ideas for upcoming update

volgaris

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

I have had this idea for a long time I have just been extremely lazy about posting. In since it is very unlikely there will be any new significant content update (no new elite area/weapon skins) added to the game in the coming update, would it be possible to add new minis to the game? ie smite crawler, shadow guys, duncan, or any other dungeon boss etc Since the skins are already there it shouldn't be too much work to pull off to make the minis. I figure what they could do is add these minis to the end chest of their respective areas (uw, fow, dungeons, etc) and make them an ultra rare drop so the market doesn't just flood with them as soon as they are released. This would give players something to go after/keep interest in gw.

Marverick

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

Rather than make all these little meaningless updates (like more minis), how about ANet just takes half a year off to make some new content?
In the end, interesting, challenging, non-repetitive content is the only way they can keep more players...

volgaris

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

They aren't going to do that although I would love it if they did. Our best chance at new content is a new area which appears very unlikely so I thought throwing out the mini idea was a good one since its implementation seems more likely to actually happen although in the end I would have loved to see more new areas etc...its just not realistic

Xsiriss

Xsiriss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2008

Been suggested,and it's pretty useless as it just further's e-peen by making them obtainable in said methods. It's counter productive because people already farm those areas and just gives the hardcore farmers more money,without offering any new incentive for people to start doing those areas especially.

Focusing on REAL new content would be better,I would much rather they went back and reskinned some of the pathetic/unused weapon skins such as woven shields,and make some pvp skins liek the canthan machete available in pve.

clear

clear

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2009

Mo/Me

Guild Wars stimulus plan... Give each account 5k. This will help the in-game economy and also encourage people to buy more accounts. A win win for everyone.

Swahnee

Swahnee

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2008

Italy

Mo/

As one who played mostly PvE, i see jumping into PvP as "new content" for me, and i think that this could be interesting also for other people (so the future updates could focus partly on this), but the argument of bridging the gap between PvE and PvP has been already discussed many times, and i don't think it will come to anything..

Show Some Skin

Show Some Skin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2009

Dead.

[Game]

Rt/

This other day i thought of a sweet miniature idea, it was Bone minions but had Bone Minion, Flesh Golem, Shambling Horror, Bone Fiend, and when you activated the mini they would come out from the ground like how you summon them. And when you de-activated it, they would all die...i think its cool...but thats just me

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

I don't think minipets are actually meaningful enough to keep people playing for. They're useless, and a lot of people, myself included, could care less about them. If they spent the next update making a bunch of minipets instead of fixing things and making more content I'm going to be really pissed off.

Bob Slydell

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

What anet needed to do was build on the current game like SOE still does (in 2009 yes) with their 1999 game EverQuest. It's not hard... you add content or classes or a new campign or some new quests or grounds to explore in the current game. But they said thats too hard and GW2 was a better idea. So making an ENTIRE NEW GAME FROM SCRATCH is easier than adding onto an older game that it's players demand every day.

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

I still think ArenaNet could have kept pumping out campaigns, just without new classes and also remove some of the old unused skills to replace with new ones.

I think people would have bought them, kept playing, etc.

MagmaRed

MagmaRed

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2007

Our Crabs Know True [LOVE]

R/

New minis? That is all you want? For no reason, other than something new? Seriously? Minipets serve no purpose. They are only for personal enjoyment, as some people like how they look, or believe other people think they are cool because they have a rare one. Mini pets are added every year. Occassionally they added them with a promotion (Grawl, Panda, etc.) or through a magazine offer (Giant, Shiroken, etc.). All other ones are specific to unique features in the game. Black Moa, Yakkington, Polar Bear, Celestials, etc. We really don't need a new mini pet, especially from a source that would just be farmed.

Wait til the game has been out for 5 years if you want new mini pets.

Need More Donuts

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2008

D/W

There are much better things they can do that will actually improve the game rather than adding pointless minis......

rb.widow

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2009

Id suggest instead of any new features they sort the current issues in the game, espically the lag, or they wont have anyone left to play the new features. Come on 40k Pings in the home districts, unacceptable.

KillerDemon

KillerDemon

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2009

NO GUILD ATM

W/

I personally would like to see the griffon's back in the old griffon farm place
..i was sad when they removed most of them and pumped that area just round the corner from augry rock full of scarabs. scarabs suck that was a fun farm spot once apon a time.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Scarabs kill farmers. They are good.

JASON626

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Mo/

Theres new mini pets every year as it is. Takes up more storage. I'd like to have more reasons to keep playing guild wars than farming for more "stuff". Real content would be nice. But it probably end up turing into anothe speed clear...

Konker2020

Konker2020

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2009

Exiled Forcez [Ex]

Well what I would like the upcoming update to include would be the update itself and for it to be on time. But in relation to your minis idea, I think minis are as useless as many others find them... get them, add them to HoM, ditch them. But if we were to get new minis, I think it would be pretty epic to get one of each god/goddess including Abbadon. Aside from that, remove heroes from HA/GvG, etc.

reaper with no name

reaper with no name

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2009

FaZ

D/

GW is like a house.

Eventually, people sometimes get bored with the look of the house they're in, and want to redecorate. But redecoration will not make a house with a gigantic hole in the roof any better, get it? Instead of adding meaningless stuff to a broken game, let's fix the stuff in the game that is broken (such as SF and ER), ok? Then we can worry about making more pretty stuff for players to look at.