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Guild Wars 2 doesn't excite me.
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You could I dunno just play the demo... the sad thing is anyone that has actually played the demo knows this to be true, but they don't want to support my points publicly, because they are biased for gw2.
But all those things are factually part of the demo.
Can't play the demo, time constraints do not allow me to travel to Germany or Seattle at this time. Anyway, Sidheathe has played the demo and she already said there are no exclamation marks.
Thats your word against her's. Got any more proof to back up your claim?
Oh but ya see, I never attempted to personally attack you. And that's a fact since it's from my perspective. You can't say that I personally attacked you because from my point of view, I never attempted to. In this situation, it's my point of view that matters at this point. If you take what I say personally, that's not my fault. Since you're automatically assuming what I say is a personal attack, then you have taken it personally.
Note for the future Robert: Just because the social perspective is commonly accepted, it doesn't make it correct.
Now take a second and imagine from my point of view, that you are skeptical about facts, and siding with someone who clearly HASN'T played the demo.
Things are in the demo. Again, such a convincing argument. Like I said, you dont have to convince me anymore.
Well i dunno about that. Revolutionary hmm.. maybe not, ground Breaking in some way,GW2 seems to me like what WoW would become if they implemented most of my changes wishlist. And, due to the way it handles PvP, instancing, doing old content while at max level, grouping, etc, is the one I will most likely keep playing after I see the story.
- More individual responsibility in group content. Players are responsible for healing themselves and getting out of the fire. You die, it's your own fault; there is no dedicated healer to blame.
The same is true of other kinds of rewards like crafting nodes. With no downside at all to grouping, I expect it will be much easier to find other players willing to group.
- Apparently, respecs will be quite easy to get. A huge plus for me.
- Every class able to do everything. No more waiting for an elusively rare class or spec, as long as you have players willing to fulfill all roles, any random bunch of players can do any group content. Plus, if you are willing to fulfill any role, and skilled in them, you can get in any group spot, drastically increasing your chances of finding groups.
- Every character gets all gathering professions. No chance of seeing an alluring crafting node out in the world and being unable to collect it. This also helps in a group setting, since everyone will benefit from a detour to collect a crafting node, instead of just a single player in the group as is the case in most other MMOs.
- Grouping incentives. I kill a monster solo, I get X gold, Y XP, and an item. If a friend helps me, each of us get the same X gold, Y XP, and item. In GW2, group loot is not divided, it's multiplied
- Scaling content with the number of players. I do an event alone, it's challenging. I do the same event in a full raid, it's still challenging.
- Player level scaling to allow for still having a challenge with old content. I go to a low level region, my power level drops to the level cap of the region, so I'm not playing god mode while doing the events there. I go to an instance, my power level drops to the instance cap, so there is still challenge and I still need a group.
- Non-random loot for instances. If I got it right, it's token based, so you are guaranteed to get something useful for your dungeon run; you are not at the mercy of some RNG.
- Gear customization. Apparently, color customization for gear will be almost as good as in Sims 3. there will also be customization of the gear appearance itself, but apart from color, seems like it will be micro-transaction based.
- Arena PvP will use standard gear and unlock all skills, as well as bump participating characters to max level. So, no handicap; it's purely skill based, how old or previously successful your character is does not matter in the least. BTW, while spec and gear can really influence the battle outcome, the fact everyone gets access to the same turns them into a purely strategic choice. Skill in choosing spec and build really matters.
- PvP and PvE are mostly optional among themselves. I don't need to do PvP if my focus is PvE. Conversely, with the way characters work in Arenas means, if I want to try a new class in high level PvP, I can simply roll a new character and be fighting with it in Arenas in less than an hour. No need to mess with the PvE portion of the game if all I want to do is PvP, at least for Arenas.
- Realm x Realm PvP will use something akin to SW:TOR's "Boosting", bumping lower level player's power level to that of a max level player. Plus, they are long, persistent battles that allow everyone to participate., and seem to be actually a lot of fun.
- Seems like changing servers will be free. Always a positive for me.
this is alot of think i would have like to see in other MMO . Now GW2 is doing it and this is why iam so Excited about it,
~The only opinion that matters is your own.Everything else is just advice,~
You didn't attempt to, you did.... I've quoted your posts, it's all plainly obvious. But you are really boring to me right now man, come up with something rational and we'll talk some more.
You haven't proved exclamation marks. We admit there are marks above various NPC heads and explained their reasons. You've offered no evidence that exclamation marks even exist, much less what would be the real point to all this, which is that they indicate that DEs are exactly like quests in structure. Who cares if there's a mark above NPC heads if it doesn't mean that it's a place to get a quest, learn about a quest, and turn in a quest?
Same thing with event helpers. We've said there are indeed event helpers to ease the transition into GW2. You've offered no evidence that speaking to them is mandatory. Actually, speaking to the first scout IS mandatory, all others are optional.
You haven't proved the existence of this lag. In any case, it's a game in alpha with servers on a different continent. And I've linked video of the same encounter you're describing that isn't laggy. Even if lag did exist, maybe it was the individual computer having an issue. Even its existence, which is still disputed, wouldn't mean anything about the real game, only a cause for some reservations.
You haven't linked anything where ArenaNet has said there would be no collections. You haven't even proven the existence of harpy glands, but even if they did exist, there is no relevance unless they contradict something ArenaNet has said.
The manifesto statements have been addressed both by me and others. Your claiming our opinions were subjective offers no proof contradicting our statements. It actually comes across as a lame ploy to claim superiority when you actually have no reply.
Come back when you've found something other than just claiming you've got unbiased facts. I'm not seeing anything.
"Gamers will no longer buy the argument that every MMO requires a subscription fee to offset server and bandwidth costs. It's not true you know it, and they know it." -Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet, 2007
Sidheather has played the demo and says there are no exclamation marks.
You played the demo and say there are.
We have someone else's word against yours. I don't see any reason to believe your word is factual right now. Want to post some proof and change my mind or do you want to just keep saying "I'm right because"?
This seems like fun.. can I join?
Eat me!
Only if you leave your logic at the door.
No I didn't. In order to do something, you have to attempt to do it. I never attempted, which means it never happened. It seems you're not getting my logical thinking. But that's okay, I never expected you to understand based off your posts.
Sure, just spout something like 'Manifesto! ..Game, Set and Match! ' or some other strong argument along the lines of that.
1. Their end game content is 5man dungeons, anytime you have a low number of people the level of accountability for each person increases dramatically. This can be easily seen in games like wow, where a lot of bad players are carried in raids, but can't execute some of the "tougher" 5mans. I say tougher in quotes because even the toughest 5mans now are not comparable to things like zul farrak in the first week of the game, or scholomance early on.
2. Respecs are easy in wow as well.
3. They've already clearly stated some classes will still be more effective at certain roles than others. Which means in top content min/maxing will still occur.
Sure you can, just try to refrain from personal attacks, and if you can, try to be logical and rational... this is getting more like the rift forums every day... it would be refreshing to get some logical and rational people in the mix.
@OP
Not only does it fail to excite me, I will most likely never even free trial it.
I played GW1 when it released *yawn*, and I thought it was... not my cup of tea.
Good luck to those who like
Well you don't fit into either of those categories Robert. Please feel free to leave.
1.well on everygame i know of there is bad and good player we cannot do anything about it, i been carred myself by my friend when i first started playing wow haha :P
2.ya i know that respecs is in wow but its was pain in the %$%@ before ,i think now u can have 2 spec and just switch between them right? but 5 years of wow . i had enouf of it :P gw2 is a fresh air for me, its dose not mean its a game for everybody but i think its will be mine for a while, a long while :P
~The only opinion that matters is your own.Everything else is just advice,~
True, there seems to be some common denominator between the GW2 and Rift forums.
It's almost like every hyped up mmo in development has people that are too biased and glorify it... weird!
GW2 is for losers cause they lie. Game set match.
All of us. I think this summs it up so can we get back to the topic.
RIP Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and Paul Gray.
Oh and about gw2 been Ground breaking and Revolutionary... i will put// ( innovative ) would more suite GW2 in my opinion of course!
~The only opinion that matters is your own.Everything else is just advice,~
Oh I know that the common demonise..denominator is biased. Just not in a glorifying way.
Trolol. ORLY!?
But it's fine. I mean, everyone has its own flavor, and yours happens to like other things. I don't know why some people would make a fuzz about it.