Unfortunately, no new offical infographic had been made since then. Since its the 1st anniversary of GW2, fans had made a infographic that summarize the progress of the 1st year of GW2.
Btw, I was not the creator of this fan-made infographic.
What do you think of it? Anything surprising or missing? Do you want GW2 to release more offical infographics? What do you want to see?
0 Subscription Fees isn’t really a special note anymore lol. At this point I think more games have no-sub than do, and lets check opinions on F2P games as a whole. Buzzwords do get lots of attention though lol
Half of that stuff isn’t even accessible anymore, I see they left that part out.
A lot of the things that aren’t accessible anymore (Molten Facility, Super Adventure Box, etc) are confirmed to be coming back, so they aren’t gone forever. MF will be a Fractal and the SAB is in the portfolio of “seasonal” content they can update and roll out again whenever they want.
The point of this was to illustrate that GW2 has had a busy and fun first year, and I can’t wait to see what Year 2 has in store for us.
Half of that stuff isn’t even accessible anymore, I see they left that part out.
Hello, I’m “@WillArmstrongIV”, the one who did the art and layout for the infographic, and both myself and @Omlech discussed what exactly should go on it.
I want to clarify that there was never any intent to mislead, as this was created to show what ArenaNet produced content-wise in their first year. Whether the content is available now or not is irrelevant; if it was something they made, we felt it merited inclusion because this was celebrating everything that happened over the span of the first year.
Also, to head off some questions that have been asked in various other places;
The 5 dungeons are Molten Facility, Aetherblade Retreat, Canach’s Lair, Tixx’s Infinirarium and Ascent to Madness. We went back and forth on whether to count all of those, but in the end decided to use the wiki as our primary source, which lists them as dungeons. The wiki actually lists 6, but we felt Super Adventure Box was more of an “activity”, so that’s where it appears.
The 58 new armor skins is counting individual pieces, as well as back items. We did it that way because not all armor skins are part of a set (Dragon Bash helm, Molten Facility Gauntlets, etc.).
Yes, that totally is the guy from the cover of “Myst”! I wanted to work a falling guy in near the Jumping Puzzles section and remembered that particular imagery first, being a big fan of the game from when I was younger. There’s also a lot of other stuff tuck away in the silhouettes. My favorite is the castle on the WvW section.
0 Subscription Fees isn’t really a special note anymore lol. At this point I think more games have no-sub than do, and lets check opinions on F2P games as a whole. Buzzwords do get lots of attention though lol
The point of including the “0 Subscription Fees” was to end the “numerical theme” on a particularly strong note. It’s inclusion at the bottom was intended to drive home the point that “all of this new stuff was added for free”.
This info graphic is awesome, it really is. Especially for a celebratory notion, in case you happen to be completely satisfied with the progress that ArenaNet has made to the game so far.
Some people aren’t though, and this infographic can do well to rub them the wrong way. So if this thread blows up with angry hate letters, I wouldn’t be surprised.
P.S. The info graphic doesn’t mention that they took Keg Brawl out of it’s permanent position and made it a time-gated. I hope that’s not included in that 14 number… lol
Thanks. In case anyone was wondering, they asked permission to use it first. It’s also been on Guru (with the wrong credits), Massively, VG247 and a few others. I was really surprised, as we had originally made it just for our own forum.
Half of that stuff isn’t even accessible anymore, I see they left that part out.
Unfortunately, that’s the downside of the living story strategy, one that i do not particularly agree with. People with limited time or new players do unfortunately miss out on them.
The point of including the “0 Subscription Fees” was to end the “numerical theme” on a particularly strong note. It’s inclusion at the bottom was intended to drive home the point that “all of this new stuff was added for free”.
That part is a bit disingenuous in the light of the fact that all of the new armor sets & most of the new weapon skins are PAY ONLY.
The point of including the “0 Subscription Fees” was to end the “numerical theme” on a particularly strong note. It’s inclusion at the bottom was intended to drive home the point that “all of this new stuff was added for free”.
That part is a bit disingenuous in the light of the fact that all of the new armor sets & most of the new weapon skins are PAY ONLY.
I think you’re being dishonest by saying that the weapon skins are pay only. You can purchase gems using gold from players that want to buy gold.
0 Subscription Fees isn’t really a special note anymore lol. At this point I think more games have no-sub than do, and lets check opinions on F2P games as a whole. Buzzwords do get lots of attention though lol
This is dishonest. Traditionally sub-free games existed in two flavors:
- korean grinders with pay2win cash shops (with very rare updates)
- failed western mmo’s trying to be AAA games (not updated past this point)
Guild Wars 2 is neither. It’s a western AAA game which never charged a sub fee, isn’t pay2win, has no necessary grinds, updates extremely often. Because of that, your post has absolutely no relevance to GW2.
If I can’t play Guild Wars 2 at work, I won’t work in Guild Wars 2 either.
Delayed content is eventually good. Rushed content is eternally bad. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
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