Guild Wars 2

’Cause why not?

This idea came to me after seeing Guild Wars 1 series appearing on the store. If GW2 did join Steam not only would we see a boost of players but also a steady stream based on how Steam advertises games. Anet does relatively large updates to their game which has little to none advertising. It is difficult to put out commercials for (E.G.) Update 13.

But from seeing Warframe, another game on Steam that constantly performs large updates, I think GW2 would constantly attract the attention of the community by advertising their updates on the feature page along with some buzz words/pictures.

Would love to hear the pros and cons to this mainly because I do not understand the marketing practices behind steam (do they get a cut of the sales/how much?), and if any Anet employees who like to weigh in, would this even be a possibility?

I think that’s an okay idea, although in my case it would put too much strain on my PC. (Ram, mostly)

Steam takes 30% of profits for all it’s listed games, and they have some odd policies for how they handle their portion of microtransaction profits. This is very likely the reason they chose not to launch on Steam. I have an 11 year Steam account, though. I would love to see it added now, I’d buy a second game license if that was the only way to play fully on Steam with stat tracking and whatnot. I hope they do a Steam launch eventually.

Has been discussed very many times. I personally can’t see why they would want to split profits and need approval from another company for any and all updates and hotfixes.
No win at all until the game goes into maintenance mode like guild wars 1.