Guild Wars 2

Can we get another soundtrack for Guild Wars 2 that includes all of Maclaine’s (and other compositions) outside of the initial soundtrack release? Please?

I actually think that the majority (if not all) of it are available here: https://soundcloud.com/arenanet

They are, but I would rather a nifty CD to go with my Jeremy Soule one.

I agree, a CD would be wonderful. I’m old fashioned enough that I still use CD’s in my car.

You can also try YouTube. Just about everything is up there.

To me it seems unlikely at this point that another GW2 soundtrack will be released in a physical form now that Anet has shifted to using Soundcloud with downloadable tracks. According to Maclaine Diemer in the RPGfan Audio Team interview from a while back, there were discussions on what format the new music should be released in the future although back then negotiations were still underway.

Originally the new orchestral tracks couldn’t be downloaded on Soundcloud (unlike the sampled tracks) while Living World Season 2 was ongoing, but they were finally made downloadable not too long ago. This change implies that whatever negotiations there initially were for a physical release likely fell through, and the composers focused on releasing the tracks digitally in a downloadable format (and, much to my delight, free of charge) on Soundcloud. There are two likely strategies for the release of future soundtracks: either they follow the LW S2 approach and release the tracks on Soundcloud with the orchestral tracks initially being undownloadable, or they change gears and let all tracks be downloadable from the get go. Releasing tracks digitally is less of a hassle for Anet than making physical copies with artwork and such, so I expect them to continue with this approach.

Then again, considering that HoT will have from 1 to 2 hours of orchestral music (which is quite costly to record) with the rest being sampled according to Diemer, perhaps the amount of music and the costs of recording may in fact convince the powers that be of a potentially purchaseable soundtrack in a digital (and physical?) form. I don’t expect this to happen after how the tracks were delivered to us in S2, though.