Guild Wars 2

Usually we receive in depth information on an upcoming event a week or so before it’s launched. I’m guessing the patch will drop Monday, and some of the added benefits (like balance changes, for instance) will take effect at that time.

Just wondering when we’ll be receiving some information. To tell the truth, I have nervous knot in the pit of my stomach. Half of it is due to excitement, the other half is attributed to anxious uncertainty. After Lost Shores, can I really be blamed. I really want this update to go down as smooth as possible.

Since Lost Shores people have been asking for some transparency, and the State of the Game stream and AMA has done a lot of good. However, the Wintersday page was added a week ago with a two paragraph teaser that doesn’t actually reveal anything.
Now I don’t want to rush anything, or sound like I’m trying to force anyone’s hand, but it would be nice to have some form of communication as to what sort of content updates the game will be receiving.

I am assuming that Winter’s Day is going to be a longer version of what we got at Halloween.

I imagine we’ll get a bit more information on Mon/Tues next week and probably teasers dropped between then and Friday.

It’s a really long event, I imagine keeping it going for 3 weeks going to eat up most of their allotment of attention to it.

TabMorte.5297:

I imagine we’ll get a bit more information on Mon/Tues next week and probably teasers dropped between then and Friday.

It’s a really long event, I imagine keeping it going for 3 weeks going to eat up most of their allotment of attention to it.

I don’t mind the Wintersday goodies, that can be revealed at the last minute. What I would like to know is a bit more on the world additions and changes themselves. So far the developers have gotten quite good at dropping bombshells just before changes hit. I just think it would be a lot better if they eased the public into their plans, rather than using the bombshell tactic.

From what Colin said on the state of the game video, each month the main patch will have a single theme. December is the least active month for ArenaNet due to holidays – they only have roughly 70% of their team. December’s patch will be themed on balance changes; so I presume we can expect the most balance changed in both quantity and amount of impact than any other post-release patch up ’till this point.

January and February are both going to be the biggest patches as of yet to GW2. Colin went as far as to say that the two patches combined will be the size of an expansion. We know one of the patches, February if I recall, will be heavily WvW oriented – adding much more progression and presumably fixes to major issues, like culling. We also know one of the months, either January or February, will be SPvP-oriented, adding numerous major features to SPvP primarily for the benefit of eSports, but also to everyone.