Poll: Guild Wars 2 Beta Thoughts?

[Qitz]

I have multiple reasons why I didn't pre-order GW2 and you keep focusing on the one point, like the straw-men you are. Not going to respond any more to this thread. Seems people are simply unable to understand why I was disappointed with the way A.Net treats long-time fans and are apparently on some sort of crusade for justice. I'm a fan, not a fanboy.

I'm late to this discussion...did I miss the multiple reasons? The conversation you've had in this thread seems pretty focused on the fact you feel burned that they didn't give you, a long time fan, access to the closed beta, but did to people who pre-ordered. Does that about sum it up?

The game is still many months away from release. I suspect there will be more betas, including (most likely) an open beta to allow you to "try before you buy" as it were.

He did go into it somewhat further with:

Well, that plus constantly ignoring the loyal playerbase for some time now (power creep in PvE and ignoring PvP balancing, removing Xunlai Tournament House because they didn't want to try fixing it, releasing a PvE-only expansion that betrayed the original vision of skill > time spent playing game). I'm not that angry. It's just my explanation of why I won't blindly pay a company that has given me nothing to make me want to pre-order their game. Blizzard did give me the option of trying the game and seeing for my own how it works out.

He just made the dumb mistake of leading off with "I'm a super awesome fan and didn't get beta so screw them!" which is what's getting him all the facepalming.

As for the game itself, from what I've seen in various videos it looks extremely promising. Dynamic Events actually playing out depending on pass or fail, skills working off of each other, dodging and positioning mattering and all that without a sub fee so I'm looking forward to it.

 

[snekadid]

-HUGESNIP-

Actually, Blizzard had very little means of checking who bought the game early, who is a long-term fan and who played a lot of D2. Game was released and times when Internet wasn't very popular world-wide, and until recently you had to keep your CDs with you instead of just registering the game on-line to download it later.

Guild Wars has accurate to the minute system checking how old accounts are, how old characters are, how many hours you played each and every one of them and how many hours total. They can tell if someone has been in the game for 7 years, 6 years and who has just joined. Blizzard had no such system.


Also, I did get a beta key for D3 from Escapist. And I've seen a LOT more occasions to get a key from other sites for D3. Not so much for Guild Wars 2. Hell, I got a beta key for Tribes without pre-ordering anything.

until recently? as in 2-3 years ago is recently? And the only reason they wouldn't track this kind of information is because if you went a month or so without playing they deleted all your characters. Thats not customer friendly nor is that a reason to stand up for a failing in their system.
Your argument is either that because guild wars didn't treat you like the pretty self-entitled princess that you are, your not going to play their game in a "cut off my nose to spite my face" maneuver, or that because blizzard employed inferior technology in their previous games and got desperate enough after the constant delays and negative fan reactions to throw out keys to anyone that made eye contact that it sounded like the superior offering.

No I'm not a guildwars fanboy, I think ive played the free trial twice and never felt that it was worth the cash. No, I'm not interested in D3, because as far as im concerned the story ended with Diablo and both his brothers getting smote into oblivion in a way the story described as final, so either its not diablo or they're pulling some kind of comic book "you died! I got better" scenario or its just rubbish. D2 was great but theres been plenty of other hack and slash treasure hunter games that have come out since that are better gameplaywise and aren't run by Activision.

 

[Scarim Coral]

tl;dr

I pre-ordered Diablo 3 because I got a closed beta key few months ago, but unfortunately didn't play long (barely got Wizard and Monk to Skeleton King, got Barbarian and Hunter to level 4-5 and didn't get to play the last guy) due to many, many exams and classes plus high ping on US server.

I pre-ordered Diablo 3 because I got a first-hand experience of it.

I enjoyed GW1 until Eye of the North. Then it was downhill and haven't really had much fun since. That's also why I didn't play it for over a year, returned to get 30 points required for the all the non-title awards in GW2 and that was it.

I have multiple reasons why I didn't pre-order GW2 and you keep focusing on the one point, like the straw-men you are. Not going to respond any more to this thread. Seems people are simply unable to understand why I was disappointed with the way A.Net treats long-time fans and are apparently on some sort of crusade for justice. I'm a fan, not a fanboy.

So wait you claim you're not a fanboy and yet you would of like them to have given the beta for free (no pre-purchase) for those who have played the game right from the very beginning? That sound fanboy-ish to me.

Yes I did read that another reasons you're not buying GW2 is due to how much change had been made throughtout the years. Who are you kidding? Do you honestly believe the game would be kept the same all these years? I mean look at World of Warcraft, they too had become different when compared to the first release and to their latest expansion Cataclysm.

Unless you state the other reasons why you're not buying it I will take you're just whinny about it especially when you act ignorant by pulling the whole "tl:dr" act.

Let put this another way, if Anet did or will release a free beta to all or a free trail would you then play it?

 

[WoW Killer]

Something about this that I was "yeah, it's another MMO". And then there's something that says this is awesome. Like, freaking cool. Here's some random play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lri52km1xY4