Live Team shifted over to work on GW2

As a reminder, GW1 is still being supported in the sense that they are still polishing it up what's already there (bug fixes, skill updates). It's just that the days of new content like WiK and WoC have ended.

But there should be WiK/WoC like nf content!
I think it may be relased on annivessary

Let's just hope they can eventually dedicate resources to GW1 again.

its probably just me but it didnt seem like they did a lot of big stuff like woc/wik except rarely. so how is it any different then it was before?

Although I'm looking forward to Guild Wars 2, I wish that they wouldn't abandon support for this game. With the very spaced out skill balances and things that need fixing, once they attend to those issues leaving this game will be alright.

Goodbye Paragon skill update.

Goodbye Smiting skill update.

Goodbye second ele update?

Goodbye NF beyond content.

Goodbye to any hope for an AB update.

I assume starting Easter early was meant to soften the blow?... It didn't.

hmmm...guess they have already shifted since the log in announcement is STILL last weekends---

You forgot one: Goodbye Ranger update.
Bad news indeed.

Realistically I think they want GW to become update free shortly after GW2 is out. Aside from bug fixes I would be surprised if we see much in the way of updates for GW in the future.

It's a fact that they could just shut down the servers for GW the moment GW2 goes live but they won't do that. They are going above and beyond just by keeping GW alive after the release of GW2.

It's not like the game is unplayable as it is. How much more can we expect from them?

No more Beyond content ? Balls...

Eh. The only thing they could do for AB is put the border back in the middle and decouple it from the AB results. With the border almost permanently giving almost every outpost that *can* change hands to the Luxons, why would anyone want to play Kurzick?

I really want to be cynical on this one, but honestly the reason they aren't hiring more people is because they only need this stuff on a temp basis and would just have to lay any new hires off after GW2 is out the door. So in that instance, it makes more sense to save the trouble of hiring and just borrow the GW1 live team.

"Temp" could be all the way up till the end of the year though.

Especially when any new hires or contractors are going to take ages to get up to speed with the GW engine, when one can reasonably assume that the Live Team have been required to keep abreast of the changes and are fully conversant on both the original engine and the updated engine.

Come on, most balance updates we had past 2 years concerned GvG and bug fixes were about things that noone ever noticed... As far as i know, the turtle is still bugged in FA..

I'm not saying it will be any better now, just that it shouldn't be any worse.

There are 4?! people in the Live Team... When you borrow 100% of a team with 4 members you really don't care about the projects they are working on. On top of that GW2 is different game and has almost nothing in common with GW.

My personal opinion is : GW started bleeding with "bimonthly updates", suffered deep wound from Mercenary heroes and now it is in downed state.

August can't come any sooner.

Let's hope no one hits [F] for a long, long time.

Well at least they were honest about it. I'm sure most of us were expecting that was happening. For sure we aren't getting the Elona chapter of Beyond now.