Guild Wars 2

I didn’t really know what to title this topic, and it’s not really a complaint but more of a question. I get why to a degree I guess they are not adding in say cantha or elona yet because they don’t want to destroy make a wasteland of Tyria. But I disagree with the whole wasteland idea.

GW1 has people all over all maps yes they are campaigns and I get that but there are still people last time I checked playing all of the campaigns. so I guess my question is with the way they seem to be taking the game will we ever get Cantha and Elona back at all ?

I think for the next expansion we REALLY need to have one of the two return in some form and personally with it Id like too see the return of campaigns and a new PS for those places or alternate places to level 1-80 at. But I keep going back to this and I get why they are doing it just that I played a lot of Nightfall and liked that campaign the best and would really like to finish what I started with Palawa Joko at some point thx.

Id like to see Elona return mostly because I liked it’s middleastern/egytiantheme it had going not something you really see a lot of in an MMO and found it unique and more interesting than the other 2 places.

why add more landmass when u can open up the unexplored landmass we still have not set foot on ?

and yes gw1 had campaigns and was techinicaly not an open world mmo as every zone u went to was instanced.

yes each zone in gw2 has a load screen but its open. in gw1 u go to a map and it was closed to only you and party members.

anyway TL;DR we have massive landmass still yet to explore

I’d say where we go depends on the story. If they can make it plausible to go to Cantha and Elona then fine. However, for now it seems like plot developments point us towards the other Elder Dragons first which are all in or very close to Tyria (perhaps with the only exception of the Deep Sea Dragon).

The landmasses are all already on the map. The Maguuma Wastes were always there, too. Most plausible reason is that each landmass will be added/opened when we (the player characters) take the fight to the next dragon. Mordremoth in the Maguuma Jungle, then possibly Primordus at the Ring of Fire, Kralkatorrik in Elona (or mabye all the way from the Blood Legion Homelands to the Crystal desert?), Jormag in the Far Shiverpeaks and/or Deldrimor Front and Bubbles in Cantha.

Would make sense to me, anyway.

well of the two continents, elona is the one with the best shot of reappearing, but going by how ANet wants to focus on “quality over quantity” in terms of maps, i don’t know how they’ll fit whole new continents in.

Yes, Im aware there are other places in Tyria. What im getting at is I would like to see more of an variety in zones Shiverpeaks is all snow for example. Maguuma is going to be all jungle which is going to be cool for a while but get old eventually.

And like I said I have unfinished bussiness with palawa joko. And the human only canthan empire sounds equally interesting I imagine something that would be cool is after we take mordemoth down It will take everything the pact has and perhaps they can invade and take over Tyria. I would like too see more than just elder dragons as the bad guys in this game at some point.

and on a side note Anet is perfectly capable of doing quality and quantity at the same time.

The different zones are the variety. If you’re sick of snow in the Shiverpeaks, why don’t you go play in Ascalon for a while? If you don’t want to walk through a jungle, head to Kryta. Asking to make the Maguuma Jungle not “all jungle” is like asking for cononut trees on a glacier… ô.O

You guys are totally missing my point me thinks. It’s not that im sick of shiverpeaks I just used that as an example. what im saying is Im afraid we may never get to go back to cantha or elona both of which I very much want too see in the very near future. Tyria is very european culture wise every single MMO I’ve played is mostly european or Asian based. I haven’t played an asian themed one since factions as I skipped out of wow during cataclysm. I felt Elona as a whole had the most unique culture to it in an MMO and really would like to see what happened with my own eyes to Elona and Cantha at some point in this game, and at some point in this game it would be nice to have a bad guy that is not an Elder dragon say an invading army or Palawa Joko.

GW1 barely requires you to team-up with others to finish content. If GW2’s landmass becomes too huge, people won’t be able to finish the old content anylonger especially looking at Anet’s current design: maps that are interactive and function as some kind of a big dynamic event where people finish objectives to push the event-chain forward. That event-chain will get stuck because I don’t see GW2 and for that matter, any other MMORPGs have enoguh active players to fill up this kind of maps in two seperate continents.

There is hope of seeing way more land than even was found in GW1. Check the world map compiled off the Hidden Arcana floor and translated by reddit folks/that_shaman.

http://i.imgur.com/8ezEHDE.jpg

Top right, “Not real”.
Okay then