How The Old Republic can compete and beat Guild Wars 2

I beleive him. I did the same thing at Pax Prime. But I dissagree with his assesment.

What is the purpose of this thread ? You feel threatened by something not even in beta yet ?

OMG, insecure much ?

SWTOR is going to beat GW2 for me becaues I wont buy it as it is a F2P game after the initial box purchase and I will never play a non subscription game that is prone to have microtransactions like LOTRO turned into "Shrug"

I guess I"m not looking for a GW2 vs. star wars posting.

Look at Rift, many folk said the same thing in comparison to SWTOR, and now so many servers are ghost towns. I feel that Trion had ample time to attempt to compete, but just didn't implement the kind of story things needed to make Rift as strong as it needed to be as a competitor to SWTOR.

Regardless on how you feel about it, GW2 is innovative when compared to SWTOR. Whether you like that innovation or not is another thing that I don't wish to discuss. People will leave to play this game. That is a fact. My guild is using SWTOR as a placeholder for GW2, most of my friends have preregistered it and indicated that if GW2 is as new an experience, they couldn't see themselves playing a lot of SWTOR.

None of my suggestion are "do exactly what GW2 is doing" because I don't think that's possible. However, they can mimic the innovative features within the programming of their own game.

What I didnt bring up in my post, was that, SWTOR's main complaint, atl east on the boards, are its linear leveling path and single game like feel. The first two suggestion would eliminate that.

I keep saying this but no one listens.

Guild Wars 2 isnt what you think its gonna be. You all think its gonna be this incredible innovative RPG. Let me crack that nut and say already that it isnt gonna be. I been with anet and the first Guild Wars for years and bought all campaigns and expansion.

Anet doesnt do end-game content. Thats just how they are. Also, they dont listen to anyone wich is both good and bad.

Guild Wars 2 is gonna be exactly that. The second Guild Wars, wich means very much like the original with a few new elements to it. Its not gonna be the second coming of MMO. The second coming of MMO is SWTOR.

And like others pointed out, healing was one of the strong points of Guild Wars 1. I criticized and lost much of my excitement when they announced the end of the dedicated healers, because i understand that that is also the death of team-play based content. Everything will just be one big zerg with potion spamming... sound familiar? Yes, because its been done before by other games.

With that said GW2 is gonna be a really fun game to play wich i am gonna get, but really you're setting yourselves up for disappointment if you think the game is gonna be the next revolution in MMO. Heck, TERA has a better chance of doing that than GW2.

You can't buy power in GW2, only cosmetic stuff, in fact, you can play all your life without paying for anything other than expansions, and still compete with everyone since there is no gear grind in the game at all, the basic endgame gear stats should be fairly easy to get.

Also any form of open PvP in GW2 will be better than SWTOR as it currently is

GW2 has entered closed beta last week i believe.

My point still stands.

Guild wars 2 has me excited for a few things, the questing looks standard-interesting, the controls look smooth and it has an established world with several interesting factions. A lot of the posts on this thread just seem to be flat out dismissal of it.

For starters there are no elves in the game, sylvari are a race of sentient plants which are the closest thing as far as I know that come to elves.

Healing is regulated to a few support skills and everyone has at least one heal. I like this because honestly, no one ever seems to want to heal and healing generally means you spend all of your time looking at UI playing wack a mole with health bars. Its not fun for most people to do and waiting around or worse spamming chat for hours looking for a healer is obnoxious.

As far as I can tell in GW2 there is formal arena based pvp with equalized gear and level and etc and informal world realm versus realm pvp where servers fight each other.

There are no factions, no more of that terrible alliance vs horde, imperial vs republic debating.

Personalized stories, if done right this will be like SWTOR.

You can jump. This was kind of a deal break for me in GW1.

Also NCsoft is just the publisher isnt it? its being developed in house by Arenanet. NCsoft has no part in the development. I think we all know NCsoft has a reputation for making Asian grindfests.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kge6AeskWLA


I really don't see how gameplay like this is competition with SWTOR.

GW2 is going to be the premier 3rd person mmorpg competitive pvp game

Swtor's is the premier single player mmorpg with some light pvp elements

2 different market's. Look at League of Legends. there is a very mild level grind to get runes and masteries. The majority of the game though is just pvp with your friends. And to think a game that emphasizes casual pvp with friends now has over 16 million users.

That is the market GW2 is going for. MMo players that have played WOW and are burnt out on the same old tab targetting mechanics.

Swtor's is for the player who never played WOW and wants a fun single/multiplayer experience.

2 different market's