New Factions Information

This is a copy/paste from another forum. If this info is already posted here somewhere I apologize...I did look but I didnt see it.

Credits to Gorani:

News about GW:Factions (from Gamestar Magazine)

I did find some news about GW:Factions in the current issue of the German Gamestar Magazine (translation to English by Gorani):

-Kurzicks live in those “gothic” style buildings, which we know from the official homepage.
-Luxons “look like pirates”
-You will have to earn “faction” for the Luxon/Kurzick side by doing “Missions” for either side.
-If you have enough points for either side, you can join the Luxon or Kurzick Faction
-In the “final battle” (possible last Mission both Factions have to work together (A 8-man Luxon and a 8-man Kurick team => 16 players)
-An “Alliance” can be formed by a maximum number of 10 “Guilds”
-“Alliances” with top level faction-points will hold areas (=> If you load a story map a banner with “This area is part of the Luxon realm. It belongs to Alliance “XY” appears)
-If you are member of Alliance “XY” you will get help from local NPCs (ie. mages will cast buffs on you, traders will make better prices)
-The best “Alliance” will hold the capital city and will get access to places and areas, that are forbidden to others (ie. a special balcony from where you can look down)
-How to earn faction for Luxon/Kurzick? (ie. bring quest items to the Luxon or Kurzick NPC; or on 16vs16 PvP maps with multiple goals over a period of time.)
-On a special “hold the altar” map, the Gamestar people played at ANet, there was no Death Penalty
-The main port city for Cathan will be “Shing Jae”
-Characters from Tyria can reach this port via Lion’s Arch
-A major part of Cantha will be gigantic city – the north western part of the map (with different areas: catacomb, slum, normal streets, luxury quarter)
-Gamestar people had a peek at Chapter 3, which will have a completely different look, again.
-State of completing GW:Factions => 90%
-Release (if Gamestar has a right date) 31st of March.

gamestar has the wrong date. the next preview is the 24th of march, having the release just 1 week later would be kind of pointless. I'm purely guessing here, but CH1 was released april of last year, I'm predicting ch2 to be in April of this year. I have no actual information to back this prediction up, strickly a gut feeling.

Baldur's Gate?

Well, you can preorder right now and EB Games has it set to ship very late April, April 28th. Not sure if this is set in stone, but it's what their website says right now, just checked again.

This is the part that confuses me. I thought I read that the top alliances will hold a town...and that town will have portals to high-end co-operative missions....missions only accessable to that particular alliance. The quote above implies the best alliance will have access to areas....like a special balcony? This seems a little misleading.

What you quoted doesn't contradict what you thought. His "suggestion" is all that differs, and it just may be a difference of interpretation.

My money is on the Kurzicks (gothic ftw!). There's no love for pirates from me... grrrr.

Argh, special stuff for the specific Alliance holding the area? With a maximum of 10 guilds to an Alliance, I forsee some nasty elitism rising.

Ah, let's see if farmer can farm faster or a PvPer can win battle faster.