Where the hell is guild wars 2?
- Thread starter Wolfhowl the shadow lurker
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The "usual price" is not Steam summer sales lol.
new PC releases are pretty much always in the 50-60 range, lower than that is a sale price.
new PC releases are pretty much always in the 50-60 range, lower than that is a sale price.
Isn't the no sub fee supposed to be a GOOD thing?
I mean, if the last few years of marketing had been "Hey, OUR game has no sub fee, so costs £20 more!", I think sales may have suffered.
Likewise if they had said, "We noticed that pricing varies wildly across all territories, so to address that we are going to find the highest price and make that standard everywhere.", some people may have objected.
I mean, if the last few years of marketing had been "Hey, OUR game has no sub fee, so costs £20 more!", I think sales may have suffered.
Likewise if they had said, "We noticed that pricing varies wildly across all territories, so to address that we are going to find the highest price and make that standard everywhere.", some people may have objected.
I didn't notice the pound symbol in his initial post, my mistake.Inithra said:
Here, in Canada, new AAA PC titles release at 50-60, with GW2 costing me 60. So in my case: totally reasonable.
I guess the UK did get the shaft /shrugs.
You get guested on to a friend's server or you can spend your own money less than 3g on gems to change to a high pop server others are cheaper. You do not have to spend any money at any stage.psyco said:
NC soft does not make Guild Wars and MMO servers are different to CoD servers.Lunar Templar said:
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as i have never worked in video game retail, nor do i live where ever the funny looking L represents money, we all done use $$ where I'm from
NC soft does not make Guild Wars Arena Net does they don't have anything to do with the servers aside from we're shutting this game down. They are a publisher and nothing more. So there is nothing to expect from them at all.Lunar Templar said:
true, but publishers have a say in more then just 'we're pulling the plug cause we're ass holes', EA is a publisher to, and they've been ruining they're games after all (yes i am still bitter about CoH, hope NCsoft tanks now >.<)Glademaster said:
I've been seeing quite a few brand new games being sold for £39.99 initially these days, there's no reason for it but that's the route publishers are taking.Inithra said:
I think a game like GW2 has a fairly justified price in the long run, not only does it not have subscription fees but they also split the team in two after release with half updating the current game for free and the other half working on the next big expansion; if you were to look at some places in-game you can already see a load of stuff they plan on adding.
$60 is on the high end as far as PC prices go, but GW2 justifies its cost. There's a staggering amount of content on display for a launch MMO. Even if you're not enthused enough to stick around for the PvP or to roll alts, there's a good couple hundreds hours of content there on a one shot, which is a very handsome dollars to play time ratio.
As has been said, there is a sort of Guest service. You and your friends don't need to be on the same server to play together, you can party up just like in any other game, and join their server (or them join yours), all can be done in game, without having to change servers or any of that. The only thing being on a different home server limits you to is World versus World, I don't think it affects Structured PvP either.psyco said:I am aware of their reasons behind it and have been around long enough to witness the common issues of a couple new mmos. Thing is, I never really understood why, for example, they can't just temporarily rent servers when the masses of players are flooding the servers (not adding it as a new 'world' in GW2's case, mind you, just adding to the available space so to speak) and then later on give those things away again.BloatedGuppy said:
I mean GW2 had completely full servers during early access (!). And GW2 is special, see, they don't have queues... they just don't allow you to create a character on said servers, period. This is hazardous, especially for large guilds or simply friends that intended to play together.
Yes, of course, they did allow the free transfer thing for a week (after all, they want to make money off this after that -.-) but if all servers are already full there aren't really a lot of places one could transfer to. *shrugs*
(Disclaimer: I am not a hater, the game is great on its own merits and I love dodging around my enemies.)
Maybe there is just a market for renting stuff. Or maybe I am just WAY too naive. Probably the later
All in all, i think their system is very smart, for being a mmo without a monthly subscription. If I found I wanted more character slots, or to move servers (I'm content on Dragonbrand) I'd just save up in game gold and purchase the gems.