doing quests/instances,

    - people in Rift levelled by doing quests/instances,

    - people in GW2 level by wandering around the world and having Dynamic Events pop up on them.

    I can see a difference and I prefer it.

    Others don't and they can be happy playing Warhammer online and Rift without doing PQs and Rifts,

    ....I levelled in WAR and Rift by using a combination of features, including and sometimes primarily PQs and Rifts.....

     - the same as I did in GW2...using a combination of all its features.

    Who exactly are these people who didn't use rifts or pq's? That's delusional.

     

    WAR and RIFT are quest hub based, GW2 are not.

    If it's not broken, you are not innovating.

  • Vunak23Vunak23 Member UncommonPosts: 633
    Originally posted by mikahr
    Originally posted by Vunak23

    I'm sorry all the GW2 fans have a misconception of what the word Dynamic means. But GW2's Events are anything but. They are static and repeating events with triggers. There is nothng Dynamic about that. 

    Just for those that don't know:

    dy·nam·ic

    Always active or changing

    ~~~

    Like I said GW2's events are static so they are anything but Dynamic. I'm sure someone has already started charting them, they just haven't got through them all yet. 

    You see, if you had read whole thread you wouldnt have embarass yourself so much

    Originally posted by mikahr
    Simple display of "DYNAMIC" for those who have problem with words:

    http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/mechanics/chapter4_simpleharmonicmotion.html

    Oh I didn't embarrass myself. Dynamic is a word that means ever changing and constant motion. GW2's events are neither of those. If your trying to imply that ANet was using the physics/engineering term; Dynamics which deals with forces and  the relation to the motion of objects/bodies. Or perhaps they were referring to Population Dynamics. Or perhaps Aerodynamics... Analytical Dynamics... File Dynamics. Oh the list could go on and on. Quantum electrodynamics.  

    But we all know they weren't; They were referring to Dynamic which is not the same as what you posted. They weren't using it as an engineering term or a physics term... 

    "In the immediate future, we have this one, and then we’ve got another one that is actually going to be – so we’re going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what we’re targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you can’t hold me to it. But what we’re targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet." ~Gabe Amatangelo

  • PurutzilPurutzil Member UncommonPosts: 3,048
    Originally posted by Torgrim
    Originally posted by Zorgo
    Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

    Regardless of who introduced PQs/Rifts or Dynamic Events first:

    - people in WAR levelled by doing quests/instances,

    - people in Rift levelled by doing quests/instances,

    - people in GW2 level by wandering around the world and having Dynamic Events pop up on them.

    I can see a difference and I prefer it.

    Others don't and they can be happy playing Warhammer online and Rift without doing PQs and Rifts,

    ....I levelled in WAR and Rift by using a combination of features, including and sometimes primarily PQs and Rifts.....

     - the same as I did in GW2...using a combination of all its features.

    Who exactly are these people who didn't use rifts or pq's? That's delusional.

     

    WAR and RIFT are quest hub based, GW2 are not.

    Um... GW2 IS a quest based hub like the other games, just instead of 'picking up' the individual quests they are merged together as one single entiy and obtained automatically. Lets not be ignorant and pretend its not the traditional quest system just repackaged a little differently in how its presented. The only difference is GW2 has a lot more static events, in some forms similiar to WAR in giving a change up, just having a bit more of them around as technology has picked up enough to support it, though it still comes out to be scripted which to ANet's credit, its quite difficult to pull off much of a 'dynamic' style for them without having people miss out. 

  • jpnzjpnz Member Posts: 3,529
    Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard
     

    What I can't believe is the lack of moderation of some posters who are obviously here only to bash the game and insult its players in the process (anyone enjoying GW2 can only be a delusional fanboy right?), which are both behaviors which are against this forum's rules.

    But if one dares answering in the same way they address people, he gets immediately reported and moderated.

    It's just another forum where the moderation defends the trolls instead of favoring a constructive community of people who actually play the game and want to talk about it. If the rules against personal attacks and excessive negativity where applied, this place would be much more pleasant for everyone, and more players of the game would actually regularly post here instead of having the forum invaded by negative haters who for most aren't playing at all, and obviously never have played it enough to even know what they are talking about - yet they are permitted to keep on spamming negative nonsense and misinformation.

    But whatever... *shrug*

    Lying about something or posting about something that is factually false serves no one.

    If you want a giant 'pat-on-the-back-cause-we-are-awesome' type conversation with other bias supporters, go for it. Just know that on this forum, people have different views on things.

    Last I checked, the DE isn't a 'revolutionary' game design since it was done in other games like Space Rangers (2002). If you want to refute that, go ahead. 

    Not sure why you are so upset though, the OP gets his wish that the DE isn't a revolution.

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  • Sinjin213Sinjin213 Member Posts: 6
    Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard
    Originally posted by xAPOCx
    I cant believe this conversation is still goin on....

    What I can't believe is the lack of moderation of some posters who are obviously here only to bash the game and insult its players in the process (anyone enjoying GW2 can only be a delusional fanboy right?), which are both behaviors which are against this forum's rules.

    But if one dares answering in the same way they address people, he gets immediately reported and moderated.

    It's just another forum where the moderation defends the trolls instead of favoring a constructive community of people who actually play the game and want to talk about it. If the rules against personal attacks and excessive negativity where applied, this place would be much more pleasant for everyone, and more players of the game would actually regularly post here instead of having the forum invaded by negative haters who for most aren't playing at all, and obviously never have played it enough to even know what they are talking about - yet they are permitted to keep on spamming negative nonsense and misinformation.

    But whatever... *shrug*

    Well, I can assure that it's not just those that defend GW2 that are having action taken against them, note my post count.  I do not hate GW2 in any way. It was on my computer until it crashed.  I just found it boring.  I cannot defend anyone though that says that this game is revolutionary because it just isn't true.  DEs are nothing new, they are kill, gather, protect, and escort quests.  Changing a "?" to a big orange circle on the map and changing the total number of kills/items needed into a progression bar does not change what these DEs really are.  Sorry, it just doesn't.  

  • Gaia_HunterGaia_Hunter Member UncommonPosts: 3,066

    http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto

     

    In addition to great storyline and important player choices, another hallmark of great RPGs is that they create a world that feels real and alive. Let’s say a village is being terrorized by bandits. You don’t want to find out about that because there’s a villager standing there motionless with an exclamation mark over his head who says when you click on him, “Help, we’re being terrorized by bandits.” You want to find out like you would in GW2: because the bandits are attacking, chasing villagers through the streets, slaying them and setting their houses on fire. You can stand up for the villagers, or you can watch their village burn to the ground and then deal with the consequences. We’ve worked hard to create a living, dynamic world for you, where there’s always something new to do.

    MMOs are social games. So why do they sometimes seem to work so hard to punish you for playing with other players? If I’m out hunting and another player walks by, shouldn’t I welcome his help, rather than worrying that he’s going to steal my kills or consume all the mobs I wanted to kill? Or if I want to play with someone, shouldn’t we naturally have the same goals and objectives, rather than discovering that we’re in the same area but working on a different set of quests?

    We think of GW2 as the first MMO that actually has a cooperative PvE experience. When I’m out hunting and suddenly there’s a huge explosion over the next hill – the ground is shaking and smoke is pouring into the sky – I’m going to want to investigate, and most other players in the area will too. Or if the sky darkens on a sunny day, and I look up and see a dragon circling overhead preparing to attack, I know I’d better fight or flee, and everyone around me knows that too.

    With traditional MMOs you can choose to solo or you can find a good guild or party to play with. <span pullquote="" location-grouping="" "="">With GW2 there’s a third option too: you can just naturally play with all the people around you. I personally spend a big chunk of my time in traditional MMOs soloing, but when I play GW2 I always find myself naturally working with everyone around me to accomplish world objectives, and before long we find ourselves saying, “Hey, there’s a bunch of us here; let’s see if we can take down the swamp boss together,” without ever having bothered to form a party.

    Of course GW2 has great support for parties, but they just don’t feel as necessary as they do in other MMOs, because your interests are always aligned with all other nearby players anyway. When someone kills a monster, not just that player’s party but everyone who was seriously involved in the fight gets 100% of the XP and loot for the kill. When an event is happening in the world – when the bandits are terrorizing a village – everyone in the area has the same motivation, and when the event ends, everyone gets rewarded.

     

    DEs were designed for this, They accomplish it. Most MMORPGs aren't like this. Most MMORPGs pride themselves to be a competition between players.

    Currently playing: GW2
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  • Vunak23Vunak23 Member UncommonPosts: 633
    Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

    http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto

     

    In addition to great storyline and important player choices, another hallmark of great RPGs is that they create a world that feels real and alive. Let’s say a village is being terrorized by bandits. You don’t want to find out about that because there’s a villager standing there motionless with an exclamation mark over his head who says when you click on him, “Help, we’re being terrorized by bandits.” You want to find out like you would in GW2: because the bandits are attacking, chasing villagers through the streets, slaying them and setting their houses on fire. You can stand up for the villagers, or you can watch their village burn to the ground and then deal with the consequences. We’ve worked hard to create a living, dynamic world for you, where there’s always something new to do.

    MMOs are social games. So why do they sometimes seem to work so hard to punish you for playing with other players? If I’m out hunting and another player walks by, shouldn’t I welcome his help, rather than worrying that he’s going to steal my kills or consume all the mobs I wanted to kill? Or if I want to play with someone, shouldn’t we naturally have the same goals and objectives, rather than discovering that we’re in the same area but working on a different set of quests?

    We think of GW2 as the first MMO that actually has a cooperative PvE experience. When I’m out hunting and suddenly there’s a huge explosion over the next hill – the ground is shaking and smoke is pouring into the sky – I’m going to want to investigate, and most other players in the area will too. Or if the sky darkens on a sunny day, and I look up and see a dragon circling overhead preparing to attack, I know I’d better fight or flee, and everyone around me knows that too.

    With traditional MMOs you can choose to solo or you can find a good guild or party to play with. <span pullquote="" location-grouping="" "="">With GW2 there’s a third option too: you can just naturally play with all the people around you. I personally spend a big chunk of my time in traditional MMOs soloing, but when I play GW2 I always find myself naturally working with everyone around me to accomplish world objectives, and before long we find ourselves saying, “Hey, there’s a bunch of us here; let’s see if we can take down the swamp boss together,” without ever having bothered to form a party.

    Of course GW2 has great support for parties, but they just don’t feel as necessary as they do in other MMOs, because your interests are always aligned with all other nearby players anyway. When someone kills a monster, not just that player’s party but everyone who was seriously involved in the fight gets 100% of the XP and loot for the kill. When an event is happening in the world – when the bandits are terrorizing a village – everyone in the area has the same motivation, and when the event ends, everyone gets rewarded.

     

    DEs were designed for this, They accomplish it. Most MMORPGs aren't like this. Most MMORPGs pride themselves to be a competition between players.

    Great storyline... thats subject to opinion, I thought the storylines were very weak at best. I have admitted in the past that GW2 does a great job of bringing the world alive artificially, but thats not dynamic. They certainly are full of themselves aren't they.. The first true cooperative PVE Experiance... ROFL. MMO's are social yes. Yet why is one of the main complains about GW2 about it being very anti-social.. People dont talk because there is no reason to. 

    That post is just toying with words to make their system sound better than everyone elses on the market. Hell SWTOR did that with there questing/cinematic system and made it look fantastic... 

    "In the immediate future, we have this one, and then we’ve got another one that is actually going to be – so we’re going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what we’re targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you can’t hold me to it. But what we’re targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet." ~Gabe Amatangelo

  • BladestromBladestrom Member UncommonPosts: 5,001

    storyline i agree, its a weaker side of gw2, especially in comparison to GW1.  RE being anti social, you are confusing solo play with guild play.  guild play tends to be very relaxed and fun, no competition for  gear or raid slots, shared rewards = fun and very very social. 

     

    RE the solo play, are you comparing apples with oranges?  solo play in other mmorgs is  questing solo, with some acting selfishly towards other people and stealing resources.  (its rewarded).  You almost never join with people.  I n GW2 the issue is that you join casually with others while you are SOLO PLAYING.  That is not anti social and it is better than the former solo play model.

     

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    Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D

  • jpnzjpnz Member Posts: 3,529
    Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

    http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto

     

    /Snip

    DEs were designed for this, They accomplish it. Most MMORPGs aren't like this. Most MMORPGs pride themselves to be a competition between players.

    Is ANet's design manifesto still relevant?

    With the whole 'Ascendency gear' and the 'level 80 gear grind' AMA, its irrelevant now.

    Pretty sure we've answered the OP's thread though.

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    Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.

  • aesperusaesperus Member UncommonPosts: 5,135
    Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

    http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto

    ***edited for length***

    DEs were designed for this, They accomplish it. Most MMORPGs aren't like this. Most MMORPGs pride themselves to be a competition between players.

    Pretty much what Gaia said ^

    People need to stop looking at GW2 under a microscope, and they might be able to see why it's being called 'revolutionary', or at the very least, why it is indeed different. It's not like this hasn't been explained enough.

    EVERY game, when you scrutinize it too closely, is 'nothing new'. That doesn't make it accepted as truth. Games are mostly definited by their mechanics / systems, and how they interact with one another to create a new experience. Yes, you are still killing things in GW2, crafting, and collecting. That stuff is so fundamental it's not going away. It'd be like trying to get rid of movement in a game, because you wanted to be different. It's just not going to happen. What's important to realize, though, is that the systems GW2 has implemented, do come together to form something that doesn't exist in other games yet.

    You don't have shopping list quests, the amount of things needed is hidden, and often scales depending on the players in the area. Proper lvl scaling, is also something that hasn't really been handled properly before. WAR tried it, but it didn't quite work all that well.

    There's a long list of things that contribute to the reason why GW2 is a different type of MMO. However, it's still an online fantasy rpg. What anet set out to tackle was a change in philosophy, and to a large degree, they've succeeded. Heck, look at TESO; the game has a lot in common w/ GW2 so far.

  • Vunak23Vunak23 Member UncommonPosts: 633
    Originally posted by Bladestrom

    storyline i agree, its a weaker side of gw2, especially in comparison to GW1.  RE being anti social, you are confusing solo play with guild play.  guild play tends to be very relaxed and fun, no competition for  gear or raid slots, shared rewards = fun and very very social. 

    This is not an aspect of design but an aspect of how a guild is ran individually. Every MMO has good guilds (social and fun) and bad guilds that do nothing at all. Hell most games have way better guild management and reason to be in a guild than GW2. Plus being a social MMO, you shouldnt have to be in a guild to actually socialize with others around you. 

    FFXI for example is a game where you pair up with random people everyday (not in your guild) and hold some pretty lengthy and fun conversation. This does not happen in GW2 with any sort of abundance to even be considered a social MMO. 

     RE the solo play, are you comparing apples with oranges?  solo play in other mmorgs is  questing solo, with some acting selfishly towards other people and stealing resources.  (its rewarded).  You almost never join with people.  I n GW2 the issue is that you join casually with others while you are SOLO PLAYING.  That is not anti social and it is better than the former solo play model.

    Your making it seem like solo play in GW2 is this amazing experience but its not. You run around with a zerg of people you will never see again, or care that you will never see them again. Your forced to keep pace with the rest of the zerg or lose out on the event. You also have the Heart quests that are your typical solo style MMO.  

    Not to mention if socialization is a main aspect of GW2, why is soloing a key point. Grouping should be. And there is no reason to group outside of dungeons in GW2. Unlike other games, once again FFXI you group up for social interaction and a faster leveling experience.

    You would think that ANET would go on and on about how amazing the grouping aspect of their game was and not the soloing aspect.

    Once again... ANET is pretty full of themselves aren't they.  

    I had to reread this a few times to decipher but I think I was able to. 

    "In the immediate future, we have this one, and then we’ve got another one that is actually going to be – so we’re going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what we’re targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you can’t hold me to it. But what we’re targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet." ~Gabe Amatangelo

  • aesperusaesperus Member UncommonPosts: 5,135
    Originally posted by jpnz
    Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

    http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto

     

    /Snip

    DEs were designed for this, They accomplish it. Most MMORPGs aren't like this. Most MMORPGs pride themselves to be a competition between players.

    Is ANet's design manifesto still relevant?

    With the whole 'Ascendency gear' and the 'level 80 gear grind' AMA, its irrelevant now.

    Pretty sure we've answered the OP's thread though.

    It's still relevant. While I'm not overly thrilled by the ascendency idea, it's not nearly as big of a deal as most people make it out to be. It has absolutely no bearing in sPvP, it makes no real difference in WvW, and I've never seen it listed as a requirement for any dungeons other than fractals.

    It's kind of a progression system that exists in a bubble, in a lot of ways.

  • mgilbrtsnmgilbrtsn Member EpicPosts: 3,430
    Your second paragraph pretty much says that any other opinion is invalid.  If you aren't looking for debate, I would look to a different forum for stating your opinions.  As is, you will get pro and con answers to your thread.  Discounting the cons out of hand is no better than those who go con as a matter of principle to a positive thread.

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  • Gaia_HunterGaia_Hunter Member UncommonPosts: 3,066
    Originally posted by jpnz
    Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

    http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto

     

    /Snip

    DEs were designed for this, They accomplish it. Most MMORPGs aren't like this. Most MMORPGs pride themselves to be a competition between players.

    Is ANet's design manifesto still relevant?

    With the whole 'Ascendency gear' and the 'level 80 gear grind' AMA, its irrelevant now.

    Pretty sure we've answered the OP's thread though.

    This manifesto is much more relevant than the newer video manifesto and goes in line with a old blogpost Arenanet had during GW1 that I can't find (isn't easy to find in the GW1 website anymore).

    Ascendency gear is still at rings and backslot.

    It was clearly a overreaction to what they have been reading in forums at the time with players demanding more stat based progression - and as I noted people wanting that kind of progression also want things that are better given by games like WoW.

    I hope they ditch their idea of adding more Ascended gear, but if not, at least with the new ways that will come on Monday patch, it won't be so bad.

    From my point of view, GW2 questing/leveling in the persistent world is nothing like questinh/leveling in WoW persistent world.

    As I've said many times, when people need to go fetch 10 games to say that GW2 features were done better or first in that 1 of 10 games, it becomes a silly discussion, because GW2 isn't discrete features but the sum of all features working at the same time.

    There is a syndrome known of MMORPGs - "game X is WoW with twist a" or "game y is WoW with feature b". So when you subtract that feature or twist in essence it still was WoW (or EQ if the reader is annoying).

    Currently playing: GW2
    Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders

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