GW2 or New Campaign/Expansion?

As you all know, there has been 0 news on GW2 for the past few months. Not a word.

It has been 2 years since GW had any expansions or campaigns.

I know, many players are bored out of their minds with the lack of content update (the skill updates are exciting, yes, but the excitement only lasts for so long).

And supposedly, 2010 is when beta is coming, but we don't even know of that. It's 2009 man.

I've effectively given up on GW2, I don't care, I just want some news or something to look forward to..

So, would you rather wait with 0 news for GW2, or have an expansion/campaign be released?

At this point, I'd rather ANet do their jobs and make GW2. It doesn't seem like they are, seeing as how we've only gotten 2 concept art pictures that really don't show anything at all.

Making a new expansion/campaign would be ridiculous. It's like putting lipstick on a pig. Yeah, I went there.

I'd be happy with a new expansion, it's not like if I'm going to move on to Guild Wars 2 anyways. Diablo3/Starcraft 2 is where it's going to be at.

gw2, enough campaigns + expansion already. not much more u can do with gw1

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I don't want news until they are ready to release a public beta of some kind. I like the mystery. We already know a good amount of lore that happens and 5 races along with a few new mechanics. (Z or X axis or whatever its called)

I'm fine with this. Besides, I have other games/ a life to keep me occupied.

I don't think it's wise to take people away from the 200 that work on GW2. Also NCSoft would never allow it imo.

If GW2 is still some two years away, it would be nice to strengthen the live team with 20 new employees or so (if they can find the right people). So the live team can create new content. Linsey seems to have talent and does a good job with the few recources she has available for her team.

Trying to convince NCSoft is something else though.

You simply got to ask yourself the #1 question:

If they're not doing anything involving GW2, what are they doing then? Getting paid to test seat cushions?

It's not like we have a choice in the matter. ANet has already made it clear time and time again that the playerbase is totally at their mercy concerning GW2.

Yes, the lack of news is frustrating, but what are we to do? Complain more? It will come when it comes. In the meantime it would be nice to see some love come Guild War's way. At the very least I expect to see appropriate balancing and general bug fixes, and at the very most I would like to see something along the lines of Sorrow's Furnace(though I do not expect it). I don't think another expansion, or campaign is necessary, or really desirable. I still have my hands full with the original three.

What it comes down to is I'm happy to wait with absolutely no news on Guild Wars 2, as long as they take care of Guild Wars. They're not obligated to tell us anything about their future games, but they are obligated to support their current ones - and right now that is Guild Wars.

I wouldn't mind another expansion, I also wouldn't mind GW2... but I'll take what NCsoft gives me with a smile

I'm just wondering, does that include Aion too?

Just to make it clear, I have nothing against Aion (even though it's not my cup of tea) and the more people that play it, the better for NCSoft and maybe Anet.

More content for GW1.

I can tell GW2 will suck, compare it to updates, they're months behind on updates and they sucked, they're years behind GW2 Updates, it'll suck.

Diablo III.

I wouldn't mind world peace and a green sky. Another campaign is pretty much unrealistic at this point, given the 4 person live team. It's also not something I really want.

The current world is bloated enough, I'd rather have less titles to grind on more characters than to be forced to sit on the same character for another campaign's worth of titles for that damn KoaBD title.

And there's no "supposedly" beta for GW2. They had a date, it passed without a word, and Anet went silent. The only thing we know for is that there are a dozen or so concept pictures and enough backstory to fill 3 books. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if GW2 is a doomed, unworkable mess and the 3 books is the best we can expect.

The lack of news has frustrated me to the point that I am looking other places,
past month and a bit I have been participating in the Aion beta, and to tell you the truth we will see if I come back to GW2 when it comes out, if it does.

the fact that they released info about the game so long ago saying it will be made and beta testing will be coming. then like 1 year of no info other then those 2 concept art pics. I have lost faith, I don’t like to be left in the dark. I know a lot of people that feel the same way.
If they wait to long D3 will be out and they will lose a lot of there player base anyways.

Skills get updated? Since when?
Definately wait for GW2. From what I've heard, there aren't that many people on the live team for GW1. If they had to make an expansion, it wouldn't come out for a while. And, if they took people from the GW2 team, GW2 would take even longer to come out.

I still wish we could see a bit of GW2, even if it's just a short gameplay video that doesn't really provide and information. Just to keep people interested. Also, if the beta doesn't come out by spring 2010, I probably won't play it.

The Guild Wars team and GW2 team are two completely different projects, if they made a new campaign/expansion for GW, it would not effect GW2's release at all.
Am I saying that I want a new campaign/expansion? No...True GW2 beta is in 2010, but's too close. It would be like they were desperately trying to keep our attention.
For now, I'm just fine with strolling around the world doing whatever I want and having my pet black widow Fluffy hump people's heads in PvP.

Well Anet did announce that they are working on making the game as good as possible, and that they aren't going to release much info until they're ready to put the game into testing. They said on GWW that the beta and more info will be coming 2010 or 2011 so you may as well not stress about the current lack of information. Considering all the time they're putting into Guild Wars 2 I'm hoping that it will be a great game. otherwise I'll be very dissapointed.

I would rather they implemented more content updates, balances, and fixes. With more meta shifts too.
Gw2 would be delayed too much due to expenses needed for a bigger GW1 team to implement a big Gw1 expansion. However, a little bit more man power for the small things that are IMPORTANT is what is truly needed.

Anet has said that they have 2 separate teams working on GW1 and GW2, with the lions share on GW2. Why people continue to ignore this fact is beyond me.

So getting a new expansion/campaign, and really with one small team it would be more of a sorrows furnace area, is very doable.


I seriously doubt i'll be moving on to GW2 after having watched how Anet has handled GW1 over the years and more importantly, currently. There are many graphic glitches in this game that were reported by myself and many others over the years that are still there. There are other game AI/Skill issues that have also been reported and only a few have been fixed. What hope is there that GW2 will be done with a high standard of quality or maintained with this kind of track record?

I'm also waiting to see what kind of "bonus" HoM is going to give you in gw2, to see if it's even worth trying to max a few titles.

EDIT: If I didn't like GW So much I'd not be as disappointed in what's been going on (or not going on) as I am.

Totally agree. Making a new expansion/campaign would obviously just be a ploy to keep us all entertained while they screw about with GW2 for the next however many years. Would just be nice to see some evidence they're actually making GW2