To those who are worried that NF is coming too soon

I've heard some people complaining, saying that Nightfall is coming out too soon and that ANet is not giving the game enough attention since they are putting out a new x-pac each 6 months..

I remember an interview I heard during E3 where ANet confirmed that they actually have 2 teams that work on the xpacs.. so each xpac gets a whole year and they release them 6 months apart from eachother..

hope that calms your worries

I'm worried I won't have enough time to do everything I want in Factions.

me too, factions just came out

this gives you the chance to say chapter *x* is not what i want but luckily i still have enough to do on what i have to tide me over to the next chapter which i might go wild over

This is ANet's way to say secretly to themselves:

"Sh*t, we made factions too boring. Other squad! Go make your chapter really really fast and rush it as much as you can! We need to entertain the diminishing audience! Go go post-haste! Must...make...more...chapters..."

I'm guessing that they have to make chapters quickly one after the other to keep up with funds. [$50 per 6 months per player for GW] [$78 per 6 months per player for WoW].

And yes, it is coming out too soon. Give us a break, ANet, let the game settle a little bit -_-

Factions was way over to soon , waiting for chapter 3 today..

yeah factions sucked better they move on as fast as possible!!!

What about the diminishing number of players in any given area ? Nightfall can only exacerbate this problem. It's almost impossible to get teams of people these days for many of the factions missions and some are virtually impossible with all hench teams.

Yea i really think people are more worried about getting done with factions then with that nightfall will come too soon.

I think that having 1 year to explore prophecies was just right because i got to know everythin about it AND i got tired of it, and one month later factions came out .

how can people not be done with factions? iv beaten it with 5 chars and this was like 2 or so months ago.

started to get boring

Dear naysayers:
-No one is asking you to pay a subscription
-No one is asking you to get every Chapter once it is released
-No one is asking you to get every Chapter
-The server infrastructure and bandwidth cost needs to be paid. Stop whining about Chapters being released every 6 months.
-If you do not like it, no one is forcing a gun to your head, go away. Take a break and come back if you rethink your decision.
-They don't make money when you play, they make money when you buy.
-We haven't had ANY downtime, only a server maintainence and a rollback. And the rollback was not even their fault, it was natural. A network card blew out on one of the servers.

Look at it this way...

Why rush to finish one chapter with all your characters?
Why not move to each of them when you get bored or stuck in one chapter?

I still need to develop a ritualist, and my assassin has only been to Lion's Arch. I believe this is an intentional move by Anet. If they bring out a new title every 6 months, then there will be people in each of the continents all the time. There won't be very many dead areas.

its called a life...im not even done going through with it with my first faction character...havent even beat propehies...only got to kryta then quit for 3 months then factions came out and actaully factions is keeping me entertained better.....but i do agree.more open spaces and more spaced mobs....

it cant come soon enough one time trough factions did me for good its just to short while proph was long enough to keep me going for a long time (i still havnt finished it ) but a knew chapter will keep me in the game long enough to finish proph

o.o actually this is all true about the interview.

To all of those that are thinking its being released too soon...

THEY ANNOUNCED EVEN BEFORE PROPHECIES WAS RELEASED THAT EXPANSIONS WILL BE RELEASED EVERY 6 MONTHS Q.Q, I forgive them on factions though because I guess everything was like a test trial to see how things worked out, etc.

yeah my first and only prohesies character only made it to kryta before i realised that my character sucked because i had one combo (immolation or w/e arrows and dual shot) and i just lost interest because the storyline was to slow....

HOWEVER in factions it is much faster...but much too controled....and i feel the storyline was scattered and when i got out of the city i was like HALLELUYAH grass the into arborstone there was confusing and controling paths......and thats where i am now...at house zu heltzertrying to cap the skill that will complete my assassin build FINALLY!!!! AoD FTW

It's only been 3 months since Factions was realeased and now they're working on the Beta version of chap.3, way too soon. Some ppl havent even finished Cantha yet :/ they should atleast push it back to December or early next year or somthink, this is just WAY too soon!!!

I JUST finished factions for the first time with one of my characters two days ago, and I still want to finish it with more characters (not to mention I'm still trying to finish prophecies. Fire islands is hard, enspecially to get a group that doesn't all leave half way through the mission.) I don't think this is too soon though. It means more to explore and fight through ALONG with trying to beat the other two chapters. I personally like them going a little too fast with these, because it means I won't get bored of it, unless I get bored of all of GW, which doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon. Now, if I get stuck on a mission, or bored of a certain chapter, I can always go to another one and play that untill I fell like trying the chapter I got stuck on/bored of.

The only problem with this coming out with expansions is that there are already some missions in cantha and tyria (this problem is mostly in tyria) that are hard to get groups for because there are so few people there. With more chapters, that means more towns and areas for people to be in, which means people will be even more spread out. That will make finding groups in some areas even harder and most of the missions towards the end of the game are literally IMPOSIBLE with henchies, so you HAVE to find a player group.

Plz arena net, MAKE HENCHIES SMARTER/BETTER!!! I wouldn't be stuck in fire islands if I could do the mission with henchies because they don't randomly decide to leave in the middle of the misison, plus, they are ALWAYS at that place and there are sometimes when I go do a mission, but I can't because there aren't enough players to even form a full group (most of these players are afk too) and the henchies are too pathetic to make it half way through the mission without having 60% dp so I have to go do something else (it has happened to me a few times before, but it is very rare. You would think more players would be doing missions in the middle of the day )

If Nightfall is too soon for you, dont buy it. IMO its not coming fast enough. Im bored of Factions already and its only been 3 months. I havnt completed it with all my characters, but i dont really want to anyway. Besides, that only takes a few days to do.


None? Really? So the downtime on the euro servers a few days back doesnt count then? The servers internet connection wasnt working so everyone got kicked off with err=040 and it was down for hours with err=013 if you log in.

Nightfall's release date does not equal a deadline to complete Factions by. You can either, buy Nightfall when it comes out but don't play it yet... or play it if you want, and go back to Factions later to finish it =p don't worry people, it's like you'll get "late marks"