Guild Wars 2

Nike.2631:

Boneheart.3561:

Every time I see cries for a new playable race(s), it’s for an immediate release, as if no one is taking into account the volume of content that would entail:

• New starter zone

Not strictly required, but it would be nice.

• New Personal Story

I don’t play the one we have now on my alts. I give slightly less than a mouldy skritt’s lopped off tail. Needless make-work to do one if you set up the new races as a thing for veteran players.

• New City

Again optional and largely irrelevant – its not like the cities we have now are anything more than a way to take load off of Lions Arch – a function rendered meaningless by the mega-sharding. A slightly more service oriented village on the starter map would fulfill the need as well as a whole city map would.

• Free pizza

Now, you realize any pizza will have to be bought through the gem store . They gotta make some money somewhere in this process.

• New racial Skills

Which can and even should be as defective/sub-par as the existing ones.

• Re-fitting armors

True, but also why skeleton-based animation exists.

From someone who desperately wants a new playable race, I’d rather them not add one if they weren’t going to give them the full treatment (capital city complete with voiced ambient NPC banter, starting zone, Personal Story, voice acting, etc.)

Agreed, if there’s going to be a new race at some point, it should recieve the full treatment. New capital, personal story, starter zone and cultural armors are all necessary.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Agreed, if there’s going to be a new race at some point, it should recieve the full treatment. New capital, personal story, starter zone and cultural armors are all necessary.

Agreed as well.
I am all about the Tengu becoming a playable race, but at the same time, I am patient enough to want it done right.

If the tengu become a playable race, you can bet I’d slap down at LEAST enough money to buy three extra slots. Maybe more. All for bird.

Heck, I’d pay to unlock the race from the gem shop. Birds are…very important. See username.

As for if / when they would release them? I wouldn’t count on anytime during 2014. Perhaps, like others said, for a hard expansion they would. Didn’t ANet mention something about trying to get the voice actors all back together for more scripted content? Maybe they’re also getting together people for a new race? Wishful thinking I know. I can dream though. ;u;