Arena.nets new game revealed

[Nick Tandoori]

Graphics are ok but not awesome, but it's not whats important. Gameplay is the name of the game and should be for every game in my humble opinion.

Thanks for the link to the gamespot article you provided. I also thought the graphics were acceptable, but from the Gamespot article I understood that they've hired a few new graphics artist in order to polish that area. The switch to NCsoft may have given them the needed financial boost to allow for them to hire additional people.

Also I've been wondering about the business model of Arena.net. How are they going to offer continuous updates to a product with only a one time payment? From what I understand, currently these are just plans for the Northern Americas and Europe and Asia may have to pay for the game differently. What may also be possible is that in order to unlock parts of the world, extra cash has to be donated. Some kind of toll system where your creditcard is plundered if you cross a border in the virtual world. I’ve sent Gaile a mail about this, but I imagine she’s having one hell of a time answering questions to everyone already :)

Also I’m wondering what happened between ArenaNet and Blizzard. Both at one point decided to do a MORPG, which of the two was first, and how did the other party respond? Was the way an MORPG should be implemented the reason for the break? Somehow it interests me as both parties so far seemed very amicable towards each other.