As I wrote on QT3 I won’t buy Guild Wars till they offer a downloadable package.

They won’t see my money till I will be able to buy it online.

What the fuck is the sense of having the technology and not use it? GW has a completely streamed client and you HAVE to buy the box?

I have the beta exe. You start it and it will update to the last version. I HAVE THE GAME. I just need to buy the goddamn key-code.

That’s why it doesn’t make sense at all. And if they even THINK about not selling the expansions as downloadable content they are simply shooting on their feet.

We have a dev lurking around the message boards and this is the answer for that idiocy:

It makes sense in that it makes retailers and distributors extremely unhappy when you do this. We aren’t Half life 2 we can’t afford to piss off our distribution channels.

The original idea behind the streaming technology was that the game was in fact going to be distibuted online. Arena was called triforge back then and didn’t have a lucrative publishing deal or anything like that (before my time here) basically they didn’t have a deal and wanted to “self-publish”. Since then they were bought by NCsoft which of course allowed them to get into the retail distribution channel.

My following question would be why both Lineage 2 anf City of Heroes have BOTH the retail box and the digital download…

Anyway, I already commented these choices and I’d like the distributors to start to wake up instead of fucking up what they are supposed to promote.

My opinions about Guild Wars are still valid even if old: Here. I do not feel the need to write new commentary or correct myself. Not much has changed.