Originally posted by Angelless

what happen to guild wars 2 hamepage pre-order link?

i want it pre-order today!!

can someone help me? where i can pre-order and get Play 3 Days Early!

Thanks

I guess they remove pre-order around these days since they don't have reliable way to provide you code prior the pre-order launch so best you can do is pre-order which gives you 1 day head-start starting on 27th, though not completely sure.

     I've been an MMORPG gamer for...well, since 1999.  I think it was the Rise of Kunark in the Original Everquest I was playing at the time.  Or Scars of Velious was out.  I can't remember which.  But whenI first started playing like Mike said, there was a sense of awe and wonder.  Wide-eyed and wanting to see the world you spawned into.

     Fast forward to the release of Guild Wars and the arrival of AreaNet.  Guild Wars was the first game that was buy to play.  Whodathunkit, right?  But it succeeded.  Far better than I think AreaNet could have anticipated.  But ANet did something no other MMORPG did that I can personally recall.  They seperated PvE from PvP.  Yes, the skills were named the same, and had the same ideas behind them.  But they were seperate.  If a change needed to be made to PvP, the PvE side wasn't touched unless something there needed to be fixed.  And it worked.  REALLY well.  And there was not race to the end for epic phat lewtz.  To me, ANet held tight to the addage: It's the journey, not the destination that matters.  And the stories of Guild Wars were awesome.  Deep, in-depth and meant something.  From Pre-Searing, to Post-Searing.  From Cantha to Elona.  To the Far Shiverpeaks.  The story carried me constantly wondering: Oh man, what's going to happen next?!  And it was good.

     Fast forward again to today, or a few weeks prior to today.  I played in the last Beta Weekend.  I played my Norn and saw the statue of Jora on one of my missions.  And my mind immediately went back to questing with her in Guild Wars.  Blood washes Blood.  I saw a Charr and immediately ran to the portals...*cough* Ok, I actaully stumbled upon the portals by accident.  But still.  I explored and was just amazed at the size of the world.  Anticipation ran through me as I wondered: "Will I be able to get back?  How far will I have to go to get back?"  Adventure awaited!  I didn't care if I could get back.  I was going to explore the world.  I stepped into the Charr homeland, and saw the ruins of Rin.  I heard the Charr talking about it.  And I looked for a way to see what Rin looked like now.  But I did see the Wall of Old Ascalon and remember my time Post Searing looking at the ruins of the once great city.

     All of this that was just how I felt playing Guild Wars 2.  I don't know another game that has done that for me.  And ANet are stinkers.  Seeing all that made me go back and play MORE GUILD WARS!  And I think that is something that is great.  To want to go back and play Guild Wars again after playing Guild Wars 2.  To me, they don't seem to want to take away from their first game.  But to enhance it by enticing me to play it more to maybe see something I might have missed.  I don't know many MMO developers that have done that.

     I, for one, can't wait for tonight.  Or tomorrow, which ever I'm awake for XD

LONG LIVE AREANET AND THE GUILD WARS FRANCHISE!

Don't like PvP?  Well, stay away....

Is still my experience with GW2's betas..

Originally posted by kneebane

Originally posted by Angelless

what happen to guild wars 2 hamepage pre-order link?

i want it pre-order today!!

can someone help me? where i can pre-order and get Play 3 Days Early!

Thanks

I guess they remove pre-order around these days since they don't have reliable way to provide you code prior the pre-order launch so best you can do is pre-order which gives you 1 day head-start starting on 27th, though not completely sure.

 

 

Oh Thanks

when i first heard of GW2  i was lookign for a new gaming experience. I was dwiddling less and less in Cataclism-and legue of ledgends was holding me over till the release of diablo3.

wheni researched and saw their first game' GW1'=  i was like-  oh no,  another 'wow' clone-ill pass.

but it was mmorpg's articles and reviews that  exposed me to GW2 new gaming experiences to come!-no lie.

now as i casually attended beta weekends in gw2 i knowing this was something totally different from past mmos ive played- staying calm and waiting for the other ball to drop(which hasnt) iam lookign forward for the offical release tonight! to dive deep into what will be my new sandbox  for a while!

i havent been this excited about an mmo since i first discovered eve-online=my first ever mmo experience!

thanks mmorpg & Anet!

Great article and i fully relate to each of the staffs personal commentary..

This has been a stellar year for gamers and perhaps now after anet fully succeeds the suits will rethink things and insist the devs design games based more on what their fanbase wants and needs instead of trying to tit for tat clone the most profitable one..

I liked how this article was presented with the writing staffs pre-launch opinions, pretty neat; it would be cool to do something similar in the review or at least for the review conclusion :)

I've never been so excited about an mmo launch since wow and its hard to keep my expectations in check at this point. I just hope that Arenanet have a great launch as its absolutely critical for an mmo especially one with such potential.

I hope everyone enjoys themselves this weekend,

It's going to be brilliant!

Originally posted by mCalvert

Originally posted by GrumpyCharr

I think MikeB nailed it with this part:

"Players don't react with a sense of trepidation when encountering each other in Guild Wars 2. You're never worried someone is going to steal your experience, items, or even resource nodes. MMOs are at their best with great communities, but they have, ironically, always been in their own way on this front." 

How many launch days for other games were low level quests impossible because quest mobs would  be wiped out by masses of new players?  More than I can count!  That will never happen in GW2.  Can't wait to finaly play this game for real!

I agree. Its so refreshing to see someone else fighting something and know that I can go help them out without costing them or myself XP or loot. Same thing with resource nodes. No race to get them!

Or when you do help them for them then to come out with a 12 year old tirade of abuse "i dindt ******** need you help you ***** **** ***** *****,  I had the mob dead even though I only had 1% health when you grabbed agro,  now go ***** yourself"

I see a lot of things about GW2 that I like. What concerns me is crafting and housing. I don't see one post in this article or in thread on how great crafting will be and or even talking about it. That is a main reason I'm holding off buying the game.  I like crafting so sue me. :P I'm also waiting on housing and how it will be done. I'm under the impression that housing is going to be added down the road.

Originally posted by Kaneth

Originally posted by Angelless

what happen to guild wars 2 hamepage pre-order link?

i want it pre-order today!!

can someone help me? where i can pre-order and get Play 3 Days Early!

Thanks

You can't now. They stopped pre-purchases for 3 day head start....a few days back(?) now. You can try and pre-order somewhere else for the 1 day headstart or wait for launch on the 28th.

Why does it still say on their website "Pre-Purchase Your Copy Today for Exclusive Bonuses and Headstart Access! Pre-purchase to play 3 day early"?

And next to the buy-now form "Note: This is a pre-purchase product.". ?

Originally posted by laserit
I always enjoy a good game and I'm looking forword this evening. I just hope overwhelming success dosnt go to areanet's heads, like it has for another developer.

true. since now i wil be investing alot of my time of their new game starting a new loyalty!

Originally posted by maji

Originally posted by Kaneth

Originally posted by Angelless

can someone help me? where i can pre-order and get Play 3 Days Early!

Thanks

You can't now. They stopped pre-purchases for 3 day head start....a few days back(?) now. You can try and pre-order somewhere else for the 1 day headstart or wait for launch on the 28th.

Why does it still say on their website "Pre-Purchase Your Copy Today for Exclusive Bonuses and Headstart Access! Pre-purchase to play 3 day early"?

And next to the buy-now form "Note: This is a pre-purchase product.". ?

prepurchases are still possible

heres the 3 digital sites ANET lists for NA  (my hong kong friend prepurchased yesterday using DLGamer)

https://buy.guildwars2.com/en/retailers

Originally posted by BadSpock

I agree with all of you, well written.

See you all on Jade Quarry TONIGHT!

 

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