Guild Wars 2

All of the areas don’t cover the entire thing. I want to travel everywhere!

someday yes they will

I hope they will, but I had the same hope with the maps in the original game.
While they did go back and open up some areas there, there were still massive areas of all 3 maps left un-revealed.

I think they have grand ambitions prior to release that are visible to those looking for them, but post-release their work becomes more a matter of repair and maintenance rather than exposition.

I long to revisit my beloved Crystal Desert, and I’m cautiously optimistic it’ll open up some day, but there’s that devil on my shoulder telling me to look at ArenaNet’s back catalogue and consider things logically.

Give it 10-12 expansions.

Soon.

And by soon I mean “Once Anet realizes that this is a huge hit, the vast majority of the fanbase loves it and wants more and they get around to finishing (or starting?) the remaining zones which, although won’t be this month, should begin (pure guesswork) to manifest at some point this year”.

I bet £100 a lot of them are done, just need finishing touches.

usually business look forward when releasing a game and have expansion content somewhat done or close to it.

I’ll give them a year before they start churning out expansions.

DrixTrix.7168:

I bet £100 a lot of them are done, just need finishing touches.

usually business look forward when releasing a game and have expansion content somewhat done or close to it.

Not sure if serious.

I hope they do. I love maps, I would probably be a cartographer if I could make money out of that. Seeing all that unexplorable map makes me anxious. Seeing the “Unending Sea” makes me sad. It means ANet doesn’t want to add anything beyond Tyria to the game (unless it is a full submerged area!).

Rash.6514:

I hope they do. I love maps, I would probably be a cartographer if I could make money out of that. Seeing all that unexplorable map makes me anxious. Seeing the “Unending Sea” makes me sad. It means ANet doesn’t want to add anything being Tyria to the game (unless it is a full submerged area!).

Or a city of ships, or a gigantic shipwreck grave area? They could get creative with that.

The maps will open up when the level cap increases, if that gives you any indication of what timeframe we are looking at.

LordSlack.4685:

The maps will open up when the level cap increases, if that gives you any indication of what timeframe we are looking at.

Why level cap increase?

GW had enough expansion without touching it and I’d really prefer to have the same in GW2 — level is just some random number (indication that one finally finished all of the tutorial missions) and leave that to standard grind-gear-treadmills and out of our game please

/back to topic/

I agree with previous poster that (IMHO and hope) they have at least one “big” (I can hope for the new continent) land/sea zone already in the late stage of development and preparing it for the next (probably next year) real expansion.