Guild Wars 2

I appreciate Anet making the NPE in an attempt to make it more easier for new players to understand the rules of the game. But honestly I thought the manner of execution is very flawed when it comes to attracting new blood to the game. If that is the approach they want to go buy, might I suggest implementing a referral system for existing players.

By referral system, I mean something similar to how Blizzard’s Recruit A Friend system works in World of Warcraft. How I would go about it would be something like this:

1. Veteran player give friend a game code
2. Friend redeems game code on the website and downloads the client
3. The game code would be good for say a certain number of days basically just enough to give new players a taste of what GW2 has to offer before buying the game.
4. Veterans would be generously rewarded with how his friend progresses and perhaps if his friend purchases the game in the form of boosters, minis, etc.

The risks for this approach (from what I can think of, anyway) though would be the potential for new players to not buy the game in a same way that people are just going to play a demo but never buy the game for reasons x, y and z.

I’d appreciate it if you guys would take this into consideration for future updates.

I would think having a new player experience system would have something of this nature follow.

Unique weapon skins too? Or back pieces?

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I would think having a new player experience system would have something of this nature follow.

Unique weapon skins too? Or back pieces?

That could work. The best way to decide whether or not a game is worth buying in it’s current state is through a demo. New players would be able to try it out and judge whether they want to buy the game on their own with less influence coming from their other people. And it’s one good way to test whether or not this new feature patch achieves what the developers have intended.

I vote for more unique backpieces over weapon skins, though. Weapon skins are just overrated. XD

EDIT: now that I think about it, wouldn’t it be cool that you would different rewards depending on how many people you refer? If say you were able to win over 10 friends into buying the game, you’d get generous rewards like gems.