Would you buy other BMP's if they made them?

GW has been micropayments longer before GWEN was released!

We've had the bonus weapon pack for a good few years now, along with the pvp skill packs, the pvp location pack, then core skills pack and the ability to buy all 3 games at the online store and the ability to buy extra character slots.

GWEN and the BMP hasnt magically added micropayments all of a sudden or changed the games mechanism.

The game was always intended to be a micropayment game, where you buy the main core campaigns as a stand alone item and then have the choice to buy little extras ontop of that if you wish.

It hasnt ruined anything.

You also have to appreciate that at this time in GWs life, Anet is trying to focus on GW2 and trying to quickly run off ways to keep people playing GW1 until its released.

They havent time to be looking long into the future about what will be released and putting it all into one nice, tidy little expansion box.

Concidering all of that, they did a very good job with GWEN and the BMP. Unfortunately they expected us to pay over the top prices for products which werent worth that much... but we didnt have to buy them, so if you did... then it was your own fault.

Also if you look at GWEN in the grand scheme, and not just as a stand alone expansion. Its actually one of the better things to happen to GWs in a long time.

You can now take a lvl10 character into a high end area and power level them very fast, you can attain 2 x lvl20 heroes very fast who will help make the game a lot easier to play (if you wish), you also now have a lot more freedom to either complete the main story line of the campaign you start in or go off and do GWEN instead or another different campaign.

If you take the micropayment packs into consideration, they have also made GWs a far better game too (if you choose to buy them).

You can now buy the core skills pack and buy your newbie character ANY normal skill you wish from the start. You can buy the bonus weapons pack and give newbie characters max weapons from the word go. You can buy the pvp packs which make pvp a lot more fun and interesting.

GWEN as a stand alone item may not have added lots of content and the micropayment packs may not be to everyones likeing, but with all of those in combination with the other 3 campaigns it has inriched the game in a lot of ways.

Some may argue it has actually made the game too easy, because you can buy any skill from the start and have max weapons from the start. But you dont have to use them.

I think you failed with your attempt at sarcasm there because a bonus is perfectly understandably buyable. A bonus is just an item or pack which adds content outside of the original content of the game.

There is nothing wrong with that.

They mentioned how there n this pack that was 4 missions yet there were many stories they could of told. for example Oinks advantures

Oinks adventures are so vast it would cover atleast two BMP's on its own... maybe a whole campaign

Of course I'll buy it. Even though I still haven't done any BMP's missions except only one to get Tengu spear (...hate solo gaming).

Definitely not. Current BMP was a disaster. No more BMPs pls.

I would buy this.

Synonyms for the word, "Bonus".

Synonyms within Context: Bonus
Context Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Giving


Grace, act of grace, bonus.
Receipt


Premium, bonus; sweepstakes, tontine.
Redundancy


Excess; surplus, overplus; epact; margin; remainder; duplicate; surplusage, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza.
Reward


Allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage.
Virtue


Phrase: esse quam videri bonus malebat; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht; "virtue the greatest of all monarchies"; virtus laudatur et alget; virtus vincit invidiam.

So it is no longer a bonus mission pack, it is a mission pack. There was no sarcasm involved in my legitimate question.

You use (again.... like so many other internet sheep) the word fail due to your lack of knowledge and throw it around to try and look important. Try again.

Btw, straight from the dictionary:

–noun, plural -nus·es.
1. something given or paid over and above what is due.
2. a sum of money granted or given to an employee, a returned soldier, etc., in addition to regular pay, usually in appreciation for work done, length of service, accumulated favors, etc.
3. something free, as an extra dividend, given by a corporation to a purchaser of its securities.
4. a premium paid for a loan, contract, etc.
5. something extra or additional given freely: Every purchaser of a pound of coffee received a box of cookies as a bonus.

KANE

semantics aside... I would definitely buy it - if it allowed parties to play together.

I love the BMP - awesome content for what it is, clever skill replacements makes it fun, great graphics, great weapon bonuses and ties up bits of lore very nicely. The only thing I do NOT like is that it's solo content. I Don't like solo missions anywhere in the game and certainly not in the BMP.

well thanks for that! But in the context of guild wars the word bonus simply meens extra content which wasnt in the game you bought or something being given to you that you havent unlocked yourself.

Bonus weapon pack (/bonus) = max weapons on demand.
Bonus mission pack = 4 more missions and more weapons.

Your kind of taking it a bit too seriously, with the word!

It's about time someone started making sense. I hate to say it but "QFT". In the context of Guild Wars, NOT from some dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, or even the holy bible!

Edit:

Then there's also the optional "Mission Bonus" that is not given to you automatically every time you complete a mission. You actually have to work extra to get those bonus rewards.

When I tried explaining it this way to someone their reply was, "Well in life you're always working towards something." Which left me looking perplexed like a dog with its head tilted to one side. 'Huh'?

It would be great a BMP where you have to play with 5 friends as the Ascalon Chosen Ones.
The leader woul be disguised as Devona, the next one as Aidan, the Next as Eve, and finaly Cynn and Mhenlo.

The disgusies are already made (Halloween)

We'll just need to have something to do for them after the Searing.
Maybe each one starting in a separate place, then joining a bit later on, and helping people during the attacks.

On the 'other' forum I brought up Bonus Mission Pack - Villains. Play as Shiro, some Charr and various other villains that we've been discussing. I like the Ascalon chosen one's idea aswell; I think the next BMP should perhaps allow more than one player with NPC's if you don't want to because it would be good to play with your friends. ^^

Yes.

Of course it depends on the actual content of each BMP - some things may interest me more than others - but I love learning about the lore of video games, and Guild Wars is no exception. The uniqueness of the missions and the discoveries in them were what made them much more fun than most of the missions in the game. And of course the weapon skins for the most part were stunning and quite needed to revive the creativity in weaponry for the game.

The only thing that would make BMPs more exciting is if they were multi-player. This is an online multi-player game after all.

For all the people slamming the Bonus Mission Pack, it was a bonus; free for some. $10 for others. You didn't need to buy it, but you did. You didn't like it? It was $10, not $100 get over it.

Back on topic. I loved the BMP. All those weapons were so cool. The Charr Sword replaced my Fellblade just because of its skin. I think if we had some Dwarven quests about, say, the Great Dwarf or maybe how Shiro betrayed his empire, then we would have a more successful game. I'd like to see more of the lands above the Maguuma Jungle, since there's all that map space, who knows what might be up there.

If ANet does release another pack, I'll be first in the proverbial line for it.

No, their massive fail in the marketing has made me leary of buying much of anything else from them. We were told one thing then they did another and didn't do anything to "make up for" their previous lie to those of us who got the BMP by way that was originally stated as to be th only way to attain it. I still am not sure if I will even get GW2. If it is the only pay once play anytime game when it is released then I probably will but if other companies follow the GW business model of one time pay then I will not buy from a-net anymore

Yes. I'm doing turai Ossa's mission right now for the first time and am thinking this bmp is freaking awesome. Not only that but I get tons of new cool weapon skins and it's only $9.99. Great deal.

I demand 24+ man BMP missions. I demand raid style stuff! Oh, and please Freek, make one post without spelling errors...PLEASE.

Agreed.

Agreed as well.

hmmm....... nope

Nope. No more money goes to Anet until they give me what I already paid for with GWEN.

Sure i would. I've bought everything else.

Probably not, unless it wasn't crap and actually did something useful.

I change my mind a little bit, probably will not buy them, because i hope it would be free...

I learned a valuable lesson from the promotion pack fiasco. Buy only at retail when its 50% off price.

ANet can you deal with that!

You do all realise that Anet has to fund this game somehow, and the cost of the game alone isn't always enough to do that.

There is nothing wrong with selling stuff in a micro-payment fashion, because you don't NEED to buy them. Your not being deprived of anything which makes the game unplayable otherwise.

Your not missing out on armour or 99% of weapon skins.

What can you buy from the store...

1) Core skills pack which helps for creating new chars in pve and pvp, and accessing all skills earlier. Are you saying you'd rather they didn't sell that?

2) The weapons bonus pack, which allows a new char to have a max weapon from the word go. Would you rather they didn't sell that?

3) Unlocking all areas and items for pvp normal level. Big deal.. so that allows a newbie pvp players to have more choice. It makes it more fun and accessible

4) The BMP bonus pack... which offers 4 more short missions and some nice weapon skins and some lore!

Do you need any of those?
Can you not survive in game without them?

That is not a staggering number of micro-payment features. Your only talking about being able to buy all 3 campaigns, the expansion and 4 or 5 little tiny extra packs.

You all make it sound like Anet has suddenly started making EVERYTHING micro-payment and they haven't. You can access everything in game for free, as you always have. There just happens to be a tiny few little extras you could pay for if you felt you wanted to.

They help bring in a small amount of funding from players who have nothing else to buy once they own all the games. But its your choice! Stop winging about something which isn't that important.

Presuming the thread is still on topic (looks like it); I would consider buying them, certainly, although I'd prefer to get some idea of whether they'd be interesting first.

I'm about 90% sure that I would not "buy" (well... I got it free for buying EotN^^) another BMP if it had the same concept.

Let me give you one word....

YUP!



Lets see micropayments for GW have cost me $264.85 in total.

If I had to pay $14.95 per month, the cost of three campaigns, an expansion, and add-ons it would have cost me $713.35.

Needless to say, I will not complain about buying a minor add-on.

I definitely would buy additional BMP(s). Especially if they offered great-looking weapons like this one did. <3 teh Tengu Sword.

For a 10€, sure.

Hells yeah... i would buy more BMP - it was fun and i found that they were some of the more enjoyable missions overall.

Edited to remove comments about naysayers and whiners - decided I should keep the post on track and that you guys just weren't worth my time...

No. Probably not.

--The Bonus Missions are much too linear, dull, and one-dimensional: See rock. Throw rock at column. Run. Run very fast. Now play dead. Now run again. Run very fast. Sheesh.
--They are solo, playing a character that is not me. I like soloing, but with my choice of AI party and my choice of skills and my choice of my character.

If they were included with some other purchase that I wanted anyway (as in the case of EotN), that'd be fine. But I am sooooo glad I did not pay extra for these missions. To me, the bonus missions are a lot like polymock, I don't care if it's there as part of the regular game, but I'm not going to pay extra for it/them.

The only reason to play the missions is to get the weapons, in my opinion, not because they are fun.