Hi there, I just thought it would be interesting to make a forum like this.
Please post your personal experience of coming across Guild Wars! By that I mean how did you first discover it, and figure that you wanted to buy it.
My personal experience: I was using Google to search up the top 10 MMORPG's because I was feeling bored. I saw things like World of Warcraft, but I hate that game, simple as that. There was this one game that kept popping up every time I looked at different list, a game I had never seen before... "Guild Wars"
I started doing some research on it, watched Youtube videos of user reviews, went to Walmart, bought the game. Now I'm here.
Please share your experiences with discovering Guild Wars!
P.S. If there is already a thread like this tell me.
How did YOU come across Guild Wars?
Jelly Doughnuts
RavagerOfDreams
well then smart ass
im facking amazing and picked it up in target
happy now?
o and.....FIRST POST
im facking amazing and picked it up in target
happy now?
o and.....FIRST POST
Crom The Pale
After a buddy at work pushed and pooked me for about 3 months I bought WoW. Only to find out that the 200+meg patch you download would not install correctly. I exchanged the game and found the PreSale of GuildWars sitting next to it on the shelf in the store.
I gave WoW one more shot...it failed one more time. I picked up GW, installed and never looked back
I gave WoW one more shot...it failed one more time. I picked up GW, installed and never looked back
Kyomi Tachibana
My boyfriend at the time made me play on his account, and I liked it, so he went and bought me a copy of Prophecies as my birthday present. Simple as that.
Jelly Doughnuts
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i was in a guild then a bunch of my friends left to go back to their original guild so i decided to follow em their
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Neo Nugget
My friend's sister got it, so then i decided to. She doesn't play anymore, but obviously i still do
Ahhh more remembering the good times
Ahhh more remembering the good times
Guardian Of Demons
Well, i went over to my buddies house and he was playing it, i watched him and got interested and picked up the for myself
A Funny Story.
Well I made a warrior and i was playing, and then my buddy wanted to get on. i said ok but let me get to level 4 first, i was level 2 atm. He said ok because he figured it wouldnt take long. He ended up watching a movie and playing a game for another 2 and a half hours. LOL i was still level 3, because i wasnt doing any quest i was just killing stuff in Regent Valley + Green Hills County.
A Funny Story.
Well I made a warrior and i was playing, and then my buddy wanted to get on. i said ok but let me get to level 4 first, i was level 2 atm. He said ok because he figured it wouldnt take long. He ended up watching a movie and playing a game for another 2 and a half hours. LOL i was still level 3, because i wasnt doing any quest i was just killing stuff in Regent Valley + Green Hills County.
Flem
I played the beta at a LAN center and thought it was ok. I was more into FPS at the time. Then, about a couple months after launch, I won that game in a tourney and have played off and on, ever since.
FengShuiDove
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My boyfriend at the time made me play on his account, and I liked it, so he went and bought me a copy of Prophecies as my birthday present. Simple as that.
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mrmango
Friends played it, convinced me to get it for my birthday. They all left. I'm playing less. =\ finally, after 2 years after they left. lol
Alex the Great
won a copy of proph in a trivia contest at a lame end-of-season swimming party.
and i just put it in my closet and never opened it.
got factions for christmas when I was 13, never looked back!!!! I'm turning 16 next month, so about 2.5 years
and i just put it in my closet and never opened it.
got factions for christmas when I was 13, never looked back!!!! I'm turning 16 next month, so about 2.5 years
RedStar
My brother talked me into buying it xD.
dunky_g
My best mate lee said it looked cool, so we both went in and bought it and still play 3 years later (nearly 
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Carinae
Amazon.com
I was looking for a new game. Needed a new game. WoW sounded good but not the monthly fee.
Besides the fee issue, something, somehow said I would like GW. It was right.
I was looking for a new game. Needed a new game. WoW sounded good but not the monthly fee.
Besides the fee issue, something, somehow said I would like GW. It was right.
ZenRgy
My friends and I had been playing random free MMOs, WoW and GW were coming out at the time, but WoW cost more money, so we went with GW.
viper11025
I was in the beta, from gamespot.com
Yuhe Ji
My friend got it for me for Christmas. I was like hmm... this looks pretty cool. Needless to say, the game did not disappoint.
KiyaKoreena
One of our friends bought my husband a copy saying "Dude its so awesome, you have to play this" . I watched my husband play it that night, next day I started a char, took over his account. We went and bought another copy and we have been playing for almost 3 years now.
cosyfiep
when I came home from overseas hubby was playing it and convinced me it would be fun for us to play together 
.....now I play more than he does
.....now I play more than he does
Shadow
My brother mentioned it. I wasn't too interested in it at first, but I wanted something to play after dropping out of FFXI.
Jenn
My brother really, REALLY liked the game, so he made me use his factions preview weekend trial key to give the game a shot. While I wasn't too exicted about it, about 10 days later, I was like, "wow, I have some money burning a hole in my pocket" and impulsively decided to get the game, not even really thinking whether or not I actually wanted it.
slowerpoke
*resists the obvious come across response*
Im a D2 fan, heard some devs from Blizzard who were inolved in its making had formed a new company and made a game, so i bought it.
Im a D2 fan, heard some devs from Blizzard who were inolved in its making had formed a new company and made a game, so i bought it.
Winterclaw
I'm pretty sure I heard about it from gamespot.
If not that, then from that one site that lists all the current and upcoming MMOs. Betawatcher?
If not that, then from that one site that lists all the current and upcoming MMOs. Betawatcher?
Daenara
My brother was given a copy of prophecies for his birthday, and I remember thinking "This game is going to be so crap, how can a free to play game be any good? " He started raving on about it.. so I gave it a shot. And here we are nearly 3 years later...
ser
First saw it during the E3 for everyone event. Played it for pretty much the whole weekend and then promised myself I would buy the game when it came out.
Phineas
Was playing a MMOPRG on a server that was closing down and 1 friend from there said he would be getting GW so I did likewise, me being the sheep I am.
1 up and 2 down
I saw the review for factions on X-play, it looked pretty good so I went out and bought it.
stale
i remember going into the local futureshop to get a replacement speaker for my car. (note - do NOT travel with a full bong in the back of your car - speedbumps are NOT your friend) there was a posterboard cutout of some fairly sexy chick holding a skull.
when i finally found the customer service weenie (outside smoking) asked him about it, and was told "it's something wars - supposed to be RPG or something. it comes out next week." on that rave review, i put myself down for a copy of it. (ended up with the CE version of it - they wouldn't admit to having a cheaper copy) since then, more folks have shown up, and i'm still playing my ranger.
IGN stale bongwater. think i'm officially a COD (either cool old dude, or crusty old dinosaur, depending.)
peace, eh?
when i finally found the customer service weenie (outside smoking) asked him about it, and was told "it's something wars - supposed to be RPG or something. it comes out next week." on that rave review, i put myself down for a copy of it. (ended up with the CE version of it - they wouldn't admit to having a cheaper copy) since then, more folks have shown up, and i'm still playing my ranger.
IGN stale bongwater. think i'm officially a COD (either cool old dude, or crusty old dinosaur, depending.)
peace, eh?
Olim Chill
Needed something to replace DII...walked through a Best Buy...presto.
buddhakl
I was in EB Games looking at MMO's, debating between FFXI, WoW, and GW. They all had their points: I'm a long-time FF fan, WoW had tons of people on it, and Guild Wars had superior graphics and instanced areas. The clincher: I am cheap and only Guild Wars had no monthlies. Over 2 years later I'm still playing and still using the first character I ever made.
Kusandaa
My cousin bought the game because it looked cool; he showed it to me, and at first I didn't know if I was gonna like it or not, but bought anyways. Didn't regret. Still not regretting 33 months after x].
Lord Natural
I was mostly into FPS and RTS online. I was in a Medal of Honor:Allied Assault clan, and someone there kept raving about GW. I wasn't familiar with modern RPGs, but I was into some older ones like FF3,7,8, Chrono Trigger, etc. so I decided to give it a try. As a fan of those classics, I remember being very disappointed with the awful story of GW, but the scope of the game and the social element drew me in.
Kapral
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Same and opposite. Girlfriend played (and still plays) all the time and bought Factions for me so we could play together.
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Lawrence Chang
I just decided to try it out. Decent MMORPG + No Monthly fees sounded good.
arsie
It was in the shop selling next to World of Warcraft, and it had no subscription.
bart
sounds like everybody who bought GW was because it had no monthly fees! LOL. Anyway i was in uni and had some free time on my hands so i looked up some online games and decided to get GW since there was no monthly fees (was in Uni so money was kinda tight). Went to EB and preordered prophecies with a friend. Played for a good year.
fearfactory
I was interested in the game because a few of my college friends were talking about it, but I knew that they would dump the game after a month and go back to their boring MMORPG's (FFXI and WOW at the time).. My oldest Bro bought it for my as a college graduation present. First computer I popped it on couldn't run it, lol. It took me 2 hours to leave ascalon city due to the lag. So it sat on my shelf for like 3-4 months before I got a computer that could run it and been playin ever since. (coming on 3 years soon - 4 months I needed a break but played LOTRO *slits wrists*)
Holly Herro
Well, at the time I was 11 and my brothers friend was playing it. I saw and I was like "Wow, that looks fun" (at the time was playing CSS+HL2 DM) so I get it, havn't put it down after 28 months ^.^
crazybanshee
Eh, I used to play Lineage. My bro was trying to buy me a cool birthday present, and found that GW was put out by the same company, ncsoft. So he bought proph for me. Then I didn't install it for a year 
Alex Morningstar
2 of my friends got it, so I started playing with them. Of us three, one quit, the two of us are in the same alliance and I play with my BF still.