Guild Wars 2

Dashingsteel.3410:

@Pifil… Actually they didn’t deliver what they advertised as legendary journies has been scrapped for something less complex….. They also didn’t deliver on the regular intervals advertisement as the legendary weapons were delayed indefinitely for a time…… I do remember them saying that the next expansion wouldn’t hamper HoT ……. but again that was false because they wouldn’t have been “Stretched too thin” if they didn’t have 70 employees working on the next expansion

Your idea of what “hampering HoT” means is different to mine. They reintroduced LS3, started adding new content (including the missing legendaries) at a steady pace while keeping production on the next expansion up. The next expansion didn’t impact on that schedule so it didn’t hamper it. They were never going to cram random people with unsuitable skills into the legendary team, it’s a waste of time and money, do you think a software engineer, a QA engineer, or even an environmental artist would be worth a kitten when it comes to designing legendary weapons? These are not transferable skills.

Is your problem that they haven’t finished the legendary weapon set yet or with the “fine print”? Their intentions are to deliver on the promise and deliver the weapons, those won’t have legendary journeys but that’s the compromise they had to make in order to deliver the weapons and the content updates that those weapons were supposed to accompany while keeping the future of the company and game viable. Remember the content droughts around the HoT expansion? Those occurred because they took everyone off to work on the expansion. This meant no new content for 9 months before the expansion released and (apart from raids) none for 9 months afterwards.

So the choice is 1) delay the expansion for a few months (creating another content drought) to finish the remaining legendaries in order to meet some arbitrary, imagined deadline or 2) actually keep the release schedule without content droughts and continue to release the remaining legendaries.

I’d choose 2 as it gives the best hope for the game.

One can always wait to purchase the next expansion until after all the second-generation Legendaries are released.

That’ll teach those Devs!

Of course, the rest of us will be enjoying the new content, rather than a content drought.

Good luck.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

One can always wait to purchase the next expansion until after all the second-generation Legendaries are released.

That’ll teach those Devs!

Of course, the rest of us will be enjoying the new content, rather than a content drought.

Good luck.

Gotta admit, this made me chuckle, a lot. Made people on voice chat wonder what I was doing.

Inculaptus cedo is right, show those nasty devs! Less lag in open world for the rest of us in the new expansion maps.

Just tell me they are not just now starting development though. If the announcement is that we are more than a year out, that would hurt. Hope spoilers had some truth and we are looking at a 4th quarter release, would be awesome way to end the year.

TheGrimm.5624:

Just tell me they are not just now starting development though. If the announcement is that we are more than a year out, that would hurt. Hope spoilers had some truth and we are looking at a 4th quarter release, would be awesome way to end the year.

After HoT they formed several teams to tackle the problem of content droughts. They formed three LS teams and one expansion team and at least one team that served both (developing new technology, no doubt). Thankfully this means that they have been working on the expansion for some time.

IIRC the plan is for the expansion to come about 3-5 months after the last LS episode (the one that was just released) then the next season of the LS will restart about 3-5 months after the expansion launches. I’ll see if I can find the post on one of their AMAs.

Edit: that was easy

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/68vw84/flashpoint_devs_here_ask_us_anything/dh1phdj/

We announced that today’s episode, Flashpoint, is the second-to-last episode of the season. Yes, that means what you think it means: there’s one more episode after this, and then straight to the expansion pack.
A lot of you have been wondering about the upcoming release cadence, given that last time around we took a long break from Living World releases to get Heart of Thorns out the door and then to support that expansion after release.
The good news is that this time around we have two separate fully-staffed teams that are both hitting on all cylinders. So our rough plan is to slot the expansion pack into the release cadence as if it were an episode: episode 5, then episode 6, then the expansion pack, then episode 1. But we’ll make some allowance for the fact that shipping an expansion pack is a big deal logistically and will probably take longer than the 2~3 months we normally allocate between episodes.
Mo

On one hand you need the HoT mastery to craft the new legendary weapons. Because of that (and I think it was clarified on Reddit during the Ep 5 AMA) that you WON’T need the new expansion when they finish trotting out the rest of the “new” legendary weapons.

On the other they never said the “new” legendary weapons would be out in a timely manor. Just that they would start releasing them post HoT.

Behellagh.1468:

On one hand you need the HoT mastery to craft the new legendary weapons. Because of that (and I think it was clarified on Reddit during the Ep 5 AMA) that you WON’T need the new expansion when they finish trotting out the rest of the “new” legendary weapons.

On the other they never said the “new” legendary weapons would be out in a timely manor. Just that they would start releasing them post HoT.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/68vw84/flashpoint_devs_here_ask_us_anything/dh1qia9/

Our plan is to keep releasing legendary weapons alongside episodes, with the weapons not requiring the new expansion.
Mo

I see no reason to believe they won’t continue their current pace. I’m looking forward to the new longbow and dagger.

GreyWolf.8670:

I would say this https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/hot-new-legendary-weapons/ followed by O’Brien’s update implies they were part of HoT.

I wouldn’t. Emphasis mine from the article you linked.

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns heralds the beginning of the first new set of legendary weapons to be added to the game since its original set of twenty included in the launch of Guild Wars 2.

Pifil.5193:

Behellagh.1468:

On one hand you need the HoT mastery to craft the new legendary weapons. Because of that (and I think it was clarified on Reddit during the Ep 5 AMA) that you WON’T need the new expansion when they finish trotting out the rest of the “new” legendary weapons.

On the other they never said the “new” legendary weapons would be out in a timely manor. Just that they would start releasing them post HoT.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/68vw84/flashpoint_devs_here_ask_us_anything/dh1qia9/

Our plan is to keep releasing legendary weapons alongside episodes, with the weapons not requiring the new expansion.
Mo

I see no reason to believe they won’t continue their current pace. I’m looking forward to the new longbow and dagger.

Neither do I, just that they never said they would all be out by X months after the HoT expansion. So I don’t see the issue some are upset over, other than the weapon type they want hasn’t been released yet and they are afraid they aren’t coming.

Behellagh.1468:

Pifil.5193:

Behellagh.1468:

On one hand you need the HoT mastery to craft the new legendary weapons. Because of that (and I think it was clarified on Reddit during the Ep 5 AMA) that you WON’T need the new expansion when they finish trotting out the rest of the “new” legendary weapons.

On the other they never said the “new” legendary weapons would be out in a timely manor. Just that they would start releasing them post HoT.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/68vw84/flashpoint_devs_here_ask_us_anything/dh1qia9/

Our plan is to keep releasing legendary weapons alongside episodes, with the weapons not requiring the new expansion.
Mo

I see no reason to believe they won’t continue their current pace. I’m looking forward to the new longbow and dagger.

Neither do I, just that they never said they would all be out by X months after the HoT expansion. So I don’t see the issue some are upset over, other than the weapon type they want hasn’t been released yet and they are afraid they aren’t coming.

Oh sorry, I completely misunderstood you! I thought you were saying that they’d release slower after the expansion released.