Guild Wars 2

When Colin was talking at the amazing reveal yesterday a concern popped up for me. He was saying that the story in the new zone takes place literally minutes after the air ships got blown to smithereens in the video. That means that the next part of the story is in the expansion. Awesome(!) except for not knowing when it’s coming out.

My initial thought was if it was coming out at the end of the year that would mean they would have had time to do a whole season of the LW before that happened.

I am also concerned about precursor crafting being included in the announcement yesterday as part of the expansion. That was a feature that was being touted as coming out over a year ago. Including it in this is great as long as it’s not something that gets charged for. Telling people about it over a year ago and then putting it behind a paywall would be a shabby way to handle it in my opinion. What do you guys think?

Guild Halls also seem like something that should be a core feature of the game. It would stink if guildies couldn’t access them if they didn’t have the x-pac. I think they do get to access them, but then why advertise it a s part of the paid expansion if people don’t have to buy it to get in them?

The new PvP mode and new “Borderlands rotation map” were announced as part of the x-pac too. There is no way with how they consolidated solo queue and team queue that they will exclude people who don’t buy the x-pac from these things.

As a WvW or PvP only player, do you feel compelled to buy the x-pac? When they add this “Rotational Borderlands Map” in the game are you going to have to buy the x-pac to access it? If not, then why buy the x-pac outside of getting the new profession?

I am super excited to see how all this plays out in the weeks ahead.

I believe that only the following stuff will get pay-locked:
*Revenant class
*Specializations (?)
*New areas
*Masteries (from what I gained they’re only unlocked by playing the new areas anyway)

Pay-locking things like the precursors would impact the economy since not everyone would have the same access to the supply, for example.

It will likely be a one time cost expansion under $60. I would almost guarantee it.

Ascimator.6735:

I believe that only the following stuff will get pay-locked:
*Revenant class
*Specializations (?)
*New areas
*Masteries (from what I gained they’re only unlocked by playing the new areas anyway)

Pay-locking things like the precursors would impact the economy since not everyone would have the same access to the supply, for example.

At that point, there better be a lot of new land mass then. What are we paying for when those things I mentioned were the types of things we got for free with Feature Packs and 2 week content updates?