Originally posted by tixylix

Originally posted by teakbois

They made too many servers, I don't know why they needed more than 1 of each type considering they can clone zones over and over.

You do need a sense of community, but yes they launched too many and havent been fast enough merging them

I think GW2 is another over hyped MMO from playing it but the overflow server is a genius idea, it should eliminate the need for so many servers.

It won't do anything to help with WvW though.  As far as I can tell of a server has a lot of demand for WvW and it hits the cap people are just screwed.

Originally posted by terrant

Originally posted by bookworm438

I don't think the dungeons are tied to your personal story. I think the dungeons are meant to tell the story of Destiny's Edge. But I think you have to do the story mode of the dungeon before you can do the explorable mode.

This is 100% correct. Story mode on the dungeons has NOTHING to do with your own personal story, although in both you will interact with Destiny's Edge.

 

And yes, you must do dtory mode to get to explorable.

From TotalBiscuit's explorable dungeon video it looks like you chose which path you go down in an explorable at the beginning via dialog choices.

So in the case of Ascalonian Catacombs there are 4 runs you can do. Story and each "path" of the explorable.  They call em path but they don't look that open they are basically 3 instances.

Originally posted by Lucrecia

Originally posted by Drast

.....there is always divorce, as previously mentioned, or just cheat on him and play with others.

Homewrecker! ;)  Yes, I have a huge preference to wanting to play with my husband.  There are times however I don't want to play with ANYONE (most of us get to that point) and my husband thinks I just don't want to play with HIM or the game he is playing.   It's all twisted like that and it causes unneccesary headaches and stress.

Well just pat him on the head and give him an insincere smile and say "No, honey, its not you its the game."  Then walk away somehwere he can't here and cackle maniacally like some sort of comic book villain.

And of course refuse to say anything else to clarify.

Originally posted by Uhwop

Gotta give him some credit.  When all is said and done, he'll probably have ended up working for free.  He obviously had enough belief in what they were doing to have taken no up front compensation. Cudos to him.

Yeah that is part that struck me.  I figured he had gotten paid.  No way would I work on any MMO with that arrangement unless it was a labor of love.

That is like playing russian roulette IMO.

http://gamebanshee.com/news/108268-ra-salvatore-on-project-copernicus-and-38-studios-crisis.html

They really needed to do this. 

There is no way I would pay for this game without it due to the way AOC sieges were handled until they gave some sort of proof this would work ok.

Originally posted by Icewhite

Originally posted by VowOfSilence

Is that correct? Sounds incredibly far-fetched to me.

The question is, does it sound far-fetched:

a) because of moderate and possibly rational skepticism, or

b) an inability to suspend disbelief in the name of entertainment?

or

c) you have been brain-washed by the illuminati and don't know it

Originally posted by travamars

Originally posted by gestalt11

Originally posted by travamars

Originally posted by OldManFunk

 

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Originally posted by travamars
I'm locking on that cash shop. I hate cash shop games and this one will probably be one of the worst out there, once the box sales drop and they make a big cash shop change.

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ANet gave us free gems for the BWE and I didn't spend any. The cash shop had no impact on my game experience. GW1 has a cash shop and it's not bad so there's no reason to believe that GW2's will be bad. And finally claiming that a future change might eventually make a game bad is a poor argument both because it's speculative rather than based in fact and all MMOs can change for the worse, including Pay2Play games. An example: WoW has a cash shop, WoW could add buy2win items, therefor I hate WoW.

 

See? GW2 is hate proof.

If everyone in the world played GW2 then there would be no more war or famine and the brotherhood of man would learn to live in peace and harmony.

Didn't have to use gems for the BWE...wow.what are you...12. Do you really think it would be cash shop dependant in beta?  Are you that new to mmo's?

Why does your opinion of GW2 being a Great game count, but any one that thinks otherwise is wrong? Pretty full of yourself.

To say GW1 had a cash shop and it was no problem shows how little you actually know. Did you know GW1 was not an MMO???? Oh yes..of coarse you knew that, because that what everybody screams when someone says GW1 sucked.

If someone says GW1 sucks..the answer is "It's not an MMO" so its nothing like GW2.

If someone says GW2 cash shop sucks.. the answer is "GW1 had a cash shop an it didn't suck"

You guys turn this shit anyway that makes it sound better but in the end You guys are paying for a box to play a F2P game. That offers nothing new.

Hopefully they'll release the game sometime this year, or next year maybe an you can see what you really paid for an enjoy it for the first 6 months. Then the sales will drop and the cash shop will be in your face.

Gw1 has a cash shop.  My expectations for GW2's cash shop are based on the behavior seen in GW1's cash shop.

 

/\ SEE...i told you.

I am not sure what you are arguing.  Do you have a coherent point?

Are you saying its not reasonable to base expectation on past performance?

Are you saying that since GW1 is not an MMO and GW2 is an MMO that it makes the past performance uselss as a basis for predicting behavior and consequences?

I am not sure what your point is.  But if its either of those they are really weak and don't persuade me at all.

Originally posted by CujoSWAoA

Considering Curt Schilling was only trying to give us (gamers) high quality games because he himself loves the media.... I don't think any of us should feel anything but remorse for the loss of his company.

He was trying to be one of the "good" guys to us gamers.

Talk is cheap, whiskey costs money.

Originally posted by Lucrecia

Originally posted by Doomedfox

 

Since TSW does not have lvls i have a hard time seeing how GW2 would be more suited for you 2.

I always used to play multiple characters 1 for myself and a few for the times i played with my wife together (a few so i could switch them out once in a while when i got bored of the class)

Now in TSW i finally can focus on one character again and don't have to worry about out lvling my wife and since one character can get all skills in also don't need to pay multiple characters anymore and can focus entirely on one again (missed that ever since i stopped playing FF11)

 

 

TSW does have levels....you just don't get the convenience of seeing them.  Things WILL whomp you if you don't have the gear (and the SP to equip the gear)...Either you are lieing or have been lied to.  If this is a deciding factor for how you will be playing the game I urge you to do my reserach.  There are levels...they are just much more complicated  to detect.

Its actually better in GW2 as far as being able to play all content.  While TSW doesn't have level they also have no scaling and between getting the outer rim skills and better equipment content in TSW will get trivialized.

Whereas all of GW2's content can be done by one character and not be trivialized.

If you assume lack of levels means all content will be roughly equivalent in challenge then you will find yourself sadly mistaken in TSW.  But my experience is GW2 was that when i went back to the level 7 area at level 21 it was still challenging.

And to the person who said TSW sucks .... it doesn't matter because the person in question likes it even if you think it sucks.  Saying it sucks is not helpful.

Sorry someone beat you to the punch.

Originally posted by exdeathbr

Before we even start:

There is any diference between this hardcore league and the normal one, other than the fact that if you die in the hardcore one you will never be able to go back?

Honestly I don't know, not an expert or beta tester of the game.

Diablo 2 rewarded with better stuff in hardcore (which personally I thought was stupid).  I am leaning towards the idea that POE does not since they bump you down, but I could be wrong.

What do you think would be the right way to handle it?

Originally posted by ShakyMo
It needs more pointy toothed gnomes with giant robots and giant cat men with blunderbusses, that would make it more realistic.

Are they cats or cows?  Or cow cats?

Originally posted by VowOfSilence

Originally posted by Sovrath

2, I don't understand this question. If a normal person can see and interact with these events would they not be able to be more successful if they had magic? Or were great with a pistol or knew how to use a katana?

Sure they're more powerfull - but why not send in the army as well? I mean, the apocalypse is about to hit, apparently. I don't understand what's the point of keeping it a secret at this point. Why not throw everything you got at it?

Everything you got at what?

Part of the game is figuring out what the deuce is going on.

My understanding is the premise of the game is that things have gone wildly out of proportion recently for some reason.

Kingsmouth is much larger and more ominous than previous things.  In the templar beginning stuff they mention that things are getting so out of hand that they are showing up on the news.

I may be wrong but I think they also mention there are alot more people manifesting magic talents.

So is a game based around conspiracies somehwat far fetched.  Um yes of course. 

But they do explain why the current setting is different than the past.  So it is at least somewhat plausible that if things were an order of magnitude smaller these various conspriacies may be able to keep a lid on it.

Yeah now that i think about it the story was limited to like level 20 in BWE and people still went to the AC at 28ish.

Originally posted by travamars

Originally posted by OldManFunk

 

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Originally posted by travamars
I'm locking on that cash shop. I hate cash shop games and this one will probably be one of the worst out there, once the box sales drop and they make a big cash shop change.

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ANet gave us free gems for the BWE and I didn't spend any. The cash shop had no impact on my game experience. GW1 has a cash shop and it's not bad so there's no reason to believe that GW2's will be bad. And finally claiming that a future change might eventually make a game bad is a poor argument both because it's speculative rather than based in fact and all MMOs can change for the worse, including Pay2Play games. An example: WoW has a cash shop, WoW could add buy2win items, therefor I hate WoW.

 

See? GW2 is hate proof.

If everyone in the world played GW2 then there would be no more war or famine and the brotherhood of man would learn to live in peace and harmony.

Didn't have to use gems for the BWE...wow.what are you...12. Do you really think it would be cash shop dependant in beta?  Are you that new to mmo's?

Why does your opinion of GW2 being a Great game count, but any one that thinks otherwise is wrong? Pretty full of yourself.

To say GW1 had a cash shop and it was no problem shows how little you actually know. Did you know GW1 was not an MMO???? Oh yes..of coarse you knew that, because that what everybody screams when someone says GW1 sucked.

If someone says GW1 sucks..the answer is "It's not an MMO" so its nothing like GW2.

If someone says GW2 cash shop sucks.. the answer is "GW1 had a cash shop an it didn't suck"

You guys turn this shit anyway that makes it sound better but in the end You guys are paying for a box to play a F2P game. That offers nothing new.

Hopefully they'll release the game sometime this year, or next year maybe an you can see what you really paid for an enjoy it for the first 6 months. Then the sales will drop and the cash shop will be in your face.

Gw1 has a cash shop.  My expectations for GW2's cash shop are based on the behavior seen in GW1's cash shop.

I think this is a very reasonable position and much reasonable than some conspiracy type thinking about getting people hooked and then grabbing them by the balls.  Which certainly itsn't impossible.

Secondly if there were a pay to play or free to play game out right now that was as good as GW2 you could bet your ass I would be playing it.  But there isn't.  Therefore its worth the purchase.

This is a question that has been bugging me. Especially after leveling a character to 18 before even thinking to touch the personal story.

There is a story mode to the dungeons.  As far as I can tell, at some point, everyone's personal story starts to involve characters from the Destiny's Edge guild and this is how the game ties you into the story line of fighting the elder dragons.  This ties into a couple books which I have (edit: NOT) read but read about on the GW2 wiki.

For my street rat I think it would have gone save old friend->fight the white mantle->destiny's edge stuff (I only got to white mantle part guessing on destiny's edge).

Ascalonian Catacombs (lvl 30 story dungeon, level 35 explorable) is tied to two of the Desinty's edge guys (Rytlock and Eir).

So do I need to have advanced my personal story to 30 to even run the story mode dungeon and complete the set from that dungeon?  Can I do explorable without doing the story mode?

Originally posted by lizardbones

If you're not into the story, personal storyline, voice overs and cinematic sequences, then the game is not going to be all that much fun.

The game does open up, but the mechanics you've experienced are largely the mechanics you'll see for the rest of the game. In your remaining time, I'd recommend grouping as much as possible, for as much content as possible. That and the space missions. The space missions are really cool, but I don't think you can level to max on them.

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Getting your ship in general is cool, but I think Bioware missed the boat with that one. They should have had grouping on ships, and they should have allowed you to have trophies and stuff in your bedroom. That would have made being a Sith much cooler.

Yeah well the problem there is the missions that are part of the story still play out mostly the same as well.  Also you only like 1 per level anyway after about level 20+.

Originally posted by Golelorn

1. Fanbois

2. Raiders

3. My fear that Arenanet will listen to the no-life raiders.

Technically the large boss DE's sort of are raids.

But they won't satisfy raiders cuz it don't make them leet enough.  Its kind of funny how it just proves all the stuff they deny is really true.  Riiiiiiight its about being social, no its ok I believe you.