Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
Why Are People Upset About GW2's Overwhelming Success?
This discussion has been closed.
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Comments
This is inaccurate. The cracks with SWTOR were showing at launch with missing features, major bugs still present from early beta and mismanaged patching. It was obvious that the game shipped before it was ready. Record sales were simply based on the Star Wars IP and a lot of marketing - in no way any indication of the quality of the product. After a couple days of playing the cookie cutter nature of the world was also obvious. I didn't even make it two weeks.
I don't see any obvious cracks with GW2. The initial sales appear strong and ArenaNet was successful with a similar business model with GW1. They have a quality product, a strong vision, customer friendly business model, are responsive, professional, appear to actually care about their work and have focused on features that improve game play as opposed to gimmicks or marketing - completely opposite of SWTOR. GW2 isn't prefect and no game will be, but I find it odd that people can't accept that it's one of the strongest MMO offerings in many years. I don't think they have a chance of generating the revenue that WoW did, not do I expect them to have to radically refactor their business model and layoff a bunch of their staff. For a modern MMO that is a home run. Heck just look at the previous three big launches: SWTOR, TERA and TSW - ouch!
DEs are an improvement over anything I've seen previously. I think the biggest upside is that they bring players together and are completely cooperative. I'm not off by myself collecting boar tusks or begging people to group to fight a boss. In RIFT, the DEs aren't integrated with the world and there's little variation. They are also supplementary to doing quests. I like RIFT DEs, but GW2 has improved on the concept significantly. I also don't remember any scaling of DEs in RIFT.
The main issue I have with the GW2 DEs are that most don't scale well with the large number of players that are present at launch which will correct itself over time. There are problems with the traditional quest systems at launch due to high population as well so it's not really a DE specific issue and I think it's a better player experience under the GW2 model.
haha person actually followed through.. i salute you!
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
Thank you, some one gets it.
It gives the entire game a bad look when they blatantly visit other game forums and troll to no end. Personally I bet they aren't even playing GW2, just going around proclaiming how its revolutionary and the next best thing since slice bread just to invoke a flame war, and the mods let it continue.
It's like a gang war. There is no winner, just people shooting at other people to the point no one remember who started it and no one cares. They just go around making personal attacks at each other, hijacking every thread. Same thing happened with TERA, and the same gw2 crowd did the SAME thing to the TSW sub forum.
Wish this forum would go back to discussing actual game play, instead we get "Doom & Gloom" threads, people with their bias reviews, and highschool clicks going around flaming each other.
News at 11, Aerowyn fanboyin' yet another bland themepark. I liked you better over at the TSW forum, at least the investigation quests there were truly innovative.
at least i don't resort to putting labels on people.. thing is it's fine to dislike a game and discuss reasons you dislike it and why but many are doing nothing but flame post after flame post.. no argument nothing to discuss just bash after bash.. what's the point of that?
You called out hikaru personally..that is called bashing?. moreover shouldn't you be asking this question to OP? what is the point of this topic which was an obvious attempt to just start another flame? It is because of people like OP, GW2 get flamed not because it is bad game but because crazy fans are getting more and more obnoxious every day.
Thank you, some one gets it.
It gives the entire game a bad look when they blatantly visit other game forums and troll to no end. Personally I bet they aren't even playing GW2, just going around proclaiming how its revolutionary and the next best thing since slice bread just to invoke a flame war, and the mods let it continue.
It's like a gang war. There is no winner, just people shooting at other people to the point no one remember who started it and no one cares. They just go around making personal attacks at each other, hijacking every thread. Same thing happened with TERA, and the same gw2 crowd did the SAME thing to the TSW sub forum.
Wish this forum would go back to discussing actual game play, instead we get "Doom & Gloom" threads, people with their bias reviews, and highschool clicks going around flaming each other.
It's like a gang war. There is no winner, just people shooting at other people to the point no one remember who started it and no one cares.
this made lol
best description of forums flame wars ever ...
flame wars in forums is the best free advertisement a game can have , if people are talking about is because its interesting at least.
i love to be in this gang war
Guild - http://lightness.goodforum.net/
Blog - http://www.pierrecarlier.com/
I think people are upset because this game has killed every other mmo on the market. Blizzard shouldn't even release Mists of Pandaria. It probably won't sell any copies because everybody will be playing GW2. Which is the most overwhelming success in mmo history.
Indeed. Like I said, I wouldn't be annoyed if people were talking about having fun in GW2 and it being a decent game. No instead we have to have obnoxious zealot fans that portray it as a game to end all other games. We have to listen to GW2 being he future of all MMO's when if you look at development cycles of games coming out they show nothing resembling GW2.
We have to listen to GW2 being the most innovative game to grace the MMO genre since 3d gaming became a thing. We have to listen to how super Dynamic the undynamic Dynamic Events are. How GW2 is revolutionizing gaming as a whole. Seriously.....
GW2 is a decent themepark game. Boom there it is. Its a decent themepark game, among many undecent themepark games. Its going to do well for itself supposing ANET can get there act together and support the game and its community without fanatic bannings and all that. But it isn't innovative, it isn't revolutionary, it isn't the second coming of MMO's. It was designed by an intelligent team that created a solid themepark game. But that is the extent of what GW2 is.
"In the immediate future, we have this one, and then weve got another one that is actually going to be so were going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what were targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you cant hold me to it. But what were 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
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
Thats funny because the only thing it has killed is nothing.
Oh shit, some sense detected in this thread what now? Thread impolosion?Not sure why
but sprang to mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNcPjPgbR5M
http://www.mmorpg.com/search.cfm
I think there are more Blizzard saboteurs than Anet shills anyday... considering which company has more money and how many game forums has been mercilessly murdered with negative opinions and comparisons to WoW before GW2 even existed.
...
WAIT A BLOODY MINUTE!
I thought you hated parts of GW2? What's with the flip flop all of a sudden?
hate more plz
tell that to the millions who play gw2,go back to your hubs and pandas kkthxbb
This atlan99 guy is an obvious troll. Let's just slap a label on it and move along.
Millions?
Justin Bieber has more fans than GW2, guess he's innovative as well.
Joke.
@Ginaz I love how everyone loves to this jesus statement in peoples mouths, though not a single fan has said anything to that effect. And it changes everytime. Wasn't it second coming of jesus before, now robot jesus? What's flying most interesting man in the world raptor jesus?
They will. Along with many of those who play GW2.....They will go too. This is the casual game isn't it? You think the average GW2 player is intending on staying dedicated? I don't. They will play WoW to get all those things in MMOs that GW2 didn't incorporate that people still want. And there is a lot. Then they will caome back and play GW2 in their down time.
EDIT:
What some of you GW2 vs BrandX MMO hardcore fans need to realize is that most of us are somewhat more moderate in our dedication and choice of games. For me, I'll have both Rift and GW2 to play now.
That's what we call Win Win.
Some will surely, but far from all . My guild is full with ex Wow players and most of them actually seems to moved on for good now. That doesnt mean that they neccesarily stay in GW2 but Wow is finally getting so old so it seems like they might move to something new instead.
It must be one or the other! Choose or die!
We don't necessarily pit GW2 against BrandX MMO, but we do get tired of hearing falseties about the game. People spouting nonsense or just blind hatred. If you don't like the game stay out of a forum where people like it. It's just a nuisance. No one is saying that anyone has to like anything, but atleast accept the fact that the game is good and just not your style. The iPhone is a good product, but I'm more of an Android person...I like being able to use my phone as a thumb drive if i have to, or being able to play [almost] any video format so long as I have a player. That argument could be related to this. You may not like GW2 or Arenanet for that matter, but GW2 is still a good product. No need to slight it because you don't like it.
I have a friend who doesn't like GW2 but that's because she's use to playing her shaman in WoW with all of her add-ons, so she can't just stand still and press a few buttons.
What lie are you refering too ? Game is no different than in beta phase any every information released by Anet was true. When some idiot was talking to me about GW being "next generation" and "game like never before" I was asking him WHAT could this game have to be such a thing.
They never knew the answer. GW2 is just a new approach to what we know. And above anything else - successfull approach. They fixed most of my problems I have with MMO genre. That including stupid party system (need to form a party to help each other or join the fight), instances (MMO when you don't play with others is not an MMO), kill and fetch + backtracking (time sing for me), gear grind (game is skill based, thanks for that), crafting and discovering receipes (that was useless in other MMO most of the time - only few games like EVE or Fallen Earth make crafting worth your while) and world vs word (that is present only in few MMO).
They didn't discover America. They too effort to rebuild Europe
I did say many and not all. But really, what my point is...There is overlap with these games playerbase. And I suspect that GW2's playerbase will have one of the largest playerbases that it will share with many other games. So the success of GW2 cannot be fully considered. in the GW2 vs WoW sense when talking about numbers as so many will play both. So for that overlap. Who gets to claim them?
I guess what I am saying is, the reality is that threads like these are pointless because no one has all the facts and can speak for an entire playerbase.