Playing Guild Wars 2 on my own
Uploaded by 2guildwars2 on Aug 31, 2012
Here's one to file under 'lessons we learned from probably Should Have writing stuff on the internet for over a decade': if you're planning to publish a couple of different perspectives on a contentious issue, publish Either Them or lead together with the one That Reflects the prevailing consensus. Otherwise everyone calls you!
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As Oli Welsh point out in Always Online: What Does Guild Wars 2 Right Battle.net, Guild Wars 2 is an online game. There are definitely benefits to this approach, outlines Which Oli - links to the other players are simple and appealing, and loot-stealing griefing are impossible, and it looks like Trading Could Become hugely addictive - and, if you're playing Guild Wars 2 on a completely reliable internet connection, it's easy to focus on this stuff and make peace with whatever else is going on, Because it makes the game more fun.
http://www.playerassist.com/gw2/
However, as anyone who HAS Followed me on Twitter for Any Time will know, even people who pay over the odds for supposedly top-of-the-line fiber connections are just as vulnerable to the quirks and eccentricities of the networking architecture have people paying £ 8 a month for ADSL capped. It's bloody annoying hiccups When it falling on football matches on Sky Go It's going to be even more annoying when I'm playing Guild Wars 2 on my own.
The point is: there is no such thing as a completely reliable internet connection.
And hey, even if there was, I would not be ble to use it outside my home. I imagine I will play more Guild Wars 2 on my MacBook Pro than I will on my desktop PC, because i like to have something to unwind with when i travel to see friends and relatives. I guess I'll have to make do with playing New Star Soccer on my iPad on the train INSTEAD. Even Apple does not insist that I'm always online.