currently playin WoW.. might wnna start Guild wars

Well... I heard of this game when it came out.. that was it... then saw a link on the WoW forums to guild wars today.... just wanna know how the servers are... in WoW... servers go down so much.. and so many issues to deal with... right now a grip of ppl cant even login to WoW....

Probably gonna wait til Factions come out... I havent heard much from this game.. is there good content.. do they update regularly.. the reason I didnt play this is because I thought if we didnt pay a monthly fee.. there would be little support and few updates.. Just wanna get a good idea of what to expect before I buy this game...

Well if server uptime is your only concern I've only seen them do like 4 hours of maintenance since I bought the game. I've never had a problem connecting. Honestly this game lacks some of the fullness and depth of WoW but it's still a good game. support is good considering the size of the player base and updates are handled swimmingly. It streams live to your comp and then you'll get a message asking you to restart and that's it. No downloading the latest patch or anything.

Guild Wars has a total of 12 hours down since its release almost a year ago, and 10 of those 12 were due to a 1 hour roll back not long ago after a trader pricing glitch. Oh, I think they had a planned down time and gave us fair warning about it a few days ago to fix a server issue, but it was only a few hours.

In other words, Guild Wars is solid as a rock.

No monthly fees basically has nothing to do with updates. The official website's supprot team is the best you will ever encounter. They actually read, and type replies to you. Seldom will you recieve an automated response.

Guild Wars a spiffy streaming system so download new updates as soon as you log in, if they are available. There are various bug fixes usually every week or two, and major updates every month or two.

To summarize, ArenaNet owns Blizzard to the max when it comes to keeping the customer satisfied.

GW has had ~18 hours downtime since its release. 2 hours 1 day, 10 hours like 9 months later, and a few hours a couple days ago. ~18 hours in over a year of playing

that's less than one percent downtime. I think it's so much less it might even meet 5/9 standards which is phenominal.

cool... probably gonna start playin when the new one comes out... is the gamplay easy to learn??... since i been playin WoW... is it easy to adjust too... and is there like a 10 trial pass.. kinda like what Blizz did with WoW... wanna try it out...

Why buy a 10-Day trial pass (they don't make them by the way) when you can just spend £25 and buy Factions and have it forever with live streaming update for free constantly?

O.. when u bought WoW.. they gave u a 10day trial pass to give to a friend to try out...

think I should wait for FActions.. or buy it now and see if i like it??...

If you buy the factions pre order you can get a 14 day 10 hour trial. The factions pre order is a down payment for factions. If you do get serious into Guild Wars pvp you will probably want the orginal Guild wars to have all the skills. The orginal Guild Wars probably will go down in price when factions comes out. Most people here will proably recommend buying orginal since this is a Guild Wars fansite. I got more play time out of Guild Wars then I did with five months of WoW. Also still enjoying Guild Wars and bored of WoW.

Cool.. I'll probably get it today... then if I get into it.. get Factions when it comes out.. thanks for the info and stuff...

http://www.arena.net/about/team.html

look at the team who did GW

Generally I would suggest getting the Prophecies campaign if for nothing more than the skills. Though it may actually get cheaper after factions is released so you need to balance getting it now with the gamble it will reduce in price (after all they are better off with you having both - thier cost is trivially larger for you to own both and they stand to make much more if you buy factions for full price and prophecies for 20 dollars - you only add storage for two slots, using bandwith/processor load is the same no matter of you are in Cantha or Ascalon, Kryta, etc so that's 20 extra dollars for the minimal storage of two more character).

The following is speculation. Even with the preview we don't really know. I suspect that while factions is standalone in one sense it will also be an expansion in another. You will most likely miss the skills for the main professions. For one thing Prophecies has the classic cookie cutter classes pretty well specced out, factions is adding two specialised classes. Since things like "warrior" "healer" and "nuker" are pretty useful I suspect that prophecies will really be the core game in terms of skill sets.

For example, did you play games during Baldurs Gate one and two? Two was standalone, I played it first. You really didn't need to play the first but the gaming experience was much better once I finally got it, part two was MUCH better playing with that old savegame. So far Factions is having VERY similar wording with it's descritpion and fuzzyness if it is an expansion, standalone, or sequel.

I also rather suspect that as more guild wars games come out this will be less and less true. If it makes it a few years down the line and has five or six parts (or longer and more parts) I would bet that missing one will not be a big deal. But right now missing one of two will feel really bad while playing. Missing one of two is a big deal, three of ten not so much.

I have friends who have been playing WoW for a year now and still are grinding to max up to level 60. What a waste of time!

Well if they have been playing for a year and havn't gotten to level 60, chances are they aren't they don't play that much, so it's not like they are wasting their life away.
I got level 60 in a few months, and I was not even a hardcore player myself...

Well, I know that they do play it a good bit, maybe they just suck. ;D

Well, I suppose the release of battlegrounds has a lot to do with it. My entire journey to level 60 took place before battlegrounds were ever released, so I didn't have PVP distracting me. If your friends play a lot of battlegrounds, their slow levelling is excusable ^.^

I recommend getting the first campaign first, because it will give you access to more skills as other have said, and you won't be confused when people are talking about chapter 1

Yeah, man no doubt.

They actually update quite frequently with new material and whatnot. A while back they added an entire new section with a whole new array of hard and challenging quests which I only recently completed, more recently they've added all the PVP to an island and changed the format of creating PVP characters, among many things. Changes are always coming along to mend glitches that occasionaly crop up, but nothing major. The game is fun to play and takes skill, and can be very fun.