Why do you play Guild Wars?

The title says it all-So why do you play Guild Wars? Is it to play the storyline and have fun? Is it just to try to be the best? What is it from-the following choices.

Here are the choices. I couldn't make it poll, the options were too descriptive, therefore long.

Choice 1: I mainly follow the story/play the game for fun *i don't care about good armor and weps* *infact i don't have very many good weapons or good armor on my characters* *
{good weps as in rare ones green and gold etc/good armor as in say 15k armor etc}

Choice 2: I mainly play the game for pure pvp. I don't pve much if at all.

Choice 3: I mainly follow the story/play the game for fun *i have a few good weapons and maybe expensive armor on 1 character*

Choice 4: I just play the game to be the best. Have the best weapons, armor and titles!

Choice 5: I mainly follow the story/play the game for fun. I have no special armor *15k etc* or much good weapons. I would like to but gold making can be hard and i can't afford.

Great topic, but trying to narrow it down to a few choices isn't too great. You may want to simply call them "examples".

Honestly, I play Guild Wars because it's a nice escape from real life. It's a beautiful world with a rich PvE story, where you actually feel like you accomplish things towards a goal, and that accomplishment for the most part is in your control.

Accumulating wealth and "nice items" for me is simply a by-product of playing the game for fun, and a constant reminder of my prior PvE accomplishments.

Choice 3 for me I suppose. It's just that all my characters end up with 15k armour eventually simply because the cash just keeps flowing in while playing, without farming, and have to use it on something.

Because it's the most enjoyable game out there at the moment.

Just like Jetdoc said.

I play it purely because of GvG.
Having only fun seasons since June or July is killing any shred of joy left in that though.

None of the choices above.

I love it when I:

i. get a good looking gold drop to identify.
ii. open a new area.
iii. get an ecto.
iv. kill a boss and get his elite skill/green weapon.
v. find out the weapon I found and gave Koss turns out to be very very rare.
vi. max out any of the rare material slots in my inventory.
vii. meet someone nice who just wants to play.
viii. meet someone nice from a country/place I will probably never visit or see.
ix. have a nice chat with someone in game.
x. get new armour and experiment with dye combos (used to be more fun though).

...and so on and so on (could go on forever).... also not in that order.

I play for the pretty graphics. 0_o

I would normally choose a game like Neverwinter Nights because i'm a roleplayer at heart, but I love the GW graphics and scenery too much to give it up yet. =)

I think the game is great. It's fun, and it's beautiful. The graphics are great, and the world is a good place to explore because of this. I have fun exploring. Not so much the hours it takes to scrape the walls, but because you get to see so much of this world.

So yeah, I basically follow the storyline, get as many titles as a can for each of my characters. But I only get good armour if it looks good enough to get. For my Dervish, I actually prefer the look of the Istani armour you start off with. For my ranger, I'll probably get her 15k studded leather, even if it does have a pretty useless mod (Armour +15 vs Lightning). At some point I will probably get them both obsidian armour, but for now that's not terribly important.

I play Guild War, well, the first reason is that Eles are hot, I'm serious, I was getting sick of Runescape graphics with stickfigure people. I looked around, disliked wow races such as elves and dwarves who looked funny, and decided to try GW simply that the eles were hot for ingame graphics

Then, well I started liking GW for its giving of good weapon without farming alot. By good I mean max stat. Never cared for skin, never will. Who the hell cares what I wield when I'm busy wacking or infusing. So, for me, thats reason #1, kinda of.

I think Guild Wars is the ideal game to play with a group of friends, or a close knit guild.

But, lacking that, it plays well as a solo game as well.

After having played WoW for the first 2 years after it was released, I do miss the in-game social scene a lot. Ironically, Blizzard's Community Forums were filled with horrible flamers and some really childish behavior; the Guild Wars online community seems to have a lot more maturity when it comes to discussion of the game.

I just wish it carried over a little more into the game. But, the strength of the game overcomes it's social deficiencies.

me too!

... mostly i, ii, iv, x ... great list!

Id say about choice 3 also I mostly play because some of my friends I enjoy talking to them and trying new builds etc.

#3 If I had to pick one I guess.

I play because i'm in the Army and it's fun to take my mind off of everything after work. It keeps me away from trouble and going broke. I love the freedoms GW has and the adventuring. It's a good hobby to get involved with overall, and it goes well with coffee in the mornings, and beer in the...just after coffee time on the weekends.

When you have a job like mine, you love your down time, and spending some of it on GW is relaxing.

...even if I get drunk and start shouting crap at the retards spamming WTS in the local chat... (you know you do it. you don't care. you won't help get rid of the problem because you're too stupid to realise that you are a problem) lol

Long live GW!

i play because i have no friends.


except koss, he is my friend.

I use to play because I liked to accumulate wealth (and I did just that)

To relax and have fun...though I seem to be picking up personal "quests" now...like skill capping.

i play as i enjoy the game, a bit to much

'Hi im onerabbit and im an addict'

I play it because its everything I wanted in a game which WoW isnt.

Personal option: I play it to kill time until games that I am looking forward to are released.