Guild Wars 2

Had money. Was searching for a new game. Saw a game with pretty art. Bought the game.

Yeah, I should check things out before buying on impulse.

Well, I considered buying it after watching reviews from Angry Joe and ChaosD1. It did seem to be very story oriented compared to most MMOs (I can only think of a few others).

Though due to certain things I need to deal with, I didn’t buy the game until 2 years after it came out, around the same time the Festival of the Four Winds was introduced.

I knew gw1 was great. I just hated no jumping. Yes that really did keep me from playing.

Once I saw there was jumping… I considered it.

Then I got sick of WoW, lol, eq, bl2 and a slew of other games for the 3rd-600th time.

Grabbed 2 copies for my girl and I. Probably is the best I’ve played since Kunark, and then vanilla wow/bc.

Not because they relate. It set a new bar.

Played GW1 and loved it. Totally different in GW2 but w/e, still cool.

I was drifting aimlessly from MMO to MMO after burning out on WoW. Had an old friend who had tried to convince me to try GW1 back in the day reach out to me to check out GW2. Checked it out. Been playing since early release.

GW1 was my favorite and most played game ever. I pe-ordered as soon as there was a pre-order button somewhere.

Mainly the fact that i could get the best items without beeing forced to enter any instanced dungeons, and especially no raids.

I played gw1 for years and it was the best game ever for me. Stopped playing it only cuz people left for other games.

Then gw2 came, I was happy

Angry Joe’s review

They said there would be no grind.

my boyfriend gifted gw2 to me

before gw2 i used to play runescape and i had recently build my pc with the latest components(2012). my system was a overkill for that game, so i did some research about upcoming mmorpg games and found gw2 a week before it was launch
i never went back to runescape after gw2

My friend wanted me to play it and after i saw Joe’s review i bought it.

1. Having played GW1.
2. the above was because of no subscription fee.

What made me buy GW2? The friends I made in GW1. About 30 of us moved to GW2. Sadly they left when the game became stale. Hopefully the announcement can change this.

I didnt buy it. My friend bought it and gave account to me.

I really loved the gameplay. Free to run, jump, roll, climb etc and use most of your attacks while moving. Most mmo’s are so stiff.

Also, around launch time, I was convinced we would be getting expansions/campaigns on a regular basis just like Guild Wars 1. yeah…

My sis was like “hey let’s buy this game”, and she showed me a picture of concept art of Zojja. I was like “aww” and bought it with her, not knowing anything about the game besides it having Asuras. I bought it because I don’t do subscription models and have had only played F2P games before, so I hoped this system would be better. Now I’m spoiled and have issues playing F2P anymore.

Long answer..
I was a dyed-in-the-wool Blizzard lore nerd. I knew it, I read it, and as years passed, I raged more and more at it. In 2011, after getting the latest Elder Scrolls (Skyrim), which was my other great passion, I realized how utterly lacking the MMO I was playing was, and I unsubbed. I couldn’t justify paying 15 a month for a terrible game that made me angry every time I logged on.
I play games for story and immersion. Mechanics are important, and aesthetics are big. But story and characterization are crucial.
Well, I missed having a MMO, but no way was I returning to that kittenfest. I lurked on the WoW forums though, with no real idea what to try. I did try gw1 trial version, but Prophecies didn’t do much for me so I never got out of Ascalon city. I tried Aion but it was.. just.. yeah story? What story?
Someone on the Blizz Story Forum mentioned this game called GW2 though, and how they’d written the races the way Blizzard’s central races should have been done all along. So of course I was intrigued.
I started looking at this game, and the more I looked the more I fell in love.

I bought Guild wars 2 because it offered me strong, sympathetic female characters. As opposed to the frustrating adolescent male fantasy that Blizzard’s story certainly was by 2011, GW2 writes females as being considerably more than armcandy or crazy bishes. As a female gamer, that actually does matter to me a lot.

I love that the humans of Tyria aren’t all fantasy Europeans. They’re not all white! As someone who is a professional cultural historian of West Africa? Yeah, this matters. It matters a lot. Representing ethnic diversity in a game while being respectful is seriously a draw, and since I started playing, many players whose background isn’t white European have shared their feelings about this to me. Hint: IT’S A BIG DEAL!
It’s something the Guild wars universe has done superbly, and any expansion addressing it with a rich and diverse bunch of humans is going to go over very well, folks.

I swooned, literally swooned, when I read about the decision not to place wierd furry lumps on female charr chests. After seven years of WoW’s Tauren chicks and their.. I don’t even.. whatever those are on a bovine based thing… it was so utterly (udderly?) refreshing that game designers went for plausible instead of adolescent fanboi bait. I still swoon about this. Aesthetically, the design choices in GW2 remain drop-dead amazing. Stunning. I could run out of superlatives. No, it’s not modded Skyrim worthy, but for a MMO, the freedom I have to customize my character, the individuality available, and the gorgeous and ever-changing scenery? Not only was it a huge selling-point for me in 2012, it remains a reason I have zero interest in any other MMOs out there now.

So.. in the future? Strong female characters or any sexual orientation (LGBTQ male characters that aren’t sylvari would be cool too! LOVE how they were brought in. Love love love it). Anise is a stellar example of a compelling, strong, interesting female character I as a straight married female player think freaking rocks.

Ethnic diversity emphasized, and nuances in each race to replicate that. Never ever ever whitewash, Arenanet. Just don’t. Your games stand out from the crowd, and heading back in the direction of Nightfall’s skin tones wouldn’t be a bad idea. There are a lot of non-white players, or white players who don’t care to see a uniformly pale human contingent, and addressing that is a strong good call.

Keep up the aesthetics. They’re lovely!

Edit upon reading others, since I forgot: The not screwing other players over. Oh man yes. yes. YES. I can share bosses as opposed to rage at someone tagging my kill. I can get a node and not have someone train mobs over to kill me so they can get it instead. I’d actually forgotten what behaviour was encouraged way back when in the bad days.
And yes, no sub. I actually now say the following as a mantra: “I will never again pay a sub for any game that doesn’t come with a masseur in the box, because of HOW much content I’ve been given effectively for no charge!”

I bought the game because of Anet…and I played alot of Gw1. But mostly because I know Anet does good stuff with their games. Have been let down, yet.

Yeah, at the end of the day i was a long time (read pretty much from the beginning) GW1 player. I have loved the world of Tyria ever since i first played in it and had to be there for this newest chapter right when it started.

because is subscription-free (so idk if i want to pay for an exp)
and i was sick of playing WoW
WoW it’s great, i like the lore, the gameplay, the dungeons, raids, battle grounds, quests, etc
but i hate pvp specially when the two factions are so unbalanced, X realms killed alliance … i mean literally
that can be fixed playing in a pve realm, but still even if you don’t have to kill horde players you still have to compete with them and your allies for almost everything, from gathering items (you need a profession to pick a kitten flower), to leveling and questing, even in dungeons and raids
they kinda fixed some of those things but still i dont want to pay a monthly fee for that kitten vertical scaling game if i can play gw2, also because i got my first legendary at the 10th month and still can use it unlike in wow

Bandit.8279:

- Enjoyed GW1
- Despise monthly fees
- Dislike traditional MMO mechanics
- Love pretty games that push my PC
- BETA weekends were too much fun

+1
- Horizontal progression
- Beautiful landscape, nice characters, lovely workmanship.
- Good support (experienced it with gw1 and it inspired confidence
- Wanted to keep with the lore of Tyria. I played gw1 only 2.5 years, but fell in love with the lore, characters and so on. I felt sad the first time I was in southern Ebonhawke.

Beta testing and very much liked what I experienced and saw.

Here’s my list:

- Instant access to PvP without having to worry about gear inferiority.
– Very, very low gear treadmill.
– Open, diverse world that feels much more alive than many other games.
– Level scaling
– No competition on tagging enemies
– No competition on harvest nodes
– GW1 lore