An idea has occured to me...

As I look upon this game, and how it has progressed, a thought has occured to me.

Everyone here on this forum has played this game, and has had some good times correct? I know I have, but recently as I reflect more and more on it, my sentimentalness towards what I have accomplished has grown.

With Anet's current plan of chapters, I frankly do not see this game going further. This saddens me, that is why I will not just unstill and ragequit. So, I need to ask the people of this forum:

Would you rather Anet continue with their current gameplan or, dare I say (puts flameshield on) INSTALL A MONTHLY FEE?

Yes, a monthly fee. Many people shudder at this thought. After all, I am sure a lot of people bought this game over others just because this game has no monthly fee. It was a factor for me too, I must admit. Over WoW and this, I chose this, (no monthly fee, and it will not consume my life). Earlier, I must admit Guild Wars did consume my life though .

But I need you guys to consider this. Three large continents. VAST areas, some challenging and some not. But the way the player base is spread, and the way big amazing areas are abandoned is saddening. These places have potential to be very fun.

A person may ask: Ok, I want previous chapters to be improved, but I payed my money, it should come without a monthly fee.

This is wrong. Anet makes no profit from this. They perfectly designed their game to fit their price model. I am thinking though, that with these other aspects the games longevity will increase (people will travel now to all areas, not just to get 100% continent explored title).

But, it does not stop there. What if a new player does not want to pay a monthly fee? Ok, THAT IS PERFECT! . Anet can just make some new options, that are "monthly subscribers only". Things that do not affect core gameplay, or affect the balance of this game. Things that just provide bored players with quests or life skills.


I want these old areas to be updated. Even with gold sinks, hell I actually want to spend my gold on something fun (a lot of it is reserved), even if I make 0 profit from it. Just some open endedness. Possibly hunting around in the desert for sand giants (I forgot their names, its been so long since I was there) and getting titles for that.

Or going to magumma to do fishing, and catch a big bass which you can use to make cool stuff (like food for your pet, if your a ranger). Or get a title "master of the seas". Just cool minigames or stuff liek that, and with me paying a monthly fee (and others if they like the idea) Anet could fund this.

Or owning a slummy house in factions (hehe, you know you wanna live in one). In this house you could train your lower level characters, or just show off to other players the "leet" furniture you have (awsome 100k plasma tv ).

And nightfall too, many things can be added.Chapters can be revived. Players will get together, and leave the henchies in this game where they belong, NOT IN YOUR PARTY .

Anet, I want you guys to make money. I want to pay you, just so you can improve this game I love.I know these ideas are not perfect, but I am sure with a little work on them this game will prosper, players will be happy, and so will Anet. Any comments or ideas?

i dont want to pay them.
get some better cut-scenes(like....even starcraft....sadly, has better ones)
/not signed

I included also there is an option where you don't have to, but people that can want to, I don't really understand where your coming from.

Monthly subscription=Will not play, ever, except for a "free trial"

You need to go read the forums of the "monthly fee" games. You will see the same type of complaints and "I want" threads as found in these forums.

They want houses where they can keep their stuff, they want to be able to dye their armor, they want more variety, they want guildhalls with instanced arenas, they want something done about the thieves, they want something done about campers, they want less grind, they want access to "uber" items without working hard - and they wish there was no monthy fee.

I agree with lacasner

Ok, so they want more variety, they want less pointless grind, people here want access to uber items too.A common desire. I think though that a good game is worth a monthly fee, so people who truly enjoy it do not complain about the fee.

A monthly fee would result in my quitting this game, pure and simple. I'll go play something else, GW is NOT great enough to warrant a fee (and neither is WoW)

All i'd want is the expansion of the CURRENT worlds. Not another expansion pack with new skills, ect, ect...

I'd like a WoW type of system, where they just add a few places at a time, and spend most of their time fixing bugs.

To expand the current worlds, a monthly fee is required. I refused to accept this fact for a long time, but now I realized it is necessary. Simply put, Anet needs money to do things that require money.

A monthly fee will not change the game for the better for the people who are already disatisfied with it. It will not mean that they'll add stuff like fishing and housing. Then you'll be stuck with a game you're disappointed with AND paying a monthly fee. Plus it certainly will drive away most of their players. If I wanted to pay a monthly fee with housing and fishing, I'd play something like WoW. Which I did like but just didnt have the crazy devotion needed to play it.

Well, I am assuming by paying a fee they would add more stuff to current chapters, to keep the cash flow coming in. Obviously people wouldn't be paying cash a month for nothing to change.

This is one of the very few things that most people would actually ragequit Guild Wars about. It would die. End of story.

But, it doesn't have to be for everyone, for instance my example the part where people pay for just added things to make them nonebored, and not to effect core gameplay. Surely, if Arenanet would improve the previous chapters and add fun new content you wouldn't mind paying roughly 10 dollars per month?

i agree. i rather have old areas updated and new areas added to the old continents (like SF, more elite missions, areas like ToPK, FOW or UW) then having to take all my 6 toons through a new game.

its just annoying and makes me want to go out there and get a life instead

Well they could have put their time and money into developing an area that would have more than only a few hundred gamers willing to play. Domain of Anguish is a failure. The number of active districts proves that. Out of all the players world wide, only a tiny fraction are bothering with it.

I don't want to pay a monthly fee. I left SWG for that reason. I agree totally with this post though-- we need more areas developed in existing chapters.

And yeah, I'd drop $50 on an expansion chapter that just included maybe two or three new areas in Factions or Prophecies. I don't need a new continent to run around and get my explorer badge for.

I'm not going to debate whether or not most people like DoA. But your "proof" is pretty darn faulty. Hasnt it even occurred to you that only a tiny fraction of people have even finished the game to even reach DoA access? It's only been a little over a month since release you know...

Ok, for the math inept, ill put it this way (of monthly fee calculations).

New chapter =50-70 dollars (depending on CE or not)

For monthly fee=10 dollars per month

Both average to 60 dollars over a 6 month period, but with this new content I can safely predict MUCH MORE players will stick around, therfor making GW more profitable for Anet.

I don't get this, if your paying the same amount why does it matter if it is at once or over a period of time?

Well it started with 12-16 districts. So there's enough reason to think people are elsewhere. The only reason there is more than one district of DoA right now is because there are people fresh off of killing Abaddon.

First off you're not paying the same. You'd still have to buy expansions (although less frequently) and you'd be paying a monthly fee on top of that. WoW and every other MMO does it that way. You'd end up paying more than with GW's current model.

Second, if you're arguing that we'd be paying the same, why would anything change contentwise then? Why would Anet give more content for the same money just because it's paid in a different form?