why do you think they have so many Guild Wars games out.
Yup, and they're working on Guild Wars 2 and you can bet they'll have several expansions for that as well. Guild Wars makes its money by regularly releasing new expansions.
In addition, Guild Wars was created by former Blizzard employees, and they license their technology to NCSoft, so they're probably making a lot of money there as well.
Every MMORPG I know of has some way of have having continuous or semi-continuous income. WoW just makes it more obvious than others.
It is also gay that I would have to shell out 15 bucks a month for some grinding.
WoW is about middle of the pack as far as grinding goes. It's not as easy as Guild Wars, but it's not as hard as Silkroad. It's a pretty flat curve if you do the quests - I'm in the mid 50s, and I can still do a level or two in a single day if I have enough free time.
They do not need the monthly fee for server(WoW) maintenence
Actually, they do. Server maintenance can be quite expensive, especially for something as large scale as a MMORPG. The ones that don't have explicit payments support it by some other means, such as premium items.
and still outputs better graphics and style than WOW.
I'd say just about every game on the market has better graphics than WoW. WoW capitalizes on gameplay for appeal, not graphics.
WoW also has a manual text u can type to improve its graphics significantly. to the point where my geforce 5, drops by 20 fps.
Considering the GeForce 5 is five generations old by now (6, 7, 8, 9, and the new 200 series), I'd say half of the games I own would drop the framerate on a GeForce 5 to below 5 fps, easily.
You're probably getting bad graphics in Guild Wars because you're using such an old card and can't crank the graphics up. Its graphics are far better than WoW's graphics on cards that support shader model 3.
Fee based games, consequently, are more about wasting your time than filling it. WoW's a perfect example, really.
This is so true. Guild Wars is an easy game to put down, especially after you've completed the primary plot quests. Perhaps a bit too easy to put down: I haven't played in months, and the guild I'm in is down to only a few players. It's practically a single player game in many respects.
WoW, on the other hand, is a bit more difficult to put down, and the guilds seem to be stronger and last longer. It seems to be a tradeoff.
After working for months to get $600 gold to get my mount
Create an alt, and have it pick up the mining skill. I can make 100g easily. But yes, playing WoW can be a major time commitment if you're not careful. I'll probably be cutting back majorly (maybe completely) when the next semester at college starts.