Guild Wars 2 sells 3 million

Nice one!

I think we regular scheduling of events that can be seasonal/semi permanent (although content heavy in production), this will provide a ever changing kaleidoscope for users. Perhaps even the option to have different starting/tutorial events as a re roll of new characters means, levelling up becomes slightly of a grind unfortuantely

Posted:4 months ago

Getting max level on guild wars 2 takes less than a week. That is a welcome change from models that extended that for a month.

Anyway, this was my goty for 2012. And I hope expansions keep their trend of evolving the post-wow MMO formula. If the expansions are as fresh as the original game, I'm sure they'll just keep increasing those numbers.

But guys if you are reading this, come on, give us an automated looking for dungeon tool already. I'd gladly make time to play at least a dungeon every day if we had such tool. But since we don't, on a busy day there is no way i'm gonna maybe waste 30 minutes- 1 hour not finding a group

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Posted:4 months ago

@Robert
Less than a week? I'd very much like to see that. Please do a livestream of it, it'll be awesome. As for finding a group, use gw2lfg.com, takes five minutes to find a team for almost everything, less than 30s if you want to do Fractals.

Posted:4 months ago

An automated dungeon finder tool would be a very welcome addition :)

Posted:4 months ago

@Jay
www.gw2lfg.com
You do not need anything more than that. Maybe an ingame browser to display that site.

Posted:4 months ago

Has anyone been able to enjoy the game fully and levelled well without any in game purchases?

Posted:4 months ago

Absolutely, all GW2 cash-shop items are utterly pointless from a gamer's point of view. There is no point at which you think the game is not fun and you need to buy anything to make the game fun again.

Posted:4 months ago

I sincerely congratulate ArenaNet on this success. Still the game falls short for me. The levelling curve is too fast. The journey should be an experience and not a rush towards end game. The balancing in dungeons feels like it is not existing at all. Due to the auto scaling there is no sense of power no matter your level. The worst of all is the (compared to GW1) inferior storytelling. The story is weak and becomes gradually worse and there are no cut scenes like in GW1 which made your character a living piece of the story.
The game is not horrible by any means but also not as good as hyped as it is.

Posted:4 months ago

Jay, I do use gw2lfg.com. It helps but not as effective as an in game finder that just prompts you a screen when a team of 5 is ready. Mostly because even with gw2lfg, you still have to spam at the dungeon areas yourself, wasting time.

My first character got to level 80 in 5 days. My second about that too, and I only did dungeons pretty much as I wanted to save 100% map completion for later. My third character I leveled in 3 days, once I hit 25 I think I just raised 4 trade skills to the max, and a little bit of cooking. Edit: by days I don't mind in hours played. That would total to a lot less for those characters

I never did in game purchases Dr. Chee. You can trade in game gold for diamonds that can purchase anything on the real money store. I have friends that used real money to buy cosmetic stuff. GW1 and GW2 are not like wow or diablo with a strong focus on getting the rarest loot. It is very easy to get the best gear on the game, and not expensive at all, legendaries aside (and they don't add a lot of DPS themselves, just a bit).

Benjamin, I'm on the other side of that. MMOs shouldn't be about carrot on a stick, they should be about gameplay first. I like the auto scaling because all areas are still challenging, in fact I remember saying on the GW1 forums that it was a pity they had many great looking areas but there was no reason to ever going back to them.

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Posted:4 months ago