Crossing into Guild Wars... Is it too late?

So I have a friend that plays Guild wars, and he strongly suggested that I should play it.

However, through research I found that Guild wars 2 was due to come out at the end of this year or early next. This leads me to wonder if I should invest the near $100 it would take to buy all the expansions. I would hate to invest in this game, to hardly be able to enjoy the MMO experience, when all of a sudden all the players switch to GW2. Leaving me with nothing.

I was just wondering about the opinions of others as to whether it is a decent investment to go ahead and spend $100 dollars for the whole set. Or whether I should invest in somethings better (such as a pre-order on GTA 4)

Guild Wars is fun, but it does get old unusually fast for an online game. It was never able to hook me as much as even a simple game like Diablo 2 was.

I think my biggest problem with the PvE on it is that you can zerg most of it with henchman and hardly even try. I also don't like how there are so many highly specialized skills while you only get 8 skill slots. I feel like I always have these ideas for cool builds, but you can't actually do them. Guild Wars aimed to be very grind free...and it shows, because there isn't really much to find in the way of items after you are level 20, which doesn't take long. It ends up leaving you wondering exactly what it is you are trying to work towards half of the time, unlike most games of this type.

Yeah, that sounds very negative. Like I said, it is fun for a while, but unless you really, really dig the PvP (and I don't), it gets boring pretty quickly.

I haven't seen the GotY edition for guild wars. Is it already out? I am going to check it out on amazon now. But if it isn't out, when does it come out?? I would like to start playing soon..vogen

There's the Platinum Edition that comes with the Eye of The North and Prophecies Campaign(very first one)