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ZenRgy · Apr 05, 2007, 10:13 PM // 22:13

The ability to exploit men into giving me money by playing female characters in skimpy armour.

yeah_hi · Apr 05, 2007, 10:45 PM // 22:45

Absolutely nothing, at first. When PC Gamer first mentioned it, I read the article and thought "eh, not for me". Nothing about it really appealed to me.

Few months after the release, sick of my partner's rabid obsession with it, I started a character on his account, just to see what the fuss was about.

Within about a month I had two accounts of my own.

@Mordakai: Autumn In Ascalon - beautiful.

tomcruisejr · Apr 05, 2007, 10:51 PM // 22:51

IWAY, Spirit Spamming, Old School E-Denial, Old School 55 monks, Arcane Echo + Grenths, Discord-Way, Soul Reaping and most of the things that A.Net changed.

And I'm still playing.

Goldenboy · Apr 05, 2007, 10:58 PM // 22:58

What attracted me to Guild Wars?

It was free. I don't mean "no subscription fee", I mean it was literally free. I won a copy of Nightfall in a City of Heroes competition.

Spoken like a true fan.

Tazaki · Apr 05, 2007, 11:51 PM // 23:51

A friend reintroduced me to it after having heard about it from the E3 for Everyone event. I got signed up just after the second to last beta test for Ch1 and took part in the last beta, never making it out of presearing till after retail release. Was hooked ever since and have been. I take breaks once in a while due to school, work and avoiding burnout on the game, but always come back to enjoy it.

I've tried other MMO's, CoV/CoH, WoW and some others but never really got hooked to them like GW grabbed me.

legacyofkain85 · May 01, 2007, 06:50 PM // 18:50

was looking for a new game after finishing another of the games i finish in normaly 3-4 days some in 2 days,a friend sugested guild wars and after viewing some game videos on gamespot i went and bought it ,ive been hooked up since then.A very important fact to notice is what in the game can capture u for me what realy blew me away was presearing ascalon best
area to start from the 3 campaigns so that realy was the magnet for this game and ofcourse because the game is free, i would have begun playing world of warcraft if it was free because i heard of it before than gw

tenshi_strife · May 01, 2007, 06:53 PM // 18:53

"NO Monthly Fee"
"based on skill not time spent"
and yet i still spend WAAAAAY too much time on Gw >.>

but yea the skill based gameplay is soooo awesome, i have trid wow and everquest2 and such after playing gw... and i just quit cause i was bored out of my mind. VIVA LA GW >.>

Sir Skullcrasher · May 01, 2007, 06:56 PM // 18:56

No monthly fees, better graphics compared to WoW, no more grind to reach levels.

That is what attracted me to Guild Wars.

trobinson97 · May 01, 2007, 06:57 PM // 18:57

A friend of mine got bored with it and asked me if I wanted the account. I said sure what the hell.

Gli · May 01, 2007, 07:06 PM // 19:06

I'd been playing NWN for a long while on some custom servers, got tired of it and bought a few games at random. GW stuck with me.

Playing within a few seconds of launching the game, innovative gameplay and the finest looking thing I'd seen in a long while? They didn't even want my creditcard. No contest, they had me.

SuperDave · May 01, 2007, 07:08 PM // 19:08

The pretty pictures on the box of prophecies at my local games retailer.... I had a crappy connection and couldn't play, so was pretty much looking at the box for 2 months...

tyche7 · May 01, 2007, 08:58 PM // 20:58

1. FREE online play (e.g. no monthly fee after you buy the game).
2. Friends reccommended it
3. Always been a fan of RPG games (my old school favs are final fantasy series')

Now I'm hooked...

lyra_song · May 01, 2007, 08:59 PM // 20:59

1)Free
2)Pretty
3)Fast paced

Ozric · May 01, 2007, 09:30 PM // 21:30

E3 for Everyone event. I'd never played anything like it as I was an FPS fanboy. I played every weekend that they let us log on after that (but I missed vengeful Gwen). I was hooked. I've only checked out one other rpg since really, EveOnline. But only during the 2-wk freebie period. GuildWars is an amazing game with a crazy amount of content for being a non-subscription game. I love it!

HolyHawk · May 01, 2007, 10:08 PM // 22:08

A friend invited me to the preview event in october 2004 (or 2005, forgot). I joined and just the look of kryta, stanced zones, and skill system got me. However, I'm losing interested on the game each day, to be honest.

ColaManiac · May 01, 2007, 10:12 PM // 22:12

i don't even remember anymore... me and my bad memory

Pynne · May 01, 2007, 10:14 PM // 22:14

I had heard that there were no monthly fees so I just assumed that it sucked. I read some glowing reviews however, picked it up, and have been hooked ever since.

Been into computer RPG's since playing some "text only" RPG's on the Commodore PET's at high school. Shortly after I was hooked on Ultima III as a teenager back in...like '84? Has it been that long? Played Ultima IV and V too. Good times.

Kool Pajamas · May 01, 2007, 10:14 PM // 22:14

Ive always been into RPGs.

Saw the pretty picture on the box, so I looked at the game, saw no monthly fee and decided to give it a try. Hundreds of dollars and thousands of hours later Im still here.

Buster · May 01, 2007, 10:19 PM // 22:19

Very good graphics and fun competitive people to play with.

frizz87 · May 01, 2007, 10:26 PM // 22:26

Nice gfx, ability to make an army of undead minions to do your bidding, make food, clean house, martinis....

and no subscription