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DreamCatcher

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Netherlands

DVDF

R/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 21:25 - 681

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knightsaber Sith

Someone posted this on GWO a bit ago. I'm not sure how credible this is, but I'll post it anyway and you can decide for yourselves.
http://the-inquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37986

It says the next campaign to be released Q3 '07 will be titled "Eye of the North". It states that it will cost less than the previous campaigns, but it will be an expansion in that you have to own at least one of the previous campaigns (any one).

It says there are 10 new heroes. I didn't think any campaigns other than Nightfall would have more heroes since we'd then have a bunch of repeat professions and such.

After this, supposedly GW will be on hiatus (in that there wont be any new full campaigns) 'til around '09 when GW2 will be released. It supposedly happens hundreds of years after Prophecies and will include zone wide open battles.

The very first thing that comes to my mind is...after GW2 comes out, how long till the GW1 servers are shut down?

Also too bad there won't be any more chapters after the 4th. Course theres always a chance something else arrives in the GW1 franchise but afaik iirc the original idea was 12 chapters total (please correct me if I'm wrong on the 12 chapters department!)

Dang..I'm realy gonna miss GW1 after it's closure..
Atleast we still have a while to go till then!

EatMoreCarbs

Frost Gate Guardian

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NJ, USA

Dragons Will Eat Your [Face]

R/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 21:25 - 682

This thing makes me glad i subscribe to PCG! =) Its so cute. xD I so wanna play one of those.

thelegendozelda

Frost Gate Guardian

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OoT

W/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 21:26 - 683

yup......sure did.......

So think this is a mini of a good guy or bad guy?

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

06 Mar 2007 at 21:28 - 684

Please keep all discussion for the CONFIRMED new mini pet to be in the magazines to this thread:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10127497

Let's try to keep the discussions on topic.

FFF_Mara

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Join Date: Jan 2006

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Me/W

06 Mar 2007 at 21:29 - 685

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmithyBen

Dobby the house-elf anybody?
maybe a new slave.......

Dobby! lool...good one. Dobby was cuter though...in a way. maybe I jsut have to get used to the sight of it.

I wonder ...when Asuras are from an Indian environment and norns from a scandinavian...what kind of cultural background will the addon/GW2/whatever have?

EatMoreCarbs

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

NJ, USA

Dragons Will Eat Your [Face]

R/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 21:29 - 686

Quote:

Originally Posted by thelegendozelda

yup......sure did.......

So think this is a mini of a good guy or bad guy?

Good, since the "Asurians" are a playable race in GW2. Asura = Asurian? Probably

Corran Horn

Academy Page

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Alliance of Xen

R/Me

06 Mar 2007 at 21:30 - 687

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inde

Corran, umm... that was me. I thought it was a photoshopped spam post. LOL, sorry!!!

Lol, that's ok. I was just excited to be the first to post it and then it was gone and I was just like, >.<

I do think that the little guy looks awesome and I want one really bad.

Theos

Wilds Pathfinder

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River Dancing

Eternal Treachery [TimE]

Me/E

06 Mar 2007 at 21:30 - 688

Well, I know I was wrong about the Asurans, I was hoping for Mursaat too

Knightsaber Sith

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2006

Few Fallen Heroes [FFH]

W/E

06 Mar 2007 at 21:30 - 689

The pet itself aside, this at least confirms the existence of the race of Asurians. But I don't think they're going to be a playable race as the Inquirer would have us believe....

EatMoreCarbs

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Dragons Will Eat Your [Face]

R/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 21:33 - 690

Damn Inquirer. Now Anet has us on a guessing game.

dead man ivan

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06 Mar 2007 at 21:35 - 691

OMG that thing is weird to say the least. Well this is the big news I guess we have been waiting. Now for the speculation to begin as to what the hell are these gangly creatures! Where do they tie up!! What are we going to do with them?(not the minipet of course!)

I for one believe these guys will show up even before GW2 as some kind of race involved in the whole mursaat and the magumma jungle fiasco(talk about mismanagement). Their armor indicates some kind of nature theme so one can assume them to be connected to what's going on in chapter 4(the whole kryta connection!) Maybe we help them out and the story takes us through us helping out the charr and these guys as well!! Then in GW2 we begin with all of us living together and then evil once again raises its ugly head!!
Notice the background too people!! Jungle like but a structure too!!
Must---Know---More!!

BenjZee

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The Overacheivers [Club]

Mo/

06 Mar 2007 at 21:37 - 692

for all we know, that articles could be fake (as much i dont want).
Anet coulda created a little mini pet once they read the article and released it to tease us.

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

06 Mar 2007 at 21:39 - 693

All right, and AGAIN

Please keep all discussion for the CONFIRMED new mini pet to be in the magazines to this thread:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10127497

Let's try to keep the discussions on topic.

Silent Coyote

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E/N

06 Mar 2007 at 21:40 - 694

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmithyBen

for all we know, that articles could be fake (as much i dont want).
Anet coulda created a little mini pet once they read the article and released it to tease us.

Apart from the fact it takes longer than half a day to model, texture, rig and animate a 3D model.

[Edit] Sorry above post wasn't there when I wrote this, honest.

Knightsaber Sith

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06 Mar 2007 at 21:40 - 695

Quote:

Originally Posted by dead man ivan

I for one believe these guys will show up even before GW2 as some kind of race involved in the whole mursaat and the magumma jungle fiasco(talk about mismanagement).

Well if they're being released with PC Gamer now, that means they'll play some role in Eye of the North, and not be first introduced in GW2.

dead man ivan

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

06 Mar 2007 at 21:40 - 696

Come on Smithy I doubt they could create a minipet in 24 hours flat!! The art team at Anet is good but not that good.

BenjZee

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Mo/

06 Mar 2007 at 21:43 - 697

good point...
The eye of the north gives me a image of LOTR lol...

Loviatar

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Join Date: Feb 2005

06 Mar 2007 at 21:51 - 698

think about this people.

every item proven true puts one more of the things you want in that article into the WRONG/MISLEADING catagory.

and that *RIGHT* group is not that big in the first place.

Gaile says....................

Quote:

I can tell you that some of what you've read is right,some of it is wrong, and quite a bit of it is misleading.

when you take away the *quite a bit is misleading* and the flat out *wrong* that does not leave much in the article that is *right*

icedragon981

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At my computer

Teh Nine [lll]

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06 Mar 2007 at 21:51 - 699

Wow, very interesting, nice find.

RichPowers

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TEAM

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06 Mar 2007 at 21:58 - 700

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loviatar

think about this people.

every item proven true puts one more of the things you want in that article into the WRONG/MISLEADING catagory.

and that *RIGHT* group is not that big in the first place.

Gaile says....................

when you take away the *quite a bit is misleading* and the flat out *wrong* that does not leave much in the article that is *right*

True, but how else can we rampantly speculate without discarding the facts?!

Eldin

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Join Date: Dec 2005

America. How about you, commie?

Fellows of Mythgar [FOM]

R/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 22:14 - 701

Looks like a cross between a Harry Potter Dobby and Piglet from Winnie the Pooh.

As for the GW2 matter (let's get back on topic about that. Stupid Asura threw us off topic!), the article said after Ch4 for there will be no more "major" chapters. That leaves room for mini things like expansions and events and big updates like SF.

GW has the potential to be running much longer than 2009. I still don't trust most of this article. Even with all the confirmations Gaile is giving us, I just want a flat out "GW2 = yes" or "GW2 = no".

duncan99

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Join Date: Sep 2006

Norway, Oslo

Glob of Ectospasm

06 Mar 2007 at 22:19 - 702

GW2.. im thinking about quitting GW.. whats the point of getting my titles if everyone is going to GW2 next year (dont go like yeye whats the point of even playing a game, most understand what im trying to say)

EatMoreCarbs

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

NJ, USA

Dragons Will Eat Your [Face]

R/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 22:19 - 703

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eldin

Looks like a cross between a Harry Potter Dobby and Piglet from Winnie the Pooh.

As for the GW2 matter (let's get back on topic about that. Stupid Asura threw us off topic!), the article said after Ch4 for there will be no more "major" chapters. That leaves room for mini things like expansions and events and big updates like SF.

GW has the potential to be running much longer than 2009. I still don't trust most of this article. Even with all the confirmations Gaile is giving us, I just want a flat out "GW2 = yes" or "GW2 = no".

PCG March 15 we will see. Im happy Anet is giving us info now, i thought we would get nothing until then. Its all confusing, but PCG will put all the pieces together.

HalPlantagenet

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Join Date: Aug 2005

too far from Conwy

The Chained Swan

R/

06 Mar 2007 at 22:20 - 704

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't, ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this.
(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2)

When I consider recent events, NCSoft's inadvertent revelation that the next release of Guild Wars won't be until the second half of 2007 with no preparation of the existing player base, the mangled scoop by "The Inquirer," and now this grotesquely cute refugee from a Star Wars film I wish I'd never seen, I find no way of escaping the creeping dread that I may have to find another MMORPG.

And where is there to turn? Vangard, Warhammer, World of Warcraft, Lineage II? Not.

In one his essays, J. R. R. Tolkien discusses the importance and value of treating Fantasy with high seriousness, (which does not preclude humour by the way). Peter Jackson understood the same thing in his development of "The Lord of the Rings" films. I perceived the same thing in Arenanet's first three chapters.

The gods preserve us from "Super Mario Crosses the Shiverpeaks."

Corran Horn

Academy Page

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Alliance of Xen

R/Me

06 Mar 2007 at 22:24 - 705

Which Star Wars film and which refugee?

BryanM

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06 Mar 2007 at 22:27 - 706

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corran Horn

Which Star Wars film and which refugee?

Phantom Meanie and Jar Jar Bunny Binks.

Kotetsu Rain

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Join Date: Jun 2006

Utopia

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06 Mar 2007 at 22:28 - 707

I think the whole inquirer thing was probably something all hoaxed by A-Net you know? I mean back when the guessing was fresh weren't Anet the ones who set up www.guildwarsutopia.com and then later revealed that it was just a project name for an undeveloped project? I wouldn't pass anything pass those people in the devolpment team.

One of our moderators left a post saying something along the lines of e-mailing the dude of the Inquirer and getting a response as to he he/she had recieved an e-mail from on of the devolopers. Our moderator made a good point in saying that "Since when does Anet just give information to one source and not massal distributuion?" This could of been done purposly only to set us out on an even bigger guessing game than Guild Wars: Utopia...

Then again the he/she of the Inquirer could just be lieing. Then theres the other note that Gaile DID go out of her way to say "Some of the information is right, some of it is wrong and quite a bit of it is misleading." Why'd you go through all that to clear up some things instead of just unleashing all of what actually IS going on?

Back in Winterfest she also gave a hint about C4 taking place on a firigd continent and would becalled Binky's Spelling Adventure." Doesn't that sound like it could be a little right, a little wrong, and quite a bit misleading? I swear she totally seems like a Western Civilization college professor who just likes to leave riddle and hints just out of our grasp. My two cents is that she's actually ALWAYS letting information slip wether it's conditionally or unconditionally.

So going back to her play with words calling C4 "Binky's spelling adventure." ... a good deal of our members have been able to see the sublimial message of GUild Wars: Eye of the North = GWEN Could it of been that with the "spelling"part of her 'hint' she was actually conditionally/uncoditionally hinting at the fact that theres something with words going on with C4's project?

Then again I could be waaaaaaay out there and speculating about useless juk. I'm just saying I don't put anything past the development team...or anyone else wo works for Anet for that matter. I mean seriously check out Izzy how does he figure out how to balance skills like that?

mojave mango juice

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

06 Mar 2007 at 22:42 - 708

Hmm...the one thing that bothers me the most is that the title doesn't match up.

Guild Wars (aka Guild Wars: Prophecies)
Guild Wars: Factions
Guild Wars: Nightfall
Guild Wars: Eye of the North

It just doesn't fit in to me.

Also...I can't find my copy atm, but didn't the Nightfall issue of PC Gamer list Anet's basic plans for new expansions?

Eldin

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

America. How about you, commie?

Fellows of Mythgar [FOM]

R/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 23:08 - 709

Yeah, the name doesn't match.

It has to be Guild Wars: <one word describing a major plot device/aspect of the game>

Knightsaber Sith

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2006

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06 Mar 2007 at 23:09 - 710

Quote:

Originally Posted by mojave mango juice

Also...I can't find my copy atm, but didn't the Nightfall issue of PC Gamer list Anet's basic plans for new expansions?

They've announced their intended plans several times, none of these plans included the style by which they name the campaigns....

HalPlantagenet

Frost Gate Guardian

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too far from Conwy

The Chained Swan

R/

06 Mar 2007 at 23:10 - 711

That's it, Kotetsu Rain, thanks!

Arenanet must have hired the infamous Sanjay, (Slings and Arrows, Season 2), to do their marketing. I'm going to Google him immediately to see if he's recently been released from prison.

Dark[Devil]

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06 Mar 2007 at 23:13 - 712

Guild Wars : GWEN

The true story on how Gwen grew up to be a evil mistress :O

Sofonisba

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The Black Hand Gang [BHG] and The Black Helm Gang [BHeG]

06 Mar 2007 at 23:13 - 713

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kotetsu Rain

So going back to her play with words calling C4 "Binky's spelling adventure." ... a good deal of our members have been able to see the sublimial message of GUild Wars: Eye of the North = GWEN Could it of been that with the "spelling"part of her 'hint' she was actually conditionally/uncoditionally hinting at the fact that theres something with words going on with C4's project?

And how brilliant would that be?

Instead of all the newer players pooh-poohing Prophecies as the Land without End Game Greens, it would suddenly be the promised land of presearing, broken flutes, tattered capes... Gwen's mother, alive...

Everyone would buy GW:P if they don't have it, and if they do have it, they'd buy another slot for a pre char.

Brilliant, Anet.

Eldin

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

America. How about you, commie?

Fellows of Mythgar [FOM]

R/Mo

06 Mar 2007 at 23:16 - 714

Yeah. As a Prophecies oldie I always hated the idea of people (or at least the ignorant type of people) buying Factions and/or Nightfall and being like "WTFBBQ!". And I'd hate if someone was like fighting the Lich from the Realm of Torment and being like "HAX WHO IS DAT GUY", leaving me to give a long-winded explanation.

Now us olde prophecies players get-eth the upper hande!

Metacomet

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2007

Cedar Mesa - don't ask, don't tell

The Chained Swan

R/

06 Mar 2007 at 23:24 - 715

Times are hard when I start posting. I smell confusion brewing, and it's not a good smell. The new "little critter" is like a fever dream gone wrong, I'm not loving the rumors, and hey, where's the real break down of what's going on. Come on frog, talk.

erk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Australia

06 Mar 2007 at 23:27 - 716

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kotetsu Rain

I think the whole inquirer thing was probably something all hoaxed by A-Net you know? I mean back when the guessing was fresh weren't Anet the ones who set up www.guildwarsutopia.com and then later revealed that it was just a project name for an undeveloped project? I wouldn't pass anything pass those people in the devolpment team.

One of our moderators left a post saying something along the lines of e-mailing the dude of the Inquirer and getting a response as to he he/she had recieved an e-mail from on of the devolopers. Our moderator made a good point in saying that "Since when does Anet just give information to one source and not massal distributuion?" This could of been done purposly only to set us out on an even bigger guessing game than Guild Wars: Utopia...

Yep, it's called viral marketing. It's to build up speculation, discussion, and general interest in the future product. NCSOFT developers/staff/contractors would be under tight non-disclosure agreements regarding future product releases, and could easily be prosecuted if the "leak" was not sanctioned.

BryanM

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2006

06 Mar 2007 at 23:33 - 717

This is the freaking weirdest April fool's I ever did see.

.. Anyway, Zelda had the demi-human thing down perfect: Centaur, Elf, Goblin, Zoras (fish guy).

Who would rather play as a Skale than Jar Jar Bunny Binks?

*raises hand*

...

Of course if we actually get to KILL these creatures, and they only appear in one location in the entire game, then it's okay. I think. Maybe.

I am scared. Someone hold me.

mojave mango juice

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

06 Mar 2007 at 23:34 - 718

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knightsaber Sith

They've announced their intended plans several times, none of these plans included the style by which they name the campaigns....

No, no...sorry if that came out wrong, I was in a different thought by then, it wasn't related to the name thing at all.
I meant that in the article, if I remember correctly, they stated how they planned to do expansions...Ugh, I wish I could find it...It said something about the number of expansions they planned to put out and such.

Scutilla

Wilds Pathfinder

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07 Mar 2007 at 00:10 - 719

Quote:

Back in Winterfest she also gave a hint about C4 taking place on a firigd continent and would becalled Binky's Spelling Adventure." Doesn't that sound like it could be a little right, a little wrong, and quite a bit misleading? I swear she totally seems like a Western Civilization college professor who just likes to leave riddle and hints just out of our grasp. My two cents is that she's actually ALWAYS letting information slip wether it's conditionally or unconditionally.

That's called making a "joke". Chapter 4 being in Antarctica and called "Binky's Spelling Adventure" are two of Gaile's running jokes, much like the rank 15 emote being of a gerbil.

Gwmaster

Jungle Guide

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Canada/Quebec

N/

07 Mar 2007 at 00:11 - 720

Wooooaaa i dont care what people say, another game to my collection