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Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend. SWTOR or GW2, what do you prefer?

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Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend. SWTOR or GW2, what do you prefer?

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Darkulous
04.29.2012 , 04:58 PM | #211
I watched a bunch of videos that people posted this weekend. It looked like a modern day MMO, nothing more and nothing less. It certainly looks enjoyable but it's not revolutionary and it's not gonna kill anything.
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04.29.2012 , 05:02 PM | #212
Didn't play the beta. I like a number of concepts GW2 is implementing (less focus on Raids for one), but frankly I really dislike the playerbase. It's the players themselves that are keeping me away from the game, not the game itself.
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04.29.2012 , 05:04 PM | #213
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04.29.2012 , 05:04 PM | #214
Quote: Originally Posted by Cerion View Post
Didn't play the beta. I like a number of concepts GW2 is implementing (less focus on Raids for one), but frankly I really dislike the playerbase. It's the players themselves that are keeping me away from the game, not the game itself.
They donot have a "ignore player" feature?
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Jett-Rinn
04.29.2012 , 05:08 PM | #215
Quote: Originally Posted by Valkirus View Post
They donot have a "ignore player" feature?
If you have to ignore 3/4 of the player base why bother? Just play a single player game. GW2's players are for the most part a cross between League of Legends and 4chan; which is so different than the in game community here in TOR. The only other in game community I have even seen close to TOR's is LOTRO.
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ChazDoit
04.29.2012 , 05:09 PM | #216
Quote: Originally Posted by Darkulous View Post
I watched a bunch of videos that people posted this weekend. It looked like a modern day MMO, nothing more and nothing less. It certainly looks enjoyable but it's not revolutionary and it's not gonna kill anything.
The only thing I consider not revolutionary but kind of innovative is their buy2play model that they already implemented in GW1, Im having a lot of fun with swtor, but if GW2 turns out to be just as fun without having to pay every month it will certainly be more appealing to the PVP crowd.

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kashaun
04.29.2012 , 05:14 PM | #217
Quote: Originally Posted by ChazDoit View Post
The only thing I consider not revolutionary but kind of innovative is their buy2play model that they already implemented in GW1, Im having a lot of fun with swtor, but if GW2 turns out to be just as fun without having to pay every month it will certainly be more appealing to the PVP crowd.
I'm a pvper but even the pve is pulling me in. And, shudder to think, I might actual do some crafting in GW2, at least for the guild influence.

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Cerion
04.29.2012 , 05:18 PM | #218
Quote: Originally Posted by Jett-Rinn View Post
If you have to ignore 3/4 of the player base why bother? Just play a single player game. GW2's players are for the most part a cross between League of Legends and 4chan; which is so different than the in game community here in TOR. The only other in game community I have even seen close to TOR's is LOTRO.
^^this

They're also quite hypocritical. For example: Story-based play is bad, unless GW2 does it; Voice Over is a bad concept, unless GW2 does it; pay to win (or pay to not be annoyed) models are bad, until GW2 does it; having no raiding is poor design, unless GW2 does it...

This list goes on. I'd see this all the time on other gaming sites. GW2 fans denouncing some aspect of another game (or SWTOR), but as soon as GW2 announced it would be doing the same thing, suddenly that feature is brilliant.
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nskeen
04.29.2012 , 05:21 PM | #219
Quote: Originally Posted by Cerion View Post
^^this

They're also quite hypocritical. For example: Story-based play is bad, unless GW2 does it; Voice Over is a bad concept, unless GW2 does it; pay to win (or pay to not be annoyed) models are bad, until GW2 does it; having no raiding is poor design, unless GW2 does it...

This list goes on. I'd see this all the time on other gaming sites. GW2 fans denouncing some aspect of another game (or SWTOR), but as soon as GW2 announced it would be doing the same thing, suddenly that feature is brilliant.
How is this different from this community? SWTORs community is terrible.

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ChazDoit
04.29.2012 , 05:21 PM | #220
Quote: Originally Posted by kashaun View Post
I'm a pvper but even the pve is pulling me in. And, shudder to think, I might actual do some crafting in GW2, at least for the guild influence.
Sure why not? I can give WAR Public Quests 2.0 another run, Im a pvper but I also enjoy some pve, I was pulled into swtor because of their story, but once I go through that content, is the pvp that keeps me around.