Guild Wars 2 News - Single Player Version

"Vice President of NCsoft said in the first quarter performance conference call held on May 11 that Guild Wars 2 is one of the MMORPGs which NCsoft is currently working to bring into single player version. This is the first time that NCsoft talked about the development of single-player version of Guild Wars 2 since the single-player version of Blade & Soul was confirmed under development.

According to Lee Ze Ho, Vice President of NCsoft, with Guild Wars 2 as the leading title, all development issues relating to the single-player versions of NCsoft’s MMORPGs are under discussion. However, from the perspective of the development team, the feasibility study is still in progress, with the specific development work and launch schedule both not confirmed."

All things such as the development schedule and game information about Guild Wars 2, which are scheduled to be unveiled in the second half of 2008, are now going secretly. After releasing Eye of the North, the first expansion to Guild War, ArenaNet has centralized all development resources on Guild Wars 2.

In addition, among the restructured branches of NCsoft in North America and Europe, ArenaNet has been guaranteed strong support from the entire company. And Guild Wars 2 has become the second most anticipated project of NCsoft following Aion."

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009...34604456.shtml

Update:

i don't mind if this means the online community will be tighter

catering to single player in an online game (aka gw1) doesn't quite work

As the article is recent, this is probably meant to say second half of 2009. Some interesting news at last.

Hmmm...Interesting!

Single player version of GW2? Sounds interesting, but, the big question is, would we be able to import our single player characters into the online game?

Seriously doubt that. Single player means your character and their attributes, equipment, etc. are stored in your own PC which means you can use tools to edit them.

ANet would probably want to keep the online aspect pristine.

Maybe it's going to be 2 games. The single player as a platform game and then the regular mmo game.

Uggg i don't like it, if it's true then it should be a SEPARATE game. Having the option to do single-player in an MMO with the option to bring the same character online is just begging for glitch/cheating abuse. First day the game will be out there will be someone with every title in the game and 90trillion gold. The only reason i would support this is if it was a seperate version, or if it was for consoles. If it's for consoles and such then anet will get more money which = better updates which = funner game (well, that's what SHOULD happen ).

They can't even get one game out the door, so I don't know about that.
Seems like it would have the opposite effect. Since they'd be catering to single players. Sounds to me like just an RPG not an MMO/CORPG.

that 2008 date needs to be confirmed

either its out of date article or they meant 2009 and we are going to see some gw2 news soon

single player, no idea what that'll mean. although gw1 pve is pretty much that

Article was posted today. I'm thinking that's a typo. The Q1 earnings phone call is downloadable here:

http://www.ncsoft.net/global/ir/overview.aspx

I don't have speakers on my computer so can't listen to it. But I'm sure some of you can find out where it is in the phone call and let us know. : )

Interesting. If it's two games (an online version and a single-player version), I wonder if they'll provide a way to update the single-player game every time they update the online game.

Guild Wars 2 won't require monthly fees... that is the Single Player version obviously

It's a pretty big news piece about GW2, with nothing NEW announced for more than a full year.

And a start of real information and promotion of the game in 2nd half '09 is pretty much expected - after Aion release there has to be something real coming.

Ok. I am a single player and prefer playing solo...

But I still want a guild and people to talk to.

It doesnt work like this, booting single player off fans to play on their own, all they require is the ability to play the game equally on their own and be able to enjoy it just as much as they would in a solo game, but they have the option to team up if they occasionally want to, and to communicate with others as well as having access to trading with other players.

As interesting a concept as it may sound to turn a MMORPG into a solo game, once solo players have tasted the MMO experience, they still want that same experience and interactivity with others, just with the freedom to play however, whatever, and whenever they like fully on their own.

I dont understand why such a simple concept has been so difficult to understand by the multiplayer community. Even if all the solo players left GW to play the offline version, you would still have the same number of people who enjoy teaming up both before and after the solo players have left.

That may not be difficult since they are already updating the binaries on our PC whenever GW1 updates on their server.

So now, we can download both the client and server updates rather than just the client update.

So, I decided to go inactive for several months, but it's refreshing to see bhavv spouting the same rhetoric he was spouting back then.



P.S. I'm not sure I'm quite on board with the single player vs. MMO mode in the game. Unless they find a "bridge" to bring the achievements from single player mode over to the online environment, I doubt that single player mode would be viewed much more than a "beginner" or "escape" area for the MMO scene.

Diablo II Flashback for developers, eh.

The article says single player versions of their MMORPGS, not single player modes.

This information regarding a single-player version of GW2 is incorrect. There is no single-player version of GW2 planned. The comment was probably misquoted or mistranslated (maybe even misquoted, then mistranslated).

I have a feeling that this single player version is NOT what we all think it is... I really doubt that they would release a single player only version of the game. If they do, the mmo is going to have a fee, though :/

EDIT: Oh, thanks Regina for clearing this up.