Countdown to GW2

We probably have less than a year till Guild Wars 2 is released (or at least beta) and i want to ask the following questions: Will we see things in GW1 that hint the coming events taking place in GW2 as we get closer to its launch? Is a big event planned at the release day?

no

not going to happen

And you base that on what?

It's just not so likely, new content requires lots of hours of coding and building and testing and they'll likely rather want to use those hours for GW2. GW1 isn't selling in big numbers anymore and they need to make a living too.

Iam not talking about anything huge and code breaking but rather something closer to what we saw at EoTN release where small tremors were taking place in explorable areas. Or maybe new dialogs from NPCs and an interesting quest line.

You mean besides GW:EN?

It wouldn't surprise me if we saw one or two Dhuum-sized content updates that go a small way to linking the two games.

Your question sounded very familiar. I found out why.
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Will there be deeper story lines for players to follow leading up to the game?
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Eric Flannum: One of the things that has made developing Guild Wars 2 so much fun is that we get to take past events in our world and extrapolate their consequences into the era of Guild Wars 2. The 250 year period between the two games is rich with major events, interesting characters, and important plot lines. One way we plan to explore some of this is through the Guild Wars novels, and we've already seen some things in Guild Wars 1 that lead into the second game. As we get closer to launch, I think we'll definitely see more things both in Guild Wars 1 and outside of it that hint at things to come.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/81024

It's something that I don't see as out of the question.

Thank youuuu! I was wandering where ive read that. My guess is that after the 5th anniversary we might start seeing stuff like that

Yeah most likely. But we should be getting info about classes and stuff round about now

They have promised that they will inform us about more gameplay early this year.. and they still didnt do that.

I thought there were going to be a series of books that bridge GW1 and GW2.

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ahhh damkel has what I saw at some point...

As they wrote in the FAQ...

When are you going to release more information?

We will release more info about lore and races later this year (probably the second trailer). We will reveal more about gameplay early next year.

They alrdy said that GW1 will get a few events/updates prior to GW2 release. But I can't find it right now.

edit. Damkel alrdy psoted it >.>

They have given us some mechanics on how Guilds will work along with little minor things like that in interviews. And besides it is the start of the 3rd month of the year, we are still in the first quarter, give them some time.

when we get closer to the launch date, i expect my gw log-in screen to be gw2-ish with a new theme song etc.

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The first novel now has a summer 2010 release date - 27 July
http://www.amazon.com/Guild-Wars-Asc...8064658&sr=1-1

ArenaNet, sir.

Check the posts above....