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Any WoW or future GW2 players here?

Any WoW or future GW2 players here?

I'd tentatively raise my hand here, I guess. I'm keeping a close eye on Guild Wars 2 preview stuff. There've been some big claims about how it's trying to change MMOs, so I'm curious to see how well they accomplish that.

Any WoW or future GW2 players here?

What I've heard about GW2 sounds interesting, but a lot of MMOs have made that claim before and been sadly disappointing.

Hence why I said I was tentatively raising my hand It does have some rather interesting-sounding ideas, but ultimately it'll come down to how well they're implemented. The 'dynamic events' in particular are something that need to be implemented well.

On PC? £49.99??!?! That's insane!

Yep. Digitial edition, too. Don't even get a box!

GW2 available for pre-order from today...


But £49.99 for the game on its own!? Bit much!

Compared to the price in the US, the UK price is absolutely extortionate.

Version	UK Price	US Price
Digital	£49.99	$59.99 (£37.81)
Digital Deluxe	£64.99	$79.99 (£50.42)
Collector's	£129.99	$149.99 (£94.56)

US prices seem about right. UK prices are a disgrace.

Actually, my first thought when I first saw them was that they looked like they were set by someone who translated the US price (which is never translated fairly, but $60 = £50 is sadly fairly typical from some companies) without any idea of typical game prices in this country.

Well, I had intended to pre-order, but I just can't afford to at that price, I'm afraid.

Having had the urge to finally start playing X3: Albion Prelude, I popped onto Egosoft's website and saw on their news page that they'd had an April Fool's gag...a Kinect game where you dance to lower the price of trading goods, titled (in Teladi style) "Move your hipsssss for profitsssss!"


Did any other companies have random April Fool's jokes?

I'm in a shameful predicament. I've just recently built my dream computer and don't take me wrong, I'm incredibly happy with my purchase. What's awful is that I'm not enjoying my time gaming. So far, I've got Rome: Total War (Gold), Tropico 4 (and Modern Times), WoW (without Cata/WotLK), Evochron Mercenary and Dead Space 2. I used to be a massive, massive PC gamer in the past. I'd spend all my free time playing games and enjoying every second of it and the games I'm playing now are without a doubt brilliant games, I'm just not connecting with them.

I'd really appreciate it if someone can suggest a game they genuinely enjoy. I have a lot of time to kill at the moment (gap year) and would love to game as much as possible before uni.

I'm in a shameful predicament. I've just recently built my dream computer and don't take me wrong, I'm incredibly happy with my purchase. What's awful is that I'm not enjoying my time gaming. So far, I've got Rome: Total War (Gold), Tropico 4 (and Modern Times), WoW (without Cata/WotLK), Evochron Mercenary and Dead Space 2. I used to be a massive, massive PC gamer in the past. I'd spend all my free time playing games and enjoying every second of it and the games I'm playing now are without a doubt brilliant games, I'm just not connecting with them.

I'd really appreciate it if someone can suggest a game they genuinely enjoy. I have a lot of time to kill at the moment (gap year) and would love to game as much as possible before uni.