3,000,000 Sold, Upcoming Features Revealed!

RSS FEED · #1 12-13-2006, 11:27 AM

In a press release issued today, ArenaNet and NCsoft announced that more than 3,000,000 copies of Guild Wars have been sold to date. The press release also provides an outline of the upcoming Wintersday Festival and reveals some exciting new features that will be implemented coming over the Holiday season. Get all the news here.

http://www.guildwars.com/press/relea...2006-12-13.php

Photics · #2 12-13-2006, 03:04 PM

Wow... this is awesome news! Don't glance over this RSS FEED post. This news is sweet... and I'm not just talking about the number of sales. Don't miss this part of the press release...

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Reconnect After Disconnect - One of the most player-requested features comes to Guild Wars! If a player gets dropped from the game due to a connection problem, and that player can reconnect within ten minutes, the player's character will be relocated to the spot of disconnection. If the character was performing an action, such as casting a spell or auto-attacking a target, that character will complete the action as if still connected. If a player is in a group when disconnected, the other members of the party will be notified about the player's connection problems.

This is great news. At the end of Issue #32, I listed some problems facing Guild Wars. Not being able to join a match in progress, that puts a huge hurt on immersion. Being able to reconnect after a disconnect, that's a big step in the right direction.

Woooo hoooo!

IllidanIcerage · #3 12-14-2006, 10:27 AM

Err, the RSS feed is just a harder way to read news from GuildWars.com... More obscure, and without all the shiny graphics of GuildWars.com

#4 12-14-2006, 01:25 PM

Indeed, reconnect sounds great. All too often was a really long mission destroyed by err7. Although, I do have one question about this bit:

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If the character was performing an action, such as casting a spell or auto-attacking a target, that character will complete the action as if still connected

This makes it sound like even though you aren't connected, your character will be in the game fighting anything you targeted before an error. If so, can the character die if you aren't even logged on? That could be disastrous for someone going for survivor. Other than that, good stuff

IllidanIcerage · #5 12-14-2006, 01:32 PM

Yes, your character stays there. We were just talking about how people probably could (and probably would) exploit this system on my guild's forums and someone unearthed this:

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Originally Posted by Alex Weekes
A disconnected character is effectively just an AFK character. The character remains in-game for the full 10 minutes, and is vulnerable throughout that time. You can't avoid a death by faking a disconnect and reconnecting, and you can't try to ambush your opponent by faking a disconnect either.