Guild Wars 2

I hope that it will utterly blow my mind for as long as its taking/with the drought that is happening right now besides gem store releases (which I know is part of making money but one can only take so many new backpack skins) so I feel like the pressure is on, otherwise I think its going to be an overpriced, over-hyped feature pack, but I won’t judge too much until I can get my hands on it and play with the new features.

The only thing we can say for certain is it will be pretty, have dinosaurs (sort of?), and have lots of frog people.

OP whatever HoT turns out to be I’m not sure how you could ever call this an overhyped pack. I think it’s actually underhyped right now. Let’s just say that there are two big MMOs that are releasing an expansion this summer, but looking at the gaming media you’d think there’s only one. (And no it’s not Heart of Thorns.)

If anything I think Arenanet should double the marketing effort with Heart of Thorns because I’d like to hear more about it in the gaming media. I think they offer an interesting alternative to the traditional MMOs. For example there’s no other MMOs devs that spend the majority of their PvE working budget on casual content like the Living World. GW2 will probably never ring well for hardcore PvE players but I think they have an interesting product for more casual players.

I see Arenanet’s name on the E3 panel for PC gaming. I hope they’re preparing the coolest trailer they’ve ever made because there’s no better place to hype a game than E3.

Anyway, back to the actual topic, I’m personally more a world PvE and story-junkie kind of player so my expectations is a continuation of the LW season 2 storyline, insteresting world events including group ones, lots of stuff to do with mastery, lots of exploration and jumping puzzles, things like that. I also hope for good elite specializations for the classes I play , obviously. Not super interested in revenant but meh, might try it out a little.

That’s about it.

Bearhugger.4326:

OP whatever HoT turns out to be I’m not sure how you could ever call this an overhyped pack. I think it’s actually underhyped right now. Let’s just say that there are two big MMOs that are releasing an expansion this summer, but looking at the gaming media you’d think there’s only one. (And no it’s not Heart of Thorns.)

If anything I think Arenanet should double the marketing effort with Heart of Thorns because I’d like to hear more about it in the gaming media. I think they offer an interesting alternative to the traditional MMOs. For example there’s no other MMOs devs that spend the majority of their PvE working budget on casual content like the Living World. GW2 will probably never ring well for hardcore PvE players but I think they have an interesting product for more casual players.

I see Arenanet’s name on the E3 panel for PC gaming. I hope they’re preparing the coolest trailer they’ve ever made because there’s no better place to hype a game than E3.

Anyway, back to the actual topic, I’m personally more a world PvE and story-junkie kind of player so my expectations is a continuation of the LW season 2 storyline, insteresting world events including group ones, lots of stuff to do with mastery, lots of exploration and jumping puzzles, things like that. I also hope for good elite specializations for the classes I play , obviously. Not super interested in revenant but meh, might try it out a little.

That’s about it.

Considering how little information they have been sharing, its possible they’re still quite a length ways away from releasing Heart of Thorns, and if thats the case, I doubt they’d want to spend a ton of resources and money trying to create hype when it could be months and months before it gets released.

People are just assuming Summer/Fall because it makes “sense” in that its near an anniversary, and most people don’t believe Anet would reveal HoT the way they did and then wait a year or two before releasing it. But, it could always be Winter or even next year before it comes out. If its going to be that long, I doubt they want to focus on building hype yet.

I dunno, I was hyped for GW2 a year and a half before release, and I had never played GW1 at the time, the hype came from me reading the dev blogs and then looking at almost entirely positive commentaries on Youtube. Even if the game’s launch is farther than we think, I think they could do something.

I kinda hope it’s better and bigger than what’s in my mind. I seem to be stuck in that its not going to be as big as the old w1 expansions :/

I wonder how big can it really be? They are building each map in three tiers, so that we won’t get a huge zone area-wise, and well with no new race(s), I see this being more Eye of the North than Factions.

All that is fine if we can get a true expac next summer.

I try to use the following example.
GW1 utopia was cancelled in early 2007 and that is when they started working on GW2 (they also released GW:EotN in between, but then they where allready writing some story lines for GW2 and also working on the concepts).

GW2 released in 2012, so 5 years later and it blew our minds. It was exceeding our expectations (or atleast mine).

If that is a good indicator of the invested time/quality factor then my expectations of HoT are high.