Something bad happened to my GPA at 3 a.m. last Tuesday: “Guild Wars 2” launched. ArenaNet’s latest MMORPG has gorgeous graphics, a fantastic questing system and no monthly subscription fee.
No monthly fee is huge. Spending $60 to buy a game is much easier to stomach than $15 a month to play one (it works out to $180 a year).
The game also features an innovative questing system. Unlike most MMOs, “Guild Wars 2” sends you from NPC to NPC to complete quests.
Map markers show people in need of help. There’s no quest to pick up, you just get there and start pitching in.
It all feels organic, a word not often used to describe MMO quests.
Finally, the graphics are drop-dead gorgeous. It is the “Crysis” of MMOs, and compared to it, “World of Warcraft” is showing its age.
ArenaNet has created a beautiful, innovative, organic MMORPG with no subscription fee.
Throw in immensely satisfying combat and you get a damn good game, as well as a recipe for commercial success.
By Corin Chellberg
Guild Wars 2
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