What I'm really curious and excited about GW2 is the community. Anyone played Realm of the Mad God ? Google it.

It's really interesting the way people tend to regroup when you don't lose anything by cooperating; but actually gain from it. You start as a lone player, then find someone else and tell yourself "Hey why not play with him, there's only benefits !", then someone else join, and another one. Ten minutes later you're leading or following a 20 people rape train raging through the world. RotMG really was the first time I experienced something like that in a game, and I think it could happen in GW2.

Another point I just learned about, the marketplace ("Auction House") is global to all servers. That means a REAL economy, not something one or two players can crash without any trouble.

I can't wait. All hail GW2 !

Originally posted by Naqaj

One major nitpick: Replace each instance of "Innovation" with "Improvement" or "Iteration". You know there will be a post claiming "game x did it! It's not innovation"

"Game X" might have done it first but in nearly all cases, GameX was designed by the same people who are making GW2.    The Lead Designer of GW2 is literally the godfather of all modern hero-centered action-strategy games.

Meowhead,

I'm not sure how you did it, but somehow you got inside my brain and pulled out my exact feelings about GW2 and then put them in a brilliant post.

Kudos.

Looks like this thread was picked up by KillTenRats blogger Ravious... sort've - LINK

It was a long read, but it was well worth it.  Thank you very much.

Very good read OP. Myself I only have one complaint with GW2, it was going into a class story only to come out and get put into the overflow to await getting back onto my server. That was my only problem with the game, sure hope it gets fixed, because it made me not want to bother doing class quest at all.

Originally posted by Shabla

What I'm really curious and excited about GW2 is the community. Anyone played Realm of the Mad God ? Google it.

It's really interesting the way people tend to regroup when you don't lose anything by cooperating; but actually gain from it. You start as a lone player, then find someone else and tell yourself "Hey why not play with him, there's only benefits !", then someone else join, and another one. Ten minutes later you're leading or following a 20 people rape train raging through the world. RotMG really was the first time I experienced something like that in a game, and I think it could happen in GW2.

 

Grouping is always preferable to soloing in any true MMO.  But being auto-grouped is never as good as being required to group in order to complete objectives.  Games that auto-group you like Rift and GW2 will never have that feeling of community that a game in which grouping is needed, but voluntary.  

Originally posted by RebelScum99

Grouping is always preferable to soloing in any true MMO.  But being auto-grouped is never as good as being required to group in order to complete objectives.  Games that auto-group you like Rift and GW2 will never have that feeling of community that a game in which grouping is needed, but voluntary.  

Oh yeah, forced grouping brings is so wonderful communities... just look at the WoW end game mentality for a good example... =P

Two of the best MMO communities I had the pleasure to experience were UO and AC1. And those games didn't have forced grouping, grouping was done for fun. It always amazes me when people think you need to be forced into bashing mobs with people in order to meet them in a MMORPG.

And you still have to make organized groups for dungeons in GW2 anyway, but it's just not "mandatory" to grind those as it is in most other games.

The superior game is the game that brings people naturally together, and not the one that forces them to be together. That's what UO and AC1 did, that's what GW2 does.

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