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.The second confirmed Guild Wars 2 profession has been released, with six more waiting in the wings. The warrior profession is a re-envisioning of this iconic choice where the melee class gets a little more diverse piece of the color pie. The warrior in Guild Wars is a mainstay throughout every type of gameplay. They are known for their durability and constant damage output in the first Guild Wars, and in Guild Wars 2, I don’t think they will disappoint.
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Our very own Ethic comments on LotRO going free-to-play:
Since we are going this way now, let’s get Asheron’s Call and heck even Asheron’s Call 2 running on the same model.
The return of AC2 is an appealing notion. If that happens, I need a way to reclaim an old account with just the associated e-mail address (not the log-in name). I never made that Lugian Tactician. I also have an old AC1 account in storage; I might remember the account name on that one.
: Zubon
Ardwulf explains why a game doing well might change its pricing model:
The key factor here, I think, and the one that led Turbine to this decision, is that DDO subscriptions have increased under its free-to-play model. And not just jumped a bit, but tripled. Not to mention that overall revenue is up tenfold, last we heard.
Pretend for a moment that you are a Turbine executive, circa 2008. Someone on the DDO team presents the free-to-play proposal. S/he includes a slide predicting that subscriptions would triple. You would have laughed him/her out of the room, wouldn’t you? I would have expected some decline in month-to-month subscribers with potentially increased revenues from new and old players engaging in microtransactions. This must be the most successful free trial program ever, to say nothing of the microtransaction revenue.
: Zubon
Some people are very unhappy with LotRO moving to DDO’s payment model. Keen has a harshly worded example with more comments then we’ll ever see on a post. This is not just LotRO-specific, however, as many people like to say things about games that they neither play nor would have played.
If you are neither a customer nor a likely customer, the company does not care about your opinion. They are not losing any money by doing things you don’t like. They are not gaining money by doing exactly what you want. If you are already not a customer and their business model moves further from you, you cannot become any less of a customer. Yes, there is some chance that you could have become one, but most people who are “planning to play next year” will still be planning to play next year rather than actually playing and paying. Odds are, you are not the marginal customer.
If I am a vegan, KFC does not care about my perspective on the Double Down. My opinion on the latest patch to Warcraft, Warhammer, or City of Heroes does not matter much unless it includes the phrase “I resubscribed” or drives you to that state (or out of it). This will not stop me from commenting, I’m sure, as that is kind of what we do here in the blogosphere. But let’s keep perspective, considering the normal importance of an online gaming blog post.
: Zubon
Our friends over at Massively, Shawn and Rubi, run yet another MMO podcast in their free time. Unlike Massively Speaking which has discussion across the MMO genre, GuildCast is dedicated to Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2. I guested in Episode 3 where we cover quite a few topics in our short time (well it feels short when we three fanatics could have easily done a 5-hour episode). We discuss recent interviews, updates to the War in Kryta, and the first public demo of Guild Wars 2. Check it out!
–Ravious
were I as tedious as a king
So seems we here at KTR barely got the prophetic drop (thanks to the precognitive post by Mordor or Bust). Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) is indeed going F2P, and with many players having a lifetime subscription this presents an interesting conundrum. For I have been pretty much a F2P player for some time because after about 13-20 months the lifetime subscription pays off. So now everybody gets a F2P status. Oh noes, how unfairs!!!
With two of the five crown jewels* in Guild Wars 2 presented thus far it seems that the community is having differing reactions to the two. On one hand people seem pretty satisfied by the overview of the personal story because ArenaNet seemed to preemptively attack many of the possibly questions fans would have. The follow up to the overview seemed to really round the whole thing off. The event system, on the other hand, has been constantly been a topic of hard discussion around the Guild Wars 2 fanbase. Of the event system, balancing the events for active players on the fly seems to get the most hits.
Over at the Guild Wars 2 Slovenija fansite, Tr0n managed to snag an interview with ArenaNet mostly covering what fans were already squabbling about, events. ArenaNet quite bluntly disclosed the multiple routes that an event could be balanced. New waves of enemies could have an increased number of mobs per wave or the mobs could have increased levels.Â
Very interesting post over at Mordor Or Bust. Could Lord of the Rings Online possibly be looking at a F2P business model too? Worked for Dungeons and Dragons Online. Going to be interesting to see what they have to say at E3. Things have been pretty dry on the LOTRO-front for awhile now.
–Ravious
Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) is coming out with a pretty cool update at the end of this month. It has a new adventure pack, some new skills and what not, but the biggest feature, in my opinion, are the guild airships. The guild airships effectively take the place of guild halls and guild banks that appear in other MMOs. The guild airships feature coincides with a guild leveling mechanic that will also launch with Update 5. I think that in many MMOs guilds are one of the most overlooked features, and having a guild project will be a great addition to DDO.