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GW2 or SWTOR which one will you definitely BUY?
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I've never been able to get into Guild Wars.
SWTOR is a surefire bet for me.
Despite sort of disliking the first Guild Wars I have to admit the second one looks like it could be really good. That said I'm not buying into all the hype about the dynaminc public quests or whatever.
Sheer content, scope and polish=SWTOR. I'd put money on that.
Guild Wars 2=possibly superior pvp.
That pretty much how I view the two.
GW2
It's a given i'll pre-order asap
Dude..Just what it says: The whole pre-order and pricing circus reminded me that this is an EA game. No word about any CEs or price comparison... I have bad experience with EA games and last time I checked EA owned Bioware. And both games made by Bioware since the acquisition (ME2 and DA2) did not impress me at all. I found them both oversimplified (go figure...).
What they do have in common is that they are the two brightest stars on the horizon.
EA owning Bioware has nothing to do with their games. If NCSoft was that way, well they would have no good games. To date there is only 2 games that I can recall which were well recieved. Do I consider NCSoft the reason for that? No. It is the developers that are responsible.
If you don't like Bioware games, thats fine, no one is forcing you to change your opinion. Just don't staple a publishing company to a gaming company like they have a direct effect on the game. Sure, they may have release windows...but developers are given these windows long before any kind of investment is made and they have plenty of opportunity to change the game to support that.
I preordered TOR so that's my game to play. GW2 doesn't really interest me. I only see myself giving GW2 a try if TOR ends up being really bad or friends from work decide to play it and convince me it's worth it.
Neither. I've jumped on early MMO purchases before only to be left with a pile of crap. I'll wait until after release and see how player response to the games is.
GW2. First MMO that I'll have ever preordered.
Probably both..
i will BUY both.
BUYing both seems like fun.
The common wisdom is that EA pressured Bioware to release Dragon Age 2 early, and ended up with a game that was far inferior to it's predecessor. EA has a habit of doing that and have been responsible for their fair share of gutted releases. Spore could have been spectacular had it been permitted to continue development until the game was ready for release. And EA isn't the only publisher who does that.
So saying that the publisher has no effect on a game is simply incorrect. They can have an enormous impact. And when they do, it's almost always a negative one.
I rarely praise publishers, but I do have to give kudos to NCSoft for apparently keeping their hands off of Guild Wars 2 and letting ANet make their game. To me, this is a big reason as to why it looks so promising. I rather believe that if EA was involved, it would have been released already and we'd have to content ourselves with playing half a game. But no worries, there would be plenty of DLC for us to pay for in short order -- at the expense of fixing bugs of course.
I will definitely buy GW2. No question. I will wait for a few months on SW:TOR and read the reviews and impressions of people playing the game, and make a decision after it launches.
I will buy TOR when it comes out and I will pick up GW2 if I'm sick of TOR or have stopped playing by time GW2 comes out, reason being I only will play one MMO at a time and if I find one I like I will stick with it.
GW2. Nothing I've seen from SWTOR really excites me.
As things stand right now, I might buy Guild Wars 2 even if no free trial is available right away, but SWTOR will be something I either pass on or wait to free trial.
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Unless GW2 beats SWTOR out of the gate for release, I won't be playing it until I get tired of SWTOR. The art in GW2 looks too fantastic to let it slip by though.
No bitchers.
I've allready pre-ordered SWTOR, so that settles this one.....
Actually it's common knowledge that the game was rushed. This was already admitted. Hopefully it's a mistake they learn from. But I dont see how this is relevant considering how long SWTOR has been in development. I dont think polish or content will be an issue with SWTOR.
I would love to see some proof for this "common wisdom" that EA pressured Bioware to release Dragon Age 2 early. Also, Dragon Age 2 was well recieved..just not as popular as previous Bioware games. It sold a few million and was a pretty large success. Just because you didn't like it does not mean other people did not.
Hell,I would like to see any proof that EA forced a company to release a game early. Not that I don't believe you, as I know that investors have an impact on a game's time table. (Though investors does not neccessarily include EA)
I would love to see what gave you the idea that NCSoft is keeping their hands off of Guild Wars 2 as well. SWTOR won't have paid DLC, it will have expansions just like every other MMORPG. You also are kidding yourself if you don't think Guild Wars 2 will have bugs.
One of the composers made a claim that the game was rushed you dont have to believe it, but I do. That aside I agree, DA2 was still a good game. And I felt it made a lot of improvements, at the same time it took a few steps back.
It seems the common thought is this...
EA didn't let BioWare finish it's products, that's why they release so many "small" DLC. Had the game been in development for a bit longer, most if not all of the DLC could have implemented into the game before launch.
If however, their intent was to release a game, and then release DLC the very day THE GAME WAS LAUNCHED... that is also pretty bad.
Either EA won't let their developers finish, or they cut some stuff out to be sold later. Later as in within days and weeks of launch.
That is the generall consensus. I honestly don't care, I never buy DLC anyways. I'm just hoping SWTOR won't have DLC added to the monthly fee and expansion packs...
I am intrigued. Do you have a link to backup your claim?
Well, I was going to list the differences, but once I hit 60 of them I figured it was too obnoxious to post them.
"Gamers will no longer buy the argument that every MMO requires a subscription fee to offset server and bandwidth costs. It's not true you know it, and they know it." -Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet, 2007
Definitely buying Giv Was 2 but only maybe buying SWTOR.
This is not a game.
Neither it seems.
GW2 doesnt interest me because I am a bit over fantasy MMO's at this point, the market is oversaturated with them IMHO.
SWTOR is apparently not available in my region (not being available in all english speaking regions at launch is a joke) and no word on when it will be so I won't be buying that either.