Destiny’s Edge was a guild. They are at war with the elder dragons. They fought and defeated dragon champions.
Guild Wars doesn’t have to mean guild vs. guild. It can mean guild vs. environment.
I was searching for an apt “rofl/lol gif” to copy in here, but alas, all of them fell terribly short to reflect the boundless hilarity reading your ingenious post had caused.
You won the Internet today, sir, and I’d hazard the guess that Mad King Thorn would’ve renounced his claim to his esteemed title and bestowed it upon you.
Yeah. It was pretty funny how he schooled you with an extremely relevant point regarding the OPs question.
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Schooling, you say?
Copied over from the first page:
On a bit more serious note: you’d expect from a game heavily implied to be built on the Guild Wars of old – and the last, bloodiest war that raged for 57 years, making the bedding for all the world-shaping calamities to come – to actually make allusions to those. But at least not disrespect it as much as it has become one of the main foci of the writing team! I mean, you wouldn’t handwave away the importance of the very reason these wars broke out, would you?
Still, aside from Trahearne’s monologue in the story step of A Light in the Darkness and a footnote in a secluded outpost in Malchor’s Leap, there’s absolutely zero reference to the Guild Wars.
The Guilds need to combine to fight the dragons. I’m not sure that’s particularly ingenuous. It seems fairly obvious to me.
Good thing that is so well reflected in the game… not. For further information, please check out the paragraphs above. Reading through the whole, merged thread to realize the point of both OPs questions wouldn’t hurt either.
I didn’t post my initial comment in the whole merged thread, so I would have had to have read another thread to say that. The thread was merged after my post. So much for snide and unwarranted comments.
The game is very clear that Destiny’s Edge is a guild. I’m pretty sure everyone knows that. The entire dungeon path through the game, the story path, tells the story of Destiny’s Edge. It’s a major part of the game.
I played through all of Guild Wars 1, many MANY times and you know, in game, in PvE, the Guild Wars were virtually never referred to.
There was GvG in that game, but this is where it gets interesting. The interest in GvG over the years dwindled as the popularity of PvE increased.
When Anet originally designed Guild Wars 1, they thought that PvE would be a path to take people into PvP. They didn’t realize that people who like PvE often have very little interest in PvP.
Factions, the first expansion was heavily PvP oriented, and introduced Factions into the mix. Nightfall the next game in the series, didn’t expand PvP at all. Why? Because Anet was starting to see which side of the bread was actually buttered. PvE players didn’t necesssarily go to PvP end game.
So when Eye of the North came out, and the PvP players were ignored AGAIN they felt disenfranchised. But the truth is there really wasn’t as much interest in PvP in the later part of the game’s lifespan as there was in PvE.
Those who love PvP refuse to acknowledge this, but that doesn’t stop it from being true. The long term hard core PvP crowd started moving away from Guild Wars 1 long before Guild Wars 2 came out, but the hard core PvE crowd, a lot of it anyway, stayed.
Anet didn’t put Guild vs Guild in this game, possibly because by the time this game was being made, it wasn’t popular enough to bother with, even though a bunch of die hards who remember the good old days want it.
A lot of people bought this game for WvW and a lot of people bought this game for PvE. I’m not sure how many bought the game for PvP, but I’m certain most of them were disappointed.
As a PvE player myself, I never cared about GvG in Guild Wars 1, so for me and the large number of players like me, it didn’t enter into the equation at all.
