Ranger, Warrior, Guardian
Is Guild Wars 2 Niche?
I am more baffled that retail game stores are still a big thing.
I think I got my copy at WalMart, so…
I think it is a niche game. But I think all MMOS are niche games including WoW.
WoW has 10,000,000 subs, but there are 200,000,000 gamers.
Wildstar and ESO are new games that have been out a few months. GW2 has been out like what? 2+ years now? In that store that you went to did you see any boxes for SWTOR? or Star Trek Online? how about The Secret World? or Rift?
The last time i went to Walmart i think i saw a few boxes of SWTOR and that was about it. Those games are all 2-3+ years old though. WS and ESO have been out for a little under a year. Also iirc both those games are sub based and the last i heard they were having player retention issues. Maybe its the fact that WS, ESO and WoW are all sub based so they need advertising to draw in new players. While GW2, SWTOR, STO, TSW, etc are all F2P or sub-optional as well as being older games. And maybe since they are also F2P they also rely more on digital distribution as a cost saving method?
Or maybe its just cause it is Blizzard and they are huge and they can afford advertising? i mention that WoW is old but sub based. But if you look SC2 and D3 are up there too and they just have a box price and afaik no subs.
EDIT: also one other thing, but Wildstar is a niche game too i believe. It was meant to cater to the “hardcore” players. It has a lot of the same features that GW2 has. Hotbar with only a few abilities and dodge system. But GW2 actually did a lot better overall with megaservers, the overflow system and the ability to quickly transfer between servers (early on in game release). And the important one is the scaling system, which so far i have not seen any other game do as good as GW2 does it.
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I saw Guild Wars 2 gem cards in eb games just this week, and that’s in Tasmania. But that doesn’t mean the game isn’t niche.
I saw Guild Wars 2 gem cards in eb games just this week, and that’s in Tasmania. But that doesn’t mean the game isn’t niche.
No way! I’m going to have check all my local shops again.
Fire up the Hyperbowl ma, we’re going to town!
Would you like some hard cheeze with your sad whine?
Would you like some hard cheeze with your sad whine?
I saw Guild Wars 2 gem cards in eb games just this week, and that’s in Tasmania. But that doesn’t mean the game isn’t niche.
No way! I’m going to have check all my local shops again.
For me it’s a big thing, because of the exchange rate. I get like 600 more gems with a gem card than I do buying it from Anet.
There are a lot of online stores which sell gem cards too. I really don’t get the physical copy/physical gem card thing anymore. A disc makes no sense if you have to basically download everything anyway because of patches, and physical gem cards just have the effort of me needing to go outside to buy a code on a piece of paper which I could also buy in electronic form in <2 mins.
There are a lot of online stores which sell gem cards too. I really don’t get the physical copy/physical gem card thing anymore. A disc makes no sense if you have to basically download everything anyway because of patches, and physical gem cards just have the effort of me needing to go outside to buy a code on a piece of paper which I could also buy in electronic form in <2 mins.
But not in Australia. If I’m buying online from outside the country,. I’m losing due to our exchange rate. I’ve done the math. Might as well just buy gems from Anet in game if I can’t get them from an Australian shop.
There are a lot of online stores which sell gem cards too. I really don’t get the physical copy/physical gem card thing anymore. A disc makes no sense if you have to basically download everything anyway because of patches, and physical gem cards just have the effort of me needing to go outside to buy a code on a piece of paper which I could also buy in electronic form in <2 mins.
But not in Australia. If I’m buying online from outside the country,. I’m losing due to our exchange rate. I’ve done the math. Might as well just buy gems from Anet in game if I can’t get them from an Australian shop.
Yep. I haven’t bought gems in months since the exchange rate has increased. I’m going to keep looking for cards here.
Fire up the Hyperbowl ma, we’re going to town!
Would you like some hard cheeze with your sad whine?
Would you like some hard cheeze with your sad whine?
No, it’s not niche. Just old. Everyone interested in a box set bought it years ago. Everyone else downloads it at a bargain price. That’s just the cycle of shelf space. Out with the old, in with the new.
Gone to Reddit.
Just wish i could go in and look at Guild Wars 2 stuff, even if i don’t have the money to buy it. I love GW2, and it would just make me feel fuzzy inside :-)
Ranger, Warrior, Guardian
Why do you think they are beating the ad drums for HoT and making it a regular paid expansion instead of say individual dlc content in the gemstore (like paying for living story)?
Visibility thats why. Retailers wont put GW2 up in stores again simply because its old. With HoT they can put a new shiny GW2 box up in stores.