Guild Wars 2

So, did anet submit the questions that were allowed to be asked, or was whoever that interviewer was just didn’t watch the announcement in the first place?

Cause it was just a complete waste of time, except for the PAX East announcement. Heck, Woodenpotatoes and the other guy are asking better questions.

And yes, I know, Anet will be going into Deep Dives to explain everything. And since that is happening…then the interview was a complete waste of time anyway!

That guy doing the post interview was terrible. “Ummm… okay… ummm” /nods head, “I played WvW once.. Ummmm..” It seemed like he had never even played the game.

No the guy doing the post interview doesn’t seem to be a GW2 player, so he’s questions were rather superficial. Granted I don’t think Colin and Mike would have gone in any details anyway.

Sponsored by Twitch, using a host who’s never really played GW2. That’s just kind of how it is. I know there’s no stopping the hype train, but we might as well be patient for a while as ANet does the slow info rollout.

Well, we did get the start of a timeline out of it though. We know we should be getting detailed information starting in about 2 weeks, and we know that the first playable demos will be available at PAX East in 6 weeks.

If HoT runs as quickly as the initial game launch, it might only be a few months before the expansion is on store shelves.

he was not related to gw2 at all, but just a random interviewer guy of the pax south venue.

CureForLiving.5360:

No the guy doing the post interview doesn’t seem to be a GW2 player, so he’s questions were rather superficial. Granted I don’t think Colin and Mike would have gone in any details anyway.

Yeah, but they did seem specifically tied so they could just repeat what they said during the event. Course, the guy could have just read from cards on the Main topics, and he just talks about it what the main headings were

Hylgeriak.8250:

he was not related to gw2 at all, but just a random interviewer guy of the pax south venue.

He wasn’t a random interviewer. That was Man vs Game (http://en-gb.twitch.tv/manvsgame) who is a very popular Twitch streamer.

But yeah, he was incredibly awkward. It would have been better if someone who actually had a clue about GW2 did the interview.

Lothirieth.3408:

Hylgeriak.8250:

he was not related to gw2 at all, but just a random interviewer guy of the pax south venue.

He wasn’t a random interviewer. That was Man vs Game (http://en-gb.twitch.tv/manvsgame) who is a very popular Twitch streamer.

But yeah, he was incredibly awkward. It would have been better if someone who actually had a clue about GW2 did the interview.

Yeah, MV & WP would’ve been way better to do that. Although, if they have an interviewer who doesn’t really know what important questions are, it doesn’t put them under pressure and they don’t have to say so many “we can’t speak about that right now” responses. So maybe they like it that way, I dunno.

Definitely makes it more interesting to watch when the interviewer is genuinely invested/interested/actively plays the game though.

Lothirieth.3408:

Hylgeriak.8250:

he was not related to gw2 at all, but just a random interviewer guy of the pax south venue.

He wasn’t a random interviewer. That was Man vs Game (http://en-gb.twitch.tv/manvsgame) who is a very popular Twitch streamer.

But yeah, he was incredibly awkward. It would have been better if someone who actually had a clue about GW2 did the interview.

Then let it be shown that popular =/= good interviewer. Get someone who actually follows the game and will ask deeper questions, than just saying the main topics and the people repeating the same thing again

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Well, we did get the start of a timeline out of it though. We know we should be getting detailed information starting in about 2 weeks, and we know that the first playable demos will be available at PAX East in 6 weeks.

If HoT runs as quickly as the initial game launch, it might only be a few months before the expansion is on store shelves.

Ehh, we had demos like 2 years before release. That doesn’t sound promising.

Its funny but people sometimes don’t realize how hard it is to ask good questions. But I agree the interview did seem a bit awkward or almost had no direction but like another poster said before maybe thats what Mike and Colin wanted lol MV and WP would ask a lot of questions that I’m sure they wouldn’t want to answer just yet

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

If HoT runs as quickly as the initial game launch, it might only be a few months before the expansion is on store shelves.

Smh….

It will be a month before we start seeing a good stream of info about the game.
It will be nearly 2 months before demos.
It will be 6 months before most of the classes and specializations are revealed.
It will likely be fall to late 2015 before expansion becomes available. And that is only based on ncsoft projected earnings for 3rd quarter I think.

The one thing to hope on, is that they won’t be doing same thing they did with gw2 announcement. Announce that instead of new campaign for gw1 a month before people expecting it (spring 2007), that its instead expansion (fall 2007) cause after that they doing gw2 with beta in like fall 2008. FYI, gw2 launched in fall 2012.