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Is Guild Wars a MMORPG?

cooldevocooldevo Member Posts: 371
in Guild Wars

Taken right from GW official forums, for those that were asking before.

Question
Is Guild Wars an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)?
Answer

Guild Wars has some similarities to existing MMORPGs, but it also has some key differences.

Like existing MMOs, Guild Wars is played entirely online in a secure hosted environment. Thousands of players inhabit the same virtual world. Players can meet new friends in gathering places like towns and outposts where they form parties and go questing with them. Unlike many MMOs, when players form a party and embark upon a quest in Guild Wars, they get their own private copy of the area where the quest takes place. This design eliminates some of the frustrating gameplay elements commonly associated with MMOs, such as spawn camping, kill stealing, and lines to complete a quest.

Guild Wars takes place in a large virtual world made up of many different zones, and players can walk from one end of the world to the other. But Guild Wars eliminates much of the tedium of traveling through the world. Players can instantly return to any safe area (town or outpost) that they've previously visited just by clicking on it in the world overview map.

Rather than labeling Guild Wars an MMORPG, we prefer to call it a CORPG (Competitive Online Role-Playing Game). Guild Wars was designed from the ground up to create the best possible competitive role-playing experience. Success in Guild Wars is always the result of player skill, not time spent playing or the size of one's guild. As characters progress, they acquire a diverse set of skills and items, enabling them to use new strategies in combat. Players can do battle in open arenas or compete in guild-on-guild warfare or the international tournament. But engaging in combat is always the player's choice; there is no player-killing in cooperative areas of the world.

Finally, unlike existing MMOs, all characters in Guild Wars inhabit the same virtual world -- they are not divided onto different servers or shards -- so players can always team up with or compete against any other player in the world.

*EDIT: modified title*

Comments

  • KniteFluxKniteFlux Member Posts: 4

    The question "Is Guild Wars a MMORPG" is a silly question, but it was an excellent marketing strategy for them to bring it up. Certainly it will bring in many people who have dared not play an MMORPG.

    But really, is it? No. Does that matter? Not unless you are a purest and shun the world sitting on your linux machine without x windows on your own shell writing an essay about how NAT and private IP addresses are destroying the Internet and how we need to move forward not sideways and all the while secretly wishing for some instant PvP action while words like pawn you come to mind.

    Calling the game a CORPG isn't a completely incorrect label, but it is restrictive and doesn't sum up the entire game. Such a label can only serve to scare away customers... certainly its not going to convert many of the self-proclaimed hardcore PvPers to the game.

  • MalomeisterMalomeister Member Posts: 86


    Originally posted by cooldevo

    Taken right from GW official forums, for those that were asking before.
    Question
    Is Guild Wars an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)?
    Answer
    Guild Wars has some similarities to existing MMORPGs, but it also has some key differences.
    Like existing MMOs, Guild Wars is played entirely online in a secure hosted environment. Thousands of players inhabit the same virtual world. Players can meet new friends in gathering places like towns and outposts where they form parties and go questing with them. Unlike many MMOs, when players form a party and embark upon a quest in Guild Wars, they get their own private copy of the area where the quest takes place. This design eliminates some of the frustrating gameplay elements commonly associated with MMOs, such as spawn camping, kill stealing, and lines to complete a quest.
    Guild Wars takes place in a large virtual world made up of many different zones, and players can walk from one end of the world to the other. But Guild Wars eliminates much of the tedium of traveling through the world. Players can instantly return to any safe area (town or outpost) that they've previously visited just by clicking on it in the world overview map.
    Rather than labeling Guild Wars an MMORPG, we prefer to call it a CORPG (Competitive Online Role-Playing Game). Guild Wars was designed from the ground up to create the best possible competitive role-playing experience. Success in Guild Wars is always the result of player skill, not time spent playing or the size of one's guild. As characters progress, they acquire a diverse set of skills and items, enabling them to use new strategies in combat. Players can do battle in open arenas or compete in guild-on-guild warfare or the international tournament. But engaging in combat is always the player's choice; there is no player-killing in cooperative areas of the world.
    Finally, unlike existing MMOs, all characters in Guild Wars inhabit the same virtual world -- they are not divided onto different servers or shards -- so players can always team up with or compete against any other player in the world.
    *EDIT: modified title*

    Well cooldevo GW isn't exactly a mmorpg.  But it is CORPG(Competitive Online Role Playing Game) It has many qualities of one though.  When you go adventuring you only see yourself and ur guild.  It elminates kill stealing.  So basically all I can tell u is GW is very close to a MMORPG.  Just read guildwars.com's faq.  Ok then you will understand.  GW is a very good game.  It deserves to be on this site as an MMORPG.

    Violence

  • Invincible37Invincible37 Member Posts: 172
    MMO...Massivly Multiplayer Online....GW is huge,It will have thousands of ppl playing together,and its played online...so its simply an untraditional MMORPG.in untraditional i mean it doesnt have many of the features ud see in most MMO's..it is a CORPG too...MMORPG/CORPG are just 2 ways of describing 1 game
  • aeric67aeric67 Member UncommonPosts: 798

    I'd say from that description GW is missing key elements that define an MMORPG. Now I have to seriously wonder why it is even listed on this site. It's funny to me now, when I think back on how many people believe they are getting a deal by not having to pay monthly fees for this supposed "MMORPG".

    Perhaps Psuedo-MMORPG is a better term. Most games that work over a network are competitive in nature, so coining the CORPG thing is kinda dumb.

  • zethcarnzethcarn Member UncommonPosts: 1,558


    Originally posted by aeric67

    I'd say from that description GW is missing key elements that define an MMORPG. Now I have to seriously wonder why it is even listed on this site. It's funny to me now, when I think back on how many people believe they are getting a deal by not having to pay monthly fees for this supposed "MMORPG".
    Perhaps Psuedo-MMORPG is a better term. Most games that work over a network are competitive in nature, so coining the CORPG thing is kinda dumb.

    Competition and Role-playing are key elements that define an MMORPG to me.  Besides, I could care less, this game looks to be more fun than any mmorpg on this site and for that it deserves to be here.
  • cooldevocooldevo Member Posts: 371

    Originally posted by KniteFlux
    The question "Is Guild Wars a MMORPG" is a silly question, but it was an excellent marketing strategy for them to bring it up. Certainly it will bring in many people who have dared not play an MMORPG.But really, is it? No. Does that matter? Not unless you are a purest and shun the world sitting on your linux machine without x windows on your own shell writing an essay about how NAT and private IP addresses are destroying the Internet and how we need to move forward not sideways and all the while secretly wishing for some instant PvP action while words like pawn you come to mind.Calling the game a CORPG isn't a completely incorrect label, but it is restrictive and doesn't sum up the entire game. Such a label can only serve to scare away customers... certainly its not going to convert many of the self-proclaimed hardcore PvPers to the game.

    You are right, it is a silly question, but has been asked so many times, the official word is now in from guild wars website. That way now no one needs ask the question anymore. To me I could care less... It's a great game that I like, and will be playing. I personally don't care whether it is a MMORPG, CORPG, MMOFPS, or whatever. All I care about is that I really enjoy it, and will be the only MMOG game I'm playing.

  • _myko_myko Member Posts: 333

    i prefer my own definition of CORPG - cooperative online role playing game (which is a more accurate description of GW IMO)

    GW is close enough to MMORPG's to be here, the MMORPG rules for games listed here are all fulfilled by GW.

    ---sig---

    PvE in general is pretty lame, if you think long and hard about it. You are spending your time beating a severely gimped AI that would lose to a well trained monkey. Best not to think too long and hard why you are wasting time playing games in general actually...

  • aeric67aeric67 Member UncommonPosts: 798

    I couldn't care less if it was listed here or not. I was just discussing the validity of calling it an MMORPG. I'll probably buy and play it too.

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