I bought DAoC back in the day, not even knowing it was an MMORPG, let alone what an MMORPG was. I was thoroughly indoctrinated by their implementation of the genre.

I left DAoC, foolishly, with much anticipation for SWG. I was devastated.

For a brief time I went back to DAoC but other non-gaming commitments at the time drove me to drop the game and burn my bridges.

A friend of mine was deeply into WoW but although it's clearly a leader in the genre, I disdain grinding and am a wee bit put off by the cartoonish style.

More recently, I played WAR (thinking this was PvP/RvR jackpot). I really couldn't be bothered with the grind, so I did the taboo thing of paying for power levelling. Of course, I just found that the end game grind was worse (wards, armor sets and so on). The PvP was good-ish but the development drifted away from core realm PvP, which bothered my DAoC-honed sensibilities.

I've just bought Guild Wars. I'm late to the game but because it doesn't require a long grind to get into the serious core game content, I think it could be a winner (for now... GW2 is just around the corner).

MY QUESTION....

Should I... *go home* to DAoC or is Guild Wars a good place to settle for now?

Or just play Portal 2 and Dragon Age II and to hell with MMOs?

Sincerely,

A lost MMORPG soul

Guild Wars put bank slots on sale for half-price.  If you need them and don't mind droping a few bucks, that's a good deal.

Come home brother. DAoC is surprisingly populated even at wee hours of the morning are there people to kill. Dont want to grind to 50? No problem , do bgs where they supply everything including quests that get you gear and gold to be able to survive and kill people. We are all on one server now its called ywain, numbering from ywain1 - ywain10. If you want to know more just let me know , be glad to answer any questions you may have. I just returned myself. Either way GL with your decision.

Thanks for the encouragement. I'll get DAoC back but I'll be starting characters from scratch (I think). I'll keep Guild Wars on hand just in case.

Why start from scratch? if you played on all but pvp and co op you get a free transfer for all of your characters to the new servers. All you need do once your on the server select screen go down to the bottom left corner and click the archived button. All the old servers will appear. Then you just log into the character you want and type /freexfer ywain1          then it will tell you to log off that character so they can transfer your character. Takes a few minutes. I transfered alot so by the time i did all of them the first characters were already transferred.

you really cant go wrong with either game. I have had great times in both games.

--PS--   they added a tutorial that gears your guys and gets you familiar with all the commands and ui again. So if you were going to start over its easier than ever. Your guy comes out of the tutorial at lvl 16 in full gear and with a steed. Also your not locked into the tutorial. You can leave whenever you want to go pvp and return and go finish the tutorial until lvl 16 that is the limit to return.

Originally posted by gringemore

Why start from scratch?

I burnt my bridges in 2003 :(

Well id even be willing to help you. I have most of my resources on Midgard , but I play all realms as do most people these days. If you want I have no problem doing just that. Why not even just do the trial for now so no risk involved on your part at all.

I can't remember any MMORPG post 2005 worth playing. Almost everything is too simplified and followed the WoW Quest Driven Crapness.

If you want a rich Massively Multiplayer experience... you're out of luck unless you seek pre-2004 titles but these are really out dated.

I say stick with Portal 2, forget about Dragon Age 2. Don't waste you rmoney on MMORPG, definitely not Rift or WoW. Wait for World of Darkness or maybe Copernicus project from 38 studios. Don't get hyped up with GW 2 or SWTOR. SWTOR is another boring "story based" single player game sold as MMORPG. GW 2 is yet another one who thinks he got it! he got it!!! but will get slammed when he realized he really didn't get it.

You are not going to find a new MMO better than those old MMO's. Graphics look better and there are more players, thats about it.

If you were going to go single player I highly recommend Mass Effect 2. Single player games are pretty much a drag but that particular game had alot of replay value to me for some reason. Played it all the way through 3 times as a different class each time. Almost had an mmo rpg feel to it.