Gamasutra - While the MMO genre has been set in its post-World of Warcraft ways since Blizzard released its market-leading online game 2004, ArenaNet is trying to go its own way with Guild Wars 2.
Wccftech talked to Guild Wars 2 Game Director Josh Davis about the learnings from the Secrets of the Obscure expansion and what's coming to the MMORPG.
The "slippery slope" debate has started, now we wait to see what ArenaNet does.
"ArenaNet and NCSOFT are today very happy and excited to announce that they have just released the "Secrets of the Obscure" expansion for their award-winning and critically acclaimed MMORPG "Guild Wars 2"." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
very much so... "blank" is still a thing" is also still a thing as you can can surmise.
Anet also announced the 5th expansion. "We’ve already started applying lessons from the development of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure to our fifth expansion, which we expect to be released next year." From their site, been with this game since 1st beta, and announcing the 5th expansion so soon, the game is doing very well, plus the graphics are improved a bit now that it's on DX11🙃
Correct, and yes. Imo, they've done very well for themselves, and I'm very impressed with what they have achived with GW2 since the game launched.
Arena Net is putting a lot of effort into this mmo.
yes godammit
With the amount of hype this is getting, Arena Net are going to be kicking themselves for going with the f2p formula. No game has came even remotely close to generating as much hype for this game since WoW's release and honestly, the hype reminds me of what WoW was like leading up to it's release.
Not only has it generated the hype, but it has delivered FAR above it IN ITS BETA FORM!
But to answer your question, you bet your f***ing ass it is.
Im not sold on it yet. Nothing new here.