Guild Wars Comments by Robert Purchese
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If you pop onto their homepage you can see some little videos, and all sorts of wonderful magic: Which is also where these shots are from.
The next big beta weekend is on the 18th of February at approximately 20:01 GMT. I've heard lots of good things about this game, lets hope it delivers! Cheers, Bert
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most recently on 02/02/05 @ 10:32
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The clients for other subscription-based games are cheap or even free. Let's say you paid £40 for this game (they mention it'll be priced near other "top-tier" PC games). That might be the client and three months of subscription for another game, or even 5 or six months if the client is free. So they should have a goodly amount of cash to start off with.
Not sure what they'll do when the cash runs out though! edit - spelling
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Hm, in my experience, the client software isn't free usually. I know some of them get a lot cheaper or are free after a while, but just look at CoH or WoW: both cost as much as a normal single-player game, and I remember I paid the normal price for the EVE client as well.
And all MMORPGS have expansion packs, I doubt this suffices to support a game for months, let alone several years. |
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Everything I've heard from people who've beta tested it, leads me to believe it will be at least close to it [WoW].
It's a different kettle of fish though: Warcraft is more MMORPG with emphasis on the traditional values of levelling and such, where as Guild Wars is putting more emphasis on player skill, with less treadmilling; given that, it's purely down to personal preference. Also, WoW is a fact, Guild Wars is still mildly a fiction.
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The extra price on the package also means that people who buy it and stop paying don't incure a penalty to the developer. I imagine lots of people try MMORPGs and don;t like them, and stop subscribing after the first month. This way, the devs keep all of that money. In my first example, that's two months of subscription money the developer gets to keep the service going for other people who are still playing.
Not a totally fair or foolproof system, but the lure of no subscription fees is probably attractive enough to get people to buy it. |
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stoopidgreg
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but if it costs the same as regular AAA titles then why should that be a concern? £40 always means £30 on the intarweb and i don't mind paying that much when you consider that it's about the same as WoW minus the subscription. and if you play the game for 6 months it more than pays for itself.
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