Guild Wars 2

People have been asking me for a possibility to try GW2 without having to buy first and i’ve been wondering about it myself and find it quite a shame that it only happened during the karka event.

Is there any possibility to make them possible again?

I have a couple of friends who are somewhat interested as well. But they have bad experiences with previous MMOs in general so they’re avoiding the game by that basis.

I think a trial-weekend with some upcoming living story event would be great. With some limitations of course, to prevent exploitation.

Would love a referral system for getting friends trials. I have a lot of friends who are ARPG fans but think this game is just another WoW clone. I think even an hour of play time would clear a lot of misconceptions about this game. As it is now, I just let friends take one of my alts out for a spin, but ten minutes with me awkwardly hovering over their shoulder isn’t exactly the best experience.

I’m not a businessman, and I’m sure ANET has perfectly logical reasons, but it really baffles me why this isn’t a thing. The people I’ve coerced into playing got hooked in the first couple of hours.

It would be really nice if they had a trial system like Warhammer did where you can experience the first 10 levels or the intro maps. That at least would populate the lower levels.

But then again if Arenanet implemented such a thing, people here would go all nuts and point to it as proof that the game is failing, which it surely is not.

My brother wasn’t going to play GW2 because he couldn’t play his GW1 characters in GW2, and there was no budging from this. When Arenanet allowed the Guest pass during the Lost Shores event, I sent one to my brother. Since it was free, he decided to give it a try. He loved it, but couldn’t buy it just yet. He bought the game at the beginning of January, and canceled his SWTOR account. It is now February and he is considering on buying some gems to create a 6th character.

So yes, having Guest passes would be a fantastic thing to have in this game, it will help with increasing their sales and player base.

I have a friend who would like to try guild wars 2 right now but is unsure about the $50 for the game. He would like to play test the game before he buys it and I think that this might be a way for guild wars 2 to revitalize their player base.

I’m not saying that guild wars is losing players, but I can honestly say there aren’t as many as their once was and it could use a little boost in the form of guest passes to get more people into this really interesting and different MMO.

I am in the same boat. I have a couple of acquaintances that I have tried talking into playing GW2 only realize that I can, at best, show them the game on my screen. Needless to say, they have no intention of dropping $50 on something they don’t even know if they will like.

I actually just found this thread because I have a classmate who wanted to possibly try the game out and I mistakenly thought the April Guest Trial event was a permanent Guest Trial system that had been added to the game. I did not have anyone to invite to try the game when the announcement was made, and so did not pay all that much attention to it. I recently went back to school, however, ankitten ow going to school for a degree in Game Development. There are plenty of people who would be interested in possibly trying the game, and as you might imagine, many students pursuing degrees in Game Development are hard core gamers.

Most of them blew the game off when it came out because they misunderstood the way the class system worked. They assumed that the lack of tank/healer/dps centric classes meant that all classes could do all 3 things at once for all the classes. In other words, they heard that you could do all three stereotypical class functions, and without bothering to actually look into how the class system worked, dismissed the game as having no strategy since you did not have particular classes that were healer classes, or designated tank classes, or designated dps classes.

Hard core gamers (at least the ones I know…and the ones who write most of the gaming articles I read) tend to get stuck in their ways, and jump to erroneous conclusions when they are told a game isn’t going to follow the patterns they are used to. I have explained to a bazillion people since I started school that while you can gear any given class to more or less do all three of the tank/healer/dps class designations, you can only really do one of the three at a time. Trying to do all three at once with a jack-of-all-traits build generally just makes you ineffective at all three.

Since I am female, however, many of them don’t think I really know what I am talking about. -_- With trial passes many of them would be happy to try the game, if only to educate the deluded female who can’t possibly understand how mmo classes work. lol. Since we are all broke college students, picking which games we spend our money on is very selective though, so getting them to shell out 50 bucks to try a game they are convinced my lack of y chromosome prevents me from understanding is a bit more difficult.

Once they tried the game, most of them would probably love it. And judging from the amount of money they spend on LoL microtransactions, you could probably make decent profit off many of them.

Are y’all planning to do another one of these events any time soon? Or possibly add a permanent guest system to the game?

If not, I will just continue trying to persuade them to give it a shot, but this would definitely make it easier to do.