GWEN will we get new chr slots?

Well99

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Nix Guild (NG)

N/E

I tried search to find out and wasnt able to.Might have not put it the right way.Anyways will there be new slots for GWEN?I know it isnt a stand alone game but I am curious.

Thunder79

Thunder79

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Chaos Rising

No new professions...expansion is solely for existing characters created in the other campaigns (ie no "GW:EN characters")....no additional character slots needed. According to Anet.

I believe they confirmed there would be no character slots included with GW:EN

Well99

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Nix Guild (NG)

N/E

I thought that maybe the case but thought I ask anyways.
Thank you

Grunntar

Grunntar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Well99
GWEN will we get new chr slots?
We GWON'T...

acidic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

and it cost $39.99 . They should include a slot

Onarik Amrak

Onarik Amrak

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2007

Astral Revenants

P/W

Disappointing ain't it?

acidic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Onarik Amrak
Disappointing ain't it?
It should be no more than $29.99 for what GWEN offers compared to what the other campaigns offered and their debut price. I don't remember any 'expansion' being this expensive, and I played a lot of RTS & rpg.

Tahlia Tane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2006

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by acidic
It should be no more than $29.99 for what GWEN offers compared to what the other campaigns offered and their debut price. I don't remember any 'expansion' being this expensive, and I played a lot of RTS & rpg.
It's not an expansion, it's basically a new campaign's worth of content, meant for existing characters.

acidic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

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It's not an expansion, it's basically a new campaign's worth of content, meant for existing characters.
uh, first of all you just defined a what an expansion is, and second of all Anet calls it their 'first true expansion'

Tahlia Tane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2006

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by acidic
uh, first of all you just defined a what an expansion is, and second of all Anet calls it their 'first true expansion'
What I mean is that it has so much content as much as Factions as Nightfall, it costs as much. It's only called an expansion because it requires one of the three campaigns.

Hell Raiser

Hell Raiser

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

[PHNX]

Mo/

First of all, on topic: No new char slots for GW:EN.

And off topic: If anything there will be more content in GW:EN. There will be no newbie island, it will all be level 20 content. I think the price is fair.

acidic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahlia Tane
What I mean is that it has so much content as much as Factions as Nightfall, it costs as much. It's only called an expansion because it requires one of the three campaigns.
I disagree that Gwen will have the same amount of contents as nightfall or factions. The most obvious thing is no new professions. Which in my opinion is not a bad thing, but it certainly means a lot less work. When you take a look at the world of Tyria or nightfall, its certainly extensive and I would venture to guess to be much bigger than then 18 dungeons crawls.

This expansion is going to be primarily pve oriented and with that objective it would make sense that they include an extra slot or two. If they somehow increase the storage instead, I would be happy too. Its very hard to sell things in gw (No auction house), give us more space then to store our loot while we sift through spam trying to sell the items.

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by acidic
I disagree that Gwen will have the same amount of contents as nightfall or factions. The most obvious thing is no new professions. Which in my opinion is not a bad thing, but it certainly means a lot less work. When you take a look at the world of Tyria or nightfall, its certainly extensive and I would venture to guess to be much bigger than then 18 dungeons crawls.
Uh, the "18 dungeon crawls" will not be the whole game. That's just One Act. Out of 4.

The fact that Anet developers don't have to create a newbie island and new profs and skills means more time devoted to content: Ie, this should be the biggest GW world yet in terms of post-20 content.


Quote:
Originally Posted by acidic
This expansion is going to be primarily pve oriented and with that objective it would make sense that they include an extra slot or two. If they somehow increase the storage instead, I would be happy too. Its very hard to sell things in gw (No auction house), give us more space then to store our loot while we sift through spam trying to sell the items.
Actually, since it's post level 20, it makes since there will be no extra slots. Why offer a new slot, and then be unable to use that slot in the expansion?

If you want a new character, buy a slot now and level up before GWEN.

Extra storage would be nice. I hope that is offered.

acidic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai
Uh, the "18 dungeon crawls" will not be the whole game. That's just One Act. Out of 4.

The fact that Anet developers don't have to create a newbie island and new profs and skills means more time devoted to content: Ie, this should be the biggest GW world yet in terms of post-20 content.




Actually, since it's post level 20, it makes since there will be no extra slots. Why offer a new slot, and then be unable to use that slot in the expansion?

If you want a new character, buy a slot now and level up before GWEN.

Extra storage would be nice. I hope that is offered.
I would hope you're right, but in the event that anet has yet to comment on either the availability of increased storage or character slots, it would be wise to lobby on both fronts.

Croco Clouds

Croco Clouds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Montreal, QC, Canada

Divine Illumination [LaZy]

E/A

Let's hope there is some storage/chest vault expansion since we don't have extra toon slot

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

I think we should get one or two extra anyway. I mean honestly, how are we meant to keep interested for the next two years without being able to start new characters? I know we can buy new character slots, but honestly, I think we deserve some reward for our long service to the game...

acidic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

well keep posting your position in this thread to get Anet's attention. We need to know if there is going to be slots or expansion on storage

countesscorpula

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Gwen Is [EVIL]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai

If you want a new character, buy a slot now and level up before GWEN.

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The other two instalments came with 4 characters slots as standalones, or 2 character slots if linked to an existing game. A character slot costs $10. The games were $49 when released. So logically broken down that's $30 for the game and $20 for the slots. This new one cuts out two character slots ($20 value), but only cuts the price by $10. I'm probably not speaking just for myself when i say, there had best be a truly impressive amount of content in order to make up for that other $10. At 25% of the games price, I'll expect 25% more content to play through.

Chop it Off

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Saviors of [EviL]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahlia Tane
It's not an expansion, it's basically a new campaign's worth of content, meant for existing characters.

-no new classes
-no new char slots
-150 new skill compared to 350 in nf/300 in factions/ and 201 in prophecies
-40 new armors compared to 84 in factions/72 prophecies/ and lord knows how many for nf.

im sure theres more, but please, explain how it's "a new campaign's" worth of content.

btw, above came out of the OFFICIAL press release off guildwars.com

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

This is just wrong. Without additional slots, the expansion is simply 10$ more expensive than a standalone game.
It doesn't matter that there are no new professions, every single slot is very useful.
I would certainly prefer to pay 50$ for gw:en and get 2 slots than pay 40$ and get none.
It's simply unfair.

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

Well... i would love a new slot(havent bought one in ages), although we may not NEED a new slot, it sure would be nice. Since it is an expansion, yeah sure, i am expecting alot of content, not just a game to play through. But i havent really been thinking about the whole thing since i didnt know its release date. To tell the truth i really dont know what GW:EN will be like. Be like a c.4?Or really cool expansion

Bowstring Badass

Bowstring Badass

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Character selection screen figuring what I want to play...

Purple Lingerie - :D

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahlia Tane
It's not an expansion, it's basically a new campaign's worth of content, meant for existing characters.
expansion. Thats exactly the definition of an expansion almost.

DirtyDirty

DirtyDirty

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

R/

So far; what's the most # of slots you can possibly have anyway?

acidic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

I think it would be fair to expect that there is at least 10 character slots if you bought all 3 campaigns (one for each primary for profession). But that is not the case, so with this 'expansion' I would hope they finally address this.

Dawgboy

Dawgboy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Ohio

Antisocial Misfit

Sorry, Anet, but this is a deal-breaker. I'll wait you out till the price drops to about $30 before buying.
If there had even been 1 more slot I would have agreed to pay $40, but I can't be excited with this.

Let's see;
* There's loads of new dungeons to crawl. Good. Very good.

* There's lots of new heroes. Meh. Unless you plan on supporting 7-hero teams(please?), who really needs the new guys?

* No new classes. No problem-it's an expansion,and there isn't much that's not covered by the existing classes. That drops the price a bit, because those new classes take a LOT of time to get right.

* New skills, some pve-only. Nice. Can't wait for the price to drop. (I guess I can be a little-bit excited )

*No new slots. If you want slots just buy them, right? Those 2 slots turned this into a $60 game.

A $60 game with no new professions seems a little out of wack to me.

I would be satisfied with just 1 new slot.
That could either be used as storage for the new GWEN stuff or I could have used it to try a different profession.
There's already more profs than slots, and this could have been a way to let everyone have a new start-I know I'm not re-rolling any of my chars;even my mule is nearly a year old. If everyone got another slot or two lots of people would be playing that profession they always wanted to try, increasing the population everywhere. It might be bad for your servers but you'll more than make up for it in GW II sales.

Stormcloud

Stormcloud

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

Oregon, USA

how bout quit complaining and realize that its a whole new experience that you get to play limitlessly for 40 bucks.

Voltar

Voltar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

My dog let's me crash at her place.

POB

R/

it makes sense to not have character slots but it would still be nice if the prerelease had 1 extra slot in the same way the nf one did.

it would be nice...also wouldn't mind a character-specific storage for the extra suits of armor and weapons i have accumulated.

would be nice...7-hero group would be nice too, but the reason for having multiple heroes of the same profession would be to have different builds with different runes.

i think the slot cap is (in addition to the ones you get with the games) 25...so that's 4+2+2+1 (with the prelease nf) = 9+25=34

34 if you bought the prerelease...i think.

acidic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormcloud
how bout quit complaining and realize that its a whole new experience that you get to play limitlessly for 40 bucks.
This is a forum, and the last time I looked the definition of a forum is a place of discussion.

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by acidic
This is a forum, and the last time I looked the definition of a forum is a place of discussion.
Only discussion if you are constantly sucking up to anet, in the minds of fanboys

Stormcloud

Stormcloud

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

Oregon, USA

...and if it was 30 bucks yall would complain that it wasnt 20-25.

floppinghog

floppinghog

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

pit of brimstone

Squad Six Six Six [ssss]

A/Me

I guess people forgot willingly that the money they get only comes from us buying their boxes. While we play for free, and they try to develop GW2 without a sure way of some revenue? I ain't saying that the people here should buy it, its their call, but I'll say "look i got some cool shit from my old characters on GW2, and you don't cause you wouldn't fork "10$ more than its worth". Which btw is way too narrow sighted.

Character slots are available to buy, so buy it or shut up and delete a character for gwen. Its not a game, they called it an expansion for a reason. It has content in relation to a full game, without the professions, without the noob land and beginning of a whole story (think about what I would mean by a whole complete story), it takes less work in the beginning, but its worth more fun and money.

I mean forget GWEN, sure, go buy WoW like so many ppl want to "run away" to or something. Be my guest, continue to pay them monthly for all I care. It's none of my business.

Last time I checked, this topic was a question from a player, he/she got their answer. So you people and your complaining about the woes of life and your wallet can stop. Shut up and leave this topic and make a new one so I have a goddamn choice what to click on and read. ... Maybe I should say it again for the slow minded... this isn't your topic, shut up and leave it alone.

Roo Ella

Roo Ella

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

Australia

Oz

E/R

All I can say is just add another Storage Tab for any new stuff we need/want to collect.

mr_groovy

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

Quote:
Originally Posted by floppinghog
I guess people forgot willingly that the money they get only comes from us buying their boxes. While we play for free, and they try to develop GW2 without a sure way of some revenue? I ain't saying that the people here should buy it, its their call, but I'll say "look i got some cool shit from my old characters on GW2, and you don't cause you wouldn't fork "10$ more than its worth". Which btw is way too narrow sighted.

Character slots are available to buy, so buy it or shut up and delete a character for gwen. Its not a game, they called it an expansion for a reason. It has content in relation to a full game, without the professions, without the noob land and beginning of a whole story (think about what I would mean by a whole complete story), it takes less work in the beginning, but its worth more fun and money.

I mean forget GWEN, sure, go buy WoW like so many ppl want to "run away" to or something. Be my guest, continue to pay them monthly for all I care. It's none of my business.

Last time I checked, this topic was a question from a player, he/she got their answer. So you people and your complaining about the woes of life and your wallet can stop. Shut up and leave this topic and make a new one so I have a goddamn choice what to click on and read. ... Maybe I should say it again for the slow minded... this isn't your topic, shut up and leave it alone.
You forget that while it being an expansion, the content offered will be way smaller then any chapter. So I reckon for my 35 euro's (39$) 1 extra char slot is not to much to ask. Btw Anet hello nobody in europe uses visa. Get a better payment system for europe plz. K thx bye

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

well, lets just say I hope that anet can live on their moneys from gwen for the 2 or so years it will take to get gw2 up and running.....and that they certainly wont miss my extra 3 accounts worth of profit since I wont be sticking around for gw2 after shelling out $40 for an expansion that will be little better than sf which was free!
gwen will be the last one I buy from them...[grumbles, no new slots, grumble, no new storage, grumble grumble]

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormcloud
...and if it was 30 bucks yall would complain that it wasnt 20-25.
I doubt that. 30 bucks is a standard price for expansions. I don't think I ever saw non-standalone expansions cost 40 bucks.

When you take into account that the other games came with 2 character slots, this game costs SIXTY if you want the character slots, making it the most expensive GW game to date... and it is an expansion.

Since I will not be buying Gw2, I don't even know if I will get this expansion. It seems the Hall of Monuments is a major selling point and I could care less. If this is just a bunch of easy-as-heck missions, grinding, then reaching a DOA-style ridiculous area that is no fun at all.... meh.

Winterclaw

Winterclaw

Wark!!!

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

W/

Here's my problem with the buy char slots on your own idea: we have no idea of the real cost to anet to include extra char slots with a game. By y'all's reasoning, factions or NF should have only cost us $29.95 if we wanted to buy a no-extra char slot version. But that doesn't seem likely considering those were two full chapters and all that and they haven't released non-extra pc slot versions of the games for people who are happy with 4 and don't want extra chars. And don't forget NF preorders and europe faction preorders had a bonus char slot for no extra money.



IMO there should be 2 char slots with GWEN so someone without any extra ones would be able to make one char type of each class if he wanted.

Surena

Surena

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2007

N/Me

We don't get new classes, no new character skins, why should we get an additional slot?
There's obviously plenty of new content to experience and since Anet doesn't have a monthly fee to feed upon they're dependant on these sales. I mean, what more could you want?

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

I'm actually surprised that there are not going to be slots given with GWEN and that is making me rethink a purchase as money is tight right now.

I expected the following.
  • at least 1 new char slot if not 2.
  • another tab in storage bin as per the prescience set with the other tabs (one per chapter you own).
  • All the other stuff that was listed above (dungeons, skills, armor, weapons, monsters)

Razorwood

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Newcastle (Ish)

Xcoh

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by pamelf
I think we should get one or two extra anyway. I mean honestly, how are we meant to keep interested for the next two years without being able to start new characters? I know we can buy new character slots, but honestly, I think we deserve some reward for our long service to the game...
If you can't keep yourself interested maybe GW isn't the game for you? And what about collecting titles?

As for rewards, mini pets? They're a reward for having a character for 1 year intervals.

Also what about the weekly "events" you may not like all of them (I doubt anyone does), but at least they happen. Then there is also the bigger events, holidays, etc.

Also Anet allow you to play on there server free of charge, i'd say that is reward enough.

Before anyone comes along and says "GW isn't free we paid for it" I never said it was I said playing on there server is free NOT the game it's self. Paying for a game does not entitle you to online play, just look at all the offline only games that cost the same as GW.

Etta

Etta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Mancland, British Empire

I would rather have a free candy bar with every GW:EN box, instead of a character slot. That would make my journey back home to play it even more sweeter.