More action oriented combat! ~no auto-attack~

[Shneibel]

I doubt SE will beable to compete with these "next gen" MMOs personally.

Just looking at Tera, GW2 and Blade and Soul gives me a bad feeling about this games future.

Thats not to say that people won't continue to play this game but its going to remain very niche.

Maybe 2.0 will prove me wrong.

I hope 2.0 will prove you wrong

on other hand, if I remember right, 2.0 will release around december 2012 ? afaik, Tera for eu/us will release at early 2012 so there wont be any really competition as when ppl begin to get used to the game, bored of it, 2.0 of FFXIV will be there and snatch the customer back, sound good on paper no ?

[Dreadnought]

I hope 2.0 will prove you wrong

on other hand, if I remember right, 2.0 will release around december 2012 ? afaik, Tera for eu/us will release at early 2012 so there wont be any really competition as when ppl begin to get used to the game, bored of it, 2.0 of FFXIV will be there and snatch the customer back, sound good on paper no ?

that same exact logic applies to 2.0 though, snatch people up till theyre bored of it and move on either to the next new MMO or back to one of the other ones released in 2012 (GW2, Tera, Blade and Soul). it would leave only niche fans as the masses who got bored realized they wanted an action MMO.

[Dreadnought]

Guild wars 2 also minimized how many abilities each class has in comparison to GW1 which had tons and tons of abilities.

HOWEVER, not only are there still more abilities to learn than just 15, but each class is able to equip more than 1 type of weapon with each weapon giving a different set of abilities to equip.
you can also change your weapon by just a push of a button at any given time allowing you to change which abilities to use according to your current situation.

this new 15 ability thing SE is doing might not bode over well in the long run.