I cant wait to play the beta if i ever get selected and tommorrow is january so who knows what will happen. GL

Originally posted by lizardbones

 

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Originally posted by s4ndm4n2006

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Originally posted by Icewhite OTOH, you can almost feel the looming fog of expectation->disappointment preparing to surround GW2.  

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Actually this is true.  I'm kinda worried about GW2 not living up to the hype.

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This only applies to the people who create their own feature lists for the games, and then assume those features will actually ever exist. It's just dumb. It happens for every new game that releases. It's probably good that those people all post in forums...at least it keeps them out of the games. 

 I don't know if I completely agree with that.  For myself it's a matter of going by all the hype that GW2 has set up.  IT sounds really awesome and the visuals look stunning.. but that's the problem.  I've seen this type of hype before and had my high hopes dashed on other games.  I don't mean that it's inevitable but just hope that doesn't happen.  With SWTOR, it has always had controversial two sided hype and anti-hype (for lack of a better word) and truthfully, I was pleasantly surprised because I think my expectations were somewhat lower than in other games that I was overly excited about.

FC stated in one of the press interviews a couple of months ago that one of the lessons they learned from AoC is to promise certain features and then not deliver on those promises. So, this time around they are making 100% sure that whatever gets promised gets delivered. I would expect FC to stay a lot more tight-lipped until much closer to release. At least this one example where they have learned from their past mistakes and will not repeat them with TSW.

Originally posted by Yuui

Originally posted by eric_w66

I think its two-fold:

1) SWTOR hype would drown out most of theirs.

2) They got into the SWTOR beta/release and have said "Oops, our game isn't as fun as this, we need to work on it some more."

 

While I do agree with first point and thats exactly the reason why they are silent(it make sperfect sense from marketing stand point)

 

The second point is laughable. TSW does not want to be world of warcraft. They have no reason to take stuff from torcraft. :)

 

yeah TSW is going for the "don't like wow" market

Originally posted by eric_w66

I think its two-fold:

1) SWTOR hype would drown out most of theirs.

2) They got into the SWTOR beta/release and have said "Oops, our game isn't as fun as this, we need to work on it some more."

 

That first one could be true but just out of plain marketing reasons. After all fanchise was always a hit.

Heh, if you have at least active brain usage and learned to use it for judging the world around  you , some marketing drama or hype that has been created based on marketing tricks and comments can't force you do play something that you don't want to play. Or I could be wrong, mass media seem to have influenced overseas more than they seem to pierce and brainwash on this side of Atlantic:P

TSW is aiming for different audiance, and after so many years of their products, no matter how badly rated by some players they were, their games were played for unique experience it offered.

At last, you can't generalise if something is better than something else by just being a same genre (if you can say that for a mmo anyways). What you see as fun, lots of others don't :P

Lots of opinions of course. Here is mine. Funcom has provided enough info to get me decided about whether to buy or not.  I will purchase and play TSW. Do not know what else to say about the subject. I know I will not partake of Forum PVP, it is just annoying. Unsure about Beta tho, if invited I will try it but if not I will still buy and play it. Enough said!

Probally one of the only MMORPGs im actually looking forward to this yaer, unless of course Archage somehow gets released in english lol..

oh it posted..

Or everyone got spoiled with all the weekly updates of SWTOR.  The game is months away for christ sakes, they are prolly prepping for a convention or a flood of info closer to release.  Their silence is no different that ANet's who release info when it's rdy, I see no different than with TSW.