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Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

22 Oct 2007 at 10:30 - 1

(I don't know if this exactly goes here, but it's related to GW so it was my best bet. Feel free to move it.)

I've been talking to fellow players a lot and I've heard a lot of talk about GW's Final weeks before GW2 Pops up and everyone or most, drop GW.

Now I know that's inevitable, but shouldn't we have SOME sort of fun while we still can? Now I'm looking for ideas that would be awesome for like the last 2 weeks of GW's life. So far I have....

Boosting PvP Skill power to twice what it is now (30 dmg before turns to 60 dmg)
Double everything. (ex. Faction, Tourni tokens, points, titles)
The boardwalk comes back.
1 week of EVERYTHING having an increased (50%+) chance to drop Spiked Eggnogs.

now remember, this is just for the closing weeks and then when GW2 comes out, they can change it back. I'm just looking to get all the fun out of this as I can.

DarkGanni

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Malta

[CuTe]

E/

22 Oct 2007 at 10:36 - 2

I'm sure they won't close GW1 Servers right away when gw2 comes out

Longasc

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

22 Oct 2007 at 10:39 - 3

Yeah, that is exactly what we want to do, standing on the silly boardwalk in the "closing hours".

Ideally afk.

Eh, come back in 2 years...^^

-Loki-

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

22 Oct 2007 at 10:41 - 4

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkGanni

I'm sure they won't close GW1 Servers right away when gw2 comes out

They've said they will keep GW1 servers running for as long as possible after GW2 is released. Shutting them down is not something they want to do.

Faer

La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo

Join Date: Feb 2006

22 Oct 2007 at 10:45 - 5

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eroth

Boosting PvP Skill power to twice what it is now (30 dmg before turns to 60 dmg)

Prepare to be told to gb2pve.

Seriously. What?

Medic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

CA

[DNR]

Mo/

22 Oct 2007 at 11:14 - 6

I think it would be cool to see how my toon dies. Hopefully going down in a blaze of glory and taking some char with him.

IslandHermet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

22 Oct 2007 at 11:29 - 7

They will not close the servers, No MMO with this much response and such a vast player base will close its servers even after a new game is released IN 2 YEARS.

THE SERVERS WILL NOT SHUT DOWN

immortius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Black Cats

E/Mo

22 Oct 2007 at 11:48 - 8

Technically the OP didn't say anything about closing servers, only about the population moving. So everyone harping on about how the servers aren't going to close are failing reading comprehension. :P

What I know will happen on that last week: Lost of last minute material buying, crafting and so on in order to fill up Hall of Monuments.

thral

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

W/

22 Oct 2007 at 12:24 - 9

Yeah i recall reading somewhere (think it was when Gaile came to Kamadan a while back) That after the release of GW2 you would still be able to go back to GW1.

EDIT* Think i remembered where i heard it, it was in an HoM discussion where it said after the release of GW2 you would still be able to go back and fill the HoM which suggests they wont shut down GW1 for quite a long time after GW2 comes out

Dev121

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

22 Oct 2007 at 12:33 - 10

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkGanni

I'm sure they won't close GW1 Servers right away when gw2 comes out

Are they even allowed to just shut them down? Thats abit of a joke if they can because you build stuff up in a game to be able to keep. If they do everyone should get a full refund by customer rights?

wu is me

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2007

22 Oct 2007 at 12:46 - 11

lol they reserve the right to terminate any particular service ( something along those lines im pretty sure) so if they really wanted to, they could jus perma ban us all and that would be that..

But i know anet is teh bomb and would never do such a thing =]

ForgeWhelp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

TGW

N/Mo

22 Oct 2007 at 13:11 - 12

As well they will want new players to GW2 to play GW:EN so they can put stuffi n the HoM to start with in GW2, or how ever it will work. But imagine that if HoM stuff works out well then players want to have more leet stuff they will got back to GW1/GW:EN to add more to the HoM for their new GW2 chars well after GW2 comes out...

Roshi_ikkyu

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

Mo/W

22 Oct 2007 at 13:44 - 13

look like the OP is forgetting that GW2 ties in with GW, they'll make overlapping sections. Hopeing that vast majority of New players to GW2, Buy there shiney now complete pack release of GW; all chapters included and bonus material.

"Get all the items you need for your kin in GW2"

Antheus

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

22 Oct 2007 at 14:13 - 14

Quote:

"Get all the items you need for your kin in GW2"

Get your extra levels by maxing out HoM in GW....

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

22 Oct 2007 at 14:29 - 15

Quote:

"Get all the items you need for your kin in GW2"

GW is going to be open at least as long as GW2 is.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeVaNeY121

Are they even allowed to just shut them down?

Most other MMOs I have played have shut down eventually, most some months after the next version came out. Some have stayed alive in unsupported forms. Absolutely though: Anet can shut GW down at any time and we wouldnt get a refund etc. Just the way it is.

Linksys

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

22 Oct 2007 at 15:34 - 16

Now if Arenanet were to sell the GW line to a company like Microsoft, then yeah say good bye to everything we've ever done in GW1. Infact if Nintendo bought the GW line, same thing. Look what they did to the Nsider.

Nemo the Capitalist

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Trust me you dont want to know my Chasms of Despair

Zaishen Brotherhood

N/Me

22 Oct 2007 at 15:49 - 17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Longasc

Yeah, that is exactly what we want to do, standing on the silly boardwalk in the "closing hours".

Ideally afk.

Eh, come back in 2 years...^^

wth i have 2000 tickets i want Boardwalk back lol in storage.

btw seriosuly im down for that but we havent had boardwalk in ages

Martin Firestorm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Louisiana

E/Me

22 Oct 2007 at 16:15 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Medic

I think it would be cool to see how my toon dies. Hopefully going down in a blaze of glory and taking some char with him.

Haven't you already seen that about a million times? :P

Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

22 Oct 2007 at 21:16 - 19

Quote:

Originally Posted by immortius

Technically the OP didn't say anything about closing servers, only about the population moving. So everyone harping on about how the servers aren't going to close are failing reading comprehension. :P

What I know will happen on that last week: Lost of last minute material buying, crafting and so on in order to fill up Hall of Monuments.

Thank you for actually reading the OP (ie. I never said anything about shutting servers down).

And what I was talking about is just some extra fun and a last moment "push" for all those people who are just there, but not quite. Like, tying up loose ends for the HoM. And the double PvP damage thing is just for blasting the shit out of eachother and laughing at how the Echo-Arcane Echo- Flare build can kill 400 people before they go down. It's all just to have loads of fun before we have to go back to learning a new thing, getting runs, finding farm spots and so on.

prism2525

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Among dead bodies.

The Republic of Sky Pirates

E/

22 Oct 2007 at 21:55 - 20

Next april's fool:

"Error-100: Guild Wars has shut down!!!

...jk

"

Solas

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ireland

Currently LF Active HA Guild, Glad 2, Comm.3, R2

E/

22 Oct 2007 at 22:14 - 21

[QUOTE=Eroth]

Boosting PvP Skill power to twice what it is now (30 dmg before turns to 60 dmg)

QUOTE]

....does that mean healing X2 aswell?
if so its the same as normla but less health...( ie. 60 dmg after armour to target with 300 takes 5 hits,30 dmg takes 10 hits)

also about double everything..what do you mean by titles? reward the lads leaving everything ot the last minite?
wouldn't mind the double faction tho

reverse_oreo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Scars Meadows [SmS] Officer (not recruiting)

22 Oct 2007 at 22:16 - 22

2 years away, why are we thinking about this now...

but anyways. All i hope they do is release the server data for our chars so we can play on private servers. that would be awesome ;D

Skuld

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

A/

22 Oct 2007 at 22:28 - 23

Enough of these stupid threads already. Play your goddam game.

Rhedd

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

You ever have to clean up after a Moa bird?

True Solunastra [SLA] Profession: Moa Wrangler

22 Oct 2007 at 22:31 - 24

Seriously.

Could this discussion BE any more premature?

Are you spending a lot of thought on how you're going to spend the last moments of your life, as well?

I know I'm not!

Some of us aren't exactly looking forward to the close of GW1 servers, so shut the you-know-what up about GW2 and enjoy GW1, already.

Crom The Pale

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ageis Ascending

W/

23 Oct 2007 at 00:53 - 25

This idea does have some potential to it...

I can recall the fun end-of-the-world-1999-parties

GW2 = Y2K

They should have some event with a char from the future (ie GW2) coming back in time and upseting the balance of all things in GW. Restart the earthquakes, move all the bosses to diff maps/chapters. Destroy all locked chests, well the locks at least

A 1 week countdown that ends with nothing really happening save some fireworks after the villian is driven back to the future where we can find him in GW2 and seek a little payback, or give the guy a thanks

Still this is a very long way off, but never to early to toss a few ideas around

nechronius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Southern Cali

Herald of the Storm

W/R

23 Oct 2007 at 01:13 - 26

As less people play GW, the server and bandwidth load will continuously spiral downwards, until the point where the only people left will be hosted on a 386SX16 with 1MB RAM and a 14.4k modem.

There won't be much need to shut it down because the resource draw will keep decreasing. Eventually the only ones left will be all of those hardcore level 20 folks in presear who use the game as a 3D chat room like a fancy version of IMVU.

You can't see me

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

USA

P/W

23 Oct 2007 at 01:48 - 27

Premature as it is, I would like to see the Guild Wars Apocolypse.

Where Glint, Abbadon, Shiro, Kanaxai, Urgoz, Mallyx, Frostmaw, Duncan the Black, the Undead Lich, and The Great Destroyer are released, and reign terror over all towns and explorable areas. No where is safe, and it's every player for himself when the whole zone becomes PvP, and all creatures are at war with each other, leaving their homes and terrorize the entire map.

And finally, a gate lies open to Pre Searing, a Time portal, where the final battle will be held, all the creatures of the world against all the players of Guild Wars in the last bloody battle of Ascalon, and all shall fall when the Ruins of Orr sink down into the depths of the sea, and the gods unleash the end of the world, and all is turned black and lightless.... Muahahahahaha!

Sorry, ehem, got carried away. That would be cool.

Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

23 Oct 2007 at 02:04 - 28

lol just a tad.

but I like the idea of total destruction, we save the day, and then we play GW2.

Chris Blackstar

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2005

United States

23 Oct 2007 at 02:55 - 29

What if GW2 sucks?

Karyuu

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2007

Kahlifownia

Roses of the Moonlight Sigil [RoMS]

W/Rt

23 Oct 2007 at 02:58 - 30

Then you go play something else...? QED :]

ChaoticCoyote

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Florida, USA

Imperial Order of the Iguana [IGGY]

R/

23 Oct 2007 at 03:30 - 31

Quote:

Originally Posted by IslandHermet

They will not close the servers, No MMO with this much response and such a vast player base will close its servers even after a new game is released IN 2 YEARS.

THE SERVERS WILL NOT SHUT DOWN

And in the next two years, we won't have any new content, even so much as a festival. The only thing to do for TWO YEARS is to repeat what we've already done.

Boring.

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

23 Oct 2007 at 03:54 - 32

uh i think when they shut the severs down it will be when only a hand full of people still actually play the game. They wont be shut down for a long time people so enough of the end of the world prophecies!

arsie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2007

N/

23 Oct 2007 at 04:32 - 33

Actually, I've been arguing that Anet should already start being bold and experimental with GW1, now that GW2 is announced.

Have some fun, try stuff, make bold changes/fixes/nerfs/buffs. Do it while they still have a population to test the results of their changes.

OK, they could do it horribly wrong, but also, its their chance to make huge changes they always wish they did. (if they did)

Hyper.nl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Defending Fort Aspenwood

E/

23 Oct 2007 at 07:37 - 34

ANet already said that Guild Wars will stay. Guild Wars 2 will not change this.

wilebill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mt Vernon, Ohio

Band of the Hawk

W/Mo

23 Oct 2007 at 07:43 - 35

Simple fact of the matter is that ANet would rather have two GW games on the shelves than just one. More money. Har! Final Hours indeed.

Surena

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2007

N/Me

23 Oct 2007 at 07:50 - 36

Be happy with the time you could spent here. Everything ultimately ends and depending on how good the HoM rewards turn out you'll still see plenty of people in GW1 maxing their titles, armours etc.

Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

23 Oct 2007 at 10:18 - 37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Surena

...you'll still see plenty of people in GW1 maxing their titles, armours etc.

just wish it didn't cost so fricken much >_>

Pwny Ride

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

Aussieland

Prime Players Of [OSHA] ~ [dth] alliance. <3

Me/E

23 Oct 2007 at 10:23 - 38

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChaoticCoyote

And in the next two years, we won't have any new content, even so much as a festival. The only thing to do for TWO YEARS is to repeat what we've already done.

Boring.

They stated that GW will not be abandoned, at all. The entire player base isnt going to Guild Wars 2. You dont know that we will have no festival events, do you?

Chances are more updates and features will be implemented, with the HoM being affected by updates in GW1, i can almost garentee that updates will continue after the release of GW2. I dare say that that the Hall of Monuments of proof of that.

Surena

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2007

N/Me

23 Oct 2007 at 10:27 - 39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eroth

just wish it didn't cost so fricken much >_>

Well you either do something to get what you want or you stop caring =). It's easiest in a game.

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

23 Oct 2007 at 10:53 - 40

GW2 is going to bomb.

I am 80% sure of that.
Guild Wars 2 is going to be a monumental failure... as everyone is going to have hyped up ideas of what it should be and how everything can be improved..... and yet it is going to live up to nobody's expectations, and everyone is going to see aspects of it that are worse than the original..... and it will all be downhill from there.

A lot of player-base WILL be lost.... and A-Net will either have to keep the original alive in order to keep their feet on the ground..... or everything will collapse.