Ask ArenaNet Your Best GW Question

Here's something you don't see every day: Do you have a question for the ArenaNet founders? We're going to be running a weekly series of Q&As with the Founders of ArenaNet, and we'd like to ask you to participate! Please share with us your best question (yep, just one) about Guild Wars in general, or about Nightfall specifically. (One question per player, please. ) We will select the best questions and pose them to Mike O'Brien, Jeff Strain, and Patrick Wyatt, and then share their answers in the future Q&As.

Questions are due by this Wednesday (15 November) at Noon Pacific! I anticipate we'll have the first of the Q&As before the end of the month, and we will likely run one per week for 3 or 4 weeks, total.

Thanks for taking part in this fun community opportunity!

Ok heres two important ones:
1. Will Guild Wars remain to be instanced for its whole time its on, or will there be a more mmorpg feel?
2. Will life skills be implemented one day to the game as well?

SWEEEEEEEEEET! Gaile you ROCK! Umm here's my question.. If Nightfall is wrapping everything up with Proph and Factions... What about chapter 4? Any ideas on how that is going to work with our chars going to Chap 4? I really dun wanna remake all my beautiful chars.

Is there any intent to add emotes associated with the gladiator and champion titles, similiar to the emote associated with the hero titles?

thanks!

What might possibly be put in place towards the rpg/immersion aspect? By this I mean anything like: deeper lore(someone suggested a library or books), background on key npc's, 'life skills',etc. Anything that makes the world a little more involved.

Offtopic:This completely rocks!Go Gaile!

/edit to add library comment

Will we ever find out what happened to Gwen, and will we get Gwen as a minipet when we do?

Due to how the storyline ties up in Nightfall, will there ever be any updates, or changes to the ToPk?

After the "expansions" what will become of Guild Wars? Will there ever be a "True" sequel?

Which of you three (Mike, Patrick, and Jeff) actually came up with the original idea for Guild Wars and how did you go about convincing the other two that it would work as well as it has?

-Will Guild Wars always stay in the "medieval-ish" times or might it one day go futuristic?

Will ANET ever implement a feature like the "Smart Armor System" described as below?

link: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10071643

Just saw the Making of Nightfall DvD (it was awesome). And I had one question:

When you guys are playing the game together, what do you do for fun?

And/or

Do you chaps have your own "Dev Guild(s)" and do you have some time where you all get together and do a "guild event"?

Got a few questions:

- Will Anet make Guild wars Chapter 4, 5, 6, 7... 100??? I just want a straight answer.

- When will the quests be thrilling and fun? I dont want an arrow on the minimap and run around talking to people with VERY LONG NERDY WORDS and killing stuff, defending, running etc... IMHO Quests on Guildwars and WoW are boring.

- Are you guys making a thought about making Guild wars on the PS3? I'm not saying you should but are you planning to or discussed about it?

- Will we be able to find 2 Millinion players on explorable areas running around? Personally I dont like how you can have only up to 8 people on Explorable Areas... You guys should have like 100 people on A explorable area but making parties at missions...

Thank you.

First have to thanks the Anet developers and Gaile for giving us the chance to do this.

I got somewhat a somewhat big question:

As we know that the GW campaigns are released every 6 months, and new contents are also added to the previous campaigns (such as sorrow furnace update, hero system update, etc), clearly the amount of work load will add up, and therefore my assumed outcome would be:
A. Longer development and release cycle for each new campaign.
B. Less unique content for each release.
C. Debugging became increasingly difficult and complex over time.
etc....

How would Anet deal with these kinds of problems? Or if there won't be a problem, what's the secret?

What do you guys have against manual farming that cannot be botted?

Are you guys trying to find a way to add a stylist NPC (who would offer new hair styles to change to) or is it useless to keep asking?

For future expansions will we ever have the engine expanded to allow jumping, flying enemies and swimming?

Are chapters going to continue to focus on one game type more then the other? (factions=pvp nightfall=pve)

When will the new classes stop being made? Will classes such as the Dervish and Paragon ever get content from older chapters?

Thanks,
Quid

Edit: Sorry for any repeat questions took me awhile to post this.

Will there ever be an XP 'title' to display?

Is Prince Rurik a WaMo? (That's actually not a sreious question. It's my gentle tease at Rurik's noobish antics, which every player who has ever monked the early Tyrian missions is all too familiar with.)

For a serious question, on Istan Kihm [Healer Henchman] uses healing skills. On the mainland, she switches to using prot skills, which was a rather nasty surprise when my survivor ele had her Dunkoro set up as prot and was relying on Kihm for (non-existant) healing. I've notified QA, but I'd like to know if she will either be re-labeled as prot on the mainland or re-skilled to match her name.

can we have our pride and joy of oldschool farming back?
(like how it was between ettins and 10/31/06)

New realm of the gods with new FoW type armor? (I need a target to aim for)

PvE could do with some WoW type raids...PvE needs to be shaken up slightly I get bored with kill bad guys, kill big boss, rinse and repeat...(Gaile that wasn't a question so )

I'm a bit embarrassed asking this, but.....

Any thought to adding a romance angle with NPCs/Heroes? This was pretty popular in games like Baldur's gate and adds a bit in terms of immersion. Nothing like the blind adoration of a computer generated pixelated character. And no, I'm not some freaky loner living in my mom's basement.