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Originally Posted by Malice Black
Terrible idea. The subscription era is coming to an end.
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Convert GW1 to pay for play?
Age
cataphract
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Originally Posted by Andemius
GW was never made to be subscription based, and that's why it succeeded. Full support team or otherwise, subscriptions would just cause nearly everyone left to leave.
Since this'll never happen, I put to you the hypothetical question, Why would you pay to play GW1 when you can play GW2 for free? |
Their whole selling point was a mmo revolution in which you're free to play what you like and can get back into to fight once downed. What they failed to account for is the fact that there are people that actually enjoy playing support classes. Also, I'd much rather have a monk prot+heal to save me from getting one-shotted than having to respawn at a waypoint and run back only to get one-shotted again.
Furthermore:
GW1 storyline > GW2 storyline
No magic find > Magic find
makosi
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Originally Posted by cataphract
Because GW2 mechanics are awful.
Their whole selling point was a mmo revolution in which you're free to play what you like and can get back into to fight once downed. What they failed to account for is the fact that there are people that actually enjoy playing support classes. Also, I'd much rather have a monk prot+heal to save me from getting one-shotted than having to respawn at a waypoint and run back only to get one-shotted again. Furthermore: GW1 storyline > GW2 storyline No magic find > Magic find |
cataphract
Stop trollin'; it did not appear out of thin air.
It appeared exactly 10 seconds after you've killed it. If that's not revolution, I don't know what is.
It appeared exactly 10 seconds after you've killed it. If that's not revolution, I don't know what is.
makosi
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Originally Posted by cataphract
Stop trollin'; it did not appear out of thin air.
It appeared exactly 10 seconds after you've killed it. If that's not revolution, I don't know what is. |
Age
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Originally Posted by cataphract
Because GW2 mechanics are awful.
Their whole selling point was a mmo revolution in which you're free to play what you like and can get back into to fight once downed. What they failed to account for is the fact that there are people that actually enjoy playing support classes. Also, I'd much rather have a monk prot+heal to save me from getting one-shotted than having to respawn at a waypoint and run back only to get one-shotted again. Furthermore: GW1 storyline > GW2 storyline No magic find > Magic find |
Mintha Syl
cataphract and makosi, you gave me a good morning laugh, ty 
Motoko
Guild Wars was created with PvP as the endgame.
Allow new players to download Guild Wars and play PvP for free.
Require people to pay for the campaigns if they wish to play PvE or unlock the high-end tiers of weapon skins for PvP.
Done.
Allow new players to download Guild Wars and play PvP for free.
Require people to pay for the campaigns if they wish to play PvE or unlock the high-end tiers of weapon skins for PvP.
Done.
HigherMinion
Is there really nothing left to discuss about Guild Wars that we have to maintain this bitter air over GW2 on the GW forums?
cantalus
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Originally Posted by Lourens
I do not think they will kill the servers very soon, but why on earth would you pay subscription fees for Guildwars if you can play Guildwars 2 without fees?
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because gw1 has such good pvp that even years of anet being bad couldn't ruin it
akelarumi
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Originally Posted by HigherMinion
Is there really nothing left to discuss about Guild Wars that we have to maintain this bitter air over GW2 on the GW forums?
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I personally loved both GW1 and GW2. I will never forget my first MMO-love and will be playing from time to time, or atleast I was planning on it. The disrespectfull way some of my fellow GW1 lovers are talking bout my new love and making it look like there is a war going on makes me really sad.
You don't have to hate GW2. I don't hate GW1, but please understand that there are people who love both games....
Lets start sharing our love for GW1 again instead of this crappy my game is better. I love GW2 and I love GW1, but an important part of the game is the people playing it. The dissing of some people both here as in the game bout my original love makes me seriously doubt the last bit. Maybe it is time to keep my first love as a good memory and move on cause she is changing into a jealous Diva imo....
(btw, you don't have to cheer bout GW2, but just ignore her if you don't like it out of respect for the people who you have played with you so many years in DoA, UW, the daily zaishen quests, etc, etc, etc.)
cantalus
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Originally Posted by akelarumi
(btw, you don't have to cheer bout GW2, but just ignore her if you don't like it out of respect for the people who you have played with you so many years in DoA, UW, the daily zaishen quests, etc, etc, etc.)
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i bought gw2, ncsoft have my cash, they and gw2 players do not need respect
HigherMinion
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Originally Posted by akelarumi
Ye, Though we have disagreed over things many times, the GW2 vs GW1 war is getting ridiculious imo.
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Kunder
I have to wonder if GW1 hasn't seen more sales because of GW2. Either from pure curiosity or all the people who talk about GW1 being far better than GW2.
Keep in mind that PvE-wise most of us only sit at the high end areas while new players will spend dozens of hours doing lower stuff. People leaving is very quick to be noticed, but people starting out will only slowly trickle in everywhere across the game world. But Anet is making money off new players while old players hanging around aren't getting them much, so they could in fact be making more money off GW1 than before GW2 came out.
Keep in mind that PvE-wise most of us only sit at the high end areas while new players will spend dozens of hours doing lower stuff. People leaving is very quick to be noticed, but people starting out will only slowly trickle in everywhere across the game world. But Anet is making money off new players while old players hanging around aren't getting them much, so they could in fact be making more money off GW1 than before GW2 came out.
Darcy
Bad idea, that, thankfully, will never happen. ArenaNet is dedicated to the "Buy-to-Play" business plan. If they had been going to try out something different, it would have been with GW2.
Age
They could of done what most MMO type games are doing and that is free to download and make an account.There would be microtransaction from the online store if you wanted some of the good stuff.
CyberNigma
Thanks, but no thanks.. It was the fact they had a large, full-time staff on the game after release that screwed it up in the first place. Only after they left for GW2 and we got the current 2-3 member staff did they start reversing some of the unpopular trends and nerfs did a lot of people start coming back to play..
I'd prefer to keep it like it is with a few level-headed people running GW1 with the occasional small content update. If anything, maybe allocate resources for some paid content but NOT have the people that created/developed that content work on the game afterwards. There's nothing worse than people getting upset and nerfing the game because someone is playing 'their baby' in a manner they didn't imagine.
caveat: There are no numbers or empirical evidence to back this up so just consider it candy for a unicorn.. There, now THAT doesn't need to be said again unless you really didn't read the whole post..
I'd prefer to keep it like it is with a few level-headed people running GW1 with the occasional small content update. If anything, maybe allocate resources for some paid content but NOT have the people that created/developed that content work on the game afterwards. There's nothing worse than people getting upset and nerfing the game because someone is playing 'their baby' in a manner they didn't imagine.
caveat: There are no numbers or empirical evidence to back this up so just consider it candy for a unicorn.. There, now THAT doesn't need to be said again unless you really didn't read the whole post..
ruk1a
They don't need to add a sub fee, just more expansions and some microtransactions after that. I would buy them all, and already have... I got every bonus mission and costume etc.