The best part about this game for me is that I can play it at my leisure. The general tasks i have to do at work are pretty physical, combined with usual workouts and dealing with family and other situations I am not left with much spare time. The good news is that if you only have 43 minutes to spare you can play this game and not wast the time. Or sometimes if you get lucky you can play for 7 straight hours and you won't get bored. It's nice, because there is truly a path that anyone can travel within the realm they have made.
I just finished run throughs of Skyrim and Kingdoms of Amalur and i enjoyed my solitary time in those worlds. In GW2 you can play as though you are in a single player RPG for the most part. Although it helps to have teamwork when face with a variety of enemy types that require multiple professions to defeat, it is also nice to not have to deal with selfish chest-thumping, loot-hogging bad team mates like I have in other MMO's.
Loot division is fair, xp division is fair, the visuals are perfect and game play/controls are what i want them to be.
Very satisfied with this game and barring any huge future screw ups by Arenanet or NCsoft I will buy every and all expansions.