Presenting Guild Wars, the first title from Seattle-based ArenaNet, which was founded by key members of the creative teams behind the hit games Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and Battle.net, the most-successful gaming network in the world.

Guild Wars is a Competitive Online Role Playing Game with an emphasis on rewarding player skill. In large head-to-head guild battles, cooperative group combat, and single player missions, players will explore a fantasy world while pursuing professions and acquiring skills to develop their own personalized character. Unique items, special abilities, and a wide variety of skills add meaningful value for the player and for their comrades. Missions are not scripted adventures, but are open battlegrounds where victory is determined by skill and teamwork.

FREE online play that is safe and secure

Guild Wars is an online game with NO online fees. Starting the game automatically connects the player to a secure server-hosted game; while our streaming technology allows us to fix exploits quickly and seamlessly.

Compete on skill not time

Whether battling against monsters to fulfill a quest, or working with guild mates to reach the highest levels of tournament play, Guild Wars rewards players more for gaming skills than for the number of hours played.

It's about always having fun

Guild Wars is focused on what's fun in a role-playing game: fighting monsters, playing with and against other players, completing quests, and finding that next great item. Negative aspects like travel time, high death penalties, spawn camping, and loot stealing have been removed.

Never be separated from your friends

Because the value of each player in a group is based on skill, a new player can quickly learn and play productively with friends.

A world of many but an individual story

Multiplayer towns provide access to other players for social interaction and item trading. When adventuring, players select a mission that spawns uniquely for them and their group. This combination of a social world with a personal story is unique in the marketplace.

Key Features:

• Join quests with friends to fight fantastic monsters, or engage in epic guild battles.
• Develop a richly personalized character that can explore multiple professions and hundreds of unique skills.
• Build your character in a world that rewards your gaming skill, not hours.
• Play Guild Wars FREE in a secure server-hosted game environment that restricts cheating.
• In Guild Wars, friends will always be able play together because the world is not split into shards or realms.
• Enjoy fully integrated support for guilds, including in-game guildhalls, forums and worldwide tournaments and ladders.
• Experience streaming technology, which seamlessly provides new features and supports the quick resolution of exploits.