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

With the way the forums have been flamed since even before launch i would expect it to be about even, thing is all the peeps shouting tera would be king are quiet, if thats due to tera now being out or not is another matter. Also the peeps who have screamed that GW2 would kill swtor are v quiet also. But what do you expect now the proof is out there to what gw2 is gonna bring to the table.

If they spend all there time on here now then there is obviously something wrong with the games they called the messiah.

quiet cause were all to busy playing gw2 and not sitting in the fleet all day waiting for que pops against the same 15 people mad?

I played the beta this weekend. Guild Wars 2 stomps SWTOR on all levels except some minor PvP annoyances.

Ok it is F2P but realistically it isn't that free. Any business out there is out to make a profit above all else. Just with any MMO they have to have an income that exceed's their output obviously. Paying 15 per month covers the costs of most MMO's these days. That is for staff, servers etc...

Now GW2 needs to cover costs as well so they set up micro transactions, again they are out to make a profit. The attitude you can see here as well other MMO's is people want the best gear without having to jump through hoops to get it. Go and look through the forums and you will see it everywhere, people whining about grinding for the Best PVP gear, or whining for the beat PVE gear but have no time to raid and thing that is unfair.

Now playing off that weakness GW2 sets up micro transactions to get some of the best stuff. Now you can get what you want instantly but just need to fork out real dollars for it. This can cost more then a 2 month sub in any other MMO. Again a bit of time goes by and they release some cooler/better gear and here you go again forking out the cash and so on and so forth. After a year you can nearly spend twice what you would if you were paying for a years sub.

Remember, this is a business and they are out to make a profit.

Dynamic Events almost remind me of the rifts in well Rift. After about 2 days of that it got tiring fast.

I'll be honest outright, haven't played the beta, never played GW at all have read and watched what I could on it be a little bit informed and nothing jumped at me at all.

Ok it is F2P but realistically it isn't that free. Any business out there is out to make a profit above all else. Just with any MMO they have to have an income that exceed's their output obviously. Paying 15 per month covers the costs of most MMO's these days. That is for staff, servers etc...

Now GW2 needs to cover costs as well so they set up micro transactions, again they are out to make a profit. The attitude you can see here as well other MMO's is people want the best gear without having to jump through hoops to get it. Go and look through the forums and you will see it everywhere, people whining about grinding for the Best PVP gear, or whining for the beat PVE gear but have no time to raid and thing that is unfair.

Now playing off that weakness GW2 sets up micro transactions to get some of the best stuff. Now you can get what you want instantly but just need to fork out real dollars for it. This can cost more then a 2 month sub in any other MMO. Again a bit of time goes by and they release some cooler/better gear and here you go again forking out the cash and so on and so forth. After a year you can nearly spend twice what you would if you were paying for a years sub.

Remember, this is a business and they are out to make a profit.

Dynamic Events almost remind me of the rifts in well Rift. After about 2 days of that it got tiring fast.

I'll be honest outright, haven't played the beta, never played GW at all have read and watched what I could on it be a little bit informed and nothing jumped at me at all.

Shouldn't you be playing GW2? Why are you here on the forums?

GW 2 - unlike Swtor, is a true next-gen mmo. Especially for pvpers it will be THE mmo to play for the next years.

Imagine if a game takes all the best pvp elements from Warhammer, Age of Conan and WoW and then combines them - then you get GW 2. The pvp is fantastic, I did some sieges this weekend and the world vs world events fondly remind me of my days in Shadowbane - but unlike Shadowbane the game works and does not lag. Defenders can build up their castles and attackers can place siege engines and fire them.

Also in terms of graphics it pretty much blows Swtor away. Compared to the epic castles in GW2, like the human's capital, the Swtor cities seem small, stale and liveless. Also the client does not crap itself when there are dozens of players on screen - and this is a beta version, the live version will be even smoother and faster.

And on top of that you have way more customization for your character in GW2. In Swtor you are bound to a single weapon and maybe 2-3 different specs. In GW2 you can have different weapons for a class and each weapon is not only cosmetic but has it's own unique skillset. Add traits, gear and stat points and you have way more variety.

beta is about to end so im back to this garbage game friend told me there was only 20 people on fleet during prime time yesterday when theres usually 120-150 does that tell you something?