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Help me decide?
secretoasis
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So, I'm not sure what I want to do...
I've been playing trials of a couple of games. One is Guild Wars Trilogy, and the other is World of Warcraft: Starter Edition.
I'm not sure which one I want to continue playing and upgrade to the full version. I still have some trial time left on both.
Here are my thoughts on the games, so far:
Guild Wars: Nice graphics. Good music. Nice fighting. Not laggy at all.
WoW: Graphics are okay. The game hasn't had too much lag. The movement seems laggy in itself. Larger community.
What are your thoughts? Which would you recommend to me?
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well good question which one you like you can pick one and lose the other which one do you like
....... i cant deside for you but you have to deside which is more fun for you as a player after all you paying for the game 
. why not pay for something you enjoy 
.....
I'm so indecisive though
. But, okay thanks 
Guild Wars is a Buy to Play game, so it's got no subscription. You can pay one time ($30 or perhaps even as low as $20 or $15 if you can find a sale) and it's yours until they turn the servers off (which they're not planning on doing when GW2 comes out). It does tell three good stories. There's also an Eye of the North expansion which I like even more, but that's extra (and not required to play the trilogy).
WoW is a subscription game and provides a more complete AAA MMO experience compared to GW1 which was put out by a fairly small company at the time. It's got some features that GW1 lacks (auction house, better quest log, jumping).
Both do have a ton of content and are very polished.
I'd say try Guild Wars first. It's B2P so if you love it, it's a bargain, or you always have it available as a side game. If you get tired of it, pick up WoW's subscription. You can always go back to GW on the side or if you decide to cancel WoW.
I would say it's worth getting deep into both just to see the different approaches to the game (horizontal progression in GW vs vertical progression in WoW, limited vs unlimited skillbar). If nothing else you'll gain a better appreciation of what you're looking for when the next generation of MMOs hit.
"Gamers will no longer buy the argument that every MMO requires a subscription fee to offset server and bandwidth costs. It's not true you know it, and they know it." -Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet, 2007
Go with GW since they have a new game releasing next yea r (GW2) and you'll be able to put your GW1 char in a heros hall in the new game. Also GW2 is going to be awesome so it would be good to get ready for it now playing GW1 and by the time GW2 is released the money you'd have saved from playing WoW will be enough to buy GW2!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
I once made a long list of pros and cons for the two games as compared to each other. It was mostly a bunch of ways in which Guild Wars was better. I think I came up with two ways that WoW was better.
So if you're too indecisive, then I'll be decisive for you: Guild Wars is a better game.
I've been thinking about getting into Guild Wars too, cause quite honestly I don't think SW:TOR is going to do it for me. Its vanilla WoW in space thus far, and everything I keep reading about GW2 is fantastic. I hear that playing GW will obviously help one to understand and recognize the lore and world better in preparation for GW2.
Heh, I'm gonna DL the trial right now...see if thats what I wanna mess with until Skyrim!
Note that GW1 is a very different game than GW2 in terms of gameplay (GW1 is not an MMO while GW2 is for example). That said I think GW1 is an excellent game and as you said, if you are into lore you will obviously enjoy it (if you are less into lore you could just read the GW1 and GW2 wiki's and maybe the novels).
Do your self a favour and avoid WoW, really. It got little to offer you in terms of social/challenge experince unless you want to get into end game raids.
If you truly enjoyed both, go with GW. You'll save money and it'll be good preparation for GW2. I enjoyed the original GW1 for half a year atleast (when it first came out).
It's a bit stiff when it comes to movement though, that has to be said. GW2 will fix that.
All it takes is one bad day.
Pretty much everyone else has stated what I want to say about the little debate. One thing I'd personally like to add is you'll be saving a decent amount of money if you choose gw2 over WoW. For WoW you need the original, Burning Crusade (which usually come in packs now though), Wrath, and then Cataclysm. Then get ready to top it all off with $15/mo to keep playing.
They're both different games, and I'd say try WoW if you really want to, but I'd suggest GW first.
With quite a few mmos coming out in the near feature i would probaly say starting WoW now would not be the best thing and as someone else said to get the full benefits you need all the expansions (buying them over 5 years made it quite easy)
Against the opinion of most here i prefer WoW and for someone who has never played it will give you hours of game play, but this does come at a cost - play until level 20 with the starter addition, as this should give you a good idea of what is available.
Do you have friends who play? As both imo are best played with friends.
Just to clarify that you will need to get the Eye of the North expansion to do this.
It does let you unlock vanity skins, pets and titles for GW2. I need to get back into this. Only 9 points here, but that's enough for the minipet I really wanted so I stopped.
http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/faq/
"Gamers will no longer buy the argument that every MMO requires a subscription fee to offset server and bandwidth costs. It's not true you know it, and they know it." -Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet, 2007