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GW2 – Is a Free GW2 Account Worth It (Part 1) - MMORPG.com
In August of 2015 ArenaNet did something unexpected. They made the core Guild Wars 2 campaign free to play to anyone interested in giving the game a try. For a series that has been predominantly buy to play, this was an interesting move that still continues to this day.
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Ended up leveling up every class at the start but after they started instant leveling and leveling strolls have not went through the basic leveling process since.
Bag space is handled decently and I liked the early drops of bags and the availability of bags in the auction house that help a lot as well as being able to buy and sell gear quickly as you level. Mostly a painless process at the start, but constantly seeing players with mounts would make it hard to wait for new players.
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I still jump on my second account that has no expansions...it is still fun to play!
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Well you can still craft bag space as you level up crafting you can craft bigger bag space.
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You do the first PoF mission and you get a mount. Getting the first mount has nothing to do with the mastery system. I'd say that was pretty immediate. HoT's Gliding needs a mastery point, not the Raptor.
Not a paywall when you can convert gold to gems, I unlocked all the bag spaces on 13 characters in around a month.
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I do like the way they handle quests while leveling. They just automatically pop-up and you do the objectives, then you get XP. Pretty good map system. The combat is fun although I hate the dodge fests it perpetuates.
Group PvE is pretty poor.
Worth playing through the base (free) game, at least, IMO...
Not the most optimized game client. A lot of FPS-sucking, superfluous graphical effects. Turn down the shadows unless you have a really high end GPU, esp. if you want consistent high framerates (75-120+ FPS).
I think leveling in GW2 is actually more fun than leveling in WoW or [esp.] FFXIV. The Story doesn't feel like so much of a bottleneck (comp. to FFXIV, for example) so you don't start hating it after a while.
It's more similar to ESO, in that respect, except the combat is a bit more exciting... so it feels a lot more fluid to play than ESO.
Do hate the lack of trinity/defined roles in the game, and the Elite Specializations are basically a character reroll for some classes. So I stopped playing shortly after HoT launch (did buy it, didn't like it).
TESO was worse,10 minutes the first time and i never went back.
SWTOR i stuck around too long,it was very boring to me ,in the end i knew i would also never go back.However fast forward a few years and i did actually go back,about 15 minutes and i deleted it.
The bigger picture,mmorpg's have been developed terribly,very simple lazy efforts.
The only one that felt like a lot of effort went into it was FFXIV but a few systems turned me off and instance gaming along with item levels really turns me off even more.
SO what is left...BDO,yep own that,played from day 1,terrible game down to the point of goofy silly ideas like flips and button mashing combos but there was way more wrong with the game than a few things,a total mess of game design.
An even bigger picture,mmor[g's are dead,nobody is willing to put in the effort to make a great one.NOBODY,so i'll play some single player games and Atlas until a developer gets serious and passionate about mmorpg's.
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I get that MMOs currently are stale but can we stop with the whole MMOs are dead thing? There are more people playing MMOs today than back in the day, so relax.
I get that MMOs currently are stale but can we stop with the whole MMOs are dead thing? There are more people playing MMOs today than back in the day, so relax.
Would you be able to provide links to specific numbers, say concurrent logins, daily and monthly, or perhaps patreon/subscriptions to support your position? My guess is no.
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In the end almost anything free is worth about what you paid for it, nothing, same thing here.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Yes