Originally posted by The_Korrigan

This time next week...

... the only people posting here will be the negative nancies ;)

I was thinking more like: Wow Fans wondering where everyone went and actually hearing Crickets in Ironforge and Org...AT Primetime. ;)

Originally posted by Zylaxx
........most of us will be enjoying the game for realsies.  Who else is excited that this long ardeous wait is finally coming to a close?

Yep and the people left on the forums will be the uncontested monsters-under-the-bridge because the rest of us will be enjoying the game and all it's fun! WOOT cannot wait!

Originally posted by elocke

I've NEVER been this excited about a game after playing in its beta like I am with GW2.  The game has gotten a hold of me in a way no game ever has.  Even my most favorite games never had me this hardcore pre launch.

Yeah. This is exactly why I am 'on board'. I think it will live up to the hype but I am almost 100% certain it will be THE game for me, regardless of what it does for everyone else. Something which I have not had happen in a very long time indeed.

Really love the overhype all you guys are doing lol!!

This time next week i'm thinking about a lot, but not GW2!

Originally posted by Mothanos

Dint know you guys liked soccer in the USA :)
Iam from the netherlands, and we have just played in the Europe cup so badly xD
I have never seen our team played that bad tbh, compared that to the world cup where we ended #2 !!!

Have fun tough ;)

Are you reffering to my post? If you are, than I'm not from US, I wrote "soccer for US people" for people from USA to understand that I'm not talking about NFL.

As for Netherlands national team - yeah you suck, but compared to national team of my country you're at a "world class" level.

Hmm I think about 75% if not more of the hype is from people that played GW2 through beta and stress test's. I personally don't care if it live's up to all the hype as it met my expectation's for a fun game, and beat the reasonable  expectation's into a bloody twitching pulp lol.

I must say I'm rather astonished that people hate on the game because other people say it a great game (hype it up).

Me personally i'm hella excited for the 25th!!! :D

It´s been a long wait...over 5 years....

I´m ready!

and Guild Wars 2 almost too ^^

Originally posted by Jagarid

Originally posted by k-damage

Originally posted by Volkon

You know... every now and then we need to pull ourselves out of the game, pop back in here and say Hi. Just to keep it real, you know?

haha, good point :p

I dunno about you, but that's what going to work is for.

I can't play GW2 at work, but I can read and post on forums. ^.^

Haha yeah. It's even harder when you're freelance :D I think I'll have to put an uncrackable password on my PC's Gaming account, that only will be revealed to me at 8:00 p.m...

Originally posted by Jessina

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

This time next week...

... the only people posting here will be the negative nancies ;)

I was thinking more like: Wow Fans wondering where everyone went and actually hearing Crickets in Ironforge and Org...AT Primetime. ;)

THAT would be hardcore masochism ! lurking in Ironforge next Saturday, hopping on the bridge, playing the AH !!

Originally posted by zevni78
I avoided all betas and spoilers to make this the best mmo launch experience it can be. For the first time in years the very first character I create will last as long as the game.

I should have done that.... now I going to miss my Ele :'( at least for awhile until I level a new character.

Originally posted by Badaboom
This time next week my wife will be wanting me off the computer.

"We should go out for dinner.  We never go anywhere any more."

Yep.  Being extra-attentive for the week before can help stall her, but still no guarantees she doesn't turn insistantly needy the day of the opening.

Originally posted by Icewhite

Originally posted by Badaboom
This time next week my wife will be wanting me off the computer.

"We should go out for dinner.  We never go anywhere any more."

Yep.  Being extra-attentive for the week before can help stall her, but still no guarantees she doesn't turn insistantly needy the day of the opening.

Seriously, guys, buy your wives a weekend spa package....I mean, honestly, they deserve it anyway.

And before having younger kids that need to be tended comes up, I'm sure grampa and gramms have been dieing for a weekend with the little ones.

Originally posted by kalrhael

 

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Originally posted by The_Korrigan This time next week... ... the only people posting here will be the negative nancies ;)

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  Then this time in a few more weeks, GW2 will be the biggest failure since swtor.  Then the hype train hops aboard another game and the cycle repeats.    

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Then this time in a few weeks you will have another game to hate since GW2 and the cycle repeats, have fun hating :)

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 I'm a GW2 hater because I despise when fans overblow their expectations? lol  

 

I'm not going to play GW2 because I'm sick of fantasy for the time being, but it sounds like arena.net will have made a fine game - but that's not enough to live up the hype. Once the novelty of being new wears on GW2, the shitstorm that has followed every major mmo WILL be here. 

and I'm going to be sitting on my char laughing my ass off as I browse these forums...

 

You know, it is possible to have a highly informed opinion of a game's likely success or failure. I've given caveats leading up to launch for all the MMOs I've beta tested before launch as to whether or not the game has what it takes for the longhaul and if not, how long I expect the average person to play before they start to lose interest. I thiunk I've been pretty close on just about all of them.

There was one I saw as having huge potential for great success and actually saw myself playing for a year or more. That game was WoW.

I saw SWTOR as having potential, but cut my odds on that one when the developers made some really bad design changes right before launch. I still thought it would be a game I'd probably find interesting for six months or so and that about how far me and my guildmates actually got before enthusiasm started to fade.

I also saw a lot of potential for Eve Online, though I guessed to it would be niche enough that it would enjoy steady, but moderate, success, in spite of the fact that I knew it wasn't a game that was really for me personally.

Most of the rest had, what to me, were easily identifiable flaws that would limit their success and lead to steep drops in population starting a couple months in. I've been right on all of them.

When you've been around the genre for almost 14 years, you can actually develop a feel for these things.

GW2 gives me fvery much the same feeling that WoW game me during beta and I predict GW2 will be the most successful post-WoW AAA Western MMORPG to date. That's not based on developer buzz, fan buzz, or uninformed judgements of the game. That's based on an actual understanding of the why's and hows of the game's design, plus almost 150 hours of play testing.

So, in a few weeks, I'll be deep into the game, enjoying the hell out of it and being glad I had a head start of a few weeks on the masses of late arrivals to the game that didn't dare to believe GW2 was the real deal and warranting of a pre-purchase or launch day start.

Originally posted by Jagarid

Seriously, guys, buy your wives a weekend spa package....I mean, honestly, they deserve it anyway.

I'll just give Nunzio, the pool boy, a call and put a little something extra in his paycheck this week.