“April 21, 2005 – ArenaNet announced today that Guild Wars is complete and has entered manufacturing — effectively, the game has “gone gold,” — and will ship out on April 28.
Guild Wars was designed by several team members behind Blizzard’s StarCraft, Warcraft, Diablo and the Battle.net gaming network. Unique to Guild Wars is a skill-based gameplay system; a social world with each quest spawned uniquely for you and your group; and online play run through a special ArenaNet system — absolutely free.
Whatever you do, GET THIS GAME. It actually looks like a decent MMO that may not require 10 hours a day of playtime to get anywhere. Check out the posting at IGN.