I'll do my best to contrast GW and WoW, because there are some major differences that I feel are important, or at least to me.
The first (and most important) is that you can play on your own schedule. I have a 2yo daughter, a wife, and a job, and they all come first. WoW simply would not meet my schedule, because as far as I can tell the only thing to do end game is (up to) 25-man raids. High success rate means guild, guild means scheduling, because how else are you going to get 25 people on at once that know what they're doing. And therein lies the problem.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-social. In fact my only goal left in GW1 is to play with my friends. Doing Underworld or other elite areas with allies is by far my favorite thing to do in GW. I just love that I don't
have to do that each and every time I sign on, scheduling my life around it. (Almost) every quest, mission, vanquish, etc in GW can be done just fine with heroes/henchmen (NPC allies).
I like not having to pay per month...not because I can't squeeze a few bucks out of the budget, but because the P2Play set-up on WoW was factored into how it was designed. I can take a few months (or a year) off GW, and not have anyone feel like I'm letting them down.
Last major difference (for the good or bad) in GW is the focus on gameplay, not levels/items. You can hit max level (20) in a few hours of play time, and can get max weapons/armor by typing /bonus in the first town. The goal here is to play, not to grind constantly to attain levels or weapons to be competitive. The game is balanced for everyone. There are plenty of "elite" weapons/armor...but the only difference is cosmetic.
That's not to say there isn't plenty to do (or grind, if you want)...it took me over 1200 hours on my assassin to achieve everything I wanted to. The difference here is that you can play how you want, and don't
have to grind or farm at all.
Guildwars is awesome, the developers are awesome (still releasing free content for GW1, 3 years after last paid expansion came out), and GW2 is going to be even better.
Edit: just saw this reply, reading comprehension bad nowadays:
Thanks, I will keep my eye out for them. I am currently DLing the game via their web page. Keero was nice enough to let me try it out on his account and see if i like it. If i do, i think i may be joining up here soon.
And Abba San: I LOVE the fact that they dont have a monthly fee. Its not so much a problem paying for the stuff and the games. IT was just when i wouldnt play for a month or so on wow....there goes 15$...kinda lame
So yah. We will see how this ends up!
Thanks all for the info
I suspected you might be Keero's buddy - talked to you in game yesterday (or was it Saturday?). Now you just need to get Keero to sign in! Let me know if you guys don't have any demo keys and need one.