not actually that awesome

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Originally posted by powerplay

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by powerplay

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by powerplay

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by powerplay

 

Honestly it's hard to take anyone serious who has only played 1-2 days. imho...

it's about how long many big companies play a MMO before they review it, it seems.. also I can easily tell after a day if i really am not going to enjoy a game... why couldn't I tell after a day if I'm going to like it? also there's so much youtube video out now you can fill in the gaps on stuff you missed out on

Well for about 2.4 million people swtor looked good  after one day.  It looked like the second coming to me.  A month later I was bored to tears....  

 

Most (99%) here proclaiming their love and swaring an oath of loyalty to this game have only played 1 or 2 days, and watch some videos. How can I take that seriously?

a buttload more information has been released for GW2 than I remember about SWTOR before launch, including a ton more youtube videos.. also many many many of those 2.4 mil bought swtor for the "star wars" or the "bioware" name and nothing more. GW2 doesn't have that big IP to boost it up it's doing that with just it's gameplay

I didn't. I bought it because the videos and progression trailers looked awsome. I'm not even a starwars fan. I had never played a bioware RPG. I bought it because after my first beta weekend the game looked great. 

I see a lot of people here doing the same thing. They watched some videos, played 2 days, then proclaimed greatness and swore love. 

Who knows they could be right, but it's really just a leap of faith... 

how so? game has NO monthly fee.. I guarantee you will get your $60 dollars worth of entertainment out "if you are a MMO fan"  even if its only a month or two.. if you enjoyed the weekend beta you obviously enjoyed the core gameplay so what's to loose? I really don't see your point

I pretty much loathe SWTOR now but I still feel my $60 wasn't a complete waiste and still got over 100 hours of gameplay from the title which is a hell of a lot more than most any single player game I play/

I didn't say anything about money. What I said was that after a couple days and some videos a lot of people sware GW2 is the best mmo ever and is their one true love. This is the leap of faith I'm speaking of.  If you don't like that term, you can call it  an assumption, or a guess, or even a hope. 

 

I just think we as a community need to stop this next best greatest thing after only 2 days or 20 hours of play. We aren't doing ourselves any favors. The industry knows we do this. Why do you think swtor was so front loaded?  Why do you think NCsoft/Anet thought they could sell a game for full price without even giving people the game? They know gamers now a days swollow hype faster than they can eat content. 

So, let me ask you how you would feel about a game if you played for a weekend, and now you can't...but you have withdrawal symptoms (legitimately) and no other games seem fun to you.

I found the game fun.  I found it fun enough to lose track of time while playing PvP in an uncomfortable chair, on a laptop, while using public WiFi (which kinda sucks).  I can't really agree with the idea that we can't judge a game in a weekend.  Sure, we can't judge endgame zones, or the story past level 20, or dungeons, or the 2 races we haven't been able to play, but we have been able to play PvP.  I think that the PvP alone is good enough to keep me playing for years.

 

If I have already played aand approved of the content that will keep me playing for a long time, is that really a leap of faith? Is that really blind hype?

 

One last thing.  I have have been following since it was announced.  I played the demo in september of 2010 at PAX prime.  I have watched countless hours of GW2 videos.  Probably more total time than I have spent on any released MMO in that same time period.  "a few videos" is an innadequate description for how many videos some people have watched, even without having played the game.