HoT release on 23rd Oct
I sincerely hope so.
Pretty sure they’ve been hyping HoT all along. All they did was announce Halloween.
Yes, HoT will be releasing on the 23rd of October (next Friday). Just for some reason they have also decided to release the Halloween stuff at the same time. Kinda strange timing but I suppose it will be nice for all the F2P players to have something new at launch as well.
Yes HoT and Halloween event start on the same day. This was confirmed in one of the many videos Anet released.
What time it will go live is another question that no one has the answer to.
All I know is on the 23rd my chat box will be filled with yellow text spam: New Build Available. It is going to be a Cluster kitten
I haven’t heard yet of any delays…
Ha, they’ve been hyping HoT since January’s PAX South. Blogs, banners, tweets, live streams, an in-game event (it may have been lackluster, but the mordrem invasion was a thing), etc etc etc. Whatever one’s opinion of HoT, if one’s paid any attention to this game at all, one knows it’s coming. Halloween was uncertain ‘til they said yep, we’d get it along with HoT.
All I know is I hope they patch it either at midnight or early morning, this way when they have to continually take the game down to patch and fix it’s not Friday night prime time (for NA at least).
It is likely just a way to prevent everyone from rushing to HoT areas at the same time. Spreading the population between Halloween content and HoT will work – while people are very excited about HoT, a lot of them will do Halloween content instead as it is time limited.
I don’t know it seems weird to me that you would promote an event over an expansion that has been hyped for most of the year.
It actually make sense, they are hoping for new players, new players can’t do all the new content because they are not level capped, they can do Halloween. So they get in game and have a great time right off the go, they can level and participate in a Halloween event (which imo is probably Anets best event).
Hmm…you could promote both since they are on the same day. Rather than exclude the main event for a side show..
They have been promoting HoT for almost a year, but ya they could do a better job of promoting both I suppose.
You’re right. Nine months of blogs, livestreams, cinematics, con appearances, forum discussions of elite specs, and betas has done nothing to promote the expansion.
You’re right. Nine months of blogs, livestreams, cinematics, con appearances, forum discussions of elite specs, and betas has done nothing to promote the expansion.
Promotion of the expansion and promotion of the launch of the expansion is not the same thing, obviously.
I guess the OP is referring to the Event Page update, and stating that HoT didn’t get one. HoT does have its own page (which is has much more information, detail, links, etc.); one can find it here: http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en-gb/
Good luck.
I guess the OP is referring to the Event Page update, and stating that HoT didn’t get one. HoT does have its own page (which is has much more information, detail, links, etc.); one can find it here: http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en-gb/
Good luck.
Yes this is what I meant. But as usual some can’t read. You have to spell things out abc. The fact I’m talking about the Halloween announcement and the absence of an announcement for HoT that starts on the same day seem to be beyond some people’s abilities.
Well, um, take a look at https://www.guildwars2.com/en/ — two of the three slideshow pics at the top are about HoT, and have been for some time.
Or perhaps you need to tell us how narrowly you are defining “announcement” and what time period you feel this “announcement” needs to be posted in so as to satisfy you that they have told us there is an expansion and when it will release.
It’s pretty common knowledge now that HoT releases on Oct 23, it was not as common of knowledge that that is the same day the Halloween event launches. I don’t see the issue, this is nit picking at its finest.
but haven’t started hyping HoT yet (an expansion).
Uhhhh
I guess the OP is referring to the Event Page update, and stating that HoT didn’t get one. HoT does have its own page (which is has much more information, detail, links, etc.); one can find it here: http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en-gb/
Good luck.
Yes this is what I meant. But as usual some can’t read. You have to spell things out abc. The fact I’m talking about the Halloween announcement and the absence of an announcement for HoT that starts on the same day seem to be beyond some people’s abilities.
Hmm. The Halloween Event Page announces the upcoming features, and includes the release date.
The Heart of Thorns website (call it ‘Event Page’) announces the upcoming features, and includes the release date.
The difference is the HoT site is much more informative, and has been around for much longer. Not only that, but the release date of Heart of Thorns got a News Blog page, an announcement at a major convention, multiple news articles and much more.
I think, OP, you missed the point.
Well, um, take a look at https://www.guildwars2.com/en/ — two of the three slideshow pics at the top are about HoT, and have been for some time.
Or perhaps you need to tell us how narrowly you are defining “announcement” and what time period you feel this “announcement” needs to be posted in so as to satisfy you that they have told us there is an expansion and when it will release.
…ABC. You can’t just lead a horse to water, you have to teach it how to drink:
but haven’t started hyping HoT yet (an expansion).
Uhhhh
It is never clever to take a part of a sentence out of context and present it by itself, especially when the rest of the sentence would void your comment.
There was a News Blog about the release date of Heart of Thorns. Since the big reveal was at Pax, I suppose they didn’t feel it needed its own headline; still there was news regarding the announcement.
As stated previously, the ‘hype’ could be found all over the place.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pax-prime-2015-news-roundup/
/joins Inculpatus in leading Vague Memory to http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en-gb/ and making lip-smacking mm-mm thirst quenching sounds.
I shan’t make “troll” noises because your post history is one of thoughtful contributions to threads, but you do seem hell-bent on this particular quibble.
/joins Inculpatus in leading Vague Memory to http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en-gb/ and making lip-smacking mm-mm thirst quenching sounds.
I shan’t make “troll” noises because your post history is one of thoughtful contributions to threads, but you do seem hell-bent on this particular quibble.
I was just pointing out that it is odd. Hell-bent is pretty much overstating it. People agree or disagree, but most of the posts in the thread seem to think that I was saying there has been no hype for HoT at all (which is ridiculous), when I was talking about the announcement of HoT.
Example when Microsoft release a new Xbox (i.e. HoT) it is hyped long before it comes out, but when they are a week away from launch they don’t announce they are giving away free xbox coffee mugs (i.e. the halloween event) on the same day and not mention the new Xbox (i.e. HoT) at all. So I found that odd, maybe indicating a possible a delay. It isn’t rocket science really.
Well, since the release date is clearly stated on the HoT page, and every sidebar on ArenaNet/Guild Wars pages, I doubt there will be a delay. You can hardly open any Guild Wars 2 site and not see the release date for HoT. That’s a lot of ‘hype’.