Guild Wars 2 is $10 this weekend, which is by far its lowest price ever. It’s a casual-friendly MMO with no subscription fee, so $10 is all you need (the $15 deluxe edition stuff isn’t important). It’s pretty well liked by a lot of people.
Anyway, I figured if others wanted to try the game out now that it’s so cheap, we might as well try it out together. There a few SDMBers who play on the Sea of Sorrows server, so we might as well start there. I think you can play the PVE content with people across different servers, but since some of the PVP is based on realm-vs-realm, you need to start on the same server for that.
It’s very casual friendly, doesn’t require a lot of time investment, and higher level players will scale down their character to be appropriate for the zone they’re in, so you can play with people among different levels and don’t have to coordinate leveling precisely.
Anyway, if you’re interested in trying this together, add me as a friend - account Beef.1032 and join Sea of Sorrows. I’ll try to get everyone linked up with each other. And preferably install mumble for voice chat.
FYI, GW2 is a “buy to play” MMO, no sub fee involved. So that ten dollars is all you are ever going to have to pay to play basically forever. Unless you want the expansion if they charge for that or any of the stuff from the store, none of which is strictly necessary and you can buy it with game money anyways.
I like it. I got burnt on hard core raid and PVP and more or less quit playing EVE Online when Vile Rat died because it just wasn’t the same. So I explore, do quests, tradeskills and hang out, treating it like a chat room with graphics and killing. Though I admit I hate jumping puzzles… I guess I am a virtual klutz just like a real life one. sigh
I’ve been actively playing since launch on Sea of Sorrows. I tend to do everything from open-world PvE to world vs. world vs. world, to even the platforming-inspired jumping puzzles.
If anyone wants an invite to the SDMB guild (the Burning Dog Legion) which exists although it’s really inactive, send me a PM at Heller Highwater.4967.
I bought the game back on Day 1, but I haven’t played in many, many months…I just kinda got burned out on the whole MMO genre. But it’s still on my hard drive, so maybe I should give it another go.
They’re running the deal again this weekend. It’s pretty fun, if the concept seems appealing to you I’m sure you’ll get more than your $10 worth out of it.
If you want to be able to do PVP with us, and/or have nowhere else to pick as a home server, go to Sea of Sorrows. But we can still all play PVE content together even on seperate servers, so either way add me and I’ll get you connected to everyone else.
A lot of people are telling me “I don’t have time for an MMO” and that sort of thing. GW2 is pretty unusual in that it both doesn’t have a subscription fee, so you don’t have to play enough to justify continuing your description, but that it’s also very casual friendly and social. The game will downscale your level if you’re higher than the content you’re participating in, so you don’t have to worry about keeping up with the people you play with - the higher level people can come down and play with the lower level people and still receive rewards appropriate to their level. It’s also not a rush to endgame like most MMOs - most of the endgame stuff like PVP is actually available at lower levels, and even when you hit end game, a big part of what you do is still exploring the world, completing quests, etc. So it doesn’t have the investment/pressure to keep up as other MMOs do. You can pretty much play it casually, whenever you’re feeling like it, and not be losing out on anything - including money for a subscription.
Do you know how GW2 deals with high ping situations? I am on sat internet that suffers from weather fluctuations at times. Does GW2 need a decent connection to play?
I re-sub’d WoW, without WoD, to see if I want to return. Without my small group of friends I don’t know if WoW is worth $15 per month and whatever expansions show up down the road.
I really have no idea. MMOs are generally more forgiving than pretty much any other online genre because their actions tend to be less precise and time dependent, but I don’t know how GW2 fares in that regard.
I will once again make this offer…The guild I am in, Zealots of Shiverpeak does guild missions three times a week. The first time we do it is 8:30 PM (eastern time) on Saturdays. If anyone wants to join us for the missions this Saturday, let me know and I will invite you to join us.
Also on Saturdays, at 9:30, we do Triple Trouble (aka Jungle Wurm) with another guild. That is a large organized event with a chance at some nice loot.
Or if you just want to have somebody to run around with, let me know. I am doing map completion on my second mesmer, Ferry Fairy.
I played this a bit last year. I had to change servers when I started, to join some friends, so it’s a surprise to me that you can join other server players for PvE. Is this new?