Petition to keep the new expansion per 6 months philosophy

Dj Tano

Dj Tano

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

1) Like a petition is really going to make them change their market strategy

2) A game every 6 months was a stupid idea from the beginning imo

3) If they really have to release a new game every so often, then make it a game every 12 months...

Kool Pajamas

Kool Pajamas

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Maryland

Mage Elites [MAGE]

Some expansions would be nice. They dont really need to do the whole "world is being threatend by a great evil" thing. They could just do a kurzick/luxon type of thing where you are at war with someone. But you would be on one side not choose like kurz/lux. Or something else.....If they make them more like expansions instead of single campaigns they could do it.

Lonesamurai

Lonesamurai

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

Cheltenham, Glos, UK

Wolf Pack Samurai [WPS]

R/A

this thread is still going???

ANet never stated at the beginning that they intended to release every six months, Gaile and Alex Weekes have both stated that in the past

And yes, as stated, i think this is a good finish for this story arch and then move to GW2 for the next one, as it means we still get fresh story line components, but ANet can also introduce new game mechanics and rework what didn't work in the original game engine

Stop The Storm

Stop The Storm

Keeping DoA Alive

Join Date: Jan 2007

England

Were In [DoA]

A/N

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legion_rat

legion_rat

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

668 the neighbor of the beast

TFK

A/

I would still like to see GW exppansions, even if they are not every 6 monthes. It would not be that hard to add some new maps and things to do. We dont need anymore proffs. New skills might be nice and off course new gear (armor and weapons) but this is all small things that would not be hard to maintain. I do not think anet will simply let GW die. To many other games are still played, diablo 2, warcraft (not wow), starcraft (and thats just from blizzard) We may not see any changes but I dont think we will lose GW anytime soon.
~the rat~

Liberations

Liberations

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2006

Azeroth (shhh)

Ryders of the Sword [FrNd]

E/

Every 6 months is not a good idea for an expansion, let alone a campaign anymore. What they should have done is made the campaigns more spread out and more worked on. Then they could have "expansions" to each of them and eventually have a conclusion expansion like EotN.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

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Yeah... we want more Furnaces.

Lydz

Lydz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Cape Town, South Africa

The Crazy Dragons [TCD]

E/Mo

I don't think they should release expansions. They could possibly released regular updates to keep the appeal of the game

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lydz
I don't think they should release expansions. They could possibly released regular updates to keep the appeal of the game
That is, this is exactly what I meat.

Just like the last update. Everyone liked the new features.

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

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New content be it standalone or "new material" would keep me in GW1 but holding them to a fix content cycle may be a bad thing.

GW2 by the way of it's design looks to fix the issues that will slowly bring GW1 down. Dispersion of the player base across games, the juggling of of PvE vs PvP crowd plus other thing they added late that would be much better added at the beginning.

I highly suspect GW2 will have a single "core" and offer paid expansions that add on (but not replace the "core").

Anet is not as large as people think. I do like the update approach Lydz mentioned. As long as there something of substance 1 per year. We still don't know the effect of GW2 (and taking away GW1 players) on GW1. No content is great... but if you have to hero/hench it.... 3 months after it's "old".