Guild Wars 2

[Lucas]

Now we talk! 

[Hawkbit]

I saw that pic and actually thought "Hell, I'd play that."

[Lantyssa]

I'm told that there is an Apache sitting in Embark Beach with a Commando mission.  At work, so I can't try it myself yet.

[Hawkbit]

Thanks for the tip, lol.

[Nightblade]

Reinstalling GW1...

[Nija]

That's a pretty great April fools.

Honestly I wouldn't mind seeing a game that has a very strange mix of things. Like Mark Jacob's Romans in space thing that got cancelled.

[KallDrexx]

They definitely put a lot of production value into an April fools joke lol. 

[kildorn]

Romans in space wasn't novel as much as it was "we want to make a play for the W40k license"

I'm surprised at how much effort they put into this gag though, good show Arena.

[Ratman_tf]

We decided to go with a discovery system for learning recipes so as to allow crafters to distinguish themselves.  When there is a static list of recipes learned from a trainer, every character with that crafting discipline is the same.  However, with a discovery system, players that spend time and effort on their crafting disciplines have a way to distinguish themselves..

They must realize every recipe will be on a listed on a wiki before open beta is even an hour old, right?

Every quest, mob and piece of gear too.

We can stop playing games and just read the wiki! 

[Lantyssa]

Oh wow.  The mission is perfect.

[Mattemeo]

The mission is surprisingly hard. Expect the boss fight to last for a long time. I actually thought I was being trolled it took so long to beat him! Seriously, Arena Net have won this April Fool's. That's some serious dedication to piss-taking.

[pxib]

I wouldn't be surprised if the models, textures, and animations are middle-ware somebody already owned the rights to.

[Draegan]

http://gw2.variance.hu/2011/05/04/variance-guild-wars-2-arenanet-interview/

Cool article about WvW (World vs World?) or RvR whatever.

Is the marketplace going to be global between servers, i.e. drawing data for marketplace prices and selection from multiple servers, or is it going to be local to a specific server?

Eric: The Marketplace will be global, drawing data from all servers.

Also global multi-server auction houses?  Yes please.

[HaemishM]

I am erect with delight. 

[Morfiend]

I said it before in this thread, but these devs really know how to say the right things. The type of things that get jaded vets excited again.

Please to be not fucking this up.

[DLRiley]

I like the response to RP severs -> "That's retarded."
Though not being able to switch severs is pretty clone shoes for various reasons.

[Typhon]

What do clone shoes look like?

[Threash]

I like the response to RP severs -> "That's retarded."

They actually said that?

[Tarami]

They actually said that?

We are still discussing exactly how we want to handle our server structure and whether or not we want to have things such as RP servers. Once we make those decisions we will do our best to let our community know about our plans.

So no.. not exactly.

[DLRiley]

Considering their sever structure, if they were planning on an RP server it would be in the design somewhere near the start instead of a after thought close to their early alpha/beta. ArenaNet isn't amateur hour.

I meant clown shoes, but clone shoes works fine.

[UnSub]

What do clone shoes look like?

Exactly the same.

[Rendakor]

I'm not sure why you think RP servers (or not) is a decision that needs to be made early, since they've never been more than a server with (RP) next to the name and a polite suggestion to not name your character Dicktits or Xxlegolasxx.

[KallDrexx]

wtf.  Yeah I'm probably late to this but not having servers is one of the awesome aspects about the first guild wars, where you can play with anyone without being hindered by playing with friends because you chose a different server than they did, when in the end server decisions are completely meaningless beyond being a restriction of who you can play with.

[Ingmar]

I may never play on a non-RP server again, just because the communities there are about 500% less toxic than on other servers in every game I've ever played. Hopefully there will be some sort of nod in that direction for this game.

[Sjofn]

I'm not sure why you think RP servers (or not) is a decision that needs to be made early, since they've never been more than a server with (RP) next to the name and a polite suggestion to not name your character Dicktits or Xxlegolasxx.

That polite suggestion goes a long, long way for me.

[Sky]

To play devil's advocate, it's far easier to spot tards when they're named Dicktits.

[Tmon]

If they create an RP server then they have to devote at least some resources to policing it.  If they don't the rules just get ignored and any benefit for the players in having one evaporates.  Also, who actually knows enough Guildwars lore to actually role play it?

[Malakili]

If they create an RP server then they have to devote at least some resources to policing it.  If they don't the rules just get ignored and any benefit for the players in having one evaporates.  Also, who actually knows enough Guildwars lore to actually role play it?

Its not a matter of actual role play, its a matter of RP servers seem to scare away the worst of worst just with their label.  Thats what people actually seem to want here.   

[Lantyssa]

If they create an RP server then they have to devote at least some resources to policing it.  If they don't the rules just get ignored and any benefit for the players in having one evaporates.  Also, who actually knows enough Guildwars lore to actually role play it?

Staying in character is sufficient to RP.  Not talking about last night's ball game is important to it, I'd argue more so, than pretending you're the heir of Princess Salma and Prince Rurik's unknown bastard lovechild.  RP does not need to be some convoluted back story supported by contrived dialog.

Though their storylines should help with this a lot.  You can pick different backgrounds and they'll impact events.

[Hawkbit]

Across the many, many games I've played, RP servers usually boil down to roughly 10% that actually roleplay, 89% that just don't want to be around Dicktits and the last 1% are there only to troll the other 99% until they get kicked for being a douche in world chat.  I don't personally RP, but I don't actively go out of my way to be /ooc if I come across someone that is.  Even with that 1% hanging around, it's still better than normal servers in general attitude and I find people more willing to help on RP servers. 

My bigger issue with GW RP lies here:

Also, who actually knows enough Guildwars lore to actually role play it?

EotN was pretty well told, but the first three campaigns were all over the place with story. 

[UnSub]

Also, who actually knows enough Guildwars lore to actually role play it?

The lore just gets in the way of Real Roleplayers. 

[Sky]

Lantyssa hits it squarely (that's what she said). I guess it's an 'rp-lite', since 'real' roleplayers kinda scare me as much as the Dicktits crowd (or worse, the 'Igots Healsforu' crowd). When I'm playing an mmo, I like to be in the moment, not discussing last night's ball game. Maybe it's that I'm not in the group putting in 40-80 hours a week. I just like characters named in a manner that fits the lore and players to focus on the game, even if it's not make-believe with the lore.

I vote Lantyssa for running the GW2 BC chapter!

[tazelbain]

I am not roleplaying in a video game until the video game can roleplay back.

[Ingmar]

Across the many, many games I've played, RP servers usually boil down to roughly 10% that actually roleplay, 89% that just don't want to be around Dicktits and the last 1% are there only to troll the other 99% until they get kicked for being a douche in world chat.  I don't personally RP, but I don't actively go out of my way to be /ooc if I come across someone that is.  Even with that 1% hanging around, it's still better than normal servers in general attitude and I find people more willing to help on RP servers. 

This hits it exactly for me.

[Rasix]

RP servers are way too fucking crowded on release.  You almost have to wait for the 2nd or 3rd day batch of new servers to get one that isn't crowded to the point of mega-queues.

Plus, sometimes I just want to name my pet wolf "Happyscrappyheropup".