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Guild Wars 2: 5 Great Little Things in Guild Wars 2
BillMurphy
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During this past weekend's beta event, we had a team with boots on the ground to bring our readers great coverage of Guild Wars 2. In The List today, we take a look at five things about Guild Wars 2 that people might overlook or take for granted. Keep reading!
There are a lot of hopes and expectations heaped on the heads of Arena.Net as the date for the release of Guild Wars 2 approaches. Will it measure up to what we hope? Only time will tell but there is no question that there are some utterly awesome things about Guild Wars 2 that I discovered during this weekends beta event. A lot of the things that I found very compelling and interesting arent necessarily the things that most players will notice. These are five things that just might get overlooked but are top notch features nonetheless.
Read more of Suzie Ford's The List: 5 Great Little Things in Guild Wars 2.
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And many many more....
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
The 2 runner-ups in this article are actually big negatives for me, but I agree with the main 5 points and especially like the character customisation / dye system
Agree that the two runner ups are negatives in my book. As for the others: Download speed for the client? LOL. Can't say I've ever considered that before in any game. Music I usually turn off in an MMO so it feels more immersive (e.g., natural environment noises only). Customization is of course always good as well as any events they might have.
Overall not too impressed with this list but I guess she is just trying to go beyond the standard RvRvR and Dynamic Events features which are really the 2 main draws of the game in my view.
GW2 "built from the ground up with microtransactions in mind"
1) Cash->Gems->Gold->Influence->WvWvWBoosts = PAY2WIN
2) Mystic Chests = Crass in-game cash shop advertisements
what about the customization system?
a gazilion skills + utility skills + thraits = a googleplex different builds
What about the cash shop? How great was that?
Amazing how games are hyped about things people care nothing about but important things like a cash shop doesn't get mentioned at all.
Dude. Like always don't rely on official press to give you information.
it wasn't a big deal. Hardly anyone has mentioned it because there's not much to talk about. You've seen the items, they make hardly any difference to you whether you buy them or not. Some strange people are just hoping it is a 'big deal' because it's the one thing they're desperately hoping is a 'deal breaker'.
It isn't.
LOL. You are right. There is no cash shop controversy and nobody is really interested in how it works. Why would any opinion writer bother to talk about it?
GW2 "built from the ground up with microtransactions in mind"
1) Cash->Gems->Gold->Influence->WvWvWBoosts = PAY2WIN
2) Mystic Chests = Crass in-game cash shop advertisements
I can't speak for all, but it most certainly is a deal breaker for me as it is currently configured.
GW2 "built from the ground up with microtransactions in mind"
1) Cash->Gems->Gold->Influence->WvWvWBoosts = PAY2WIN
2) Mystic Chests = Crass in-game cash shop advertisements
what about it?
the cash shop is not in there yet I think, the items we have seen are just placeholders.
They might has well have put a bazooka in the cashshop.
Its a beta, you know?
From the UI Video Preview: "The only things we couldn’t show just yet are the Commerce menu (item shop) and the Trading Post (the auction house). Those bits and pieces are still under NDA as they’re far from final."
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/6230/Guild-Wars-2-The-UI-Video-Preview.html
The article specifically states "A lot of the things that I found very compelling and interesting aren’t necessarily the things that most players will notice. These are five things that just might get overlooked but are top notch features nonetheless."
Personally I am interested in customization and the new dye system, and obviously the cash shop is NOT being overlooked by most players (the community has been cussing and discussing it almost exclusively the past couple of weeks it seems) nor has there been a lack of information, albeit based solely on the current BETA in which they only just started testing the shop (meaning anything can and will change, and if they are "testing" it, that means they are making sure it won't have an undesired effect on game play. Otherwise they wouldn't care to bother testing it.)
The only people stressing are the ones who don't get that you can't pay to win a skill based game because you can't buy skill, or the ones who really mind that people with more money than time can help fund the game with no consequence to those of us who prefer using time as our currency (since there's nothing one can buy that the other can't.) As with GW1, there's nothing in the shop that provides an unfair advantage. The most controversal items are the time-savers. In GW1, it was skill packs. In GW2, it's dinky experience and karma boosts. The difference is you can have oodles of gold in GW1, but you can't use it to buy cash shop items. In GW2, you can via trading gold for gems. Woo!
Now that IS a little thing that has largely gone overlooked, but it's still in the early phases of testing and technically it's still under NDA. But w/e. Keep stressing about nothing. I was expecting to be unfazed since I never had an issue with the GW1 shop, and expected GW2 to be more of the same. Instead I was pleasently suprised to find out I can earn T stones in game, which was previously the only store item tempting me, and I can even get additional character slots or storage without paying real money should the desire arrise (again, provided someone else bought gems to trade for gold.)
Then there's not terribly much else that you can hear about the system that's going to change you mind, right?
The basic system of being able to buy gems and sell them in a marketplace for gold is staying in the game. The exact items may change, but I think it's pretty clear that "buying power" is not an option (with a few minor exceptions that even I am uncomfortable with). What else is there to talk about? How good the interface is?
Ah of course, still under NDA. One could say because they are "far from final" or one could say "people would be pissed don't talk about that"
I think it is a bit of both.
GW2 "built from the ground up with microtransactions in mind"
1) Cash->Gems->Gold->Influence->WvWvWBoosts = PAY2WIN
2) Mystic Chests = Crass in-game cash shop advertisements
I love that detail regarding color dyes. It is great to hear the development team is making armor customization more accessible, instead of trying to make a pure profit off of it (which wouldn't be unreasonable since it is cosmetic).
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On topic:
Very much looking forward to getting my hands on the game in a permanent way. I'm pretty much "over" all the previews and whatnot. I'm ready to PLAY.
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actually the cash shop system was really one of the only parts of this beta under NDA - they can't talk about, that's why you haven't heard anything about it.
Not taking sides, I haven't seen it yet, just pointing out the facts.
It's not "Arena.Net"
It's ArenaNet.
Or they weren't given the okay to talk about it..
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
lol
There are cash shop image leaks if you just simply do one simple google search
Or not.
How much WoW could a WoWhater hate, if a WoWhater could hate WoW?
As much WoW as a WoWhater would, if a WoWhater could hate WoW.
I don't think most people really care about cash shops. The average gamer isn't nearly as political as this site would have you believe. For every raving lunatic on the web theres plenty of happy gamers just playing their games and going on with their lives.
So true, I'm sure.
President of The Marvelously Meowhead Fan Club
Perfect World Entertainment says "yup."
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