How long have you been playing?

Since about 11:00p Christmas 2005. Started the install about 2:00p that afternoon.

9845 hours across 4 accounts

365 (days) x 24 (hours) = 8760 hours in a year. WOW

19 February 2006 was the day I created my first character.

@OP - regretfully, there is no way to make a meaningful poll for this thread. You are only allowed five options.

70 months, June 2005 - with some huge breaks!

71 mos, 2.6k hours, about 20 spent afk. clearly i am an avid gw enthusiast.

April 28th 2005, 71 months, it was the very day that the game was released in Germany. I quit in late 2007 tho, I was in a Top 100 GvG guild and I just couldn't stand the constant pressure to perform well and make no mistakes and stuff. It really affected me in a negative way... Now, 3 and a half years later, I try to make a PvE comeback as a casual player, but so much has changed in this game, unbelievable.

Btw, since I started playing right on the day of the release, I should be among the first players ever to get a 6th year anniversary minipet. Do you know when exactly this will happen? Because for some reason, according to Guild Wars Wiki, the 3rd edition of minipets got available on April 25 2008 or so... That's strange, because apparently that was not exactly 3 years after the release, so how could there be any 3-year-old characters on April 25 already!? Don't want to highjack the thread here or go off topic, but that simply struck me while looking through the wiki...

62 months, with two 6 month breaks in there. Still enjoy the game.

71 months for my main account.

since E3 for Everyone (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/E3_for_Everyone) and my Ele has been since WPE (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/WPE).

see http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...usion/Old_days

63 months. But I've not played a lot really. Usually ~3 months per year, then I get bored till the next year

Rolled my Ranger the evening of the day Prophecies went live.

Lots of other games along the way; no use in getting stale.

But after visiting foreign lands, I always return to GW my home.

good ol' "69" months and counting.

Says 62 months

Funny I thought I got the game a few months after it came out but it would seem not.

As a matter of interest when was the actual release date and was this world wide or did the uk come in later than some other countries.

I m the noobiest - 17months i think.

I started with the "E3 for Everyone" preview event in May 2004. Played during every preview and beta event after and then through release of the game. However over the years since then I've had various periods of being away from GW for months at time.

66 months and counting according to /age
my hubby & son both picked the game up a few months earlier than me ... i am the late adopter in the family.

"You have played this character for 7,080 hours 40 minutes over the past 69 months.
Across all characters, you have played for 13,539 hours 2 minutes over the past 70
months."


There could be something to my wife's complaints that I'm getting lazy.

i been playing since early early beta ...november 2004 :3 way way back before rotscale was in post searing :3 he was a dragon in pre xD....back then we had to actaully TOUCH the res shrines. i miss the days....but honestly...i deleted my beta char by accident....now ill never see a 6th year...

Been playing since the 2nd to last BWE. 71 months.

I guess i qualify as the noob here at 11 months >.>

Wow...had no idea I played GW this much

62 months.....11,079 hours