Guild Wars 2

Hello, maybe you should consider change a name of game from guild wars 2 to world of guild wars (actually its serious I don’t want troll dev) . This game take place in area we know well from guild wars but its hard to call it continuation since its very different from what we saw in first game. There is no strong connection and as a new player I find it strange that I can’t even manage my build (which in my opinion was best part of gw1) You promised us world that will be changed by players but it doesn’t meter did we save or not village, after 20 min it will be attacked by same boss we just killed few min ago. Lore which was a very good in gw1 here it fells like it misses some part (We miss information like “why elder dragons are real threat ?”,also game mention nothing about our avatar from gw1 (and we saved world 4 times) I liked first part of story trough (before you join one of factions (vigil, etc)) . Pvp which was great in first part of guild wars here fell unpolished , (2 modes spvp and wvw) I know that loot of time passed but dev choice to call it gw2 really makes a lot of things confusing.

Companies do things for financial reasons. In this case, it is brand name awareness that brings people in who played Guild Wars 1. To change the name now would not only lose that but cost money to redesign the boxes in retail as well as other costs. What financial incentive would the company have to change the name at this date?

Well I don’t demand that they change it right now, maybe they could do it with new expansion or add sub title to game(below guild wars 2). I know that some people will say “why you left gw1 in first place?” but after dev abandoned it(no new events, new campaigns) and I can’t count for new content I am kind of stuck here ^ ^

Prophecies was originally just called Guild Wars… they changed the name when Factions came out. So there’s no reason they couldn’t do this.

They could do this as they did with prophecies, but to be honest I don’t see the point.

The name “World of Guild Wars” just make me think too much of trying to mimic “World of Warcraft”… and really there’s no rule that says that the sequel needs to be just like the original.

For example Aliens is completely different in feel and style than Alien (to name a movie), first one being more survival horror, while the second more action oriented, and if you come to gaming, there are no games more different than Dune and Dune 2 (any other old timer can say the same)

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The devs stated early on that GW2 will be a different game from GW1.

Yes, they promised a lot of things. Whether they lived up to those promises is debatable.

Does it mean the game needs to change it’s name? No

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The devs stated early on that GW2 will be a different game from GW1.

Yes, they promised a lot of things. Whether they lived up to those promises is debatable.

Does it mean the game needs to change it’s name? No

I find the game awesome as it is. The only thing I really miss from GW1 is being able to have two classes (I was an elementalist/mesmer).