According to Mike O’Brien, president of ArenaNet and executive producer of NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2, not much has changed in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) genre. Despite the continued success of Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft and Electronic Arts’ recent success with BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, O’Brien said the content model has been the same quest-based model in every MMO.
The new Guild Wars 2 expansion, Janthir Wilds, marks the fifth chapter of the classic MMORPG's ongoing story, and it finally adds housing.
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.