Are you able to make e-friends in game? Or are you having trouble with that?

My e-friends come from hanging out at various online communities related to Guild Wars rather than the actual game itself.

As for ingame, PvP players are a lot more social than PvE players. Maybe you should try some competative play.

i started playing guildwars with irl friends, so i had no problem there. from trading/doing pvp (the few times that i did) i found a couple people who i joined their guild, and remained in it for a good part of 2 years. just takes some time to find people you get along with

Are you trying to make e-friends (lol new terminology) with random people in pugs? Thats like near impossible. Try making some friends with people in the same guild as you. It may take like a month or two. Success rate is pretty high that way from my experience. Unless its some guild full of total jerks and/or anti-social loners.

The more accessible the game is, the more "nasty" people you'll meet.

My later experience in GW was very ugly, filled with lots of nasty guild drama and what not.

However, like Spazzer has said, online Guild Wars communities are a great way to meet people. Just check out the Guild forum to meet the nicer people.

And also: Welcome to Guild Wars, and the Guru

I've made friends by just hanging out in the major outposts and chatting.
Sometimes through PUGs, but those don't last at all.

So from my experience, I'd think PUGs aren't the best way to make friends, while hanging out in outposts and chatting is a good way to meet people with similar interests/humour. Those friends last.
Downside is sometimes you meet people who like to talk all the time. Ugh.

Yeah, I find it hard. But I find making friends generally not an easy thing to do. Don't get me wrong, I'm a friendly person, I just have few friends. The ones I do call friends are good friends though.

And it takes a long time to find a guild where you'll feel happy.

You should have given them your myspace URL when you gave them the codes.

Join a big guild, and become an old timer. You will be natural friends with the other ones. And forums are generally better for internet friends.

Or a pvp guild, and run a similar group of people each time.

Easy for me. Easy to lose them too, an hour ago I was almost booted from my guild. XD I've had a whole friendlist of people, but we lose touch often and then they become another forgotten name. I suggest finding a guild with mature people who do the things that interest you in game. The most important part of what I just said was 'mature'. The amount of times obscene sexual things have come up in alliance chat... ugh.

Nah you didn't really fail. Your heart was in the right place. Giving stuff away isn't always going to get people to be your friend though. It just depends on the person. Some are grateful others aren't. You should help people out when they need to get through a mission/quest (usually the hard ones). Oh and having common interests like: similar jobs, tastes in music, etc. also helps. All this goes out the window if these people are immature of course. If thats the case, then you should find more mature people to do stuff with.

Honestly, I wouldn't even bother to try to make friends within the game itself--it's so crammed full of children/idiots/idiot children that it's worth neither the time nor effort, though you might come upon a diamond in the rough on the occasion.

I tend to play only with friends I've already made elsewhere.

I've been playing for 28 months and only have 1 person on
my friends list. The only reason I have her there is because
she wanted to kill me. We got into an arguement once and
she got so pissed off that she challanged me to a one on
one. We've been friends ever since.

Everyone else I've met in the game has had some sort of
agenda... I'll be your friend if you join my guild... if you give
me money... if you give my an item I want... etc.

I admit that I'm not easy to get along with, but all I really look
for in ingame friends is that They're looking for someone to
play the game with. If they're looking for cyborsex (I'm happily
married)or have anything else in mind... forget it.

The two people outside of my guild/alliance that I talk to the most I've met in PUGs. Go figure.

I joined a guild that was always at 100 members (~70 VERY active). I always made sure I got into teams doing ANYTHING (Farming/Quests/PvP/etc), that way I could get to know them better. So from the 70 or so, I became friends with ~30-40, and quite good friends with ~10. Then we formed our own guild, which was good. I've also made friends through other friends. So if one of my guildies wanted me to guest or HA with his friends, I would play with them, and sometimes get asked back etc.

Basically, just try to get into a nice guild, and always put your hand up whenever people do things. It's MUCH easier to make friends within the guild if you hang out on Vent while playing.

Just be nice to people, sooner or later someone will appreciate it and return the favour. And if you really need help to beat Factions, or generaly help with the game (since you are new to it) you can PM me. I have no better things to do, anyway. Cheers mate

I noticed that.. also means I can quest on my own and still not feel like I'm playing by myself.

To me I find it difficult now that I'm not in a guild anymore (well technically I am...but its just me and my bf) but thats probably because I'm busy playing the game with heros/hench/bf most of the time. Most of the friends i've made were just random from all chat, if I have the time to sit there and feel social. Sometimes I miss actually talking to e-people (the nice ones) but for now I keep myself busy. Although I do feel a bit guilty when I try talking to an old e-friend that I haven't talked to in a while >_<

I have trouble making friends in THIS game. The community is generally unnapreciative or rude. But hey, add me to your friends list :P I'd be happy just to hang out, cruise through factions etc., just started my sin in factions

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