I remember reading an article (blog post before they were called blogs) way back when EQ was the game to hate. It talked about  a certian cycle the happend to every MUD player (MUDs were the text based precursor to EQ/WoW MMO style gameplay). Apprently it accurately predicted how all users start out as stark raving mad proponents of a given MUD, then as time progresses they slowly and surely become sharp opponents of the mods who run the MUD and the MUD in general. It was apprently a really common thing for users to always leave bitter and disgusted, no matter how long they played. In fact there was a coorelation between the length of time they played with how annoyed and bitter they were when they finnally quit. The longer you played, the more you hated it when you finally left.

The final peice that no one ever mentioned is that after you are away for a number of years you tend to look back with the rose colored glasses of nostalgia. 

ask me in 7 years

You would never get to the point of hating GW2, as you are paying no sub, you can simply put it down without the horrific pressure of keeping up with raiding and epgp totals and gear and blah blah.  Equally you can pick it up again as and when the game interests you again.  GW1 has had a massive lifespan, and continues to live, no reason to doubt at this time that anything will change with GW2.

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by AegisSaga

I'm honestly curious about this. Guild Wars 2 seems to be resonating heavily with what the MMO community in general desires.  It seems like it'll be a very successful game. What would happen if GW2 becomes the new MMO standard? Basically, the successor to WoW? Do you think that seven years from now we'll be complaining about how every MMO out there is a "GW2 Clone" just like we do today with "WoW clones"? 

Most people will feel burnout after 2-3 months... def not going to see a year let alone 7 in my expert opinion.

Beta, you're a freakin troll. Go to the farmville forums or back to wherever you came from. All I've seen from you is complete BS. You don't have and "expert" opinion. You're a freakin troll...go back to your cave.

Guild WArs 2 feels very modular, .  If they keep up making it "fresh" i think this game can go 5 to 10 years with 3 to 4 major updates 

Only fools will ever hate the things that gave them pleasure once

In seven years, I hope gamers bitch about GW2 to the same extent that they do now with WoW.  That would mean the game was ridiculously successful, that other contemporary games are much more interesting in general, that subscription fees are a thing of the past and that ANet is swimming cash so they can go on to bigger and better ways to knock the industry on it's lazy, fat ass.

Yes, I would like that very much indeed.  And I'd be laughing while les miserables moan at ArenaNet's creative tyranny.

7 years is generous. Usually games get "hated" on much much sooner. Hell, recently games are hated on even before they get released, even before screens hit the interwebs. We are capable of "hating" just the very idea of a game. 

No will it be the same case as with WoW? No. Not a chance. What WoW did was bring people who never heard about the genre into it. It happned before with EQ but at much much lesser scale. Nowadays, when a lot more people have reliable internet access, it's impossible to really have the same effect. New generation of gamers already knows what is MMO and how to eat it. 

No to mention WoW-clone is term created by people who haven't played a MMO before WoW. That won't be the case with GW2. Part of GW2 population is GW1 vets, rest is poeple tried/bored of other MMOs. There is not really enough "fresh blood" just now discovering the genre. 

Oh and Beta, since you have nothing good to ever say about this game, you might wanna read this....this game will be even more epic as time goes on. Here's why:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/04/28/guild-wars-2-designer-talks-post-launch-content-and-getting-the-community-to-play-together/

Originally posted by AegisSaga

I'm honestly curious about this. Guild Wars 2 seems to be resonating heavily with what the MMO community in general desires.  It seems like it'll be a very successful game. What would happen if GW2 becomes the new MMO standard? Basically, the successor to WoW? Do you think that seven years from now we'll be complaining about how every MMO out there is a "GW2 Clone" just like we do today with "WoW clones"? 

Actually it's only the wow fanboys or the ones who started their mmorpgs lives in WoW that call other games "WoW Clones", the ones who actually know that WoW is mostly a rip off of other older games don't.

with that said, gw2 is mostly a rip off of other games. there is nothing in guild wars 2 that is "new" , they just made things a little different to pretend its new.  do you rather talk to an npc, kill 10 mobs and deliver the quest or go to a heart on the map kill mobs until your yellow bar is full and be done with? it's the same thing.. just different methods.

In 7 years, after 4 or 5 large expansions, the game will feel old but it will still have a dedicated following and I'll be able to play it any time I feel like it because I bought the original box and there's no subscription... just like the original Guild Wars.

I'll likely prepurchase Guild Wars 3.

I think we will but when it comes to this GW3 will be there for us xD

i hope so... ^^

Very unlikely...

GW 2 is not going to get anywhere close to WoW in terms of its significance to MMO industry, in my opinion.

Is GW 1 hated after so many years? I dont know, I have not heared anyone speaking about it for years...it will be similar for GW 2, in my opinion.

Originally posted by Xzen

Will I hate GW2? No. Will I hate devs for trying to copy it instead of making something new? Yes.

This! I 'll enjoy GW2 for what ANET delivers, and then I'll move on.

I'll only be bitter when most every game I play in the next 7 years is a rip off its ideas and likely will be wishing for the return of trinity game play where healing really matters.

Oh yes, and no doubt I'll be waxing elequoent about how "good" the communities of the old P2P games were versus the now prevalent B2P model.

I'll still love it. The new-born MMO players of the future on the other hand? May be not.

Hate, such a strong word isn't it.

Don't think i will ever hate GW2. Will i grow tired of it? Sure, just like how i grew tired of the gameplay and combat mechanics in WoW, so will i eventually become bored with GW2. Sooner or later most stuff becomes trivial after extended periods.

When does the boredom kick in then - probably boils down to a matter of Anet's ability to provide fun and exciting content.

Originally posted by coretex666

Very unlikely...

GW 2 is not going to get anywhere close to WoW in terms of its significance to MMO industry, in my opinion.

Is GW 1 hated after so many years? I dont know, I have not heared anyone speaking about it for years...it will be similar for GW 2, in my opinion.

You are talking about two different things, guild wars had a team of 7 people and is still one of the most sold pc games of all time

Guild wars 2 has a team of over 200 people, if they could make their last game such a success imagine now that they got so many talented  people there.

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Only fools will ever hate the things that gave them pleasure once

And Ex-Husbands, of course.

Originally posted by austriacus

Originally posted by coretex666

Very unlikely...

GW 2 is not going to get anywhere close to WoW in terms of its significance to MMO industry, in my opinion.

Is GW 1 hated after so many years? I dont know, I have not heared anyone speaking about it for years...it will be similar for GW 2, in my opinion.

You are talking about two different things, guild wars had a team of 7 people and is still one of the most sold pc games of all time

Guild wars 2 has a team of over 200 people, if they could make their last game such a success imagine now that they got so many talented  people there.

I still stand behind the claim that "GW 2 is not going to get anywhere close to WoW in terms of its significance to MMO industry" (my subjective opinion)

Who cares?

I'd be glad to have an MMO that took 7 years to dislike. Most don't make it passed a few months.