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Guild Wars 2: The latest MMO hype train
Syno23
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Now that's not a bad thing. But I see it everywhere on the internet that this game has been gaining some insane hype for a long time. We saw it with Age of Conan with its 800,000 preorders. We saw it with Warhammer with it's 1.2 million units shipped. Aion also had a million sales in North America. These games get overhyped and everyone's gotta play them.
2003: SWG and FFXI
2004: WoW
2005: Guild Wars
2006: ........
2007: Vanguard: Saga of Heros and Lord of The Rings Online
2008: Age of Conan and Warhammer Online
2009: Aion: Tower of Eternity
2010: Final Fantasy XIV
2011: Rift and SW:TOR
2012: Guild Wars 2
Again, not a bad thing. All I'm saying is that Guild Wars 2 is next on the table. Now that TSW has been released, the next BIG HUGE MMO is going to be Guild Wars 2. In 2011 we saw th release of SW:TOR and everyone was hyped about that game.
This game, millions of preorders and dozens of websites and chatter going on on the internet about this game.
I for one AM getting this game because of the insane hype around it. Why are you getting Guild Wars 2?
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Been following it since 2007. I'm a fan of what they have put into the game. I've played the betas and had fun. I find it to be a great game.
That's why I'm getting it.
Well, for me its not the recent "hype" as you call it. I think you are confusing advertising and hype /shrug. Anyway, I'm getting it because I have been following it for years, the BWEs have been a blast!
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
I have been following it since they first announced it. Every piece of information has been great to read about.
Now that it is finally coming out, I can stop thinking and start playing
Are you sure you know what hype is?
5 years of waiting is quite sometime. I'll admit that at first I wasn't to get this game. I heard about it back in 2009 and just just gonna pass. But 3 years later, the reason why I'm going to buy it.
Mainly because I know that it'll last for a long time. I can leave if I need to and when I come back there will be a stable population to play with. Though it's not the case with previous MMOs.
Yes, Guild Wars was hyped up in 2005. The sales prove it. Between 2005 and 2006 the game sold over a million copies. Between 2005 and 2012 the series has sold over 7 million copies.
Guild Wars 2 is up there with WoW on the F2P. Not Pay to play, but free to play. It is the WoW of Free to Play.
Because it's worth the box price.
My theme song.
There's Des and Publisher Hype, and there is Fan Hype.
The first is just marketing mumbo jumbo, but it still managed to draw in fans of the IP, if there is one (WAR, AoC and SWTOR being the biggest offenders, lately). This kind of hype is usually very foggy, promising the world but offering precious little detais, or heavily edited/scripted clips.
The second is people raving because they believe some game is good, or becoming fanboys after actually playing the game. This is the viral hype that's the wet dream of any marketing person, because it is much more powerful than fabricated hype, and sells more games than almost all other forms of advertisement.
I am here because I played the game, and it felt right.
If you are just now noticing that Guild Wars 2 has a hype train...
...you must be new...
That said, few points to make here:
I'm getting it because the series is by far my favorite game series. I have many good memories surrounding the first one as well as being in love with the lore. I am happy there are many others involved in the game, but the hype isn't the main driving force of my interest.
I'm here because it is the first themepark in a long time that is making a proper MMORPG world, rather than the lobby-style endgame raiding games they have been making recently. TSW is not too bad in that respect, either, but I feel GW2 goes one step further than TSW atm.
I went for TSW actually, though I almost did GW2. In the real world (yes even in fantasy worlds humans would still think this way) grown ups have factions. They just do. That's why the most epic stories have true factions. Not copy paste races and a handful of generic classes to pvp each other in an instance or what have you. I'm talking real differences between races and cultures that feel real.
So while I'd like to see if my Asura elementalist was better than world 1 and world 2's version when Bob and Sandy log on, I still prefer TSW's attempt at making me feel a little bit more like I'm actually in an mmorpg and not a video game (I swear with so many of these games these days I feel like I need to insert a quarter).
/quarter
TIL MMORPG's are not video games.
Overall, I think SW:TOR was more anticipated, but specifically on mmorpg.com, the hype for GW2 is off the charts. Will this game finally satiate the appetites of gamers here at mmorpg.com or will the backlash be legendary?
As a SW:TOR fan, I'll just advise you all on the importance of managing your expectations.
The GW franchise is the only Multiplayer online game I've played (not counting FPS's, diablo 2) ....since I refuse to pay a monthly sub. Played a few FtP games...but was not enamored with many of those...
So since GW2 is a BtP, no sub game....made by the creators that made GW1...an outstanding game IMHO, it only follows that I'm on the train since it was announced.
I got the impression most MMORPG members hate themeparks...
Dragons! I was fighting deathwing when I saw the first video of GW2 (Tequatl the sunless) a month later I quit WoW and started to follow gw2
Because I have played it and it is the best MMO since vanilla wow IMO.
Heh
I prefer The Shatterers entrance but Tequatl is pretty badass as well.
It wont live up to its hype
no MMO ever really does.
Ive finally got a beta key for the 20th BWE,time to see if the game will even hit close to the mark.
you quit a game to follow another u cant even play yet?
interesting.
hey...give some props, they are saving $15/month NOT playing....if they had quit 4 months before release, BOOM! Free Game!
When a game is boring why pay for it?
A large amount of people have already played it and decided that it does live up to the hype.
Some people were excited and ended up not liking it, others weren't excited and got excited.
Some people, like yourself, aren't going to let themselves be convinced one way or another.
Big deal, not everyone likes the same thing.
When so many people have played it already and love it, why bother claiming it won't live up to the hype when it already has? Just say you're not interested and be done with it, or give the beta key to someone whose mind is open to being changed.
not sure,then why were u subbed in the first place if the games boring?
I have been watching the hype with everyone else and will likely pick up the game. But not until a month or two after release. It's just a much more enjoyable way to game for me. The rush has died down, first bugs squished, more info about the actual game is out. Not least I never end up spending money on crap like FFXIV.