Guild Wars 2

Who would like to see more emphasis on story and cutscenes as in real time cut scenes like in gw1, i know its possible with the engine because we sort of have them already and gw1 had them, which i hear gw2 is just a heavily modified gw1 engine.

Also please release an expansion soon, i want to see new gameplay elements!

I’m really happy this games a success honestly it is not only a success but gw2 single-handedly changed the mmo market forever with games all going ftp.

Its less than a year old…..and you want an expansion….

This is not GW1….they aren’t going to hand you a new game every 6 months. They’re doing something different this time around

Edit: Don’t get me wrong, and expansion would be nifty, but at this point it would probably be terribly rushed and not up to par for what we really want to see.

terribly rushed? the games been out for 9 months, if they release an expansion at the 1 year point that would be fine

All im saying is anet has said they their focusing more on living story which i think is wrong, i want more skills more builds more weapon skills and gameplay mechanics, not just living story

They do polish, bug updates, etc with each update. There is nothing saying that more weapons and skills won’t also be rolled out in these updates.

However, they do need to focus on the core game before they work on an expansion. More pvp options, get most of the bugs fixed, make sure all the base mechanics / loot scaling / etc are working smoothly (and as intended), continue with rolling out the living story, and so on BEFORE they try adding an expansion on top of it. Otherwise, it will just compound the issues that people are already griping about.

I wouldn’t even say that they are ‘mainly’ focused on the living story, but that’s just my 2 cents there. We don’t know one way or the other really.

Considering Factions came out about a year after Prophecies, I wouldn’t say this is an outrageous pace, especially considering the number of people working on GW2 is far larger than it was when GW1 had been out this long. Colin more or less said that they have no plans to make another expansion in an interview before.

The Living story stuff is cool, but no replacement for an actual campaign or expansion. It feels a little anemic by comparison to the main story of the campaign. An expansion would get me to actually spend more money. All of these limited time offers, RNG items and worthkitten osts will never see anything from me.

So if you want to see an actual expansion, don’t put any money into the gemstore.

But as far as what the OP was saying, I would like a little bit more in the way of cutscenes. I don’t mind admiring the exquisite detail of the character models and the impeccable lipsyncing the player races have (if you watch the lipsync outside of the cutscenes, it’s much more GW1 creepy marionette style). But it would be nice to have more cinematic cutscenes reminiscent of the really cool preview trailers they made.

The Talcmaster.7391:

Considering Factions came out about a year after Prophecies, I wouldn’t say this is an outrageous pace, especially considering the number of people working on GW2 is far larger than it was when GW1 had been out this long. Colin more or less said that they have no plans to make another expansion in an interview before.

What was stated was that they are not looking at an expansion ‘right now.’ They will have paid expansions, that’s already been discussed and that horse beaten to death. Expansions are ‘coming’ they just aren’t on the table ‘right now.’

With GW1, they had 2 completely separate teams building the games. 1 team built prophecies, the 2nd built factions, the 1st made nightfall. Leap frogging each other. While they have more people now, I don’t think they are going about production the same way. They have a lot of small teams working on the various components – pve, wvw, pvp, polish, bugs, testing, living story, etc. That’s not to say that they don’t have ‘some’ people working on an expansion (quietly), but it’s not something they have devoted a lot of resources to, from their previous statements. As such, I don’t think it’s like to see an expansion this soon.

But as far as what the OP was saying, I would like a little bit more in the way of cutscenes. I don’t mind admiring the exquisite detail of the character models and the impeccable lipsyncing the player races have (if you watch the lipsync outside of the cutscenes, it’s much more GW1 creepy marionette style). But it would be nice to have more cinematic cutscenes reminiscent of the really cool preview trailers they made.

I would also like to see more in the way of actual cinematics, similar to what we had in GW1 (in later years where lip movements and speech lined up, etc). They did have a couple of small ones in F&F, which I felt was a step in the right direction. Perhaps we will see more as the Living Story ramps up and further arcs are released. Of course, we can hope for actual cinematics in an expansion too, but I’d like more of them sooner, rather than later.

To me, the living story is more the story of the world. The day to day stuff that happens in Tyria. The Flame Legion teams up with the Dregde because they’ve been thrown out on their kittens and lack the Iron Legion’s ability to make war machines. We step in and end that debacle. Now, the Consortium is playing opportunist and forcing the displaced refugees into a sort of indentured servitude. We have to step in to defuse that situation while also figuring out why the wildlife is suddenly up in arms and trying to obliterate everyone on the island (more so than normal) and then deal with ‘that’ issue too. It’s like side quests in the static game, but like real life, isn’t something you will be able to do forever.

On the other hand, an expansion should offer more on the Elder Dragons. The next ‘great adventure’ to kill the Destroyer or Jormag. A more intensive, epic storyline, which further grows your character, offering more insight and depth to the personal story. This should be built on top of what you’ve already done (and if you haven’t killed the first dragon, you shouldn’t be able to do it kind of thing.)

Drastically different things in my view. Now, could the living story lead up to the expansion. Oh yeah, I should hope so.

Considering most things in the game are being planned out at least a year in advance, not on the table is about the same as not going to happen.

I disagree. Not on the table could simply be that they have an idea, a plan, but havent’ started working on it yet. It could also just be a means of shutting up the people whining about wanting one.

They aren’t going to come out and tell us that they are planning an expansion until its well along on its way. Why? Because people will want deadlines, details, etc, and aren’t happy with ‘when its done’. As Colin has stated in several recent posts, they don’t like giving time estimates because people come after them with pitchforks if, heaven forbid, something sets them back (and we all know that is relatively common in development)

Just because they stated that they have the next years worth of living story planned out, doesn’t necessarily mean everything they are working on is. Besides, even ‘if’ everything IS planned out, nothing ever runs completely according to plan AND we don’t necessarily know all the details of their plan. It would be foolhardy to fully disclose everything.

The Talcmaster.7391:

Considering most things in the game are being planned out at least a year in advance, not on the table is about the same as not going to happen.

If these new updates are planned at least year in advance then why are they so lame? Except MF

Pitchforking aside, when asked a yes or no question, he gave a no.

The Talcmaster.7391:

Pitchforking aside, when asked a yes or no question, he gave a no.

Please provide your source where Anet has firmly stated that there would be no paid expansions, ever.

you have changed the question to an absolute one that nobody in any sort of PR position would say, due to said pitchforks. Really, if you’re just concerned about being right and proving me wrong, the burden of proof lies with you.

The Talcmaster.7391:

you have changed the question to an absolute one that nobody in any sort of PR position would say, due to said pitchforks. Really, if you’re just concerned about being right and proving me wrong, the burden of proof lies with you.

No, you stated that when asked, ‘he’ gave a direct no. Implying that the question asked was if they would ever do an expansion, and the direct answer was a ‘no’ they would not be. Read your own comment “when asked a yes or no question, he gave a no” If this is not what you meant to be inferred from your comment (as we were talking about whether or not they would ever do a paid expansion) you should clarify.

In the pre-launch videos, it is stated that they will do paid expansions eventually

Colin has said it on the forum, but I’m not digging that deeply for it

Martin says here that yes, they have said they would do a paid expansion at some point (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/GW2-Expansion-targeted-for-2013/first#post1391159)

And Regina later states that the information Martin provided is still accurate, in this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/GW2-expansion-1Q-Ncsoft-Conference-Call-merged/page/3

While it is true that I cannot find anywhere that says they won’t, having said repeatedly that they will (just not when) and having NCSoft accidentally saying one is in the works and then retracting it… Yeah, both companies wouldn’t be saying ‘oh yeah ones coming, just not right now’ if in fact it were not true.

Blissified.8369:

Who would like to see more emphasis on story and cutscenes as in real time cut scenes like in gw1, i know its possible with the engine because we sort of have them already and gw1 had them, which i hear gw2 is just a heavily modified gw1 engine.

Also please release an expansion soon, i want to see new gameplay elements!

I’m really happy this games a success honestly it is not only a success but gw2 single-handedly changed the mmo market forever with games all going ftp.

IMO there wasn’t even an MMORPG market. There was just GW1 filling that genre alone. So they did a lot of things right. Would like to see more GW1 in GW2. .-. I did like the Flame and Frost style cutscenes more, they should just do a mix of both styles.

Yep, you got me, I believe those are more recent than what I was looking at. Blissified can now have his thread back to the topic of cinematics in the game now.

Lol

Yes, would definitely like to see more cinematics here….

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I disagree. Not on the table could simply be that they have an idea, a plan, but havent’ started working on it yet. It could also just be a means of shutting up the people whining about wanting one.

They aren’t going to come out and tell us that they are planning an expansion until its well along on its way. Why? Because people will want deadlines, details, etc, and aren’t happy with ‘when its done’. As Colin has stated in several recent posts, they don’t like giving time estimates because people come after them with pitchforks if, heaven forbid, something sets them back (and we all know that is relatively common in development)

I’d like to add to this:

They have ideas for an expansion. You know it, I know it, we all know it. However, an expansion can’t be just more of the same. They need to throw things at you that you don’t get in the game yet. And before they can do that, before they can even PLAN on doing that, they need to know if they CAN do that, and how.

Right now, I’m sure there’s a dozen little projects going on at ANet that will someday become part of an expansion. Over here, someone’s trying to get the AI to act differently. Over there, someone spends a little time each day surfing the Suggestions forum and writing down any “why didn’t we think of that?” ideas they find. Down the hall, someone is sobbing quietly because someone else wants to add a new armor skin to the game, and that puts them one armor set further away from working out the armor looks on Tengu so they can be Player Characters.

Only when they all have some solid stuff to show for their work will they be able to say “Guys, I think it’s time to get serious and talk expansion.” Until then, they’re already working on things that may become part of the expansion. Or they may come out before then (as I hope Tengu do). Or, they may not work out and those parts will never see the light of day. That’s just how it goes.