Massive "Guild Wars: Eye of the North" and "Guild Wars 2" Information from Guild Wars Guru Forums

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To start things off, the guy/s was/were very lucky yo have gotten the May PC Gamer #161 so early. I was quite lucky myself when the Iron Giant mini-pet magazine came out early too, so I’ll have to check my local magazine stores if they may have this particular issue already.

A link to the post can be found here. The information available is quite massive, even if it’s just a “supplement” to the magazine article. Regardless, I agree with the guy that you should go out and get the copy of the magazine, a lot of other info can probably be gleaned from the mag, as the post is a summary, and subject to the guy who posted’s interpretation.

Based on the post, and what I’ve been gathering so far, these are the notable things which I think won’t change:

- “: Eye of the North” and “ 2″ will still use the no-subscription fee model
- “: Eye of the North” will wrap up the current story (or at least the Prophecies story) and somehow tie-up to “ 2″
- “: Eye of the North” will require at least one of the previous campaigns (Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall) to play
- You cannot migrate your characters from the current campaigns to “ 2″
- “ 2″ will have additional races

There is so much more info, but for now, the info I listed above seems stable. Who knows what they’ll decide to change as feedback comes (which is probably why they’re letting us know about this stuff now).

As sad as I am that you won’t be able to carry over your old characters, I pretty much expected it. “ 2″ is shaping up to a something new, not an extension, and the changes in gameplay will have its own balance issues, it cannot be comparable gameplay and balance wise.

I do hope they decide to push through with their massive online world plans. I consider myself a casual player of the game, and some of their gameplay plans regarding a resettable persistent pop-in/pop-out gameplay appeals to me, not to mention the thought of hundreds of players fighting side-by-side (or against each other).

I’ll probably have more comments after I get the magazine (which I hope will be soon).

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Magic: The Gathering Online III Initial Screen Shots and Updates

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I think a lot of Magic: The Gathering Online () players have been waiting for this update. Unfortunately, form the looks of the blog entry linked by the article, they still have quite a few issues to fix. That’s fine with me, better to make sure you deploy a good working version than a buggy version.

Still, with the open beta coming soon, and with some initial screen shots, at least it indicates that they’re not as far off as they could be (or at least, I hope it does).

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