First there was the guy claiming the pre-purchase date was a date that will forever be known in history...now tomorrow will forever be known in history. I think we're making a bigger deal out of things than they actually are.

That being said, I pre-purchased and am interested to try out the game. Will the heavens shine upon me when I do so? Not likely.

I love the smell of hyperbole in the morning...

I still dont get why people hype things up so much, it'll only lead to dissapointment.

Dreams > Reality

Very excited, of course. I was a bit shocked, pleasantly so, to see them release a list of 48 servers for the WBE. Another game that had beta recently had trouble filling four servers for the first pre-order weekend beta events and that didn't ever require a pre-purchase, just a pre-order.

I almost expected that Arenanet may have to send out beta invites to earlier applicants in order to get a proper stress test, just because I wasn't sure how many people would buy into the concept of pre-purchasing a game with out an actual release date. Well, it seems, they have put all those fears well to rest and, based on just pre-sales, GW2 is probably already one of the best selling MMOs in recent years. It will only snowball from here.

Game design, business model and the pre-purchase strategy are all very untypical for the genre and if it all proves to be successful, it will indeed shake up the genre quite a bit.

Originally posted by Decadentia

First there was the guy claiming the pre-purchase date was a date that will forever be known in history...now tomorrow will forever be known in history. I think we're making a bigger deal out of things than they actually are.

That being said, I pre-purchased and am interested to try out the game. Will the heavens shine upon me when I do so? Not likely.

Except you completely misunderstood my post.  Yes I'm excited but that's not what its about.

Monday is going to be one hell of a day of GW2 news. Articles, Reveiws, youtubers and sites are going to be everywhere talking about GW2.  Local chats of countless mmos will be filled with GW2. They already are, monday will amplify it 10fold because now EVERYone will no whether or not it lived up to so many expectations.  Whether those expectations are met or not will determine the content of the reveiws/chats/forums/etc..

Anyone else as interested in knowing the final figures of how many pre-purchases ANet sold ?

I can't wait for those to be revealed ... haters will bemoan and cry.

Originally posted by Voiidiin

Anyone else as interested in knowing the final figures of how many pre-purchases ANet sold ?

I can't wait for those to be revealed ... haters will bemoan and cry.

48 servers... 48 servers.

24 NA servers and they stopped the digital sales to prevent overcrowding and/or needing to setup more servers.

Knowing that people will be crammed into starting areas and wanting to WvWvWvWvW they aren't likely going to be ran at full capacity... but that's still a lot of servers filled with mostly prepurchases.

The game isn't even out yet! I don't know anyone who prepurchased the game (aside from me of course). I know lots of people who are interested but are waiting for the game to release.

The next 3 days will be interesting, that's for sure.

Originally posted by Xstatic912
Also expect server crashes & Server Q... With everyone trying to log in at once, i can't wait to here the "Ohh i want a refund" and "Ohhh, what lag"

Ya, given they state that the game's graphics aren't optimized you are guaranteed to lag around large groups of players.

I doubt the servers will crash, but it's possible. Setting up game servers is a lot different than it was 10 years ago. ArenaNet and NCSoft have a lot of experience in this area... but it is new hardware and new software, so things can go wrong. I am expecting no crashes but won't be upset if it does.

And of course there will be people, even people who aren't actually playing, that complain about the lag and crashes when they happen.

Originally posted by OldManFunk

And of course there will be people, even people who aren't actually playing, that complain about the lag and crashes when they happen.

Haha sad but true.

My theory and this is just a theory:

1. The dynamic questing system as a version of leveling can obviously be done in a B2P model, so Trion, Blizzard, and TOR will almost be forced to adopt it. Only reason full voice overs from TOR are not realistic is they cost quite a bit. This will catch on.

2. Geared based MMORPG's will be really challenged here. Will this be viable? Will pure pve guilds accept this non instanced raid enviroment? Will this game validate instanced raiding in TOR, Rift, and WoW as the best approach to pve end game? GW2 fans need to accept this is a real possiblity.

3. WvW in my view has already done it what it needed to do. There is little doubt in my mind that Trion is working on this and Blizzard has dropped hints. It is coming. Now will it be a huge Aion lag fest and prove the technology is simply not there yet ?

I am excited to try it, but I am definitely not getting my hopes up. I have been let down countless times. And, I am already bummed that ranger has to use a pet to be effective.

Some good folks here told me to roll warrior if I want a pet free ranged DPS class, so I am going to go that route. and, I am looking forward to engineer as well.

Originally posted by kDeviL

Originally posted by Decadentia

First there was the guy claiming the pre-purchase date was a date that will forever be known in history...now tomorrow will forever be known in history. I think we're making a bigger deal out of things than they actually are.

That being said, I pre-purchased and am interested to try out the game. Will the heavens shine upon me when I do so? Not likely.

Except you completely misunderstood my post.  Yes I'm excited but that's not what its about.

 

Monday is going to be one hell of a day of GW2 news. Articles, Reveiws, youtubers and sites are going to be everywhere talking about GW2.  Local chats of countless mmos will be filled with GW2. They already are, monday will amplify it 10fold because now EVERYone will no whether or not it lived up to so many expectations.  Whether those expectations are met or not will determine the content of the reveiws/chats/forums/etc..

I completely understood your post, though I was commenting on the fact that the words history along with the "could change the face of landscape forever" tinge at the end. Comes off as a bit much.

It will certainly be an eventful day for fans, and many will be discussing, I completely agree with you there.

Originally posted by Xstatic912
Also expect server crashes & Server Q... With everyone trying to log in at once, i can't wait to here the "Ohh i want a refund" and "Ohhh, what lag"

didn't they already say there would be no queues?  that isn't really a question, they did.

i wouldn't expect them, i imagine if they said there would be none then they don't have a system in place to create them.