Mosque at Ground Zero

[Sicron]

Guild Wars, is and always has been a PvP oriented game, the guy's who made it were originally employed by Blizzard to work on WoW's PvP (which is why early WoW-PvP was terribad). GW isn't a bad game, but it serves a niche, people who like to kill other players. If what you're after in an MMO is PvE content, as well as a rich history and loads of content against NPC's, then you really can't look past WoW, furthermore, the success of Blizzard and specifically WoW is because WoW is a predominantly PvE game, something like 80%+ of the subscribers are in it for the PvE content. GW isn't going away anytime soon, but it will never grow to the size and popularity of WoW simply because it targets a smaller market.

If you're anti-WoW or anti-Blizzard and you're looking for a good MMO, wait around for Bioware's Star Wars: Old Republic, it has the potential to de-throne WoW at it's own game.

And yes, I know all of this has absolutely nothing with the subject, just my $0.02

Although GW was build with PvP in mind, it still does pretty well with PvE. I know people ingame who have played like 5000 hours PvE only in the last couple of years. There's a lot of PvE content in GW. Three campaigns + expansion pack. And while it doesn't have to popularity of WoW because fewer people know Arenanet compared to WoW, 3 million+ gamers is still pretty impressive. Can't wait for GW2 to come next year-ish. Dynamic events for the win!

 

[Zeonix]

I actually had a good time playing GW with FP, but once I got to the point where I had to grind for ingredients to buy armor every week, I quit. I hate that aspect of any mmo. It's a non-issue in CO, so I play it occasionally.

 

[Avenger]

What's CO?

 

[-Origin]

Champions Online, I guess.

 

[Rocky]

Although GW was build with PvP in mind, it still does pretty well with PvE. I know people ingame who have played like 5000 hours PvE only in the last couple of years. There's a lot of PvE content in GW. Three campaigns + expansion pack. And while it doesn't have to popularity of WoW because fewer people know Arenanet compared to WoW, 3 million+ gamers is still pretty impressive. Can't wait for GW2 to come next year-ish. Dynamic events for the win!

Does "pretty well" but is inferior to WoW in pretty much every way. If you're a PvE gamer and you have a choice between WoW and GW, you'll go with WoW. That is why GW will always sit in the shadow of WoW.

 

[Synth]

1. WoW
2. KoToR
3. SW: The Old Republic

Those are the best PVE games.