Has there been announced an release date yet ?

Nothing official just some rumors.

I'd say late august/early sept.

I cannot wait for it, but I believe if they don't release it within this next month, all their hype will die and with it, their player base will go.

they won't release it for atleast two months.
And I hope they don't. Too many games have been released lately too early in development.
The game won't lose hype as its one of the only worthwhile titles this year.
Its only real competition was d3 and tera(not that much) and both are pretty floppish in terms of satisfied customers.
I guess you have some near the very end of the year but it won't get that far.
Plus most-anyone hyped about it already prepurchased it lol.
I would count wow if mists is being released this year, but no one who is sane still plays it. Not because its bad or anything, its just old news. VERY old.

GW2 needs a ton of work.

There is a reason I can't bring myself to log on GW2 beta and would rather grind gear in D3.

Also when I did put some time into GW2 a lot of times whenever the server would restart for an update - I would just not log back on.

I agree, but would like you to elaborate a few examples
I didn't stick around for the ending of beta last night I just went and cooked dinner and watched movies instead.
Wasn't bored, just didn't really care whether I played or not.

I don't feel a sense of accomplishment when I play the game.

I level, I get some low amount of money, I do the "heart" events.

But the constant reoccuring events... i.g. Gwen is getting violated by 10 charr, kill the charr, save Gwen. Event reoccurs 10 minutes later from another group of violating charr. - I just want to let Gwen get traumatized and move on.

That is just one of the many PvE complaints I have.

PvP lacks strategy (I am talking 5v5 matches).

I don't really know what to think of GW2 so far.
I think it's a really really good game and yet I think it's a crap game.
I dislike the skill system - it blows IMO. I need more buttons and more to choose from, rather than be stuck with 3-5 main skills depending on your weapon. The idea is cool, but I will get bored eventually I think.

What I personally would love they added is raids. I know GW2 most likely focuses on PvP, but damn... I'd really like to raid.

I agree with you on the skill system. It feels very much lacking. I don't feel like I do much of anything when I use a lot of my skills that have high recharge (the right side of the bar).

I despise the trait system more than anything and I hope it burns in hell.

I fell you there, I made sure everytime the surveys came up to rate what I truly felt after the events, as well as give well thought out (imo) feedback on the event and the "world changing aspect" of it. I remember them advertising a ton about how everything you do effects the world around you. But all weekend long not but one time was I able to truly feel like the world had changed for the better. I think this could be fixed or obtained rather with around 3-4 hour lapses before events reoccur. Rather than 15-20 minutes. This however would require a TON of work as you would have to have events happening from point (A) to point (B). You couldn't just leave that area blank for 4 hours.



However I think the 15-25 zone (for humans?) I found that zone entirely too dry. A total of maybe 8 different events seem to occur between 15 and 20. And they occur as soon as they end. There was nothing but repetition and sighs for this place.

I haven't really been able to capture that feeling of "this boss/raid/whatever needs to die or else". At worst if we fail to capture back a little hub we get to retry in 5 minutes.
I captured some troll camp yesterday. Thats cool and all we actually took the place over. Less than 45 seconds later trolls are trying to take it back. We stop them. 4 minutes later trolls are trying to take it back. So on and so forth until they actually do.
Are trolls from the 1700s? Just lining up everyone they have and tossing them at us until they win with sheer numbers? Idk I just didn't buy it at all.


I didn't do too much pvp really, except for about 30 minutes of WvWvW which seemed to consist of my team standing at the bridge aoeing for what probably lasted 6 hours straight at the oncoming team on their spawn point. It was very very bland. I'm sure it has to do with the unbalanced part of realm vs realm, but it felt like there was ZERO objective, simply hey lets kill these guys because we can kill these guys.

This post was edited by guywhosebrother on Jun 11 2012 03:04pm