Guild Wars 2

What will the next guild wars 2 expansion come out and what will it be about and will there be a pre-purchase for the next guild wars 2 expansion to try it out early

None of this info is known because it hasn’t been announced yet. We are almost certainly not going to get any info until after LS3 finishes.

There were “hints” of the next area going towards the Crystal Desert, which episode 4 should confirm. Considering seasons are used as the introduction, the next expansion will be about Fire vs Ice, the White Mantle, Aurene and everything else that’s been going on.

Expansions are typically every 2-3 years. Considering seasons play out over a year, season 3 could be over by Summer, leading to a Winter release which would be 2 years later.

Pre-purchasing? Of course there’ll be. They wanted to reduce the downtime between releases however, so don’t expect for there to be a year long gap like there was with HoT. It’ll likely be at best 3 months or at worst 6.

All we know at this point is that there are people working on it. For what it’s worth, I’d guess that Healix’ guess might turn out to be correct.

The earliest I we hear anything IMO is PAX West since it’s also in Seattle and would cost a lot less than any of the other PAX’s or Gamescon. Now whenever they announce it I would wager the wait between announcement and shipping will be a lot less than with HoT. The prolonged delay for HoT I think hurt the game more than building the hype.

Only Anet knows what their target date is (hopefully they have one, but a Q4 release target would be desirable as I think the game could use a defibrillator boost. LS3 hasn’t done for me what LS2 did, and LS1 was a golden year I’ll never forget (ahhh, the good old days). Nevertheless, I’m looking forward to exp2 and I don’t mind getting little tidbits here and there, even if it’s in the form of their online diary/journal posts. Just something to keep the ball rolling.

Healix.5819:

There were “hints” of the next area going towards the Crystal Desert, which episode 4 should confirm. Considering seasons are used as the introduction, the next expansion will be about Fire vs Ice, the White Mantle, Aurene and everything else that’s been going on.

Expansions are typically every 2-3 years. Considering seasons play out over a year, season 3 could be over by Summer, leading to a Winter release which would be 2 years later.

Pre-purchasing? Of course there’ll be. They wanted to reduce the downtime between releases however, so don’t expect for there to be a year long gap like there was with HoT. It’ll likely be at best 3 months or at worst 6.

While a lot of this is probably accurate I feel I should point out we can’t be certain because so far there has been no pattern to Anet’s releases.

They weren’t originally planning to make expansions at all, just temporary releases so Season 1 lasted 18 months and there was no expansion after it ended, just a break and then the start of Season 2. S2 was used as an introduction to HoT (as was S1 in a less direct way), and part of the reason HoT was released 3 years after the base game was because they didn’t even start working on it until sometime around the end of Season 1.

So since Season 2 didn’t follow the same pattern as Season 1 we can’t say for sure Season 3 will follow the same pattern as Season 2. For one thing they’ve had more time to plan this time and practice making an expansion and Living World releases at the same time, so it wouldn’t surprise me if Season 3 runs right up until the expansion is released, or rather 1 month before.

We don’t know anything about when it will be released, or what it will be about but it seems most likely it will be about fighting both Jormag and Primordus, or getting them to fight each other, and therefore we’ll probably be going into the North.

(I think the one thing we can be fairly certain about is that there will be an option to pre-purchase it. That’s worked well for Anet before.)

As far as I know Anet it sadly won’t release this year. They are so super slow with content I’d rather fear a release somewhere in 2018…

Theyre not at the next pax so announcement wont be soon. And omce announced it’ll be another year till release

I’m just going to shoot blindly in the dark and say April 13th, 2018.

Healix.5819:

There were “hints” of the next area going towards the Crystal Desert, which episode 4 should confirm. Considering seasons are used as the introduction, the next expansion will be about Fire vs Ice, the White Mantle, Aurene and everything else that’s been going on.

Expansions are typically every 2-3 years. Considering seasons play out over a year, season 3 could be over by Summer, leading to a Winter release which would be 2 years later.

Pre-purchasing? Of course there’ll be. They wanted to reduce the downtime between releases however, so don’t expect for there to be a year long gap like there was with HoT. It’ll likely be at best 3 months or at worst 6.

yeah, saying expansions are typically every 2-3 years is just a big misinformation and I ask everyone not to take words from this guy as truth. We don’t need unnecessary hype going on forum.

You also can’t say next expansion will be Fire vs. Ice, the White Mantle, Aurene, cuz of all I know and feel, it will be done before expansion comes. I am pretty much sure dragon story will be finished much sooner then you expect, and that focus will be on different Lore

Mikali.9651:

Healix.5819:

There were “hints” of the next area going towards the Crystal Desert, which episode 4 should confirm. Considering seasons are used as the introduction, the next expansion will be about Fire vs Ice, the White Mantle, Aurene and everything else that’s been going on.

Expansions are typically every 2-3 years. Considering seasons play out over a year, season 3 could be over by Summer, leading to a Winter release which would be 2 years later.

Pre-purchasing? Of course there’ll be. They wanted to reduce the downtime between releases however, so don’t expect for there to be a year long gap like there was with HoT. It’ll likely be at best 3 months or at worst 6.

yeah, saying expansions are typically every 2-3 years is just a big misinformation and I ask everyone not to take words from this guy as truth. We don’t need unnecessary hype going on forum.

You also can’t say next expansion will be Fire vs. Ice, the White Mantle, Aurene, cuz of all I know and feel, it will be done before expansion comes. I am pretty much sure dragon story will be finished much sooner then you expect, and that focus will be on different Lore

But he said it on the internet, that must mean its true, no?

ProtoGunner.4953:

As far as I know Anet it sadly won’t release this year. They are so super slow with content I’d rather fear a release somewhere in 2018…

Anywhere from August 2017 to May 2018 is realistic.

What has been released so far in season 3 took 6 months to develop, so they likely already have at least 3x that amount ready for the expansion. Considering expansions are the only thing that’ll bump up sales, they’d likely rather release sooner than later, but they also can’t afford to make the same mistakes by rushing it. They also need the next season ready to go within 3 months to keep the influx of players active, otherwise they might as well switch to the expansion-dlc model. Before the expansion however, they can afford to take a ~6 month break with no real consequence, as the news alone will keep people active in preparation.

Danikat.8537:

For one thing they’ve had more time to plan this time and practice making an expansion and Living World releases at the same time, so it wouldn’t surprise me if Season 3 runs right up until the expansion is released, or rather 1 month before.

1 month would be the absolute minimum, unless they revealed the expansion in one episode and continued on with the season. They’d also need a few months for distribution, which they could skip, but there’s no way they wouldn’t leave a few months for marketing, otherwise it’d have very poor sales. They’ll also likely want season 4 ready to go in order to keep the influx of players active, so there’ll likely be a 2-4 month gap prior to launch just for that.

Amaimon.7823:

Theyre not at the next pax so announcement wont be soon. And omce announced it’ll be another year till release

One of their goals was reducing those gaps, and considering the hype train worked against them, it’s highly unlikely they’d try another year of that. Colin was really the hype guy anyways. They’re also not going to reveal the expansion before the season does, otherwise that’d ruin it. They could fit in PAX West though, if they really wanted to.

Mikali.9651:

2-3 years

~2 years is fairly average for active MMOs. For example, WoW has been every 2, FF14 every 1-2, HoT was in development for ~2.

I don’t know if I will buy it if they don’t make a new race.

And I want something different like a tengu, not a largos which is just a human with butterfly wings.

A new race is a HUGE investment of developer time, a limited resource. They don’t have the war coffers like Blizzard. Rather have those resources spent opening up a new (or old) area of Tyria for exploration and story.