Guild Wars 2

I’ve never heard of an MMO launch that was bug free. In fact, GW2 is the only MMO I’ve played on launch at all, mostly because other MMOs had permanent queues or downtime in the first month.

In hindsight, locking sales, removing forums and TP, disabling guilds etc etc all meant I could actually play the game. I mean, who needs forums when reddit works just fine. The guy who made that decision should get the Nobel Prize for gaming.

Rift was, arguably, the most bug free MMO launch I’d ever been to.

In spite of that there was a security bug on their forums that led to tens of thousands of accounts to be hacked. It took Trion weeks to clear up the back log.

And because the game was so small they kept coming out with new updates that introduced new bugs. Rift was buggier two months after launch than it was at launch.

Game ranking scores on released MMORPGs on that site as rated by players are below. I always go by the players score myself. They tend to get things closer to the truth.

1. The Secret World- 8.62
2. Guild Wars 2- 8.60
3. Darkfall: Unholy Wars- 8.14
4. Rift- 8.06
5. PlanetSide 2- 7.89
6. EVE Online- 7.88
7. EverQuest II- 7.86

Vayne.8563:

Ping.5739:

Valanga.5942:

kRiza krimos.1637:

WoW became what it is only because of lucky circumstances. I guarantee that if it had another few MMO’s to compete with for playerbase it would never reach such success.

So did GW2… A WoW lite, for free, when the only other competition was The Secret World (a MMO when you have to actually use your brain in order do get the quest done? NEVER! Let’s go spam autoattack on a dragon… inb4 “go play it, then”, i’m doing it already.)
That’s for me (again, inb4 Vayne speaking for the whole community), why GW2 was release prematurely, when i should’ve need at least 5 or 6 months of REAL closed beta.

Master Vayne won’t even waste his/her time on pathetic folks like us.

Wow you guys are fixated on me. It’s really not healthy you know.

The reason this game is the #1 (and not just in that poll but in the minds of lots of people, but not all people) is because other MMOs mostly suck really badly.

It’s true. I never said this was a great game. I said it was a good game. But a good game in MMO space can be a whole lot better than the scores of mediocre and bad games that come out.

I agree…the game could have used more time in development. I mean Star Wars ToR was a much bigger project from a much bigger company and that didn’t launch early or have any bugs. TSW didn’t launch early or have any bugs either. Coughs.

Don’t get me wrong. Joking on those who directly target you doesn’t mean I don’t like you.

Ping.5739:

Vayne.8563:

Ping.5739:

Valanga.5942:

kRiza krimos.1637:

WoW became what it is only because of lucky circumstances. I guarantee that if it had another few MMO’s to compete with for playerbase it would never reach such success.

So did GW2… A WoW lite, for free, when the only other competition was The Secret World (a MMO when you have to actually use your brain in order do get the quest done? NEVER! Let’s go spam autoattack on a dragon… inb4 “go play it, then”, i’m doing it already.)
That’s for me (again, inb4 Vayne speaking for the whole community), why GW2 was release prematurely, when i should’ve need at least 5 or 6 months of REAL closed beta.

Master Vayne won’t even waste his/her time on pathetic folks like us.

Wow you guys are fixated on me. It’s really not healthy you know.

The reason this game is the #1 (and not just in that poll but in the minds of lots of people, but not all people) is because other MMOs mostly suck really badly.

It’s true. I never said this was a great game. I said it was a good game. But a good game in MMO space can be a whole lot better than the scores of mediocre and bad games that come out.

I agree…the game could have used more time in development. I mean Star Wars ToR was a much bigger project from a much bigger company and that didn’t launch early or have any bugs. TSW didn’t launch early or have any bugs either. Coughs.

Don’t get me wrong. Joking on those who directly target you doesn’t mean I don’t like you.

Don’t get me wrong. Nothing that has been said on this forum about me has bothered me. Most of it entertains me greatly. It’s certainly great fun for my guild to read.