Massively's Guild Wars 2 closed beta impressions

@drunkingamebar

I dunno, TOR fans seem overly pleased with cutscenes but otherwise very dated gameplay.

@Protoavis New fans are easy to please, I was leaning towards existing fans.

@Ocho Only days? I have already pre warned everyone that I will be disappearing from the face of the earth for a few month's but then again I have this whole addiction thing going and its not a pretty sight ;)

@Mister Eee
I believe they said players will freely be able to switch servers. It was a while ago, don't know if they still plan on handling it like that.

@Dumac My guess is probably not. In one of the PvP articles, they mentioned about one server having dominance, that the other two can beat up on it, and that the winners will be put against each other the next round in a leaderboard style of WvW competition, so my guess is no, that you won't be able to just switch servers easily... knowing the model, they'll probably charge a fee for the server transfer, but knowing its not a life or death decision, they'll most likely keep the fee nominal.

@Ocho
Don't mistake GW2 for a F2P game. You're free to switch between any server you want, the only penalty being not benefiting from the WvW rewards (which stops people from hopping over to winning sides).

@Bourius Copy/paste: it's not a review.

Seriously, how could you miss the word "impressions" in the title? Massively doesn't do reviews anyway.

@Bourius
That's some real tinfoil hat wearing paranoia right there.

This is a preview, nothing more. But are player reviews any better? Especially when it comes to beta's? You're typically going to get the opinion of fanboys, who love every little aspect of the game and will do nothing but praise it.. or the trolls, who've hated the game since day one or possibly never even really played it and just want to go against the popular opinion.

If you really must, there are previews like this from random fans who've played the demo build at conventions. Most of which have been equally as positive.

@Lenn Oh it's a review/preview/impression/insertanothersynonymhere. It's a "media day" review. I don't trust it. It's like reading an american car magazine review on an american car. ALWAYS glowing ALWAYS gushing. I will reserve judgment untill I play it, and that's after BETA.

@Snowblind It's nice to get interesting tidbits of information from testers, features and gameplay, but when it comes to opinions, I look the other way. I'll form my own opinions. For example Elisabeth writes about the healing system, I understand from her writing the way it works but I will have to try it out before I reserve judgement on weather or not it's a good system, just an example.

@Bourius Then why the hell did you read it in the first place?

@Lenn I like reading reviews.

@Bourius I see what you did there.

@Bourius Well, your own impressions will always trump anothers. After all, they're not forcing you to play or pay any $ for it, so the only person whose opinions matter is your own. But the real question is: if you really don't trust reviews, or impressions, or whatever... then why are you here reading them?

@Lenn In a small way an impression is a review. If someone impresses you then you checked them over.

Anyways the impressions do a nice job of detailing the areas they listed. Playing the game is the true review for a gamer. I think majority of people need that hands-on game play to see if the game is their cup of tea.

Overall solid impressions and you guys should be used for more MMO impressions.