Why do you like GW ?

I like GW cuz it is free to play. That is ONLY THING good about gw right now imao.

Guild Wars has a chess-like feeling to it. I enjoy creating new builds and testing them out. With heroes around, you can create some neat synergy with builds which makes things even more interesting.

GW has quite a few things you can do depending on your mood, all of which don't require much time investment: RA, medium level pve, high end pve, AB, FA, farm greens, observe some truly skilled players and some fun matches, and argue with idiots in RA outposts.

I like Guild Wars because it's refreshing and different. Even though PvE has little strategy to it, I still love going through areas and hitting things. It gives great satisfaction.

I got into GW as a different game from the FPS genre I had played to death.

I got soooo tired of BOOM! HEADSHOT! BOOM! HEADSHOT!

Thus, as you can probably discern, I do not enjoy PVP. PVP for me is 8 hours at my job PVP'ing with customers.

I started the game because my husband wanted something for us to do together------and now I play because I can smash the living daylights out of things and not go to jail! Its a great way to eliveate frustration for me.....and since I only had to pay $50 for it to start with .....its worth it....time to go and bash some more char!!!!

Guild wars's graphics
And the 15k armor.. whew i wish i had some more of that ><

Why do I like Guild Wars? Its really a casual-friendly game. I can spend 2-3 hours doing something and feel like I've actually done something towards a goal. Unlike, other most MMO's where its not only gear based, you have to grind and grind to feel like you did something good and spend around 10 hours to do so.

Because My sin can drop a 100 Al target in about 5 secs.

This thread has shown me that GW isn't prone to spontaneously combust at any time from members leaveing. GJ guys you've restored my hope

I like Guild Wars becasue if I had a bad day I can come into the GW "World" and just relax with no worries other than those smite groups . It's really just my escape from reality. And really, how often do you get to save the world from total destruction/armageddon/or some other bad thing every day? Well really we only save the world once evey 6 months but oh well...

LOL, this pretty much describes me in a nutshell. I love FPS's with a passion since my first LAN party with Hexen 2 (god I loved that game) and Duke Nukem 3D. Those were the days But, now that I've had to deal with more and more stress in my life, or as you say "PvP'ing with customers", I like to come home and relax.

Now, every once in a while, I'll get that FPS urge again, and luckily, GW can feed that, too.

I guess I'm answering the question of "why do you like GW compared to other MMO's". I guess the answers are, in order of priority

1) Instances - I can get a group of people I like together be completely isolated from the dregs of humanity.
2) No Grind - My toon is max level and fully equiped in 24hrs so I can get on with playing the game instead of trying to level myself up and get uber gear
3) Short time investments. With the exception of the elite areas, every part of the game can be completed within an hour or so.
4) No monthly fees. I don't feel pressured to play to get my money's worth... though that being said I can count the number of days that I haven't played gw since 2005 on my fingers :P.

The only other MMO I play is shot-online and it shares every aspect except 2).

First off, I don't get why people who don't really like the game post in forums. Just my thought.

Myself, I started playing as a way to spend time with my brother. He talked me into it around Christmas 2005. So, the reasons why I love it:
-It's pretty
-Kicking the crud out of stuff is fun
-I love getting shiny armor
-Playing is relaxing
-I don't have to be a slave to the game to get decent gear (heh but maybe a little to get things like Vabbian armor)
-I can play with others or alone
-It's easy to get friends into it, too, because it's easy to learn but there's always so much to learn more and get better at
-My husband and stepson also play so it's definately family time now
-It gives me something to do that allows people in my vicinity to sleep (as opposed to drumming at 1am when I'm restless)

It helps keep me sane. And it helps that ANet is really cool - I've got to meet a number of the employees and they really are the coolest.

money making is fun as hell and I also like to meet all sorts of people from all over the world, its pretty cool that you can live somewhere and talk to someone on the otherside of the world and see what life is like where they coem from.

Well, I am currently taking a break from GW (Kinda-Dl'ing LDOA tittle in pre) So while I do that AFK I have been playing WOW and SWG. Both of which are subscription based which I don't really mind since I don't drink and I have seen my friends bar tabs. Much more expensive than the cost of a sub fee...But My point is I like GW because I know when I come back to playing it I can just pick up right where I left off. With heros I can basically solo the game since I play at a lot of times when not many other people are on. Also It has a great story line. Fun to make builds. Being limited to 8 skills is really thought provoking. Little to no server downtime Which is huge for me. I hate only haveing a set time to play a game and then finding out that the servers will be down that whole time...happend to me with both WOW and SWG this morning!!!

I used to like this game for the no grind philosophy and the balanced, competitive pvp. I'm not exactly sure why I stick around, however.

I guess I like this game now because it's a stop-gap time killer until Fortress Forever and Team Fortress 2 come out.

In no particular order:

The Graphics - the game and chars look great and the requirements for your computer aren't that high. Very big plus. There are a lot of games out there that don't look as good and have higher requirements, so I don't play em.

Cost - a big point for many. It doesn't cost half of what a 'normal' MMO costs you.

Gameplay - the controls are easy to learn and use.

Story line - at least prophecies and nightfall were good stories...Factions could've been, but the acting voices were bad and the movies so long that I stopped caring. Still, it could be worse.

Balance - the fact that you can play at the same level of equipment as any other player even if your new is a very good thing. I love 15k armours but they are not better than other max armours...well done on that.

I just never run out of things to do with GW.Never had so much game for so little money.Ever. The only thing that ruins some of my fun is the community wich consists of whiners who would say "Too litle too late" even if you gave them a bar of pure gold.

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Um beyond that, the major underlying factor that I like is that the places an empahsis on skills rather than items. I do enjoy items, but I'm glad they're pretty much for looks only.

It reminds of Magic the Gathering...<3