Will Factions keep people playing as long as Prophecies did?

I don't have much time on my hands to play games, so normally I spend about 1~2 hours MAX to play GW.

Sometimes I farm, sometimes I play PvE missions and sometimes I PvP. With the combination of the 3, I usually don't advance far with my PvE characters through their missions.

So I can still see myself playing GW:Faction when Chapter 3 comes out.

I really feel those people who are getting bored, have really spent a lot of time playing the game all at once and not taking it slowly (I know you aren't restricted like I am).. but really, playing it slowly works wonders.

Haha some of these threads are just another way to vent about problems so it seems, but no... factions wont keep people intrested as long, it is not meant to. because ANET are creating a world for you, with the release of constant titles.

SURE they say its stand alone and technically it is, but lets face it if you love guild wars you want to be able to do everything. so you WILL buy them all.

its marketed as a stand alone game, but its a part of a world and should be tought of like that in my oppinion,

i DO think cantha will not have any where NEAR as much re-play value as tyria did. it just wont.

but then again its not meant to.

i have been disapointed and extatic about certain parts of factions, but the point is no matter what has happened i have kept playing constantly.

me being a "hardcore GW'er" i expect i will keep playing as i have BUCKET loads of aims for all 6 of my characters.

But at the end of the day its up to you and how you play the game.

I'm ashamed to admit I'm one of these poor suckers. The first thing I did was get my primary the "Tyrian Cartographer" title (would be Master Cartographer if I could only figure out where the fark the missing 4% are), and, yes, I've now started collecting Elite skills for him too, and clean up missed bonus missions. Probably wont go for the other missing titles, but these alone have kept me busy for several days (not least since I only play with henches - getting the bonus in Dunes of Despair with henches is *HARD*).

EDIT: Why am I Cervantes? Dear mods, please change me to Ed McBain.

that sucks rally

I can imagine the scene in the anet boardroom

"So we know the games too short how can we give the players things to do once they finish the game?"

"I know - lets create titles so they have to collect things , even elite skills they will never use , yeah that will do......."

The PvP will keep me playing as long as ever. The PvE does not matter to me in any way, except for enjoying the campaign the first time through, and the lovely 15k Kurzick armor.

I love Factions & I don't even pvp... For me, this game will easily keep me interested unitl chapter 3.

The irony is even though I have not completed factions with all my characters, I spent the bulk of this evening in THK trying to find a pug to do the bonus..

Yes, I know that's the most painful experience ever, and yes, I was the monk too

Ive had factions a week and Im bored. I find myself alternating between different games to keep my interest up. The days of playing GW for 6-8 hours are very much over.

Well I am still enjoying GW:Factions.

I enjoyed GW:Prophecies for 6 months.
After they released the sub-expansion (if you will) "Sorrow's Furnace" I stopped playing
That's a whole 6 months w/o playing GW.
Then came back coz of GW:F and till now I am enjoying it.

"Beating the game" is not about the SL. Yes you've beaten the "SL" but that's not the game itself. There is far more depth in the game than what SL has to offer.

I finished the SL in less than 54 hours and Im still playing it.

SF is a sub-content addition, so that's fine. I think with every stand-alone expansion, it will keep, at least me, playing for the whole 6 months before the next campaign is out.

It all depends on how much joy people get out of completing "goals" as opposed to seeing new content. If you like new content, you will be finished with factions in about a week or two. But if you go for goals, there is tons to do:

*You not only have 1/2 new characters to do the factions quests with, but your old 3/4 prophecies characters as well.
*After that, your chantan characters can go and do the prophecies storyline
*You need to capture quite a few new elites for all characters
*Unless you have done so, there are bonus objectives to complete on your old tyrian characters and maps to clear.

Even if you are the most hardcore player of all, the time it will take to get 5 characters through both storylines, clearing 5 times the whole map, getting 5 times all bonus objectives, getting all elites should at least be several months.

And once you finish that, there are the PvP titles to worry about. So in terms of stuff to achieve, there is more then 6 month worth. The huge problem: It is repetitive as hell, so most will get bored very soon.

- Xeeron

true repetitiveness, but for some reason I dont feel the repetitiveness after bringing my Cantha characters to Tyria. Now even my AScalon characters are in Tyria finishing what else I left there.

For some magical reason, Tyria became a whole new content as well I'm sure ANet bet on that, 'with each new campaign, it will make the older campaigns appear as new', which as I've said, happened to me.

I am seeing Tyria, or GW:P for that matter in a whole new light, in a whole new perspective. THe boredom of repetition in Tyria alone is gone coz of GW:Factions.

Heck, Im not even bored with GW:F yet there's more to do!!!!

I'm done with Factions. The rant about the elite missions and all put me off.

As far as I can judge by now, Factions has well enough content to keep me interested until campaign three (Nightfall?) comes out. Infact I'm afraight I'll still be so busy with Factions (and Prophecies, too) that I may not see the need to buy a new campaign already.

The depressing setting in the China town slums gets to me..its all the same, dank, dark and dreary..some places its so dark you can barely navigate..the quest within a quest within a quest makes for long boring game play, and they are all the same, just different names. There seems to be no variation in what you do. Battles take forever, and when done, you start all over 10 secs further on.
I enjoyed Tyria (have 3 accs), but Factions is a big disappointment to me.

Can't believe i quit world of warcarft for this? I really enjoyed the first guild wars when I got the game around New Year's, quit WOW because it was so good. Got excited when Factions came, after 2 weeks I haven't touched the game and since went back toWOW and rolled a new priest. Why?, nothing new, and way too short. The thing that got me really ticked was that Factions no sooner comes out and they start talking about the next chapter. Maybe they should worry more about adding content to the chapter just released. Sorry but I'm not paying 50 bucks for a weekend worth of content.

Total of 10 months on my account, much of it idle or falling asleep at the laptop. As for Chapter 1 played it ever since Factions, indeed Factions' PVE is frustating and tiresome but it's worth it with my new monk.

The city is the worst part of the game, IMO. It's unfortunate that it's the first thing you see when you leave the starter island. The quests are repetitive and uninspired, and the warts in the henchie AI are most prominent there. Once you leave the city, things improve, but I suspect some people drop out before then and I can't say I blame them. My monk made it out of the city last night and I took a screenshot of her cheering. She was henching it--when my mesmer did it in a PUG, there was much rejoicing and dancing when we got out of the city. One of the players kept saying, "I think I see green! I see green!" as we got closer to getting out. Not many people like the place.

As for Factions keeping me busy for six months, I'd have to say no. Once my Canthan characters have completed the storyline and optional quests, and it doesn't take very long to do that, they'll go to Tyria. My Tyrian characters will eventually go over to Cantha, but not until they've got the titles they're interested in over in Tyria. Chapter 3 could be out by then.

I've played GW since its retail release, four chars leveled up there. Got Factions last weekend, and as a casual player, game tourist really, mostly PvE, I'll say this -- as your typical bonehead, non-competitive, "just wanna have fun" player.

I was wildly enthusiastic about Factions until I got to the city. I found the city depressing, repetitious, just a pain really. Factions began to feel more like work. Think I was level 17 when I hit the city, and the morbid dark atmosphere upset me off so bad I went over to Tyria to level on out to 20; even though it took a bit longer over there, it was at least fun and not depressing.

Sadly, I know two people who have given up on Factions simply because they cannot stand the city. Yeah, I'll finish the game, but my next new char is going to be in Tyria. Once through the city is enough for me.

i cant really remember when i got factions i think may/june 2005 or something. Got bored after 3 months cuz i completed it whit 3 or 4 professions cant remember.
Then started in the PvP scene after 2 months, but pvP was a new world to me which interested me very much and kept me interested in the game. But i did do PvE in the meantime i couldn't get a group and finished the game whit all professions then i've quit GW for a month and everything was more or the less new to me. I started farming further in PvP (only i reeally quit on Tombs/HA cuz like everyone became big asses cuz of iway).

Im going to do the same whit factinos but i think the first PvE part will be a lot less cuz its a lot easier (to me) to finish the game for the first time.
But the main reason for this is because ive already played prophecies i know how GW works i know what to take in account to make a good PvE build or whatever.
By reading here i notice people are tending to forget that. So lets say it took you 2 months in prophecies to find out how the game worked out well and make everything easy for you and bla bla bla. You can pull that time of from factions now.