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V prvem delu intervjuja na strani ZAM sta na vročem stolu Bobby Stein in Ree Soesbee, ki odgovarjata na vprašanja o zgodbi ter stilu in designu vmesnih video sekvenc (cinematics).

ZAM: It’s not a “pull you out of the situation” sort of cinematic style, like the first game?

Soesbee: Yeah, and that’s one of the areas where single player games really differentiate themselves from MMOs. You can reach a part in the game, pause the action, sit down and watch an interesting cinematic, and then move on with the story.

In an MMO, everyone else is standing around going “C’mon! C’mon! What are you doing?” Or one party member has seen a cinematic while the other hasn’t, and then you make the whole party wait.

We don’t think that’s fun, so we’ve done everything we can to give you the same amount of storytelling – the same amount of feeling that lets you know that your character is alive – without jerking you out and shoving you back into the story.

Update: Na voljo je drugi del intervjuja, ki govori o voice castingu, rasi Sylvari in elementalistu.

ZAM: How is Guild Wars handling it?

Soesbee: We’re really doing it two ways. You have to break the story down into pieces so people don’t need to feel like they can’t eat or sleep or get all crazy because they need to see all of this story at once. Additionally, we can’t make the pieces so small that they’re just flavor, which is what I think happens in the higher level WoW areas

Izjemno informativen intervju so tokrat objavili na francoski GW2 fan strani Luna Atra. Eric Flannum, Curtis Johnson, John Hargrove, Jon Peters in Chris Lye razkrijejo Guild Wars 2 Marketplace, ki bo omogočal nakupovanje in prodajo in-game predmetov ter bo na voljo celo izven igre v obliki spletne strani. Med drugim izvemo še, da GW2 ne bo imel districtov, strukturiran PvP bo 5 vs. 5 in orožja ter armorje bo možno nadgrajevati.

Curtis Johnson – Game Designer: Guild Wars 2 includes a full Marketplace for players, which will differ from the usual MMO auction house in a number of ways. The biggest and most important difference is GW2’s Marketplace supports postings from both buyers and sellers. You might put your sword up for sale, then offer 100 gold for the specific axe you’re looking for without having to find any specific seller. The market can display the history of average value and trends for an item, making it easy to determine a fair value for your goods. It might be worth waiting to sell your item, depending if the price is rising or falling.

Items you put up for sale may sell while you’re offline, and the funds will be deposited in your account bank. You must be in game to put a new item up for sale, but you will be able to browse the market, bid from your account bank, or cancel your own auctions and offers while logged in to a web browser without running the game.