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Yes I said it, I belive guild wars is trully the only honest Free 2 play game out there, After having investigated almost all the most popular Free 2 play games currently, I find all the companies have a way to MAKE IT so that you HAVE TO spend money near the end of the games leveling, in order to be a strong player. Its not just money though its MUCH MORE money than in a Standard mmorpg there is no way you can get by in F2P games with 15 dollars put a month in the cash shop at end game, you usually need much more than that to stay competitive.  It  gets to the point where if you don't have the best luck in the world, even if you farm for hundreds of hours, you still need the cash shop for something. This is the case in almost every free 2 play mmorpg Iv seen, This INCLUDES Runes of Magic.

I come to the conclusion that Guild wars is trully the only honest free 2 play mmorpg out there.

(Free 2 play) Not free2 buy I mean FREE 2 play by name.

Also for those who think guild wars is not a True mmorpg..well

Massive- Guild wars has a massive world, No where in the word massive does it say non instanced.

Multiplayer- (Guild was has over 3million players)

Online- Guild wars is online play only.

Role- you play the role of one of ten classes.

Playing- you do play this game, and it even has a real story to role play tru, with cinematics and voice work.

Game- It is a game >_>

This is why I think GW is the only true Fair honest Free 2 PLAY by name MMORPG.

Multiplayer- (Guild was has over 3million players)

Online- Guild wars is online play only.

Role- you play the role of one of ten classes.

Playing- you do play this game, and it even has a real story to role play tru, with cinematics and voice work.

Game- It is a game >_>

 

Yet another case of "After Thanksgiving Turkey Poisoning".....

it depends on what people think massive is. over 100+ players? 1000? 10000?

oh and do you know there is a feature called "Spell Check"? click edit on your post and click the button besides the "undo" button. A button with ABC and a think under it.
and put some effort to write 'to' instead of '2'. its only a letter difference :/

Originally posted by Calintz333

... I find all the companies have a way to MAKE IT so that you HAVE TO spend money near the end of the games leveling, in order to be a strong player....

I am extremely sure Q-World is one of those games that doesn't force you to buy items from their cash shop in order to be a top player. The stuff in the cash shop are mostly just attention grabbers and HP/MP items which you can also get in game.

Trickster Online, Rose Online, and Perfect World are also not cash shop dependent. Game play may be more difficult without cash shop items, but they are not a must in order to reach max level. If you are able to resist the temptation of a quick fix for a difficult situation you will find a lot of other MMOs that don't force you into buying their items.

I appreciate your enthusiasm and I am glad you have found an MMO that you enjoy, but I disagree with Guild Wars being the only "true" F2P MMO.

I don't mean reach the max level, I mean become a competitive player once you are at the max level. (or very well near it 95+/100)Becoming competitive with other max level players is almost impossible without regular use of the item malls in most F2P mmorpgs, even Perfect world has this problem, and to top it off the cash shop is simply way overpriced.

Originally posted by Calintz333

I don't mean reach the max level, I mean become a competitive player once you are at the max level. (or very well near it 95+/100)Becoming competitive with other max level players is almost impossible without regular use of the item malls in most F2P mmorpgs, even Perfect world has this problem, and to top it off the cash shop is simply way overpriced.

I agree that a good bit of F2P MMOs are like that, but I don't believe all of them are. In my opinion to become a competitive player or to reach max level in those types of games depends more on your skill rather than how much money you spend on cash shop items. It seems you may also see this possibility looking at your choice of words.

I say its not a true MMORPG, it's an Online Role Playing Game, they even advertised it as such when first making the game. The reason for it not being an MMORPG instead of ORPG is the fact that even though the game is "massive" and its "multiplayer", its not "massive multiplayer". This means having a massive amount of multiplayer, which it does not have outside of towns.

This is not saying it's bad in anyway, it's just stating what people believe.

Originally posted by Calintz333

I don't mean reach the max level, I mean become a competitive player once you are at the max level. (or very well near it 95+/100)Becoming competitive with other max level players is almost impossible without regular use of the item malls in most F2P mmorpgs, even Perfect world has this problem, and to top it off the cash shop is simply way overpriced.

it's bit hard to get to lvl 95+ in GW XD

I dont think Guild Wars is a MMORPG.  Its more of a single player RPG with a multiplayer PvP feature.