Guild Wars 2

[Shirou]

New article available on Guild Wars 2 South Africa.

http://www.guildwars2sa.co.za/june-2...r-futility.php

Great news! was waiting for it

[Pr⊕phet]

I really wish I just just say yes, but any further expenses will have to wait till after I'm paid again. Thanks for you take on the game.

I can't say for sure if it will appeal to everyone.
What I can say is that I love it, I played a crap load of MMOs over the past year and nothing has kept me going on or held my attention.

You want a nice answer so here it is. The game is great, let me tell you from my experience this weekend that sold it for me. Apart from how big the world is. I played about 18 hours this weekend and only completed one map form the lot, hit lvl 15 and I was spent.
I saw only 6% of the world and a played myself silly.
The thing that sold it for me was the teamwork, how it actually works. Race and I were doing an event in the swamp, killing scales etc and helping tortured spirits, all of a sudden in chat a player calls out Shadow Behemoth incoming. So I tell Race, drop what you are doing and lets go check it out, just a short run away. Get there and it's a giant Shadow Behemoth, exactly like it sounds rampaging in the swamps, there are maybe a 100 players or more around it trying to fight and hold its minions back. You join in and get your ass handed to you, or you help a fallen player. It all feels connected, like you are part of something and not just running and grinding away.

This happened more than once on different events.

There is a guy from our clan selling his unused pre-purchase key at a discounted price, if you wish I could ask him for his details if you are interested.

[Pr⊕phet]

...One question, can you now jump and go anywhere or is it still like gw1 where you kind of limited and not able to just jump over a ledge.

[Isengard]

Yeah ... apparently there was a bug in the server matchups ... instead of matching winners vs winners & losers vs losers, it put poor LC up against Ring of Fire again.

Then again, I don't think LC was doing much in terms of WvW anyways ... new server meant lower population, meant people focusing on leveling their chars.

Also - I'm going out on a limb here - but I don't think we should put roots down in LC just yet - I saw a lot of German and French chatter on Sunday. Just keep an eye on things for now and make sure we decide on a final home right before the head-start.

Myself and 3 others moved to another server after finding lakeside county level 15+ PvE to be entirely dead, so I think we're definitely not settled on a server at this point.

...One question, can you now jump and go anywhere or is it still like gw1 where you kind of limited and not able to just jump over a ledge.

There's jumping, there's swimming, there's dynamic events, there's jumping puzzles, there's secret dungeons, there's no quest grind, there's no standing still and spamming rotations in fights, there's finally a MMORPG that's worth playing again.

[Spartan]

...One question, can you now jump and go anywhere or is it still like gw1 where you kind of limited and not able to just jump over a ledge.

Well of course you can't go EVERYWHERE, up mountains etc with sheer faces, but if the angle is right you can go up, haven't found something I can't jump over or onto yet.

[Shirou]

I was quiete happy with Lakeside County, just that the WvWvW was terrible, because we got matched with a FULL server versus our LOW server other than that it was great, i might just stay with it.

[panthis]

as far as servers go i rate it will be interesting to see what the latest server breakdown is going to look like... cause by what everyone is saying, SA community is scattered across 3-4 different worlds...

regardless, get this game in my face!

oh and @Spartan... THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAA!!!! RAWR!!1!

[Rohan]

it would really be great if all the SA people can unite on the same server. I am sure it will make WvWvW very interesting. we should maybe make a vote between 3 servers, then cancel one out and then vote on the remaining servers.

[Shirou]

it would really be great if all the SA people can unite on the same server. I am sure it will make WvWvW very interesting. we should maybe make a vote between 3 servers, then cancel one out and then vote on the remaining servers.

Yea would be awesome, choose 3 and add it in a POLL, so people can start voting untill release, one with the highest vote we then choose

Or just add 5 EU servers.. in a POLL.

[shadowfox]

it would really be great if all the SA people can unite on the same server. I am sure it will make WvWvW very interesting. we should maybe make a vote between 3 servers, then cancel one out and then vote on the remaining servers.

Well ... the problem is multi-faceted:

First ... different focuses - some people, like myself, can't be arsed and just really want to play the game and enjoy ourselves, and occasionally jump into WvW so we can have our asses handed to us. I'm not really into the sPvP facet, but I jump in there too from time to time. Then, you have your other folks who desperately want to PvP and aren't keen on a server which is likely to be sitting at the bottom of the pile all the time.

Second ... we had a major difference in levels - the 15+ guys had trouble in the higher level areas because new servers generally had lower level folks running around trying to level up so they were running around empty areas. This dynamic will change if they decide to do a clean wipe and everyone starts from scratch.

Lastly - server choice is being discussed into many places - at least 3 different forums that I'm mostly aware of(incl myG) are talking about where they want to go, and there are probably more - and I can't keep an eye on and contribute to most of them.

I'm actually hoping for a wipe so we can all get back to the same point and settle on a server - I know the choice won't be finalised until launch, but I'd personally prefer to have my choices nailed down before then.