Like the past few replys, I'm trying both.  I was in this last weekends beta for TOR, and it was very polished.  It aint revolutionary, but it aint lacking either.  As for GW2, the pvp is what will make or break that game for me.

I'm sticking with Age of Conan cause this game has ballz

lol at wall of text with GW2 features then a poll .............

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Originally posted by nuififun
lol at wall of text with GW2 features then a poll .............

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Agreed. Proper thing to do would've to atleast post both games features. Atleast he admits he is biased.

My answer is both. I have said it before, I am in it for the long run. I hope both games deliver and by playing both I can enjoy them without playing one to death.

by  the time GW2 comes out the dust will have setled with TOR and we will know how is it...so iam planning to play both,even if  TOR proves to  be not a good mmo(I doudt that)it will still worth it a single player experience(with the personal story that is)and for PVE freaks and lore freaks and SW fans the story aspect is enought to keep you going for a lot of time

It's all down to World of Warcraft for me. Look at things this way: I've spent years building up a main and alts and ploughed serious time as well as gold into the guild and AH. So even though WoW isn't exactly shining right now, it would be tragic to simply walk away from all of that investment and let it go to waste. Take breaks, yes, sometimes long breaks but to completely let go... no. But times are hard so... I can only sub one game right now. And that sub will more than likely be World of Warcraft because of previous commitments.

Which means if I'm choosing between GW2 or TOR I will choose GW2 so I can buy the game and then not fret over a sub and still oblige my previous contributions to WoW by continuing them when I go back for periods of play.

So

GW2.

COMMUNITY

Y U NO STOP BEATING DEAD HORSE?

I'll play SWOTOR untill my free month runs out (if it blows me away, I might subscribe for a month or two) and continue playing GW2.

I used to say both to these polls.  After getting a chance to play SWTOR, I'm picking GW2 now without blinking an eye.

I'll buy and play both, but probably stick with Mortal Online as my main game because I greatly prefer sandbox games.

I'm sure both games will be entertaining in their own right, at least for a while.

Originally posted by nuififun

lol at wall of text with GW2 features then a poll .............

Yeah, not a great OP. I think he didn't bother write so much about TOR because most features of it are still fairly common in MMOs but it just look biased this way.

A good poll is not biased and have as much text about all choices, preferably a few good and a few bad things about them.

It's neither for me as I have absolutely no interest in these games. And based on the type of communities these games appear to have, I am glad I have no interest.

It's Archeage for me!!!

This topic is new and interesting.

Originally posted by vilereaver41

well since both games now have a decent ammount of info out there and polls where made back in 2010 i figured id make one for now at this moment il list my reasons for picking gw2 il admit i am a gw fanboy BUT i have reasons to be. what im doing is after a good ammount of time of posting on sites i want to compare all the poll results and come up with a decent ratio of things. well as the title states i know its impossible to have a thread like this without fanbois but id like people to state what made them choose one of these mmo's
over the other. for instance in gw2 what intrested me the most is

Dynamic events.

Persistent world. - big change for people who played gw1

The world changes with your actions.

It has a storyline and voice acting allthough not as much as swtor it still is a stepping stone

the pvp is amazing.

i was never one for marks above npc's heads by that i mean i dont like the exclamation marks i enjoy small cutscene like conversations with the npc's

Armor and weapons doesent mean your the best as its only based on looks.

probably best combat system iv ever seen - read this carefully please.

The art and detail for the game are practicaly amazing along with the music

the forum commnity is friendly iv played some mmorpgs where the pre release community isnt so welcomming

the side kick system.

the fairness in you wont get ksed/griefed

in dynamic events you get rewarded for as much effort as you put in

the pvp search system is that of an fps but it suits it well from what i'v seen

the fact arenanet are taking there time in creating a perfect bugless game i respect a company that looks after there player's yes imo arenanet are the "Only company" to have actually wanted to perfect an mmorpg with the least bugs as it can have before the release date is set.

that its a perfect mmo to start rping with i mean come on the dodging the charecter story the fantasy setting i dont feel limited. yes i know i havent played it yet but iv watched enough and read enough to know that what im saying here is correct

that it includes a reward system from gw1 that links to gw2 HOM wise so in a way they didnt abandon gw1

underwater combat system.

dungeon's/endgame

but yeah so far those are all i can think of atm i mean there are more but i must of forgot some il admit i was never a sw fan but  we all know swtor was based off of wow the devs admited that but we also know many mmorpgs have failed on this considering this swtor might be that one mmorpg that succeds wow allthough gw2 is a completly diffrent formula of mmo. it is its own king in its own genre but that bieng said there both mmorpg's fighting for the market that is why you need to choosebut considering gw2 is free i dont see how anyone who plays it can lose anything. also i dont see how anyone can play both unless they have alot of time on there hands but lets all agree these days does anyone have time and money like that?

oh and please correct me if i have gotten anything wrong but also please be civilized about it.

I will try both and stick to the one that appeals to me more, developers always make out their games to be the greatest thing ever and in truth its always less then portrayed. Listing a bunch of features does nothing for me since how it plays out and feels is not something that can be conveyed through a list. Saying that a game has an "open world" as an example, and then filling the entire world with buildings you can't enter, or a world with lots of instances, invisible walls or areas you cant access until your a certain level doesn't make it open imo. Saying you have "dynamic events" and then having a predictable amount or outcome and an order to how they are presented imo doesn't make it "dynamic" at all.

The one I think is unrealistic is "The world changes with your actions" that I just don't see happening. The world changes with your actions...I see this as pure hyperbole, so lets just say a base gets attacked and is razed to the ground....if the base is retaken and rebuilt will that same base be attacked in the same way again? and if it does then how did the world really change? if it doesn't that means those enemies would have been defeated and you will never see them again so therefore if the world really changed then your saying that people who weren't there for the battle will never be able to see those enemies or participate in that whole event ever again? I just don't see this happening because the developers only have so many assests and models for the game...that would mean they would need an endless stream of new models and assets for every single event in the game and I just don't see that being possible. If the world is to change imo that would mean that one year after launch...the whole game world would be an entirely different place that resembles nothing that the game launched with.

"The art and detail for the game are practicaly amazing along with the music" hate to tell you this but every mmo I have played has very good art, detail and music for their game so really its all subjective.

"underwater combat system"...thats a plus? dont other games let you attack underwater...being able to press 1 for a fireball underwater doesnt make it a "combat system".

Just play both games and stick to the one that you enjoy more....really no need to list features since "fun" is entirely subjective to the players experience.

Hmm thats a tough one, let's see..

A revolutionary, ground breaking next-gen MMO with great graphics, animations and design, from experienced devs who truly understand what the genre needs, and who don't want to rip off their customers with unnecessary subscriptions

or

A derivative, bloated WoW clone with average graphics, bad animations and uninspired design, from devs who never made a MMO before and who nowadays prefer to suck up to Blizzard, instead of kicking its butt like they did a decade ago

Gee I wonder what  I will pick.

Originally posted by Acvivm

Originally posted by vilereaver41

"underwater combat system"...thats a plus? dont other games let you attack underwater...being able to press 1 for a fireball underwater doesnt make it a "combat system".

Have you even seen anything about GW2? Yes it is a combat system, a completely separate underwater combat system with different animations and extra skills, with z-axis enabled tactics. I beg you to name a single MMO or any game that has something like this. You can't because there is none. Even the creatures get different skills when they enter/leave water! How could anyone compare this to "press 1 to fire a fireball underwater' ?

I will play GW2 and pass on SW:TOR. Rift was probably last traditional mmo I played and i'm looking for something different now, SW:TOR to me is too much like WoW, Rift etc.

Not hyped about either game and i wont pre-order either game.

I will probally pick up GW2 only because there is no sub, but ill only get it if the reviews are good and after I have looked into it...

I would get SWTOR only if its turned out not to be a dumbed down wow clone with voice acting..

I will be getting the Secret World...

Since I have played SWTOR but not GW2 the only thing for sure that I can say is that I am deffinitely buying STWOR.  Haven't had as much fun playing any game that I can remember.  I've definitely not had this much fun playing an MMO, not even my early days of EQ or DAOC can compare to the fun I've had.  How long will that fun last?  Dunno.  But I don know that I played for around 12 hours and that wasn't enough time for me to complete even the prologue of my class story, for one class.  So there will be plenty to do for a while, and that's all I ask.  Also, I've not grouped as much in an mmo since my EQ days as I did in SWTOR.

Im going with GW2 for sure.