Macintosh users who are excited about The Guild Wars 2 (GW2), rejoice.
Users will be able to access the Mac beta client through the Guild Wars 2 account management website after activating their game code.
In point of fact, none of the storylines in Guild Wars 2 are very good, but the Norn I started with had probably the dumbest possible story.
BioWare would have done well to transform the game into something more along the lines of Guild Wars 2.
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The appeal of Guild Wars 2 can be attributed to a few factors.
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The upcoming MMO Guild Wars 2 made a very good impression with me when I played it in its beta form back in May: it was both easy to play and easy to become engaged.
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The Mac beta version of Guild Wars 2 is still being optimised and, unlike other betas, is connected to the live servers allowing everyone to play together on both Mac and Windows based computers.
Just a couple weeks after the Authors Guild's overzealous copyright-maximalist stance forced the bookseller to modify the Kindle 2's text to speech feature, the company's lawyers have had a fit of irony and sent out a DMCA takedown request to MobileRead, claiming that the site's links to a Python script that enables Kindle owners to shop at Mobipocket-format ebook sites constitutes circumvention of the Kindle's DRM.
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Hopefully the game goes much, much further than Guild Wars 2 in this regard.
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Titles like Guild Wars 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic are slated to make big splashes in the MMO arena, and it might be time for Blizzard to start rewarding loyal players with new and useful features, rather than charging for them.
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If you dislike both the prevailing F2P model or paying a monthly fee, Guild Wars 2 is a no-brainer.
But because Guild Wars 2 gives you more options right from the gate and really emphasizes and rewards exploration, that tedium is far less painful.
Guild Wars 2 asks you to pay once and gives you the option of in-game purchases on the side.
Guild Wars 2 has shields, but their use is limited to the skill bar and their effectiveness is snuffed out entirely by the fact that any shield skill requires a cool down.
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The Old Republic faced steep competition from existing giants like World of Warcraft and newcomers like Guild Wars 2.
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In Guild Wars 2, your actions really matter and your choices have an impact on the world around you.
People have described Guild Wars 2 as a possible World of Warcraft killer, and while I think the two games are different enough to make this a non-issue, bringing the game to Mac is almost certainly a shot fired across the bow at Blizzard.
Even before Guild Wars 2 officially launched on August 28, one player, Surfeuze, reached level 80, the maximum level.
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