saudrapsmann

Wonderfully said.

Really? I had a hard time even finding friends there on WoW, let alone relationships. Played for two months, got hunter to 85 and was working on getting other alts up. Was even a part of a raiding guild, and paid for server transfers twice to find new people. Everyone seemed very "lets get this done and go our separate ways." Opposite experience with FFXI.

@smartstep

This. I knew it was silly to get my hopes up given that I already knew of its questing and dungeon systems, but you still did give me one second of hope for a new sandbox game, Massively. I won't forgive you!

I played it for ~5 hours the first day of the CBT.

It was pretty generic. The luxury of the aiming/blocking system wore off pretty fast. The quests were all basically WoW's but even less fun. You even get a horse at level 11 after just a couple hours of playing, which leaves no sense of accomplishment at all.

It's pretty, I guess, but of what I played that's all it really has going for it.

Things I didn't try: PvP, dungeons
But I'm going to guess both of those will fit into your standard theme park MMO.

Can't wait for ArcheAge.

@Laren
I know right? What have they been DOING all this time?!
...Wait, they've been focusing on combat and crafting? They've actually added a ton of stuff? They even have it outlined when they'll redo the entire UI along with when they redo the environments entirely? Well damn!

>there doesn't seem to be a way to unbind keys outright.
Hit the delete key. No reason to play musical chairs, but I'll admit that I did that myself.

http://i.imgur.com/ZvLK1.jpg

Already am.

Why not do it like Kotaku? Set up one article for users to submit screenshots for whatever the theme is or game chosen is. Then, two days later turn it into a gallery. New gallery each week. I'd think it didnt do well because it was never more than one picture

There can be nothing bad about this at all. If you think there is you never played FFXI, or even the improved system in FFXIV, both of which had much better "family" feels to their linkshells/guilds even if you weren't restricted to just one. It gives you the opportunity to give many guilds a chance, without the drama added of looking like you're leaving a guild just because you want to find something that isn't dead after primetime.

Quite simply with the addition of being able to play with friends who are different guilds it just makes it 100x easier to find that one guild you want to call your family. WoW's lack of this is a huge let-down, and I'm glad to see it in GW2.

Important to note: A lot of the developers in Carbine Studios used to be in Troika Games, known for the great Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines before Activision ruined them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troika_Games