When one sits down to play an mmorpg, it's to have some fun and escape the drudgery of the real world. That fun is derailed when jerks (you can call them hackers or cheaters) mess with you by exploiting the system. Such was the case recently where a notorious Guild Wars 2 hacker was running rampant through WvW. However, he finally received his just deserts and was publicly shamed. Some have criticized what ArenaNet did to him while others rejoiced. MMO-Play is firmly on the rejoicing side, so let me explain how Guild Wars 2 rightly handled player cheating.
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.
