My Guild Wars 2 Story: Beginings

So I dropped the ball again but instead of writing about how I want to do better I'm just going to write a new post and move on.

Guild Wars 2. It is awesome. I've never invested in an MMO before but I have always held an interest in Guild Wars and I made the decision that I wanted to join in the fun last year. As I was looking at what to buy I saw that they were coming out with GW2. So I saw the previews and it took a lot of will power to hold back and wait for Guild Wars 2 to be released. I was disheartened to find that there wasn't a release date yet. I really hate waiting for something when I don't know it is going to get here. It's at least mildly tolerable when I can see the deadline, but not having anything but the promise that it will come out is very hard on me. Eventually I got to the point where I wasn't checking the website every day.

Then the release date was finally set and to my dismay it was going to come out over the summer, when I would be at home and not have and amazingly fast internet connection, but rather have a satellite connection that was barely an upgrade from dial-up. The sorrows of a college kid that live in the boonies. The months leading up to the release were miserable, I would receive endless emails about pre-release events and beta projects... Then it hit me what if my computer can't run GW2? My best friend and I realized we needed to find this out as we both had computers that were most likely not up to par for most graphically intense programs. They were laptops that were used for taking notes in class, writing papers, and browser based games that we used to waste time between projects or to rest our brains. We looked up the requirements and as far we could tell we might have had a chance but no way to guarantee that we would be able to run the final product.

Then something happened that was devastating and yet a small miracle. My computer started to freeze randomly and upon further reflection I realized that I might have been damaged in a lightning storm that occurred while I was at work at my summer job. I always leave it plugged in and usually unplug when I see a storm coming since I don't have a surge protector in the room that I use my computer the most. When I'm at home I spend a lot of time in a room that is in the garage because I like to be away from the house sometimes. The point is I now had a reason to upgrade. I was blessed to receive an additional scholarship and I managed to have enough money saved from my summer job that I was in a financially stable position to responsibly buy a higher end laptop that would be able to support my multimedia endeavors and run games and most importantly Guild Wars 2.

So that is how I am now able to play my first MMO that I paid money for. I've played on free MMOs but they always lacked certain things. Obviously MMOs arn't free to run so they make the more appealing features and items cost. I've also never like the idea of subscribing to play a game. I want to buy it once and then play as much as I want. That's why the Guild Wars franchise appeals the most. It's a game that you can play solo and also play with friends or neighbors of the GWs community. I'm going to cut off here and I'll probably talk more about GW in the next post.