Guild Wars 2

Herr Lindahl.5732:

milo.6942:

Vayne.8563:

Yep, you’re absolutely right. And yet I’m 100% sure I’ve heard Jeff Strain or Mike Obrien refer to it as a cooperative RPG, as well, later on in the game’s life.

As I said earlier the game certainly was first posed as a PvP game, but Anet themselves have said they were surprised by the passion of the PvE players. Again it’s why the last two games they released, Nightfall and EotN had no PvP at all in them. They were pure PvE games.

Why? Because as I said earlier, after their initial plans they saw which side their bread was buttered on.

And again, it’s why they talked about PvE in Guild Wars 2 for a full year, before ever mentioning PvP.

I thought it was “cooperative” as well, and the official wiki gives both cooperative & competitive as true. And it’s also true that starting from later expansions there was less emphasis on pvp, and certainly heading into gw2 it’s been painfully obvious pvp has been relegated to life support status. Other posters talking about gw1 being “coincidentally” featuring gvg are really quite far from the documented truth: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars which leads me to the conclusion that the name “guild wars” originates from a desire to market the game as pvp-focused to distinguish it among its competitors.

Vayne.8563:

Oh I’m pretty sure that PvP was originally supposed to be end game. Anet just learned that people love Tyria. It’s something you don’t get as much in PvP.

I think Anet’s own FAQ is more reliable than the wiki when it comes to the game’s description in this case; the wiki can be edited by anyone, after all. I remember people understanding the C to mean cooperative, but I only saw that a few years down the line after they started shifting more focus from PvP to PvE (which was the time their official wiki was launched). The C can certainly mean both cooperative and competitive, but that doesn’t change what the original intention was.

I have never said the original end game wasn’t supposed to be PvP. I’ve never even implied it. I’ve always maintained the original end game was supposed to be PvP. However that changed long long before Guild Wars 2 was released. LONG before.

cmon Anet make something harder, wurm is getting way too ez for a organize group.

I’m still seeing consumables being used in that screenshot above.

ya but, still we would like some more harder mega boss

Mmm, not sure about harder, but I do think that bringing more mega-bosses like the Marionette back would be good. I miss that fight.

Hardly a benefit in joining a server either.

U know what would be a fun mega boss. How about a necro boss where all the down player gets turn into a champ and can’t wp till other player kill you.

It’s funny how a player who is not surrounded by fellow guild members suddenly loses all intelligence and ability.

(Am I being sarcastic? I can’t even tell!)