Guild Wars
Well the fine people over at ArenaNet are working on a MMORPG with no monthly fee, a welcome idea for many gamers wishing to get into the genre. Since the Arenanet folks were originally Blizzard exployees who worked on games such as Diablo, Starcraft, and Warcraft they know how to make good games and have had experience designing the free Battle.net service.
From what I have read about it so far it seems to be shaping into a very good game concept. Instead of high level characters completely pwning n00bs they will merely have more skill choices while lower levels will have less skill choices. Thus the player with the best strategy wins. It is very reminiscent of the Planetside skills system which I think is excelent.
I have also read that there will be various modes of gameplay from being able to go solo, to group coop, to group PvP. I think the most interesting part will be the guild wars themselves. They plan on having a very extensive guild system with guild halls and the works. Since there is one universal server that everyone plays on there should be some pretty spectacular battles assuming they can keep lag to a minimum.
Anyhoo what does everyone else think of the game? Do you think they can really make the no monthly fee work while still keeping a steady flow of content? Will lag be a big problem with so many people on the same server?
Norge
From what I have read about it so far it seems to be shaping into a very good game concept. Instead of high level characters completely pwning n00bs they will merely have more skill choices while lower levels will have less skill choices. Thus the player with the best strategy wins. It is very reminiscent of the Planetside skills system which I think is excelent.
I have also read that there will be various modes of gameplay from being able to go solo, to group coop, to group PvP. I think the most interesting part will be the guild wars themselves. They plan on having a very extensive guild system with guild halls and the works. Since there is one universal server that everyone plays on there should be some pretty spectacular battles assuming they can keep lag to a minimum.
Anyhoo what does everyone else think of the game? Do you think they can really make the no monthly fee work while still keeping a steady flow of content? Will lag be a big problem with so many people on the same server?
Norge
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http://www.guildwars.com/
Norge
It's free, though.
what's the catch?
Norge