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"Fresh Guild Wars announced" From the Inquirer!
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Originally Posted by Shanaeri Rynale
Anyone considered AN may have leaked this info themselves, to create loads of hype ready for the PC gamer reveal. Then when reveal day comes and most of this info is wrong, everyone will be at fever pitch about it and so the marketing campaign will be more visible than if they had just kept quiet.
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lets take a look at time zones
when Gaile got up this morning and saw this garbage the head honchos on the other side of the world were in bed.
do you wake up the big cheese over some internet trash or do you leave them a message to get back to you as soon as they can?
i expect Gaile/Alex to be getting facts to respond with a definite answer from higher ups rather than saying this is complete news to us here at Anet.
what is really scary in that in a few years these instant believers will be able to vote in elections.
when Gaile got up this morning and saw this garbage the head honchos on the other side of the world were in bed.
do you wake up the big cheese over some internet trash or do you leave them a message to get back to you as soon as they can?
i expect Gaile/Alex to be getting facts to respond with a definite answer from higher ups rather than saying this is complete news to us here at Anet.
what is really scary in that in a few years these instant believers will be able to vote in elections.
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Originally Posted by Retribution X
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Why make a new game engine, when every GW is a standalone game? Not to mention they have changed the engine slightly evey time a new GW comes out. ... |
Someone was claiming earlier that the WHOIS info for "Eyeofthenorth.com" doesn't go back to NCSoft or ArenaNet. The funny thing is that the information doesn't really belong to "PrivacyPost.com". It's a protected WHOIS listing.
Meaning that whoever registered it doesn't want anybody to know they own it.
Interesting.
Meaning that whoever registered it doesn't want anybody to know they own it.
Interesting.
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Count me among the skeptics for all the reasons users have listed prior. Still the article was a nice way to revitalize interest -- just as long as its taken, as another poster said, with an iceberg of salt.
Oh, and playable Asurian race? first few times I read that I thought it said Austrian. Haha now that's something I could get behind.
Oh, and playable Asurian race? first few times I read that I thought it said Austrian. Haha now that's something I could get behind.
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Originally Posted by lightblade
Hype a game up before release is not a good idea. It raises people's expectation and people will be disappointed when the game does not meet their expectation. This causes their user rating to go down
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Anyone consider that someone was pulling the reporter's leg on the "details?"
Why would anyone create three new races for an expansion? And the names don't quite ring true. Sylvarians sounds like someone's idea of a racial name for elves. I would think if ANet wanted to give GW playable non-human races, they already have several in the game from which to choose.
And the "massive" 150 skills. Does anyone who actually plays GW think that would be a massive amount of added skills.
Expansion requires already-owned chapter - who would buy a game so they could buy and play the expansion. This would not draw new players to the game.
Lower cost expansion - so ANet would be getting less income. As they have no PtP system, this means they would be doing themselves out of the money and not bring new players to the game which is their main income source.
One expansion, then nothing until GW2 release. And how will ANet pay their overhead and development costs during that time?
Why would anyone create three new races for an expansion? And the names don't quite ring true. Sylvarians sounds like someone's idea of a racial name for elves. I would think if ANet wanted to give GW playable non-human races, they already have several in the game from which to choose.
And the "massive" 150 skills. Does anyone who actually plays GW think that would be a massive amount of added skills.
Expansion requires already-owned chapter - who would buy a game so they could buy and play the expansion. This would not draw new players to the game.
Lower cost expansion - so ANet would be getting less income. As they have no PtP system, this means they would be doing themselves out of the money and not bring new players to the game which is their main income source.
One expansion, then nothing until GW2 release. And how will ANet pay their overhead and development costs during that time?
yes woo hoo!!!!!! I've had factions and nf for a while now (10 months) and i just bought prophesis! this is awesome!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@
(if it's true)
*edit* if there are new races i think it refered to them for gw2 becasue the expansion will be mostly for lvl 20s so no one would be able to make a new char. unless they were implemented into the other games
*edit* plenty of other games hzve survived for ultiple years without new content (halo 2, that one sci-fi rpg that starts with an A i think)
ok, not the best examples, but i'm sure new content will be added and new accounts will be made. Plus without new games people will have to buy new character slots at 10$ a pop.
(if it's true)
*edit* if there are new races i think it refered to them for gw2 becasue the expansion will be mostly for lvl 20s so no one would be able to make a new char. unless they were implemented into the other games
*edit* plenty of other games hzve survived for ultiple years without new content (halo 2, that one sci-fi rpg that starts with an A i think)
ok, not the best examples, but i'm sure new content will be added and new accounts will be made. Plus without new games people will have to buy new character slots at 10$ a pop.
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Originally Posted by Darcy
Why would anyone create three new races for an expansion? And the names don't quite ring true. Sylvarians sounds like someone's idea of a racial name for elves. I would think if ANet wanted to give GW playable non-human races, they already have several in the game from which to choose.
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Originally Posted by Darcy
And the "massive" 150 skills. Does anyone who actually plays GW think that would be a massive amount of added skills.
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Originally Posted by Gun Pierson
They'll prolly merge to one server, like the international districts. So the remaining gw1 players can still play. No need for euro, usa etc servers anymore.
Also if you move on with your character to gw2 (you are not in gw1 anymore, I thought you would figure out that for yourself), you can always make a new character in gw1 if you wanne do an uw run with your friends. Just like people make characters in pre now, to always stay there. I don't see the logic to go back when gw2 is out. You wanne progress with that main character. In Baldur's gate, if I remember correctly, one could bring over his character to BG2 but not the weapons, armor or gold. So a fresh start but still with your same character you started with a long time ago and that's the point. The feeling that you still play with the same character you're playing with for years then. A true hero you know. I don't see a problem with the 10 classes, BG did it and even added triple combinations and a few new classes and races too. If they did it 10 years ago, I'm sure the Anet devs can do it now too. How to survive 100 years? Drink from the fountain of youth people, one of the oldest stories in the fantasy world. |
This is just pointing more to the fact that this is all complete hobnobbery. I'm sure ANet would understand that making a sequal so soon would be a bad idea (but that's like 2 years from now. I'll probably be bored by then, but who knows?).
I dunno about the Eye of the North. There *is* a screenshot...but there was also a screenshot of a mini-Lich.
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Originally Posted by Silly Warrior
ZOMG!
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Originally Posted by xiko
gdc started today. I believe on the info from inquirer
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Originally Posted by lightblade
By the time GW2 release, the original GW's engine would be outdated anyways. So it doesn't matter.
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were talking data(base) structures, storage+retrieval&migrate algorithms and other fancy stuff.
thats does not age so fast.
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Originally Posted by Darcy
Expansion requires already-owned chapter - who would buy a game so they could buy and play the expansion. This would not draw new players to the game.
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Originally Posted by Darcy
Lower cost expansion - so ANet would be getting less income. As they have no PtP system, this means they would be doing themselves out of the money and not bring new players to the game which is their main income source.?
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Originally Posted by Darcy
One expansion, then nothing until GW2 release. And how will ANet pay their overhead and development costs during that time?
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I'm not saying any of this is true, just plausible. If it is made up I don't know whether to be angry or impressed.