Curse

mapoone · May 25, 2005, 06:08 PM // 18:08

My first 100 hours of game play was amazing.. Was among some of the first to Ascend, and among some of the first to finish the Story. Now it's kinda like WTF? PVP seems to be owned by the hardcore players of it, the same names are seen trhoughout the day of winning HoH. And besides, i truly (my opinion) don't find the PVP in GW that much fun. Just wandering if anyone else has my same feelings. Looks like it might be my last week or two for real play time, and I'll be going back to SWG (sigh :/)

Stur · May 25, 2005, 06:20 PM // 18:20

Do you feel you got your $50 worth? If so I'm sure A-Net will E-mail ya when they add now zones and stuff and you can come back long enough to do that. Then if you enjoyed that 100 or so hours enough, I'm sure they would be thrilled if you came back in a few months and tried their first expansion.

Perishiko ReLLiK · May 25, 2005, 06:59 PM // 18:59

Lol, i got a little bored... then i just made a new character, and found it Fun how fast i traveled through absolutely Everything...

Not to mention i was one of the first to ascend as well, i pre-ordered, played like hell, power-gamed it to the end... then i couldnt ascend with the henchies : (
Were you able to find groups for the ascending? Cause i had to wait a while, and just make a pvp character... my skill i wanted for my pvp ranger was in the Last lvl, and so... through alot of the mursaat lvls i had to stop as well, cause i just couldnt get past them with the henchies.

Oh yea, and for my first character i didnt quest at all... i actually did alot of the quests with my brand new elementalist... and i found alot of the quests to make it feel kind of like a different game, it was FUN (one that sticks in my head is near ascalon settlement where you have to chase the pig back to the farmer)... but if you've already done all the quests and dont like the pvp, i don't know what to tell yea ^.^

Sirocco Starluck · May 25, 2005, 07:31 PM // 19:31

The replay value is good on this game, at least for me. Just recently on Pre-Searing they had changed the mission where you have to go and save that doofus "Ben Wolfson". Did you know they put a really beautiful cemetary map there? I love this game in that they put things on the map for the sole purpose of -looking- at it. It serves no other function than to be explorable and gorgeous. Not many games I've played appealed to my need for exploration as this game has.

The IOU · May 25, 2005, 07:37 PM // 19:37

The ultimate challenge is ascending with /deaths = 0

Now that would be impressive...

Ashock · May 25, 2005, 09:20 PM // 21:20

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Originally Posted by The IOU

The ultimate challenge is ascending with /deaths = 0

Now that would be impressive...

I'd say that accomplishing that is impossible considering that by the time you'd managed to get to that point without dying, you yourself would be dead of old age.

-A

sybban · May 25, 2005, 10:36 PM // 22:36

I'd say completing ascension without whiners would be a game wide accomplsihment and hope for the human race.

Ginko · May 25, 2005, 10:51 PM // 22:51

Man, I have 30 hours of gameplay. I think you may be going to quickly, I prefer the slow way of like an hour a day...

Anyways, I think the reason you aren't finding Tombs a joy is because you aren't winning. To really full appreciate Guild Wars, you need a great guild.

Decide what you like and find a guild that does just that.

--Ginko

Witt78 · May 26, 2005, 08:11 AM // 08:11

I can not say that I am getting bored at all...

However, I can not say that I have played ANY MMORPG since Everquest 1 that held my attention for more than 3 months... And I have played ALOT of MMORPG's Prolly more than I can remember. Everquest, Dark Ages, Earth and Beyond, FFXI, SWG, the list goes on and on and on. I try em all.

So only time will tell.

But here is my 2 cents.

With no $$ cost per month. And no expiration of accounts that I am aware of. This is a game that you will prolly be playing again, on a rainy day, six months from now.

It's like the new Diablo 2. =)

Just better. And less scammers and bots.

There is no "little blue jewel button" that does nothing though. =/

-Witt78

Helios · May 26, 2005, 08:20 AM // 08:20

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Originally Posted by Witt78

It's like the new Diablo 2. =)

Just better. And less scammers and bots.

and dupes and maphacking and pickit...

But I wouldn't call GW the new D2. I know what you mean about the lack of a monthly fee, but I hate associating the two

sybban · May 26, 2005, 08:41 AM // 08:41

give me all your rares to dupe!!

Mr. Matt · May 26, 2005, 08:45 AM // 08:45

I'm not bored. Still level 13. Though I don't live on it, like some people seem to... 0_o

Witt78 · May 26, 2005, 08:56 AM // 08:56

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Originally Posted by Helios

I hate associating the two

Fair enough.

However, I think of Diablo 2 as the game I fall back on every 6 month when I'm bored of everything else and no new games of quality are being released.

I always find myself playing D2 every now and then. But from here on out, I think GW will be taking D2's place.

That was the comparison I was trying to make. The games themselves are TOTALLY different...

-Witt78

Deagol · May 26, 2005, 09:01 AM // 09:01

100 hours of amazing gameplay for US$ 50, that is 50 cent per hour. Pretty good deal.

I don't think Guild Wars was ever intended to be one of those game that takes over your life for years. Those tend to come with a monthly fee. Guild Wars is just ment to be something fun to relax with for people who already have a life.

Witt78 · May 26, 2005, 09:30 AM // 09:30

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Originally Posted by Deagol

100 hours of amazing gameplay for US$ 50, that is 50 cent per hour. Pretty good deal.

I don't think Guild Wars was ever intended to be one of those game that takes over your life for years. Those tend to come with a monthly fee. Guild Wars is just ment to be something fun to relax with for people who already have a life.

I'm not sure if it's about the money, though I see your point about time sinks. I find it hard to believe that somebody would feel they were not getting thier money out of the game. Perhaps somebody who is younger and unable to work.

I digress...

I remember way back in 'Nam... When everybody was playing Quake 2... I was playing Everquest 1. I played that game exclusively for 5 years almost non-stop. I felt as if my Cleric "Witt Tristan" was a living breathing person. I don't know how to explain it, but no other game has ever been able to duplicate it since.

I think the trick is getting the player to "Invest" immotion and effort into his player. But you can't make the game, a grind...

For example... Everquest 2... Lol. Graphics are "Bar None!" The best I have ever seen on anything. Period. End of Story... But the game is a total grind. It's so bad, that it seems like the game was deliberatly made that way to get you to play for as many months as possible. Pay to play... Month's = $$

Guild Wars costs nothing once you have a licence for the client. This eliminates the "Incentive" for the creators of the game to put in time sinks.

This is a good thing. On the other hand, if I'm lvl 20 in 3 weeks... I have not invested much into the character have I?

-Witt78

Nash · May 26, 2005, 10:17 AM // 10:17

I'm getting somewhat bored, and my motivation to grind runes is about 0.
I've been through the PvE twice, I don't feel like doing it again (I didn't even feel like doing it twice).
Tomb is getting somewhat repetitive. I want to play more GvG, but that requires the guiid getting together, and most of them are on GvGing when I'm sleeping.

Maybe I'll help out other people with late game missions, thus getting my grind done without doing numbingly boring loot runs.

Xellos · May 26, 2005, 11:30 AM // 11:30

Maybe you have to accept the fact that the game isn't that great of a success for hardcore gamers who play more then the casual newbies still stuck anywhere from ascalon to mirror. The game is a let down for some people, but I don't think it was a waste of money. You can easily quit, and come back a few months or even years from now provided the servers are still up. Isn't that one of the selling points in the first place?

Spike · May 26, 2005, 02:29 PM // 14:29

I have one assended character with about 120 hours and a 2nd character at the frost gate with about 30 hours and still have loads of fun. If you find a GOOD group of people to play with you can loads of fun.

OutcastHawk · May 26, 2005, 02:45 PM // 14:45

Maybe if people would take the game slower, appreciate the game, not just try to reach the end as fast as possible, you'd have more fun.

And let's be honest for a minute. You said you got 100 hours of enjoyment out of it. Most games will never give you that much for 50 bucks. 20-30 hours tops to beat a single-player campaign usually. Then if they have a multiplayer function, that until it gets boring, which might be 70 hours if you're lucky.

The name sort of gives this away, but you REALLY need a good guild to get max enjoyment out of Guild Wars. The whole game is designed for guilds, specifically smaller guilds of less than 20 members. You don't need a massive 100 member guild to have it be a good guild. Negative Zero n0, the top guild on the ladder last time I checked, has very few members. You'll find a good guild eventually if you keep searching, and you'll be surprised at how much more fun you'll have.

I play as much as anyone in my guild except maybe one or two, but my top character only just hit 16. I'm not rushing through the game to get to ascension. I can use a PvP character if I want to do play HoH or whatever. Spending time with guildmates is most of the fun.

Perishiko ReLLiK · May 26, 2005, 02:47 PM // 14:47

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Originally Posted by Helios

and dupes and maphacking and pickit...

But I wouldn't call GW the new D2. I know what you mean about the lack of a monthly fee, but I hate associating the two

LOL, i remember diablo days... and just because i dont cheat on this game, and never will (because its WAY too easy to become good without Great items), ill admit that i used duping programs and pickit... the thing about dupes, is they dissapeared after a while/if someone had the same one and exited before you in the game you're in... it was Hillarious, i got so rich... and pickit Really pissed people off when you figured out how to set it to where it picks anything up accross the whole map (cow lvl im talkin about-before it was gimped), and baal pickit was quite usefull too...

And on the other note of cheating on diablo-- Maphacking was something everyone had, or really, the gameplay sucked(starting was great)... (this coming from after 3 years of playing the same maps, the random generating kinda got annoying, never knew which way it was ^.^)

What was kind of funny, is i cheated with pickits and dupes for a full year and a half (cause my guild leaked things like this to members), and i ended up getting One account deleted and not because of those... because of maphack... it was hillarious.