It certainly holds no strong nostalgia for me.Īt this point I don't really care where we go. I played some of the content there but I have only the dimmest memories of it. I guess they all draw from similar real-world source material.įor some reason I can't fathom, Cantha seems to represent the promised land to many former Guild Wars players. The "early concept art" included in the announcement has everyone believing the expansion will take us to Cantha, although that bridge just reminds me of one in Vanguard's Kojan. If they can pull that off I could see myself playing it a lot. I particularly like the sound of the forthcoming instalment focusing on " capturing and defending territories in a PvE map, using objectives similar to WvW". That said, the Icebrood Saga so far has been a significant improvement over pretty much everything added to the game since Heart of Thorns. The fact that I strongly dislike the last expansion, to the point that I can almost claim it ruined the game for me, is not helping me to drum up enthusiasm for whatever it is they're working on. I suppose I should be pleased but the prospect of playing the thing is so remote I can barely manage a tickle of interest.
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We're going where? Sorry, never heard of it. Now it has finally collapsed and ANet appear to be ready to rejoin the rest of the world in seeing expansions as a natural and desirable part of the process rather than some dire fate to be avoided at all costs. When there was regime change last year I did momentarily imagine attitudes might shift but the party line held for a good while.
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The previous management at ANet seemed to be fairly committed to not doing any more expansions ever again if they could possibly avoid it. Judging by the above quote, I guess we might expect to see it sometime in 2021 at the earliest.Ī four year gap between expansions is desperataly unhealthy for a supposedly successful MMORPG but at this point I'm just surprised - amazed, even - that we're going to be getting one at all. I would have said the third expansion should have dropped absolutely no later than two years after that. When we are ready, you’ll definitely know! Path of Fire, the second expansion, went live in September 2017.
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We’ll have to stick to that until we’re ready to reveal more Right now, including features, story, release date, or development Team is hard at work, and it’s much too soon to talk about any details It's more an announcement that one day there will be an announcement:ĭevelopment is underway on a third Guild Wars 2 expansion. The reveal is virtually buried at the end of a dev blog going under the tedium-inducing title Looking Ahead to Spring, Summer and the Future. ArenaNet just soft-announced the third expansion for Guild Wars 2.Īnd when I say "soft" I mean talc on Mohs' scale of hardness. I thought I'd pop this up to bookmark the day it happened.