Guild Wars - Competitive MMO, No Subscription?

Posted by simoniker on Saturday July 5, 2003 @03:35PM from the new-genre-or-just-chunks-of-older-ones? dept.

Thanks to IGN RPGVault for a new interview with the ArenaNet team, developers of Guild Wars. These ex-Blizzard developers, whose company was recently acquired by Korean RPG behemoth NCSoft, talk in-depth about Guild Wars, which they call "..a competitive online role-playing game, which we believe to be a new genre." According to the article, "..gameplay options will include cooperative group combat, single-player adventures and large-scale guild battles.. [with] persistent characters but a non-persistent game world", and there will be no monthly subscription fee for this intriguing PC title, which is due out later in 2004.

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Good thing it's free. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-05 16:18 · Score: 2, Funny

Because these online games are getting so damn expensive I was about to go start wandering around outside hunting for gold and whacking people's heads off just to get my game on.