Does anyone just play for fun anymore?

With all the talk of farming, and anti-farming codes, and title maxing and boting etc. Does anyone just play the game for fun? I do. Yes i like maxing titles, but if I find something boring, well i'll move on. Yes i've done a bit of grind here and there to a)max said titles, or b)make some money, but mainly i play the game. I do the quests, I do the elite missions (fow/uw/dungeons etc) i do the missions, I pug I h/h, and I have fun. I also do the occasional pvp, at which I am getting better. I play different characters, working my way through the missions etc, mainly because they allow me to experience the game in a different way. Am I alone here? Or is everyone obssesed with money and titles?

I love playing for fun too, went through about a 2-3 month stage of only helping other people. Good fun re-visiting old missions/quests and making friends along the way.

Love casual pvp too, a bit of ab here and there, sometimes going into HA but most ppl there dont want casual players.

Pve wise i tend to only go out with another person in party just for more of a laugh, and love doing fow/uw with guidlies using completely random builds. only balance about the team is trying to balance the professions roughly :P

im sure there are thousands out there who dont care about having the most titles, just playing for fun.....well i hope.

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I'm playing for fun as well, though I do it through goal-setting. If I think a dungeon will be fun I'll head off and have a whack at it. Same with titles, Hard Mode and the like.

I have no friends online though, so actually doing stuff can be quite hard a times >.>

My fun was maxing titles, but seeing as I'm at 28 now, I need to farm to be able to max the others =)
So meh.. I'll probably quit for a month orso ^^.

i still play because i still think GW is fun, despite all its flaws.

there's no other game out there that plays like GW. its control system is one of the best there is.

I have to agree. I bought LOTRO, played it for three days and decided to make another character in GW instead.

I play for fun, yes. Titles don't interest me at all, and I only farm when I really want something new.

Though it's starting to become harder, and more boring, as more and more of my friends quit and move on to other games/things.

Me and my wife play quite a bit just for fun. Its our "Cheap Date Night" we get do missions, dungeons and try to capture elites. We have been playing since December. Its fun, we have a great time and its a hell of a lot cheaper that going out all the time We read up on builds and stratagies for different missions. We both have all the chapters so we pick different ones and do different things with different characters to keep it interesting. If we keep getting wiped in some area we take a brake and play a different area and come back another day. We have a lot of Fun playing Guild wars together and the occasional Fight.. LMAO Its a Great game, i am glad i picked it up and i am glad that she likes gaming as much as i do

yes more and more these days i pug whenever i can, even though i can go through a mission easily with h/h. I find it facinating what people can come up with, and one or two builds surprise me at originality.

I used to play for fun until the Nazis took over, rounded up all GW players into concentration camps, and started making us play 24/7 or be gassed. My jailor promises to let me go when I get 30 titles, but I wouldn't trust the fascist scum to kiss his mother without slipping a knife between her shoulder blades.

I don't know, but I'm having fun maxing my titles and solo farming... I'm serious too. This is my fun.

I hate the storyline. The missions got boring pretty fast (after my 2nd or 3rd play). I really love the gameplay so I got into farming; it's what's keeping me in the game right now. I go through phases where I'll get bored of it, so there are weeks where I'll log on to see if my friends are on and if they are doing anything, if not I log back off and go play something else. Just like any other game, if I don't have fun, I stop playing.

I try to, i've had a lot of fun spirit spamming in RA the past few days, which has gotten me to play more. It works toward that nifty zaishin title also

I hate maxing titles btw, too boring.

I personally don't get what is so fun about farming and amassing loads of gold. I have a friend that is baffled at the fact that I can't stand farming. IIRC, he asked, "You don't think getting gold is fun? What the hell is wrong with you?"

Title grinding is the same and I really only have titles as a result of doing the things I like to do: AB, missions, cartography.

I enjoy picking up perceptive newbie, helping with mission or so, explaining some useful basic stuff and giving pointers on build (nothing nasty, but i will NOT let ranger keep using heal party :-) ).

I found that once people get solid basics their enjoyment of game goes up because game stops being frustrating.

I play for fun, but I do find getting titles fun. I enjoy the challenge in doing things on my Necro I haven't done on my other toons. I don't always enjoy farming, but if I get bored doing other things, I do enjoy Puging FoW with my monk

I doubt this forum is representative of the majority of players. If you look around outposts and missions, there's still a lot of people still playing quests and whatnot.

You shouldn't drag your strawman into a place like this. Too many open flames.

Nope. Noone plays for fun. Everyone are bored to death, but keeps going. Youre the last one gg.

On the controls I agree completely, cant play Neverwinter Nights ow WoW anymore coz of GW.

...but it's not that GW has a lot of flaws, its just that ALL the other games are so messy that you cant even spot the flaws in it ( especially when it comes to professions balance ).

sure PUGs ftw! it was fun years ago n still is^^. Just log into my B-account(storage for golds mostly = no money no skills n just factions = no heroes..kinda like old days). I used to enjoy DoA coz of team work n interesting ppl i can learn from..u know what happend then. also camping in Shing jea n see all the stupid talks makes me happy from time to time..dunno why

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agree on controls as i wrote few mins ago in my other post somewhere hehe.Lineage can kill me. also graphic is pretty smooth n no need to lv lv lv lv all days

YES!! I play for fun, i think this is why i've been able to completely enjoy Guild Wars for the 3 whole years i've been playing it. Never once have a took a year break or something like a lot of people have, i believe it or not, have been having a lot of fun all the while Guild Wars has been out. There were some months where i'd play a lot more often than others, but for the most part i've been playing all the while.

I consider myself a casual player who just plays for fun. Just playing through the game, doing what _I_ find fun, doing what _I_ like to do, is just how the game should be enjoyed. I'll be damned if i'm going to subject myself to hours and hours of grinding to impress some other person with a meaningless title (I have grinded my portion of titles, but i'm only at r3 KoaBD, and i've gotten there at my own slow pace.).

Honestly though i think a lot more people would enjoy GW a lot more if they cut the serious bsns act and just played the game for their own damn fun and welfare. It's really enjoyable.