Edge: Can NCsoft's bold plan of reinvention point to a third way for the MMOG?
Many have noted that the MMOG toils beneath the shadow of its market leader, with lesser games aping its every move, surviving on crumbs from Blizzard’s high, high table. Guild Wars has never quite fitted into that picture. Many said it wasn’t even an MMOG because of the heavy use of instancing, and its rejection of a subscription fee set it at a distance from RPG fare that demanded hours of grind to pad out its players’ progress. Even though it still spurns a monthly fee, the sequel can be said to be an MMOG proper with its vast persistent world – and yet, as it moves closer to the literal definition of the genre, it has set about re-examining its conventions. In the manifesto trailer which outlines its radical intent, ArenaNet says that if you like MMOGs, you should have a look at Guild Wars 2 – and if you hate MMOGs, you should definitely have a look.
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Who else but me posts GW2 updates 😎 One of the few companies I support, for over 20yrs.
I played it a little years ago. It was fun but I had children after I started playing and gave it up so my wife wouldn’t hate me. I got to 50 and then hung it up
Arenanet is doing smthn wrong with marketing, I never once seen an ad for a gw2 expansion and always hear it like this once an expac is already released. Not that I would play it cause I'm a gw1 purist haha
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