Anet gives us a break !!

We are suppose to get new chapetr every 6 months, and ch3 suppose to be released in Nov 06 if there is no delay in development prgress.

Now i'm still straggling with my 'sin through quests and missions and there is new chapter coming, you may think 6 months is too far but try to get the whole picture :

- you are trying one of the new prof. and you still have 3 char. to get them through cantha (considering you have PvP slot).
- you still have to unlock all skills for new/old char.
- you may like one of the the new armors and want to get one.
- you may want to cover your loss of rare/common materials stocks and gold again.
- you may want to farm for particular green item you want rather than buy it (since your gold in storage on bleed from all new contents you are getting )
- you may want to work with your guildies through your alliance to get city and have access for elite mission.

i'm still neglecting that you are not (some of us don't want/can't for many reasons to do) :
- working on your titles for all/your favorite char..
- working on your rank in HA.
- try after all this to keep up with your guildies to play GvG every night.

LOL.. ANet give us break..we will not gonna catch our breaths like this, 6 months is too short in my opinion.

PS:you don't have to do all what i mentioned but at least if you are doing half of them in GW it will make you complete busy from new chapter coming after 6 months

Yes, we have plenty of 'work' to do before the next chapter will come out.

Now hope i don't get a drop worth millions otherwise i'll never have to farm again

ANet is totally rushing all these "expansions" (or additional stand-alone) games. Because of this I am worrying about the quality of these "expansions." To me, Faction is not as promising as I expected.

I wish Anet could slow down abit with all these expansions and develope one that is wrothwhile like the original GW.

Dont have to buy the expansion

Very true
In fact I'm glad the next expansion will be there in 5 months, because it allows me to skip this one if it has not turned to the good by summer hollidays (this date I set long ago to gather some information first rather than buying 'blindly'; for chapter 3 it would be chrismas hollidays I think )

This is the first time I've ever seen somebody complain of too MUCH gameplay.

I agree that rushing to market can have bad consequences, however. E.g., KOTOR II could have been the greatest PC game of all time, but the obvious rushing was EXTREME (as in graphics that were just in outline form). Most painful was that what started as a deep intricate story dissolved into something at the end that made little more sense than -- well, than the Guild Wars Prophecies story.

I've got to agree with Francis above. Six months is long enough time to play through the game, explore, unlock and capture skills, farm, buy armor and weapons, and all that good stuff. Last year, my friends were complaining that they had run out of things to do in Prophecies by September/October, if not earlier -- and arguably Prophecies was a much longer game than Factions.

And iirc, selling expansion packs every six-months, in lieu of monthly fees, was Anet's business plan from the start. Anet's not going to make money every quarter sitting on a year old game, and they'll lose player interest in the meantime. Still, it took them over half a year to release Sorrow's Furnace (albeit free) and a year to release Factions. That said, they're not forcing you to buy the expansions. Although, I would think the fans would salivate over new content.

But Ch3 will be realised at the end of 2006...
Dont forget that there is something like Summer break and many people want to take a break from GW.

Sure, but what I'm saying is if Anet waits a year between releases, as they did with Factions, they'll lose a lot of players and risk GW becoming irrelevant. I know a lot of players who finished GW, got rich, got rank, and just had nothing left to do. They moved onto other games, and many haven't come back for Factions.

Just because expansions come out, doesn't mean you have to rush through the game you're on now. It just means that there's more game content ahead of you if you choose to buy it.

I just hope it doesn't end up with EA Sports Syndrome or Unreal Tournament EveryOtherYear - cookie cutter-esque sequels/expansions which aren't really that different from the previous version and are basically just to get sales in...

Yes, GW was starting to grind a bit (in more than one sense) and it's about time there was a sequel/expansion/whateveryouwanttocallit it's going to be quite the balancing act to provide lasting content and not fall into the cookie cutter trap

I love GWP/GWF and don't get me wrong i'm just raising my voice.This not complaining or whining thread, all what i'm saying at this speed your char. can't keep it up with new contents in every 6 months, and if they gives us new prof. every expansion ..your char. will get lost between all these expansions at this rate of releases.

Just my opinion of course, but no way could Factions hold my interest for a year. There's nothing to do but farm faction points.

There's too many issues still in it that prevent it from being a great game. From mission balance, to obscene amounts of forced faction farming. Game turns dull and boring way to fast for me. There's ways to fix this, but this is not the right thread for that topic.

What the OP does not understand is that A-Net spends one year on EVERY game they make including GW:P, when prophecies was released they were developing factions and 6 months before factions was released they were developing CH:3 and ill bet 6 months before CH:3 is released 4 will be in the works.

I worry about the quality of the game as well if they rush out expansions. Now, I'm not a game developer but I do know a little something about programming and I've been a gamer for a while. Quality games can take many months to years to develop. I fear that, unless Chapters 3 and 4 were in the works from the beginning, the overall quality of the game will diminish with each new chapter.

Ok just SHHH

The announcement for expansions every six months CAME EVEN BEFORE THE RELEASE OF GUILD WARS!

So please, you should have done your crying a long time ago. The reason it took a year for factions is because they still had to get into the swing of things, and now they are getting into it and I am happy, because I am not overly impressed with factions besides the classes and pets =) other than that... meh... So I WELCOME an african-themed GW.

Seriously O.o 6-month expansions was announced before the GW release... SO SHHH, this was something everyone knew but you... because we decided not to tell you... cause you smell like old people.... yeah...

We have the option "not to buy" and yet be "Comptetivie" lol
And factions was only a good mirror why not to purchase the next Chapter
Maybe in time it will improve but ...

IMO it's only a good planned marketing strategy. You will get a chapter for 50$ with less content then "Profecies" and two new professions + 3 new guildhalls + 1 most wanted facility "Auction house" anyone?

It's not that they don't listen to their customers ... it's like

"You want it? pay for it"

as I and others have said each chapter gets ONE YEAR not 6 months.

work on Factions was started and announced on release of GW.

chapter 3 started with a completely independent team and was announced 6 months later and the latest news on chapter 3 is that it is on schedule for an ontime release this Oct/Nov with ONE YEARS WORK ON IT.

chapter 4 is/will be very soon started for a 2nd year anniversary launch by a completely separate team WITH ONE FULL YEAR of work.

as for the short time remember they now have an extensive art/animation library to work with and the game engine is in place as well.

well if this is all true then i'll buy the game after the retail prices go down -) save me the cash and when buying suff in game it will all be cheaper

Unless we get auction houses and bigger storages, you couldnt give me a free copy of chater 2-3 or whatever. We have been bitching and moaning for over a year for an auction house and bigger storages.. Other less complicated games have them, its not rocket science to put one into the game.

What is the use to have all these new weapons and event items, if they are not going to give us any more room or a better way of getting rid of our stuff, other than the merchant or spamming in(insert favorite town).

I have 2 mules full of items I have collected and want to keep, and my other two characters I use to play. Now, they know we want more room and know we desperately need more storage space. Instead of giving this to us, they only allow us to buy more room (ie..$$ for xtra character slots). THIS IS CLEARLY A SLAP IN THE FACE.

Yes, I enjoy the game, but unless they give us more storage space and auction houses, they will not see another penny from me. I am a collector. I enjoy collecting and refuse to dump shit, just because anet wont give me more space and they are trying to make us buy it. As far as the auction houses go, this would decrease much spam in any selling/buying town.

Geez, it's not like there's a requirement that every character who doesn't beat a chapter by the time the next one comes out gets deleted. Do it all at your own pace, what's the big deal? I still have plenty of things left to do in Prophecies, and I far prefer the feeling of more things to do piling up to the feeling of "oh no, I've done everything, and now there's no real point to playing anymore."