It'll be amazing to be able to switch servers and play with anyone you want to along with belonging to as many guilds as you want(theoretically speaking until we know a hard limit).
GAF Guild would be awesome to be apart of.
For a week until they all stop playing.
Every fucking time.
For a week until they all stop playing.
Every fucking time.
Count me in for Gaf guild, hopefully people will stick around.
I've been in three GAF guilds for GW, one for Warhammer and one for Rift. They die after the first free months.
And you CLEARLY havent followed every other MMO to release ....ever.You CLEARLY haven't followed this game. ANet IS NOT every other MMO developer.
Has there been any mention of a day 1 steam release at all? That would make me so happy. I know the original games were added to steam much later.
I'm actually going with the opposite. Sticking to one guild in GW1 for PvP was really bothersome. Going freelance is the way to go and what I did for the latter part of my stay. But I always like to dig in there sometimes to do PvP runs for those willing. Just need the numbers and interest.I'll probably end up going for a highly organized PVP guild anyways.
Gotta relive those old days of GW1 alpha/beta.
And you CLEARLY havent followed every other MMO to release ....ever.
Every MMO developer thinks they can internally test their games and everything will be fine. Their MMO will launch without a hitch and the world will rejoice.
BioWare thought that.
Trion did too.
Guess what, Mythic is here too(or at least, was here)
Oh, and Funcom.
Lets not forget about Blizzard.
Nor SOE.
If you want to use BioWare and Star Wars The Old Republic as an example, then lets use them.
BioWare wasnt just another MMO developer, they were BioWare. BioWare had Star Wars in development for years and was carefully testing every little thing.
Everyone thought(including me) they were going to change things and there was no way that a major developer like BioWare(with hundreds of millions from EA) would ever release a buggy mess of a half finished MMO. Boy did they prove us wrong.
You can drink the hype Kool Aid all you want, thats cool. Im going to remain cautious.
And you CLEARLY havent followed every other MMO to release ....ever.
Every MMO developer thinks they can internally test their games and everything will be fine. Their MMO will launch without a hitch and the world will rejoice.
BioWare thought that.
Trion did too.
Guess what, Mythic is here too(or at least, was here)
Oh, and Funcom.
Lets not forget about Blizzard.
Nor SOE.
If you want to use BioWare and Star Wars The Old Republic as an example, then lets use them.
BioWare wasnt just another MMO developer, they were BioWare. BioWare had Star Wars in development for years and was carefully testing every little thing.
Everyone thought(including me) they were going to change things and there was no way that a major developer like BioWare(with hundreds of millions from EA) would ever release a buggy mess of a half finished MMO. Boy did they prove us wrong.
You can drink the hype Kool Aid all you want, thats cool. Im going to remain cautious.
And you CLEARLY havent followed every other MMO to release ....ever.
Every MMO developer thinks they can internally test their games and everything will be fine. Their MMO will launch without a hitch and the world will rejoice.
BioWare thought that.
Trion did too.
Guess what, Mythic is here too(or at least, was here)
Oh, and Funcom.
Lets not forget about Blizzard.
Nor SOE.
If you want to use BioWare and Star Wars The Old Republic as an example, then lets use them.
BioWare wasnt just another MMO developer, they were BioWare. BioWare had Star Wars in development for years and was carefully testing every little thing.
Everyone thought(including me) they were going to change things and there was no way that a major developer like BioWare(with hundreds of millions from EA) would ever release a buggy mess of a half finished MMO. Boy did they prove us wrong.
You can drink the hype Kool Aid all you want, thats cool. Im going to remain cautious.
What's even more exciting than the actual beta is that we'll finally get a better look at all the skills, traits and professions.
I mean, I want to roll Engineer, but I look at the current wiki and frankly, it's very, very barebones. We don't know how the Elixir Gun works, we don't know if all the skills are there. And what about Cooking? How big a buff are we talking about? Etc.
It's all those details that will finally trickle down on us in the upcoming months, and if the launch is to be early summer, then I cannot imagine a better way to get everyone hyped for it.
Yeah, definitely. I'm really curious to see the new changes they made to combat.
You can be in multiple guilds at once? That sounds really weird... Sticking with the same group of people is nice sometimes, and I think having alliances worked quite well as an expansion of guilds.
But yeah, I'd love to be apart of a GAF guild. Euro player though, does anyone know if we'll share the same servers?
You can be in multiple guilds at once? That sounds really weird... Sticking with the same group of people is nice sometimes, and I think having alliances worked quite well as an expansion of guilds.
But yeah, I'd love to be apart of a GAF guild. Euro player though, does anyone know if we'll share the same servers?
And you CLEARLY havent followed every other MMO to release ....ever.
Every MMO developer thinks they can internally test their games and everything will be fine. Their MMO will launch without a hitch and the world will rejoice.
BioWare thought that.
Trion did too.
Guess what, Mythic is here too(or at least, was here)
Oh, and Funcom.
Lets not forget about Blizzard.
Nor SOE.
If you want to use BioWare and Star Wars The Old Republic as an example, then lets use them.
BioWare wasnt just another MMO developer, they were BioWare. BioWare had Star Wars in development for years and was carefully testing every little thing.
Everyone thought(including me) they were going to change things and there was no way that a major developer like BioWare(with hundreds of millions from EA) would ever release a buggy mess of a half finished MMO. Boy did they prove us wrong.
You can drink the hype Kool Aid all you want, thats cool. Im going to remain cautious.
Martin Kerstein said:Yes we do - though we play in the black Commando shirts now.
Ok, to clarify a couple of points:
We purposely didn’t use the term “Open Beta”, we mentioned Beta Events. To some people Open Beta means unlimited access to the game and everybody on the interwebs can play it. This is not what we will do.
We will do Beta Weekend Events. Those of you who played Guild Wars might already be familiar with the concept. It means that many of you (like the blogpost says) will get a chance to participate in specific Events, but access won’t be unlimited – there will be some kind of selection criteria and the beta period will usually start on a Friday and end on the following Sunday.
I hope this helps.
And you CLEARLY havent followed every other MMO to release ....ever.
Every MMO developer thinks they can internally test their games and everything will be fine. Their MMO will launch without a hitch and the world will rejoice.
BioWare thought that.
Trion did too.
Guess what, Mythic is here too(or at least, was here)
Oh, and Funcom.
Lets not forget about Blizzard.
Nor SOE.
If you want to use BioWare and Star Wars The Old Republic as an example, then lets use them.
BioWare wasnt just another MMO developer, they were BioWare. BioWare had Star Wars in development for years and was carefully testing every little thing.
Everyone thought(including me) they were going to change things and there was no way that a major developer like BioWare(with hundreds of millions from EA) would ever release a buggy mess of a half finished MMO. Boy did they prove us wrong.
You can drink the hype Kool Aid all you want, thats cool. Im going to remain cautious.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1070552&postcount=652
"Ok, to clarify a couple of points:
We purposely didnt use the term Open Beta, we mentioned Beta Events. To some people Open Beta means unlimited access to the game and everybody on the interwebs can play it. This is not what we will do.
We will do Beta Weekend Events. Those of you who played Guild Wars might already be familiar with the concept. It means that many of you (like the blogpost says) will get a chance to participate in specific Events, but access wont be unlimited there will be some kind of selection criteria and the beta period will usually start on a Friday and end on the following Sunday."
My guess is fansite drawings and pre-orders get access.
I'd preorder...if I knew where I should preorder from. I'd do it right at this very second. Any recommendations?
I'd wait till they announce the CE or more info regarding beta weekends to be sure. Amazon is always the safest bet IMO. GW2 will be on Steam with 99.9% certainty given all of NCSofts other titles are on there.
If we were basing everything off of words that would be another story completely, but the fact that tons of people from press to fans have played the game at one of the many gaming events over the years and have seen the alpha build of all things as polished as it is with there own eyes, the statement is true that ArenaNet handles development very differently. Sure the game won't be bug free but no way in hell will it be SWTOR level of problems, not even close.
People playing a demo for 10 minutes at some convention wont be able to tell anything about the greater over all picture on an MMOs health.
SWTOR was playable at Comic Con, GDC, Pax East, Gamescom and a few other places this year and the previews were very favorable. These small controlled demos are always going to be perfect because they are carefully hand chosen.
It doesnt matter how dedicated a development team is they wont have the manpower or time to properly bug test. Thats why MMOs have extended closed betas with tens of thousands(sometimes hundreds of thousands) of people participating.
The developer can run through a dungeon a couple times on development computers and have no problems and think everything is fine. However, in a closed beta that dungeon will be run thousands of times. Thats when bugs get discovered.
It doesnt matter how very differently ArenaNet handles development, they cant run a dungeon thousands of times to bug test.
People playing a demo for 10 minutes at some convention wont be able to tell anything about the greater over all picture on an MMOs health.
SWTOR was playable at Comic Con, GDC, Pax East, Gamescom and a few other places this year and the previews were very favorable. These small controlled demos are always going to be perfect because they are carefully hand chosen.
It doesnt matter how dedicated a development team is they wont have the manpower or time to properly bug test. Thats why MMOs have extended closed betas with tens of thousands(sometimes hundreds of thousands) of people participating.
The developer can run through a dungeon a couple times on development computers and have no problems and think everything is fine. However, in a closed beta that dungeon will be run thousands of times. Thats when bugs get discovered.
It doesnt matter how very differently ArenaNet handles development, they cant run a dungeon thousands of times to bug test.
You can be in as many guilds as you want and switch between them right from the UI, you can choose to represent any guild of your choosing at any time or no guilds but still be guilded.
As for servers, we know that they're using a server infrastructure similar to GW1 where all characters are on a centralized database and so what that means is all server or worlds will be linked up so you can move between them with ease and for free. Because of this one would ASSUME that you can play with everyone worldwide, however don't quote me on that bit because it's not really confirmed.
I just hope the beta isn't random draw. I'd be so depressed if I didn't get in, considering how much time I invested in the first game.
Yeah, but I meant something more along the lines of letting everyone who signs up in (less likely), or maybe allowing all pre-orders in (somewhat likely). Either of those two things would be great. Or hey, just let GWAMM people like me in .I hope the beta is randomly drawn, considering how I never played GW1, or browse their forums or follow them on twitter or whatever. I'm just so fucking hyped for this game
People playing a demo for 10 minutes at some convention wont be able to tell anything about the greater over all picture on an MMOs health.
SWTOR was playable at Comic Con, GDC, Pax East, Gamescom and a few other places this year and the previews were very favorable. These small controlled demos are always going to be perfect because they are carefully hand chosen.
It doesnt matter how dedicated a development team is they wont have the manpower or time to properly bug test. Thats why MMOs have extended closed betas with tens of thousands(sometimes hundreds of thousands) of people participating.
The developer can run through a dungeon a couple times on development computers and have no problems and think everything is fine. However, in a closed beta that dungeon will be run thousands of times. Thats when bugs get discovered.
It doesnt matter how very differently ArenaNet handles development, they cant run a dungeon thousands of times to bug test.