If you would like to see a list of the full restrictions in place for free accounts, head here. The game they are playing is exactly the same game that they were playing Friday, no changes at all."
Everybody can try, and I am confident that when people get into the game it’s going to be exactly the same. "You don’t have to read a big list of changes and tweaks and restrictions, because we’re opening it up the day we announce it. O'Brien's message to players is simple: try it. You’re going to have a bunch of new players but it’s going to be the same friendly community-the same protected community-that it’s always been. "If we did our jobs right," O'Brien says, "and I totally believe that we've done this right, new players coming into the game are going to get the full authentic experience, but the community is not going to change.
I ask O'Brien if he's worried about what effect going free might have on the community-a group that ArenaNet has frequently praised for their helpfulness and friendliness. We've been working on various iterations of this for about a year now, making sure that we tweak and get this right" "It’s really important to me-I think it's really important to all of us-that we protect this great community that we have, and so we’ve been tweaking and tweaking. "It’s really important to me that we protect this great community."įor O'Brien, it's essential that ArenaNet safeguard the existing community. We just make sure that people play the game before they can get into a position where they can disrupt other players."
"If you didn’t have to do that," says O'Brien, "then there’s no way that we could keep people who were being very disruptive from going back into world versus world over and over with new characters. The example given is World vs World, which will be unavailable until players reach level 60. We would delete the account, and they would create a new account and spam everyone in the game."įinally, ArenaNet has taken steps to stop new players from disrupting the game's more competitive modes. "If we didn’t have a subtle restriction like that in place, then a spammer could spam everyone in the game. "You can whisper to anybody you want to," he says, choosing one example, "but you can’t create new whisper conversations more than about once every 30 seconds." It's a small restriction, but one that shouldn't impact regular players. That release sets the stage for the companys latest announcement at PAX Prime this weekend: Guild Wars 2 is going free-to-play for everyone, though free accounts wont share all the same benefits. According to O'Brien, these are all subtle measures. Secondly, protections have been put in place against spammers. Firstly account storage-something ArenaNet views as a luxury. Some of that may be addressed in the FAQ linked by 71Ranchero, but I don't have time to review it right now.There will, however, be some restrictions in place for free players. I'm not sure how the expansion is going to fit in with the F2P version or the existing paid version of the game, so that is another thing to consider and research before dropping any cash on this. Keep in mind there is also a separate paid expansion that is due to come out in October-ish as well. The price varies between $19 and $22 depending on what month it is, for some reason. We both got digital codes for GW2 on Amazon for $20, so if the free version appeals to you and you want to buy into the full game, it's not that much of an investment. Also, I believe in part thanks to the cooperative focus of GW2, it has a very friendly community and there always seem to be people around to help you when you're new. I've played several different classes which I normally don't do in MMOs (I'm more of a one-class dude), and all the ones I have put any length of time into were all fun and felt distinctly different from one another. Some of my favorite aspects of the game are how it encourages exploration of maps, how quests and progression are handled, and how the game makes it easy to group up with your friends even when there is a huge level disparity between you. I think it is absolutely worth checking out, it has a lot of fun and interesting ideas that are quite different from other MMOs, but it's all pretty easy to pick up. My girlfriend and I have played quite a lot of Guild Wars 2, but thanks to no monthly fee we tend to take long breaks and come back to it periodically. Great idea, I'm sure it will get some new players interested in the game.
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