Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 1 had it, WoW has it (not that I’ve ever actually played wow, but they have it), so wondering why Guild Wars 2 doesn’t have it…

I think the ‘10 hour/14 day’ thing was good, and I definitely think that GW2 would benefit from it, or something similar, allowing people who are unsure about purchasing the game to actually have a go at playing it and seeing what they would get out of it.
Even now I have a friend who is deciding whether or not he will buy it, despite my (and another friend’s) encouragement.

It would be cool, but doubt it happening, that if the ‘trial.. version’ would run off the normal client, but only download the areas up to around lvl 10-20, so they’re not overwhelmed by the 17gig download or whatever it is now..

Games that have been released recently won’t just add a trial straight away else Arenanet can lose money. A trial will most likely be added, but for sometime in the future.

A free trial would open the door up to whole lot of gold seller spammers. They would keep making new accounts to send mails and clog map chat. No thanks, the gold emails everyday have finally stopped.

maybe in 1-3 years. Its too early for that.

Yeah okay that makes sense, thanks.

I would not go as far as 1-3 years, but at least until the worlds and closed to free travel and guesting is ready.

MithranArkanere.8957:

I would not go as far as 1-3 years, but at least until the worlds and closed to free travel and guesting is ready.

I think he was refering to the “Most Likely” situation. A-Net isn’t going to want to open up a massive portion of thier game to people not paying for it. So they will most likely keep it Buy-To-Play for a while. Then after a couple years, Open a F2P trial for people who didn’t jump on the Guild Wars 2 train before that point.