Pikimal: More than two years ago, ArenaNet founder Mike O’Brien made a huge statement by posting the “Guild Wars 2 Design Manifesto” which slammed traditional MMORPG mechanics and proclaimed boldly that their development team had “one mission: to make Guild Wars 2 the best MMORPG ever created.”
The hype train is finally pulling into the station, as Guild Wars 2 will be launching officially on August 28. I’ve gotten a pretty thorough feel for the game through three Beta Weekends and two Stress Tests, or at least enough of one to reasonably gauge whether a hefty superlative like “best MMORPG ever” could be applied to 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.
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🙃