February 24: Factions European Press Tour

drowningfish999

drowningfish999

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Awakened Tempest [aT]

25 Feb 2006 at 15:05 - 1
Some interviews of Arena.Net co-founder Jeff Strain were just posted on the main site, here are the links:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=14931

http://www.totalvideogames.com/articles/Guild_Wars_Factions_QA_Feature_9380_5369_0_0_0_0_2 0.htm

http://www.totalvideogames.com/news/ArenaNet_President_Confirms_Third_Guild_Wars_Campa ign_9379_5528_0.htm

I was surprised to learn that the lead designer on Starcraft (best...game....ever) actually left to help form Arena.Net.

kalvon

kalvon

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

soldiers of heaven

E/Me

25 Feb 2006 at 16:13 - 2
This can only help Guild Wars gameplay.

Kakumei

Kakumei

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Grind is subjective

learn this please

25 Feb 2006 at 16:19 - 3
Quote:
but also, one of the things that's kinda cool is that most people don't realise that they have Factions right now on their hard drives. We did a Factions preview event last month, and we're doing another at the end of March, on March 24th. The way we do that is that we essentially stream down the entirety of the game to people; but we disable those parts of it that we don't want them to access right now on the server, so all the new missions are there on people's drives, but nobody can actually play them.
Hahaha wow.

Well99

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Nix Guild (NG)

N/E

26 Feb 2006 at 00:59 - 4
What I am curious about is the Collectors Edition.Is it going to be out to be pre-order?

Starsky-sama

Starsky-sama

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Land of the Z Chest \o/

[NOT]-Nomads of Turmoil.

W/

27 Feb 2006 at 16:13 - 5
(not sure if anyone's missed these "monitor/Ingame" screenshots, but their interesting enough)
(seen it through a thread at The Guild Hall gw site)

from the german Guild Wars Info site. (official fansite):

http://gw.onlinewelten.com/include.p...resseevent.php

/different giant turtles ftw! (looks awesome ingame)
(btw. these arent the building sized giant sea turtles shown in the factions section of the official sites)
/also, new location map shown. kinda resembles a "Great Wall of China" thing.

/cant wait.

(sorry if this has been posted already)

/g'day.

SylverDragon

SylverDragon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Cheshire, UK

28 Feb 2006 at 01:18 - 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by Starsky-sama
/also, new location map shown. kinda resembles a "Great Wall of China" thing.
Hmm. I'm thinking that the colours round the cities show which faction holds them, and the wall may be the battle-line between the factions. Pink cities are on the pink side of the line and green cities are on the green side. The only pink city on the green side is surrounded by green blobs - under siege?