Video Interview: Possible Chapter 4 Info - Aug. '07, Aztech/Mayans

From a dutch site, there's an interview by PC Gameplay magazine with an Easy Interactive employee (Michel we believe) from the Gameplay Expo. He has some interesting tidbits at the end saying that Chapter 4 will be released in August 2007 and that it could be an Aztech/Mayan theme. Of course this is unconfirmed, nothing is official until it's released, but it's an interesting bit of news for the community. If you understand Dutch you can see the video here (thanks to Dethdeath and The_Undead_Mesmer for translation):

http://media.gamevillage.nl/video/06..._nightfall.wmv

The interviewed seems to be a person from NCSoft not a developer from Anet.
Most important news i get from it (being german recognising about every 5th word )-> only 1 Guild Wars campaign in 2007

Sounds interesting...

Now assuming this isn't fake, I'm wondering about all the speculation (based on several clues) of 'northern regions' that has been going on, and how this would relate to Mayans and Aztecs. Would this new chapter still be located north of Tyria? Or will it be west of the Maguuma Jungle, an ideal location for a Central American theme?

Also... August? Goodbye to the one-chapter-every-six-months-plan then?

Actually the interviewed man is named "Michel" and works for Easy Interactive. I think the company is a distributer but I'm unable to find a website from the company. Seut is correct; this man states there will be only one (1) chapter for 2007. Maybe Anet could confirm this for us? I highly doubt saying "1 instead of 2" would break any NDA's

First part they are talking about GuildWars Nightfall, and what Nightfall adds to the other 2 parts, and what gameplay is in. Then they are talking about WoW and GW, about how they are one of the biggest MMORPG's.

The last part is most interesting. There's only coming one GW Chapter in 2007, and they say this part COULD be Aztec type of world, but he can't say for sure.

Looks nice ^^

It's NC Interactive actually and they are:

NCsoft Austin is also the home for NC Interactive, the support arm of NCsoft in North America. That group is comprised of community relations, web design, marketing, PR, quality assurance, customer support and localization specialists whose responsibility is to provide the support needs for the North American launch of Lineage and other NCsoft products.

Interesting indeed

Interesting...Aztech/Mayan theme, it reminds me of this:



But the 2 chapters a year model clearly doesnt really work very well, seening how faction look, and that some part of NF content had to be held off until recently to be released.

If it takes more time to develop better quality games, so be it. Its better than a hit or miss with the gamers, since i am sure we all want chapters to just as good as Nightfall if not better.

That would be pretty cool. Jaguar pets and Obsidian Shard Swords anyone? =)

More Indiana Jones references?

The final boss might have a technique called "KALI'MAH!!1"

One Guild Wars campaign each year? Works better for me.. gives me more time to complete the game with each of my characters! =P
But I'm worried.. they don't have any monthly fees, and they rely on the sales of the games, character slots, PvP unlock packs.. so one campaign per year could be stretching their fundings. =/

True, but maybe they gonna offer mini campaigns in the store

Maybe the Elite mission would have us fighting Chupacabras.

They would eat our pet goats

I like the Aug. release it gives me time to work on things I need to like bonuses in chapter 1 and 2.

Mini campaigns? What do you mean? (I haven't a chance to play recently, so I'm behind on the new updates.)

Its intresting, noting that Gaile said that they had no way of knowing when it will be released.

Keep in mind he said there would only be one campaing released in 2007, not that they were going to permanently restructure to one campaign a year.

I like that very much. It gives me a lot of time to get the titles / accomplishments that I want before the next chapter.

I so called it :3

Wow I was just watching a show about that last night.

About the one chapter a year. It might work well. Remember Gaile mentioned the idea of adding updates with the chapters such as the elite missions. Things that were mentioned in the manual but not in the actual game upon it's release. If they do that more (and change it so there isn't the confusion) I think it would be much more successfull than 2 a year. Still I'll be sad that there is only one next year (though not confirmed.)

Still a little confused though as to what the theme would include as far as explorable areas. Right now it seems a little too close to Nightfall.. guess i'll have to do a little research