What should I do?

nizaru

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2009

Well, I am thinking about buying another Guild Wars account, because the current one I'm using is actually mines but my big brother playes with it and used the all 8 slots.

I'm thinking, what should I do
1 - Wait for the Guild Wars 2 game to come out?
2 - Not to wait and simpley buy the game...


Any suggestions?

Falkin

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2009

Denmark

Brothers of Honour [boh]

R/

I wouldn't expect gw2 to come out any time soon...... if it ever does

I say buy an account, they are fairly cheap

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

Make your big brother buy you a new account.

tasha

tasha

Auctions Mod

Join Date: Jan 2006

UK

Mystic Spiral [MYST]

GW2 has no release date as yet so you may as well go ahead and make your brother buy you another copy of the game. You can pick up the Trilogy pack relatively cheaply in a variety of places.

nizaru

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2009

Alright thanks fpr informing me about the unknown releasing date (lol).
About my brother, actually he bought GW for my birthday and he started to play beofre he even gave it to me....

Anyways, I think I'll buy the game, although that would be exhausting to start a new character :S


EDIT :
My last question will be if I can buy only an account key without the gmae itself as I have it already installed.

tasha

tasha

Auctions Mod

Join Date: Jan 2006

UK

Mystic Spiral [MYST]

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Originally Posted by nizaru View Post
About my brother, actually he bought GW for my birthday and he started to play beofre he even gave it to me....
Sounds like he owes you a new birthday gift :P

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Originally Posted by nizaru View Post
EDIT :
My last question will be if I can buy only an account key without the game itself as I have it already installed.
The client and the accounts are separate. You can download the client from the website without ever owning the game (you just can't log in and play). If you don't want to go to a store and have a credit card/other appropriate means of payment you can buy through the in game store. That is probably more expensive than buying elsewhere online or irl, but is instant (Steam is the only other instant delivery method, I think they have a deal on Guild Wars at the moment, but that might have ended already). Have a quick shop around, if you can wait a few days for delivery you could pick up a good bargain.

citizensmith1001

citizensmith1001

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2008

Behind You

[RoaR]

D/

Quote:
Originally Posted by nizaru View Post
EDIT :
My last question will be if I can buy only an account key without the gmae itself as I have it already installed.
As far as i know if you buy the game from the Guild wars online shop they only e-mail you the account key and tell you to download the game itself off the website, the guild wars trilogy (thats prophecies,factions and nightfall,you have to buy EOTN seperately) is £29.99 at the guild wars online shop ,thats $49.99 if your American.

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

When you buy the box, you are actually only purchasing the account key. The retail box and contents are window dressing. Anyone can download the game client from guildwars.com, but you cannot play (other than the trial) without an account key.

Kim Sythe Weilder

Kim Sythe Weilder

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2008

Neverland

R/

HAHAHA i was in the same exact situation as you. What i did was bought the eotn package instead of guild wars 2 because the release date was not set set. Another thing you can do is buy two or three character slots which i htink are cheaper than buying a game. any which way you choose, i would not wait for guild wars 2 to come out.

Menlai Littiz

Menlai Littiz

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2009

UK (Wales)

United in Battle [UIB]

W/

@ Kim i think he needs a new account coz he wants to play at the same time as his brother does... buying new character slots wont help with this..
On steam however you can buy the Trilogy pack for £24.99 (all 3 games not eotn) and eotn i think is on there for about £12.99

Tharg

Tharg

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Massachusetts

Omega Glory

Mo/

if you guys have 2 computers then I would suggest to buy a second account so you can play together

imnotyourmother

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2008

in a house

The Knitters Guild

W/R

Delete your brothers toons and then change the password and POOF one account. I grew up with 3 brothers, 2 older and one younger...we never really had computer games like this one so...we just stole the tapes - Commodore 64 don'tcha know...

refer

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy View Post
When you buy the box, you are actually only purchasing the account key. The retail box and contents are window dressing. Anyone can download the game client from guildwars.com, but you cannot play (other than the trial) without an account key.
yes but retail is actually cheaper in this case. plus discs beats -image.

Esraep

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2009

Personally I would get the Guild Wars: The Complete Collection because you get EotN as well as all three campaigns. In the UK you can get it online at play.com and amazon.co.uk. Not sure about other places.

Esraep

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2009

Personally I would get the Guild Wars: The Complete Collection because you get EotN as well as all three campaigns. In the UK you can get it online at play.com and amazon.co.uk. Not sure about other countries.

Eddie Frenzy Spam

Eddie Frenzy Spam

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2007

Old N Dirty [ym]

W/E

Right so your brother bought you a birthday present, used it before he even gave it to you as a present and then pretty much used it for himself even after he gave it to you, forcing you to not be able to play?

No offence but he sounds like an asshole who owes you another copy of the game. It should be him buying you a new copy, not you who has to fork out the money.

Braxton619

Braxton619

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2008

A/W

Buy GW1. GW2 is not coming out for at least a year.

Bob Slydell

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

How bout you delete all his characters, put a password on your computer and make him buy HIS own account?

gremlin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

GWAR

Me/Mo

Depends how reasonable your Brother is about these things.

You could buy another account for yourself or for him and whoever ends up with the original account meets up and passes a few things over to give the new player a little help.

nizaru

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2009

Well, I'd be glad to delete his characters and change the passwords but the problem is that he bought it for me two years ago, and I played it a lot. Actually I said something that is not true, he did open the game and started to play just because of curiousity, and then gave it to me. I played it for like three months, finished the Prophecies and then I got bored of it (perhaps because I was too newbie and just thought that there is not fun in PvP ). And he started to play. Now after two years he has like three awesome characters which each one of them has "kick-ass" builds and armors and such, erasing these characters would be to meen...

I still don't know what to do, I'm not to sure about my play time, i might parchuse that game but i won't play after one month (maybe..).

anyways, thanks to all of those who care about my issue


EDIT : Problem got fixed.