I came up with this and I thought this would be very interesting to lore lovers. To make a full set of scriptures for the Gods, which include Kormir, Abaddon, Dhuum, and maybe Menzies, probably not him though. This could also pass some time for people who like to read lore and whatnot, not much time sadly.
Opinions welcomed.
Edit Note:
I mean in game or on guildwars.com, not real books. If anything is put to main books, it should be actual novels, not scriptures.
Add in full scriptures of the Gods
Konig Des Todes
Syco Masato
Yess, I'd read them. Hell, I'd buy novels if they wrote them. >__>/signed
TaCktiX
And that would take an insane amount of effort to do properly. Do you want Guild Wars 2 to release sometime before the next millennium?
Zahr Dalsk
Do a fan-based thing, where fans write the scriptures. They're then looked over and edited by a few ArenaNet staff.
Konig Des Todes
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pamelf
/halfsigned. It would take a lot of time and effort, and I'd rather have a better storyline for GW2 to be honest; however I AM interested in the current lore and would like more detail...maybe it's something that can be incorporated into something else, but frankly I don't want any time wasted on writing lore which can essentially be pieced together from information already given. And frankly, this is a computer game, not literature. As long as they work a little harder on giving GW2 a half decent storyline I'll be happy.
HawkofStorms
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/notsigned
For them to be "legit" they'd have to be pretty dang long.
Operative 14
/Signed.
While they would take a lot of effort to produce, I think they would not only be interesting to read, but also very helpful to the storyline of GW2 and future incarnations.
While they would take a lot of effort to produce, I think they would not only be interesting to read, but also very helpful to the storyline of GW2 and future incarnations.
Konig Des Todes
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/Signed.
While they would take a lot of effort to produce, I think they would not only be interesting to read, but also very helpful to the storyline of GW2 and future incarnations. |
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Brayolnne
In general the additional background info would be a great help to GW2 or later products. However I must agree that unless it's something they know they're going to take advantage of, it is a waste of their effort.
As for fanfiction, I'm not sure that it will ever happen. Please keep in mind that we're in an age of litigation. So we all get together and create these scriptures and Anet uses them. Which one of us is going to sue Anet first for our "fair share" of the 5 million copies sold? I don't care if it's 1% of each unit sold at $50 each - that still makes "my share" $250,000. Ummm, I'm fairly sure we could all use the money... Gas isn't getting any cheaper.
As for fanfiction, I'm not sure that it will ever happen. Please keep in mind that we're in an age of litigation. So we all get together and create these scriptures and Anet uses them. Which one of us is going to sue Anet first for our "fair share" of the 5 million copies sold? I don't care if it's 1% of each unit sold at $50 each - that still makes "my share" $250,000. Ummm, I'm fairly sure we could all use the money... Gas isn't getting any cheaper.
Konig Des Todes
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In general the additional background info would be a great help to GW2 or later products. However I must agree that unless it's something they know they're going to take advantage of, it is a waste of their effort.
As for fanfiction, I'm not sure that it will ever happen. Please keep in mind that we're in an age of litigation. So we all get together and create these scriptures and Anet uses them. Which one of us is going to sue Anet first for our "fair share" of the 5 million copies sold? I don't care if it's 1% of each unit sold at $50 each - that still makes "my share" $250,000. Ummm, I'm fairly sure we could all use the money... Gas isn't getting any cheaper. |
The scriptures would probably NOT be actually sold, more like put on the gw site or somewhere in game, like the hero handbook and zho's journal. An IG book/on site book is what I was thinking originally. That way, it would be free and if it came to fan-made then there would be no profit for anyone to sue for.
IslandHermet
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IslandHermet
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/halfsigned. It would take a lot of time and effort, and I'd rather have a better storyline for GW2 to be honest; however I AM interested in the current lore and would like more detail...maybe it's something that can be incorporated into something else, but frankly I don't want any time wasted on writing lore which can essentially be pieced together from information already given. And frankly, this is a computer game, not literature. As long as they work a little harder on giving GW2 a half decent storyline I'll be happy.
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^^read my above post
pamelf
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MithranArkanere
There are for the other gods. Why not for the rest? It's just placing some Interactive objects and link them to some texts. Nothing hard.
Many people like lore stuff, like the questions of the Djinn in Ahdashim.
Many people like lore stuff, like the questions of the Djinn in Ahdashim.
stretchs
They wouldnt probably do much with Kormir in game as it would be a spoiler to people who havent completed Nightfall. It would be good to put spoiler info into the thread name as well if we are going to speak about that
Konig Des Todes
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They wouldnt probably do much with Kormir in game as it would be a spoiler to people who havent completed Nightfall. It would be good to put spoiler info into the thread name as well if we are going to speak about that
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As for all those who are constantly arguing against this because of the time it would take. Just take one or two people who work on lore and have them make these scriptures, while also being informed with the lore ideas for GW2, and once the scriptures are done they would be viewed by the others who work on lore, and edited and whatnot then put IG or where ever.
I don't think that would be that hard to do really. And if they cannot spare a person to make a "rough-scripture" for the gods, then just make it fan based then edited by the staff. I think the later might turn out to be better, seeing how many of the things that come out of the contests that are done, such as Design-A-Weapon, are much better then the average stuff in the game.
MithranArkanere
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They wouldnt probably do much with Kormir in game as it would be a spoiler to people who havent completed Nightfall. It would be good to put spoiler info into the thread name as well if we are going to speak about that
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Afterall, she didn't existed before that.
Konig Des Todes
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Those would probably appear only in the Throne of Secrets and in front the Goddess of Truth statue, and nowhere else.
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Omega Precept
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Just be satisfied with Fan Fiction for the time being, here is a link.
http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forum...play.php?f=112
Just be satisfied with Fan Fiction for the time being, here is a link.
http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forum...play.php?f=112
Richardt
Maybe not an actual book...but maybe like a .pdf download
Konig Des Todes
I wasn't meaning an actual book, like I said in a past post. Its just something that should be on guildwars.com or in the game.