Guild Wars 2

Mastruq.2463:

Someone translated it quite correctly as “we’ll do it when we think it will have the most impact on our revenue – currently that’s not the case”.

Quite correct. I sure as kitten wouldn’t buy an expansion right now. I don’t really trust ArenaNet / NCSoft to actually make a good game. I expect they’ll do the minimum possible with the goal of annoying me into the cash shop through bad RNG.

If/when they every unscrew GW2, I’ll consider buying an expansion. As it stands, this game is a money grabbing quality control nightmare.

To be fair, you can tell that some of the devs are trying to put some heart into it, but somewhere along the management and quality assurance chains this game is getting destroyed.

So yea. No thanks to an expansion. Wouldn’t waste my money. Prove you can fix your game first, and manage projects. Do that, and then you might get some pretty amazing revenue from an expansion.

FourthVariety.5463:

Just as Assyrian said, you cannot just dump an expansion out there with just 400 new hearts that work the same, with the same bunch of scripted events triggering more scripted events. Who do you want to fight? Yet another dragon?

actually yes, I would like to fight another dragon. We only defeated 1 of the elder dragons and the story seems a bit unfinished unless we defeat all.

I worry about an expansion spreading the player base out too thin. So how could you do an expansion that maintains player density?

/tinfoil hat

they not making/planning on an xpac because the sales would be poor because of how many unhappy players be them GW1 players or just MMO players leaving, the base game sold 3mil+ I don’t see xpac selling that much anytime soon, to much wrong with the game for that.

raiden.9024:

/tinfoil hat

they not making/planning on an xpac because the sales would be poor because of how many unhappy players be them GW1 players or just MMO players leaving, the base game sold 3mil+ I don’t see xpac selling that much anytime soon, to much wrong with the game for that.

Their 2013 first quarter information shows that GW2 is quite profitable…

Mirta.5029:

raiden.9024:

/tinfoil hat

they not making/planning on an xpac because the sales would be poor because of how many unhappy players be them GW1 players or just MMO players leaving, the base game sold 3mil+ I don’t see xpac selling that much anytime soon, to much wrong with the game for that.

Their 2013 first quarter information shows that GW2 is quite profitable…

I said players leaving :P didn’t say about the players they had wasn’t spending cash, MMO with subs only need 150k to turn a profit even SWTOR, I don’t think 3mil players play GW2 today, do u ?

raiden.9024:

Mirta.5029:

raiden.9024:

/tinfoil hat

they not making/planning on an xpac because the sales would be poor because of how many unhappy players be them GW1 players or just MMO players leaving, the base game sold 3mil+ I don’t see xpac selling that much anytime soon, to much wrong with the game for that.

Their 2013 first quarter information shows that GW2 is quite profitable…

I said players leaving :P didn’t say about the players they had wasn’t spending cash, MMO with subs only need 150k to turn a profit even SWTOR, I don’t think 3mil players play GW2 today, do u ?

Not at all. I doubt even 1 million play regularly at all. Of course I can’t prove this.

What I do know, however, is 3 million is less than half of the sales Guild Wars made…

6th most played game by Xfire users currently, logging about half the hours of World of Warcraft (which seems to have a much larger Xfire userbase than GW2 player-for-player) despite GW2 being only about a tenth of WoW’s age. Fairly stable box sales and a stronger-than-expected cash shop performance.

Tell me more about how GW2 is failing, naysayers. Data’s proving otherwise. You not liking the game =/= everyone not liking the game. Get over yourselves, and check your delusions of grandeur at the login screen.

As for this investor call and mention of an expansion, I recall Colin saying that they had several years of content being planned (planned, as in not actually being put to IDE), and I’ve never doubted those plans include expansions. I speculated then, and continue to speculate now, that they’ll be looking at other dragons (Kralk, Jormag, Bubbles, etc) and additional areas (named areas surrounding the current playable area that we can’t get to yet, Elona, Cantha) to fill out their expansion content while maintaining a steady stream of monthly Living Story and similar content updates as they’ve been doing for the past few months.

And I’m definitely digging that. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an overflow to greet in this seemingly “dead” game.

DusK.3849:

6th most played game by Xfire users currently, logging about half the hours of World of Warcraft (which seems to have a much larger Xfire userbase than GW2 player-for-player) despite GW2 being only about a tenth of WoW’s age. Fairly stable box sales and a stronger-than-expected cash shop performance.

Tell me more about how GW2 is failing, naysayers. Data’s proving otherwise. You not liking the game =/= everyone not liking the game. Get over yourselves, and check your delusions of grandeur at the login screen.

As for this investor call and mention of an expansion, I recall Colin saying that they had several years of content being planned (planned, as in not actually being put to IDE), and I’ve never doubted those plans include expansions. I speculated then, and continue to speculate now, that they’ll be looking at other dragons (Kralk, Jormag, Bubbles, etc) and additional areas (named areas surrounding the current playable area that we can’t get to yet, Elona, Cantha) to fill out their expansion content while maintaining a steady stream of monthly Living Story and similar content updates as they’ve been doing for the past few months.

And I’m definitely digging that. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an overflow to greet in this seemingly “dead” game.

Awesome reply! Kudos to you.

Chuo.4238:

Not at all. I doubt even 1 million play regularly at all. Of course I can’t prove this.

What I do know, however, is 3 million is less than half of the sales Guild Wars made…

So a seven+ year old game with three expansions sold more copies than a nine month old game? Color me surprised.