Should Anet make more Gw1 expansions after gw2?

Do you think that Anet should add more gw1 expansions after gw2?

Personally I'd like it but I know it'd be useless. However, I'd like to see a larger team devoted to gw1 after gw2 is stable, and have more of the larger updates once a larger team is available.

Nah. I'd love for GW2 to be everything I love in GW and fix everything I don't love. Once it's out, I'm hoping for high-quality, low-downtime events and updates for GW2 to make it a dynamic and great game.

Here's hoping.

Anet's policy after GW2 is released will be to migrate all the GW1 players over there...I don't see them doing anything that would keep people in the original after the sequel comes out. That's the realism talking.

Of course I would like to see it. That's the misguided optimism talking.

Well, dividing the players sounds like a good marketing decision.

iirc they're going to keep the gw1 servers up for those that want to continue playing it.

They are going to be 2 very different games. I do expect the focus to be on gw2, but I don't think they want gw1 to die or for everyone to leave it, just to enjoy both as amusement and playstyle allow.

Why would it be useless?

EQ1, for example, still has new expansions long after sequel was published.

Some people simply do not cross over to sequel (sometimes it can be even fatal to sequel - Asherons call vs Asherons call 2) and making content for them is lucrative.

1) EQ2 and especially AC2 were failures.

2) The company has some vested interest in supporting the old games because people pay a fee to continue playing them.

3) Anet is aware of the problem of people becoming to attached to their grind and created the HoM to partly ease this process.

4) A lot of guild wars customers just played the campaigns once-few times and quit. Those people aren't really invested in either game and will just play whatever the shiny new thing is, which would probably be GW2 expansions.

I'm all for new content in GW1 after the release of GW2. If some people don't want to move over to the new game, it's their choice not to. They shouldn't have to suffer a lack of content just because they enjoy GW1.

I'd rather ANet invest all their time and money into a new game than into their old one. GW1 will be almost 6 years old when GW2, possibly older. Every game comes to an end, and personally I think it would be a waste for them to work on an old game that isn't P2P (monthly fees, that is).

I voted no. While it would be nice to have new content, I just don't think they should be putting their valuable time creating new content when they could be fine tuning our current game.

MMOs are nesting games, and although we've all nested into GW with our titles and our amassed wealth, when the next nesting game comes around (GW2) I will pay my entire attention to that, unless it sucks. So if everyone thought like me, there'd be no market except for people who couldn't run GW2, or wants to test the water before buying the newest version.

My thoughts exactly, btw digging the spy avatar.

Naw.

I rather that they devote their time to GW2 and just keep supporting GW1 servers so I could go check out some zones and compare them, or something like that.

I don't want to play to games in the same world .. 'backtracking' every time we get new content.

Let me add this clarification: I say no for *after* GW2 is released. One more *major* content update with new areas, quests, bosses, etc., would be a great way to end development of GW. Show us what you've learned, entice those that are migrating, pay homage to those that aren't.

"Should they" is a hard question to answer.....mainly because there's no way in hell it'll ever happen.

We'll be lucky if the servers stay active for a full year after GW2's release.

No. All coders (minus the live team) should be GW2-centric after release for new content.

No. Nice as it might be... haven't we found out already that splitting their efforts is a bad thing?

I love GW1 but I feel like we'll have to let go of it at some point. I think at this point the GW1 story has reached a nice closure, and anything else would just feel tacked on for the sake of tacking something on. I plan on devoting all of my energy into GW2. I don't think I'll want to step back into GW1 once I've said my goodbyes, as it were.

I wouldn't mind if the live team released a somewhat major update before beta/release of GW2.

If GW2 doesn't sell well enough and Anet can make more money with GW expansions, yes.