Guild Wars 2

The reason people dont know about Guild wars 2 is because its not advirtised as much as world of Warcraft,and believe me guild wars 2 can beat wow, all it needs to do is go more viral like tv commercails, more ads and commercails for youtube.

They made a commercial. Sadly it was poorly received by practically everyone and I surmise ANet do not have the $$ budgeted to make another at this time

Ireniicus.2167:

They made a commercial. Sadly it was poorly received by practically everyone and I surmise ANet do not have the $$ budgeted to make another at this time

Got to pay though reviewers well hehe. There are a lot of online games that do not show up in the main steam tv look at ps2 its never had a tv advertisement and the simple truth is that tv is dieing web advertisement is getting bigger and bigger.

Guild Wars 2 had quite the advertising push before release. It was everywhere, if you followed MMOs or gaming at all. Believe me, it wasn’t some underground release that went unnoticed.

As far as now, they are only 3 months in. When did World of Warcraft commercials start? Years after it was out, I bet. Give the game time.

Guild Wars 2 gets a lot of press on the Internet. I’m sure that helps.

If you want to help, spread information about it by word of mouth on forums and on Facebook and whatnot. I’m sure ArenaNet will be glad that you got them a few more players.

It’s kind of a catch 22 with ArenaNet. They need to sell more copies in order to make enough money to put out more advertisement. At the same time they need the advertisement, which costs money, to make more money. Yes, they need to better market the game but they need to spend their marketing dollars wisely.

I think that in addition to YouTube ANet needs to make their presence more known on Gametrailers. I didn’t see any of the content update videos on Gametrailers and I know they are big.

Generating controversy, where deliberately or not, can sometimes work but often times it will backfire. The Ascended Gear issue didn’t go over so well with certain players so they decided to spread the message about how ArenaNet lied to them. Of course, whether this really hurt sales of GW2 is up for debate. Mortal Kombat generated a lot of controversy back in the day for its gratuitous violence and that probably did work in Midway’s favor.

If the current iteration of Guild Wars 2 was released when WoW first came out or shortly thereafter then Guild Wars 2 would have a strong chance at actually beating WoW. Yes, it would’ve been the literal WoW killer. But GW2 isn’t competing against vanilla WoW, it is competing against a WoW that has received countless updates and new content. WoW has experienced many controversies in the past like the hardcore raiding scene being inaccessible to the majority of the player base and has overcome these with heroic modes and welfare epics.

Marketing yourself as the best MMORPG, or WoW killer, might seem like a good strategy but it’s too bold. Even if your game is superior you’re going to receive backlash from people who hold unrealistically high expectations. No, you have to take a different approach. For the upcoming expansion any sort of commercial should incorporate story elements from the game like any movie trailer. This sort of thing always resonates with audiences. See the Matrix Revolutions trailer. The movie itself was good but not great; the trailer was just bad kitten

Another Gw2 dethroning WoW thread? Sorry but gw2 isn’t as popular because it doesn’t have many long-term features that your general mmo players enjoy such as the gear treadmill. The dynamic events aren’t so dynamic they are just giant zerg train fests failing them doesn’t change much.

RoRo.8270:

Another Gw2 dethroning WoW thread? Sorry but gw2 isn’t as popular because it doesn’t have many long-term features that your general mmo players enjoy such as the gear treadmill. The dynamic events aren’t so dynamic they are just giant zerg train fests failing them doesn’t change much.

No but if you want to make it that way WoW is on its way out for good there just too much out there now more then just GW2 free games that look better and play better at best WoW just has a group of ppl highly addicted to it that just cant brake the habit.