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Guild Wars Update Impressions

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2005-09-08 00:00:00.0


PC.IGN has slapped up some impressions on the just-released Sorrow's Furnace update for ArenaNet's hit Online RPG, Guild Wars. Here's a clipping:

In some cases, the player behavior is even driving gameplay design. Take the economy as an example. After some crazy fluctuations based on the play times from around the globe (this is truly a global economy here) all of the servers from around the world have been made to communicate with each other more efficiently in order to keep crazy fluctuations down. Even more interesting is the idea of item speculation. Lots of players have been collecting rubies for monetary amounts much greater than they would sell for at a vendor. Now, the rubies don't really have a use at the moment. Players knows that but have been collecting them with the thought that they will have a good use at some point. Because the demand for them is so high and people have been spending exorbitant amounts of cash on what are basically useless items, the design team has had to evaluate the ruby situation. The solution just might be to make rubies into something a bit more representative of the value given to them by the players.


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