Homes....

Im completely new to GW, and i wish to buy this game, but being an experienced role player, i just have one question, and if the answer is no, then its my suggestion. Are you able to buy houses etc in GW? if not, then buying homes would be a great thing to have.

no you can not buy a house

whether or not they will be in future content is anybodys guess

I'd like to see some simple player housing, with either dropped or purchasable furniture and decorations, like in EQ2.

I'd love that,
It'd be cool if you could buy a house which appears as an outpost on the map so you can travel there whenever, have item storage boxes there too and stuff, maybe a 'dummy' to test your damage-per-second etc although I think this is already on the Guild Hall wishlist

Why do you need a home????????

It's not a MMORPG! I personally hope they don't waste a single developer minute making a home. I can't see any reason for it - you are being displaced by various forces, you've abandoned everything to try to save the world, but I think that armoire would look nice in my bedroom??? It's an action game - you don't have a job, there are no hobbies, you are fighting to live - not to get a new tea set. I'd rather they worked on useful content.

i thought this game was considered an MMORPG... thats what i have read so far...

Quoted for truth

Your home is the Sardelac Sanitarium (the one in-game, not this forum). Sure, homes might be nice, but it's a waste. The way the game is set up, you'd have to make cities with homes so that others could come to it. I would probably just avoid it and joke about it being another crackerbox housing development.

WRONG

if you think that you have never been to the GW home site where it states it is NOT a mmorpg
they go out of their way to call it a different name

sheeshh

Who needs homes?

This is Guild Wars and we already have guild halls.

Good enough for me! ^^

You destroyed my idea for starting a Guild Wars edition of Trading Spaces.

Marriage!? Homes?! It's a role playing GAME, not life. I severly hope none of you bought the game to live your life out in.

Why you would even want these things is beyond my comprehension.

Next you'll be demanding they get 9-5 jobs and have to eat or they die. They also have to drink and use the bathroom. If they don't make friends they get depression and commit suicide. They also have to do their taxs and if they don't they get put in prison.

I think I know what game you're looking for?

http://thesims.ea.com/index_flash.php

Excuse me while I go vomit.


(BTW sorry about being so hard on you, thinking about the sims makes me violent.)

no no! i dont mind you guys being harsh actually, i thin of it as constructive critisism. I have not actually bought the game. this summer after school ends, i wanna get a fun (free online play) onoine game, and SO FAR GW is top of my list. it looks liek a hell lot of fun, and i have read reviews. Phenominal. i just thought i would give some input, but hey, as much as i like MMORPG's, this style is awesome too. as one of your comments....

you help to build cities? is this world constantly expanding? and is that what the background streaming is for too?

Umm, Not to burst your bubble, this taken straight from their website:

Is Guild Wars an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)?

Guild Wars has some similarities to existing MMORPGs, but it also has some key differences. Like existing MMOs, Guild Wars is played entirely online in a secure hosted environment. Thousands of players inhabit the same virtual world. Players can meet new friends in gathering places like towns and outposts where they form parties and go questing with them. Unlike many MMOs, when players form a party and embark upon a quest in Guild Wars, they get their own private copy of the area where the quest takes place. This design eliminates some of the frustrating gameplay elements commonly associated with MMOs, such as spawn camping, kill stealing, and lines to complete a quest.

Guild Wars takes place in a large virtual world made up of many different zones, and players can walk from one end of the world to the other. In Guild Wars much of the tedium of traveling through the world has been eliminated. Players can instantly return to any safe area (town or outpost) that they have previously visited just by clicking on it in the world overview map.

Rather than labeling Guild Wars an MMORPG, we prefer to call it a CORPG (Competitive Online Role-Playing Game). Guild Wars was designed from the ground up to create the best possible competitive role-playing experience. Success in Guild Wars is always the result of player skill, not time spent playing or the size of one's guild. As characters progress, they acquire a diverse set of skills and items, enabling them to use new strategies in combat. Players can do battle in open arenas or compete in guild-vs-guild warfare or the international tournament. Engaging in combat is always the player's choice, however; there is no player-killing in cooperative areas of the world.

Finally, unlike existing MMOs, all characters in Guild Wars inhabit the same virtual world -- they are not divided onto different servers or shards -- so players can always team up with or compete against any other player in the world.

They flat out say they are more of an MMORPG then they are an RPG which is the exact opposite of what the game really is. Its really an RPG that can only be played online.

I mean really, the naming they want to call it is fine, but I can say that yellow is actually green, but it doesnt really make the yellow green now, does it.

What I was saying about cities is that you only encounter other random people in cities/meeting areas/co-op quest starts. All of the rest is instanced, and therefore you would not run into some other player's house with other people around without placing it in a city.

"Now where did I leave my keys? I have to lock up; there might be a Charr invasion while I'm gone."

Lets not start the MMO/CO battle again.

Here is the fact of the matter

The dev's "made up" a new gener, and called it CORPG




Some people take this to be the word of god himself, but this game is and shall always be a MMO to me.

Yeah, but I fail to see how it is MMO. Chess is played online by multitudes of people all the time, has a huge community and websites devoted to setting up matches and so on, tracking stats, has (many) ladders and rankings and everything, but chess is not an MMO game. It is a 2 player game that is played online. Simply having many people online and playing doesn't make it "Massively Multiplayer" or else every game online is massively multiplayer, as they all have numerous people playing. It's online. It's multiplayer. It is an RPG by some definitions - I would say it is an MORPG; MORPGs then divide into those that support massive numbers in persistent worlds, called MMORPGs and those that don't. Counterstrike is online, has massive numbers of players at any time and is "Role-Playing" in that you are essentially playing the role of a terrorist or counter terrorist, but it isn't a MMORPG either, for many reasons. Labels must make sense and be defined, and an MMORPG is more than simply a game played online with many other people also playing that game. I could call Counterstrike a MMORPG with about the same justification that they use to call GW a MMORPG, and I could call chess an MMOG at the same time. Heck, put my viewpoint in first person for the king, make it a bit more graphical and I could claim it was MMORPG.

only reason i now disagree its an MMO is coz the only time i feel like im playing online is in towns. with the instanced areas it just feels like singleplayer, even in a group of 6 players.

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- Iczer

HEY nice useless post. Here is part of mine 7 posts up

(thats a sims website)