Why WOW can't kill Guild Wars

I was just rummaging through some gaming news this morning and found this nice article on Guild Wars.

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/...ll-guild-wars/

Guild Wars is unbreakable it seems

Great article, very precise

Oh yeah! *high five*

My favorite part was when she said 'Guild Wars does not feel like an MMO and certainly does not feel like a WoW clone.'

Well yeah, endless talk about WoW vs. GW has always been silly and makes people who waste energy on arguing about them look silly since WoW is a traditional fantasy roleplaying game with thousands of players together and GW is a more diablo style of game where you got instanced areas for your party alone & then outposts that serve as chat hubs.

Only thing that's pretty definite common for both is that people over at their own homes enjoy sitting over at computers and play those games, that should tell enough.

"Warrior with a pet?, sweet!"

Lol

WoW can't kill GW because GW committed suicide a long time ago.

I think this is dead on, which is why their current direction and what little news about GW2 that has trickled out might be cause for concern. More grinds, titles, raising the level cap (or, the horror, possibly making it infinite) all seem like very WoWish concepts. The original idea that this was not a game about time spent was a good one, and it is certianly something to be kept in mind while moving forward. I don't think the game has commited suicide quite yet, but it does have the potential to do so.

If nothing else, they still have the no subscription fee thing going for them, but I don't think that alone will be enough to sustain them. Time will tell.

They will survive if their addicts (I mean customers) remain loyal after the new launch. What could kill them is if other companies with large customer bases decide to put the resources into non-ptp, and possibly create a better product.

the better pvp system that has been in place longer is also whats kept gw alive.

I lol'd at that too. Hey author guy, did you know there are rangers with hammers? :O

WoW doesn't like to beat the dead horse.

Exactly. Don't you find it funny though how the carebears are willing to accept the accolades for MMORPG of the YEAR and then say it's NOT an MMORPG or an MMO. hahahah That's what I find the funniest. But, then those are the same ones who say Diablo 2 and Neverwinter Nights aren't multiplayer online games either. lol When they also go into instanced areas to play and have their chat districts just like GW. hahahah Oh well ....jealous people usually are like that.

Loads of vultures in here apparently

WoW cant kill GW becouse GW is just better ;p

- WoW has graphics looking like first part of Gothic. I want to play Hero, not mario looking 10 polygon "thing".
- GW graphics are more realistic. WOW = cheap cartoon.
- grind grind grind
- GW has more skills, in WOW u have skill levels which mostly do only dmg.
-Youtube WOW vs GW

This. WoW can't kill GW because it *was* a niche game. GW2 will be attempt to kill WoW by doing the same crap they do, and I feel it will fail.

Oh yeah, and free2play games never really die. They just hemorage massively.

I just want to reinforce what others have been saying. GW is good because it was unique and it wasn't trying to be WoW. Over time GW has implemented much more of WoW's features, and if the trend continues, the franchise will die.

To be fair I have played WoW for a very long time and in my opinion it is a better game... so long as you have about 8 hours a day free to play games.

Which is the reason I have come back to Guild Wars, I can come on and do something in half an hour, whereas that's impossible in WoW.

Considering WoW has up to 8 million people paying 15 bucks a month, they don't need to kill GW.

That has to be the most flawed article I've ever read.

The existence of WoW has no correlation with Guild Wars. (they target different demographics; free to pay and $15 to pay)

The author quite literally says "I like Guild Wars better than WoW, so it's a better game."

From what I can tell, the author hasn't even played WoW. I'd expect that kind of bias from a GW Fansite, but not a general MMO website.

Completely subjective.
Completely subjective.
GW is far more grind than WoW since WotLK.
More than 50% of the skills in GW are unplayable, though.
The video info says "THIS VIDEO WILL BE DELETED!!!! because people say it is too biased," and you use it in an argument?

All the video does is list things WoW does, then lists the same thing with "Great" somewhere added in GW.

This "GW vs WOW" issue has been debated to death.
They are different games targeted to different audiences.

On top of that, I like GW waaaay much more than WOW, while my best friends lost their patience with GW after Nolani Academy and switched to WOW (wich they love and spend hours over hours on).