I really like Guild Wars, I play it religiously. Now, with you, Vacio, I take into the pros and cons to the game as well.
Not having to pay a subscription fee every month?! For a brand-name MMORPG?! Who would pass that up?! ?
I think the races are neat, each one plays really cool as well as the cool classes they can be.
Now, the only things I have about it is, as you said, are the personal story, the limit of characters you can have, and the server. I mean, at first, I found the personal story to be pretty cool, but then, I thought it to have its limitations. To where I was born, what my motivations were, and how I presented myself. As a role-player, I like to make up my story in the personal way, how I behaved, where I grew up, and so forth. I don't always want to be driven by dignity and lose sister to horse-people.
The limit of characters is so off. I truly wish we could have more. I mean, other games have to where you make 20+ characters and be merry, so why not Guild Wars 2? And the home server bothers me. I like to explore other servers, especially ones I may be interested in later and play some new characters there. Instead, I cannot do that so easily. I'm on the EU server, so you can imagine me trying to go to the American server for a lurking. Nope, not going to happen unless I pay. (I don't know exactly how, but I believe I need some sort of blue thing to do that.)
Now, the combat is great, unlike any MMORPG I've played. The environments are beautiful, the music fits everywhere you go, and just the extra little things that make it fun. It's a really good game, just need those extra patches and added material to make it even better.
I agree with you.
Although on the subject of how many characters you can have (standard is five) You can buy more character slots from the gem store, which is what those 'weird blue things' are, gems, you can buy those from in-game gold or your real money by using paypal, or you can find cards in some stores.
and server transfer depends on the population as to how much gems it will cost, but it usually seems to take 1000+.
And although it would be nice to have more characters for free, ArenaNet probably needs more ways to make money. Same with the server transfer.
I used to be in the server 'Gunnars Hold' EU, but I transfered to Fort Aspenwood, I was originally going to go to Tarnished Coast but that was full at the time. But that was back when server transfer was free.
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