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Beta enrollment is live for 48 hours. You have to run a system scan to report your setup. The reporting tool is crashed because of the huge load on the servers. Good luck gents!
Shhhhhh! What are you doing man?! Keep this on the dl. :)
Gotta wait til I'm home before I can do this, but I hope I get in!
Sent my info on my work drafting laptop. Now to do the same on my home computer!
I tried playing my old guild wars characters and was just getting owned. I had a couple 20s with all kinds of farmed/caught skills and couldn't even make it through one battle lol, and I don't want to start again. Sooooo off to try to get into the beta for #2 and hope all my sweet trophy things from 1 will make it to 2.
The constant instancing is what killed GW for me. Tons of people in the cities and then nothing when adventuring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Astros Fan
I think instancing is the downfall of the MMO genre. It took the massively right out of the picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
Its the inherent issue you have with MMOs. Everyone wants to be the "The One" and instances are the way to give a "unique experience" that every one can play.Quote:
Originally Posted by fastitocalon
I really enjoyed the instancing in Guild Wars, but I also never really considered the game to be an MMORPG.
This is what I found too. A billion people in the towns all laggy and everyone just sitting around chatting and trading. Boring.. At least I made it through all of the Core instances and about half of the expansions before hanging my hat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
Not me. I think developers use the crutch of everyone wants to be a hero, but I don't think that is true. I think everyone wants to play a part, however significant that is doesn't matter as much. It is much harder to make a game with thousands of people making small contributions to an overall world rather than instancing generic experiences so everyone can kill the "troll king" and free the small town a thousand times.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
http://www.sharkyforums.com/images/i.../2012/02/2.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
Problem?
Those game exist. Eve Online is a perfect example.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
Sure but it doesn't have enough structure. There needs to be events that happen and such. There needs to be more than player made goals. I'm not a game developer, but it it will be one of those things that when someone figures out how to make it work without instancing yet everyone feels like they made a noticeable contribution to the story or world, that it will feel like we should have been doing it this way forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
I simply dislike how after 100+ hours of gaming, my character is practically the same as anyone else of a similar class or race. I think a good first step is making the actual player model change with levels, skills, deeds, etc. Take all my gear off and I look like a lvl 1 in most games.
But Eve Online does have a story and events!Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
Lol for five minutes in between the 200 hours of mining asteroids.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
Man, I played Eve Online for months and never mined a single asteroid. **** that weird stereotype.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
I was joking, but I do dislike Eve always coming up when I discuss this idea (not just here.) Eve is fun and all, but not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about this taking place on a world, with characters and such. If you guys are cool with instancing, that's fine, I understand that. I'm not interested in an MMO that does that stuff anymore though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
Saw this on Kotaku regarding the recent beta weekend:
http://kotaku.com/5896330/everything...t-guild-wars-2
I played Tera which was okay but not very engaging. GW2 looks to be really fantastic.
I didn't get to play the beta as much as I wanted this weekend, but I did get up to level 8 or 9 and enjoyed what I played. Definitely has a lot of potential. I'm now thinking about getting it on release instead of ignoring it like I have been.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
How does the beta work? Do they keep making certain weekends open to the beta testers or is it always running?
I was invited for a weekend beta event. I don't know how often they run these weekend. SWTOR had the same beta weekend process.Quote:
Originally Posted by posthumous_GRIN
I think betas where you can play whenever you want until release are fading away.
The two hours I played of beta this weekend were very entertaining. Definitely still needs some polishing and tuning, but the game is a lot of fun.
Tell us all you know, with pix.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
I can't do that. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24