I feel like I did after the first time I beta'd TOR, which kind of has me worried because I had 4-6 weeks of a great time with TOR before all the problems and fatigue from their poorly designed systems really started grinding on me and made me lose interest in the game.

At the same time, things I didn't like about TOR after a few weeks are not at all present in GW2, and I also feel GW2 has most of the "good" things I really like in a MMORPG so I'm hopeful after the "honeymoon" period ends for me that I will continue to play and enjoy GW2.

As with most games for me, it's all about if my friends/guildies continue playing as well.

In TOR, everyone was gone after the first month so it was really hard to continue to log in even though there were some things about the game I still enjoyed.

I hope they all love GW2 and continue playing, as that is usually my #1 motivator to play a game for any length of time.

Honeymoon phase happens for every game you try and really like.

GW2 is on that list for me.

What's kind of ironic but funny is that I was one of those who really didn't have much love for GW2 simply because it was f2p and not p2p.. I just figured it wouldn't be worth my time. Well, I decided to roll the dice since I'm not playing any mmo atm, and pre purchased it just so I can try it out this past weekend..  Then I was planning on buying Tera this week to play that for a couple weeks as a placeholder for Diablo 3....

Well,,, now I have no intention of buying Tera, and I'm now that excited about Diablo 3 as I was before this weekend, lol.. It's crazy but I think GW2 has massive potential to be legendary, and It may be the beginning of the end for the sub p2p mmorpg's..

Originally posted by Rivalen

Honeymoon phase happens for every game you try and really like.

GW2 is on that list for me.

True.

As with the RL version, it's how well you enjoy your time after the honeymoon phase is over that really counts in the end :)

Originally posted by Iselin

Originally posted by lokiboard

I played it and saw nothing new that hasn't been done in GW1 or other games......You can mix the leggos into different patterns all you like and delude yourself into thinking you have something new, but all you really have is leggos.....  Play more games and you'll see......

No, no... it's all just electrons... everything is the same: Oatmeal and Creme Brule...just carbs...might as well just pour sugar in your mouth...

 

Nihilism rocks... oh wait, no it sucks too.... just like everything else

LOOOOL awesome post

Originally posted by CrunkJuice2

"its been called the gw2 effect"

 

so how long is it gonna take gw2 to suffer the swtor effect.you know,the community hyping the game like its the 2nd coming of christ and then the game ends up flopping because people went into it with a bit to much hope

 

except for the part where the quality and work put into GW2 far exceeds that of SWTOR, and is pretty obvious right from the get-go

and i'm pretty sure most people who weren't blindly hyped to all hell could see that SWTOR wasn't going to be 'amazing' from the start

Originally posted by Volkon

    I've fallen victim to it, on the official forums a good many others have... the sudden lack of desire to play any other MMOs altogether. I noticed this before most others for reasons that may or may not be still under NDA, I'm not sure, but it resulted in the cancellation of three Eve Online accounts and prior to that a WoW account. Without a doubt, the world to me is so much more alive, the system so much more immersive, the combat so much more enthralling (I tried to double-tap dodge in TF2 earlier today) that other games, even TF2 just now, fall flat.

 

So... how you doin'?

I was going to open a similar thread.

After the beta event I have lost any interest in touching any other MMO

I hev still 1 month left for SWTOr but after GW2 beta II havent even logged iin once in SWTOR

AION,RIFT ,AOC all uninstalled no desire to log on those worlds

I enjoy World of tanks so heavily playing on there test server these days.

Originally posted by ebonized

Originally posted by CrunkJuice2

"its been called the gw2 effect"

 

so how long is it gonna take gw2 to suffer the swtor effect.you know,the community hyping the game like its the 2nd coming of christ and then the game ends up flopping because people went into it with a bit to much hope

 

except for the part where the quality and work put into GW2 far exceeds that of SWTOR, and is pretty obvious right from the get-go

 

and i'm pretty sure most people who weren't hyped to all hell could see that SWTOR wasn't going to be 'amazing' from the start

correct - SWTOR feels so far left behind its a nice game I loved my trooper but compared to GW2 I am not interested in SWTOR anymore

Originally posted by Unlight

Originally posted by Dredphyre
"The GW2 Effect"? You mean that explosive urge I have in my bowels is called the GW2 Effect?  Thanks for pointing that out...

Actually that's the troll effect, where you have the explosive urge in your bowels to empty them through your mouth.

To the OP, for my part, I'll be playing Firefall until next BWE.

Omfg this is one of the best posts I've ever seen here, Unlight you rule. haha

Also, I really enjoyed the beta weekend but because I've been around the block so many times with these games I also look more critically at them then I probably should.  Was the game fun?  Sure, but I also enjoyed SWTOR during beta weekends as well and I can say that TOR is a piece of shit MMO post launch.  GW2 needs some work done, which I'm sure Anet knows.  However, the game for me will rise and fall with how well the game is developed through the rest of its incubation period and post launch.  For that we'll have to wait and see.  For now, my excitement is in check.

Originally posted by Volkon

Bah, nothing's wrong with TF2, I enjoy that quite a bit. Just after GW2, I really didn't feel like playing not-GW2. After I tried to (and failed to) dodge-roll in TF2 I simply exited.

Ah I see. 

Yeah that happened to a whole bunch of players from our TF2 group once they tried out L.O.L.

I guess constantly farming for skins  is more fun that waiting for hats to drop?

...would love to see more TF2 players show up though, I think they're a lot more prepared for this game's challenges than a lot of gamers from other genres out there.  (if there are any out there... maybe we can set up some PvP alliances?  That'd be cool)

Originally posted by Sector13
You guys do realize that there are other MMOs with active dodge abilities in them, right? 

yeah

age of conan,and everyone knows how well age of conan went

lulz

Originally posted by CrunkJuice2

Originally posted by Sector13
You guys do realize that there are other MMOs with active dodge abilities in them, right? 

yeah

age of conan,and everyone knows how well age of conan went

lulz

Interesting to see your lack of MMO knowledge. How about the 6 other MMOs I can think off the top of my head that have it? 

Originally posted by Monorojo

It is funny, playing GW2 with its horrible ability delay and empty promises of innovation in questing when they are just the same old quests with a slight spin made me yearn for WoW again.

 

Too each their own i guess.

Wrong game Mono.