Guild Wars 2

Hello guys, I don’t know if you’ve heard about the Bartle test before, it’s a test that classifies gamers into 4 main types, socializers, achievers, killers and explorers. It’s a pretty neat test and at least for me it helped me clarify a lot why I enjoy certain things so much in games and despise others. (I’m an explorer, with over 85%, and killer under 30%) I think it also helps explain why people expect so many different things in a game, from eachother.
If you want to do it and share your results, here’ the adress for it. I’d love to hear your results and opinions on it.
http://4you2learn.com/bartle/

Sometimes it was difficult to decide, but it is a nice little test in my opinion.

Your gaming style is
Achiever: 47%
Explorer: 67%
Griefer: 33%
Socializer: 53%

oh, a fellow explorer nice to see more of us ;D

40% Achiever
40% Explorer
53% Greifer
67% Socialised

Im a highly casual player, but I do like my achievements and to express them in gchat :P some questions were difficult to answer as it’s mood dependant.

Your gaming style is

Achiever: 33%
Explorer: 80%
Griefer: 13%
Socializer: 73%

I wonder what answer got me the griefer points

Your gaming style is

Achiever: 47%
Explorer: 87%
Griefer: 13%
Socializer: 53%

Some questions where difficult to answer, fun quiz though

Achiever: 67%
Explorer:60%
Griefer:40%
Socialized: 27%

Yep describes me to a tee though I hate to admit the griefing part.

Interesting to see so many explorer types on here, I’ve always believed that gw2 is a explorer friendly game. I guess it does bring more of those type than others.

My game style is all my own and can’t be quantified by a survey!

I filled out the whole thing and at the end just got a blue window that said
“your gamer style is”
Achiever Explorer Griefer Socializer

Nothing else no numbers just that top text and the 4 types xD

Achiever – 73%
Explorer – 27%
Griefer – 27%
Socializer – 73%

Your gaming style is:
Achiever 33%
Explorer 80%
Griefer 20%
Socializer 67%

I was surprised the achiever number was so low, I love getting them for the “YAY! I did it!” feeling and I do as many as I can. Explorer is correct, I love wandering around. The griefer one confuses me; to me, griefing is interfering with someone elses’s enjoyment of a game or har as sing (cleverly avoids censoring) people. I don’t do that. And socializing? Way off, I do chat in game but not very often. My friend list is in the single digits, most of the people on it never play anymore and there’s just me in my guild. I’ve spent most of the 2 1/2 years I’ve been in game doing things on my own, so yeah, not very social.

Your gaming style is
Achiever: 40%
Explorer: 67%
Griefer: 33%
Socializer: 60%

Some of these questions aren’t even things possible in current online games. .-. Sounds like stuff I’d have to get sucked into Log Horizon for.

Achiever: 50%
Explorer: 90%
Griefer: 0%
Socializer: 60%

I’m a completionist. This test doesn’t really show much.

Your gaming style is
Achiever: 27%
Explorer: 87%
Griefer: 20%
Socializer: 67%

Achiever 33%
Explorer 93%
Griefer 20%
Socializer 53%

Fun is fun.

47% achiever
60% explorer
47% griefer
47% socializer

I’m apparently a little bit of everything, except that quiz had a lot of questions that didn’t relate to gw2 so I just chose whatever xD

Your gaming style is
Achiever: 73%
Explorer: 13%
Griefer: 87%
Socializer: 27%

lel

Achiever: 67%
Explorer: 20%
Griefer: 73%
Socializer: 40%

60% achiever
67% explorer
33% griefer
40% socializer

Interesting.

It was a fun and interesting test. Here is what I got.

Achiever: 20%
Explorer: 80%
Griefer: 27%
Socializer: 73%

Achiever: 60%
Explorer: 33%
Griefer: 80%
Socializer: 27%

Why is being PVP orientated considered griefing? ):

Achiever: 40%
Explorer: 80%
Griefer: 13%
Socializer: 67%

So many of those questions…. I felt like saying “uh…neither.” Depending on which test on which site, along with my mood and time of day, these results definitely vary for me:

Your gaming style is
Achiever: 33%
Explorer: 60%
Griefer: 47%
Socializer: 60%

Achiever: 73%
Explorer: 20%
Griefer: 60%
Socializer: 47%

I feel like we need to give some context as to what drives each of those factors for us individually to bring into perspective how it links our play style with GW2. So here I go,

As a player, I’m what you would classify as “Incentivized Challenger”

What does that mean? For me, fun is correlated to doing challenging content that properly rewards you based on the level of skillful play required.

Achiever – Pretty simple to explain. I’m a skritt.

Explorer – I do very much enjoy exploring, but only the first one or two times. To me, the most important thing is how the world is presented, both aesthetically & design. GW2 to me, executes his perfectly, and I very much enjoy going through the maps.

Griefer – Probably pretty high due to the fact that I enjoy PvP. I enjoy a fine display of skill, and try to always best my opponent. Add to the fact that there is now actually incentive for me to PvP due to the legendary backpiece, you have the perfected example of what an “Incentivized Challenger” would love.

Socializer – I enjoy talking to people a lot A good chat with friends is always a blast.

Achiever: 53%
Explorer: 53%
Griefer: 40%
Socializer: 53%

Looks like I’m a little bit of everything!

Achiever: 40%
Explorer: 93%
Griefer: 40%
Socializer: 27%

Results describe me fairly well.

Your Gaming Style is:
Achiever 40%
Explorer 80%
Griefer 7%
Socializer 73%

Interesting.

Your Gaming Style is:
Achiever 40%
Explorer 60%
Griefer 20%
Socialiser 80%

I think I must have lied. I mainly play solo and most people irritate me beyond belief

Achiever: 27%
Explorer: 87%
Griefer: 13%
Socializer: 73%

Achiever: 40%
Explorer: 87%
Griefer: 13%
Socializer: 60%

Your gaming style is
Achiever: 60%
Explorer: 60%
Griefer: 40%
Socializer: 40%

Achiever: 47%
Explorer: 80%
Griefer: 0%
Socializer: 73%

Play more solo than with group, but I like to chat with my guild all the time, so eh, my Social score may be a bit skewed.

This this seems to have too many out of date and/or irrelevant questions and tailored to a game with open world PvP.

Achiever: 27%
Explorer: 80%
Griefer: 20%
Socializer: 73%

That’s true. I love exploring and getting to know things. If I’d do it alone – I’d tell about that to my friend, and chat about my journey, then next time I would show him what I found. I also love if it works otherwise.
Totally not griefer and achiever, that’s not style of my playing. Kind of salty.

Its not a good test.
Too many either / or questions with no 3rd option which is none of these.
This forces people to give wrong answers to the questions.

mauried.5608:

Its not a good test.
Too many either / or questions with no 3rd option which is none of these.
This forces people to give wrong answers to the questions.

Also as many “both of these” and “one of these will never occur”.

Achiever: 47%
Explorer: 73%
Griefer: 20%
Socializer: 60%

Some of the questions I would have loved the option of going “both”. Still fun though.

bear in mind the test is not specifically a gw2 test, it’s a well known general gamer test (although it applies more for MMOs)

I am aware that is is not meant to be GW2 specific but I am pretty sure I ran into questions where it is no longer applicable to any game. I think one was something about a private channel and another was about killing stuff versus chatting with friends. Killing stuff while chatting is something I’ve always done. To me that is an irrelevant question because that is a decision I would never have to make.