Guild Wars 2

The reason is plain and simple. At the moment, by the time ls3 is done, HOT will be a good size for its first expansion. Regardless many mistakes were made, which is fair given trial and error mixed with expectations, deadlines, and funds. The future of gw2 seems very bright though. We are getting the fire island chain right off the bat and for the expansion, probably all of shiver peaks plus a few other areas. There are very few areas left big enough for an expansion. I believe that gw2’s fifth expansion is going to take us to Cantha. The sixth might open up the world in the mists since, whether you know it or not, there is war going on, and its time we explored the lore of the gods. Regardless. I know for sure that Cantha or another continent is coming in the fifth expansion. I trust wholeheartedly that my theory is on point.
Edit: I changed “third” expansion to “fifth” expansion.

Whilst i’d like to hope you are right, I doubt we will ever see Cantha. I think Elona is a better chance, but also very much an outside one.

Putting aside the known issues with having Cantha in game from a cultural standpoint, the way GW2 is designed is to keep players together. Adding a whole continent is splitting the playerbase in a way which will be detrimental to the core areas and HoT especially, as it currently stands. Work would have to be done to re-design the metas and mob difficulties to be favourable for small groups and that is not small task.

In terms of a third expansion, there are other contenders which are ahead of Cantha from a logical perspective. The primary one being the Far Shiverpeaks. The Crystal Desert is also likely a higher priority.

If, and it is a huge if, we go to Cantha, it will almost certainly be a long way down the line when we have fully exhausted Tyria and the Dragon story.

Having said that, a return to Cantha would be awesome, just to see Kaineng City under the GW2 engine, especially now we have gliding

Randulf.7614:

Whilst i’d like to hope you are right, I doubt we will ever see Cantha. I think Elona is a better chance, but also very much an outside one.

Putting aside the known issues with having Cantha in game from a cultural standpoint, the way GW2 is designed is to keep players together. Adding a whole continent is splitting the playerbase in a way which will be detrimental to the core areas and HoT especially, as it currently stands. Work would have to be done to re-design the metas and mob difficulties to be favourable for small groups and that is not small task.

In terms of a third expansion, there are other contenders which are ahead of Cantha from a logical perspective. The primary one being the Far Shiverpeaks. The Crystal Desert is also likely a higher priority.

If, and it is a huge if, we go to Cantha, it will almost certainly be a long way down the line when we have fully exhausted Tyria and the Dragon story.

Having said that, a return to Cantha would be awesome, just to see Kaineng City under the GW2 engine, especially now we have gliding

Well our next expansion will probably cover the far shiverpeaks, I mentioned this in the post. What’s left besides the crystal desert? Sure quite a few places but not enough to cover two full expansions (2nd and 3rd). After this expansion, the delopement of a new continent is a must. I’m sure that by the release of this expansion, anet will begin its work on the new continent. It won’t be the entire world, just several maps, and then on further expansions they will unlock further maps.

Adry.7512:

Randulf.7614:

Whilst i’d like to hope you are right, I doubt we will ever see Cantha. I think Elona is a better chance, but also very much an outside one.

Putting aside the known issues with having Cantha in game from a cultural standpoint, the way GW2 is designed is to keep players together. Adding a whole continent is splitting the playerbase in a way which will be detrimental to the core areas and HoT especially, as it currently stands. Work would have to be done to re-design the metas and mob difficulties to be favourable for small groups and that is not small task.

In terms of a third expansion, there are other contenders which are ahead of Cantha from a logical perspective. The primary one being the Far Shiverpeaks. The Crystal Desert is also likely a higher priority.

If, and it is a huge if, we go to Cantha, it will almost certainly be a long way down the line when we have fully exhausted Tyria and the Dragon story.

Having said that, a return to Cantha would be awesome, just to see Kaineng City under the GW2 engine, especially now we have gliding

Well our next expansion will probably cover the far shiverpeaks, I mentioned this in the post. What’s left besides the crystal desert? Sure quite a few places but not enough to cover two full expansions (2nd and 3rd). After this expansion, the delopement of a new continent is a must. I’m sure that by the release of this expansion, anet will begin its work on the new continent. It won’t be the entire world, just several maps, and then on further expansions they will unlock further maps.

Deldrimor Front, Dominion of Winds, Blazeridge Mountains, and Crystal Desert. Imo, so possibly 3-4 new expansion areas.

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Adry.7512:

Randulf.7614:

Whilst i’d like to hope you are right, I doubt we will ever see Cantha. I think Elona is a better chance, but also very much an outside one.

Putting aside the known issues with having Cantha in game from a cultural standpoint, the way GW2 is designed is to keep players together. Adding a whole continent is splitting the playerbase in a way which will be detrimental to the core areas and HoT especially, as it currently stands. Work would have to be done to re-design the metas and mob difficulties to be favourable for small groups and that is not small task.

In terms of a third expansion, there are other contenders which are ahead of Cantha from a logical perspective. The primary one being the Far Shiverpeaks. The Crystal Desert is also likely a higher priority.

If, and it is a huge if, we go to Cantha, it will almost certainly be a long way down the line when we have fully exhausted Tyria and the Dragon story.

Having said that, a return to Cantha would be awesome, just to see Kaineng City under the GW2 engine, especially now we have gliding

Well our next expansion will probably cover the far shiverpeaks, I mentioned this in the post. What’s left besides the crystal desert? Sure quite a few places but not enough to cover two full expansions (2nd and 3rd). After this expansion, the delopement of a new continent is a must. I’m sure that by the release of this expansion, anet will begin its work on the new continent. It won’t be the entire world, just several maps, and then on further expansions they will unlock further maps.

Deldrimor Front, Dominion of Winds, Blazeridge Mountains, and Crystal Desert. Imo, so possibly 3-4 new expansion areas.

For some reason I forget some of these areas. Okay nvm, I guess around the 5th expansion we’ll get Cantha.

I still think it’s ridiculous that gw2 only has 1/3 of it’s predecessor’s world. It’s like having a sequel to wow that only has access to Kalimdor and nothing else.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I still think it’s ridiculous that gw2 only has 1/3 of it’s predecessor’s world. It’s like having a sequel to wow that only has access to Kalimdor and nothing else.

I find it dumb too. :/ and making you wait ages just to explore what’s right in front of your face.

There is some sense to it. Some areas are ruled by dragons and their magic, making it a very dangerous place….as for other places, I hope they add them to big content patches.

I’ll bet Kaineng City looks like Coruscant or Los Angeles 2019 now.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I still think it’s ridiculous that gw2 only has 1/3 of it’s predecessor’s world. It’s like having a sequel to wow that only has access to Kalimdor and nothing else.

In a way I agree, but lets not overlook the fact that the maps have vastly more depth to them than the GW1 maps, many of which were just linking maps for stretching the story out with travelling.

One of the things that made GW1 bigger (apart from the obvious 2 extra continents) was the travelling of the maps. Whilst the waypoint system is vastly superior for how GW2 is set up and for the way modern audiences play, I do miss the sense of journeying across the World. Travelling across the Shiverpeaks from Ascalon felt like a genuine trek and journey. It’s one of the things I miss a lot.

Randulf.7614:

One of the things that made GW1 bigger (apart from the obvious 2 extra continents) was the travelling of the maps. Whilst the waypoint system is vastly superior for how GW2 is set up and for the way modern audiences play, I do miss the sense of journeying across the World. Travelling across the Shiverpeaks from Ascalon felt like a genuine trek and journey. It’s one of the things I miss a lot.

Last I checked, you could waypoint in GW1, i.e. travel to outposts. Unlocking the outposts didn’t even require that you make a journey, since you could pay someone else to navigate the continent for you (with less flexibility in Cantha & Elona due to story gating).

When I want a sense of a journey in either game, I don’t use the waypoints and just walk everywhere (or glide, nowadays).

Regarding the OP’s theory: I don’t find any specific fault with the idea. All the same, I think there’s plenty of room left to explore in the current areas. And, there are areas we’ve never seen before in either game — I’d love to see something new, instead of just nostalgia.

In other words: I wouldn’t be prepared to bet that we are — or are not — going to Cantha or Elona any time soon

Shows how long it has been since I last played. I had completely forgotten city – city waypointing…..