Another Guild Wars Beta Event

[kandrathe]

From what I have seen in the WBE's, and heard from closed Beta testers...

If Arena.net is interested in a Diablo 2/WoWesque release, missing a lot of promiced features + things like area difficulty to character power balance... They can release right now.

Otherwise, it would be prudent to take the time to late Feb/March. Supposebly, some of the closed testers are getting quite disenchanted with the progress of the game.  :huh:

Edit: gah, meant this as a reply to Bolty's post
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I wasn't able to play as much last preview weekend, but they had done quite alot in changing the character balance the last time I played. I'm still concerned about a few skill divisions, (e.g. The plethora of pet mastery skills dilutes the capabilities of a Ranger who is bow focused when compared to a more integrated class like Warrior, where many skills trancend weapon specialization.)

The chat interface is still IRC clumsy, and needs to be more tunable (ie. more squelch options). The only problem with a network mostly full of hormone enraged adolescents, is that you have a network full of hormone enraged adolescents.

I would like to see "Trading" taken to a "Marketplace", which could even be a place in the game. You could have trading pits, ala real comodity trading.

I hope there is enough PvM to hold my interest, as I'm not as keen on the PvP aspect. However, if the Guild calls I will serve in whatever capacity I can. In many ways this game is designed to be "The Diablo II Killer", and I think it does that in many way.

The other part of the genius of the Arena.net folks IMHO, is that this is just one possible RPG skin that they could put over this engine. There is no reason why you couldn't extend the metaphor to a Space, Cthulu, or any other mythos.

My feeling is that this game is very solid for not being released. If I could buy it and play it now, I would.