Guild Wars

By Ravious …and his Desert Eagle .50 Gaile Gray, ArenaNet employee extraordinaire, stole a soapbox to stand on at the Guild Wars Wiki in order to explain why they ban 1000 (!) Guild Wars accounts per week for real money transactions (RMT). Say the RMTer talks to 10 or 20 people in a day, and waves 100K gol...

By Ravious The Kill Ten Rats / Massively posts make it appear as if NCsoft has a lot of direction over our marketing strategy, when this isn’t the case at all. The GW2 marketing strategy is determined by ArenaNet, not by NCsoft. The formation of NCsoft West ensures that all studios owned by NCsoft have th...

By Ravious The second comment was interesting when an analyst from CitiBank  questioned Chris Chung about Guild Wars 2 launch.  Chris Chung said a Guild Wars 2 timeline was not 100% set because NCSoft was looking at a number of options for the game timeline.  The analyst pressed Chris about a possibl...

By Ravious You’ll shoot your eye out, kid. Second, in my humble opinion, only to the Guild Wars Halloween event is Guild Wars Wintersday.   It starts this year on December 19th, and it ends next year on January 5th.  It’s a great event with new items, Wintersday quests, and of course, Dwayna Vs Grenth sno...

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By Ravious Now “medium session game” makes sense, but that is just following the crowd.  Lord of the Rings Online and World of Warcraft are both becoming “medium session games” where gamers can knock off a few solo quests or do a complete dungeon run in an hour or so.  Warhammer Online let’s players jump...

By Ravious I would say that the best Warhammer Online keep sieges are roughly comparative in excitement to the best Guild Wars guild vs. guild matches.  However, the best keep sieges seem a rarer offering, and the normal keep sieges are mere grinding drudgery.  Whereas, normal guild vs. guild matches w...

By Ravious The Guild Wars business model is the stuff of dreams.  They are heading towards 6 million units sold.  That’s all I will say about that.  World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online… and I guess Age of Conan don’t need to try any “crazy” business models yet.  Of course Warhammer Online and Age of Cona...

By Ravious Guild Wars has no Tome of Knowledge analogue, but most of its story is well-told in the form of Missions with quests filling in the gaps. It has used the camera-style cinematics from the game’s inception, and beating the Campaign is at the front end of gameplay. The game is furthermore conten...

By Ravious Costume Brawl is a random 5v5 PvP game which is an amalgamation of capture point and deathmatch (it most closely resembles Guild Wars Hero Battles without the Heroes). The catch is that each class has a set skillbar. ...

By Ravious Guild Wars Prophecies gave us the mission mechanic for Guild Wars, where you entered an instanced story event with objectives and a definite endpoint. These were unlike the vanilla MMO quests that occured in a sandbox-style zone ...

By Dave Arenanet has recognized that their instanced questing areas are not ideal and have already announced that the upcoming Guild Wars 2 will include less instanced areas, providing more opportunities for players to meet and team up for various activities.While I still contend that any MMO...