Curse

Cindare Sunstriker · May 27, 2005, 12:31 PM // 12:31

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Originally Posted by AreaNet FAQ

When you buy the chapters of Guild Wars, you will acquire a larger collection of skills and abilities from which to build your skill set, but you will not gain more power. So if you purchase a chapter and your friend does not, you will still be able to play competitively against and with one another.

To clarify --

If my friend X picks up this coming expansion, they are going to want to explore it and reap the rewards of it.

Therefore, if I do not pick up this expansion, my chances of playing the game with X diminish.

So the matter for me is not whether or not I can continue playing what I have, but how long it will be until all my friends (who do pick up the expansions) will choose to remain in the one I can play.

This is, in my opinion, the SoE tactic of 'Let their friends pressure them into buying, we don't have to be the bad guy'.

While I detested the SoE 'buy it or you don't get this functionality' method, it was, I think, more honest than saying 'Oh you don't have to buy expansions' knowing full well that the nature of gaming expansions insures every player who plays with friends will have to face either soloing or purchase.

Meh.

Barkam · May 28, 2005, 08:00 AM // 08:00

Right on the money, Rex. Those are my exact sentiments at the moment and very sad at that. I hope those people that has the same resources as you can help give more ideas and suggestions as to how to fix the problems that we are facing right now because I hate for Arena.net to lose me as a customer.

We already have guild members stop playing and went back to WoW, because they can't stand the grind for PvP in this game at the moment. How IRONIC!

SOT · May 28, 2005, 08:18 AM // 08:18

My question pertaining to all this is:

How many of you have seen a press release, whether online, or offline, from Arena Net about the expansion? I have looked everywhere I can think of offhand, and all this seems to be speculation. They say on their official gw site it will come out in the early fall or late summer, so....wtf?

Ninna · May 28, 2005, 11:16 AM // 11:16

there has been no official announcement

only reports from E3

http://www.gwonline.net/page.php?p=142

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The second "chapter" of Guild Wars is already underway, with a very loose estimated release of the first half of 2006.

http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cf...00,49697 2953

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The original plan for Guild Wars was to fund the game through retail expansions every six months. This plan remains the same, with the exception of the first pack. It is due in Q1 2006, and very little is known about it.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05...subj=612581 8

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ArenaNet continues to operate on its original plan to enhance the game with continuous retail "chapters"--new additions to the game that will add just as much content as in the original game. The second chapter has already been in production for months and is scheduled for release in the first half of 2006.

Animal · May 28, 2005, 01:52 PM // 13:52

In the game's current form I don't intend on getting an expansion pack, mainly due to the grind issue. I get a sad feeling plenty of others aren't either, when the game first came out my guild was pretty active flying through the missions, and now one by one dropped like flies, dying from boredom unlocking skills. The last mile to gvg is a mile too long.

Awol Duteq · May 28, 2005, 03:24 PM // 15:24

I'll be picking it up. There's really no grind but I've played MMO's like EQ, FFXI, SWG, some AO..those are grind. I'd be level 20 by now on those but.. I'd have nothing to show for it. I'm really enjoying the RPG aspect as well as the PvP, which in most games has been PvP = high levels ganking low levels. The first time through can take a little bit, but once you know how the missions work, and learn to skip quests the don't give skills, you can fly alts to 20 in no-time. As far as RPG's go I enjoy this more than the others just for the fact this game takes half a brain to do well. It's not just buff up, click attack and spam your highest level skills rinse repeat. Around every turn you can get wiped out if you don't think about the best plan of attack. I understand why alot don't see it as this, but this game has REAL depth to it. I'm loving ANet's responsiveness to the player base as well, I've never seen any game listen to it's players this much and it's only been a month in. For their obvious care and hard work, I'm glad to hand over another 50 bucks every 6-9 months if they can keep it up.

xakia · May 28, 2005, 03:30 PM // 15:30

I just hope they plan to release "chapters" of missions between these expansions. Some of us are storyline freaks and feel the need to be involved in the game's overall plot.

Ben Reed · May 28, 2005, 04:55 PM // 16:55

I'll buy the expansion, because I knew exactly what I wanted from this game when I got it, and it delivered.

What I wanted:
1. A game where it's relatively easy to keep up in levels (because once school took over my time, I got left in the dust in WoW). It only took me about 2 weeks to hit lvl 20 and I'm making dandy progress right now.

2. A PvP experience that is easy to jump into even when your PvE character is low-level, and based on organized combat rather than dodging raids/ganking and running all over hell and back to counter-gank/counter-raid.

3. A game where it's easy and relatively inexpensive to look really, really sexy. (And with my full suit of 1.5k Necrotic armor, I believe I've done just that.)

Really, I'm their ideal customer...I get hooked easily and I buy the most minor of upgrades without reservation or hesitation. Must have been all those years playing fighting games...

efiloN · May 28, 2005, 05:39 PM // 17:39

I will buy the chapters. I want to show my support to ArenaNet and future games that uses this business model.