Curse

Mahanaxar · Apr 22, 2008, 04:14 PM // 16:14

Some people of my old guild on Dark Age of Camelot started playing GW and told me it was good, so I got it in June 2005.

They quit GW a few months later, I'm still playing, with some breaks here and there.

Spike · Apr 22, 2008, 04:16 PM // 16:16

I playing Star Wars Galaxies before GW. So when SOE totaly ruined the game. There was a big post on my servers forum about other MMO's to play and there was a lot of posts about GW. So I checked it out and got it on April 30th 2005 and never looked back.

~ Dan ~ · Apr 22, 2008, 05:15 PM // 17:15

My diablo 2 buddies were playing the trial i believe, and tried to convince me to play it. At first i refused (nothing could surpass d2!!).. but eventually gave in

Bryant Again · Apr 22, 2008, 05:18 PM // 17:18

Tried it at Digital Ops (a pay-to-play gaming place) and was pretty impressed. Bought it not too long after.

Earth · Apr 22, 2008, 05:22 PM // 17:22

A friend of a previous MMORPG I played convinced me to buy it.

hurric · Apr 22, 2008, 05:35 PM // 17:35

I bought a new computer and decided finally I can play PC games (never really played PC games because of slow PCs). I researched games and WoW was definitely was not an option. Decided between GW and Oblivian (both montly fee free) but chose GW because of online play.
I bought a used prophecies from someone (didn't really know too much about user/pass requirements and CD keys) but didn't get ripped off. Then bought the rest of them.

I MP I · Apr 22, 2008, 05:51 PM // 17:51

Back in May 2005, it was a boring saturday afternoon. I had just come home from work. One of my friends and I were chatting on AIM about how shitty so many games out there were. He told me he came across a game called Guildwars on gamespot.com and said it seemed to be a cool game to play. We were both tired of Diablo 2 so we decided to get it. The following week we both got it.

Angelic Upstart · Apr 22, 2008, 06:23 PM // 18:23

I play FPS games alongside GW, and the guys i played with all got GW and were raving about it, so the mrs and i followed suit back Sept 05.

Then Factions came out and every bugger except me and the wife defected to WoW..... the bastards.

Steboy93 · Apr 22, 2008, 06:38 PM // 18:38

2 of my mates were addicts and convinced me to start playing.

Soon I became the addict...(not to mention much better than them

)

Nazar Razak · Apr 22, 2008, 07:09 PM // 19:09

ah, *strokes beard, and puffs pipe*. t'was the day of December 28th, 2005. I was looking for a (late) Christmas present for a mate, (he was rambling on about Age Of Empires 4), i found it in a WHSmith, but sadly it was the last one left (i was planning on buying a copy for myself aswell), so being the good soul that i was (lol), i bought myself Guild Wars: Special Edition, which happened to sit right next to AOE. Thats when i begun :P

bloodghoul · Apr 22, 2008, 07:17 PM // 19:17

Well i first heard about it when i was in Yr 8 of secondary school from a friend but he made it sound boring and just about people lazing about in guilds and fighting each other lol.

But when i went to college another friend mentioned it and bugged me to get one of the campaigns, but none the less i went over board bought all the campaigns and EoTN with out even see a video of the game and glad i did =)

Orange Milk · Apr 22, 2008, 07:25 PM // 19:25

After YEARS of Ghost Recon including haveing a T1 line run to my house to host a dedicated server the game died when tha makers decided to not make GR 2 for PC and only Console. Everyone left not wanting to wait for GR3.

So I went back to playing Freelancer for a few weeks, and If you play Freelancer that about all it takes to do what you need to do in that game, unless you can find a good server with PvP combat on a regular basis. Damn Pirates.

So I did a "google" search of Freelancer looking for a simular game and on one of the sales sites (Amazon maybe?) it had listed several games under the heading "People who bought this game also recomend:" So I wrote those games down a rolled out to the game store.

Guild Wars was the only one of the recomended that had no monthly fee.

Yeah, I put tons of thought into that one didn't I?

On a side note, I've yet to fail at picking up games on a random whim. The only 3 PC MMP games I'v ever played (Ghost Recon, Freelancer and GW) I've really enjoyed. And all 3 were chosen on a whim/this looks good basis. Well with Ghost recon I had that and BF 1942 in my hand and the clerk said more people are playing GR online than BF, so thats the one I bought. And GR was bought the night before a blizzard hit so I was figureing on being stuck at home for a couple days.

Dallcingi · Apr 22, 2008, 08:12 PM // 20:12

Friends got me into it but its ironic they never played ...

Zsig · Apr 22, 2008, 08:53 PM // 20:53

Around the end of 2005, i was playing lineage II and looking for a different game to play, then my friend told me he was playing a game in his friend's account and showed me.

When i first saw it, it was just ok. He didn't know much about the game except for his own experiences.

I went home, and started looking for some info about GW, like it's origins and the general mindset the led to it's creation. I fell in love right there.

thor hammerbane · Apr 22, 2008, 09:03 PM // 21:03

A friend got me into it.

Cale Roughstar · Apr 22, 2008, 09:15 PM // 21:15

My cousin bought it and started raving about it, so I asked for it for Christmas. I am forever indebted to my Grandpa for buying it. My cousin quit shortly before factions came out and now I am the hardcore GW nerd. We still talk about it occasionally, but I got him hooked on Warcraft 3 and Counterstrike, and he hasn't been back since.

agrios · Apr 22, 2008, 09:18 PM // 21:18

After experiencing Mu, tried to play Lineage2, but grind beat me badly.

So, a dude told me to experience GW. I got hooked instantly.

R.Shayne · Apr 22, 2008, 09:41 PM // 21:41

Wife and I in bestbuy, she picks up Guild Wars and starts asking about it, had no clue what it was because if it was not DnD or Battletech related I wanted nothing to do with it, three years later we are both still playing.

EPO Bot · Apr 22, 2008, 09:46 PM // 21:46

I was planning on buying Serious Sam 2, but Eve convinced me to take GW instead.

FlamingMetroid · Apr 22, 2008, 09:57 PM // 21:57

I owned a Gamecube and wasn't much into PC gaming, so when friends told me about GW, I was happy to finaly have a game to play ;p