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Kylie Minon · Mar 02, 2006, 07:53 PM // 19:53

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Originally Posted by fiery

LOL what does better players have to do with farming and ebaying? Nothing that's what.

Remember that some high rank guilds are selling temporary memberships... farmers with tons of cash pay for them and get exclusive access to special content Faction-related.

/Edit: Maybe very top strongly-pvp based guilds consider PvE boring, but i can assure you many high ranked guild are still on PvE...

Mustache Mayhem · Mar 02, 2006, 08:07 PM // 20:07

wonder if the skills guy in ember will have all the non-elite ass/rit skills available.. or they putting in another skills trader for those

Athis Strider · Mar 02, 2006, 08:24 PM // 20:24

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Originally Posted by wsmcasey

Could someone please post some of the interview. I don't have access to the link here at work.

Thanks

LOL I feel ya bro! If you like I can send you a link so you CAN surf those sites!

Guru is also banned at my work but I manage.

Maybe I missed it, but if you want a new guild hall do you have to dissban your guild?? How does this work? Will we have a "upgrade hall option?" Or do you just buy another sigil?

DJ Josh · Mar 02, 2006, 08:29 PM // 20:29

so jeff,casual players and those with small guilds are not going to lose any of the content their paying for but more than likely will never be able to visit some towns and will miss out on some of the leet missions.is it just me or is that a huge contradiction and does it not also contradict there old equality statement especialy the bit about casual players not being at a dissadvantage to hardcore players.

Felg · Mar 02, 2006, 08:41 PM // 20:41

good interview...good questions and good answers.

too bad they didn't ask why exactly it is that we get only 2 character slots when merging Prophecies and Factions...I still really want that answered.

SpeedyKQ · Mar 02, 2006, 09:06 PM // 21:06

So we really don't know anything new about how badly non-PVP'ers are going to get shut out of elite PVE content. Jeff tells us that people not in big, successful alliances will have access to all of the "world content" but not the "elite missions".

So the question is, how much interesting, challenging PVE stuff is in the "world content" and how much is in the "elite missions"? Because I'm mostly buying Factions for more high-end PVE content, and I still don't want to touch PVP with a 10-foot pole.

I don't mind PVP'ers getting rewards, but access to PVE content is a really silly kind of reward to give. On the other hand PVE'ers who complete all missions, or complete all SF quests, or clear the UW, or whatever, are aching for some kind of recognition for their achievement. Wouldn't high-end PVE content as a reward for PVE achievement be a better model?

Kylie Minon · Mar 02, 2006, 09:32 PM // 21:32

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Originally Posted by SpeedyKQ

So we really don't know anything new about how badly non-PVP'ers are going to get shut out of elite PVE content. Jeff tells us that people not in big, successful alliances will have access to all of the "world content" but not the "elite missions".

So the question is, how much interesting, challenging PVE stuff is in the "world content" and how much is in the "elite missions"? Because I'm mostly buying Factions for more high-end PVE content, and I still don't want to touch PVP with a 10-foot pole.

I don't mind PVP'ers getting rewards, but access to PVE content is a really silly kind of reward to give. On the other hand PVE'ers who complete all missions, or complete all SF quests, or clear the UW, or whatever, are aching for some kind of recognition for their achievement. Wouldn't high-end PVE content as a reward for PVE achievement be a better model?

Maybe i'm wrong, but i believe that Anet underestimated the people wanting to stay on PvE when released GW. SF update wanted to fill the void, but even now there are PvE only guilds, even in a strongly PvP based game such as this.

Perhaps this change of direction reflects an attempt to "merge" PvP and PvE competition. That, in the future, to be a leet guild will be a sum of PvP and PvE milestones.

Maybe city control will award some guild rank up (Not now maybe, but in the future).

We will have 1 vs 1 challenges on Factions... maybe on the future an Olympiad? PvP 1vs1 Tournaments? Who knows ^^

Kylie Minon · Mar 02, 2006, 09:45 PM // 21:45

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=63096

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...Challenge missions are all about earning high scores for display on the GW leaderboard. In one such mission, for example, you're tasked with keeping a group of villagers who are under attack alive - the longer they stay breathing, the more points you score...

King Kong · Mar 02, 2006, 10:36 PM // 22:36

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Originally Posted by DJ Josh

so jeff,casual players and those with small guilds are not going to lose any of the content their paying for but more than likely will never be able to visit some towns and will miss out on some of the leet missions.is it just me or is that a huge contradiction and does it not also contradict there old equality statement especialy the bit about casual players not being at a dissadvantage to hardcore players.

Thats what i was thinking

Banebow · Mar 03, 2006, 12:03 AM // 00:03

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Originally Posted by DJ Josh

especialy the bit about casual players not being at a dissadvantage to hardcore players.

We can easily assume no skills will be located here that you cannot get via other means. No armors will be in these areas that you cannot get through other means (barring obsidian-like armors. These armors have no statistical advantage however). No "area-only" weapon mods will be here that you cannot get by some other means. How are you at a disadvantage again?

The people who are better at the game have access to areas that others do not. Wow, amazing. Luckily, those areas cannot have anything that will make these players somehow more powerful than you, so you can stop fretting. Like favor of the gods and fissure of woe, you may find times when you do not have access to everything in the game. But do you really think ANet will add things in these areas that give players with access some materialistic advantage?

DJ Josh · Mar 03, 2006, 12:58 AM // 00:58

it has been stated in a couple of interviews that the elite missions will have special loot as reward for the extra challenge of the mission.not sure what the special means but i can already see the e-bay account of the pro farmers drooling at the notion of some new rare stock to sell.and i'm a collector who is already p'd off with the fact that i can't finnish my ch1 sword collection because of the prices on crystalline's which yeah has something to do with rareness but is also inflated because of e-bay(imho).so i'm not realy looking forward to more items that i may or may not get access to that others have already stated will no doubt be poping up on e-bay very soon and hence will also have an over-priced tag on them in-game.

could,and hopefully am,be wrong in my fears of the alliance system on towns and elite missions(which i'm sure was originally going to be applied to faction and alliances would be made to earn that "favor" in the big pvp style battles)i'm just voicing my concern on how it sounds so far.but we shall see soon enough.

Masseur · Mar 03, 2006, 02:46 AM // 02:46

Better in the game? not even close, those that PvP and GvG will have that access, but not because they are better in the game. But those of us that excel in the game and really have no wish to PvP will be left out of some areas. As well as them sneaking in PvP content into the missions, but we'll wait and see, hopefully there will be enough PvE content for the majority of users that play the game.