A Litany of Comparison: GW and World of Warcraft

But then he'd not get his spotlight of "LOOK AT ME! I'M SPECIAL AND DIFFERENT FROM YOU!" fix.

Who are you to say, really? I solo, as I said. Why should I, or anyone else, care how "competitive" I am comparing to others? Same goes for my characters in GW without UAX OR max title-based skills.

...I didn't bother to read through 7 pages of responses so it may have been said before.

From what I can see you have been playing more WoW than GW and have yet to experience high end PvP such as high end GvG, but you have played enough WoW to have several high levelled characters and have done most of what the game has to offer. Sorry to say it but it sounds kinda biased to me...

Because all that she compares are WoW's PvP and GW's PvP amIright?

Because all that high levelled WoW characters do is PvP right?
I have to agree that the comparison is biased at parts, but you made some valid points. Like blurmedia said, it seems like you haven't really played GW as much as you've played WoW, hence creating a slightly biased opinion because you havent explored/played it to its full potential.

DoW's fantastic SP, especially with the Dawn of Skirmish AI mod. And yes, from what little experience I have with it the online community is nucking futs.

WoW hasn't killed anyone, its the idiots fault, not the games. I could sit down for 50 hours reading books and it would kill me, that doesn't mean that books killed me, my own choice to be inactive did.

50 hours won't kill you. You'll only die four days after not drinking any water, not two.

Back on topic, WoW and GW are just two online games. They offer different qualities that attract different styles of gamers. Saying that one is better than the other means that you just like one better than the other, as many things that you dislike, someone else may find as attractive features. No real way to compare the two as better or worse IMO.

QFT.
Just like there are [subjective] quotes in OP, I will also put [subjective] and say GW is better game then WoW! Now what? Whole OP is subjective, and as such, not really valid for proving anything. Tastes are diffrent, get over it.

/lock kktnx

Just downloaded the mod, AI is a hell of alot smarter now. Koo!

WoW is a westernized korean grind game (added lore of a popular franchise to make fanboys and other non-knowledgeable mmorpg players think it's good).

IMO it doesn't deserve 10% of the credit and praise it gets, because it barely brought any innovation to the genre.

I am an ex-wow player.And realy,you only solo in Wow?The fedex quests,and killing the same foes over and over must be very enjoyable then.

I've played both games and i prefer GW over WoW easily. I think the OP was ,although trying not to be, biased towards WoW.

WoW for me is just too childish. When i play rpg/mmo's etc i expect to see gritty realistic graphics similar to books that i enjoy from scifi authors like Steven Erikson/George RR Martin etc I don't want disney-esc graphics that look like zelda on the N64. I got no satisfaction from hitting stuff in WoW. Arrows and melee weapons are terrible to hit with and are really like from a low level console. Spells are more fun but still not as spectacular as they could be considering the lack of amazing graphics they could have made the spells more attractive. But considering in an MMO you spend most of the time killing stuff this should be alot more fun and attractive to look at.

I think the WoW franchise makes the game more popular for younger people like the figures and trading cards. Also when i was playing WoW i was in college and didn't have that much money to have much of a life at the time. Nowadays though based on my friends and people from work from ages 18-30 no one i know would have time to play WoW and have a life. If you want to get to do anything fun in WoW you really have to invest way to much time in it.

I'm a gamer in that instead of using some of my spare time to watch crap on tv i prefer to game instead. GW and other games are fine for me in this respect. WoW however seems to be for kids without jobs or slacking on school/college work or older people with not much of a life to be honest. I'm sure there's casual WoW players but the game structure generally doesn't have much to give for these players, which is a bit of a waste of money IMO considering the monthly fee.

I really loved Warcraft 3 when it was out and played it alot online which is why i got WoW but i find the storyline in WoW less involving than the Storyline part of Warcraft 3 strangely. WoW storyline is too fragmented and drawn-out to enjoy. Whereas Warcraft storyline was amazing IMO. The PvP in WoW is really far too scissors/paper/rock orientated, taking the fun away.

GW's for me has problems like crap rewards for completing quests and missions, introducing skills like UB which took away from the gameplay IMO, they could have made more animated and high end weapon skins like stormbows etc green items mostly just use basic weapon skins dyed a different colour, end game items aren't cool enough for me and they could make more stuff for guilds to get involved and more ranks/titles for guilds and obviously the non-jumping thing which will change in GW2.

These complaints are just minor problems though and overall i think GW has a good thing going on and has done a hell of a lot more in it's short time than WoW has done in all it's time.

Of course this is all just my opinion and obviously you're going to get opinions like this on a GW forum. Gaming magazines rate both games in the 90's most of the time too so it really is up to preference. As a GW player i think WoW is more for kids in general. I'm in my early 20's and that's the feeling it gives me but i'm sure many will disagree as it's all based on preference and opinion.

It's for the sake of....wait for it... COMPARISON.

And for what it's worth, it's not like you're doing anything different in GW anyway. Feel free to prove me wrong.

God, is it so hard for some people to discuss the point instead of insult others simply because they're not GW's BFBs?

So now I am a fanboy?I never said WOW was bad,only that you are missing out a lot of stuff if you play it solo(more then Gw),and it harder to combine with taiding/PVP because your gear will be gimped.And yes,the quests in Gw are(imo)far more intresting then the ones in Wow.

Sure, it is mostly the idiot's fault if he dies because he is too busy to do nessecary things to keep himself alive. However, some blame does lie on the designers of the game. The game is specifically designed to keep people playing. It is designed to be addictive. We're designed to be attracted to stimulants such as computer games, drugs, caffeine, books, movies, and TV. To say that no fault lies to the designers of the game is to be incredibly naive, and is like saying that no blame lies on the manufacturer of the drug that some poor sod ODs on.

I did actually try WoW out, and it just annoyed me. With GW, you can pick it up and play. When I installed WoW, it took awhile to install the 5gb of files, and then it had to update five times before I could even launch the client. When I got into the game, I found a pretty bland tutorial-type area, where the most exciting quest I could find was a tie between "Collect 10 of these things" and "Find this area far away in a generally southern direction".

I didn't actually play for very long. Got very bored, very quickly, and was glad that it was only a trial, and I didn't waste my money for nothing. That being said, there were some things that did interest me about the game. Some of the races were interesting, the Tauren being my choice (after I tried a night elf and found it too generic and boring). The lore was interesting, though most of it was collected from the series of RTS games. I think it'd be better to say that WoW integrated the established lore well into the game.

All of this is my own opinion of course. I know that I am incredibly biased, since I played WoW for 6 hours at best (and, as a couple of my friends assured me, had I managed to sit it out and get to the main playing areas, I probably would have enjoyed it more), whereas I have played GW for 3000+ hours. Overall, however, I don't like the monthly fee associated with a game, especially if I have to buy the product as well as pay to use it. It's the same reason as why I will never, in the foreseeable future, get a credit card. I don't like feeling tied to something, like I constantly owe something, in this case game time that I am paying for.

Maybe so, but face facts, until Zinger can prove that he knows about actual PvP in this game, he can't claim to know this game well, and thus this comparison is a total waste, just like all the other threads like it, what are the odds of that? The problem with all threads like this is that they are written by propagandists who miss out the huge chunck of this game (or WoW) and claim to have good exp in both, this will never change since good PvPers wouldn't waste their time writting something so........ pointless.

No offence to PvEers, but until you've PvPed well, you can't say your good at this game on a whole.

Which game is better is purely a matter of opinion and viewpoint.

And that should end the thread.

We are in 100% agreement here. Any review or comparison of these two games should say as much.

The purpose of the thread is to share those opinions and viewpoints, not to "settle" the issue of which game is better. What is interesting here is to hear why players prefer one game over the other.

A smart game designer -- AreneNet, are you listening? -- would try to evaluate what people are generally looking for in a game and incorporate as much of it as possible. Some features, such as group-only dungeons, can hardly be both solo-accessible and group-only ... or can they?

There are times, seriously, when I wish I could mix GW and WoW (I like them both, after all) in a bag together to make the One Game to Rule Them All.

/Agreed

I must admit that I have never played WoW. Only watched . But I can make the agreement on my experiences in life. For example I am a MRI technologist. I have scanned on many different brands of scanners and the top 2 are GE and Siemens. And In my 15 years of doing this I have said the most perfect MR scanner would be a hybrid of the 2. Taking all the postives from both and leaving the negatives behind. And I'm sure that one could make a Uber-game taking the positives from both games and making them into one. Let's hope that is GW2.