How to turn a WoW player into a Guild Wars 2 player.

[Salx55]

Just thought I would share this with you as this happened to me earlier today;
My friend and I got into discussing games and he is/was a hardcore WoW player, I started to tell him about Guild Wars 2, and it's pros and cons(there are none ) and when I was done telling he was in shock, all he could say was "I don't feel like going home and play WoW, I wanna play Guild Wars 2!"

[JohnnyV]

With almost five years being at the top, it's time for some new blood to sit upon the MMO throne. I think Guild Wars 2 is just the game to do it.

[Salx55]

Couldn't agree more.

[Cryptis Midnight]

though i dont think you will be able to easily change of a "blind" WoW fanboy/girl (still see alot of WoW players Bashing GW2), i do think GW2 will pull quite a bit of player communities in from alot of games including WoW

[Tarkol]

Easy, just show the player the demo of GW2 when the elementalist is fighting that huge boss at lvl 1. Then just wait until their head explodes.

No but really, GW2 should be pulling away some people from WoW but I can't really say how many. With Cata coming out and the fact that these two games are worlds apart, I can't imagine GW2 pulling a severe base from WoW - let alone killing it. If someone really wants to kill WoW, we should just bomb all their servers.

In time, and if GW2 does great, people will be coming over regardless.

[Sivious]

There's a finance issue as well. Take PS3 and Xbox 360 for example. Though PS3 has 3D and motion gaming and is free to play online, the xbox 360 users just block that out of their minds because they already purchased a $300 console and subscribed to the online community.

Nobody wants to fork out money and just throw away their investment. It'll take a person who is so bored with WoW they just don't care anymore.

[Ruse]

Or are tired of paying into the "raise level cap, make previous grind obsolete" design. Sometimes you can have invested quite a bit into something -- AoC for me, for instance -- and you can still be so turned off that you cancel.

[Hakeo]

Not really wanting to bash WoW players since they are people who enjoy what they do in the game. I guess one good way is to show them the history of what they've been doing level cap to level cap. The awesome hard to get..paying an arm and a leg to get..is now like...something you can get from an NPC. Other than that, I guess not paying a monthly fee from GW2 would help lean it towards GW2. The graphics as well looks amazing compared to WoW, I'm pretty sure there's more but it all comes down to the individual and what they decide. Hopefully it's GW2 nonetheless.

[Winterbay]

I know at least one of the developers of Kingdom of Loathing who I know tested GW1 and didn't like it (he claims ot have not found a single monster which is interesting) and plays WoW a lot and likes it said that GW2 looked like soemthing he would definitely try out

[Venn]

As a former WoW addict, not even joking, most of those people just aren't going to be swayed. When people that arent addicts try out Guild Wars 2 and realize theyre playing a game that was designed to be fun and not addictive, I believe a revelation will take place. We'll get some converts, but some people are so entrenched in the WoW machine that it's going to take a lot more than another game to save them.