of course i will buy it, no monthly fee! it also gets rid of a bunch of the things that make alot of mmorpgs annoying
Did you play it when they did the live e3 thing? 
it was OK
woohoo Im gonna play with ol 
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I downloaded the E3 client of guild wars, i installed it, connected, ran around for 5 minutes, exit the game and never touched it since.
mmorpgs are time intensive and I didn't have so much time for gaming back then, so that was probably the reason why I didn't continue playing. No monthly fee is certainly an important step to attract more players to online games.
yes you all should get it and any NcSoft product!!! not that im biyest or anything 
I was expecting a negative response !~ woo for guildwars, need to make a mapcore guild
I tried the E3 playtest thing, it was alright, like a 3D Diablo, but it soon got boring. I require more immediate gratification and control from my games.
The developers are going to keep the servers up by releasing tonnes of mini-expansions you don't have to buy, of course you will have to buy them unless you like playing by yourself. Given that most monthly fee MMORPGs add new content all the time anyway, it’s not quite the sweet deal where the developers host a massive server for free.
I played the E3 demo and was hooked all the way until the test sadly ended.
Admittedly, I mostly played the PvP scenarios they had, instead of the quests. One of them was a tournament-style bracket that had various different scenarios, like King of the Hill, Capture the Flag, Team Deathmatch, and Assault/Defend variants. Each tier pitted you against other teams in the bracket and it got progressively more and more challenging. Extremely fun and I was surprised as to how balanced it all was and how well it scaled along with the regular dungeon-exploring mode. It was kind of like a fantasy MMORPG Team Fortress Classic. Really hectic.
I also like how they're handling the skill system so that even new or less experienced players have a chance to compete against some of the stronger ones. Definately looking into buying it later, but not too sure about all those expansions yet. 
lil birdy over here tells me a beta should be coming out about november-ish and maybe a stress test one before hand
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FAP! i also just found out i made it onto the NCSoft team here =D my hints did'nt go un noticed!!!!! *vibrates*
I played it for free (e3 trial) And if was very impressive!
Plenty of land and missions, but it was rather hard to upgrade your armor and weapons. Olso the item system was pretty strange. But i found the game superb anyways~
guild wars does'nt have a monthly subscription
also erm nov i think in euro some mags will be handing out USB sticks with the game on for beta/stress tests etc
Will there be a monthly fee for Guild Wars?No, there will not be a monthly subscription fee of any kind, anywhere in the world.
NICE
Looks impressive. This might be the one mmorpg i ever buy.
updates will cost but not alot
by updates i don't mean patches they will remain free but new worlds etc you will have to pay for
i've already sent stuff to mags so expect to read more about it soon
The Guild Wars World Preview Event takes place October 29 through 31, 2004. The clients only 62kb so its not a biggy to download.
62kb? The download client is only "62kb" big which downloads the hundreds of megs the game itself consists of right?
not hundreds... more like tens.
should'nt take more then 5 mins on a fast connection
If the release isn't successful or the expansions don't sell it's going to crash and burn and put the developer into bankruptcy, that'll be fun to watch so I'm going to get WoW instead.
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