How The Old Republic can compete and beat Guild Wars 2

GW will fail.

It wont have endgame raiding. It's PvP will be imbalanced simply due to the fact it's going to be designed as it is.

People need to wonder why MMOs are hard to balance. You give a class X, Y and Z while every other class has X and Y and the class with X, Y and Z is automatically OP. It's like Resto Shaman, Warlock and Rogue 3v3 teams in WoW: they all have CC that doesn't DR. The Resto Shaman, Warlock and Rogue have the ability to switch instantly (redirect / soul swap).

Honestly, GW2 will not work. It wont be balanced. If it's not balanced everyone will roll Class A and thus the game will be terrible, as MMOs require variety to be fun.

And with a Free To Play Model, how long do you think that will last? The moment the company gets enough people wrapped up in the concept of playing the game for free. They will throw slow but enticing tidbits of pay to win in until they have full on gear they can sell.

Have you even looked into ArenaNet at all? try not assume that type of stuff without a little research, the first Guild Wars is still making money with only cosmetic items in the store.

Is this a joke? GW2 may or may not be a very good game but in terms of competing, there is none. SWTOR is a blockbuster game. GW2 isn't.

Just wondering, what, in your mind, do you consider a blockbuster game?

Exactly. And how many copies did Skyrim sell?

Cause shooting lightning from your fingertips isn't fantasy at all.................

Comparing Guild Wars to Star Wars is as Stupid as comparing Star Wars to WoW. The only thing they have in common is that they are MMO's.

There are folks out there that will never play Star Wars, because they do not like the IP or they do not like sci-fi/fantasy.

There are folks that will never play Guild Wars or WoW because they do not enjoy medieval/fantasy.

Just those factors alone make comparing the games akin to comparing apples and oranges. Apples and Oranges are still fruit, but they have nothing else in common.

Greed is the only reason companies charge monthly fees for MMOs. This is a fact. Everquest and UO did it because in the 90s server/bandwidth costs were very high and since people excepted it everyone has done so since.

Server costs and bandwidth are not even published in many companies statements and if they are it is part of a group of costs or as a side note. As it is not a large sum incurred.

SWTOR is like WoW as Burger King is like McDonald's. Is Burger King better?

Like fastfood, MMO's share everything that make it an MMO. Anyway, I guess I say that to point out GW2 will be like every other MMO. Everyone says they are innovative like it's the McRib.