Retired Players?

Sure burger sauces leak through the bag after ten minutes, but it's not thaaat bad.

...

All right fine, it is.

Hah. Not necessarily. One might be so unfortunate to get hit by a car or shanked somewhere.

As for being retired; Not any time soon. I still have lots to do in-game.

AoC's players seem to think so, and insist on letting everyone know on non-AoC forums...

Amazingly, though, I don't actually personally know anyone online or otherwise that likes anything about it at all...

Im retired since im bored of the game really, cant get myself to finish gwen completely and well waiting for gw2

I would write a long post but that pretty much sums my case up

The person who was advocating the most, Malice, even stated he canceled his sub.

That said, I find it hard to "retire", per se, from Guild Wars. It's not like you're paying to play or anything. Log in whenever you want. If you're bored, oh well.

But yes, I have been offline for quite a while.

Humbug. Retired from the game means you no longer play. You always could come out of retirement and play once again, but it grows less likely over time. Take sports as an example. Any professional athlete who retires from the sport and moves into broadcasting is still retired from the sport, though still interested in it enough to gain alternative employment and use of skill in a field surrounding said sport, which is much the same as continuing on the forums.

A clean solid break like the one you describe is rare. If you quit one job and start another, that isnt retirement. Happens at the end of ones working career, but one usually pursues the things one loves during that time and, if your work was in a field you also loved, you might continue following the field, but you'd still be retired.

Back to the OP, aye, you can count me among the retired, much as I miss it from time to time. Would I entertain a comeback? I have once before and made a great friend and found a new guild, and feel rather bad that I havent been in game in some 8+ months now, but life calls for other use of my time, more so every day I spend not playing. That, and the game has changed from some of the things I used to enjoy, as well as I am not replacing my PC. I follow the game still here on the forums much as I might read the news and occasionally comment. I did like aspects of the game, afterall. It'd be silly to leave it but not follow up on it from time to time out of curiosity.

I retired during Nightfall. I'm never touching a GuildWars product again, and I'm getting my "fix" from other games. I still come back once every few months to see how the game is doing, just as I do with most other games I've played within the last few years.

age of conan is completely unplayable in its current status. u reach lvl40 and u're in bugland

AoC has had an unspeakably poor release. Server stability is fine, but the game is so riddled with bugs and missing content that I deemed it unplayable after a few days. I'll give that game a shot once it's actually finished, but as it is now, it's in released beta mode. There's a good number of players who vehemently defend it for no apparent reason (I suspect denial of the fact that they spent money on an unfinished product), but there's just so many things that currently don't work in that game. You don't publish a book with missing pages, but somehow game developers are getting away with releasing games that are so far from finished that it's a blatant insult to the customers. There are game-breaking bugs in AoC that simply cannot have been missed during testing (if there was any), so I have to believe that the game was sent to retail with the full knowledge that these bugs existed. I do not enjoy getting stuck in invisible particles every 30 seconds while running across terrain, nor playing a class where numerous abilities flat out don't do anything. Loot tables everywhere are messed up. The game is so riddled with bugs that you can't play a full ten minutes without encountering at least one, and probably several. The game's structure and intended gameplay looks interesting, but they were too hellbent on releasing at the announced date that they sold us a work in progress and made us beta testers who pay to test. I won't even mention the amount of advertised features that quite simply weren't put in the game. It's a disgrace, but apparently it's becoming more and more acceptable.

There's only one man who can give the game a decent review: YAHTZEE!

I predicted before that AoC was going to go the way of Vanguard:SoH. They had, what, nearly a half million sales of AoC at launch? I'll bet once it's been established for a few months you see that they're down to 200k or fewer active subs.

It's got a few things that are "innovative" in the sense that they haven't been built into an MMO before, but I think once people realize that the game is still inferior - combat wise - to regular action/adventure single player games, the enthusiasm willl dry up pretty quickly.

Reminds me of the Hellgate: London beta. No /stuck command or similar, but damned if every single generated instance didn't have a half dozen ways for you to get trapped between objects. Plus, the warp back to town worked like a town scroll in Diablo 2, so if you couldn't walk to the portal, that did you no good, and there was no logout feature, so you had to completely shut down the application and restart it every time you got stuck!

I learned my lesson years ago not to get involved in an MMO right at the start. The temptation is there to be among the first and have all the opportunities that come with that status, but man you have to suffer for a few months if you go that route...

Yea, but he hates all MMOs so I fear he'll just avoid it outright

Retirement is the point at which a person quits working at their place of employment, permenantly...if you are not employed playing the game, then quitting it is not retirement. I quit months ago, but occasionally look through the forums to see what's going on...I even said goodbye to folks in the forum because I thought I might not come back...just passing through atm, thought I could afford 2 cents.

This is my first time on these forums for....over a year now I guess.

I've quit GW. All my friends who I used to hardcore PvP with quit as well.

I'm just waiting for Guild Wars 2 now. Hoping to get into the beta when it comes.

Not retired but I really don't play as much as I used to. The HOM with all those titles is really not my cup of tea, so I wait for GW2.

I am in my "retirement" planning phase right now.
I don't dislike GW in a way that I am going to stop playing, but yet, after three years of playing the game...I need a break.
I plan on getting myself to R3 in KoABD, a few more destroyer weapons (not getting them all) and then take a long break. I may step back in during festivals or other weekend events, but I want to feel renewed and excited to play when GW2 is finally released.
I have friends I will keep in contact with and a friend who may be interested in starting to play GW, so I may stick around longer than I may plan, but a vacation will be needed.

He bought a game from my friends' store. I wonder if he was wearing his hat?

Yeah i never play, but i frequently log on and look at my characters, and always stick up for Guild Wars whenever someone mentions a incorrect shortfall of the game.

i dont play anymore, im too tired when i get back from work.

just like to chill out infront of the TV or go to sleep really.

nothing lasts forever, if you don't retire from the game, it'll eventually retire you... the same is true for everything.

me too lol, retired, but still come back sometimes check out alliance and guild. And play some "late night games" in Kamadan to give out shards and ectos

I quit because of the same reason turin9 quit. I had 2,000+ hours logged on an account and it had got banned awhile back so I finally just let it go. I'm glad I did though, I been wanting to quit for awhile. I'm going to wait for Guild Wars 2.

I stopped playing Guild Wars for about a year - stopped checking GWG - and only logged in to GW about every 2 weeks, just so I wouldn't get kicked from my guild and officer position. At the time, I considered myself "retired." However, I logged in one day just to say hi and decided to try to map some of Lornar's Pass - which didn't work so well, so I looked at some running builds on PVXwiki and saw some of the new skills - some of which I would have to complete much of NF to acquire.

Before I knew it, I was back full time into the game. I found out about this incredible new build - Godmode W/P D Slash. I found out about Assassin's Promise and it's use with the Curse attribute. My interest in the new skills drew me back to my old love for the game. I bought EOtN, enjoyed the new dungeons and the storyline and loved the new PVE only skills. Of course I just HAD to try the new builds in some of my old favorite missions and quests.

Point is: If you ever loved GW and still check in every so often to see what's new or to say hi, there's a pretty good chance that you will eventually get drawn back into the game. So, as I said before - if you're still checking GWG, or logging in to chat with friends - IMO you're not retired. You'll probably get drawn back in just as I did. Heck - I bet a lot of the so called retired players are just itching to get back into the game once many of the PVE skills get reverted.

Malice cancelled his sub to AoC? I heard it got a mixed reception, but damn. Too much hype?

I'm not retiring from Guild Wars soon, it's a good distraction. I just find some of the stuff a bit repetitive (don't suggest PvP, I can't, I just can't), but finding new builds and new toys make it enjoyable. To be honest, I need more friends online to have more fun.

If I get bored playing, I do something else. Reading mostly. I've got American Gods to finish before I can get Descent of Angels, then it's either Legion, the Vampire Wars or Smoke and Mirriors; or maybe something from Lovecraft.

Edit: Shows how much I know, I thought Aion was out already >.<

This might explain why everyone without proof of purchase was sumarily kicked from the forums...they didn't want us to chat with friends and find out it was crap. Nothing to do now but wait for Aion and GW2.

And Starcraft 2 of course, the sequel to Jeff Strain's best work. Too bad he's not working on that. That's the down side of him being with ANet now, SC2 won't be as good.

Only if one was a xian and actually followed xian ideals.

Otherwise one does not have to do anything they do not want to do at all.

I am retired, stopped playing a couple of weeks ago and I only check our guru if I am really bored. I have no desire to play again.

as you said, "IMO". Not a fact, so quit pushing it as such and deal. Michael Jordan was retired multiple times. It happens a lot in sports. Yeah, "retirement" might not be a good term, considering it's not a paying job(unless you are with rawr or sms), but in the context the OP is using, it's ridiculous to say you can't read about, or have an opinion of, GW just because you don't play it, anymore.

There are plenty of people on here who have stopped playing regularly, and they just check into the game, or on here, to see if anything has changed significant enough for them to come back. The fact that so many were ready to jump to AoC, a subscription-based game barely out of beta, including many who know PvP and PvE inside and out, and were vocal about it, gives to the fact they are "retired". They would rather shell out cash and time to another game than waste their hours on this one.

Coming on here doesn't mean you still play regularly. Guys retired from the military still go to the VFW/American Legion and talk about their careers, and show interest for how the services are today. The ex-players just can't see wasting time playing a game, anymore, when they have done everything they find worth playing.

I'm retired. I still log on to TS to talk with my friends, but other than that, I just can't bear to play the game no more. I play PlaneShift now. Not as great as GW once was but, pretty good. Ahh I remember the days when I played GW just for the story, not for some stupid fame, skills, or money. Worry, stress and plan free playing. Those were the days.

I am retired from retiring. Does that count?

Meh, I'll probably quit until GW2 once I level up my derv to 20 and play him a little. I might go back to World of Warcraft and get my hunter from 62-70 as I couldn't bring myself to do it the first time because of the massive amounts of exp needed.

Yeah....maybe do some open betas along the way.


EDIT: I'm promoting soon so I hope to get Rock Band for XB360 and if I do, it'll keep my attention for a good month +

OR if I get EotN I'll get back into it.