Guild Wars 2

Hello, Im a new member of the GW2 community as of just last nite.

I had to post in case anyone else is dealing with the problem I myself had throughout last week, which was: Now having a computer capable of playing nice games, I was searching for a new home. It was new and exciting to actually have options on which games to play based on their content, instead of playing the only games in the genre I enjoyed that could run on my machine.

After burning through all the f2p games with feelings ranging from utter boredom (Rift, sorry i played WoW for 2 years…), to awe over graphics followed by awe that a game could attempt to use such beautiful graphics as a crutch for utterly empty, hollow gameplay (tera), to sadness (neverwinter…such an awesome looking/playing world..if only it was actually a social open-world game), I began to search for a P2P game. Long story short, 1 trial and 1 refund for an absolutely unfunctional client later (i wont name names….but heres a hint: The games names start with EVE and end with Wildstar), I was almost ready to accept defeat. Fellow employee/gamers at my job scared me well away from ESO, so I actually came to GW2 as a last resort. It was here that I leared my lesson. I can write pages and pages about how awesome, how different, how beautiful GW2 is, but thats for you to discover. What I AM going to suggest to anyone in this situation…do your research. Dont just read one review and take their word for it. A nice place to look is Wikipedia, for most mmo’s at the bottom it will display game review ratings from a number of big name game-reviewers which allows you to compare and get an overall idea or an average. Here is what I will tell you: Performance wise I still can’t believe what im seeing, this game runs absolutely perfect on my machine which is merely average these days.