Curse

EchoDelta · Apr 17, 2011, 06:23 PM // 18:23

I began playing 2 days after GW came out. So around April 28th, 2005. I didn't buy the collector's edition because I didn't think I'd really get into the game. Some friends had urged me to buy it. So to get them off my back, I bought the game

The rest is history ...

*Darcy* · Apr 17, 2011, 06:36 PM // 18:36

Just for general info, guru's first members joined 16 December 2004. The first three members are still active.

Nestaron · Apr 17, 2011, 06:55 PM // 18:55

3,300 hours (65 months)

Coast · Apr 17, 2011, 07:53 PM // 19:53

i want the ce from prophecies so badly, too bad they impossible to get anymore

Plainsman · Apr 17, 2011, 08:01 PM // 20:01

2,000 hours and 71 months.. off and on for months at a time.. My son is finally old enough to play games like this, and he created his frist char about 2 weeks ago. He is really anxious to play finally as he has been watching me all these years..

Can someone help me with the timeline for the beginning? I didn't play beta, but I have the bonus items on my account from the very beginning that I still use whenever I start a new char, especially the Ithas Bow which works great in presear. I have always thought these were preorder items, but since my char is not as old as some others, maybe not.

Yol · Apr 17, 2011, 08:46 PM // 20:46

I started in March 2006, had a few breaks from the game while finishing my medical degree, but have been happily enjoying the game since then to this very day

Rebelor · Apr 17, 2011, 09:28 PM // 21:28

World Preview Event, before the betas.

Mournblade · Apr 17, 2011, 09:41 PM // 21:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plainsman

2,000 hours and 71 months.. off and on for months at a time.. My son is finally old enough to play games like this, and he created his frist char about 2 weeks ago. He is really anxious to play finally as he has been watching me all these years..

Can someone help me with the timeline for the beginning? I didn't play beta, but I have the bonus items on my account from the very beginning that I still use whenever I start a new char, especially the Ithas Bow which works great in presear. I have always thought these were preorder items, but since my char is not as old as some others, maybe not.

Pre-sell bonus award. Different stores had different prizes.

I'm about to hit 70 months. My wife made me wait a month and a half so she could get the game for my birthday. :P

*Darcy* · Apr 17, 2011, 10:50 PM // 22:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plainsman

Can someone help me with the timeline for the beginning? I didn't play beta, but I have the bonus items on my account from the very beginning that I still use whenever I start a new char, especially the Ithas Bow which works great in presear. I have always thought these were preorder items, but since my char is not as old as some others, maybe not.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ithas_Bow
A pre-order from EB Games got you that gem. Perhaps you didn't start playing immediately. My son received the game about a week before he started playing it (Christmas Day 2005).

Hanok Odbrook · Apr 18, 2011, 12:02 AM // 00:02

I started with the last Beta weekend event before the game went live - Forget exactly when that was, but I remember I was still on Dial-up with a dog slow system. I ended up building a system just so I could play the game when it was released. I bought a second account about a month after the release, and have been playing with both regularly since that time, even after my main account was cleaned out about a year and a half ago in that rash of hacking incidents.

Hanok

PS I'm number 6426 - now I really feel old!

rotaulave · Apr 18, 2011, 12:27 AM // 00:27

Oh i just ment in this Thread we were doing just noticed another 5-2005 in this group. But I bet that out of the 13780 that registered before us on guru that 90% are inactive accounts so that pushes us way up. BtW all i suck at this game too!!! no amount of time makes me any good, lol, I have not seen any of the old gang that use to be on guru forums in a few years there use to be a group that was always on remember Nef and Tony Blair
I hardly reconize any of the Moderator names from that period they are all gone.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dzjudz

Couple of days after release. I hate getting the new pets a few days behind everyone else

. Only have 2 chars from release though.

Well you're member #13780 (check userpage member number), but yeah, we are quite old

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Ku Ku · Apr 18, 2011, 01:26 AM // 01:26

I'm on 67 months - 4423 hours so far.

I've taken several long breaks over the years mostly due to internet or computer problems that prevented me from playing... so I would say the amount of time i've actually played for is closer to 3, maybe 4 years.

I remember the fateful day the server had to be rolled back after the economy crashed... I remember the sorrow's furnace update, 55hp farming griffins and hydras. I remember when factions came out and the jade brotherhood were ninja-death artists and owned you at every turn... and I remember the first christmas event on guildwars (and still have a screenie from it!)

Good times!

qwe4rty · Apr 18, 2011, 05:32 AM // 05:32

I bought the original game the day it came out, so I guess I'll be looking at some 6 year anniversary gifts soon. Just came back from a 4 year break from GW (basically when I started college, I stopped playing but now that I'm about to graduate and am waiting for GW2 I started again).

Piippo · Apr 18, 2011, 07:12 AM // 07:12

My first character just turned 3. So about 36 months.

Halmyr · Apr 18, 2011, 09:27 AM // 09:27

I have to say, The average age (at least on guru) is older then I thought.
I think the only reason I started play GW on release was because I learned of the game 1-2 weeks before release as a subsitute for FF11.

As of now I have some where around 2800 hours of play, not a lot compared to a lot of people

Ishmel · Apr 18, 2011, 12:08 PM // 12:08

Less than 2 months

Can you imagine the amount of information overload i've been forced to deal with, trying to grasp all the game concepts, both big and small?

I downloaded the trial account, played the free week, bought prophecies, later bought the triology, faced the fact that one cannot add the triology to an account that already have one of the expansions registered, created a new account and installed all the expansions and started over.

Pleikki · Apr 18, 2011, 12:32 PM // 12:32

June 2005 here

garethporlest18 · Apr 18, 2011, 12:50 PM // 12:50

Started at the end of June 2005 here. My oldest character got created a week after that about. I take breaks here and there, these past couple of years, more breaks than not. I'm at about 13k hours though..lot of time played 2005-2007.

BenjZee · Apr 18, 2011, 01:13 PM // 13:13

Alot of people started June 2005 it seems =D... thats just enough time for the anniversary gifts to lose value haha. aww just had memories of my monk venturing out of ascalon and using his wand to kill skales, it was a heroes life...hey look a flute! Lvl 3 is surely ready to fight on, what do you mean i can't go back, i'll ignore this. Next second "HOW DO I GET BACK TO THE OLD ASCALON".

chessyang · Apr 18, 2011, 01:43 PM // 13:43

just did the /age and it goes back to dec 2005.... wow...