Only interested in GW2 out of these 3,  Rift i'm not following at all and TOR from what ive read  just dusnt interest me at all so far.

Not really, fans hype a game up, the fans demand new info and hype that up even more etc etc

Originally posted by Xpertise

 

People move from company to company all the time. Lol, ArenaNet was founded the same way. Some designers from Blizzard wanted to do something different with less control from the producers, and decided to leave the company and start a studio of their own. What's ironic is that those SAME PEOPLE are doing it again by leaving ArenaNet and founding Undead Labs...

I have yet to see if they actually left Arenanet/NCsoft, it wouldnt suprise me at all if the undead labs game is going to be published by NCSoft. Not long after NCSoft announced they signed a contract with Sony to make an mmo for ps3 undead labs came about so dunno, speculation on my part but kinda make sence imo

Pfff first game cant really remember, i started with commadore 64 with a tape cassete and waiting for it to load for 20 minutes just to fail on me and try again. can remember playing pole position, park patrol, pitfall, ninja gaiden and such but my real first cant really remember. With the tape so easy to copy from one and other i ended up with 100's of games so dunno what i played 1st really

Originally posted by travamars

GW2 will suck wallets dry.

Then who Will be saying its good.

Beware because they think they know how to draw the most money from you, but in the end, and this is my opinion, it will be just another f2p game sucking you dry.

Aye needed a second mortgage just to play Guild wars....

What a nonsence, in guild wars the only other thing i bought besides the expansions was a character slot

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

1) Lack of upgradability - Consoles just don't have the ability to be upgrades as much or as well as a PC which generally means the console can end up holding the game back. 

That might be true though i have yet to see an expansion for an mmo with higher requirements then the original game.

Originally posted by choujiofkono

 

    " Dont see how a movie makes an succesful mmo though. "

LoL  We aren't talking a MMO about some no name movie with a stuffy storyline we are talking about a whole set of movies that span a couple generations and contain hundreds of thousands of hours of lore when you consider the books, comics, etc. 

Add to that the fact that the marketing for SW is already some of the largest in the world of any IP and you have the largest built in fanbase of anything I would imagine. 

Well that largest built fanbase aint to keen on Star Wars Galaxies for example.

Not saying Bioware wont deliver but beforehand saying TOR will be a guarenteed succes dusnt work for me

Also with an IP like star wars you take a huge risk, screw up the lore one way or another and you screw your playerbase

you just dont get the freedom in game design then an own ip gives you.

Originally posted by jaxsundane

 Generally it does it the same way a movie makes a successful single player game.  The ip has a built in market of those who went to the movies and enjoyed them, I for one can say that my first mmorpg was Star Wars Galaxies and I just don't see myself even making the leap to p2p mmorpg's if not for the fact that STAR WARS was a must have for me at that time in my life.

Tell that to Turbine with 1 of the biggest IP's in mmo and ofc SWG aint to big either.

That single player games sell is true i guess, its just 1 buy though and dusnt need to hold subs, besides mostly they are crap as well

Cant think of many single player games based on movies thats actually a good game.

Odd list as Avatar almost made 3 billion.

Dont see how a movie makes an succesful mmo though.

Originally posted by MMOman101

1 million boxes at 50 bucks a pop is 50 million dollars so 3 million boxes is 150 million. 

What makes you think that EA gets the full 100% of the box sales?

Wish i could do bussiness like that

No taxes, shops sell them for free, mail them for free etc

Originally posted by Xpertise

Actually, it was August 2009. And works on GW2 started in 2007...

He left NCSoft in August 2009 not Anet, he already didnt work for Anet anymore

Originally posted by Diovidius

However, he did work on GW2 for a long time so his influence should surely be there.

Not really, he left Anet few years ago to work for NCSoft and left them to create Undead Labs so Jeff worked very little or not at all on GW2

Nope, no game has been killed by another game let alone WoW.

Originally posted by reijan

However, be warned. Aion is a grind, quite and simple. And yes, every MMORPG has grind of some type, but this is the boring, never-ending, 0.00001% exp per kill type of grind.

Far away from a grind it was at launch. Leveling from 1 to 50 is very easy nowadays

Originally posted by Arnstrong.

I can't seem to ... play ... the unpublished ones, although it is the main game play of a majority of posters I see).

 

They simply didn't deliver, not even an alternative.

Are you going to deny this perhaps? If so, be my guest.

Cant deny your taste true but yet in this thread you dont seems to do anything else.

People grow tired of WoW accept it.

Like i said before if you are tired of WoW for me even Pacman is an good alternative

Originally posted by yoyoyoblaka

 but def not WoW standards. 

I may hope not or Anet wont sell me any expansions.

Originally posted by vanu

Blizzard are one of the best developers out there with such amazing talent, get over it.

Copy pasting dusnt take talent, smart yes but talent no

Originally posted by Hekket

How can they push back the release date when they haven't given one.

Not giving a date dusnt mean they can take all the time in the world, im sure they do have a schedule and a possible release date in mind.

Not saying they arent on schedule, but if they are not we never know because they didnt announce an estimate time of release yet.

Missing 6 to 9 months means Anet miss out on an expansion if they take the same aproach as gw1

Free trial available so give it a try, best way to find out.

And graphics imo are better then wow's so wouldnt worry about that to much

Originally posted by Zookz1

In what way do you think the game has changed? Obviously, the barrier to entry for raiding has been lowered, but that's not a bad thing. I think fun is a matter of perspective; presumably you were having fun doing raids and getting gear at some point. I know for me, the core of the game hasn't changed all that much, but I have changed as a gamer.

 

 

Core of the game might not have changed so much but still they changed. and the community over the years have changed an awful lot to especially gear wise and how they want you to be overgeared to rush the instance.

"i hate what the game has become" has probably to do that you get bored of the game, so game dusnt get worse really but you lose interest thus you think the game gets worse.