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Guild Wars 2

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Guild Wars 2 is just around the corner for PC gamers and it looks like this is going to be a solid game. With heavy competition in the MMO world, you need something that stands out and says “I’m different!” and Guild Wars 2 could be that game. Fans of Guild Wars have been waiting for this sequel since 2007 and on 8-28-2012 they will finally get to experience the game that the 200 person team at ArenaNet have been working so hard on over the years.

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Guild Wars 2 really aims to be a personalized experience for each player. The decisions you make early on will change how your story develops. You will be able to choose from eight professions and five races, including the defiant humans, the feline charr, the unearthly sylvari, the mighty norn and the ingenious asura.

Like any good MMO, you will also be able to participate in arena based PvP or player vs player combat which should make good use of the combat system that features combos, improvised tactics, and environmental weapons.

A key component in making an MMO feel like it has depth, is a large, immersive and engaging world to play in. The world of Tyria has been built to be just that.

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A familiar sight in MMO’s are the NPC’s or non playable characters. NPC’s normally wait for you to run up to them before they will give you a specific quest to complete, in GW2 you will walk into a world where the NPC’s are not static but moving around and interacting with the world. You may see something bad that’s about to happen to a NPC and then you can jump in and save them which will trigger a specific series of events, or maybe you don’t save them and a different event triggers.

The world around you is built to feel alive, not static, and the choices you make have real impact. These events are called dynamic events, and you can group up with others to take on world challenges. These challenges increase in difficulty the larger your group becomes and the experience you gain will benefit everyone participating.

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What makes Guild Wars 2 even more appealing to try is that it’s Free to play, just simply buy the game upfront and then play online all you want. If you have an original Guild Wars account you will be able to link it to your Guild Wars 2 account.

Guild Wars 2 goes on sale 8-28-12 for $59.99, and you can find out more information about Guild Wars 2 here.

MMORPGs Becoming Free-To-Play

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Many major MMORPGs are becoming free-to-play and its all because of the communities around these games speaking out. Many subscribers to these games feel less value in the product between major updates and don’t want to commit. Drops in subscribers are a major problem with these types of games. Star Wars: The Old Republic has recently announced that this fall it is Star Wars: Old Republic going to offer a free-to-play option that will allow players to reach up to level 50. Blizzard Entertainment has also released a free-to-play version of Diablo III up to level 13.

Players will be given a choice as to whether or not they want to pay to gain access to otherwise restricted features. The bottom line is here that with the option of free-to-play you have a better chance of holding on to players and keeping their interest in the game but also you make it easier for new people to get into your game. I know from personal experience that there have been many times where I wanted to get into something new but didn’t want to commit to a subscription.