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British people might be able to get it cheaper if they shopped around, like me. But what I originally made this post on was ArenaNets stupidity (or arrogance?) at charging it at 60 pounds on their website. 10-20 pounds more than every other game. So yeah, use your brain, read my post.
Ill accept that. How do you determine if it works or not? I would suspect its dependent on sales... which with all the hype (justified or not) should make it lucrative to the point they wont change it.
What do you think?
Actually Im still curious... do you plan to pre-purchase or even buy the game at the current price?? :-)
Did you play GW1?
For many people the GW1 'endgame' was cosmetic items.
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
Of course its not for certain, we're dealing with human variables. I'm simply talking about price equilibrium based on consumer demand.
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The thing is Pure, i'm just not sure you are going to be impressed, because you have it in your head that you won't be. I've watched your comments ever since the Aion Source days so you aren't anything new to me, however, i have always had a lot of respect for your posts and usually look forward to them.
The end game won't be there, and no i'm not spouting the "the whole thing is end game" stuff. It simply isn't there. Will that keep the hardcore raiders? Most likely not. They were never intended to be kept or even drawn in to this game.
Your points about lots of folks in the DE's and WvW is valid and will remain so until seen with the eyes of the masses.
None of that means anything to me, because i was a huge fan of the first game (aside from not being able to jump), and i know exactly what i'm getting from Anet. I'm not jaded or delusional even when it comes to the hypetrain that has surrounded this game. I have seen countless posters, on this site especially, fill a derigibal of hot air when it comes to this game simply because they want it to be The One. They want it to finally be the one that doesn't feel like it ripped them off or tricked them, because they last couple of years has been full of that.
Will it be any of that for them? Hell i have no idea, but it will be for me because i have been anticipating my return to Tyria for several years as i loved the GW1 for being just GW1. Not the fact that it was a Corpg, or i couldn't jump, or the heavy instancing. I loved the game, it's difficulty, and the fact that it took me somewhere else when i played it, unlike most titles i could name in today's market. The whole reason some of us play these games is because they take us somewhere else for just a little while. That's why i pre-ordered this game without a second thought. I know what i'm buying.
Winning cosmetically depends on what those that actually care about vanity that much think is worth competing about; It can be as simple as
"I have a larger collection of hard-to-get outfits than you have."
"My outfit is far more exclusive than anything you have."
"I have a larger collections of outfits."
In order to know whether or not something is "pay to win", the competition needs to be defined. Even if you don't care about certain types of competitions, that doesn't mean that other people won't either.
Different faction armors and weapons, not costumes sold in GW1's cash shop.
It'll be the same way here. The costumes sold in the cash shop are not going to be part of the endgame.
Interesting...
If you really think the boxes are overpriced than buy/pre-order/pre-purchase it from one of the retailers. In most cases they're 10% cheaper and you still get the bonuses.
As for me i purchased the SE. I don't really need the extras.
I guess it depends on what you feel you're getting for the money. I don't think GW2 has released any information on the amount of actual content in-game in terms of hours. I believe that they have indicated "thousands" of events and "hundreds" of areas to discover that are not shown on the map (underwater areas, hidden areas, etc), not including personal story and that each personal story has branching arcs. And I don't know about the replayability when leveling an alt, though I assume that it will be high given the nature of dynamic events (you may not get the same thing walking through the same area depending where the event is on the pendulum). Whether or not its 50 hours or 100 hours or hundreds of hours there is also the issue of whether or not the content is actually "fun". And finally, you have to consider what happens when you reach "the end" (I would assume level 80) and how entertained you can keep those folks. Compare all this to the price you are paying and then people have to decide if it's worth it. This risk/reward seems reasonable, based on past experience with ANet, at least to me.
"Loading screens" are not "instances".
Your personal efforts to troll any game will not, in fact, impact the success or failure of said game.
Here, I'll help with a link. This is geting insane.
http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/31123030/Guild-Wars-2-Pre-Purchase/Product.html?searchstring=guild+wars+2&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search
I love seen Euro players QQ over a few pounds/quid....The U.S Dollar is 1=0.76 to the pound...QQ..Pay more or don't play. Your country has a stronger $$$ because you have a better +surplus/deficit where as the U.S has a -surplus/deficit.(Thats a whole diffrent can of worms of Economical debates that isn't worth discussing) ArenaNet is American owned(Yes I know Ncsoft has % share of them which is unbeknown to anyone outside of the share holders committee.). Pay the U.S price or don'y pay at all. So what if SWOTR/WOW and other MMO'S didn't charge the EU price. This is G2 not WoW or SWOTR. If a few pounds is such an issue then you to need adjust your priorities. As far as the micro-transactions that's your argument? That the game should be cheaper because there going to allow “cosmetics only transactions” Foolish thinking. I think you should do some research and see if this game is for you. If your complaining about purchasing it before it even has a launch date you may not like when you actually have to buy an expansion down the road. (Just my two cents) Most people who QQ about the price of launch don't stay for too long.
PC games do not typically sell for £50 in the UK.
I have said this 5 times today already, but you guys refuse to listen, prefering to repeat the same moan.
I bought the game for £39.99 for the GF today.
Where is your mental block on that information?
Go and look at Play.com.
There's no mental block mate, afaik the original discussion was commenting on the asking price from ANet and I was pointing out £50 is not commonplace. I've already pre-purchased.
Use a sliding-scale of "need to play":
If game GW2 = Awesome; price "£50" = MMORPG DEAL OF THE DECADE!*
If game GW2 = Alrighty!; price "£50" = Fair Trade
If game GW2 = meh; price "£50" = Does not matter anyway...
*Do the maths vs sub games; assuming the game is awesome
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Good post Valua. But its a free market.. if they sell it for X and players buy it.. then maybe the price should have been X.
It all comes down to what the client thinks the product value is.
They clearly aiming for buyers who believe that will be buying the best game ever from the last and from a few years to come
If they manage to suceed.. ill have to congratulate their marketing machine for it. You can see so many posts about the pre-order phase around several websites... so its indeed a bit marketing operation for sure :]
This is very true.
A lot of people fail to grasp that tailoring the appearence of their character to a lot of folks is very much part of PvE progression.
Building their character's look is very much part of their journey.
In PvE anything that improves your character in your eyes is 'winning'.
That's not clear to me. I certainly don't view the game in this light, but I'm willing to pay their price for it. It seems very reasonable. This is the same amount I pay for any game without a subscription fee. It sounds to me like they're aiming for buyers who buy video games.
I haven't seen another game cost 50 pounds. Can anyone tell me which game costs 50 pounds?
Also games in the UK do not normally cost more than in the US. Sometimes a game is cheaper in the UK sometimes it's cheaper in the US.
But I agree with the OP. 50 pounds is a ripoff. However, I will still buy the game because I am a GW fanboy and I love GW. However, I will not prepurchase the game because I don't care about beta access. But I will definitely buy it at launch and I am 100% sure it will cost much less than 50 pounds.
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Dear OP and other complainers. Get a job
I have a job in investment banking, thank you very much. I earn more than enough.
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Great news. Since your the expert on investments. Quit investing hours of your time complaining about ten bucks cheapscate
If he's the expert then why are you advising him?
From reading some recent comments, it sounds like this game does cost more in EU. If that's the case, I would wonder what the reasoning might be. I don't see a reason for EU to pay more than US. However, I'm sure there's a way to purchase this for the US price considering the market power of the internet.
Im advising him because its common sence. duhh lol
I don't know what your game prices in europe are like but in america GW2's prices are pretty much the going rate, it's probably something local messing it up.
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