The Guild Wars Trilogy

The Guild Wars Trilogy

So whoever said that Guild wars was not a trilogy, go to:- http://www.guildwars.com/support/gam...ilogytrial.php

I cannot take the credit for finding this, a fellow Guild mate (Radicc) found the link.

Oke doke. We all know by now that something new is coming after the first three Guild Wars games. This is just some official proof that it is a 'Trilogy', and will be commercially separate from future releases.

While I'll admit that the amount of evidence is great, be careful not to force evidence to fit a specific point of view.

Could there possibly (right now) be a trial DVD for anything more than 3 games? Would it make any sense to do a trial DVD for anything less than the 3 currently available games?

It is very possible that it's a Trilogy Trial DVD simply because the game currently has 3 chapters.

Hmmm, I think I'm going to have to snag one of those just for the sake of collecting GW paraphernalia....

Expect "WTS CDKEY 100k, I GIVE YOU KEY YOU TRY" being spammed in Kamadan again...

There is no way someone is going to be able to trial all 3 camaigns in 10 hours... they're going to get totally blown away :P.

I thought of that as well. The way Anet is calling it a Trilogy 100% proves it, no doubt.

And, that something really new is coming....I pretty much thought the same thing you did when you read it.

But how seperate....thats the question...all of which will be answered in just a few days when the magazine is mailed to the customers.

They said in the Nightfall DVD there is a new series beginning after Nightfall ...that Nightfall ties up many loose ends of the trilogy.

Yup:

Prophecies: Chapter 0

Factions: Chapter 1

Nightfall: Chapter 2

Revenge of Gwen: Chapter 3

A trilogy, no doubt.

Look up the definition of trilogy.

Gwen isnt a chapter,its just an expansion,thank you.

It was already WELL documented at Nightfall's Release that it would end the story started by chapter 1, and any further chapters would not just be expansions of this story onto different continents.

Though if there were 4 or more in the trilogy, it wouldn't be the first series to defy the literal definition. Typically, this is because only a trilogy is planned, and the creator decides, later on, to continue it in the future, while keeping the label.

One of the largest non-3 'trilogies' I know of is from the author Piers Anthony, who jokingly considers the first 27 books of the Xanth series a trilogy, as it's 3 cubed. Internally, if I recall correctly, the first 3 books are a 'trilogy', while the first 9 books are a 'trilogy' as well.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is one of the more famous 'extended' trilogies, spanning 5 books and a short story. Also should check out Richard Wagner's 4-part Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the Star Wars movie trilogies.


The point intended to be made is not that trilogy stops meaning 3 because a few people say so; Rather than whatever the stated intent of an author, or game publisher, may be, nothing is set in stone.

Or they could be packaging the games together like they do with the Harry Potter books, trying to get people to buy a box set of the first 3,4,5 books.

3 campagins obviously make a trilogy but it doesnt mean that it's separate from the future releases. It's 3 campagins now so its an obvious choice to call them all a trilogy.

There have been three chapters released until now; package them together, and it makes sense to call them a 'trilogy'. This could mean any one of several things for the future of the game:

• This is the end of Guild Wars as it exists now. Future releases will be completely unrelated to the current game: Guild Wars 2
• This is the end of the story line. Future releases will begin an entirely separate story, but characters will be able to move over. The first three chapters will become Guild Wars: Volume 1.
• There will be a new chapter in a few months, and everyone will then be able to purchase the Guild Wars Tetralogy.

The article said Eye of the North is not a campaign. It's an expansion for lvl 20s.
It could be right.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a Trilogy in 5 parts

An article on the internet where anyone could write it and make up stuff as the go along. No one knows it all until PC Gamer says so. PCG is the only place Anet gave info to.

Secondly, there are 3 chapters in Guildwars, what else do you want them to call it? They just called it the trilogy because there are 3 games trails on the disk.

I always have to wonder why forum members post an identical thread in more than one forum. Most people pick a forum "home," and stay there. Posting across multiple forums just doesn't make a lot of sense, in past because if we (ArenaNet) want to reply, we're either left saying "See my post (elsewhere)" or reposting the same content. And in this case, it appears that the post was placed first here, but I did not know that and answered here second. Here's an FYI on the trial disc:

We currently have three games in released form: Guild Wars (original Prophecies campaign), Guild Wars Factions and Guild Wars Nightfall. We're now offering a trial that includes all three games. Where the earlier demo was called a Dual Trial, this one is a Trilogy Trial. The name is related to the contents of the trial disc itself, and the title of this trial, as the title of the previous trial, makes no comment concerning the future, but only the present.