Only one week till pre-order package coming out

We still have no clue what's in the standard and collector's edition box. I'm wondering when Anet will release the information we need to make our decision. I'm more towards the collector's edition, since rumor says it will provide one extra character slot. And I'm still debating which store I should pre-order from. BTW, just saw BestBuy changed their release date of GW:Factions to 4/28/06 (origianlly they posted as 4/03/06), so that's one more piece of evidence that the actual release date would probably be 4/28/06. I think Anet will release the information this week. Your thoughts?

ding dong wont it be posted on the guildwars official site when the pre-order package is ready ?

never trust any company, besides anet, on the release date.

I agree with the OP that I would really like more info (specifically # of new char. slots) before I can make the decision to order or not.

what's to decide, most store will let you transfer your deposit, besides the GW website, ahs everything on the pre-oreder and some on the CE

I think it borders on negligence to your installed base and fans to not have any of these important bits of information out. Why make consumers and stores do all this hopping around, because ANet refuses to pass out information on what I'm sure they already decided upon?

what plusses from a pre-order, the ce, and how many combined slots
is that so hard to simply mention before the box comes out?

bah - plus it'll be oh so funny to see we have to buy the ce to obtain as many more slots as those not linking accounts, or even a further treat, still being 1 or 2 short even going that route.

still tough to really get excited about it with all these key unknowns IMO

There isnt an official release date yet, but I am hoping for 4/28...even though that would only mean 1 more beta...which wont happen....most likely after 8 months of beta...woo for 10/28 release date!

to those of you complaining and you know who you are..............

since you will have a month (minus the few days to the march 24 event) to decide which preorder/CE you want to get i see no problem.

you can use the free pass to the event to look it over and not lose anything since they said any event character created will be reloaded to zero on release

this is a clear case of buying an early preorder and having nothing to use it on until a preorder only event which would be AFTER the march 24 event

now you got it watcha gonna do with it?

Hmm. I pre-ordered my copy of Factions from my Local Gamestop last month. Were they not suposed to take Pre-Orders yet until the official pre-order time is out, or is it alright for pre-pre-orders?

I know the local Gamestop here is already taking pre orders for it. I've got mine purchased already and they have the release date confirmed as the 28th of April. I don't think you can get the pre order package until the 28th of this month but you can certainly put in your order for hte game now. I've heard that there will only be like 500,000 units shipped on release day so I'd suggest getting it while the getting is good.

here is to your rumor

even if true that they only have 500,000 preorders the first day that leaves how many days to leisurely restock the shelves over and over with no person wanting to buy a preorder missing a thing?

Or it could be another Xbox 360 thing where demand outstrips supply for weeks. I mean we are talking about 500,000 units for the entire US.

who says 500k to begin with anyway?

and we are talking pc software that can be turned around in days not like the good old days of the nintendo care which took 6 weeks to turn around.

a week later another 500k, rince and repeat as necessary.

we are talking at least 6 weeks before anybody could use it so what difference does it make if you buy it 6 weeks (or more) before you can use it or get it a week in advance?

you both can use it at the exact same time with the exact same results.

though i do admit kissing the box each night and saying just one less day until i can..................

does have some appeal

It's just a time saver for me. It lets me not keep track of the release date. I'll get a call when my copy gets there and then I just go pick it up. It also saves me the hassel of trying to find it on release day only to be met by empty shelves at my local game stores.

I bought the preorder package for GW and used it to buy the CE. I don't think most places care which one you are getting if you buy the package.

If those other places do care, then I guess I'm just going to buy it from Best Buy again, since they let me do it before.

well for one thing the main purpose of the 1st preorder package was to allow us to play the beta event (and 1 day earlier) before the release of ch.1. since everyone here has an account we dont really need the preorder package except to tease ourselves (of the assass/rit items) and get more hyped up about the game.

Anet just completing the tourney, they are obviously very busy with their priorities.

Personally, no matter what infos comes out next, Im set on the Collector's anyways (I was/am happy w/ my ch.1 collector's).

This time I am thinking of trying a different route into getting it. Online this time as to going in-store. I only hope it's available early this time "online" as oppose to ch.1's before, where it was late for collector's online availability in my area. (so far nothing from the online vendors I usually go to atm.)

/waits patiently.

I'm just not worried about it since the game itself proabably won't be out untill a month or so after the March 24th event. Just a guess of course. Why am I not worried? Because Oblivion will be out before Factions. (At least I hope so!)

I plan to buy the CE anyway, so I think it would be somewhat amusing to see that happen. I'd prefer it to having not enough slots at least.

More phisking slots complaints...

Given that the 4/28 date is at all accurate, that's just about on the dot for people buying me crap because I'm a year older. Given this, I plan on picking up a pre-order kit if I can, possibly CE depending on what comes in it, since I'll be assured of the money come release time. These plans - as well as my plans to merge my Factions account into my Prophecies account - are independant of the possible dissimilarities in slot counts between linked and unlinked accounts.

I would like to know if I am the only Prophecies player in Creation who is willing to make these plans. Because, for me, the ability to have five or six complete characters with access to everything they're supposed to have access to far outweighs the ability to have eight half-characters which are unable to take advantage of skills and skill combinations which are, most likely, going to be considered basic for merged characters.

Hm hm...don't mean to rant here, but I swore not to post in the other thread anymore, and truthfully, when my merged-account R/E shreds the people who no longer have access to the full skill set of the game, I'm going to be laughing myself sick. Ad I'll be able to do it right quick, because I trust Anet enough, liked the preview enough, and am impressed enough by various screenshots to know that they Done Good.

Cheers, fellas. May us stupid, undiscerning pre-order package account mergers dominate the complaint-riddled masses from now until the End of All XP.

LaserLight, that was very well said.

That's a great idea, moving the slot discussion to this thread after you swore not to post in the other one anymore.

One post was all I was allowing myself here, aside from the new necessity of explaining myself. Trust me, it won't happen again. Heaven forbid that opinions aside from the mainstream be given voice.

Uhm... what's wrong with posting in the other thread? You weren't banned from that one, were you?

And truthfully, the lack of information on guildwars.com is really appaling. They still haven't even announced how the pre-order process will work outside of the US.

Not saying it isn't, but people deciding to skip Factions because of such a reason is folly. Yeah, it would really help to know what the deal is, and I haven't the foggiest why Anet's being so secretive, but as I said, not really gonna stop me from picking up Factions.

I'm gonna take me a trip to the Undercity just as soonest as I can. I feel a burning desire to meet the vampires and werewolves it's bound to conceal XD.

i will buy a regular (maybe CE) as a preorder depending on what is in both.

since i have loads of time i feel no pressure for the information to be right now.

will play it and enjoy it merged with even only one slot.

CKaz

what i want to know (with linkie) is the official source that says the CE will have extra slot(s) over the regular.

if it is not official why are you so willing to believe (and spread) unconfirmed rumors?

that would be the same as selling slots which was officially stated as not in the forseeable future

I doubt there will be additional character slots on the CE of GWF. ANET has said on many occasions that they will not allow a person to have more in the game because they spend more money.

I just want to know if I buy the CE of GWF if I will have glowing hands on my characters that I didn't purchase the CE of GW1.

I'd be inclined to say no, otherwise those of us who already have glowing hands get nothing. I bet the CE perk is something else.

Or instead of all the problems of pre-ordering, and hoping they don't run out. Just buy a CDkey off plaync

Lovitar - did you read the OPs post for starters? Just a rumor but since ANet can't be bothered to do anything but the PvP tournament and just put up information on the next one, still leaving us in the dark... what do we have?

LaserLight - I think its folly not to know more before purchase. That's great even 5 character slots total will do it for you. I totally agree it's sooo much better to have linked characters. I'm just not paying that much more to try and enjoy the new game experience (at about $50) penned in that tight.

A lot of things aren't known. Like if I want to play a prophecies class with one of the new classes (primary or secondary) what kind of skills can I get from the quests? We hear those only doing chapter2 will be gimped in some fashion, what I wonder is will we be forced to get these skills through just skill points and paying plat somewhere or will quests exist for the originals as well? If there are quests... so chp2 only players won't have access to these quests/skills but chp1+chp2 owners have richer quests/skills/reward options?

Will those wrapping up Cantha only be able to get to LA (not further back in Prophecies)? Again hopefully you can get your quests/skills through Cantha play, but say I wanted to be Ri/Mo, will I now actually miss Acalon for some of my skills (heaven forbid, I hate that area now, but gets the point across)?

There's mention of a 'longer pre-sear' in Cantha, so I'm gathering also our current characters won't be able to access that part of it, suggesting those class skills (and possibly some of the new skills for prophecy classes) may not be questable. Yay more skill point farming and gold sink fun. I'm guessing returning characters will mostly have to sign up at the Cantha's 'ember light camp' version to get most of what those characters might want.

If I missed answers to some of the above OK, but in general I don't there has been a lot on these mechanic details. And less than a week to go where you can get the pre-order box and we're still guessing about the BASICs here. I'm really really glad this is going to work for a lot of you and you're excited about it. I'm really really disappointed still such unknowns, still is the hottest issue for many of us, and this is how they treat their installed fan/gamer base - a lot of us haven't been able to get excited because of that.

What some of you don't still seem to get is many of us bought multiple copies as well - getting more people involved suggests tying up an extra pve slot you didnt expect maybe - is that really so hard to fathom? So 4 slots you have no PvP slot. Or some people want simply one of each main character class. Have you played many other similiar games where you can't do that?

Is it enjoyable to have to nuke long standing characters to make room to play the new content? Where a big part of why you're linking the accounts is to bring them over to the new content and play them in the new content? Or chose between using the unlocks with a PvP slot (arguably the biggest reason to link the accounts) and enjoying what you want to PvE?

5 days away and still nothing. GG ANet.

CKaz, ANet is not here to answer to your friggen whims, quit whining

Have you ever actually known all that much about a game before it's been released?


If you actually read the information out there you'ld know the following.

Most of of the skills from CH1 will be in CH2, these skills are designated as CORE skills. Non-core skills will not be available in a standalone CH2 and there are about 25 of them for each class. Again, it's not ANets job to cater to you and worry about every concern you have, as such you'll learn what is and isn't core probably within a week of the release of CH2, though I wouldn't be surprised to learn some of them over the upcoming preview weekend.

See above for skill availability. If you only have CH2 (or install it as a new account rather than an add on) then your boat ride from Cantha will end at the Battle Isles, do not land at Lions Arch, do not collect 200 gold.

Both gold and xp are SIMPLE to earn, so I'm not worried about skill point / gold farming

None of this qualifies as basics, basics would be, can I play a War/Mo in Cantha? (Yes) Will my ranger be able to get a pet in Cantha? (Yes) What are the new classes in Cantha? (Assassin and Ritualist) Etc, etc, etc, what you want to know is to specific and there isn't a single game out there that you would know this sort of detail about months before it's released.

I have one main character that I play all the time, all others are expendable if I need the room.

It has already been stated that you will get additional character slots, hell that's why they changed the login / character creation screens, to allow for more slots. They just haven't said how many and anyone that quotes a number is wrong.


Please get off your high horse. If you think you can do better I strongly recommend that you apply for a job with them, they currently have 9 openings

I wouldn't consider skipping an instalment, for whatever reason, folly. I'd rate it as one of the more insignificant decisions I'll ever make in my life. It's just a game; I have nothing more invested in it than in any other whimsical pastime. No skin off my back if I have to go shop for another one.