jrovel07: Read this for an example of the GW2 community. There's a champion in Lake Doric you need for a Lelendary collection . Due to power creep and the amount of people after him, he can often go down fast and it can take days to get that one kill. A commander tagged up before the champs spawn up on a hill and announced he would spawn in about 10 minutes. Other people used their 2 person mounts of turtles to shuttle people up the hill allive since you have to make it through an impossible gauntlet of elites and champion mobsto reach the spot and impossible without a huge group to reach this boss. People took off armor pieces to make sure everyone got a tag on the boss in case he went down fast. We ended up with a group of about 25 ppl to kill this boss. Some didn't even need it, just helping out. This was just organized in map. No group finder. Just a bunch of people helping each other out. That's what grabs me. I've never seen a community where people who don't even need something will help other people get what they need. Welcome to the game.

njorun1829: My 9 yo has invented a game called "Catch the Diamond" where he "steals" one of the floating gems off of my legendary armour and I have to chase him all around the guild hall to get it back. Of course, he is also the one who decided if I've caught him or not...

When his older brother was about his age and we were trying out some WvW, he transformed into a dolyak calf and started running after the enemies shouting "BAAAAAHH!!" Some of them, in turn, tansformed into hyleks and started dancing with us. He was also a jumping puzzle genius. Unfortunately, big brother (who is now 15) doesn't want to game with his mum anymore, and I suspect that in a couple of years that will be the case for his younger brother as well.

Anyway, I have lots to do on my own, but I just wanted to tell you some of my best memories from my almost 13 year long and ongoing journey in Tyria.

XBPReginleif: We gw2 players veterans love to see new ppl coming and enjoying the game because we love it too. /hug

dragonsieu76: Gotta say, good job on your character's fashion.

dAIcco88: I'm addicted to your gw2 videos, and you have a soothing voice!

Insig385: welcome home!!

Opus_Fluke: One of the greatest moments in this game was first playing Heart of Thorns and finding that frog guy to teach you gliding. He's just there strumming away on a lute and three others players turned up and we all started dancing. Completely pointless, utterly glorious, not a word spoken. This kind of content defies grinding. Hope you continue to enjoy daft moments like that. Welcome to Tyria.

darkbagus: I’ve walked a similar road—only mine also consisted of single-player worlds. I chased the giants, big titles everyone keep talking about. But one by one, they fell short.

1. Borderlands 3 should have been a homecoming. I loved Borderlands 2, trusted the formula—but the magic didn’t follow.

2. Cyberpunk 2077 promised a living city; I even bought the Liberty City expansion, yet it now sits untouched, gathering digital dust in my Steam library.

3. Path of Exile 2 came the closest. Nearly 700 hours vanished into it—but when GGG nerfed the Sorcerer’s Electric Spark build, I struggled to find a playstyle that suit me. And the constant stuttering on my laptop—likely due to network connection thing—and eventually walked away.

4. Kingdoms of Deliverance 2 was… something. Well-crafted, immersive—but I’ve grown too much to medieval fantasy, It never quite clicked despite positive review (dont get me wrong, the game is great, it's just not for me).

5. Black Desert Online dazzled me. main Ninja there—until a main quest bug locked me out completely. I couldn’t finish the story. Full stop. That was the end.

6. Final Fantasy XIV had style, scale, and charm—but beneath the beauty was clunky combat. And the real breaking point? The monthly subscription. The same wall that once pushed me away from WoW.

Then, almost by accident, I found my way back to Guild Wars 2—thanks to its Steam release. At first, it didn’t fully sync with my old account. A small setback. I reinstalled it directly from ArenaNet… and suddenly—That feeling returned.

That rare, quiet feeling of a game you don’t just play, but belong to.

A world that feels like home.

A community that feels alive.

A progression system that respects your time, not consumes it.

And that’s when I realized—I wasn’t looking for the next big game.

I was just trying to find my way back.

ironnoodle7992: Love the video!

I keep telling new players on twitch, this is not WoW. This is not FF14. This is not ESO. This is GW2 and it's not a version of any of those games.

Whatever you are looking for in a MMORPG, GW2 has it; you just need to define it and find it.

The single thing that most new players think they are wanting from an MMORPG is chasing BiS gear and think that GW2 doesn't have this. Well, we call this legendaries. We call this skins. We call this infusions. GW2 has that satisfaction of chasing what for many players is unachievable and when achieving it, being able to let other players know you are not one of the masses but one of the few top players.

And for hells sake, people need to stop thinking you know all about GW2 because you spent half an hour leveling.

andreasdelsing6764: 7 years in. Had very very little direct interaction with players, you can "soloplay" if you are not looking for communities.

shakeweller: I played the game 3000 hours in 1 year, trying to become "full legendary", now I don't really have carrots on the stick anymore (Fashion is also cool, but for that I need the Fashion Templates that come out soon). I have definitly decreased my own enjoyment by playing relativly spreadsheety doing Strikes and Fractals almost every day to make the gold to afford all of those Legendarys. Personally I dont regret it, become the build crafting opens up a lot, but I have definitly missed a lot of "intended immersion" by playing like this. A jumping puzzle was cleared not to enjoy it, but because it was part of a collection for an item, metas were done on a Celestial healer, not because I liked the build, but because I wanted to make sure it doesnt fail, Reward Tracks were done to reap rewards from them and not because I actually liked WvW. If something had bad Gold per Hour, I wouldnt do it most of the time.

Ape_Hawk: There's a saying in the Guild Wars community:

"You never quit the game, you just take a break"

Amp5150: put in 100 hours free to play, went all in for steam new years sale and got the full game

FlaxiEverafter: It took me a while to really get into GW2. I played and quit a few times. Now it just feels right to me.

imkranely7230: I think a lot of people had the same issue where we've tried the game before, but it just didn't stick. And I genuinely think it's because the game was ahead of its time. It solves a lot of problems we didn't know other MMOs had. We were used to grinding for gear each patch and we were addicted to that treadmill of constant upgrades. But time has worn away at that and turned what used to be a dopamine hit into what we now see as an unnecessary chore. GW2 doesn't make things into chores most times, and we didn't see those things as chores before, but we do now, and that's why we can finally appreciate it for what it's doing.

Just my two cents.

Atlaon7012: You have no idea how this video made me remember my own journey when i start it when gw2 went f2p with hot expansion, first 2 years on core alone (i coulnt not affort expansion at that time) were full of amazing journey, discovering points of interest, things wich brough me both joy and fustrasion but trully equaly real in feeling, ito this day i remember my first shatterer world boss in blazerigde steppes, how i meed a group of charr players wich becomes a guild i joined (it was a rp guild too so i could sink even deeper into tyria through roleplay wich were my best years of my gw2 journey) the zones wich made me avestruck first time i saw, fashions others players made making my jaw fall allway to floor, or the story from core, thier joyfull and sorrow moments like my choised order's mentor's death at claw island story when Zhaitan's champion attacked it, or how core story finale music and cutscene makes me felt the impact of my victory over the elder dragon wich for many looked a something impossible deed, and it feelt amazing, like in intro cutscene were said "This is my story" and i trully felt like that.npcs also feelt so realable, some i grow to love, some to hate or be fustrated with, but everything i felt in guild wars 2 feels so real and it was so surrear to me to felt that way, making me carve for more of that kind of fulfilment feeling, and in End of Dragons i felt something like this again. gw2 have flaws and true theres a stuff i would be angry with it but it barely few, while times when i felt joy thanks to game, i have lost count. tim grateful to Arena Net for bringing me such a amazing trully experience for past few years and i wish ill will enjoy it for nexts years to come

misterhorse8327: I think it was easier for me to jump in GW2 and then drop WoW, just because I was already annoyed that WoW had gear treadmills. It felt like a chore, and to top it off, you had to pay to do those chores?!

Never went back to WoW, and GW2 is definitely my MMO home.

catasuetolire1424: GW2 is like a social hub where people just go to relax and that lets them socialize in a natural and relaxed way

Rhumolein: You always remember me of how much I really love this game. Thank you for this

GasMaskKai: 21 years of Tyria myself, it really is a second home

Tigerlilly5555: Welcome, glad you have come to understanding of what this game is about and why it is different and very much loved by gw2 players.

Psyciandra: As a longtime GW1 and GW2 Veteran, having lived in Tyria for 20 years now, let me just say, welcome home my friend~

zeid9828: GW2 became my main MMO last year after 4 attempts too after playing BDO for 6yrs.

WreckedMind8: approaching this game the way I did other MMOs was the mistake I must have made then so I'm downloading the base game and I'm giving it a shot again. I am so tired of WoW man, and I feel like at this point it's just getting slop.

TheSometimeAfter: ANet PR Team really working over time recently

ROCKNROLL947: I have 4300 hrs and the amount of interactions with people in English and Spanish are incredible, the game give me two nice friends. In the other hand I spent 500 hrs on FF14 which supposedly is the most welcoming and social MMO and I basically don't know anyone, the guilds are basically dead, the sprouts are invisible and the interaction is 0 if you're not a veteran. I'm going to finish EW and I'm going back home.

Jan 07 2026

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