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Ian:
Any of the video game geeks planning on playing Guild Wars 2?  I'm going to give it a go I think. Looks like they've tackled a lot of the stale mmo features with some interesting innovations.  They've moved away from the kill x boars, and gather y bundles of sticks. Quests will instead be dynamic events. For example, a villager screams for help with an impending ogre attack, and if you don't do anything ogres come and destroy the village and since it's a persistent world, that village is now destroyed. They claim to have solved quest camping and kill sniping with this system, sounds interesting.  A potential breath of fresh air in a world of WoW copies.

Sir Edward:
I never played the first one, though my brother-in-law has played it for quite some time. I'm cautious about joining new MMOs at this point just because of how much of a time sink they are, and I do tend to get myself pretty well hooked. :)

It looks interesting enough. I think I'll grab a copy.

I'm not overly familiar with it, but I've heard good things, so it's worth a shot. I'll grab a pre-order.

Ian:
GW has historically been and will continue to be in GW2 a non subscription game, so even if it's a dud, at least all you bought was the box :)

Ian:
Vid on the removal of the holy trinity of DPS/TANK/HEALS


Dynamic Event system

Ian:
Oh, and if you pre-purchase (not to be confused with pre-ordering a copy through amazon or something), but a digital copy through their website, you get a 3 day headstart on launch, and automatic access to all beta events.  Figure it's worth a shot!

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