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There's going to be a Guild Wars 2 expansion in 2015. How do I know? I read it on the Internet! OK, you need a little more than that to go on. What if I told you (Morpheus voice) the place I read it wasn't some random forum but on the investment brief for NCSoft from a Korean securities firm?
Read more of Jason Winters' Guild Wars 2: An Expansion in 2015?
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ill respond as the headline...'excited'?
iam!-if its true.
Depending on how well they do this expansion depends on whether or not my faith will be restored in Anet.
Here's to hoping for their success!
Currently Playing: ESO and FFXIV
Have played: You name it
If you mention rose tinted glasses, you better be referring to Mitch Hedberg.
Yes, I wanna be able to pay them for quality content instead of getting free rubbish.
GW2 has been making $25M-30M a quarter mostly on microtransactions.
That is enough to have a reasonably large team dedicated to the Live Game (be it story or other updates).
I believe it is the cash flow generated by the Living Story that pretty much gives so much time to Anet develop and release an expansion.
Anet annual expenses are most likely under $40-45M and GW2 generated $115M last year.
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
I really do not understand why some people think that adding more levels adds to the gameplay. It doesn't, especially in how Guild Wars 2 is set up, none of the skills are locked based on levels. Only the zones. If you actually invested time into the game, you would know that adding more levels ruins a lot of the core game. It ruins ascended and legendary gear. Something that takes way to long to even get to begin with, now made useless with a level cap bump.
Adding more levels doesn't mean more gameplay! If anything it's a lazy way to act like there is more content by locking you off of certain areas of a game, 80 levels is enough, we don't need a another WoW on us ( which has gotten so ridiculous that now you can pay for a level boost). If you've been following the development of this game at all, they're all about horizontal progression, which really opens up some interesting possibilities when compared to vertical progression.
The game is dead.
1. they have lost the bigger stronger pre made Guilds.
2. they have lost the best commanders for all kind of styles.
3. they first fired some good guy and hired some guy making it ''put'' friendly when they should have listened to the peoples and TEACH the less good players.
tbh when new good WvW style games comes out EQN, wildstar, unchanted Camelot and more gw2 will officially die out.
just a fact: 40 elit commanders joined the game, 36 quit already.
Commanders and Premades don't pay more money than pugs and terribads. A players skill is irrelevant really. Anet is making money in their cash shop and that is all they care about. Who sticks around to pay them is beside the point.
The money is generated by the living story. They care about keeping players around that are into the living story. Commanders and Premades are of very little importance to them. They could care less if you leave. Commander tags are cheap.
You and Anet have a different definition of "dead." To you, fewer good commanders and premades constitutes dead. To them, making less money from the Cash Shop constitutes dead.
As if the majority of the GW2 population care about those mystic guilds and "elit" commanders.
GW2 is one of those games that doesn't need "elit" guilds to be playable.
Then there is the urban myth reference to some guy that was fired (who?) and one that was hired (who?).
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
It doesn't really matter what the GW2 population cares about. What matters if what Anet cares about, and they care about Cash Shop profits and Server Transfer profits.
The fired guy they are referring to was Habib Loew, the previous WvW lead.I don't know if he was fired or quit, but I do know that his Linkedin profile lists him as only working at Anet for 6 months.
There will be an expansion, if you think about it everything else is crazy, it's like Microsoft saying no we are not gonna develop any new windows past windos 98 cause many people use it, sure a few tweeks here and there.
Of course there will be an expansion cause NCSoft and Anet wants them dollars!!!! is that wrong NO!!!!! They can take all my dollars if they give something that I love playing and will enjoy for a long time and I know they will.
Problem is the time, atleast thats what I think. The game was released in 2012 and waiting three years for an expansion then I guess they might have lost alot of players to other games. They should have started on an expansion way, way sooner and released something this year.
Were you in an "elite" guild? You act like it. When good players leave, the rest of the game doesn't die, other players just get good and take their place. It happens in EVERY MMO.
so you get fired from Anet and come here and make an account just to post this? WIth that attitude im sure you deserved being fired.
Loew hasn't been working for Anet for almost 1 year now and he worked for Anet for 6 years but other than the culling issue he was pretty much an unknown.
I don't know how one reach the conclusion he was the WvW lead - he was a programmer. His GW2 forums signature stated gameplay programmer.
He might have been the Live Team WvW lead (or the full team itself) but if you want to look at who developed WvW it was guys like Mike Ferguson.
Also one of the highest participation periods in WvW was Season 1, some 6 months after Loew leaving.
And Devon Carver also has been for anet for a while.
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
lol.
This could end up being very interesting.
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