Guild Wars 2

I was thinkin over a few ‘gee, what if’ ideas earlier, and one has stuck in my mind: what if, at some point, the charr and/or the humans actually break the ceasefire?

I mean, things aren’t particularly stable between them right now — they’re in a detente, there are overtures of peace being made, and the only thing keeping them from leaping at each others’ throats is their respective internal problems.

So. That being the case, I would be quite interested in a storyline, somewhere down the road, where the charr and the humans go at it again, with the world going back to the status quo ante of the first game.

Of course, it’d have to be done carefully, but it would add some flavor to the world.

Opinions?

It depends on how robust GW2’s engine would be for the modification needed. For example, the peacetalks taking place in the Fields of Ruin would need to be completely redone. That charr that wanders around Divinity’s Reach would need to be removed or altered etc etc.

The sheer amount of changes is daunting. Everywhere a charr and human NPC are close to each other, one would expect there to at least be a change of text to acknowledge they are at war. Something like that would probably require an entire expansion.

Also it goes against the core theme of GW2 that the only way the races will be able to survive is by cooperating.

Now an alternative might be using the Mists to travel into a future instance where the charr and humans have gone to war and the world has been devastated by the dragons. All the other races have been wiped out but the charr and humans are still fighting each other, unable to give up on the hatred even though they are about to be destroyed. It wouldn’t be the entire world but I think that would make for a compelling story.

Galrenmar.7025:

I was thinkin over a few ‘gee, what if’ ideas earlier, and one has stuck in my mind: what if, at some point, the charr and/or the humans actually break the ceasefire?

I mean, things aren’t particularly stable between them right now — they’re in a detente, there are overtures of peace being made, and the only thing keeping them from leaping at each others’ throats is their respective internal problems.

So. That being the case, I would be quite interested in a storyline, somewhere down the road, where the charr and the humans go at it again, with the world going back to the status quo ante of the first game.

Of course, it’d have to be done carefully, but it would add some flavor to the world.

Opinions?

That can happen but will never effect player characters gameplay wise. Since game is built for all races to share the same classes, guilds, and other gameplay features. Causing a divide that effects players would force the gameplay to change, and that likely never will happen, since there is no PvP in the PvE world, and it could break guilds apart, etc.