Guild Wars 2

No announcement on their official site or on the official forums, no festival in game, no special events in game, no special drops in game, nothing. This is not the same ArenaNet from Guild Wars and it makes me sad.

Please, ArenaNet, look at what made this franchise so popular in the first place and bring that back. I’ll give you a hint: it wasn’t a cash shop.

This is hard to say, but after almost 8 years of playing Guild Wars /Guild Wars 2, I’m on the brink of quitting. I’ve never felt like the developers were so out of touch to the point that I don’t have any assurance that the game is going in the right direction anymore. A large part of that is due to no information at all given about what’s being worked on, what the big picture is. The other part is simply based on recent and announced releases. Sure, the Living World Season 2 content has been great (minus the open world event requirements fiasco), but that’s it. I used to defend ArenaNet because I had faith they would deliver like they did in the past. Now, I’m not so sure…and it really does make this Guild Wars fan sad.

Join the club. Popular isn’t always the same as money-making, and the cash shop blows GW1 out of the water in that regard. That’s just the way it is now.

Besides, I’m sure they’re working on something cool. Just wait out this feature patch, and we’ll see what they’re up to next.

I admire your optimism. I’ve been saying the same thing to many of my friends who have quit playing over the last 6 months.

That’s how it is when companies start worshiping the almighty dollar and nothing else.

Its really weird.This was supposed to be big day for GW2 but…I can just hope that they are late a little cause of patch

Did they celebrate the first years birthday? I don’t believe they did. There was the gift but no party or celebration.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Birthday_Gift
The first anniversary of Guild Wars 2 and the distribution of the first birthday gifts coincided with the Clockwork Chaos release in August 2013.

I don’t think they have plans for any sort of celebration. Not now. Not ever. It doesn’t fit into the Living Story. I mean this literally. What does Tyria know about ANet? How would a birthday celebration for ANet fit into this world? This is how I think they are rationalizing it. Obviously they aren’t interested in making a yearly festival either with another name.

I believe that for the first Birthday, the community itself was much more interested and got itself excited for seeing what Arena Net were going to do for their one year anniversary/birthday.

And unfortunately – I’m assuming here – that most people gave up the will to care after the “lack luster” first birthday.

Also keep in mind that the Birthday aspect does not happen to everyone on August 25, so Arena Net making an event specifically for that purpose, is shunning people who made characters after.