giving up everything you worked on for gw2?

Your Lucky I Heal

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

Ryders of the Sword (FrNd)

Rt/Mo

so my friends were talking and it said that in gw2 you cant proceed with your character from the series (prophicies,factions,nightfall). so im just wondering for people who had there characters from the very begining give them up for gw 2?

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

I know one thing I can't give up: beating the dead horse!

You can't continue your GW1 characters because the servers between GW1 and GW2 would be incompatable. That's what the Hall of Monuments is for (which failed miserably).

Lady Raenef

Lady Raenef

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

Oregon, USA.

Zero Mercy [zm]

W/

Well, Hall of Monuments is supposed to preserve them, but since Arenanet simply won't give us a way to change facial features whenever we please, I don't mind, because I tried to make my character seem realistic. Ponytails on women just didn't work back in the day, unless pinned up, like mine is. I'd kill a margonite to get long hair on her, but that simply won't happen. Hair grows, Anet! I hope you know that! Let me give her long hair!

Jumping Is Uselss

Jumping Is Uselss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

-... . .... .. -. -.. / -.-- --- ..-

I would not care, to me GW2 feels like a new game. Starting off fresh would be nice.

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

I'll probably keep playing both.

CyberNigma

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

San Antonio, TX

W/R

I don't plan on moving to GW2 so I'l definitely still be playing my GW characters as an alternative to whatever else I'm playing a that time.

chowmein69

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

i want to play gw 2 to try a different game since all i play is GW :P

shoyon456

shoyon456

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

D/

Personally, considering GW2 is such a long ways off, its impossible to tell.
Quite honestly, I probably will be so far off GW that I won't even care that GW2 comes out whenever it does.

And yeah, I woulda been interested in GW2 if anet hadnt made the HoM such a mess. I could go on in my ranting, but this isn't supposed to be that kind of thread :P

Jamison0071

Jamison0071

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Melbourne, Australia

Morporkian Mercenaries

N/Me

What a fresh, new concern! Here, you've earned it:

NoPantsRepublic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Off Doing Better Things [afk]

Mo/W

your name should be "you're," not "your"

With that established, I advise you to recreate your character in GW2 regardless of your previous accomplishments in GW1 so that I won't have to endure your grammatically incorrect name every again, assuming that you will be able to carry over your GW1 characters from GW2, which you won't.

/grabs cookie and runs

Lord Natural

Lord Natural

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Canada

Black Crescent [BC]

W/

I'd gladly give it all up for a fresh start. If there was one thing I'd like to carry over it would be titles, but I could care less about gold, items and armor. Hall of Monuments doesn't interest me at all, so if their idea of title carryovers is HoM only, even titles won't concern me.

Esan

Esan

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2007

Wars

Did Guild Wars feel like work to you? Personally, I thought it was a video game.

arcanemacabre

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esan
Did Guild Wars feel like work to you? Personally, I thought it was a video game.
Exactly. I remember playing many games in the past that had unlocks (such as SSX3, Soul Calibur 3, etc), and when I unlocked everything, I erased the save file and started all over again. It's refreshing and fun to play the game and get the rewards; once you have the rewards, it can get dull. I'll thoroughly enjoy starting anew, no matter my thousands of hours invested into my 10 characters.

Some people have to remind themselves that this is just a game, and a game is meant to be entertainment; fun.

Jongo River

Jongo River

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

Fresher start the better. I never wanted any carry-over and wish they hadn't even done the HoM thing - I imagine it's just going to lead to loads of people running around with a "Yep, they've had my soul for some time" emote.

Shadowspawn X

Shadowspawn X

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fellowship of Champions

R/E

I hope they start GW2 very soon, I have 3 characters and one has 27 maxed titles and the secondaries have only 10 maxed titles, there is not much for me to do in the game so I don't play very much anymore. However I tried to break into pvp and the people are mean and way too much time LFG in HA so I dont think I can get a tiger so I gave up at r7. A new start will be good.

Lonesamurai

Lonesamurai

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

Cheltenham, Glos, UK

Wolf Pack Samurai [WPS]

R/A

Guild Wars 2 is set 250 years into the future of the world... No res shrine or healing skill can keep a person youthful, let alone alive for TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY BLOODY YEARS!!!

CHunterX

CHunterX

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Washington

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Natural
If there was one thing I'd like to carry over it would be titles.
Quite the opposite, if there was one thing that I could make positive Guild Wars 2 does not have at all, it would be titles.

ShadowsRequiem

ShadowsRequiem

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Inde is Smoking [Hawt] *ToA*

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lonesamurai
Guild Wars 2 is set 250 years into the future of the world... No res shrine or healing skill can keep a person youthful, let alone alive for TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY BLOODY YEARS!!!
ahh the part of it being a fricken game can....


Please tell me is living 250 years that strange? or is it strange you can pull a meteor out of the sky to hit someone AND THEY STILL LIVE.

jackie

jackie

/retired

Join Date: Dec 2005

On the Beach

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lonesamurai
Guild Wars 2 is set 250 years into the future of the world... No res shrine or healing skill can keep a person youthful, let alone alive for TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY BLOODY YEARS!!!
I know I'd still look hawt after being mummified.

Edge Martinez

Edge Martinez

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

NC

DKL

The only thing I love from GW1 enough to want to take to GW2 is Thunderfist Brass Knuckles. Not because they're special, but because I had so much fun running through that cave with Kilroy knocking dudes out.

Skyy High

Skyy High

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowsRequiem
ahh the part of it being a fricken game can....


Please tell me is living 250 years that strange? or is it strange you can pull a meteor out of the sky to hit someone AND THEY STILL LIVE.
People can use magic in the game world. They aren't immortal. Ergo, pulling meteors out of the sky makes sense; living 250 years to GW2 does not (for a human mortal, which our characters are).

Vinraith

Vinraith

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2006

I didn't "work on" anything, I played (and quite enjoyed) a game, and will continue to do so for as long as it's fun. Games aren't about accumulating virtual "stuff," they're about having a good time. If you want to take it all with you, you're doing it wrong.

All that said, when I get tired of GW1 I'll probably be done with the Guild Wars franchise. Everything I've heard about GW2 just sounds too MMO to me.

Avarre

Avarre

Bubblegum Patrol

Join Date: Dec 2005

Singapore Armed Forces

Characters have no value to me besides the time I put into them while playing. If I don't play the game, they're worthless, and I won't care. It's only when I played the game a lot that I actually thought titles and such mattered.

It's not like anything you grind in Guild Wars really matters - to the game or to anyone else.

arcady

arcady

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

San Francisco native

Mo/P

In GW2 I expect to be playing a Charr and taking every chance I can get to eat humans.

-tasty- [pass the hoisin sauce please, Gwen's descendants could use a little seasoning]

So...

Not sure there will be much I'll need to carry over anyway.


Everyone else will be playing those hentai-looking pod people and doing naked line dancing, so... it'll be a fresh start all around.

redant751

redant751

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

NYC,NY

Gods Special Forces (GSF)

R/E

I am looking for a different Game experience,(I love G.W. and will continue to play it) but it's time to play some thing new. As for my Characters , 250 years later they must be dust at this point. Hey there are always there decedents to play with.

AuraofMana

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Georgia, US

I probably won't be getting into GW2. By the time it comes out, SC 2 will already have been out a year (and you know how long ppl played SC for). Plus, I smell D3 in the air.
The obnoxious title grinding in GW is about the only thing you can do after beating the game for the 10th time. It feels like playing Everquest, except you don't get to see your integer raised, which is even WORSE.

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

As soon as anyone starts seeing their achievements in GW als 'working' for it, you seriously have to wonder what it is you really want in this game.

tmakinen

tmakinen

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

www.mybearfriend.net

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

E/

I love fresh starts. It will feel like being reborn with all the knowledge from the previous life still intact, and I've been guaranteed to keep the most valuable asset of my character which is her name, everything else can burn to ashes

And hey, green hentai pixies, what is there not to love

Drop of Fear

Drop of Fear

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

W/

as long as i can keep the name, i dont care what u can bring in gw2 and what u cannot. if it's as fun as gw2 i'll be there

Saraphim

Saraphim

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Hand of Omega [WHO]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
You can't continue your GW1 characters because the servers between GW1 and GW2 would be incompatable. That's what the Hall of Monuments is for (which failed miserably).
Failed for some people perhaps because their expectations weren't met. Life sucks like that, huh?

Me, I'm really looking forward to a fresh start. I get to keep the names and that's enough for me.

AuraofMana

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Georgia, US

Question:
Why does all of our characters have to have babies?

Pandora's box

Pandora's box

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Netherlands

Mo/W

Giving up an old account is a hard thing to do lol! I still access my old diablo 2 LOD accounts every month just to make sure they don't get deleted. Somehow it feels like the guy pressing the button in the hatch in the first season of Lost... Is it reall necessary? Would I regret it that much when the accounts seize to exist? Letting go is a soo hard...

Sirius-NZ

Sirius-NZ

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

Bellevue, WA (I know ... but I moved out of NZ)

Xen of Onslaught

D/

Quote:
Originally Posted by AuraofMana
I probably won't be getting into GW2. By the time it comes out, SC 2 will already have been out a year (and you know how long ppl played SC for). Plus, I smell D3 in the air.
Well, sure, but SC2 isn't exactly an RPG, and D3 would probably have a different style (although a 2009 release date wouldn't surprise me). I'm actually expecting to play both. Er, all three, make that, SC2 looks like some fun as well.

Lepton CFd

Lepton CFd

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Pantheon of Shadows [dei]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowsRequiem
ahh the part of it being a fricken game can....


Please tell me is living 250 years that strange? or is it strange you can pull a meteor out of the sky to hit someone AND THEY STILL LIVE.
Ah, amen.

But like some people are saying, I don't really care if anything carries over. New game, new characters, new fun. Personally I can't wait

cyberjanet

cyberjanet

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

The Netherlands

Rich Mahogany

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vinraith
I didn't "work on" anything, I played (and quite enjoyed) a game, and will continue to do so for as long as it's fun. Games aren't about accumulating virtual "stuff," they're about having a good time. If you want to take it all with you, you're doing it wrong.

All that said, when I get tired of GW1 I'll probably be done with the Guild Wars franchise. Everything I've heard about GW2 just sounds too MMO to me.
You said it for me, Vinraith.

Arlan

Arlan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

FaT

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by NoPantsRepublic
your name should be "you're," not "your"

With that established, I advise you to recreate your character in GW2 regardless of your previous accomplishments in GW1 so that I won't have to endure your grammatically incorrect name every again, assuming that you will be able to carry over your GW1 characters from GW2, which you won't.
grammar police ftw

Obviously your point is slightly lost as your speeling is a tad shut.

On topic - would like my main chars to carry over - if not then no biggy - two games to play!!!

arcady

arcady

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

San Francisco native

Mo/P

Quote:
Originally Posted by AuraofMana
Question:
Why does all of our characters have to have babies?
'Cause Koss is all that and more.

Sleeper Service

Sleeper Service

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

CULT

Koss and Mhenlo, repopulating Tyria one female at a time.


edited for pc.

Trub

Trub

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.

Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]

Quote:
Originally Posted by arcady
'Cause Koss is all that and more.

Koss....F T W

And about all this stoof....I'm looking forward to the newness that GW2 will offer!!!
______________
PvE Helpful Hint #4911: Koss is the father of a nation......whoa.

payne

payne

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

england (currently located on the south coast)

R/

HoM did fail miserable having to have r8 PvP hero to display in HoM is /fail...work on it maybe get r7? can't display it in GW2 you have to start from scratch /fail to me!

I won't be carrying on with the game after GW2 comes out regardless decided on that ages ago = mass give-away when I can be bothered ^^

/fail on HoM can see the reasoning behind this post