Guild Wars weekend

[Lissa]

Is there anyone here who has had extensive play with WoW that also put maximum time into GW, both PvM and PvP?  Would comparing the two be apples to oranges or would it be worth doing a comparison?  I was not one of the fortunate who tested WoW (even though I have too much time on my hands and would make an excellent tester with a viewpoint that is usually different than the masses).  If there is ever an open beta, I will surely give it a go but, until then, I have no way to know how I will react to the WoW experience.
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Guild Wars and WoW are too seperate animals. As much as Arena wants to say GW is a MMORPG, it's not, it's a Diablo/Diablo 2 clone (and believe me, as far as clones go, I find Sacred more enjoyable than GW).

Also, PvP in WoW is totally different. In GW, the maximum number of people that can fight is 16 (8 from either side). In WoW, their is no theoretical maximum (I say theoretical because there will reach a point where either the server will choke or most people's computers will).

As to PvM, best way to sum up GW in WoW terms is you start in Northshire Abbey and run through a couple little quests and as you run along you end up in Stormwind. Once you get to Stormwind, you see a bunch of people and you can decide to gather together and run through a portal outside of town that takes to an instance (in effect). While in said instance, you fight with your group and eventually either return to Stormwind or go to some other location like Goldshire (which again has a couple of portals that lead into other instances). And you travel around the world this way, never really being able to do anything on the side. You also only get a chance to meet people while you are in those towns or in your party, but unlike WoW, in GW you are stuck with your bad party until you get to another way point or everyone dies pretty much (WoW you can get out of these bad situations by a variety of means).

So, to make a long story short, the two games are not similar in anyway. One is a true MMORPG (WoW) and the other is a Diablo clone with graphical channels instead of plain text channels (GW).