Guild Wars 2

I saw a thread of people talking about what they want in future updates. Can some one tell me what Anet promised or talked about adding that has not been added? I heard housing will be added but is that true? I just want something to look forward to.

Not to sound like a doomsayer or anything, but don’t believe anything that is promised until it is actually released. Otherwise, you will be disappointed. Anet has promised many things already, and we still haven’t seen them. Stuff that was promised back in beta and development that was supposed to be here on release, never showed up.

Just one example, Guesting. This was supposed to be in the game at release, and we still don’t have it. There is things that they have promised that we have never received, or things that were promised that ended up being changed afterwards.

I know I sound like a downer, but really just be satisfied with what you got now. Don’t get hyped for future content and get excited for things to come until they are actually here.

The only thing that was promised and not delivered was guesting.

I think they ran into a technical issue with how servers share info – you can log into any number of overflow servers to gather the same nodes or get the same achievement (like the jump puzzle or the build the snowman wintersday thing).

They’ve said they are working on it, I believe they are!

As far as what’s been promised for the future, Colin Johanson said this a couple days ago:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey guys,

Just to help provide some clarity on this, we’ll be releasing within the next couple of weeks a high level summary of our big plans for the first half of 2013 to help provide more transparency into our plans with the game going forward. This will include providing more details about our goals for the game, information about the stories and features that you’ll see in the Jan/Feb/March releases.

To set expectations accordingly, the January release will be a relatively small release that sets the table for the stories and features we plan to roll out with the Feb/March releases and beyond. Also, there will be no new race, profession, or new region with these larger Feb/March releases. One of our major goals with these releases is making our existing world as strong as possible, ensuring there are reasons to go to all the locations in the world we’ve already built, and strengthening the core game we’ve provided. In saying this will be an expansions worth of stuff in these releases, we’re talking about the number of new features that will be rolled out across PvE, WvW, and PvP in early 2013, which usually you’d only find in an expansion for a traditional MMORPG.

More details and specifics to come in the next couple of weeks, but I hope that helps provide some more insight into what to expect at a very high level.

Guesting was already said
They also promised some kind of mobile app for GW2 (other than the authenticator.)
Bar Brawls (minigame promised back before beta weekend events)

That’s all that I can remember.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Not to sound like a doomsayer or anything, but don’t believe anything that is promised until it is actually released. Otherwise, you will be disappointed. Anet has promised many things already, and we still haven’t seen them. Stuff that was promised back in beta and development that was supposed to be here on release, never showed up.

Just one example, Guesting. This was supposed to be in the game at release, and we still don’t have it. There is things that they have promised that we have never received, or things that were promised that ended up being changed afterwards.

I know I sound like a downer, but really just be satisfied with what you got now. Don’t get hyped for future content and get excited for things to come until they are actually here.

That’s not being a doomsayer at all! It’s being realistic, though I’ll admit that I am very excited about what they’ll be adding.

BobJoeXXI.2493:

Guesting was already said
They also promised some kind of mobile app for GW2 (other than the authenticator.)
Bar Brawls (minigame promised back before beta weekend events)

That’s all that I can remember.

Especially after reading Collin’s post, I wonder if they’ll start adding more mini games? Not that he said anything about them, but if they were being discussed during betas, and these next updates are supposed to focus on expanding the current game, maybe it’s possible?