Why should I switch to Guild Wars?

Im just curious .. I just left Matrix Online and beta tested that since November .. and Just recently bought WoW ... Im already lv 9 and its been fun .. SO Im wondering if I should leave WoW to play Guild Wars? And if so Why? What are the pro and cons?

I left WoW for this. No monthly fee, and my friends are comming here so the choice was easy for me.

Keep playing WoW and get a copy of Guildwars to compare yourself, we can't accurately tell you what you like

Since there is no monthly fee it works out well.

Biggest Reason to Leave WoW for GW:

• No Monthly Fee
• Minimal or No Lag So Far
• It's basically the same game.

Instanced maps, this was a huge deal for me. One of the best things to come to an MMO.

WoW can be fun for a while. Personally I found it to get boring, mostly due to what I think is a poorly implemented PvP system. I felt there was too much "ganking" and unbalanced warfare going on there for my taste. I also think the community there left a lot to be desired.
I have been reading these boards for quite some time now and found the community here to be much better than the typical MMO. There are a lot of great and helpful people here. But the biggest reason for me to leave WoW and join in on Guild Wars is the PvP. Since this game is focused on PvP I am sure they have gotten it right, and judging by the reactions of everyone I know who played this they did in fact get it right. Also the max level of 20 helps to ensure a level playing field for everyone involved.
All I can recommend is that since there is no montly fee, no need to input a credit card and all, pick up the game and play it. I think you'll like what you find here.

Cheers!

Gryph

Please read other posts that have been popping up recently asking the same question...
My answer to you is, because it'll stop the voices in your head.

Mind

I think I will buy it this weekend and test it out .. and see how it compares to WoW .. I just didn't want to go buy it and not like it ..

If it is basically the same game Im sure I will like it .

Good question, my only answer is that I have played WoW, EQ and a bunch of others and for me GW is hands down the best concept and most enjoyable in game experience I have had to date and I've been playing on-line games since the early 90's. Having said that though everyone is different, you may love it, you may hate it either way you'll have to go buy it to try now..

Please do not compare GW to WoW using thoes words.. this is NOT the same game not at all, there is no uber pallys, there is more to do once you cap your char, there is little to none healing downtime, there are no 13 year old instance brats, there is no kill stealing, the list goes on.. all in all this is nothing like WoW and for the better.

indeed!

a more accurate statement would be to say that they are completely different!

play what you want...i'm not going to 'sell' anything to you

i just left wow for this game but i LOVE wow...i just don't have enough time to enjoy wow or to get to pvp, which is pretty pointless unless your lvl 55+ which for me would have taken months.

So my main reason was my lack of time to play wow...i only have about 3, maybe 4 hours per day to play, and i like lots of pvp, thus guild wars makes a lot more sense for me.

I agree. Didn't know this until I started playing yesterday, but makes a huge difference. From my understanding a large contengency of Blizzard employees left to form ArenaNet.

While I'm not very efficient at explaining game details, I will tell you this is the only game that I've ever been unambigously excited to play when arriving home. I will tell you I found this game has a rather higher quality environment, sophisticated community, and a dynamic PvP system. You should try it out yourself. That's truly the only way you'll find out whether you like it or not.

Thats one of the best descriptions I've ever read about Guild Wars and 100% accurate.

- Iczer

Not arguing here trying to understand as I have spent hundreds of dollars and priceless time trying to find that MMO I could play more than a few months.

How did you come to find the community so sophisticated? I am having a hard time meeting anyone compared to other games. Most other games I left the main towns as fast as I could as they were chalked full of the behavior most of us don't like (killstealing, ninja looting, 'Why can't Class X do skill B, this is gay' type comments). I would met most of the people I came to like through teaming up while soloing to help get through a rather rough area or because they may have asked for my assistance.

While not everyone I teamed up with would be worth adding to my friend's list there were a few and these are the ones I tried to contact when I was online.

Now the way GW is set-up I will not be able to met people in this fashion again, and I did hear all the l33t speak in the starting town as I do in most games. I would like to meet that sophisticated community, but with no monthly fee lowering the cost barriers to even more school kids (I'll take a quick moment to say that some school kids are more mature than adults but it is genaric ratio thing, I would not have wanted to game with me when I was in High School) increasing all the behavior I try to avoid in the towns.

Other than this concern, I do like the game so far. I can finally be able to keep up with the new friends I make as I am a casual gamer. So like I said not flaming or trolling, I really want to know how you separate the wheat from the chaff.

I am playing both Guild Wars and WoW. I would not be doing this if they both had a monthly fee, I would then choose one or the other, but since GW does not...

I played FFXI since it's release and decided to leave for this game. The traveling is better, the graphics are better, the quests are better...but it is just personal prefrerence.

For me I left WoW because of a time issue (get to level 60 to truely be on a level PVP field). And the monthly fee has always bothered me (not the amount - just period). I am a PVP fanatic and I like to get in a game, play and get out.

I want to be able to PVP right out of the box. It's an enjoyment issue, not a money issue. Even though GW isn't as "deep" as WoW, I will enjoy it more because I never get tired of competing against other players.

I like that I can set the game down for 2 weeks and come back and know that I can jump right into the game with my friends. I don't have to play "catch-up". I HATE the catch-up game.

In WoW I would log in for 2 hours, be bored the entire time (farming for money, leveling whatever) and log off. WoW is a fantastic game from start to finish - MMORPGs however enjoyable in part, just aren't for me. I wan't my stuff (equipment) handed to me so I can refine my skills - not be stronger based on how much time I play, but simply how I play.

WoW rewards you for time spent playing. GW rewards you for learning how to use skills.

There is no grind in GW.

It's just more fun to me.

grinding killed my experience with most MMOs. I absolutely hate just doing repetitive tasks for a specific it that i need just to be better. Not because it has anything to do with my actual skill level.

WoW and most MMOs reward you for time spent by having cash to spend on junk you need, in WoW...Instance running, getting random drops, and leveling. That friggin blows if you can't spend 8 - 10 hours a day on a game. You don't have the time to quest, level, farm, and buy stuff, and then actually do what you want to do in the game. Also, wow strikes me as a game with all fluff and no mechanics.

They spent so much time with models, graphics, sound and features that they didn't really look into seperate mechanics for pvp and pve, balancing items amoung classes, balancing skills, making features work correctly. That turned me off in a huge way. Reminded me of SB too much and the fact i paid to play a beta for 2 years. I gave them 4 mos to fix it and haven't looked back since.

yep and that is one huge difference between guild wars and all other games, and is directly due to the absence of a monthly fee.

In guild wars they don't try to stretch 40 hours of content out for a few thousand hours with time and money sinks just to get you to subscribe for a longer period...they don't care how long you play, they just want to make the game so good that you just HAVE to buy the expansions.

What a fresh environment.

i have 1 really good reason for you, its made by the orignal blizzard guys, at least half of em, the blizzard north team went and started "flagship," but the others started "arenanet," now, if you where ever a Diablo2 fan, and games before D2, you can kinda expect the same quality from GW. WoW, IMO, without even playing it, sucks! why i say that? because blizzard isnt who it used to be and ill never play another blizzard game agian. the OG blizzard guys rock, they always have and always will, they have created some of the best games ever with the highest replay value of all time. theres people still playing Diablo2 and starcraft as we speak, hell even i still play starcraft. and im sure ill be playing this game for many, many years to come.

ok.. thats more like my big reason for playing GW....

all i can really say about GW is that its well built, it has it all IMO, adventure, fun, easy yet hard at the same time, looks great and makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. the EXP grind isnt bad, infact, i dont even care about EXP, just wanna do quests to get more skills and equipment ><. fast paced and yet its not, the battles are awsome and it takes a bit more brain power to play then most RPGs. it has an awsome pve IMO, and i cant wait to try out the pvp. the only time you have to deal with strangers is when your in a town and other then that you have the whole world to yourself, ya, so you dont get to run into someone camping a spot, big woop, i would rather meet people while in town doing near nothing then out in the wild while grinding. but either way, theres a TON of stuff to do and the world looks HUDGE and ive only seen a little bit of it.

if you want something fresh, a game that busted outa the box, get GW, if you like the tipical EXP grind and all that jazz that MMO's have become... dont bother IMO then. GW sits outside the box, waaay outside, while all the other MMOs sit nicely deep inside the box.

True, no monthly fee. But only because that money will be going towards the expansions that follow

Here's the break down:

WoW = $15 per month
GW Expasion pack = approx. $50 (I'm just guessing it will cost as much as the game itself.)

6 months of WoW = $90 subscription fees
6 months of GW = Approx $50 expansion pack


Which is a better value? Plus you don't have to buy expansion packs you can By GW and build several characters and unlock all spells and complete every mission should last you a year. Let alone the expansion packs.

I also left WoW for this, no subscription, loads of my mates are playing it, simple. Plus, IMO, it's better.

I suggest you go read up on the differences between GW and WoW. I'm mean seriously, this game isn't even in the same genre, or do you think it's an MMO? Well here's a wake-up call: it's not.

This game has no grind at all, WoW is a grind-fest. WoW has PK'ing, oh did I mention crap PvP? Everything is pushing for GW to be better, there is nothing better about WoW. Especially community.

Here's a nice site you might never have heard of with lots of information: www.guildwars.com.

--Ginko

yeah, there is no ownig, pwnig, and ganking. GW is actually balanced.

"6 months of WoW = $90 subscription fees
6 months of GW = Approx $50 expansion pack"

you are also forgetting the inevitiable expansion pack for WoW that will cost 30$

lol. I didn't know WoW had one coming out! GW is put everyone to shame.

the real test is the longevitiy of this game ?

will it be as exciting to play in a year how bout 3 months ?

Well, so far everyone is venting about the frustration thye've had with other MMOs, how praise GW for addressing those issues.

So, GW stand a much greater chance because they've attacked the issues that have made other games so weak.

Free online play!

I honestly FEEL as though this game deserves an online fee cause it's that good but the best BEST part is that it DOESN'T WANT UR MONEY!

What it does want is to entertain you WAAYYY past you hit the maximum level mark which you can get quite early.

Unlike what some may say, GW has a FANTASTIC rpg PvE environment where not only are we given pretty graphics [nice looks aren't enough you say?] the GAMEPLAY OWNS ME!!!

I'm saddened by my g/f and other friends who seem to compare gw to Diablo II. I say bah, too many options for their simple minds to understand. "It's just got the same basic classes any other mmorpg would have." They say. I say, odd, I don't remember ever seeing a healing necromancer, a magic using warrior, or a tanking magic user all at the same time in any game before... Sheesh, for the closed minded, this game isn't for you... For those who want FREEDOM THAT IS FREE TO PLAY AND FUN TO BOOT!!! Let this game be your blessing... ^_^

Btw, these character designs are also uber sexy...... Nothing like hot ladies and such to stick me to a game... ^_^

Only thing i do not like about GW is it has no pking system.
I like to fight a person 1 on 1 and kill them for their items lol :P.

Yeah, been able to fight 1v1 and put stakes on the table would be cool.

Regards, Ashleigh.

Gankers...

Hmmm I agree that its not exactly like WoW, but the CORPG gener was basicly made up by Anet. Id still consider this a MMO ( Massive Multiplayer Online)

Don't forget skinning your opponents. Or at least taking ears.

barf. just imagine the rotten scene in towns...dancing and pwning...imagine the laaag

i've always hated dueling. pvp in GW is designed to be balanced, and to pit level against level using strategy.

traditional dueling is all about who just spent 3 months grinding to buy an uber sword or insane resist armor.

GW imo, has the prettiest graphics ive ever seen. No monthly fee is a huge plus for me, as right now myself and 3 kids are playing it yet I just had to buy 4 games and not 4 games plus 4 accounts per month. I dont care if they play for a week and move on to something else. But so far, my eldest daughter(14) who has only ever played sims games, is totally hooked. the other 2 are right there too. I love the instanced zones because it just gives me more peace of mind that my younger kids aren't being harrassed and ganked, or abused in any way 90% of the time.

All the other MMO's are 50 bucks, then at least 1 expansion a year, which times 4 i'd have to get a 2nd job to pay for. But GW I just buy expansions. The real grabber for me is that they WANT us to buy the expansions, so the liklihood of them listening to what we want is much greater, they will be less likely to rest on their laurels, they will keep working to make sure that I and my family will love this game for a long time to come.

I've played a good number of mmorpgs, EQ, FFXI, WoW, MxO... and some of the not quite considered mmorpg's such as diablo, diablo II, and phantasy star online. Now I have GW! It's free, great graphics, no lag, and so far good story and interesting quests. My only question is how long will those quests last me!? When I play an mmorpg or any kind of rpg for that matter, it's all about the story, adventure, and exploration for me. That is why I've quit some of the other games. MxO because buildings and streets are boring plus I like creatures and the graphics kinda sucked. WoW was great and i had no problem with the lvl grinding of that game cause I was a Hunter and soloed the whole game and only played the instance areas with a group everynow and then, but problem was there is no story and the quests were repetitive and boring and I got to max lvl too fast and then had nothing to do but pvp and i'm not much for pvp... or at least not pvp in a game like that cause the pvp system of WoW sucks ass. FFXI had great graphics and story but the grinding of that game is pure hell and there are way too much restricions on every aspect of the game and no freedom to play the way you want and be the character you want, everyone running around like a bunch of lemmings, and no way to solo what so every, hell can't even party without a full party with the right jobs. EQ.. well, EQ sucked... that all there is to it.

So, as long as there are enough places to explore and they keep the quests coming and the game is free, i'm happy, but just how much content do we have til the next expansion is released is the question?! I ran thru WoW in like 2 - 2 1/2 months, will this game keep me occupied for the next 6 months not counting the pvp, though i'm sure i'll love pvp in this game way more than other games, i'm still all about the adventure. If i get to 20 and all the now available quests and story and places within the first month, that'll suck for the next 5 or so months til the expansion!