Realms of the Gods instead of dungeons would have doubled the game's lifespan

One thing I'm really confused about: In the American districts, I see most people going into FoW than UW by a very large margin. You'd think it would be quite the opposite, what with the value of ecto. Why is this??

Hey if it gets the new realms in GW2 then it's completely worth it.

New realms would be a great idea, possibly the biggest revival for GW. Dungeons to me were a complete dissappointment, and honestly I don't see how anyone could disagree with this idea.

It is the same in Euro districts.

FoW can be cleared quickly. UW takes longer, even if you are very good. It requires a better party, FoW is so much easier and the quests are not so complicated

The Ice Wastes Quest and the Chaos planes quests and lack of any proper drops besides of Ectos does not appeal to people.
I also find FoW more appealing with the Shadow Army and the Weapon Crafter.

In short, FoW can be played, UW is more suited for farming.

UW is mostly a solo/duo farmplace. LF UW party? You might still be looking in 2009. I guess people try it till they got the monument. I shiver at the thought of people doing UW over and over to get an Eternal Blade!

Very well put, OP. You're exactly right.

/signed
more god realms?
ohhh...yes!

I really like the idea tbh

Nah, if they made a new prestige armour they'd probably give Ritualists another teapot helmet like we have with Obsidian. I'll pass, thanks. (No, this isn't a complaint from someone who can't afford it; I was going to get Obsidian until I saw what it looked like, didn't feel like being mistaken for a walking tea party, and decided to blow my money on a bunch of better-looking elite sets.)

Nothing stopping ANet adding more god relms, either as a free update or micro-transaction.

Id also add a new armor crafter per relm, that requires new high level materials. Armors are tremendiously popular, especially good looking sets.

There is a long wait till GW2, we need some more content.

"Realms of the Gods instead of dungeons would have doubled the game's lifespan"

Source?

(In other words, that is just a wild guess - and no, it probably is not going to add several years to GW's lifespan.)

Meh. They'd have to invent entirely new storylines for the other gods, and why we're being called to their realms to fight for them, and somehow fit them into the current conflicts in GW. I don't see how they can do that without introducing entirely new antagonists, and I don't think they want to do that because the Great Destroyer was supposed to be the last big thing our characters did before GW2 - the dragons are supposed to be weighing heavy on our minds, remember?

Truth be told I'm actually more worried that we might have to fight against Palawa Joko in GW2. That guy is awesome, I hope we get the option to join him; I can't stand the thought of him being our enemy.

/Off-topic

You have to give a hand to ArenaNet's lore creators. They have crafted a plausible story with so many possibilities of branching. The story alone may be why I buy Guild Wars 2 at first.

/On-topic

I think the main reason that the other 3 realms won't come into existence until GW2 is because ANet would have to craft a source of conflict. In other words, more Greek-style deity mix-ups. It would strain the lore a good bit to do that without some non-Realm information to give the new evil deities some credibility (As I said earlier, Dhuum and Menzies got credibility by helping out Abaddon).

wait, so you'd rather they cut off half of the EotN content and given free content instead? yeah, that makes good business sense...

sure, another god realm would be nice, but then the poor numbers of people going to FoW or UW will decrease even more (other than solo farming or visiting the forgemaster), people will start crying about new areas being too hard AND too easy. New armours worked on now means even less resources for people working on GW2. They'd be adding things to GW1 that could instead be in GW2 as better content. I mean, would you rather have a short term god realm now with a few silly quests and a couple of reskin rewards(or, let me guess, you want new weapons/items too?), or have a much better god realm in GW2 with an actual story that doesn't have to conflict with current GW lore? Creating new god realms where the gods need help with something would be effectively rewriting GW lore. It's just not a good idea.

Do I want more content before GW2? I don't really care to be honest. GW has loads of content and if I can't find something to do then there's millions of other games I could play for a while (although I always find something to do in GW). Everyone could play more content, but it's really no priority.

conclusion of my thoughts: more God realms for GW1? no. God realms involving the other gods in GW2? yes please.

/signed for more realms, could be fun

SF was a free content update, no reason they couldnt do the same again. (except meanness )

Yes there is.

They now have most of their crew working on GW2. Moving people off that would delay it...

No, my comment was saying as opposed to making us pay for it.

Only if the new armour looked like someone actually took time to design it.

Anyone want to set up a paypal fund for the Anet artwork designers? From the looks of EOtN it seemed like the budget was cut short in that area and that they just recycled. (j/k)

You said "no reason they couldn't do the same again," and Sirius gave you one.

You're actually not far off. While the armors are still up in the air in terms of credibility, the recycling of certain dungeon areas broke my heart.

Knowing me I would......but i would regret it.

/signed

ToA has all the Statues of the Gods.. You kneel at Dwanya and Avatar appears yet no realm to go to? This feels so unfinished to me.