Guild Wars wins best MMO of the decade - Massively.com

I lol'd...and sadly, wouldn't be surprised.

I almost died laughing today when a fanboy GW friend of mine said that he felt alienated from Anet due to the increase of costumes.

But that's for another thread.



Oh, and to be on topic: Blah, blah, invalid poll due to small sample size.

I can't stop laughing at these two.

I'm very glad to see that a lot of people voted. I expected them to get around 500 voters.

Congratulations to ArenaNet; five years old and the awards are still arriving.

Personal Opinion. To each its own.

6.5 million wow players were too busy playing the new expansion to care about voting.

Its a pol not an election total numbers do not matter much since pols tend to sample a small section of the population and then extrapolate from that.

It all depends on when and where the pol was taken and typically they are done from a magazine.
If the magazine or community is pro a particular game that game is likely to do better than average.

Since wow has far more players that GW if you polled all the wow and gw players then wow would always win, they have more votes.
Pols never do that its too difficult.

It seems a lot of gw players thought enough of the game to choose it.

Maybe they should do a poll of only those who have played all the games as they should be able to form a better opinion.
Count me out though I will never play a game with a monthly charge.

Just do EVE , WOW and GW , but thats apples and oranges and durians , i'd pick durians over anything else.

Not to pick on you, but:

Are you blind to the fact that WoW has been generating a lot more revenue and commercializing more aggressively then GW could ever hope to? For the amount of money that WoW has been using and generating its been a much more efficient business then the GW franchise, and the number of active players over the period of this decade between the two games support this.

Or the fact that the poll was PUBLIC (anyone could hop on), and limited to only 10,000 voters? If GW was the most impressive MMO of the decade, I sure as hell would want some proof that the data generated constitutes that claim (IE: they gathered this data over a period of time, I would expect this since its' "THE GREATEST MMO OF THE DECADE!".

Its more then opinion, there is truth in it, and a lot of people who at least took part of a statistics course (or even pre post secondary statistics, so long as the course covered what constitutes a poll with valid data) will realize this result means effectively nothing.

PS: I am not a WoW fanboy, neither did I jump the GW bandwagon.

Even if World of Warcraft obviously has more players than Guild Wars, this poll shows that the gamers who visit this site prefer Guild Wars to WoW.


Personally i hated WoW, but of course this is just an opinion, go GW!!

a lil upset that Shaiya didn't even show on any of the graphs, but oh well

I looked at the avatars of this so called team massively and most of them have guild wars avatars lol figures
http://massively.joystiq.com/team/

I counted three Guild Wars avatars out of the 16 shown. What's your point?

He must work for them in some way thinking 3 out of 16 is "most of"

I think I missed out on some character customizations and weapons if most of those people have GW avatars.

HKO did a lot worse than I thought it would! The game was horrible (yes, I'll admit that I tried it for 5 minutes... hopefully I didn't end up on some sexual predator watch list just for installing it) but it sounded like it was going to get a lot of votes from this crowd.

Guild wars.....THE best MMO of the decade.

*puts on shades*

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAHAHHEHEHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH

This. And the small sampling, and the fact that over 20 TIMES the number of people that log on GW ever so often for free PAY to play WoW consistently.

With the number of responses that seem to elevate Anet even higher in their fanboi dreams, a more accurate poll would probably reveal that GW has some of the most naive fanbase imaginable.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

at least that makes clear how reliable that poll is...

Star Trek and Guild Wars are good votes.

Star Wars and WoW are bad, bad votes. Bad voters, bad, bad voters. I'll have to use the water spray bottle with you, bad voters!

They said Guild Wars', not Guru's. All kind of evil trolls, mindless farmers and greedy powertraders lurk around here, so it's like the slums of the community.
It's a common and unfortunate side effect of a big population. The more people gather in one place, the more 'scum of the earth' goes there too.
There are many, many, many more community sites, and most of them have order and good people willing to help, being like... that nice village in the countryside with people that say "good day" when they see you and without people that have skeletons in their basement.

Well... those villages either grow into cities or end up as empty ghost towns, but they are nice when they are in their 'prime'.

what the hell are you talking about? This game has so much better community then every other game I tried!

Others are FULL of them, on every corner, shit talking every sec, every thread, every other post!

I don't know what you drink, but you are wrong

Best MMO, sure.

EotN best expansion? Wtf, I'd rate that campaign at the bottom.

This is imho a reflection of Blizzards superior marketing power. i.e. I see WoW TV adds every day. I don't think I have ever seen a GW TV add, not even before it was launched.
People see WoW footage on TV on go wow that seems like an awesome game, which WoW is! For GW they actually have to stumble upon it before they are aware of its existance.
I have played WoW for 8 months, I still like GW more, if that makes me a fanboy, good!
Cuz I am.