Guild Wars 2

I think 4, one for each of the Elder Dragons (Zhaitan’s covered in the initial release already).

I suspect the expansions will focus on these areas:
1) the reopening of Cantha, since Zhaitan’s ships will no longer be blocking the passage. The dragon here will probably be the only unnamed Elder Dragon.
2) the reopening of Elona, with entrance to the Crystal Desert as well. The dragon here will be Kralkatorrik.
3) expansion into the Far Shiverpeaks, the reclaiming of the Norn’s ancestral homelands. The ddragon here will be Jormag.
4) expansion into the underground and the fate of the dwarves. The dragon here will be Primordus.

Probably at least 1 class for each expansion, maybe 2. Maybe even new races…

What do you guys think?

If ANet keeps going down the same path, I predict the following features:

1) ability to /hug bunnies
2) when you enter a new zone the ore, wood and vegetables are automatically delivered to your backpack
3) when a DE starts, all players from the zone in question are teleported on top of the DE boss, because you can never have enough, nor big enough zergs
4) all professions get to spawn their clones (mesmer style) in tPvP
5) rewards are no longer existent. It’s about “fun” and rewards are derailing the vision developers had

I feel like they’ll probably go for a new race in each expansion, but possibly not new classes; adding new classes every time makes it a) hard to find an appropriate flavour for each new class that’s different from the existing classes, and b) harder to balance all the different classes.

I think you’re pretty spot on for the expansion areas we’re likely to see, though. I imagine it will be one for each Dragon, so:

a) Cantha, Tengu as a playable race.

b) Far Shiverpeaks, Kodan as a playable race

c) Crystal Desert and Elona. I’d like to see Palawa Joko’s undead horde become playable (but that’s just because they seem like the only thing that would remotely make sense to be playable, and because I like undead races). Otherwise, possibly Centaur (not likely; too many issues with armor modelling), or the remaining humans in Elona (boring).

d) Depths of Tyria, possibly Skritt becoming playable, or maybe Dwarves.

c) Expansion into the ocean somewhere, to take on Bubbles, the unnamed Elder Dragon. I’m assuming Largos will become playable in this case, but I’d really rather that they won’t be (aquatic fey vampire assassins; so cool!!!1!!1!!!!!).

I hope we’ll eventually get to see the rest of the areas again, too (eg: Maguuma Jungle, Ring of Fire, Woodland Cascades, the rest of the Southern Shiverpeaks [Dredge focused expansion, anyone?]). I’d especially like to see the area around the Isles of Janthir become accessible, because I have a sneaking suspicion that they’ll have something to do with the Mursaat, and possibly the Seers, as well.

I can’t believe the games been out such a short time, and I’m already thinking about and anticipating expansions.