[:1]http://www.incgamers.com/News/28183/...one-expansions
The part that worries me is where they say that expansions will be sold via the store... but... not sure if that's a misquote. I do prefer boxed products.
Anyway, I'm happy with everyone having to own GW2 to get into the expansions. Tutorial content is wasted, except for new zones for new races. New professions should be incorporated into old tutorial zones.|||I hope it's a misunderstanding. After all, they released all expansions/campaigns for GW1 in the in-game store as well, but it was always possible to buy a boxed version. I sure hope they are not going all-out digital on this. I like digital distribution but I also like buying a box, especially if it's filled with CE goodies.|||I prefer boxed product rather then buying it via the game store.
Part of the joy is to open the box and look at the extras in it, even if it is just a map of the area.
Call me oldschool but i love the booklet that ware sold with the boxes.|||I've read every instruction booklet of every game I ever bought. Admittedly, if they just talk about the menus, it's pretty boring, but many tell you stuff like history, or characters, or weapons...
Kinda annoyed with Splinter Cell Conviction only giving me the pdf instead of printing it.|||Quote:
I prefer boxed product rather then buying it via the game store.
Part of the joy is to open the box and look at the extras in it, even if it is just a map of the area.
Call me oldschool but i love the booklet that ware sold with the boxes.
same here, the joy of a new game is to buy it in the store and walk back home with a huge smile on your face|||I really like the physical - real world - stuff a lot too, but many companies are going digital to save money. Those booklets cost money to produce, jewel cases cost more than the disc, even the boxes cost money. Then there's the distribution to the various stores, shelf space, advertizing banners & stands, and I'm sure many other things I'm leaving out. As long as Anet is at least splitting those savings with us and keeping unit prices down, I'll accept a digital download and pdf manual for the expansions. Also, just because it's a digital copy, doesn't mean they can't do CEs.|||Quote:
same here, the joy of a new game is to buy it in the store and walk back home with a huge smile on your face
Right dog = just bought GW2
Left dog = bought SW:TOR by mistake|||I read it another way.
The way I read the article is, that there will be no expansions at all, instead new content will be released via DLCs.
So instead of selling boxed versions of EOTN, the content would be released via DLCs. Like a missions DLC, a dungeons DLC and an arms and armory DLC.
Or imagine a WoW version where you pay for the content patches.|||The nice thing about content patches is that you get new content updates more regularly, instead of more rare but large content updates.
I'd rather for example get a mission a month instead of 12 missions a year, if the price tag is roughly the same anyway.|||Anet is quoted as saying "stand-alone", imo I see that as the possibility for expansions that are not, "stand-alone", and will require the first game as EotN did for GW1. Easy to do away with tutorial areas, and all that newbie jazz going this route; do not really need new skills either.
As far as just giving it for grabs in the in-game store, eh. As long as I do not have to quip my account up with NCsoft or anything... Though I will wait until I see quotations around Anet selling more content solely through the store; for now I hold it as the publisher's conjecture; which it more likely than not is.
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Right dog = just bought GW2
Left dog = bought SW:TOR by mistake
Oops! Left dog is a sad panda.
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