Not quite correct: You have to buy it for thirty dollars/euros, then you get a month of “premium”, which is necessary to keep up to speed. After that you can either buy premium with real money, or you can buy it with in-game currency. As far as I’ve understood, a month’s worth of premium should take a couple of days to grind out if you know what to do, and there are many ways of getting it. You can also minimize the amount by taking notice of the exchange-rate and converting when the price is down. So it should be entirely possible to play it for free after you buy it.
Anyway, if you’re skeptical I’m gonna try it out anyway. I can give a report when I’ve done so.
I’m not completely sold myself, but I’ve been hankering for a sandbox mmo experience for a long time. I’ve followed it from early alpha, and it’s been growing steadily with devs who seem to listen to their community. My biggest worry is I’m just too casual a player nowadays to really get anywhere.
There are also a couple of others I’m looking at, but none seems quite like a persistent mmo per se, and that’s what I want. I also have to admit it’s nice with linux support!
The business model did worry me before and is one reason I’ve held off until now. I watched a bunch of videos on it that persuaded me otherwise, but if it isn’t I’ll come back and warn you. It might take a little while though, as I’m not quite yet where I can actually spend money on anything.
When I was playing, I didn’t do the mission where you specialize your class. So, keep your Jedi Knight as a Knight, instead of advancing into Guardian or Sentinel. Plus, you get all the WTF? comments when others see your high-level Knight.
There’s also the classic way to gimp yourself by wearing gear that looks good instead of having good stats.
Of course, I’m no longer playing SWTOR, so my advice it didn’t work for me.
Can’t be done anymore, now you pick your advanced class as soon as the character is created–too many people were missing the “pick your advanced class” quest on the Fleet by accident, particularly after they streamlined leveling.
I’ve been playing Guild Wars 2 since its beta. I’d played WoW, EQ, and other games going all the way back to Meridian 59. GW2 is a gorgeous game that rewards just about any play style. You can do easy things or challenge yourself. You can hop on and play for a few minutes, or take on longer adventures and raids. End game is cosmetic, not a gear grind. You don’t need great gear to be competitive.
The community is the most helpful and least toxic of any I’ve seen. There’s no such thing as kill stealing or node stealing or real griefing. As a woman gamer, I like that it has a solid population of women and girl gamers.
I really liked it, the only reason I don’t play any more is lack of access (a series of bad internet connections).
GW2 has enough material and enough changes to never run out of stuff to explore, while at the same time being pretty much completely optional. You can go to dungeons - but don’t have to. You can explore the open world and learn every nook and cranny - but you don’t have to. You can raid…
