Feelings about moving from GW1 to GW2

Hello,

I would like everyone to share how they feel about moving from GW1 to GW2, without there current characters.

Do you feel it is useless to keep going for that cetain title?
That set of FoW armor? (or other armor)


Useless to gain any more fame, glad points, anything?

Or.

Are you happy that now everyone will have a chance to "start fresh"


New titles to get (guessing)
Better pvp(guessing)
better PVE(guessing)



EDIT: AS FOXBAT STATES BELOW, this isnt a poll, or speculation thread, this is FACT from the recent PC gamer Information

Didn't we already have a locked poll on this issue?

WTB GW 2 speculation forum....

I don't see it as "moving from ......", but as starting a new game with new characters.

Considering that, as per the posts in the PC Gamer thread, it's mentioned that Guild Wars 1 will continue to be supported... I don't see how not being able to do a complete port to Guild Wars 2 affects players at all, any moreso than if Guild Wars 2 never would exist.

At first, i didn't like the idea of my beloved characters becoming useless. And the level cap made me go "omg it turned into WoW!!". But thinking it over, i'm already doing a lot of grind as it is ust to map three continents for seven characters and giving them all mighty lightbringer.

Jumping,swimming and maybe even flying would be nice too, as long as they keep the equal footed PVP intact i have no problem with high level caps. (or no level cap at all...)

The idea of rebuilding Guild Wars from the ground up opens a lot of possibility and I'm excited about it, I mean after a while I think most people will become bored with the a rut of expansions. But the way Anet gets its money is from those expansions so they can provide us with free online pay, so the only thing I'm worried about is the closing of the old Guild Wars servers after they stop bringing in money for them.

Exactly. They haven't said(yet) that they are going to shut down the servers for the current guild wars when gw:2 gets here. So, you should be able to still play with your current characters. As far as creating new characters in gw:2, just think of the roleplaying and nostalgic factors. Your new character could be a decendant of your old one(assuming you create a human character). The way the article sounds, and from some of Gaile's comments, it seems as if you will get some benefit from being a gw:1 veteran(Hall of Monuments, although I'm not completely sure what this will do for you. I haven't read the article myself). I'm excited about this concept and I think it will be a fun story to play out.

You want to know how we feel? Ok, ill tell you how i feel.
If we cant move our characters/money/armors/weapons on GW2. Then nows the best time play WoW.

To be honest, thats how i feel.

Edit: I think GW2 will not inspire new people to play. It will just make some people play WoW or other MMORPGs. Thats my opinion. But, my opinion doesnt matter anyway.

Kind of "irked" about it. I have been playing my Necromancer since release of Chapter 1, and all those Holiday hats...

Allow me to sum up my and I'm sure most people's feeling in one go:

"every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end"

GW2 will be a start of new things, moving on is just the way things are. Till that time, I'm just going to continue to play GW1 as normal.

I for one, have mixed feelings.....

Yea of course i want to take my guys over and not loose my hard work, but at the same time i cant wait to start a new guy just to have the same feeling as i did when i started GW 1

...love that song. =)

So yeah, do you people that are so upset or worried get like this EVERY time you stop playing one game and start another? As wonderful as GW is, I knew when I bought it I wouldn't be playing it for more than a few years at the extreme best. Thats just the nature of reality, you know?

(No offence meant to you people still out there still playing Pong and loving it)

I don't mind not being able to take my characters with me, but I'd like to know what's going on with money. Like they mentioned being able to carry over weapons (and GWO said possibly armor..), so might that not extend to items in general and even money itself? I wouldn't mind if money didn't carry over, I'd just like to know. Like if it didn't carry over, I'd probably blow all my GW1 cash to commission some really nice pics of my characters. If it did carry over, I'd feel retarded for wasting my money.

It most logically wouldn't carry over, but there's still that slight uncertainty....

I hope i can have a statue of my current monk in GW2.

Well well. It all seems quite interesting if you ask me (I won't post in the chaotic monster of a thread). Some of the ideas are cool. Some seem pointless (jumping?).
Anet as a developer seem to know what they are doing when it comes to general balance, so I hope the level cap removal won't result in a plague of areas that are either boring for level 100's or impossible for level -50's. I guess we wait and see what happens.

However... 2 years? That is a very long time. Around as long as Guild Wars has existed for. Will they're market still exist? I know what development schedules are like (the chance of slippage is usually high), so it could easily be longer than that.

2 years... I hope they know what they're doing...

If money carried over, it would either

A) Be mostly worthless due to higher inflation in GW2

B) Destroy GW2's economy by causing inflation since it's easier to make money in GW1 and port it over.

So... yeah.

I will miss ONE of my characters and thats my ele, Circling Skies. She is my main character. All the others have just become mules holding things I will never use and probably never sell unless its to a merchant. I will miss her but I plan on creating Circling Skies version 2.0 for GW2 so in that way she will live on.

As long as I can create a likeness to my Necromancer in GW2, I'm fine. Also, they should allow people that have regular GW to reserve a character name for GW2 if they choose to.

I also hope they come out with what that Monument carries over to GW2 soon so I don't waste my time on things I don't need.

in one of the quotes in Inde's Thread Gaile states, Gold will not be able to port over to GW2, basically she says nothing will.....except the "hall of mounments" maybe a zoo showing all the old toons? lol

I'm pretty bummed. My view will definitely shift towards just enjoying the content instead of persuing any long-term goals.

If GW2 is going to be so radically different from GW, and more like traditional MMO's (high level cap, non-instanced areas, multiple races) I don't feel absolutely compelled to make it my next major game hobby.

I'll start looking at some other games, see how I feel when GW2 rolls around. 2009 is a long ways off. I'm glad we'll get Eye of the North as a last hoorah.