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Guild Wars 2 Plans

[Jan 22, 2013, 9:46 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

NCsoft reveals further details about the first update for Guild Wars 2, which should go live on January 28th in the MMORPG. Here's an overview:

A new storyline will play out over the coming months, one that all players can enjoy
New achievement currency for daily/monthly achievements and new items you can buy with the new currency. There will also be rotating daily achievements every day of the week
Guesting to allow playing with friends on different worlds.
One Week, Two-Team PvP Tournaments and a new PvP Map permanently added to the rotation
Several more game improvements and balancing enhancements

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Re: Guild Wars 2 Plans

Jan 23, 2013, 13:32

Verno

Creston wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 13:19:
Can you prophetically state for more games to fail? Because GW2 has sold 3+ million copies to date, and quite a few games could use that kind of ~~love~~ fail.

I don't think there's a reasonable argument to be made that it's anything but a success, they sold a lot of copies and have their little cash shop thingie so I don't doubt they made a handsome profit. Most people seemed pretty happy with it overall going by the forums I frequent anyway. It's not my favorite game ever made but I got a very respectable amount of entertainment out of it and never really felt the usual MMO grind kick in.

To be fair though sales aren't the only barometer. I think they could have done more to keep people playing between expansion packs, once you go through the content there isn't much to do if you don't like PVP. Diablo 3 sold 10 million copies and people consider that game to be very disappointing and it's word of mouth is quite poor. I don't think this is really a similar case but of course everyone has their own opinion.




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