PvP modes are essentially the same. Balance and gear have changed about 1000000 times though.
Printable View
Tried the PTR and the game seems fun.
I'll wait for the F2p client though before I put any effort into it.
No it's not worth it when Guild Wars 2 is a F2P game now
I prefer WS over GW2 any time, also GW2 wont be free once expansion comes out.
Free to play users have way more restrictions in wildstar than in GW2 in my opinion at least you don't get lower exp rates or stuff like being able to log in faster that is stupid. "Won't be free" Buy it once it's all free and you aren't barred by anything. If you have never played up to end game content it doesn't even matter if the expansion if it won't be free as you wouldn't have a level 80 character to play the expansion content. If you are a new free to player in Guild Wars 2 coming in they aren't going to care about the expansion content as when they do buy that they will get everything with it. It's not like they have to buy the original game+expansion pack they just buy it in a one block price which isn't much.
The base game free to play has so much content you won't be done with it soon the expansion pack is just something extra for the veteran players who have hard cored out most of the games content. I have been playing since the beta days and I still haven't even touched quite a fair amount of the game yet.
I like Guild Wars 2 due to the story while WildStar's story is very mediocre. Both of them look incredibly clean in terms of looks and since WildStar has been optimized and updated, it's a great looking game with very few bugs that I have noticed when I went back. The only problem of course was the community while GW2's was solid and pretty much continuing to thrive due to the success of it's predecessor. WS didn't have that so the game suffered inevitably on release; now with WS coming out, it's F2P options with the cash shop is far superior than GW2. This of course is subjective but from experiencing the cash shop on WS & GW2, I find the WS cash shop much more appealing for microtransactions.
Wildstar's story isn't overly amazing, but I wouldn't call it terrible. Most don't take the time to read quest dialogue, then say they're disinterested in collecting 10 drops from enemies.
Dayumn forgot to download the launcher and now I can't cause the download link is in your profile page which is under maintenance.... So it seems I'm gonna miss the launch xD Is there any other direct link to the launcher/client ?
Doubt you will be awake for the launch, 6 am Central EU time.
downloading now. love the scfi looks of it
how active is it now thats its free to play. first time playing but game i hope will be fun
To all people whining about lag, go on PvP server no lag there =p
Haha I wish I could say that, that delay wasn't there in the pvp server...sadly, it is. Luckily quest grinding with a warrior isn't all too reliant on a steady ping.
I finalyyyyyyyyyyyyy got a chance to play and then they go down for maintenance ... Q.Q
... rly damn annoying was soo much fun playing without lag and then it suddenly hit Q.Q