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Looks like a Microtransaction blog from Anet is coming
kefkah
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Apparently, ArenaNet is getting ready to publish a blog on microtransactions.
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Hopefully we can finally put all the speculation to rest.
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You simply could have waited fir the actual blog to come. How long would it take? Not more than a few hours I say.
well, it will be good to have some kind of idea how much the game will rely on microtransactions, so them being more open about it before hand is a good thing. and as long as they are honest about what their intentions are, yes, i do think it will dispell some of the rumours/speculation surrounding those microtransactions, or confirm them.
Not everyone is the same. By the same logic you could argue that Martin could have skipped the preannouncement on Guru.
Thats good comming infront of 10th of April pre-purchase.
"As usual, I recommend to stay calm and not jump to conclusions based on speculations."
AHAHAHAA!!!! they're comedians too! when have mmo players ever jumped to wild, doom laden conclusions?!
It would have been a little underhanded waiting until after pre-purchase since the shop is a deal breaker for many.
Another reason why i love ANet as a developer, they could have waited to talk about this, but they are not doing that, they are discussing it now before April 10th.
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The've already stated that it wont be P2W items in the shop and most people dont believe them, so why would another blog be any different to them. He said it wont be a list of whats in the cash shop so people are still gonna say what there saying now
Well they still have to make money, running the server/servers for GW2 will cost quite a bit so they need to support themselves somehow even if its just a fluff store..
I thought that's what the raging hordes of paid expansions were for?
He stated it won't be a detailed list, which leads me to believe that they will actually be providing examples for the first time of what we are going to see in it. That's something new.
Exactly my point. I'm sold on it, but many people are sceptical and this is good move to change their view point.
Most mmo's have expansions that cost. Even P2P like wow has Paid expansions. they still need another source of revenue besides just expansions and box sales.. which will be the CS
Guess you never have looked at GW1 then.
Even when they see the truth with their own eyes they will complain. So and so has character slots I don't have, why can't we have a million character slots for free? Or they will complain that peoplle are dressing their characters in the latest evening dresses or that there are Char dressed in tuxedos and thus not taking the game uber serious enough. I could care less what other people think about that because it's all in good fun or at least it should be. I love fluff, Anet cater to people who like fluff so I'm happy
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Totally different type of game.. or at least i hope it bloody is LOL.. Plus GW does have an item shop
https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/Store.pl?dnv=5743527550&action=toggleCategory&category=4
so i guess it will be a similar thing..
I very much doubt GW2 will have a 'raging horde' of paid expansions, based on history.
What in the GW1 store is game breaking? Skill packs? Pet packs? Neither of these give you a boost in HoM points and as I don't have them I am not even sure they are unlocked for PvE characters. Perhaps someone else could clarify that.. Extra missions? You don't get armor with higher ratings from mission packs or crafting materials not available elsewhere. Extra character and storage slots? I've gotten by fine without any of these as have many and I am not angry in the slightest at anyone who may have purchased these things.
One of life's lil hand grenades
The only difference will be with the character slots. In GW if you have all expansions you have enough slots. I have 2 PvE chars and 6 PvP, I dont need anymore.
In GW2 if I want all 8 classes I will need to buy 3 more slots, but at the end this 3 slots is nothing compare to even 2 months of subscription. (one char slot in GW cost 9 Euro).
We already know that it won't be just 'fluff' items in the cash shop, they've pretty much already stated that the only items in the cash shop, will be those that can be acquired through gameplay. which means that those without the time to do various quests etc will be able to buy the item. Handy for PvP too, as you can pretty much PvP from level 1, i can imagine that for a small cash outlay you will be able to equip your PvP toon fairly extensively and jump in at an equal footing to everyone else. As long as thats all they do, then thats not really a bad thing, and will appeal to many casual players.
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I see where you are coming from and I agree, if I want extra slots I'll just buy them. Failing that I'll wait for an exp which will no doubt add another 1 or 2 who knows. I tend to have 1 or 2 PvE characters, the rest PvP so I'll unlock more for PvP if I want as well.
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They already said cash shop will be similar to GW1, when they first said it'll be in game.
I just can't wait to read it in details.
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Yea they have that for GW1 with skills and stuff but tbh you can get them eventually without the skill unlocks, just buy them with faction which is the way I do it in GW1. I have no reason to believe anet will do things differently. I think, people (not you!) are having a really difficult time with this because they really have no experience with anet's way of doing things.
It makes me wonder what games people have felt burned by in the past as far as cash shops go. A little patience and all will be revealed and hopefully then people won't be freaked out anymore by this.
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