What is Anet planning to do?

hey peeps

just a question as i have got bored of gw over the past while i have played for over 24 months now and have done most of the game and by that i mean all the possible titles (excluding excteme grinding ones). and feel the game is now to boring with nothing new to to.

I keep hearing different times when gw2 will be released so my question is really, what does anet plan to do to keep the 5 million players it has established? coz if its the end of the year b4 its relesed or even next year i really dont think anet will retian these players with no new content, special weekends will not cut it im afraid. i am in what used to be one of the finest PvE alliances there ever was [TIG] and even that has now suffered due to this "Boredom" that has swept the land

your opinions?

make cross-program quests?

something in GW2 you have to go back to gw 1 to do in order to progress in GW2






runs away

Um, there are maybe 5 million copies sold but usually the same player has bought several (proph+factions+NF+GW:EN) and the resident population has never been anywhere near 5 million ...

Then, to answer your question: not much anything. GW is not pay-to-play, and since you've already given them all the money they'll get from you before GW2 there's little incentive to keep you occupied with the game all the way until then.

Anet won't update GW1 with anything big, that's for sure, being them busy with GW2 and all.

If you are truly bored, just play a different game and check back when GW2 goes live, or check the update notes and weekend events from time to time for anything that might interest you PvE-wise.

I think, they don't plan do to anything for us in gw1 (like a new campaign, or new areas) It's simply going to be weekend events....title grinding......yeah thats it xDD

Uless they have a couple new area up their sleeve to put in, to keep us occupied, Though the chances of that are slim.
However a while back i saw this video of someone walking around Anet (gw) and they said they had a secret going on in a certain room and they couldnt go in it. I never found out what that secret was lols. There is a 10% it is for gw1, but who knows i can only speculate i guess.

No new campaigns, no new expansions... maybe new weapons but I think with the sudden recent influx of weapons (deldrimor, and daw winners) that there isnt much more coming apart from title grind.

If you're sick of pve, try and join in some pvp. Can be fun, challenging etc, or just leave and come back for gw2. As soon as gw2 was announced, it was pretty much guaranteed that all major changes had finished.

Anet isn't planning to do anything for your boredom. Sorry to break it to ya.

Complete what you want, and quit till gw2 :P That's what's anet wants you to do

the whole point of the "grinding" titles is to make your GW2 char even better...thats the best reason I have for playing right now.

They'll add title specific quests, and put l33t items at the end.

Discuss.

They should have just gone through with Utopia IMO.

Anet won't do nothing except add more titles and shiny new tonics/weapons. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for another chapter or expansion. Get a new game imo.

I think that they have a cunning plan ...

(Who was expecting an MMO like GW before it was created?)

I'm afraid you are in for a big disappointment. Nothing in GW will make your chracter better in GW2. It's all cosmetic.

Hmmm, I gotta say I don't understand all these people who seem so worried about Anet retaining the player base...for an entirely new game.

You do realise that when it comes out, a lot of people picking it up are probably going to be people who didn't actually even play GW1 right?

And really, Anet don't want to keep you tied to GW1 anymore than you are. They WANT to have you get bored of it so you run out and buy GW2 as soon as it's out

Yeah, they still have to show us that they're invested in the player base by keeping us happy, or a few people will drop away and not get GW2 if they're unhappy with the treatment they've had in the game. But yunno what...I think the majority of players (especially the very casual players who don't even go on forums - yes they're out there), aren't so fussed about the tiny details of the running of the game. They don't spend all day QQing about some nerf or change...they just get on and play for a bit of fun.

I think GW2 will do pretty well, despite the wait After all, it's not just us lot that are gonna play it.

Not trying to rag on you, but do you have anything official to back that up?

Breakfast, not that there would be cosmetic advantages, but it was stated that items in your HoM Would give you NO advantage over a normal starting player.

Its been stated officially many times that no gains from HoM will offer any advantages at all over someone who never did them. Think collector's edition rewards and the like for HoM rewards in GW2.

Links? No.

But I know I've read, several times, that NOTHING in GW will give you any advantage in GW2 over other players. Of course, we've been mislead before.

Ahh, thanks guys. I guess I wont be too worried over grinding out title after title and filling up my HoM in time now!