Just played Guild Wars 2 (GW2) Beta for the final weekend and I have to say I hope it's the end of pay-to-play monthly-fees. I would really like to try this game but not at £12 a month. If I could buy a year's access for £70 or so, I would be prepared to make the purchase but I think anything more than £5 per month is too high now. With Borderlands 2 and GW2 free-to-play, there is no reason to pay. The quality of GW 2 is astonishing, the quality of engagement in the different labour processes that have gone into the design is remarkable. You stand in a cave or on a bridge and everywhere you look there is extra-detail added merely because the creator wanted to make that extra effort and work longer to produce a moment of beauty. Everywhere you look there is excessive, unnecessary, detail and this is the hallmark of experiences of real worlds, it lifts the sense of being in a world. My advice, don't buy in to anything for another month if you want cooperative on-line play. I made the mistake of buying the year-membership to WoW which was one of the worst decisions I ever made (well it was mainly for my six year old nephew who wanted the mount but now he lost interest in wow!)

Can someone who has played it tell me how well it will play on an nvidia 525m card please? Not a powerful card but it is dx 11 and only one year or so old.