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Guild Wars: The safe buy?

PhatalPhatal Member Posts: 34
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It seems like everyone I have talked to has said one thing or another about Guild Wars. Those that are really into PvP are ranting and raving about one time payment, large scale, new age PvP game. Those that aren't too interested in PvP on the other hand are still looking into it because they say it's something else to do whien they're sick of the same old thing. And then everyone else is hopping on the band wagon to avoid the EQ2 vs. WoW debate.

My prediction is so many people will buy this game out of either curiousity or convenience and the servers will be far too crowded. They will probably end up being forced to introduce a monthly fee out of necessity, simply to keep adding more servers and updates. I am really hoping this one time payment thing works out(excluding expansions), but doubt that it will.

*crosses fingers*

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  • FinweFinwe Member CommonPosts: 3,106


    Originally posted by Phatal

    My prediction is so many people will buy this game out of either curiousity or convenience and the servers will be far too crowded. They will probably end up being forced to introduce a monthly fee out of necessity, simply to keep adding more servers and updates. I am really hoping this one time payment thing works out(excluding expansions), but doubt that it will.
    *crosses fingers*


     

    No, that would kill their whole marketing scheme. Thats absurd. The more people=The more servers, as well, the more people=More money to pay for those servers.

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  • eeargyeeargy Member Posts: 300

    The devs have made a guarantee that there will never ever be a monthly charge, and since the game's been in development for about three years I assume they've done their research.

    I'm sure the game will be absolutely packed out at first just as with any new game...

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  • PhatalPhatal Member Posts: 34

    Holy crap! The devs guaranteed something? And this guarantee is good for what exactly, besides guaranteeing a increase in sales.

  • CyrisCyris Member Posts: 84

    The devs will never introduce a monthly fee.. if they have to add more servers then no big deal they can take down those extra servers if they aren't being fully used later on as well without disturbing anyone.. People have the choice to take their existing characters to any server they want at any given time, so adding or removing servers is not a problem. If you played at E3 you would know that if your friends were on a different server when logging in for the day you simply clicked the server(realm) tab and jumped to that other server(realm) with your character intact. That jump takes about 2 seconds before your screen loads into the town. The more the people the better.. If they have to add more servers than this game is doing better than they originaly thought it would.


    Guild Wars can be adapted by a lot of different style of people out there.. PVP, PVE, the ones who want to chat. The fact that there is no monthly fee just means that you can play Guild Wars along side one of the other main MMORPG's. I think Guild Wars will make the perfect comliment style game for the hard core gamers who want a slight change for a day.. and for the casual gamer who just wants 1 or 2 hours a week and still be able participate in all the events.

  • waveslayerwaveslayer Member UncommonPosts: 609

    The monthy fee will be in the form of 50 dollar expansions every 4 months or so. If you think, they are gonna run an MMo for free you really have to be stupid.

    With the huge cost of running an MMo, it will be interesting to see how well Guild Wars will be doing after a year or two.

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  • KilguriKilguri Member Posts: 119

    I am guessing after 3 months the hype (hype? I wouldn't even call it that) would die and it'll settle nicely with a 5,000 user base on two or three servers who will keep buying more and more expansions and other paid ingame services.

    As for myself, I'll save me the time and money on that game and if I get extremely bored playing EQ/EQ2/PS I just might considering trying the trial version when it's out.

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  • BigPeelerBigPeeler Member Posts: 1,270

    meh... i think the game is gonna be a huge hit and will stay that way for quite a while...

    remember, they're not running servers in the typical MMORPG way, therefore are saving themselves a poop load of money... if they were running traditional MMORPG servers they would probably need a monthly fee...


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  • MalkavianMalkavian Member UncommonPosts: 2,995

    Moved to Guild Wars Forums.

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  • 2pacalypse2pacalypse Member Posts: 198

    GW runs on thousands of seamingless servers in the background whch look like its one server. The seperate each area into districts which if one distric gets full then another is automatically created. At any time any person can enter any distric that available therefor being able to meet up with anyone at any time.

    So basicaly crowding will never be an issue.

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  • hopbouncehopbounce Member Posts: 21
    There will never be any monthly fee for Guild Wars.  Anyone who played during E3 could have noticed the amount of bandwidth that it was using: at most times, it stayed under 1kb/sec, upload and download.  (downloading new areas is an exception, as it's only a one-time download)  With Guild Wars's advanced netcode, server costs are DRASTICALLY reduced.
  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

    If you want more of a faster pased "twitch/skill" based game... then this is your best bet.

    It's fun, it shares some ideas that MMORPGs have...  but it's all about PvP...

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  • jd269jd269 Member Posts: 225
    Expansions will be every 6-9 months.. most mmorpg's expand once a year with $19.99-$29.99 expansions.. I believe it was said somewhere that the guild wars expansions would be in the neighborhood of $50.. still cheaper than playing other mmorpg's.  Definitely not free. 

  • unaydonunaydon Member Posts: 116
    well i think the expansion will be priced like most games. also u dont have to buy them if u dont want to that is the nice thing still play with or with out the xpack.

  • HebrewBombHebrewBomb Member UncommonPosts: 520


    Originally posted by Phatal

    It seems like everyone I have talked to has said one thing or another about Guild Wars. Those that are really into PvP are ranting and raving about one time payment, large scale, new age PvP game. Those that aren't too interested in PvP on the other hand are still looking into it because they say it's something else to do whien they're sick of the same old thing. And then everyone else is hopping on the band wagon to avoid the EQ2 vs. WoW debate.
    My prediction is so many people will buy this game out of either curiousity or convenience and the servers will be far too crowded. They will probably end up being forced to introduce a monthly fee out of necessity, simply to keep adding more servers and updates. I am really hoping this one time payment thing works out(excluding expansions), but doubt that it will.
    *crosses fingers*


    LOL

    I assume the same...... but don't doubt. They will stay free of monthly fee. It's most logical thing that you can think of at this point.

    GW is backed by pursuit of new ideas, excellence in content, pro-consumer marketing strategy.

    My impression is that GW is one of few games in this business that are completely into "customer-is-why-we-do-business" which is good bothways

     

  • raptorfalconraptorfalcon Member Posts: 126

    I also believe that the game will stay off the normal monthly fee. The monthly fee will be in the form of expansion packs that wont be on the cheap side.. BUT here is the difference.. if they dont do a good job on the exp. packs they wont sell many since customers have to option of buying them or not..

    This is really what will attract most people to it. This is GW's way of competing in the market. IF they ever add a monthly fee they will most likely introduce it in a voluntary way and will give you something really cool for it..

  • LL Member Posts: 70

    ok the only reason guild wars is known right now is for there consumer-is-what-we-are-here-for attitude. If they did put a monthly fee it would because of NC (the company that also made lineage 2 image). personally i like the old school feel to this mmorpg. it doesnt feel like a real mmorpg unless you go into the big towns.

    plus i have already bought the pre-order so its better to think they wont add a monthly fee.

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  • glendrinkerglendrinker Member Posts: 3

    Originally posted by waveslayer
    The monthy fee will be in the form of 50 dollar expansions every 4 months or so. If you think, they are gonna run an MMo for free you really have to be stupid.
    With the huge cost of running an MMo, it will be interesting to see how well Guild Wars will be doing after a year or two.Godz of War I call Thee

    no offense, but you seem to know very little about this game and the topic in general. ok, so i do mean offense. the people behind this game are many of the most talented online game developers in the business. perhaps you've heard of diablo? warcraft? how much did you have to pay to use battle.net? they know what they are doing and if they say it they mean it.

    this team has the most focused and intelligent development plan of any online game i've followed. the alpha e3 release was farther along than most mmo's in open beta. if you ever read up on mmo development you will learn about the many pitfalls and money-pits associated with making a mmo. the clever pseudo-mmo design of guild wars bypasses these.

    there will be expansions as the company has promised but you know what? EVERY ONLINE GAME HAS EXPANSIONS!!! it keeps the game interesting. please flame me...i dare you

  • FightinIrishFightinIrish Member Posts: 8
    I think the idea is great but im sure whether community will be fun to play with will it be ruined like diablo II because of no monthly fee

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  • InnfernoInnferno Member Posts: 124


    Originally posted by FightinIrish
    I think the idea is great but im sure whether community will be fun to play with will it be ruined like diablo II because of no monthly fee

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    Almost certainly.

    This game sound fantastic...a little too fantastic for me to believe them.  I mean a full on MMORPG with no monthly fee, no need to buy expacs as they wont make you better in PVP, instancing up the wazoo with live streaming content and the ability to alter the game world forever.   Then theres the 'real life' physics allowing you to take higher and lower ground and hit legs/heads for increased dmg & effect. 

    Then to top it all off, once they have already promised the earth, the moon on a stick and to give everyone a golden goose they say they will put everyone on one server and there will be no lag :p.  I know EVE does this but that game has no real 'physics' as such to deal with, no line of sight issues etc and they struggled for a long time.

  • EButterflyEButterfly Member Posts: 6
    I don't think they will release 50 dollar expansions.  Obviously they will be competitivley priced so they can compete with other games.  But the thing is MOST MMO's, at least the popular ones, have expansions.  Look at EQ.  They are pay to play and they have released like 8 expanisions in 6 years... they are making so much money, and will continue to do so,  The cool thing about Guildwars is that they are going to let their business model do the selling.  It's free to play.. theres tons of sales right there.. expansions will come out prolly every 6 to 9 moneths or so.. just like all the other games... and you don't HAVE to buy them to remain competitive cause this isn't an item centric game.  So even if you don't have the latest exp, you can still play with them.. you just won't get to play in certain areas.  And the seamless world thing is being implemented by alot of new games now.  Like wish, etc.  i think that will be the norm.  Plus these guys know what they are doing... Diablo 2 worked, on a differnt scale, but still... from all the hype from the alpha testers, I think this will be an awesome game.  You've got nothing to lose, and everything to gain...image

  • Ken`ShieroKen`Shiero Member Posts: 289
    They would most likely add a deluxe account that would give you more like spells and access to different quests and skills that the people play for free wont get and they may even put up a server just for them, just a thought.image

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