Guild Wars 2

Just watched the Wildstar video, was wondering if GW2 will get paths? The ability to play in the type of playstyle you like?

Here’s the video

Of course there’s already the explorer type and soldier obviously however it’s quite noticeable how the rest of the paths are missing in this game, and some of us were curious if GW2 would be doing what most mmo’s do, adapt to the market. No scientist archtype (loremaster in other games but not as enhanced) and no settler in this game. (housing/enhanced crafting in most games and no mystic forge does not count).

tigirius.9014:

(housing/enhanced crafting in most games and no mystic forge does not count).

I don’t think that this would work, considering that we already have universal items for portable mystic forges, crafting stations, banks, merchants and TP. And of course, we also had the Molten Alliance Pick for infinite mining.

Also, considering that both Wildstar and Guild Wars 2 are NCSoft games, I doubt that Guild Wars 2 needs to “adopt to the competition”. And honestly, from a monetary point of view, having multiple, different game is better than having tons of clones. Each caters to a small portion of the market, but put them together and it’s great coverage.

Actually almost no MMO offers housing. Everquest II and …. not much else.

Most of them say they will pre-launch and then fail to deliver…

Its really disappointing. I’m with the OP on wanting housing, but I don’t think we should claim its a common feature when it isn’t.

We have a home instance which is more than most. But its still a sadly underused feature…

I’m sure I’m not alone in being the sort who would glady buy loot off the gem store to decorate my home instance for… no rational reason at all… other than to do it.

I remember being so excited on launch day when I saw the human home instance the first time. I ran up three floors of one little house in there thinking of what I’d be able to decorate it with “soon.” Then reality checked myself and remembered no such feature had ever been promised.

Kichwas.7152:

Actually almost no MMO offers housing. Everquest II and …. not much else.

Most of them say they will pre-launch and then fail to deliver…

Its really disappointing. I’m with the OP on wanting housing, but I don’t think we should claim its a common feature when it isn’t.

We have a home instance which is more than most. But its still a sadly underused feature…

I’m sure I’m not alone in being the sort who would glady buy loot off the gem store to decorate my home instance for… no rational reason at all… other than to do it.

I remember being so excited on launch day when I saw the human home instance the first time. I ran up three floors of one little house in there thinking of what I’d be able to decorate it with “soon.” Then reality checked myself and remembered no such feature had ever been promised.

To be honest, Aion has housing and I think it’s one of their only strong points there.

Don’t get me wrong. On the contrary I advise you NOT to try Aion as I have wasted 2~3 years of my life on that treadmill of a game.

But away… Back on topic, I really like how Aion did their housing.

tigirius.9014:

Just watched the Wildstar video, was wondering if GW2 will get paths? The ability to play in the type of playstyle you like?

No this sort of thing has to be built into the game from the start.

Kichwas.7152:

Actually almost no MMO offers housing. Everquest II and …. not much else.

Most of them say they will pre-launch and then fail to deliver…

Its really disappointing. I’m with the OP on wanting housing, but I don’t think we should claim its a common feature when it isn’t.

We have a home instance which is more than most. But its still a sadly underused feature…

I’m sure I’m not alone in being the sort who would glady buy loot off the gem store to decorate my home instance for… no rational reason at all… other than to do it.

I remember being so excited on launch day when I saw the human home instance the first time. I ran up three floors of one little house in there thinking of what I’d be able to decorate it with “soon.” Then reality checked myself and remembered no such feature had ever been promised.

Final Fantasy 11, Runescape, I heard LOTR also so there are a few out there. Agreed tho I want houses in GW2.

Kichwas.7152:

Actually almost no MMO offers housing. Everquest II and …. not much else.

Most of them say they will pre-launch and then fail to deliver…

Its really disappointing. I’m with the OP on wanting housing, but I don’t think we should claim its a common feature when it isn’t.

We have a home instance which is more than most. But its still a sadly underused feature…

I’m sure I’m not alone in being the sort who would glady buy loot off the gem store to decorate my home instance for… no rational reason at all… other than to do it.

I remember being so excited on launch day when I saw the human home instance the first time. I ran up three floors of one little house in there thinking of what I’d be able to decorate it with “soon.” Then reality checked myself and remembered no such feature had ever been promised.

Um? Many games offer housing…LOL it would take forever to list them all.

ArenaNet has already said they plan on housing in this game, they always have and have slowly been planning on how/where/when to implement it into the game so it’s really just a matter of when. This is literally something ArenaNet has commented on several times in the past. The last time was not all that long ago, maybe a couple of months at most? Home instances are not going to be housing, it will be separate most likely.

When it comes to paths like Wildstar, I don’t know. I guess it’s entirely possible but probably not in the current regions we have, it would probably come from much broader and open regions like if they add Elona, or Cantha which are gigantic. This game has a lot of potential for many sandbox features, and I think that over time we will periodically get more here and there but they won’t turn the game into a full blown sandbox that’s for sure. Maybe GW3 lol.

But yeah, I want housing in this game but I want it done extremely well.