I am so impressed...

Seriously,

Anet patches this game like no other company has ever done. Things get fixed every single week, the servers are rock solid, and the game is fun! I don't care about the ascention/experience thing - its best for the game long term. Now people have a reason to play the game instead of rushing to ascention.

I love how they fixed those stupid "under construction icons." It took them one week to realize and fix the problems with capturing skills from certain boss monsters (cinematics). I like the cap on exp needed for skill points. Shoot, no mmo company has ever responded so well to their customer base, and made such solid decisions so quickly.

Most amazing to me is that Anet implements more in a couple of weeks than Blizzard has done with WoW since release. They make Verant look like noobs, and set the bar pretty high for all future competitors.

Anet, you rock. I don't care what you need to do. Charge me monthly fees, do whatever. Just keep doing what you are doing right now.

/GOOD JOB

They may have no reason to do it, but they still will.

That's the day I'll quit. I simply LOVE this game. However, the reason I checked into it is because I saw it advertised as no monthly fees. I am glad of what Anet is doing. However I will never, ever, ever, never, ever, ever, never, ever, ever, never, ever, ever, never, ever, ever, never, ever, ever, pay monthly fees. No matter what.

if i have to pay monthly fee, im going to play something else

Once again, ANET has taken the potential powers of streaming technology and used them for the good. Now we are provided with constant updates and patches, some for the better... some for the worse. However, any patch at all will atleast let the player's know that they are working on improving this game by what they see fit.

$8 a month for 6 months = one time expansion fee of $50. It's really not that big of an expense.... now if it was $9 on the other hand

I am also very impressed.

The frequency, quality and delivery of the updates is something I've never experienced in my 20+ years of gaming. ANet should be proud of what they've achieved with this game both technically and artistically. They are indeed setting a precedent.

They have weekly updates due to a couple of things:

1. They released an unfinished product, but most online games are unfinished. Look at the big mess that is known as WoW.
2. They need to satisfy their cry-baby customers by giving them weekly cookies.

This game IMO was not an unfinished product, they have been beta testing this and tweaking, not developing, for more than a year before release. I have to say that this has been THE most flawless launch I have ever seen. As for the cookies, well, why not, there would be really pissed off players if they did absolutly nothing until add-on time, feed us a little to keep the momentum of excitment going from release. A fine example of good marketing and once more, marketing not at the expense of the customers expectations.

That is part and parcel of having a persistent, dynamic, player-affected or player-driven world. EULAs now reflect this.

Well Technically this game will never be finished as they will continually add new content.
But as for what your reffering to, the game was a finished product well before it was even released.

In my opinion, the only people who say this game is an unfinished product are those who aren't getting their way. GW's complete. So is WoW (even though I hate to admit it). However, what GW is doing is giving us add-ons and upgrades.

Three cheers for ANet!

P.S. If you want to witness an unfinished product launch, go play EQ2 for the past six months. Seriously, get some perspective.

More cheers for ANet!!

Yep great game, grt developers. Keep the good works. 'd love to see all the new contents.

GW was complete enough in the betas. Currently the weekly updates seem to be trying to slowly, very slowly, bring the game back to where it was 1.5 months ago.

If GW is finished, then why do all the elementalist FoW armors look the same? Armor-wise, I'm sure other classes have the same problem.

We won't!We will! And that's a promise!

Thanks for a great post -- I've printed it as Forum Post of the Day. The team will love it!

smooth launch prob best launch i've seen and i've been onlining since UO launch almost 8 yrs ago

Guild Wars will never be finished. At least, not until ArenaNet decides to phase out the product. Until then, expect continued development.

This is, of course, a good thing.

This is the best thing about GW imho.