Guild Wars 2 uniting behind community

GW2 is going to rock.

Wha Whaat? No coverage of the GW2 live demos yet? Come on Gamespot!! Keep up!!

@ person below please dont talk about converting wow players, you'll doom this game to failure!

It's incredible how much competition is rising, there are about 6 games of the genre right now coming to take a shot at the ones dominating the scene so far. I think it's gonna come down to money and quality of population of each game tbh, it's a difficult period.

Can't wait for this game. Played GW to death and was in the beta as well. GW2 looks amazing.

@Gelugon_baat Fine, then I revise my former statement: Almost everything from this press conference is old news. Congratulations, ArenaNet on wasting everyone's time by releasing useless and old information.

@LiquidBullet It is the responsibility of all news services to DISCRIMINATE between what is a good story and what is not. Acknowledging the fact that there isn't much news in this story does not change the fact that Gamespot really shouldn't be posting such worthless stories at all.

@Darth_Tyrranus : Heh, you ~did~ READ it, right? Lemme quote the thing to you: "The Guild Wars 2 panel offered little by way of new information for those who have been closely following the game." - FIRST SENTENCE in the "what they talked about" section. ... Where did you get lost?

Personally I think that Guild wars 2 will be able to do what no other MMO has been able to achieve yet -> to "convert" WoW players Personally I thought that the first Guild Wars was amazing, but yes, it lacked some things. In general, the most annoying things were not being able to walk straight because a 1inch rise in the ground was blocking your path and the heal/tank/dmg system. Luckily, Guild Wars 2 already said this will be changed ^_^ A quick question to y'all. How will the guild system look? have they addressed that at all? (Hall, cape, GvG, etc)

Guild wars one had the best pvp i ever played. I cant wait to see what Guild wars 2 holds.

"ArenaNet seems to be taking a page out of BioWare's book, emphasizing player choice and the consequences thereof for their latest online RPG." What does Bioware have to do with this? Their methods aren't even remotely similar, yet you try to make out that ArenaNet is second rate, as though Bioware invented the very idea of players having a choice. Thanks, Gamespot.

Since I ain't making much money now, this game really interests me. I'll probably try it out simply for the "new" features as there are no subscriptions but isn't like those Free-to-Play type games where rich people own the poor people.

Almost everything in this article is old news. Congratulations on another worthless article, Gamespot.

Very excited for the game

@Master_blades. By grinding he means only if you do not do dungeons and all but sit stupidly for hours and farm random trash. For example raptor farm and all. That is grinding ( Yes, I know its nerfed ). But still, he has a point. After you finish all the games, play every profession and finish all the dungeons then you better leave or grind your life out to get obby and chaos gloves.

why are you all complaining about grinding? other mmo's are even worse, warcraft for example has nothing but farming and grinding

Wow! This game is looking great, and the story seems very intriguing. ...I shall suffer no guilt for getting addicted to this and losing all sense of reality when this game releases. Bring it ON!!

I'm confused, I've been playing for 5+ yrs, where was the heavy grind in GW1??? (besides the very old pvp stuff)

The guy who is supposed to be doing the narrating is holding a paper thin shield. lmao. Just look at it at 01:00. It has no thickness!

I used to play Guild wars , it drove me away fast though after max lvl. Game was just ok ( since no fee because if it had fee i would say was bad ). This instanced like i didnt like at all. Graphics were "Static" and you didnt feel like you were playing into a constantly living open world at all ( thats what mmorpg ) Well i drop it for too many reasons to write down. Though GW2 seems way more interesting and polished. Ill keep an eye for it. I might end up play it , or not. We will see since competition is hot as well.

Guild Wars 1 had some great elements (like the CCG balance structure idea, having elite skill that you must "hunt", etc) but also some bad aspects (lack of an Auction House, pretty much all instanced, so it felt like a single player game or coop game at most, never a true MMORPG, lack of movement freedom - AKA no jumping or swimming). I'm pretty impressed by what I'm reading and watching from Arena. Pretty much all the aspects I didn't like about GW1 are being changed, so I bet it's gonna be a very good MMO, probably as good as WoW with Cataclism or Star Wars the Old Republic (the 2 others I'm keeping under my radar); plus, they're making some more radical changes I think will be good for the genre - stop forcing people into healbot classes or builds, no more boring quests to level up, more interactive world - and without a fee! So... really good job this far, ArenaNet!

@ Master_Blades Grinding? What for? After you finish the campeign you can go onto another one, PVP a bit, maybe craft some extra armors, then there's the farming and grinding is only one of the things you can choose to do.

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im glad there's more character customization. which is the only bit of information that i didn't already have

For me it is about the payment structure, the story and yes the gameplay. I loved GW. Factions was good, NightFall - so-so. Eye of North, well when they hit the Office Space rip off I got pissed off. Were they SERIOUSLY that out of original ideas? I love A/B. I enjoy the game play but yeah the grind was a bit of a pain if no help. I am looking forward to GW2 and hope my kit can run it.

I just really hope (and obviously i'm biased) that the gameplay is more westernized than the previous iteration. And hopefully isn't so incredibly grind heavy. I really want to like this game, the art direction is amazing and it looks really beautiful - but GW1 didn't grab me :( COME ON GW2 :D

can NOT wait to play this game! subscription free, microtransaction free, heal/dps/tank FREE, Open World MMO?!?!? Sign me up!!! oh and thanks Jeff and Rich for signing my free copy of Ghosts of Ascalon, the new Guild Wars book that isn't even out yet!

Looking forward to this game

Finally, an MMO I can get excited about! No pay to play, realm hopping, an open world, . The first one was a more arcade style mmo (if that makes sense) compared to others, but I found it's less grind-centric more action based specialization style to be very fun and quite a refreshing change of pace. I'm really looking forward to learning more about this title!

@guitarist1980 Guild Wars 1 generated revenue by turning out a "campaign" every six months-a year and by using word-of-mouth to bring people in even as the game got older. There are some micro-transactions in GW1, but they are all for totally non-essential elements like costumes (which doesn't affect armor) and additional character slots or storage capacity. I would imagine those would continue in GW2 but A-Net won't make the items you buy effect gameplay.

It looks good but is this game full of micro transactions? Besides the original copy price of the game how does a huge game like this generate revenue.. I dont like paying 15 bucks a month but if it insures the best possible player experience then I would rather pay than play a less than great game. I did play guild wars 1.. it didnt quite get me.

I am excited to try it out. I hope it isn't quite as instanced as the last game. That felt more like a single player game with a multiplayer element to me rather than a true MMORPG.

There is much potential in this game. As long as it tries to stick to it's own guns it may top the charts (in the couple of years)

This Game looks epic.