Factions Question

Will you be able to upgrade your allready made pve characters to go to the new factions world.

if you buy chapter 2 yes

Yes, a few add ons to this question: Would we just download it and enter the key ? Will there be two guildwars icons or just one for Factions, for example one for the ordinary and one for Factions or will both be in the same icon ? Will entering the key be of any use or do we still have to ? Will the people with the original collectors be able to keep their damn aura ?

Yes, this will be one of the methods of buying the game. In the same way you can download GW1, buy a key online, and play the game.

Why on Earth do you need to know this? Have you set aside desktop space in the hope of a second icon? Or do you run your desktop at 16x14 resolution and are worried you won't have the space? Just calm down and wait until the game is released!

You must have lost conciousness while writing this one.

I imagine so, ANet don't like conmplaints very much, and people losing their aura would do just that.




mish

If you create a new PvE character you will see you can select either the Prophosies campaighn or the Faction's campaign. Right now you can only select the Prophosies campaign as that is Chapter 1 of Guild Wars.

So I'd say that there will only be 1 icon as they already have the means to seperate both chapter's in in the character selection/creation process already. You'll also note that when you select a character it tells you what campaign it is in... they wouldn't need to do that if you had to run seperate programs if you wanted to go to either Chapter one or 2

So my PVE accounts I have now wont be allowed into the new world?

YES if you buy chapter 2 you can IF you install it as a merged account.

NO if you dont buy chapter 2

NO if you install it as a separate stand alone account

buy chapter 2 than ya

You can wait until Factions come out to talk about these questions.

Well Im wondering wheter I should blow my money on my necro 15k armour or not.

I belive Gaile said that you can add the key number to you exsisting accout so that it can go into the new chapter.

So buy the armor

basically when you buy chapter 2 you will have 2 options... 1 install the cdrom and make a NEW account that will give you 4 slots and a new account name... the downside to this method is you can not continue you character builds forward from chapter 1...

The second option I'm sure will be the default for most of you...
Simply log in to your existing account
go to account management
Add a new key
Get extra slot and acces sto chapter 2 content online...
And continue on to play chapter 2...
Simple as that...
I would guess the Anet will make a way to update the existing gw dat file to include the chapter 2 data from cdrom. that way you can install most of it without having to download everything on your Chapter 1 installation...

I will also image anet will make a wizard to do some of this by default for you. basically it will ask you to log in or something them integrate it all automatically... so we will see. but anet is that kind of company that tries to make something like this pretty painless to do...