Originally posted by biggarfoot

Originally posted by mrhyde1428

Why would anyone cancel their pre-order after this beta?  You'd have to pre-purchase (not pre-ordered) to have had a guaranteed spot in the beta.  And for all those who prepurchased, they've already paid in full so cancelling would be pointless. 

This thread seems just like another one trying to flame GW2.

Because there is a minority of people that prepurchased and wish they hadnt because they didnt like what they experienced, so they would like to cancel and get their money back.  So why would it be pointless?

 

Just for your information as you are making assumptions, I prepurchased, I enjoyed the game and thought it was great.

Originally posted by Chrome1980

Originally posted by mrhyde1428

Why would anyone cancel their pre-order after this beta?  You'd have to pre-purchase (not pre-ordered) to have had a guaranteed spot in the beta.  And for all those who prepurchased, they've already paid in full so cancelling would be pointless. 

This thread seems just like another one trying to flame GW2.

Yes many pre purchased to get the guaranteed beta spot. They didn't like what they saw and would like to get their money back. Nothing surprising or un believable about it. Heappens all the time with new MMOS.

My point was the first line in my post, which is what the op was asking "How many who pre-ordered are going to cancel?"  If you pre-ordered, you wouldn't had been in the beta unless you were selected for beta in the original beta sign-up.  So how would the beta make any impact on a decision to cancel for all those who pre-ordered (not to be confused with pre-purchased?)

I wasn't trying to make any assumptions toward those who pre-purchased, my appologies.

Considering they had to stop selling prepurchases prior to the beta (they had reached their maximum quota of player for the BWE) and that ONLY  a prepurchase guaranteed you access to the beta, im hightly suspicious of posts that claim that made it to the BWE with a preorder. I dont say its impossible, just highly unlikely, like winning the lottery.

All the posts that ive readen of people that claim having gained entry to past BWE without having purchased the game have been negative so far.

Even more suspicious are the posts that claim "i played the BWE with my cousins beta key" or something like that. You dont play an mmo with you cousins beta key unless you are no older than 14. Thats a well known law of physics.

Originally posted by -Zeno-
Just curious to see if anyone is canceling their pre-order after this last beta event.

The thing to remember here is that this is a BETA! it was a chance to test out the servers, staff to get experience, CS to get experience and a learning curve for Anet to make sure they get it right on release. also to wet our tastebuds and give us a chance to play after all this time which is excellent. so remember that was not the finished product.

thanks

azza

I havent played it so i cant really say  how it is. But i want be pre-ordrering Gw2 until release, so i can get a much better picture of how it is..

TSW on the other hand, i alrdy pre-ordered :P Horror here i come :)

Not bad :)

No I did not cancel - 63.9%

     I highly doubt you were just curious about this but I have my suspicions that you were hoping for a particular outcome.

Ironically only like 3% as of now are going to cancel their preorder. More than half have chosen answer B. To keep their preorder. Which pretty much proves all of those people wrong who were spreading lies that the game has not been well recieved.

lol, this didnt turn out like he wanted it to ^^

Well - you also forgot the option most of us would have voted on:

(x) i told every living soul in my area to preorder asap as GW2 is definitly the new big shit and i bought copies for the unwilling ^^

Never pre-ordered because its sily expensive, and after testing in closed beta for few few weeks im glad i didnt cave into the hype.

I may pick it up after release if i can find it cheap enough..

Originally posted by Monorojo
Well using this poll as a indicator...Already 11% of the potential fanbase will be passing on GW2 and we have only experienced the first beta weekend. You can expect the retention rate to continue to dip the closer and closer we get to release, then take a huge nose dive a month or two after release.

Using the world as an indicator, over 95% of the people in this world won't be playing it.

Congratulations.

Considering how many posts I've seen 'Oh god, horrible game, cancelled my preorder!' by people who earlier posted 'I will never buy this game, much less preorder it', I'm assuming that at least half ot that 5% are people who are lying.

So uh... not really missing those people.

... but whatever helps you sleep at night, man. :)

I see what you did there OP. Flamebaiting is not cool you know!

How many people actually preordered the game? Most people prepurchased the game so it's a done deal. In the UK you can't preorder the game.

Anyways you all seem to measure the success of GW by your stupid and naive MMO standards. This game doesn't have a sub so you will not know how many even play the game. It's all about selling those boxes. Bethesda sold 10m copies of Skyrim (probably a lot more now). Does anyone know how many people still play the game? 

Originally posted by Monorojo
Well using this poll as a indicator...Already 11% of the potential fanbase will be passing on GW2 and we have only experienced the first beta weekend. You can expect the retention rate to continue to dip the closer and closer we get to release, then take a huge nose dive a month or two after release.

     Hilarious. This poll is clearly biased against GW2. 3 out of the 4 answers are pretty much against GW2. Yet over 60% of the responses are B. Yet somehow, even against overwhelming odds in this poll, you have managed to transform a vastly positive majority into some kind of prediction of doom.

     Well done.

     Lets be more realistic shall we?

     Now that the beta was out you can expect this majority (represented here) to spread the word. Increasing the player base. You can also expect all the positive press to increase the player base (its rated as the number 1 MMO by every single major review site out there for 2012). You can expect the player base to be far greater than this as well sense here we are talking only about those who preordered. Which is going to be maybe 20% of the community? The player base will then grow exponentially on release due to..well..being released and all of the positive review scores. You can expect the game to continue to grow after that since it is being geared to be a major e-sport much like SC2. Not only that but this is not a subscription game. So nobody ever really leaves. They jump in and jump out whenever they feel like it.

     How you got your prediction that the preorders would dwindle anymore than this is beyond me. The people that are keeping their preorders (the vast majority) have already experienced and loved the game in its roughest state. Why would they cancel on the next beta? or the following? makes no sense. If anything the numbers would only grow sense those people are now spreading the word.

     You know your logic is off. I know you know it because you are an educated human being.

I'd also like to point out that this is the most negative forum on the planet. If all you guys can muster is 11% here, good luck on your crusade.

    Still though people don't seem to be an accurate indicator for anything these days. Both SWTOR and WoW have resoundingly negative polls. More negative than positive. The worst I think was when I saw WoW had a 4% and SWTOR had like 3% of the answers in their favor.

     This is actually incredible that an MMO has done this well in a poll, especially one that was clearly hoping for a more negative response.

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Raiyu_Defied

I'm honestly in 2 mind overs the game.

 

I haven't preordered yet, I've seen plenty of things i like, but also a few I'm not a fan of.

 

Honestly think i'll just wait a bit after release before i make a decision over whether i want to buy this game or not.

My main concern is that it won't have $60 worth of PVE content.  And if I wait too long so that the price to gameplay is in line, then there won't be the critical mass of players to do the little PVE events with.   Still in the deciding phase,  but there's plenty of time.

Dont expect the price for the game to change anytime soon. The game has no sub fee so the devs only make money on the box price. Their philosophy is to keep selling boxes at a premium price rather than charge sub fees. They will also charge premium prices for the expansions when they come out and maintain those prices for a long period of time.

There is defintely $60 worth of content in the game right now. I expect that to do a reasonable amount of the pve content will take an average player 2 to 3 months with one character and with the other races and zones ascociated with those races you can extend that out several more months at least. Add in the WvWvW stuff and you have 6+ months worth of content at release. How far will the game last beyond that is anyone's guess at this time.

Originally posted by lokiboard
I smell sales reps in the crowd......No wait, everyone check their shoes!

You caught us¡¡  You dont like the game , and we do, so the logical conclusion is that we  must work for Anet. The alternative is that you may be wrong,  and that is unthinkable and would probably mean the end of the universe.