Guild Wars 2

Vayne.8563:

Flashing Blades.7165:

Vayne.8563:

Milennin.4825:

Was to be expected.

I’m just missing the old GW1 emotes. Oh well, it’s not a big deal, I’m just not interested in buying them when they came free in GW1.

Various dances did NOT come free with Guild Wars 1. You got your one dance, and that was it. If you bought the collectors edition, you got a special dance (at least the Factions and Night Fall one). There were no other free dances.

Guild Wars 2 comes with a free dance for your character and Guild Wars 1 came with a free dance for your character. There were no options besides collectors edition dances beyond that.

Sorry Vayne but I have to call BS on this one. You forget about all the other dances that came with the tonics, for example turning into a rollerbeetle had its own dance associated with it. Same thing for the candy corn transformation, Oozes and many other tonics. Also, If you got the prophecies collectors you got the glowy hand effect also.

Paying for emotes and dances is lame. Just like paying to display your guild emblem on each character is lame. GW2 is one giant gold sink. At least in GW1 you bought your emblem once and everyone could display it for free. Still waiting for our characters to have to use an outhouse and we have to pay to access the outhouse or our characters double over and become unplayable.

Some of the tonics in Guild Wars 2 have dances as well. My wife made an endless toy doll tonic from christmas which comes with a dance. She didn’t pay for that in the cash shop.

And at this point in Guild Wars 1’s life there were NO dances but the ones it came with. So you had a choice of one dance at this point in Guild Wars 1’s life. That’s it. No tonics back then with dances. Nothing like it.

Guild Wars 2 gives you at least your dance, and the doll tonic, which is twice the number of dances Guild Wars 1 gave you at the same point in the game’s development.

Your experience of MMOs is all Guild Wars 1. My experience with MMOs is lots of MMOs. Judging the way a coop game is monetized compared to how an MMO is monetized really isn’t fair. They’re very different types of games.

MMOs have the highest risk factor of any type of game. They cost more to run. The staff required to run Guild Wars 2 is more than five times the size of what it cost to run Guild Wars 1.

You can compare the two games all you like, but this is a much bigger project with a much higher overhead. It requires a different level of financial support.

Edit: By percentage VERY few of the tonics had dances. Also the toy charr soldier tonic has a dance as well.

Sorry Vayne you can try to justify/argue it any way you want to. But your statement “There were no other free dances” was wrong and that is all there is to it.

Vayne.8563:

Milennin.4825:

Was to be expected.

I’m just missing the old GW1 emotes. Oh well, it’s not a big deal, I’m just not interested in buying them when they came free in GW1.

Various dances did NOT come free with Guild Wars 1. You got your one dance, and that was it. If you bought the collectors edition, you got a special dance (at least the Factions and Night Fall one). There were no other free dances.

Guild Wars 2 comes with a free dance for your character and Guild Wars 1 came with a free dance for your character. There were no options besides collectors edition dances beyond that.

Sorry Vayne but I have to call BS on this one. You forget about all the other dances that came with the tonics, for example turning into a rollerbeetle had its own dance associated with it. Same thing for the candy corn transformation, Oozes and many other tonics. Also, If you got the prophecies collectors you got the glowy hand effect also.

Paying for emotes and dances is lame. Just like paying to display your guild emblem on each character is lame. GW2 is one giant gold sink. At least in GW1 you bought your emblem once and everyone could display it for free. Still waiting for our characters to have to use an outhouse and we have to pay to access the outhouse or our characters double over and become unplayable.