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Guild Wars - Caziel - 09-15-2004
try it out Oct 29-31
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anyone played this yet?
- Slamz - 09-16-2004
It looks interesting.
It's basically like Battle.net integrated into Diablo, though, from the sound of it. It's not really massively multiplayer, you're basically playing a small-group game with some sort of graphical matchmaker. So rather than log onto battle.net and get 5 people to join your room so you can launch the game, you log into an "outpost" and form a "party" and then "start the quest". Sounds like new terms for an old system, like battle.net with a ribbon tied on.
It worries me that it's free, actually. I want to know who is hosting these games? In battle.net, one of the players is the host, so the server can crash or lag based on that player-host. One of the big advantages to MMOG's (and why we pay $12/month) is because the game company hosts all games, so you have a much more stable professional server with all kinds of fat bandwidth to play on.
I'm also not real clear on what the actual guild war componet is going to be.
I'd like to know more.
- Dustie - 09-16-2004
There are definitly servers with 1000's of people on them to start with. When you go questing you do get an instance of a quest but it appears that the game worlds are still massive outside of the questing.
- Slamz - 09-17-2004
My impression was that outside of questing, there is basically just a graphical chatroom.
I don't think you can simply log in and wander out in the woods to fight giant rats along with the rest of the population, I think you have to take a mission, which will put you and your group in an instanced area.