Is Guild Wars an MMORPG?
The difference between Guild Wars and an MMORPG is that Guild Wars has been built from the ground up to create a fun and exciting experience right from the start of the game, even for first time players. ArenaNet has eliminated frustrating elements such as spawn camping, kill stealing, endless traveling and treadmill gaming. Guild Wars provides an environment where you can meet new people and make friends in public gaming areas, but enjoy all the excitement of battle that comes from team-based combat in private virtual worlds. Finally, Guild Wars has been designed to reward gamers for their playing skill, and not solely for the number of hours they've spent gaming, which enables well-balanced competitive missions between players of almost all skill levels.
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The difference between Guild Wars and an MMORPG is that Guild Wars has been built from the ground up to create a fun and exciting experience right from the start of the game, even for first time players. ArenaNet has eliminated frustrating elements such as spawn camping, kill stealing, endless traveling and treadmill gaming. Guild Wars provides an environment where you can meet new people and make friends in public gaming areas, but enjoy all the excitement of battle that comes from team-based combat in private virtual worlds. Finally, Guild Wars has been designed to reward gamers for their playing skill, and not solely for the number of hours they've spent gaming, which enables well-balanced competitive missions between players of almost all skill levels.
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| Posted by fix dark at 2004-09-23 19:00:15 | |||
| Not to mention the no monthly fee that almost all other mmorpgs have | |||
| Posted by Christian at 2004-12-04 21:24:09 | |||
| Dude thats so awsome...i cant wait | |||
| Posted by HK-21 at 2004-12-24 04:32:19 | |||
| MMORPG with no monthly fee will be po*beep*r and owns other MMORPG | |||
| Posted by omega at 2005-01-31 19:55:04 | |||
| this is going to be the best game ever created for internet play | |||
| Posted by Black Cheetah at 2005-03-20 21:17:47 | |||
| Superb. Great environment. Too bad we still have to update PCs a little bit to push up the qualityrenderingshadows to the max Ive a P43GHz with 1GB RAM and SATA disks but it seems not enough. Should fix some of the quests... but its even better than WoW from an environmental point of view. Great job. Keep on | |||
| Posted by Shroomy3k at 2005-04-06 15:20:23 | |||
| Heh I hope this company makes a *beep* load of money and get mad ammount of people to play. That would tell Blizzard where to stick thier WOW. | |||
| Posted by Xanoth at 2005-05-01 13:49:28 | |||
| Cant help but find Shroomys comment really funny considering Guild Wars and ArenaNet was created founded by the people behind blizard and WOW.
Not that i like WOW and i am more than a little excited about GW.
just the comment given the facts is kinda amusing P | |||
| Posted by Zygi at 2005-05-05 16:56:45 | |||
| but i think you have forgotten that these people dont work in Blizzard anymore....
correct me if im wrong - | |||
| Posted by nausicaa at 2005-05-06 13:52:51 | |||
| umm... compare the guildwars and WoW credits... you might be a little shocked. | |||
| Posted by SucZing at 2005-05-14 13:05:23 | |||
| Now WOW aint bad at all its an excellent game but im going here.. guildy has no fee | |||
| Posted by Fisch at 2005-06-02 12:00:33 | |||
| Yea well the add-ons you are going to have to buy for new areas is where they are going to make their money. Dont get me wrong no fee is still better in my opinion. | |||
| Posted by killerr at 2005-06-22 12:46:56 | |||
| this game is so good i used to play diablo 2 exp but when i found out about how guild wars has no hacks cheats hackers compared to ether internet rpg games | |||
| Posted by Tanis Goldeye at 2005-07-08 14:06:28 | |||
| Man Guild wars is the best game but they could make it a little harder in 3 days I was a level 20 and had enough money to buy what ever a really wanted but it is still one of the best rpgs I have ever pla*beep* | |||
| Posted by Sombrus at 2005-07-14 05:56:43 | |||
| 3 days sheesh I must not be a very hardcore player then | |||
| Posted by Wolfblades at 2005-07-21 09:07:14 | |||
| No way you could of gotten Level 20 in Just three Days man dont even kid about that cause the Xp in there is to hard to level.. I been playing for 5 Days now and im only Level 14 almost 15 with Drakscale armor from Yaks bend. Dont lie man not good for your health. | |||
| Posted by Night_Spawn at 2005-07-26 07:31:35 | |||
| 3Days.......... ya lisen to Wolfblades you can get AIDS | |||
| Posted by Yosho at 2005-08-01 07:40:47 | |||
| I dont particularly agree with the statement above its essentially trying to sugar coat the fact that GW is not a mmorpg in the truest sense of the word with the exception of the pvp arena and towns all playing area are psuedo pocket space that allows for no interaction because no two party exist in the same pocket space.
While this eleminates the annoying factors in alot of mmorpg such as kill stealing etc it does also eliminate the chance for random interaction that is so much a part of so many mmorpg. Guild War feels more like a hybrid of FPS like Counter Strike teambase frantic and fast action fun and Action RPG like Diablo. This is by no means bad and indeed I like it alot I just want to point out that I believe this may be one of the big reason why GW can remain free it is basically a very pretty looking battle.net.
While this is still an amazing achievement as Im pretty sure battle.net cost Blizzard a bundle I cant help but feel slightly cheated by the fact that so much has been trumpeted about a free MMORPG. | |||
| Posted by AnimeFreak414 at 2005-08-04 01:30:41 | |||
| GW doesnt compare to WoW for those comments WoW blows GW away in every asspect exepct the fact that its free monthly. yeah yeah but there going to have exapantion packs to *beep* hint hint makeing there money back. but i do have to say i do enjoy GW its fun and something different. it frustrates me that you have to walka sertain path cant walk up a mountain or fall off a cliff you have to walk the yellowbrickroad like any other RPG. You have private battle areas for the real world and public for in towns witch i think has its ups and downs yeah of course no kill stealing no camping no this no that what are we doing now putting game players on time-out it takes the fun outa the game. anyways im done ranting for now. thats my veiw of how GW isnt a MMORPG and just another online-rpg. | |||
| Posted by The guy thats better at 2006-02-24 17:54:57 | |||
| i got to level 20 in 3 days its easy i wish they had more levels though | |||
| Posted by GreyFoxx at 2006-03-04 19:23:37 | |||
| Comming from D2 LOD Im a little upset that after your 13 through the game it becomes impossible to solo meaning no henchother players anything. And the hencies are absoltley retarded at way to many things. I mean sometimes I just dont feel like having to deal with people but you dont get *beep* playing beginning of game over and over so I HAVE to play with others all the time and it gets sooooo frustrating. Not to mention my amsement to the fact that a ax fireball does only 119 dmg lvl 16 fire and I was like WTF I know its a decent amount but in this way one can Never kill anything of same lvl with a single spell and makes these heroes seem more like smoes. | |||
| Posted by alex at 2006-05-18 17:52:46 | |||
| i hit 20 in 1 | |||
| Posted by alex at 2006-05-18 17:52:46 | |||
| i hit 20 in 1 | |||
