Thats about Halo's hype in a nutshell. Perversly stupid
LMAO
what the hell was that?
There was a time when I was almost that hyped about a video game. It was ridiculous. Today games are no longer groundbreaking therefore I can no longer be excited for run of the mill. Yes there are small changes that twist what is already on the table but it isn't really innovative.
I'm very hyped for GW 2 to the part that it is almost an obsession because I know from the demos that this game is very fresh and truly unique.
How can GW 2 have too much hype when G4TV doesn't even care about it? The MMO report on G4 only hints that GW 2 is announced and nothing more. I guess G4TV is owned by Blizzard or something. They are very anti-GW.
There is not enough hype. Halo had way too much hype. GTA IV had way too much hype. Not GW .
Who cares about G4tv? All they show now are old episodes cops and cheaters all day long. That station sold out loooonnnng ago. When I asked that question I didnt really care about media hype just our hype. We buy the units media dont mean sh*t. I can see your points and that video was funny but compare us to the FPS crown of douchebaggery again and I will find a way to flame you for it. this is mmorpg.com we barely give a damn about console game comparisons.
Looking at the posts there may not be as much hype about this game as it seems like on the outside. With no relase dates and mention of rift being a play between SWTOR and GW2 atleast the responses are rational.
This is one of the few sites that really hypes GW2 so I definitely don't think that this game has too much hype. I like that the hype is small and spread throughout various sites, that way people aren't expecting the next WoW. Having it spread out through a few closely knit sites helps spread the word, while also maintaining a healthy following.
I'm not sure if there is too much hype. My concern is that people will be expecting too much from the game. Hype usually does that. So far none of the games with massive amounts of hype lived up to the expectations people had. It would be nice if GW2 did. I'm pretty excited and have a feeling it will be a good game, but I haven't been keeping up with it too much.
We can only wait and see if the excitement was worth it.
If you played GW and you liked it, add a persistent world and you have GW2.
I played GW and I stopped playing it because it felt like a Multyplayer game not a MMO, but I liked the game design.
I generally don't like casual games but GW was well made
With the inclusion of a persisten world Arenanet addressed the only big Flaw the original game had.
GW is not WoW, the gameplay is totally different in almost everything so I expect GW2 to be a success simply because even if it is a casual game, it is not a WoW clone.
Oh and another important thing...........it is still free.
If you already liked the demo, then you can't be disapointed with full gw2. That demo was like 1% of the game, add another 99% and you'll get one hell of a game! Hype is justified!
I have been trying trials of other games (AoC, WAR, LotRO, WoW) and really, I can see why GW1 has lasted as long as it has (and will live a lot longer). Its by far my favorite Online game currently out (though I haven't tried all the games out there obviously) but I can also see why WoW is essentially the king (I like GW1 better, but after playing other games, I see why so many people play it).
well...the demo for GW2 blew the top off all that (hopefully rift and SW:TOR are better than what is currently out, but I don't think they have a chance compared to GW2). It played so smoothly, and its combat is so interesting and fluid, and everything (at least for a long time GW1 player) was easy to understand and get use to. The dynamic events help make the feel of the game very unique (especially since there are no normal quests, a mistake that WAR made in my opinion). all the small details and little bits of awesomeness are all very well designed (the armor dying system, the map being scrollable, the art style being very very prominent, the VOs). While it has features that have been in other games in some for or another, GW2 does it differently, and does it right.
So...is there too much hype for this game? no. Is there too little information out there that can really convince those people who have little or no foundation to see GW2's shining glory in all its brilliance? absolutely. While the fans may be eagerly looking forward to the profession reveal that comes this month, that won't mean anything to people not paying attention to the game. sadly, if there are people who aren't paying attention to the game at this point (with all the hype about it) I don't think anything short of a massively successful open beta will set them straight.
conclusion: the hype level now is really a product of players excitement over the sequel to a fantastic game, and not the manufactured hype of developer/publisher advertisement. It is fine at its current level, but it will increase with an open beta announcement and that will be the end of all resistance (is futile) towards GW2.
I used to TL;DR, but then I took a bullet point to the footnote.
What really cracks me up is that there are some people actually mad at the fact GW2 has so much hype. I mean how can you hate it? Its not like they are charging a monthly sub. They are talking about doing stuff that is new. Hell I will probably be playing GW2 and whatever other MMO that is good(Rift, SWTOR). I love the fact that they are not charging a monthly sub and I do hope the game lives up too all the hype it has generated, as well as I hope Rift lives up to all its hype.
I do hpe though that GW2 blows its competition away though just for the fact its staying with the B2P plan. It will just show how much the other MMO are trying to milk us out of money. I have felt a long time that MMO companies have been robbing its fan base. And if GW2 it great and delivers on all its promises, it will just prove that feeling. I know for some 15 dollars a month isn't that much money, hell it isn't that much for me, but I still feel that we the customers deserve better. Hopefully GW2 will be the deliverer. Now if they us and change their payment plan or have stupid cash shops for thing you need to suceed in the game then all bets are off on GW2. They will be no better than the rest as far as I'm concerned.
I think the hype is way too high for GW2 but I don't think it is undeserving and they definetly now have to live up to it. From all I have seen so far of the game and the company vids, I think they deserve the hype. I hope the best for all the other MMO's as well. Nothing wrong with all of them being good and I hope they all are so I will have to choose what other MMO I will be buying to play when I am not playing GW2.
They hate it because their favourite future game isn't being praised so highly by, well, everyone who's ever laid hands on it. Lot's of rivalry in the mmo world, but i don't care what others think, gw2 is the only MMO for me this year
Arenanet aren't trying to hype their game beyond talking to already existing fans. Expect real hype when the release is announced and the marketing campaign kicks up. NCSoft are just eagerly waiting for the go ahead from arenanet to start marketing gw2 (since they've struck gold with having ANet as a developer), so much so they're restructuring their marketing staff in europe already!
People don't realize how good this game already is.
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is announced. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. The reason why i am not going to pick up GW2 is because i know that i will pick up the first quest and think to myself. I can't be bothered to do all this over again.
People don't realize how good this game already is.
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is announced. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. The reason why i am not going to pick up GW2 is because i know that i will pick up the first quest and think to myself. I can't be bothered to do all this over again.
If you feel like that, you should not play mmorpgs or any game at all. Take a break and do something in real life rather than on the internet, in a virtual world.
In all honesty I don't see how people can generate major hype for it. Its just another game thats too generic. We've seen it all before. The expansive cities, the innovative questing. But in reality all we can hope for is that its not another grinding bore-fest.
People don't realize how good this game already is.
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is announced. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. The reason why i am not going to pick up GW2 is because i know that i will pick up the first quest and think to myself. I can't be bothered to do all this over again.
If you feel like that, you should not play mmorpgs or any game at all. Take a break and do something in real life rather than on the internet, in a virtual world.
I don't think this about all MMO's, just GW2 simply because it hasn't got anything there to grip me to stay.
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is launched. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. You'll pick up the first quest and think to yourself. I can't be arsed to do all this over again.
That's interesting, because by any NORMAL person's definition of success, the first Guild Wars was exactly that. A pretty amazing success. Whether or not you personally liked it has little to do with the REAL definition of success in the video game business, which is 'Did it make money, and do people want more'. (Hint. The answer to both questions is 'yes') To be honest, your opinion means exactly nothing when it comes to measuring success, except in your own eyes. Which will get you laughed out of any business meeting. (Hey guys, I think our game was an incredible success, because [email protected] said so. So I would like you to please fund our new game.)
Also, I think you're missing a really, really important point, which is a LOT of people have played the GW2 demo, and the vast majority of those people came out just as impressed as before, or even more so. Maybe Arenanet will end up failing when the real product comes out, but so far they've managed to hold up their end of the bargain and deliver some of what they were talking about. Since they delivered what they said they would with GW1 (Whether or not you personally liked it, that's irrelevant to whether or not they delivered the product they said they would), and so far they've delivered on GW2, that creates to at least some extent, bonds of trust.
Plus, a lot of people are rooting for it's success because a shift towards B2P certainly would be a nice thing to see in the MMORPG market.
A lot of people don't even read up on the game, just see all the hype without a pinch of critisizm.
Like, many people think that doing something will change the game forever. Like the small village+centaur example we've been given, where we're told that if we save the village, the village lives, or if we just ignore it, it's raided to dust. Then people assume that it's going to be like that forever, that their role in the game has THAT much to say. Which is not true, because it's just gonna reset after some time...
I'm not saying the game is overhyped because everyone thinks this way, because that's wrong. A lot of people acctually do their reading. But so many people's hype are raised on stuff that's not true, and I'm afraid these people will be shattered and go about flaming the game when they find this out the hard way.
I do believe this game is gonna be good, but not any Messiah...
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is launched. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. You'll pick up the first quest and think to yourself. I can't be arsed to do all this over again.
That's interesting, because by any NORMAL person's definition of success, the first Guild Wars was exactly that. A pretty amazing success. Whether or not you personally liked it has little to do with the REAL definition of success in the video game business, which is 'Did it make money, and do people want more'. (Hint. The answer to both questions is 'yes') To be honest, your opinion means exactly nothing when it comes to measuring success, except in your own eyes. Which will get you laughed out of any business meeting. (Hey guys, I think our game was an incredible success, because [email protected] said so. So I would like you to please fund our new game.)
Also, I think you're missing a really, really important point, which is a LOT of people have played the GW2 demo, and the vast majority of those people came out just as impressed as before, or even more so. Maybe they'll end up failing when the real product comes out, but so far they've managed to hold up their end of the bargain and deliver some of what they were talking about. Since they delivered what they said they would with GW1 (Whether or not you personally liked it, that's irrelevant to whether or not they delivered the product they said they would), and so far they've delivered on GW2, that creates to at least some extent, bonds of trust.
Plus, a lot of people are rooting for it's success because a shift towards B2P certainly would be a nice thing to see in the MMORPG market.
I'm afraid your slightly missing this guys point. I personally know alot of people who bought the game but didn't enjoy it. This is over-hype. Alot of people don't play the demo and still buy it, meaning it will be successful in sales but popularity? No. In this day and age its a dog eat dog world in the gaming industry. With Blizzard releasing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and selling in excess of 4.7 million copies and people paying for subscription. I deem that a success. Only time will tell if GW2 is a success. But as the past tells us, with GW1, it will fail.
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is launched. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. You'll pick up the first quest and think to yourself. I can't be arsed to do all this over again.
That's interesting, because by any NORMAL person's definition of success, the first Guild Wars was exactly that. A pretty amazing success. Whether or not you personally liked it has little to do with the REAL definition of success in the video game business, which is 'Did it make money, and do people want more'. (Hint. The answer to both questions is 'yes') To be honest, your opinion means exactly nothing when it comes to measuring success, except in your own eyes. Which will get you laughed out of any business meeting. (Hey guys, I think our game was an incredible success, because [email protected] said so. So I would like you to please fund our new game.)
Also, I think you're missing a really, really important point, which is a LOT of people have played the GW2 demo, and the vast majority of those people came out just as impressed as before, or even more so. Maybe they'll end up failing when the real product comes out, but so far they've managed to hold up their end of the bargain and deliver some of what they were talking about. Since they delivered what they said they would with GW1 (Whether or not you personally liked it, that's irrelevant to whether or not they delivered the product they said they would), and so far they've delivered on GW2, that creates to at least some extent, bonds of trust.
Plus, a lot of people are rooting for it's success because a shift towards B2P certainly would be a nice thing to see in the MMORPG market.
If you read my post correctly i said that in my eyes Guild Wars the original was lacklustre. I agree that in a sense the original was a success, not amazing however. Yes it made sufficient money but the idea of creating a second MMO that is very similar to the first sounds bizarre to me. It never did Everquest 2 any good did it? Its risky, you run the risk of customers saying " Nah i prefered guild wars one" If they can pull it off then hats off to them. Buy to play in my opinion would be nice to see in the MMORPG market for a bit of diversity for the gamers out their. Personally i'm not too keen seeing as subscription games tend to give me more bang for my buck.
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is launched. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. You'll pick up the first quest and think to yourself. I can't be arsed to do all this over again.
That's interesting, because by any NORMAL person's definition of success, the first Guild Wars was exactly that. A pretty amazing success. Whether or not you personally liked it has little to do with the REAL definition of success in the video game business, which is 'Did it make money, and do people want more'. (Hint. The answer to both questions is 'yes') To be honest, your opinion means exactly nothing when it comes to measuring success, except in your own eyes. Which will get you laughed out of any business meeting. (Hey guys, I think our game was an incredible success, because [email protected] said so. So I would like you to please fund our new game.)
Also, I think you're missing a really, really important point, which is a LOT of people have played the GW2 demo, and the vast majority of those people came out just as impressed as before, or even more so. Maybe they'll end up failing when the real product comes out, but so far they've managed to hold up their end of the bargain and deliver some of what they were talking about. Since they delivered what they said they would with GW1 (Whether or not you personally liked it, that's irrelevant to whether or not they delivered the product they said they would), and so far they've delivered on GW2, that creates to at least some extent, bonds of trust.
Plus, a lot of people are rooting for it's success because a shift towards B2P certainly would be a nice thing to see in the MMORPG market.
If you read my post correctly i said that in my eyes Guild Wars the original was lacklustre. I agree that in a sense the original was a success, not amazing however. Yes it made sufficient money but the idea of creating a second MMO that is very similar to the first sounds bizarre to me. It never did Everquest 2 any good did it? Its risky, you run the risk of customers saying " Nah i prefered guild wars one" If they can pull it off then hats off to them. Buy to play in my opinion would be nice to see in the MMORPG market for a bit of diversity for the gamers out their. Personally i'm not too keen seeing as subscription games tend to give me more bang for my buck.
You do know that gw2 and gw1 already have very little in common from what we already know of it.
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is launched. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. You'll pick up the first quest and think to yourself. I can't be arsed to do all this over again.
That's interesting, because by any NORMAL person's definition of success, the first Guild Wars was exactly that. A pretty amazing success. Whether or not you personally liked it has little to do with the REAL definition of success in the video game business, which is 'Did it make money, and do people want more'. (Hint. The answer to both questions is 'yes') To be honest, your opinion means exactly nothing when it comes to measuring success, except in your own eyes. Which will get you laughed out of any business meeting. (Hey guys, I think our game was an incredible success, because [email protected] said so. So I would like you to please fund our new game.)
Also, I think you're missing a really, really important point, which is a LOT of people have played the GW2 demo, and the vast majority of those people came out just as impressed as before, or even more so. Maybe they'll end up failing when the real product comes out, but so far they've managed to hold up their end of the bargain and deliver some of what they were talking about. Since they delivered what they said they would with GW1 (Whether or not you personally liked it, that's irrelevant to whether or not they delivered the product they said they would), and so far they've delivered on GW2, that creates to at least some extent, bonds of trust.
Plus, a lot of people are rooting for it's success because a shift towards B2P certainly would be a nice thing to see in the MMORPG market.
I'm afraid your slightly missing this guys point. I personally know alot of people who bought the game but didn't enjoy it. This is over-hype. Alot of people don't play the demo and still buy it, meaning it will be successful in sales but popularity? No. In this day and age its a dog eat dog world in the gaming industry. With Blizzard releasing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and selling in excess of 4.7 million copies and people paying for subscription. I deem that a success. Only time will tell if GW2 is a success. But as the past tells us, with GW1, it will fail.
Six million games sold is not a failure. If GW1 was a failure, they would most likely have shut down a long time ago, and not done GW2. A failure would be FF14 or STO. Or how Warhammer went from around 1 million? to nothing so quickly.
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I will never play halo reach...in my life...ever...
That video is so weird that...I cant describe...
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
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LMAO
what the hell was that?
There was a time when I was almost that hyped about a video game. It was ridiculous. Today games are no longer groundbreaking therefore I can no longer be excited for run of the mill. Yes there are small changes that twist what is already on the table but it isn't really innovative.
I'm very hyped for GW 2 to the part that it is almost an obsession because I know from the demos that this game is very fresh and truly unique.
-I am here to perform logic
Who cares about G4tv? All they show now are old episodes cops and cheaters all day long. That station sold out loooonnnng ago. When I asked that question I didnt really care about media hype just our hype. We buy the units media dont mean sh*t. I can see your points and that video was funny but compare us to the FPS crown of douchebaggery again and I will find a way to flame you for it. this is mmorpg.com we barely give a damn about console game comparisons.
Looking at the posts there may not be as much hype about this game as it seems like on the outside. With no relase dates and mention of rift being a play between SWTOR and GW2 atleast the responses are rational.
This is one of the few sites that really hypes GW2 so I definitely don't think that this game has too much hype. I like that the hype is small and spread throughout various sites, that way people aren't expecting the next WoW. Having it spread out through a few closely knit sites helps spread the word, while also maintaining a healthy following.
I believe it is..
There's so many people already who just assume its going to be a flat out hit...no if's and's or but's about it.
I'm not sure if there is too much hype. My concern is that people will be expecting too much from the game. Hype usually does that. So far none of the games with massive amounts of hype lived up to the expectations people had. It would be nice if GW2 did. I'm pretty excited and have a feeling it will be a good game, but I haven't been keeping up with it too much.
We can only wait and see if the excitement was worth it.
No
If you played GW and you liked it, add a persistent world and you have GW2.
I played GW and I stopped playing it because it felt like a Multyplayer game not a MMO, but I liked the game design.
I generally don't like casual games but GW was well made
With the inclusion of a persisten world Arenanet addressed the only big Flaw the original game had.
GW is not WoW, the gameplay is totally different in almost everything so I expect GW2 to be a success simply because even if it is a casual game, it is not a WoW clone.
Oh and another important thing...........it is still free.
If you already liked the demo, then you can't be disapointed with full gw2. That demo was like 1% of the game, add another 99% and you'll get one hell of a game! Hype is justified!
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I have been trying trials of other games (AoC, WAR, LotRO, WoW) and really, I can see why GW1 has lasted as long as it has (and will live a lot longer). Its by far my favorite Online game currently out (though I haven't tried all the games out there obviously) but I can also see why WoW is essentially the king (I like GW1 better, but after playing other games, I see why so many people play it).
well...the demo for GW2 blew the top off all that (hopefully rift and SW:TOR are better than what is currently out, but I don't think they have a chance compared to GW2). It played so smoothly, and its combat is so interesting and fluid, and everything (at least for a long time GW1 player) was easy to understand and get use to. The dynamic events help make the feel of the game very unique (especially since there are no normal quests, a mistake that WAR made in my opinion). all the small details and little bits of awesomeness are all very well designed (the armor dying system, the map being scrollable, the art style being very very prominent, the VOs). While it has features that have been in other games in some for or another, GW2 does it differently, and does it right.
So...is there too much hype for this game? no. Is there too little information out there that can really convince those people who have little or no foundation to see GW2's shining glory in all its brilliance? absolutely. While the fans may be eagerly looking forward to the profession reveal that comes this month, that won't mean anything to people not paying attention to the game. sadly, if there are people who aren't paying attention to the game at this point (with all the hype about it) I don't think anything short of a massively successful open beta will set them straight.
conclusion: the hype level now is really a product of players excitement over the sequel to a fantastic game, and not the manufactured hype of developer/publisher advertisement. It is fine at its current level, but it will increase with an open beta announcement and that will be the end of all resistance (is futile) towards GW2.
I used to TL;DR, but then I took a bullet point to the footnote.
What really cracks me up is that there are some people actually mad at the fact GW2 has so much hype. I mean how can you hate it? Its not like they are charging a monthly sub. They are talking about doing stuff that is new. Hell I will probably be playing GW2 and whatever other MMO that is good(Rift, SWTOR). I love the fact that they are not charging a monthly sub and I do hope the game lives up too all the hype it has generated, as well as I hope Rift lives up to all its hype.
I do hpe though that GW2 blows its competition away though just for the fact its staying with the B2P plan. It will just show how much the other MMO are trying to milk us out of money. I have felt a long time that MMO companies have been robbing its fan base. And if GW2 it great and delivers on all its promises, it will just prove that feeling. I know for some 15 dollars a month isn't that much money, hell it isn't that much for me, but I still feel that we the customers deserve better. Hopefully GW2 will be the deliverer. Now if they us and change their payment plan or have stupid cash shops for thing you need to suceed in the game then all bets are off on GW2. They will be no better than the rest as far as I'm concerned.
I think the hype is way too high for GW2 but I don't think it is undeserving and they definetly now have to live up to it. From all I have seen so far of the game and the company vids, I think they deserve the hype. I hope the best for all the other MMO's as well. Nothing wrong with all of them being good and I hope they all are so I will have to choose what other MMO I will be buying to play when I am not playing GW2.
They hate it because their favourite future game isn't being praised so highly by, well, everyone who's ever laid hands on it. Lot's of rivalry in the mmo world, but i don't care what others think, gw2 is the only MMO for me this year
Arenanet aren't trying to hype their game beyond talking to already existing fans. Expect real hype when the release is announced and the marketing campaign kicks up. NCSoft are just eagerly waiting for the go ahead from arenanet to start marketing gw2 (since they've struck gold with having ANet as a developer), so much so they're restructuring their marketing staff in europe already!
Hype is healthy!
Average hype makes average games. High hype makes great games, mediocre at worst.
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I still think it is under hyped.
People don't realize how good this game already is.
Guild Wars 2!
With a game like Guild Wars 2, hype is to be expected. Its a new MMO, hype is generated as soon as an MMO is announced. Is their to much? I don't believe so, the reason being is because Guild Wars 2 is a game that deep down everybody knows, won't be a huge success. Its predecessor was in my eyes was rather lacklustre. Most if not all games have some hype around them until you get your hands on playing it. I believe Guild Wars 2 will be exactly that. The reason why i am not going to pick up GW2 is because i know that i will pick up the first quest and think to myself. I can't be bothered to do all this over again.
If you feel like that, you should not play mmorpgs or any game at all. Take a break and do something in real life rather than on the internet, in a virtual world.
In all honesty I don't see how people can generate major hype for it. Its just another game thats too generic. We've seen it all before. The expansive cities, the innovative questing. But in reality all we can hope for is that its not another grinding bore-fest.
I don't think this about all MMO's, just GW2 simply because it hasn't got anything there to grip me to stay.
That's interesting, because by any NORMAL person's definition of success, the first Guild Wars was exactly that. A pretty amazing success. Whether or not you personally liked it has little to do with the REAL definition of success in the video game business, which is 'Did it make money, and do people want more'. (Hint. The answer to both questions is 'yes') To be honest, your opinion means exactly nothing when it comes to measuring success, except in your own eyes. Which will get you laughed out of any business meeting. (Hey guys, I think our game was an incredible success, because [email protected] said so. So I would like you to please fund our new game.)
Also, I think you're missing a really, really important point, which is a LOT of people have played the GW2 demo, and the vast majority of those people came out just as impressed as before, or even more so. Maybe Arenanet will end up failing when the real product comes out, but so far they've managed to hold up their end of the bargain and deliver some of what they were talking about. Since they delivered what they said they would with GW1 (Whether or not you personally liked it, that's irrelevant to whether or not they delivered the product they said they would), and so far they've delivered on GW2, that creates to at least some extent, bonds of trust.
Plus, a lot of people are rooting for it's success because a shift towards B2P certainly would be a nice thing to see in the MMORPG market.
On this site, very much so. This game is already the greatest thing since, well, anything on this site. And we know so little.
On any other site, I think it's about where it should be.
Yep.
A lot of people don't even read up on the game, just see all the hype without a pinch of critisizm.
Like, many people think that doing something will change the game forever. Like the small village+centaur example we've been given, where we're told that if we save the village, the village lives, or if we just ignore it, it's raided to dust. Then people assume that it's going to be like that forever, that their role in the game has THAT much to say. Which is not true, because it's just gonna reset after some time...
I'm not saying the game is overhyped because everyone thinks this way, because that's wrong. A lot of people acctually do their reading. But so many people's hype are raised on stuff that's not true, and I'm afraid these people will be shattered and go about flaming the game when they find this out the hard way.
I do believe this game is gonna be good, but not any Messiah...
I'm afraid your slightly missing this guys point. I personally know alot of people who bought the game but didn't enjoy it. This is over-hype. Alot of people don't play the demo and still buy it, meaning it will be successful in sales but popularity? No. In this day and age its a dog eat dog world in the gaming industry. With Blizzard releasing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and selling in excess of 4.7 million copies and people paying for subscription. I deem that a success. Only time will tell if GW2 is a success. But as the past tells us, with GW1, it will fail.
If you read my post correctly i said that in my eyes Guild Wars the original was lacklustre. I agree that in a sense the original was a success, not amazing however. Yes it made sufficient money but the idea of creating a second MMO that is very similar to the first sounds bizarre to me. It never did Everquest 2 any good did it? Its risky, you run the risk of customers saying " Nah i prefered guild wars one" If they can pull it off then hats off to them. Buy to play in my opinion would be nice to see in the MMORPG market for a bit of diversity for the gamers out their. Personally i'm not too keen seeing as subscription games tend to give me more bang for my buck.
You do know that gw2 and gw1 already have very little in common from what we already know of it.
Six million games sold is not a failure. If GW1 was a failure, they would most likely have shut down a long time ago, and not done GW2. A failure would be FF14 or STO. Or how Warhammer went from around 1 million? to nothing so quickly.