Originally posted by Neutor

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by kirak2009

I am somewhat impressed, every BETA for every game since I can remeber has been literally bashed to death on MMORPG.COM.

 

until now. I have not seen so much positive information  about an upcoming game ever on this site.  I have not yet purchased or played GW2 yet. 

kinda makes me think there is a future MMO that will be appealing to most.

 

thanks for the reviews folks,  both good and bad.

you need to turn the rainbow and sunshine filter off because I see way more negative reviews and from my own personal experience I have only been in a few betas this bad and I been in them all. Tera is a much better game go go go, everyone should play.

Tera, while a good game that I have prepurchased, is not in the same league as this game...good try though

Tera is in a much higher league indeed. GW2 is old and not refreshing where TERA is and that is what the majority of gamers want not a puny few minority [mod edit]

I did pvp matches all weekendly long. I just tried out templates and every single class. I came away with tons of options and builds. I still have the entire pve experience to explore.

If this game was just the pvp part, I would buy it and love it. By far some of the best pvp in recent memory.

Everything else is just pure icing on the cake.

Day one buy, I miss playing already.

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by kirak2009

I am somewhat impressed, every BETA for every game since I can remeber has been literally bashed to death on MMORPG.COM.

 

until now. I have not seen so much positive information  about an upcoming game ever on this site.  I have not yet purchased or played GW2 yet. 

kinda makes me think there is a future MMO that will be appealing to most.

 

thanks for the reviews folks,  both good and bad.

you need to turn the rainbow and sunshine filter off because I see way more negative reviews and from my own personal experience I have only been in a few betas this bad and I been in them all. Tera is a much better game go go go, everyone should play.

thats because people like you typically are only looking for the negative

you need to go join in the whiner/hate threads where you'll be right at home....yep, MMORPG.com..."home of the haters"

unless, you are just trolling here with the "tera" statement.

Based off of the 100 vids I watched before even buying the game...it was EXACTLY what I thought it was going to be.

That said, it was awesome.

People invested a lot of money to "test" this game. Of COURSE it is going to be recieved well... 

I don't know the name for it, but it is as if someone rented a movie and the movie sucked, but instead of just admitting that they goofed, they HAVE to find something positive to say about that movie.

I see this EVENT as the same way. People PAID just to get in and even though there were problems, we all know about them, certain people will just continue to go along with blinders because they're too stubborn or too proud or too fanboyish to possibly admit, "Maybe I should have waited...".

Just from the fact that a majority of posts I have seen that are critical of the game are attacked by all the pro-Guilders kind of proves my point, for me at least.

Anyway, I hope the problems that have been pointed out get fixed because I am itching to try this game out. Now if only I could try this game and weed out a certain portion of the community... Ah... It would be like staring at that sweet, sweet login screen...

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by Neutor

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by kirak2009

I am somewhat impressed, every BETA for every game since I can remeber has been literally bashed to death on MMORPG.COM.

 

until now. I have not seen so much positive information  about an upcoming game ever on this site.  I have not yet purchased or played GW2 yet. 

kinda makes me think there is a future MMO that will be appealing to most.

 

thanks for the reviews folks,  both good and bad.

you need to turn the rainbow and sunshine filter off because I see way more negative reviews and from my own personal experience I have only been in a few betas this bad and I been in them all. Tera is a much better game go go go, everyone should play.

Tera, while a good game that I have prepurchased, is not in the same league as this game...good try though

Tera is in a much higher league indeed. GW2 is old and not refreshing where TERA is and that is what the majority of gamers want not a puny few minority with big mouths and large walls of text.

Yea...no

Again, Tera is a game...I hope you enjoy your time there, I enjoyed mine.  After playing GW2, though, I don't think I can go back to that stop and cast kinda combat.  I will play D3 and wait on this.  Have fun in Tera

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by kirak2009

I am somewhat impressed, every BETA for every game since I can remeber has been literally bashed to death on MMORPG.COM.

until now. I have not seen so much positive information  about an upcoming game ever on this site.  I have not yet purchased or played GW2 yet. 

kinda makes me think there is a future MMO that will be appealing to most.

thanks for the reviews folks,  both good and bad.

you need to turn the rainbow and sunshine filter off because I see way more negative reviews and from my own personal experience I have only been in a few betas this bad and I been in them all. Tera is a much better game go go go, everyone should play.

I think there is more positive than negative, but there are plenty of negative as well.

That Tera is better in the beta is a no brainer, the game have been out in Korea for 1 1/2 years. GW2 is not the best beta I been in but it actually i pretty close and I been in plenty of betas the last 15 years.

I don't think Tera is better than GW2, it is a fine game but not as good. But that is personal opinion. That GW2s beta is way better than the general betas ain't. Sure they had issues with the login server the first few hours but most betas I been into have been delayed for hours instead.

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by Neutor

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by kirak2009

I am somewhat impressed, every BETA for every game since I can remeber has been literally bashed to death on MMORPG.COM.

 

until now. I have not seen so much positive information  about an upcoming game ever on this site.  I have not yet purchased or played GW2 yet. 

kinda makes me think there is a future MMO that will be appealing to most.

 

thanks for the reviews folks,  both good and bad.

you need to turn the rainbow and sunshine filter off because I see way more negative reviews and from my own personal experience I have only been in a few betas this bad and I been in them all. Tera is a much better game go go go, everyone should play.

Tera, while a good game that I have prepurchased, is not in the same league as this game...good try though

Tera is in a much higher league indeed. GW2 is old and not refreshing where TERA is and that is what the majority of gamers want not a puny few minority with big mouths and large walls of text.

Tera is way too easy... you can solo just about any boss in the whole game if you just learn their "mega man" pattern... hit three times... dodge left... hit three times... dodge left. Yawn. 

The art style is aweful in tera. Sex appeal purely for the sake of sex appeal. The whole game is like an Axe commercial... full  of over the top sexuality in an attempt to sell a lack luster product. 

Quest hubs... kill x and fetch y... and yes you better do them if you want to level up and move on to the next quest hub. No thanks... 

Originally posted by Slampig

People invested a lot of money to "test" this game. Of COURSE it is going to be recieved well... 

I don't know the name for it, but it is as if someone rented a movie and the movie sucked, but instead of just admitting that they goofed, they HAVE to find something positive to say about that movie.

 

I see this EVENT as the same way. People PAID just to get in and even though there were problems, we all know about them, certain people will just continue to go along with blinders because they're too stubborn or too proud or too fanboyish to possibly admit, "Maybe I should have waited...".

Just from the fact that a majority of posts I have seen that are critical of the game are attacked by all the pro-Guilders kind of proves my point, for me at least.

 

Anyway, I hope the problems that have been pointed out get fixed because I am itching to try this game out. Now if only I could try this game and weed out a certain portion of the community... Ah... It would be like staring at that sweet, sweet login screen...

The problem with this post is, not everyone had the issues.  I didn't have any Technical issues at all sans the 4 Disconnect from Server.  I experienced no lag whatsoever.  That being said, I don't disregard the fact that some people did but please don't assume that everyone had issues in the beta because if you actually take the time ot read some threads you would see that wasn't the case.  Also, as a note, they clearly stated before beta even started that 1)  the game was not optimized for ATI cards and 2)  It was CPU heavy right now...they admitted that up front and said they were in the process of cleaning that up.  But, people will still complain because thats what we do as people.

So again, it has nothing to do with being blind, stubborn or anything else...Not everyone had those issues.

BTW, it is recieved well because it is a very good game.  Do yourself a favor and don't listen to anyone on this or any other site, try the game for yourself and make up your own mind.

Originally posted by Slampig

People invested a lot of money to "test" this game. Of COURSE it is going to be recieved well... 

I don't know the name for it, but it is as if someone rented a movie and the movie sucked, but instead of just admitting that they goofed, they HAVE to find something positive to say about that movie.

 

I see this EVENT as the same way. People PAID just to get in and even though there were problems, we all know about them, certain people will just continue to go along with blinders because they're too stubborn or too proud or too fanboyish to possibly admit, "Maybe I should have waited...".

Just from the fact that a majority of posts I have seen that are critical of the game are attacked by all the pro-Guilders kind of proves my point, for me at least.

 

Anyway, I hope the problems that have been pointed out get fixed because I am itching to try this game out. Now if only I could try this game and weed out a certain portion of the community... Ah... It would be like staring at that sweet, sweet login screen...

I did the same thing to play SWTOR... and i knew that game sucked nuts within the first 30 minutes of play. I played for 2 hours after the BWE opened and then had to work... all i could think about the whole time at work was how bad I wanted to get back home and play

Originally posted by k-damage

Originally posted by ShTogood
Would just like to add on top of that as well as i played in the beta the amout of people that were online every time i logged in was good better than i have seen in all the other mmo's in the beta stage i have played cant wait to see what the next beta weekend brings.

+1

every main area I lurked in was literally crowded. You could build an army of players for big DEs whenever you wanted. Same for occasional rare elites.

Considering you're playing a beta in which almost everyone started at the same time, I'd have to say it would be a mistake to judge the game based on population density, even compared to other betas.  That's no guarantee that this game won't end up the top-heavy beast that most MMO's end up being.

That said, I do like that their design makes overpopulation in certain areas much less of a problem.

I look forward to the game, but if they insist on my preordering in order to try it, they'll have at least one less buyer.

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by Neutor

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by kirak2009

I am somewhat impressed, every BETA for every game since I can remeber has been literally bashed to death on MMORPG.COM.

 

until now. I have not seen so much positive information  about an upcoming game ever on this site.  I have not yet purchased or played GW2 yet. 

kinda makes me think there is a future MMO that will be appealing to most.

 

thanks for the reviews folks,  both good and bad.

you need to turn the rainbow and sunshine filter off because I see way more negative reviews and from my own personal experience I have only been in a few betas this bad and I been in them all. Tera is a much better game go go go, everyone should play.

Tera, while a good game that I have prepurchased, is not in the same league as this game...good try though

Tera is in a much higher league indeed. GW2 is old and not refreshing where TERA is and that is what the majority of gamers want not a puny few minority with big mouths and large walls of text.

Lol, people are certainly entitled to their opinions, but....dude...seriously?

Originally posted by RizelStar
You know a game is good when it's biggest issue durring a beta is performance. Which was or should have been expected. There werey any gamebreaking bugs like ability delays, I think the guardian had to many stops in his greats word attacks, oh and other than performance issues the game was not overhyped lmao. 

Biggest issue was performance? No.

• Overflow Issue: groups getting scattered was a big issue. Glaring problem is how they will deal with server overflow, right now it is unacceptable. In my opinion this was a big issue. I had no way of playing with my friends, even if they moved to overflow instance, they were in a different overflow instance.

• Disconnects: While I didnt have half as many disconnects as others I know, they were there. Several of my friends would randomly get logged off and could not get back on even after day 1.

• Broken Quests: A few quests got "stuck" and did not initiate or finish. I experienced it in Queensdale on an escort quest. Others experienced the same in Norn 1-15 area with a similar escort quest. After several bug reports we were told it was not working. Mind you it was only 3 quests out of many I did, so it wasn't a big deal, but annoying none the less.

• Out of Sync Cutscenes: During my personal story on my Human Ele, there were times when the cutscene voice overs would not play or play out of sync with the game text. Once again not a big deal and expected from Beta. I can only speak from my own personal experience. I quickly filed a report instead of coming to the forums to whine about it.

• Ability Queue Lag: The skill queue system felt very unresponsive at times. There are lots of similar complaints all over the internet, so I am glad it wasn't just me or lag. I experienced the skill lag even at times when I was out alone with no lag what so ever.

Compared to all the mmo and probably all the rpg except very few games like Skyrim for example, GW2 is one of the best game of the few last gen, even though i think those few gen aren't really a match to anything, because they were so bad.

Except for the login server crashes, the game was running very well for me, they are very very few bugs except those linked to server load and lag due to it , and those were fixed relatively fast, so this is kind of reassuring to me at least. You will always find some people that don't like it for many reasons you can be sure of it, and a lot of people can't dissociate their own taste with the quality of a product. Also the game mechanism are quiet different and you just can tell a lot of people don't really understand what is happening, those will probably need to play a bit longer that 2 days, probably will need other players to show them in game or in real life when playing with them, or point them how this is working.
Yes the game is a mmo, really no argue here, and i think that what we all wanted? But it also offer different game type access and remind me a bit of LoL for this "modern game feeling". They need to make the pvp access a bit easier and more obvious to access imo.

 
The pve was really nice both for the events, hearts, skill gain mechanism, and because the combat/mob ai relationship that really working together well, and the game was challenging to play. The downed state was really nice, i feared it wouldn't work well because the Darkfall downed state wasn't really that great, but they really made a very nice system you can really use at your advantage or not, both on my thief and elementalist it upped my survivability by a lot.

WvW was also very nice, imo they need to put a bit more intensive to make people fight outside of the castle range, and promote a bit more the supply, but that can be done with tweak and adding few more siege "engines" to "trap" big or smaller group in the move or trying to get inside a Castle under siege.

Combat was a blast to me, a really, very nice mix of mmo skills, fps mechanism, and at last a combat that take full advantage of aoe system that was pretty much always denied in mmos. In any case they are a lot to play with when fighting, and not only in pvp, but also in pve, because they really have some mob that need you to push your toon abilities to the maximum, and i sure hope it will stay like this. Movement and weapon choice are really a big part of the combat, which wasn't the case in any mmo before (except very few mmofps unknown to most), that was about time really.

 
Now don't forget this was just a lv1 to 30(?) test. So we pretty much saw nothing, but the general mechanisms. But the majority of people didn't really went that far, because most were playing pvp, WvW or competitive maps. So to give you an idea of the content quantity. Personally i found all those aspect to be very well made, and i really can't tell you which one was better, they are all good. Which is imo the best strength of the game, it is as if you played 3 games with your character, literally. The only real thing they could have made better here is to make people feel like WvW is an extension of the pve world, like a huge battle front, and blend the pvp a bit more to the world. But then again it let people have a clear view about the fact those are different type of gaming, and maybe its for the best after all. I'll personally give a thumbs up to Anet, i certainly don't regret my money spend.

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Originally posted by Nevulus

• Overflow Issue: groups getting scattered was a big issue. Glaring problem is how they will deal with server overflow, right now it is unacceptable. In my opinion this was a big issue. I had no way of playing with my friends, even if they moved to overflow instance, they were in a different overflow instance.

 

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Wasn't overflow server made so that you won't spend an hour in a stupid queue? I mean just come on, yes they can make it better, and have people group in them, but then i really don't think it was made to replace a normal server really. Few month after launch i just hope you won't even go in an overflow anymore, maybe i'm wrong? And if you had to saty a bit more in them during the event, well i'm sure they are not aiming for you to stay more than 15 to 30 minutes in them. This is a typical "give a hand, they will take the arm" kind of reaction you have don't you think?

You guys act like they won't fix the performance issues with the game. Like they're just going to leave them like that for launch. i admit now that it was a bad idea to let preorders beta test because half of you don't get what beta testing is all about. If you don't like the game please don't come back because I don't even want to play with you fools.

And I'm playing TERA, enjoying it for what it is, but the game sucks compared to a certain BETA EVENT.