Comments on: WoW and GW2: Two great tastes that taste great together?

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:33:44 +0000

dwism: I agree with you. And I am increasingly feeling that MoP might be very good indeed for its target audience, which is more casual gamers. And quite probably that will include older gamers and people with other commitments (such as GW2, lol ).

By: dwism

dwism — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:43:31 +0000

Funny. I am returning to wow after Cataclysm is over, since the game finally seems to be over pandering to kiddies – at least imo. The setting is more gloomy, the story is more intriguing and has more than a “big dragon is evul” plot to it.
Plus with things like pet battles and scenarios, us parents get to be a part of an mmo without the great big time-investment needed for raids.

It is my experience, that what younger gamers want, are time consuming games. The whole farming for gear, and unlocking dungeons – like I did in vanilla, was something I had time for when I was studying in uni. Not any longer.

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:41:10 +0000

I am skipping GW2 for now. I will be playing TSW and WoW side-by-side. I still love TSW’s story approach and mission design, but noticed I can only play it in smaller bursts now. In WoW I have had the sudden urge to make a lot of gold, so I can buy ALL THE MOUNTS. Quite strange. I am not super-excited about MoP, but we’ll see.

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By: carson63000

carson63000 — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:46:36 +0000

I have GW2 pre-purchased so I’ll be into that this weekend.

MoP, I’m certain I’ll buy it. It’s actually been nearly a year and a half since I last played WoW, by far the longest gap since release. But their contest is always so damn fun. This might well be the first expansion I don’t pick up at release, though. I might grab it when GW2′s new car lustre has worn off, and play through the new content. I don’t know that I’m likely to stay subscribed for a terribly long time though.

By: Telwyn

Telwyn — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:05:44 +0000

GW2 focus when I’m back from travel, almost 100%, at least until Rift’s expansion comes out then I may resub to that to give it a whirl.

By: Tonk

Tonk — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:55:31 +0000

I’m getting both and I’ll be managing my play time casually.

In WoW, I have friends, a raiding guild, plus all my alts to keep me busy there. I’ll be leveling pandas and monks to see how they feel.

I have high expectations that GW2 will scratch my explorer itch for a good long while. Should be fun.

By: flosch

flosch — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:53:50 +0000

Neither for me at this point in time. I enjoy TSW, I play a bit EVE on the side, and I feel the itch to pick up one of the games I have on the back burner at the moment (probably LotRO).

GW2 just has too much hype. I’ll wait until the most distasteful of the crowd moved on. MoP hasn’t been able to lure me back so far, I might pick it up on a bargain. Besides, funny enough, I’ll be on vacation for most of the big release dates. So I’m in no rush anyway.

By: Jonathon Barton

Jonathon Barton — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:37:49 +0000

This has been a SUCH a heavy heavy spending summer for games.
After looking at what I’ve spent on LOTRO since it went Free2Play(ButOhDoWeHaveSomeGreatSubscriberPerks!), My GF and I bought lifetime for TSW, and expect to get the value out over the next 2-3 years.
This week we picked up two copies of GW2.
Add two copies of Saints Row The Third…and I think we’re fixed for games.

MoP would have interested me, oh, 3.5 years ago.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:28:33 +0000

I have already bought GW2, and will definitely be picking up MoP. I’ll be full on GW2 the first month, and then after MoP actually launches (not the patch), I’ll be creating an NE Monk, levelling her, while taking my main into the new level 85 zones.

It is interesting to note that this will be the first WoW expansion I won’t be dropping everything I’m doing to play nothing but it.

Too.. much.. good.. stuff!