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Shiftedgw2, on 19 September 2012 - 06:24 PM, said:

The game was officially released on August 28th. That's 542 hours 23 mins before the time of your post. You have played 300+ hours. That means you have spent more than 55% of the total available time in your life playing this game since launch. Hoping you had at least 6 hours of daily sleep, you ended up playing nearly 75% of the every waking hour of your life in last 3 weeks or so.

I think the game got bored of you and decided not to offer you any more fun till you take some rest and help yourself in the process.

I say that jokingly. But, in all honesty, the impact of sitting on your butt 75% of the day will take heavy toll on your body. It does not matter how old you are. You will have serious issues with your health if you don't take a break now.

mrbig, on 19 August 2012 - 05:27 PM, said:

well if you feel forced then i feel bad for you, i'm pretty sure there's lots of guilds out that won't force you to play any build you don't want to still have success in tourneys, remember it's about the people playing not the class

Oh my god, that medium armor.

I have to add this to counter all of the incredible childish QQ that's going on in this forum.  Most Thieves I've talked to in-game today loved the class also.  I think people have small issues, but nothing like what's represented in this forum.

I'm owning in 1v1.  I'm loving it in PvE.   In larger WvWvW we definitely fill a certain role (and that might not be everyone's desire, but it's a powerful role... picking off the fools who step out of the pack, etc).  

I think props to the designers, they've made a fun, interesting, and extremely challenging (but rewarding) class.

Dream Catcher, on 20 July 2012 - 06:21 PM, said:

Person thinking they are acceptable will buy them, the one who thinks opposite will not. That's how it works. Simple.

Gli, on 27 July 2012 - 09:25 PM, said:

Yeah but why should they care? It's not their problem you know that some earn less than in other countries. You DON'T have to buy gems AT ALL to play and enjoy full game. And I am the one saying it, one from "those" countries where people get on average ~350€ worth a month on hand.

Specialz, on 27 July 2012 - 09:15 PM, said:

Yeah. I mean, i cannot afford ferrari...clearly they should drop a price....

I cant believe people are complaining  about Ai that fights intelligently....

If they set a fire under your feet, youd move. If you set a fire under another players' feet, theyd move. Npcs should do the same. This is guild wars, your supposed to use your brain. Stun, knock down, slow enemies to force aoe damage on them.

You're really selective in what you respond to, eh? I agree with you that the start could be a bit annoying, because hardly anyone will have any currency to spend on siege weapons. Just like it was at the start of the 1st BWE and just like how it will be when the game is launched (probably moreso at the headstart).

But here comes the important part I would like you to respond to instead:
The people that will spend money on gems (about 25% - 35% in the coming BWE according to a poll on these forums), trade those gems for currency instead of cash shop items and then spend that currency on getting siege weapons will very probably be a low and evenly spread out percentage on all servers. So perhaps high population servers will have an advanvantage over low populated servers, but that would be the case with or without gems.
I obviously don't agree with you that the system is P2W, because ArenaNet has included several things into the game that make sure that won't happen, but that's been discussed in a lot of threads and people never seem to be able to agree on it. So let's not start that discussion here too.

They're not rushing some features; they're refusing to release them until they're done. However, the game as it stands is a solid vanilla release.

When the rest of the stuff is done, they'll release it.

People need to be more patient. WTF with all the negativity in this forum these past few weeks, is it to try to turn new folks off or something?

I’m not telling the world anything new when I say, a lot of MMOs fail.

Either they fail outright with next to no subscribers and close within a year, or they start off ‘OK’ but never quite get the numbers and become an ‘also-ran’ in the market. A very few might even get the numbers — initially — then start bleeding subscriptions after the first month or two as people get to the end-game, realise there is no end-game, and look for something new.

As someone who has sat out here, in the MMO community, since Ultima Online was the hot new game in town, I’ve constantly marveled at how many times the same mistakes are seemingly made again and again and again.

End-game, that I mentioned a moment ago, is one of the big ones. “The end-game has to be there… it has to be solid!” says the MMO community, “Yes, yes, we hear you! We agree!” say the developers of countless MMOs that have come and gone over the last 15 years. And yet, when it came down to it… when the rubber hit the road… the end-game wasn’t there.

Its not always the end-game, of course, that’s just one example. But it highlights that “everyone” seems to know what would make a great MMO, yet so far, few companies have been able to put the right ideas in motion.

Enter Guild Wars 2.

It’s perhaps telling that the original Guild Wars is a game I have gone back to, again and again, over the years since it first came out. Partly because of it’s free-to-play nature, yes, but also partly due to the fact that it was different to other MMOs. Indeed, it was so different, many people still have a hard time even calling it an MMO at all. The debate still rages on about that.

So as we sit here, on the verge of Guild Wars 2 coming out; a game that is better than the original Guild Wars in every single way by a factor of 1000, are we about to see the release of a game that not only gets these 15 year old questions right, but which also doesn’t charge a fee, to boot? I really don’t want to be cast in the ‘fanboi’ role, but I think we might be. Seriously.

From what I have played of Guild Wars 2 so far, via beta weekends and ‘stress tests’, I have found a game that is visually gorgeous, deep in lore and fun to play. It’s WvWvW also evokes (and surpasses) the legendary Dark Age of Camelot, which was a game released in 2001 that was still the benchmark for ‘Realm versus Realm’ combat, all these years later, until Guild Wars 2.

Even though I have played Guild Wars 2 and can report to anyone reading this blog that, yes, the game is real and, yes, it’s as good as all the reviewers say it is, it still feels strange, unearthly and even just a little unreal, to think that this game exists. This game goes beyond what any $15/month MMO is offering… and yet is doing it without ANY monthly fee. Incredible.

Safer Saviour, on 28 June 2012 - 05:25 PM, said:

This post made me realize something.

Not only is the release date of the third book and Guild Wars 2 on my birthday, but the announcement of GW2's release date was on my sixth anniversary of playing Guild Wars.

Creepingly awesome with the coincidences, Anet...