Originally posted by DeniZg Third, you can't progress your character in sPVP (I don't know if that has changed over time). I liked doing PvP for a change of pace during leveling. Not in GW2, you can't do that. There's no incentive to play (your char…
Originally posted by tryklon Not quite, I've played Guild Wars 1 until the release of GW2 and I never had to pay for anything except when new expansion were released, and I would have gladly payed for HoT, and I already spent some money on the in ga…
Originally posted by aesperus
I pretend the game has a 15 dollar subscription myself, and it basically means I get all sorts of nice things. :P And unlike when I've played subscription games, I only am paying while I'm playing. I've left sub game…
Originally posted by muffins89 the cash shop is fine with what it offers. but the game was designed around it. you can buy more character slots but guess what, all of your characters share a bank. they limited inventory to inconvenience players. whe…
Originally posted by issling I cant stand Guy Ferrari:) Then what is the point of even playing? Why have a Superbowl or a Worlds Cup or anything else if you can just buy it:( Game companies can now make money off of what I thought was fun in these g…
Originally posted by observer "Might: The power and condition damage provided by this boon have been reduced from 35 per stack to 30."
Interesting. I'm wondering if this was nerfed to due to pvp, since in the next change...
"Confusion: The effec…
Originally posted by TheGoblinKing I hope so.
Although alot of people on the GW2 forum are speculatingit might be a box set of LS 2 (or 1 & 2) that they are going to sell in the gem shop.
Those people are wrong.
Originally posted by FlyByKnight It's kind of ironic to see people talking about how people want things "easy mode" when their characters benefited from this "easy mode" already.
"Not my problem, already grandfathered in... stop whining" <-…
Originally posted by Bloodaxes Yes 1 zone! That is a lot of content from all those living stories that come and go.... /sarcasm
They need to make actual content that remains in the game and improve the game further instead of wasting all their res…
One thing I think people don't take into account is that it's even harder to have a sense of wonder and mystery in games with the proliferation of things like google, gamefaqs, let's play and the like.
Before you had to talk with people in games to…
They need to create an MMO about people in a cyberspace sort of situation. We don't have the technology to send people's minds into some sort of virtual reality, but we do have the technology to make a game about it.
You could have areas of any so…
Originally posted by JackFrosty ONE new zone in 2 years
GEM STORE: About a 1,000 new items (and thats on the low end)
Where do you think ANETS focus is :P
3 new zones.
... and they release 2-3 things in the gem store every 2 weeks. …
Originally posted by Foomerang
good lord /facepalm
we all knew it had a cash shop. Im talking about how it was MARKETED. MARKETED. MAR-KEH-TED-UH
lol jesus
RIGHT, and I'm saying that I don't particularly remember it being marketed as not …
Originally posted by Foomerang
eh, I dont really care how much you like this game or whatever comparisons to other f2p style cash shops or pay to win. Thats not even what I was talking about at all. Im talking about how the game was marketed to …
Originally posted by Foomerang The way they marketed their pay model pre launch made it sound like they were going to prove you can run a quality mmo off a box price and no subs.
The reality is what they did was basically what f2p games already do …
Originally posted by Lord.Bachus Asuming your estimates are correct, there indeed seems to be a very healthy buiseness model..
so whats keeping them from releasing more content?
They have released new content? Even though a lot of the firs…
Originally posted by stevebombsquad And they have seven million copies sold right.....
A lot of websites and people picked up on that erroneous report! I'll admit I make mistakes occasionally.
At least Arenanet came out and said 'Hey, that's …
Originally posted by PioneerStew Which is a far, far worse system than the straight forward costume slots in most other mmo's.
Because it's a good chunk of their monetization system, so of course that'd end up being annoying.
Having to pay mon…
Originally posted by aesperus The transmutation thing is indeed kind of annoying, but it doesn't work exactly how you described. And indeed it's actually better than the old system once you understand it (except for the fact that you could sometimes…
Originally posted by aesperus LOL
How many of those laid off do you actually believe got a severance package. Most don't. Furthermore, I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic, but hiring employees to 'keep from going under' is not only an in…