Originally posted by grimal

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard

The question is pretty stupid in my opinion... buy something after already owning it?

Next super question from the OP: would you buy a crossword puzzle book after you've finished it?

Most people are unable to "reset themself". Hell, most are even unable to be unbiased. When you buy a game, all the content is new for you, you have everything to discover. To answer this question, one would have to "reset" himself to that state, which is impossible, one knows what he knows, so many will answer that they wouldn't buy it again even if they got thousands of hours of entertainment from it, because they somehow "finished" the actual content.

Paying for something you've finished is not in our western civilisation's mindset. Hell, many go out of their way to pirate movies they love instead of purchasing them legitimately, and now you ask if one would buy a game he already played for hundred of hours? Do you realize how... pointless that question is?

My forum avatar is more appropriate than ever for this thread.

Funny, instead of ignoring a thread you find "stupid", you can't help but comment on it.

Oh, and welcome back Korrigan.

Every review I have read is on the basis of someone having tried something and liking or disliking it or a mixture of both.  Of course people are entitled to have opinions on these things.  If I bought a bad crossword book I would happily advise people it wasn't worth buying.  

Originally posted by gessekai332
so you dont think paying 50 bucks once is worth 3 months of unlimited playtime for a personal hobby. thats really, really funny. have fun dealing with real world expenses when you get older, kid.

Who are you talking to? 

Originally posted by MightyChasm

Every review I have read is on the basis of someone having tried something and liking or disliking it or a mixture of both.  Of course people are entitled to have opinions on these things.  If I bought a bad crossword book I would happily advise people it wasn't worth buying.  

We don't talk about a review here. Who would buy even the best crossword book ever if he already had finished all the puzzles? This is exactly what the poll is asking for...

Would you buy Assassin's Creed after finishing the game?

The question makes no sense at all, and the results are quite predictable because of that. Even people who got hundreds of hours out of the game for $50 are going to answer negatively simply because they played the crap out of the game, without considering that they've only played $50 for hundreds of hours of entertainment.

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard

Originally posted by MightyChasm

Every review I have read is on the basis of someone having tried something and liking or disliking it or a mixture of both.  Of course people are entitled to have opinions on these things.  If I bought a bad crossword book I would happily advise people it wasn't worth buying.  

We don't talk about a review here. Who would buy even the best crossword book ever if he already had finished all the puzzles? This is exactly what the poll is asking for...

Would you buy Assassin's Creed after finishing the game?

The question makes no sense at all, and the results are quite predictable because of that. Even people who got hundreds of hours out of the game for $50 are going to answer negatively simply because they played the crap out of the game, without considering that they've only played $50 for hundreds of hours of entertainment.

Well most polls are loaded or utterly meaningless where you are allowed to vote with the benefit of hindsight.  Genuinely fair poll, make it so.  

If I know now, what I knew then, I would have bought it sooner.

Let's break this down a bit. You pay $60 for almost any game upon release these days, and let's say you buy a game like Halo 4 or (insert FPS). You get some friends to buy it and go pwn people for awhile everyday, weekend, whatever. Eventually you get learn all the maps, know where all the weapons are, find that sweet spot in the hit box to 2 shot someone. In an MMO it's about the same deal. Get some friends, go out and pwn stuff. If your into PvP you got it, crafting: it's there, exploration: open, puzzles: work it. There is a lot of things in the game that I didn't realize.

Quick story: Anyone ever stumble upon the pirate thing in Lions Arch? That was freaking awesome. I was just mapping out Lions Arch and came across it while looking for a point of something. Fell into the cave and there I was, playing freaking Goonies GW2 style.

In my humble opinion every game deserves a shot. People take time (getting paid) to code them, most of them will lose their jobs after the game is launched, cause well that's the industry. You should take time to appreciate someones work, their artistic design, logical process, beauty and again in my humble opinion you can find a lot worse P2P games that no where near as beautiful or well thought out.

Originally posted by DarthIxidor

If I know now, what I knew then, I would have bought it sooner.

Let's break this down a bit. You pay $60 for almost any game upon release these days, and let's say you buy a game like Halo 4 or (insert FPS). You get some friends to buy it and go pwn people for awhile everyday, weekend, whatever. Eventually you get learn all the maps, know where all the weapons are, find that sweet spot in the hit box to 2 shot someone. In an MMO it's about the same deal. Get some friends, go out and pwn stuff. If your into PvP you got it, crafting: it's there, exploration: open, puzzles: work it. There is a lot of things in the game that I didn't realize.

Quick story: Anyone ever stumble upon the pirate thing in Lions Arch? That was freaking awesome. I was just mapping out Lions Arch and came across it while looking for a point of something. Fell into the cave and there I was, playing freaking Goonies GW2 style.

In my humble opinion every game deserves a shot. People take time (getting paid) to code them, most of them will lose their jobs after the game is launched, cause well that's the industry. You should take time to appreciate someones work, their artistic design, logical process, beauty and again in my humble opinion you can find a lot worse P2P games that no where near as beautiful or well thought out.

I agree 100%

I would still buy it. It's far from perfect but a perfect casual MMO to give me a fix until some brace company makes a quality sandbox.

Originally posted by Xobdnas

I would still buy it. It's far from perfect but a perfect casual MMO to give me a fix until some brace company makes a quality sandbox.

No such thing will come out. The reason being is the the Sandbox gamers are a small group, not a large group where you can actually get new gamers to play. That is the growth market.

Why have the only no option as No way, it's such a fail

i vote no but the game is not a fail its just not what i expected and to easy for my tastes and the pvp is not competive enough to make it feel worth my time.

Originally posted by botrytis

Originally posted by Xobdnas

I would still buy it. It's far from perfect but a perfect casual MMO to give me a fix until some brace company makes a quality sandbox.

No such thing will come out. The reason being is the the Sandbox gamers are a small group, not a large group where you can actually get new gamers to play. That is the growth market.

I don't totally agree with you here. I think that the main reason why sandbox MMOs arent popular is because nobody release a quality one in years. EvE is not bad, but most MMORPG player don't want to play a spaceship. And don't tell me about bugged crap made by amateur'  like Darkfall or Mortal Online.

I'm willing to bet that the day a good company put the money into making a quality sandbox game, which would also be a game that doesn't force everybody into FFA PvP, it will work and sell. What killed all attempts of sandbox MMOs so far except UO and EvE is poor production quality and/or poor design and/or forced FFA PvP for everybody. Very few want to play a game that looks ugly, where character animations look like the toons have something solid rammed up their bottom, and where you get farmed at the newbie spawn point by people playing the game for longer than you. It's has nothing to do with the game being sandbox or not.

If someone makes a sandbox MMORPG with the production quality of GW2, I'm sure the game will work.

I bought GW2, played the beta and haven't touched it since... Not sure why I even bought it to begin with, knowing it was just another themepark carebear fest, guess it was the hype.

Would I buy GW2 after I have played it? No, not a chance in hell, I shouldn't have bought it before I played it!

I got 240 hours in it . Now I don't log to often but I can log (since its a subscription free game) and check things out if I want to . ALso from time to time I do log andplay with friends either a fractal or some pvp. So all and all .

Yes I would buy the game since it gave a very good value for my money  

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Originally posted by Onigod
Why have the only no option as No way, it's such a fail

 

i vote no but the game is not a fail its just not what i expected and to easy for my tastes and the pvp is not competive enough to make it feel worth my time.

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aw sorry I mean you could choose "probably NO" or "other" as for me definitive NO = fail, but I can be wrong too.

Originally posted by Lovely_Laly

Guys I don't want to troll or tell GW2 is bad game and not worth to be played.

Only IMHO, this game last like 3 months, then became "old" or "boring" so not exciting or fun for many of us.

TBH if I knew I would not buy it from the start but may be wait till it get's polished and cheaper to try it (like after may be 1 year).

I think I was hyped about GW and not really GW2 (if I could come back in time and play fresh, not dead, GW again, I would).

That why I wonder what do you think about?

Please try to be tolerant and not feel personally offended my my poll, I'm just curious and not getting on fragile nerves of overexcited fans.

Considering most games of this quality prior had subs Im not sure what you are saving with 60 dollars.  You cant beat that value for what you get.

If you played for 3 months you made your money back.  Then remember it IS an MMORPG so it will have updates/changes/expansions giving you reason to come back in maybe a year.  And guess how much that would cost you?  Nothing.

For the quality I got for what I paid it was worth it... and I only log in a few times a month.  

thanks to all for sharing opinions.=)
as I told "like" "dislike" etc is just own choice of everyone.

Very please avoid to call my question "silly" if you don't want to get into or give answer (funny, it was not a case).

Question I keep asking myself is: do I have fun and pleasure worth to spend 60$ and my time?
I'm still not convinced, I believe I got hyped and bought game too fast (better for me would be wait till more content, polish etc etc) or just get it for cheap/free and be sure you got what you payed for...

GW2 is not my biggest disappointment, however, Aion was.

Asking you all not because I want to troll game someone loves, but to understand if I'm alone to have doubt about and be sure it's NOT what I was hyped about.

GW1 worth every single $ I spent for boxes and shop, as I got great FUN, nice time and felt home for years there. GW2 is sure more like console single player comparable, so I understand people who said about console games vs GW2.

Again, I think any game is question of taste and don't want argue with anyone who like or dislike any game.

Originally posted by Lovely_Laly

thanks to all for sharing opinions.=)
as I told "like" "dislike" etc is just own choice of everyone.

Very please avoid to call my question "silly" if you don't want to get into or give answer (funny, it was not a case).

Question I keep asking myself is: do I have fun and pleasure worth to spend 60$ and my time?
I'm still not convinced, I believe I got hyped and bought game too fast (better for me would be wait till more content, polish etc etc) or just get it for cheap/free and be sure you got what you payed for...

GW2 is not my biggest disappointment, however, Aion was.

Asking you all not because I want to troll game someone loves, but to understand if I'm alone to have doubt about and be sure it's NOT what I was hyped about.

GW1 worth every single $ I spent for boxes and shop, as I got great FUN, nice time and felt home for years there. GW2 is sure more like console single player comparable, so I understand people who said about console games vs GW2.

Again, I think any game is question of taste and don't want argue with anyone who like or dislike any game.

It was a fun thread Lady, some take these questions too seriously which is a shame.   Just a bit of fun which is, I am sure, what you intended.  Gw1 was fantastic, GW2 was a poorer version of it.