Guild Wars weekend

[Lissa]

Actually, Arena says this in the FAQ:
There are explorable areas outside the towns, which is very much like other MMORPG I have played, in that one can get from one town to another by traveling on foot instead of using the instant portal, of course those areas have monsters, skill trainers, smaller towns, etc.

Also, one can quit a mission anytime by instantly teleport to any town activated using the map. So one can freely explore solo or with some henchmen in those explorable areas until guild members are online and ready to do a mission together, then instantly teleport to the mission staging area using the map. So there actually is a mean to getting out of bad situations.
Personally I have enjoyed the world preview event, I didn't try anything PvP, more of a PvE person. I either solo the explorable areas (sometimes with henchmen), do the mission with henchmen when no guild members were available, and party up with guild members to do mission together when they were available. The last being the most fun.  :lol:

Having a party of like-minded players greatly enhanced the experience.
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Actually, the explorable areas are not like other MMORPGs. When you go into an explorable area in a MMORPG, you can run into anyone while doing so. In the case of GW, if you go into an explorable area, the only people you get to talk to are the people in your party. This is a big difference between GW and a traditional MMORPG, this makes GW more like Diablo/Diablo 2 than a MMORPG.

Like I noted, GW is a Diablo/Diablo 2 clone and it really isn't like a MMORPG.