[Neraphym]

http://www.theinquir...x?article=37986

Wibb1e posted this in another topic, so I thought it repost it here. Looks like the next Guild Wars will be the last in the series. :-( At least we'll finally do something about poor old Ascalon.

[Cspace]

The last in the series? What? Isn't the GW player base still growing?

What's the point of stopping here and waiting two or three years to release whatever follows the expansion, when the game they have is already this successful?

While I think the "Eye of the North" is fairly certain (NCsoft registered the domain), I wouldn't be so sure that everything they said is true. At least I hope not...

Thanks for the link

[Aaron]

So, the fourth chapter seems to be an expansion of Prophecies. I'm totally in for that! I'd rather have more places to go and do with a max level character than start all over every chapter . I liked Prophecies the best anyways (It's a shame that no one plays it anymore). Guild Wars 2 also is getting me excited. I'm anxiously awaiting the availability of different races .

[Groban]

Umm, I'm sorry to disappoint you all, but here's the official word on the topic from Gaile Gray (an ArenaNet representative):

If you don't have an account at GWonline.net, then here's what she said:

Just a quick word to let you know that we haven't made any official announcements about Guild Wars in, oh, a couple of months. Sure, there's a little *ahem* info circulating this week. But you guys know the drill: Until we say it, it's not official. I can tell you that some of what you've read is right, some of it is wrong, and quite a bit of it is misleading. Unfortunately, we can't offer a fact check quite yet.

The good news is that the top game publications in Europe and the U.S. are preparing feature articles with major Guild Wars news -- I wasn't joking when I said a few days ago that I think it'll knock your socks off. In the U.S., PC Gamer will begin delivery of the May issue to subscribers on March 15, and it will be on newsstands on April 3. European magazines, including Joystick in France, PC Zone in the U.K., PC GamePlay in Benelux, Games Machine in Italy, and PC Gamer in Germany, will reach subscribers and newsstands before the end of March.

Knowing you guys, no matter where you're located, you'll be sharing the info from your regional magazines, and that's great. I want to make sure that I let you know, this isn't some small feature -- I would boldly say that any Guild Wars player would want to buy one of these magazines, subscriber or not! In part this is because they'll offer great articles with a lot of cool info. In part it's because the magazines will give you the chance to adopt your very own exclusive new miniature. Check our website for more info tomorrow!

She didn't specify which bits were true and which bits were false, but I very much doubt that the thing about the new series is true. The only thing that seems true to me is the setting of the next game.....

[Neraphym]

I hope the GW2 rumor is wrong, because I'd rather not start all over. I really want to head back to Ascalon, though. Kill the charr!

[Unrealblight]

Great, as soon as I buy Nightfall, they get their gears goin' on a new one >_>

[Darkness]

Haven't they just recently come out with two or three other GW games? o.o;

[Cspace]

GW2 makes sense for later down the line, but what doesn't make sense is that they'd abandon GW1 expansions for 2+ years in preparation for it. The game is still growing, we may not have yet seen its peak. I don't think it's correct that whatever is coming next will be the last for the current game.

[Goto]

Haven't they just recently come out with two or three other GW games? o.o;

I think you missed the point, their plan always was to release new campaigns about every 6 months (although it's usually been longer between). There's no online fees, so they've got to keep their profits up somehow.


I've heard a lot of people wanting to get some closure on Tyria, so I'm glad they went with that (assuming they did, which seems likely enough). It also wouldn't surprise me if they started working on a sequel within a year or so, but they'd be crazy to cut off GW1 in the meanwhile.

Also, the figures seem a little suspect. Even if this really is an 'expansion' as opposed to a standalone new campaign like the others, even if it didn't have new classes that'd still only be 15 skills for each of the existing professions, much less than you'd usually see. 'Multi-level dungeons' sounds like someone wants to imagine GW as becoming a clone of many other MMOs out there, and I doubt they'd cut off PvPers that heavily.

[Neraphym]

Aye, a lot of that sounded made up, as if from a perspective of someone who didn't play guild wars at all. If there are going to be new playable races, it'd be humans, charr, tengu, cantuars, dwarves, etc. More skills would be required, and multileveled dungeons? Is there even one in gw?

[Rylkan]

We don't have multi level dungeons. But still, would be nice to see closure to the Tyrian campaign. Though, I thought it wasnt too bad an ending as is. Still, GW 2 sounds a bit fishy to me. I dont doubt there will be one, but the info sounds odd. I mean, I dont see how new classes couldbe implemented well since they have different immunities and weaknesses unless they plan to change quite a bit about the game. Would be quite different if you had an inherent ele armor bonus or something. Only way I can see it keeping it similar to the current one is maybe different armor with these effects, but same skill sets, etc. Who knows.

[Dragonman]

Let me catch up ArenaNet.

Anyways.. no new professions?

[Darkness]

Haven't they just recently come out with two or three other GW games? o.o;

I think you missed the point, their plan always was to release new campaigns about every 6 months (although it's usually been longer between). There's no online fees, so they've got to keep their profits up somehow.

Eh... but wouldn't that mean that everyone is playing a different game? How can you people consider yourselves a faction if you all have two hundred versions?

[x..]

I'm excited...

[Cspace]

Haven't they just recently come out with two or three other GW games? o.o;

I think you missed the point, their plan always was to release new campaigns about every 6 months (although it's usually been longer between). There's no online fees, so they've got to keep their profits up somehow.

Eh... but wouldn't that mean that everyone is playing a different game? How can you people consider yourselves a faction if you all have two hundred versions?

They're all technically expansions, except they can be played without the original game. The guild spans all of them as if they were expansions, characters can move between continents and meet up without trouble.

Some may say that they're different "games", but they're really all the same game. Each just introduces its own content apart from what is shared (such as the arenas).

It's just as easy maintaining a guild here as in most other games of its type... Perhaps even easier. Even the 12 or 13 EverQuest 1 expansions didn't phase guilds.