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Guild Wars: Free 10 hrs/14 day trial offer for all 3 campaigns
Guild Wars: Free 10 hrs/14 day trial offer for all 3 campaigns
The official website of the popular MMORPG Guild Wars offered new free trial codes via FilePlanet yesterday. For 10 hours over 14 days registered or new players can play either of the three campaigns Prophecies, Factions, or Nightfall. Trial accounts can be continued - i.e. characters won't be lost - if the player choses to buy the game. Guild Wars has no monthly cost.
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And the best is you don't even have to sign up for a FilePlanet account in order to access your Guild Wars trial key.
Ah, I was wrong. You actually do have to have a fileplanet account in order to get the key. (I didn't notice that I was already logged in ...)
No, the best thing actually is: These games just rock. ;)
And it's amazing how beautiful the original "Guild Wars" still is after three years and how smooth it runs even on old machines.
As I have not yet played Guild Wars Nightfall, I've started the (non-subscriber) download at Fileplanet shortly after reading the news. With an average downstream of only 30 KBit/s., those 3 GB do take some time, I'm afraid.
Jörg, let me assure you that Nightfall is definitely worth the long downloading time.
I'm just experiencing the same with the Everquest 2 Trial. When this is ready, the new "Duke Nukem" will probably have been released. ;)
It is worth it. Nightfall is the very best GW campaign to start with, especially for solo players.
I started with Prophecies as solo PvE player a year ago and stopped playing soon after the tutorial, because I was killed often and didn't like the idea of carrying only 8 skills at a time. And I'm not interested in PvP at all.
But Nightfall is a huge step towards solo players and motivation: with your heroes the solo game is easier, and you take your hero "units" with you through the campaign: item search and upgrades for your heroes and skill configuration for your heroes are great and rewarding. And your heroes allow you to experiment with skills in classes that you haven't played yet yourself. You can change the second class of your heroes all the time without cost, so make them all monks and give them resurrection spells, for example. And every spell you buy yourself can be used by all your heroes, too (not vice versa, though).
In fact Guild Wars is the only game ever that my wife plays (we "had to" buy 2 copies of Prophecies, Nightfall, and the expansion pack), and it's the only game ever-ever that she will have a character that's far ahead of mine... ;)
I retired from Guild Wars half a month ago (after having played it for more than two years). It's most likely the best MMO without monthly fees; but in the end, it gets pretty much repetitive, and still carries on bad design choices. The best campaigns are Prophecies and GW:EN, to me.
Jörg, did you have the opportunity to complete your downloads and play a bit so far? (Or was it all Crysis) ;)