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MazingerZ, on 24 May 2013 - 04:05 PM, said:

These are great features and the second is especially good at the building of communities. I'd take it a step further if I were microsoft and reward the lender a few MSP if the lendee then purchases their own license. Even if it isn't the entire game or if it deletes local content once it's removed, it's a good step. In fact, spreading muliplayer in this fashion would be fantastic since pretty much all multiplayer games have some sort of progression tied to them.

At 3 million it has already outpaced the lifetime accounts created for GW. 6.5 million divided by it's 4 releases? 1.625 million accounts. Still not a laughable amount of accounts for a game. Many game companies would drool at the mouth to have had that many paying customers.

Coren, on 24 May 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:

Technically they have always been a service due to the nature of buying a product license to run them. This is a natural evolution of that idea. The Xbox One setup is actually closer to computer service based gaming platform Steam. And regularly on computers you are hooked up to one account or another to play a game, rarely allowing resale. The only difference is, this is on a console system, which due to their more plug n play functionality have classically not had account locked content. But that has started to change with things like DLC of varying size that is account locked, even if the vanilla game itself is transferable.

Lydeck, on 23 May 2013 - 05:18 PM, said:

It's generally accepted that it's including all campaigns and EOTN. Which still works out to a sizable number and a very nicely selling game. Multiple accounts bound to the same person may exist, but likely only purchased by the hardcore of the hardcore, and would account for a fairly miniscule segment of total sales. GW had a relatively stable playerbase throughout it's expansions, even if the high end PvP did start to drop off a bit towards the end.

(you had better hold on, about to go on a nostalgia trip in this motha♥♥♥♥a)
Anyway, Factions was the first introduction to the decay of GW PvP.  Assassins and their shadowstep mechanic completely changed the face of tactical positioning. Furthermore, the skill types introduced by the Ritualist (binding rituals, item spells, and weapon spells) lacked the subtle inter-connectivity found in the Prophecies skillset. I believe this was also the time when GvG meta became very defensive and turned into a turtle until Victory or Death at the 28 min mark. Paragons in particular for Nightfall presented problems due to their party wide affecting buffs which there were only a couple of necromancer skills to fight against with.

Borderlands. Most of the guns just haven't felt very good to me, opposing health pools are too big in some cases. I also found Claptrap very tiring and not funny at all.

Game just wasn't fun. But some people seemed to love it.