A thanks to the GW team (music)

Devs,

Just want to say thanks for the new music options that we have in Guild Wars. I've never played any game that has so much support for something like new music. It's a great relief to find a game that really takes all the things I like about video games and makes them all better, one update at a time. From a true video game music lover, thanks.

William Auric
Knights of the Alliance
www.allianceknights.net

Well if you talking about the new "battle pak 1" music update, then yes it very good.

For only $5.99 which is hardly anything you get a new selection of music to have in towns.

Only thing I'm not happy about is:

1. You have no cotrol over what tracks play, and when. A control interface like they had in Red Alert 1 and 2 comes to mind.

2. Places like Lion's Arch no longer have unque music playing anymore... if ever.

3. You keep hearing the same two tracks over and over again, the loop is set and annoying as hell!

Come on A.net, give us music control options.

I only had to pay 4.49

I started to setup my paypal account to accept my debit card instead of my dreaded credit card...just waiting for the direct debit confirmation, then i will be buying the battle pak.
If it's anything near as good as the rest of the music, i will be happy.

I'm actually disappointed with the music changes. I liked how places like Lion's Arch had a specific theme. And certain music just suits certain places. For example, the dreary and somber theme that used to play in Ascalon suited it very well. The upbeat and wistful Shiverpeak music does not suit Ascalon well at all. I like the expanded tunes, but certain themes should have stuck to certain places.

i utterly hate the fact that the new music costs money!

its related to the game, so they should just release the music for free/in chapter 2.

my parents dont want to pay 6$ for video games music, and i cant blame them... this is very annoying

you dont have to buy it.. and you'll certainly get new music in chapter two anyway.

Thats why you give them 6 dollars to pay for it. Or, wait until you're old enough to actually own a debit card.

Also, they didn't have to give us any new music at all.... but they did. They had to pay a composer and musicians to write and perform music. How do you think they were going to pay him?

Life ain't free, neither is music.

i agree this is better then nothing, im just saying it screwes the younger audience over...

They could always tell their parents "at least we're not paying x amount of dollars a month so I can play WoW, UO, FF11." I'd agree that it seems like you don't hear any of the old music any more and I do kind of miss the Lions Arch theme. But overall, I'm pretty happy with the new stuff. I'm glad to hear that others are as well!

William Auric
Knights of the Alliance
http://www.allianceknights.net

Hey, all,

Just to let you know, the "triggers" for the music are going to be adjusted. I know I spoke with the programmer last evening, and he said they'd be making tweaks so that, for instance, the lovely Lion's Arch town music would be back in place. Look for that in the near future!

As for the Battle Pak, what can you get for $5.99 these days? And what can you get that directly influences and improves your daily gameplaying experience? I would have killed to have more music added to my favourite games in the past. Now, with the free mini-pak and Battle Pak One, I have more than two hours of great music. I'm happy.

Highwayman and Desperados for the win=) Dont mind me im an old nerd =p

Drow

I was sort of thinking I could go buy a bundle of CDs from the mall or something. I see your point though. I only wish they would've put the GOOD music in the game, and then allow you to buy some of the same quality. Instead of putting the boring music in the original game, then paying for the decent stuff. In all the trailers and gameplay movies of the game, the music was wicked. It was intense, it just seemed more involved and more epic as a whole. Then the game had...really pretty boring music once you got to Kryta. (Personal preference, though.) I did like the mini-pak though, and I did manage to get the GW special edition sound track thing. Pretty neat with those bonus tracks.

I understand they need to have DRM on it.. but I reallly reallllly hope they would release those tracks on AAC so I can use it on my (other) mac and iPod.

Not everyone uses Windows you know

The know...

...they just don't care.

As for the music, I would gladly pay them $10 and not only $6, if the battle pak came without the DRM handcuffs attached. But since you can't even burn the battle pak on a CD to listen in your stereo, I don't really know why I should give them ANY money at all. This kind of DRM is not acceptable, period.

That's another good point, we COULD spend $6 on a bundle of CDs we can play whenever the hell we WANT to, when we're not in game or at our PCs.

I would have been interested in buying the battle pak except that the free sorrows surnace pack screwed up my game to the point where it was unplayable. The DRM built into the music paused the game for 10 seconds before each new track.

Assuming the new pak also uses DRM tech, that renders it useless to me sadly

Can anyone else confirm that this happens? I haven't reached SF yet so I can't try the free pack, but I was thinking of buying the new battle pack. However, I don't think it's worth both $6 AND a 10 second wait between tracks while the music decrypts itself.

Battle Pak 1 adds 16 new tracks to Guild Wars. Several places have their own new music included. Price $5.99 USD is nothing compared what you will have if you like Guild Wars music.

However, there is some delay issues with this new pak. I get sometimes loading pauses for example in Aurora Glade. This started to happen once I installed the Battle Pak 1. Also some tracks seems to have a bit lower volume compared to other tracks. Usually I don't have to touch music volume but with these new tracks it become more necessary if I want to hear all details.

Zakarr: That sounds annoying. It also sounds like you think it's worth it though - is that true?