Guild Wars 2

Was looking at Gamespot’s E32014 “Everything you need know” and in the List Of Confirmed Exhibitors you cannot find Anet or NCSoft.

Or did I miss something? After months of silence without content releases some of us were thinking Anet would have some special announcement for E3, an expansion perhaps or some permanent content…

ArenaNet never goes to E3, as they feel they would rather show at exhibitions that allow fans.

Living Story, and through that, Gem Store items, is what’s being focused. I’m pretty sure everyone who currently plays and has played this game, who isn’t disillusioned, knows this.

That being said, they might be working on an expansion, but somehow, even that post by Regina where she’s ‘very excited about the new season’ doesn’t give much hope seeing the first season.

And why should they be at E3? They have nothing to show anyway…no new game, no new expansion…
They don’t need E3 to show more stuff for the gem store or LS…

E3 is electronics, its not really a gaming convention

Charak.9761:

E3 is electronics, its not really a gaming convention

wat? o_O

http://www.ign.com/wikis/e3/Games_at_E3_2014

As has been pointed out – Anet has never gone to E3.

E3 is more of a retailer event to spread the word about new console games and gaming accesories that will be sold at GameStop, Walmart, etc. for the holidays. The media will show up and take pictures of booth babes and reprint press releases. It’s not for “fans”. You can’t walk off the street and buy admission and a 3 day pass is $800-1000.

And cons with fans like PAX, ANet will only attend if it’s local and only for panels unless there’s a paid expansion.

And don’t get too bent out of shape. Blizzard (WoW), XL Games (Archeage) and Zenimax (TESO) aren’t there either. CCP (EVE) will be but that’s an excuse to get out of Iceland. :p

I’d rather spend the $800 buying Gems than go to E3.

MMOs rarely seem to turn up at E3, indeed. Mostly “AAA” games from big-business publishers that can’t be bothered getting too personally involved with fans anyway. And probably mobile games as well, since they’re the new media darlings.

ANet’s events tend to be Gamescom and the various incarnations of PAX – few months until the next one I think.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I’d rather spend the $800 buying Gems than go to E3.

I’d rather spend the $800 buying a holiday trip for a week in a sunny place than buying gems

I really wish they were going. I’ve always enjoyed E3 even though a lot of it is just BS. Still hype is always fun and I think ANet would be able to make a pretty big splash at it.

(and maybe I was secretly hoping they would surprise everyone and announce an expansion their)

Oh well though. Guess I’ll just watch the console people lie to me about how great their system is.

papryk.6273:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I’d rather spend the $800 buying Gems than go to E3.

I’d rather spend the $800 buying a holiday trip for a week in a sunny place than buying gems

Bah! That’s just exp-waste.