Guild Wars Guru

20 Years from now, will you think back at GW as something good?

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Lawnmower
Lawnmower
Krytan Explorer
• #1
... Or bad? Or perhaps do you think that you will completely have forgotten about it?


Is GW a game that has that sort of lasting power... that it will be remembered and cherrised, or will everyone move on?



I came to think of this when seeing this news story on the Wow expansion, where thousands of people in the uk flocked at midnight to play the game: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6164196.html


Im just wondering if you guys think that GW will eventually be the same kind of phenomenon? will there be big GW events where many people will dress out... or is it too late for GW?
Zinger314
Zinger314
Debbie Downer
• #2
(Yeesh, this isn't just baseless speculation, this is hypothetical baseless speculation!)

Somehow, I doubt you'll have Guild Wars on your mind in 20 years. Do you even remember games from 20 years ago?

We'll be playing games with 1 TB RAM, DirectX 15, and a 512 GB Graphic card, and a 1 Thz processor. Would we want to think back?

People remember games like EQ and WoW because they were flagships for the MMORPG franchise. Guild Wars isn't.
Burn Butt
Burn Butt
Academy Page
• #3
Ah... for the old fart that I am now (32 years old) I sure remember games from 20 years ago.... Longer than that even. From Pac Man to Karateka to Super Mario Brothers... the list goes on and on.

I can honestly say I have never spent more time on a game in my life than I have on Guild Wars. I know it will be something I remember for my whole life... Whether it's effects will be something I subjectivly look back on as "good" ... who knows. Also, I think WoW is MUCH bigger than Guild Wars and probably will stay that way. Personally, I prefer Guild Wars because of the pricing model. I really like the idea that I can step away and come back whenever I want to, and I'm not beholden to the game due to subscription fees where I feel like I HAVE to play to get my money's worth. At least I know with Guild Wars why I play.
Lawnmower
Lawnmower
Krytan Explorer
• #4
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
(Yeesh, this isn't just baseless speculation, this is hypothetical baseless speculation!)

Somehow, I doubt you'll have Guild Wars on your mind in 20 years. Do you even remember games from 20 years ago?

We'll be playing games with 1 TB RAM, DirectX 15, and a 512 GB Graphic card, and a 1 Thz processor. Would we want to think back?

People remember games like EQ and WoW because they were flagships for the MMORPG franchise. Guild Wars isn't.
well I turn 20 this summer, so I guess not, lol.
lyra_song
lyra_song
Hell's Protector
• #5
I think GW will definitely be remembered.

Wether its for good things or bad things, depends on the way the business model holds out.
Zinger314
Zinger314
Debbie Downer
• #6
Quote:
Originally Posted by lyra_song
I think GW will definitely be remembered.

Wether its for good things or bad things, depends on the way the business model holds out.
Who invented the credit card?

Exactly.
Mr Jazzy
Mr Jazzy
Krytan Explorer
• #7
I doubt i'll still be playing games 20 years from now (16 atm) and i pretty much use guild wars as a time killer. guild wars is fun though, and if anything, i'd associate it with a good (but sometimes tedious and boring) time.
Xenex Xclame
Xenex Xclame
Desert Nomad
• #8
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
We'll be playing games with 1 TB RAM, DirectX 15, and a 512 GB Graphic card, and a 1 Thz processor.
Wow i cant wait for that a 512 GB videocard! OMG! :P

Ok now about the topic, i agree with zinger, i doubt ill remember GuildWars in 20 years, i mean of course ill remember i used to play a game which i "wasted" a few years of my life on , but dont think much then that.

Im 22 now and i do remember me enjoying ( and laughing at my mother trying )every single hour of mario brothers in the NES yes thats less then 20 years ago but its still the same thing GuildWars just isnt that big of a game be remembered that much, sure its free and still a mmo, but thats not enough.

PS. Who the hell did invent to CC?I know its first place was US.
explodemyheart
explodemyheart
Wilds Pathfinder
• #9
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
Who invented the credit card?

Exactly.
Remembering who invented something and remembering that something actually existed are two completely different things.
lyra_song
lyra_song
Hell's Protector
• #10
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
The credit card was the successor of a variety of merchant credit schemes. It was first used in the 1920s, in the United States, specifically to sell fuel to a growing number of automobile owners. In 1938 several companies started to accept each other's cards.

The concept of using a card for purchases was invented in 1887 by Edward Bellamy and described in his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy uses the explicit term "Credit Card" eleven times in his novel (Chapters 9, 10, 11, 13, 25 and 26) and 3 times (Chapters 4, 8 and 19) in its sequel, Equality.

The concept of paying merchants using a card was invented in 1950 by Ralph Schneider and Frank X. McNamara in order to consolidate multiple cards. The Diners Club, which was created partially through a merger with Dine and Sign, produced the first "general purpose" charge card, which is similar but required the entire bill to be paid with each statement; it was followed shortly thereafter by American Express and Carte Blanche. Western Union had begun issuing charge cards to its frequent customers in 1914.

Bank of America created the BankAmericard in 1958, a product which eventually evolved into the Visa system ("Chargex" also became Visa). MasterCard came to being in 1966 when a group of credit-issuing banks established MasterCharge. The fractured nature of the US banking system meant that credit cards became an effective way for those who were travelling around the country to, in effect, move their credit to places where they could not directly use their banking facilities. In 1966 Barclaycard in the UK launched the first credit card outside of the US.

There are now countless variations on the basic concept of revolving credit for individuals (as issued by banks and honored by a network of financial institutions), including organization-branded credit cards, corporate-user credit cards, store cards and so on.
I think GW will be remembered and any MMORPG that attempts to have a balanced PvP while still having a decent PvE and no grinding will be compared to it (see Aion).
LONGA
LONGA
Krytan Explorer
• #11
I think,if not rememberd some game developer will adapt good things about GW.
Remember Pac-man? there is a challange misson based on that game.Good old games still be remembered.
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Banned
• #12
I would remember playing it, but I would just think of it as something I poured time and effort into like any other game I played.
F
Former Ruling
Grotto Attendant
• #13
Guild Wars, honestly IMO, doesn't do anything so out of the ordinary to warrent it getting any fame like that so far down the road.

I'll remember having played it though. But to that decree I remember playing Pokemon as a 12 yr old too...
K
Kook~NBK~
Grotto Attendant
• #14
How will I feel about GW 20 years from now? 20 years from now, I just hope I can remember what happened yesterday, let alone what happened 20 years ago!

Will GW go down as a classic? Dunno. Some games are so innovative and/or fun that they're bound to be remembered - like that one with the thing that moved back and forth, and you'd shoot the other things that were coming down the screen (or was it across the screen). Or that other one with the big monkey. I think it was a monkey....
Taala
Taala
Krytan Explorer
• #15
Well, being 25 years old and still remembering what I was playing when I was five years old, I think I'd remember Guild Wars as something I used to have fun with.
Terra Xin
Terra Xin
Furnace Stoker
• #16
Something good? No. There's always going to be a better game.

My only exception is the Final Fantasy series, I'll always go back to those games.
B
BoredJoe
Krytan Explorer
• #17
I'll remember GW 20 years on but more as something I played too much of rather than as a classic. It doesn't have that punch for me that Bard's Tale, Nethack and Wizardry 7 had.
M
My Green Storage
Wilds Pathfinder
• #18
In 20 years I suppose you might have more important things to worry about then remembering (or possibly remembering) a game.
Family?
Job?
Tradegy?
Happiness?

It's different when you're 16 .. 19 ... 24 ... so of course you remember things when you were 6 .. you have nothing TRULY important going on at age 16-25.
Mine would be this Sesame Street game (Atari 2600 *I think*), same with a few other Atari games. Also of course NES: Excitebike? Kid Icarus? NES Tennis? Baseball? Judge Dredd game?
It's easier to reflect and remember games of NES, Sega (Both original and Genesis), just like any 10 year olds now will look back at 25 and remember PS3, XBOX 360, and the Wii.

Now imagine you're 40 - 50 years old, are you *really* going to remember GW?

I sure as hell wouldn't want to, how sad would that be. Sitting at Sunday brunch reflecting to my friends "You know 20 years ago I use to play Guild Wars" .. "ahh those were the days"

I repeat, I sure as hell hope my life is not that sad and pathetic that i can reflect back to 20 years ago and remember GW.
Arcador
Arcador
Wilds Pathfinder
• #19
It is kind of strange but I tend to remember a lot of things I should not...anyway for sure GW has marked my long term memory for good
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cloudbunny
Frost Gate Guardian
• #20
I'm pretty sure I will (if I'm not too old by then :-).

As for remembering, I do not play more games than I clearly remember all I spent more than a few hours with.

My first computer game, 24 years ago, was Adventure, a text based dungeon game played on a mainframe. Followed by Pacman, Tetris and Wizardry 6 & 7, Well that was my games 83 - 94. Still remember them all very well, with a kind of warm sentimental feeling.
Do not underestimate your long term memory :-).

Edit: I don't think many non-players will remember GW in 20 years. How many (who did not play it) remember Wizardry today? Milestones with great general impact are of course remembered very long, also by people who never played them much. Pong, Pacman, Minesweeper, Tetris, Flightsimulator, Doom and probably WoW are a few such games.

regards,
Cloudbunny