Guild Wars 2 Delayed to 2010-11

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  only in art. it didn't have the korean mmo grind. : nakor_
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    That's because it's not an MMO. I absolutely love MMO, but it is not an MMO. It is a single player ac... : IndigoAK
    • er, *absolutely love Guild Wars : IndigoAK
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      I hear Guild Wars 2 might change that. : tKillbox
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        Yeah, Guild Wars 2 will be a real MMO. : IndigoAK
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          without the fee : quadalupeupe
          • Yes, without the fee. I'm actually looking forward to seeing with Anet comes up with. : IndigoAK
    • It's a multiplayer tournament game AND a singleplayer/coop RPG, mostly like StarCraft / WarCraft 3. And l... : razorblade79
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      Its an MMO. You have large city hubs with hundreds of players with instanced questing. Ok sure it doesnt ... : thewindcriesmary
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        it's diablo 2, with the battle.net chatrooms being 3d towns in the game. : xsoulbrothax
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          that comparison is flawed because Diablo 2 and Guild Wars have almost nothing in common gameplay-wise : razorblade79
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            I disagree and I will tell you some of the reasons why. people who worked on diablo left blizzard to mak... : Luminair
            • doesn't really make sense. the game is the total opposite of diablo really - diablo is about two things a... : razorblade79
• GW was made by numerous ex-employees from Blizzard. Many of them key employees. : Sylvanus
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  I loved the hell out of guild wars but I only think they missed a huge opportunity. If they would simply ... : Neech
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    What? I preferred their system over diablos. : SlingBlaze
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      it took me a long time to become acclimated to their loot system such that I wouldnt instinctively think ... : Luminair
      • Is the points of the system we are comparing that the items you see dropped are only for you? Thats the ... : SlingBlaze
• I was never really into fantasy games/movies/literature. But Guildwars was a big exception for me. I didn... : Azrael88
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  Guild Wars has almost nothing in common with the typical free-to-play Korean MMO. You haven't played Guil... : psamathos
  • OR I played quite a bit of Guild Wars and not many Korean MMOs But way to back up your point with exam... : vertdang
• Guildwars got boring to me because the loot was boring compared to something like Sacred, Titan Quest or ... : LemonJoose

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• Same... last I read about GW2 they were making something more like a full-fledged MMO, after their succes... : ReiMomo

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• - no market like WoW, have to trade old school way : quadalupeupe
• yeah they're adding all of that to gw2 but the waiting game is kind of annoying : thebigbeefsandwich
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  Why do people get so worked up about jumping? Are you that desperate to see jiggling polygons? Seriousl... : MH Knights
  • Why worry about jumping? Seriously? Make an MMO where you can't move backwards, see how people like tha... : ReiMomo
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  You can jump in Guildwars with the /jump command. Although it's really just an emote rather than a useabl... : Azrael88
  • So you can PRETEND to jump. Fail. : ReiMomo

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• It's not all instanced dungeons this time , it's supposed to be open world like EQ/WoW and so on , An... : Cock_Goblin

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  We were talking about it last night. There's still _plenty_ of people playing it. : Sylvanus
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    yea i dont play it much, but when i do it's loaded with people : jonin
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      From the report: Guild Wars Concurrent Users - U.S & Europe 2,447,000 - Sept, 2006 3,122,000 - Dec, 20... : Sylvanus
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        Apologies - # of Accounts Activated : Sylvanus
        • yep that is basically total copies sold, and it shows pretty good growth if you ask me : Luminair
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          Number of total accounts, but I wonder how many are actually active? A lot of the forums for GW have gon... : duffman03
          • support for new content is better than I expected, they made a huge update like a month or two ago : Luminair
          • Since there is no monthly fee, that doesn't really matter to GW. They sold almost 1 million copies in 20... : jake
      • This is healthy growth but obviously this game has no churn whatsoever because an active account comes at... : Neech
• Yeah, I played a lot of Guild Wars PvE and EOTN seemed to introduce a lot of replayable elements like dun... : psamathos

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  You're assuming A LOT. It's under ArenaNet's direction due to the success of Guild Wars. There's much M... : Sylvanus
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    I'm assuming strategic decisions like delaying a game for 2 years are made by the leadership of the compa... : Luminair
    • Here's the report: http://www.ncsoft.net/global/ir/prfile.aspx?ID=46D262B4-9ED2-4B9F-BC36-236B105053E4 : Sylvanus
    • Maybe? Typically don't people complain that the "man" at the top doesn't give studios enough time to fini... : Sturm08

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  I don't think NCSoft is publishing it anymore. This article states that ijji.com is going to make it f... : r_picmip 5
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    Oh, nice. Free MMO-type game with nice graphics. : TheIneffableBob
    • That usually means heavy grind and unfair advantages though... : r_picmip 5