Guild Wars 2

There are few things more exciting than seeing your charachters moving in new ways, its one of the joys of playing the first time, and unlocking skills, and seeing them do new things.

Now, i have noticed it is extremely rare that we see this happen.
most new skills use old charachter animations new effects, we have seen some animations get altered or replaced here an there.

So mostly to the devs, or people used to working in this type of format.

how probable is it, to get new charachter movements in the game.
different running animations for certain skills, new weapons with new charachter movements, new emotes/taunts, new spell castings etc.

basically is this something that can happen?
is it likely to happen?
If it did happen how often could one expect it?

Adding animations is totally doable, the only question is, will they?

Historically, it’s been very rare for MMORPG companies to bother with it.

WoW, for example, added a few genuinely new animations with Cataclysm, but has barely added any since (though they did re-work more or less all animations with the character re-vamp last year).

Still, if they are added, it will likely be with an expansion. It’s not something that’s technically hard to do or ridiculously resource-consuming, but new enemies etc. take up the same time from the same people, and they usually get strongly prioritized (mistakenly imo).

Perversely, GW2 seems to have removed far more in the way of animations and speech than they’ve added, which I think is bananas, but that’s how they want to do it (good example is “Hold the Line!” – every race except Sylvari has it recorded correctly – Sylvari say “Hold this Line!”, so Anet just stopped EVERYONE from saying it!).

yea man, gem shop animations will sell like hot cakes

I just wish they would finish all the emotes that arent done yet.

Eurhetemec.9052:

Adding animations is totally doable, the only question is, will they?

Historically, it’s been very rare for MMORPG companies to bother with it.

WoW, for example, added a few genuinely new animations with Cataclysm, but has barely added any since (though they did re-work more or less all animations with the character re-vamp last year).

Still, if they are added, it will likely be with an expansion. It’s not something that’s technically hard to do or ridiculously resource-consuming, but new enemies etc. take up the same time from the same people, and they usually get strongly prioritized (mistakenly imo).

Perversely, GW2 seems to have removed far more in the way of animations and speech than they’ve added, which I think is bananas, but that’s how they want to do it (good example is “Hold the Line!” – every race except Sylvari has it recorded correctly – Sylvari say “Hold this Line!”, so Anet just stopped EVERYONE from saying it!).

if it is as easy as it seems, why dont more companies cash in, i think its has high value as an item of interest. (similar vein of new armors, weapons, minis or other cosmetics).
whether sold, or part of new weapons/skills/ content rewards its something that gives players a lot of value.

are animators just too expensive? or adding possible animations to the code?

Dante.1763:

I just wish they would finish all the emotes that arent done yet.

there a lot of emotes in development?
this implies this is hard task? or is it just low priority?

phys.7689:

Dante.1763:

I just wish they would finish all the emotes that arent done yet.

there a lot of emotes in development?
this implies this is hard task? or is it just low priority?

Well, i dont know if they are in development, but there are a ton of emotes right nowthat when done in game dont give the typical “No such thing” or whatever it is message. Which means they have the code for it, but no animation set up.

“/dance was not available until the August 21st Stress Test. Many emotes from Guild Wars 1 such as /guitar, /flute, and /drum are not in the game but when entered into chat they do not yield an ‘invalid command’ message. Since this was also true for /dance, many suspect that these emotes will be available in the future. UPDATE: /flute and /drum — along with many more musical instruments — have since been made available as Gem Store items.”

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Emote

Down in the Trivia section