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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Re:no monthly fees? by eht · 2003-07-05 16:54 · Score: 4, Informative

Blizzard doesn't charge for access to Battle.net for Starcraft, Diablo, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 or the B.net version of Warcraft 2, in one interview or press release they claim ad revenue from the advertisements shown on the connection screen pay for Battle.net in it's entirety and then some, so I'd expect ex Blizzard employees to use the same tactic.