Guild Wars 2

I thought Silverwastes was absolutely jam-packed with content, and it seems these Maguuma zones are going to be even more-so. With multiple levels, tons of events and group content, as well as new methods of traversal, they seem to be shaping up to be the pinnacle of GW2’s open world.

But what does that mean for ‘everyman’ zones? How is Anet going to top Maguuma in future release? And, more importantly I think, what does this mean about releases of future zones? What if Maguuma only has four or five zones (or even less) because of the amount of detail and content in each one? How can we expect to ever explore all of Tyria, let alone go back to the entire continents of Cantha and Elona, if new zones are playing a 1-up game where they’re so packed it only allows Anet to make a few zones per release? Don’t get me wrong, I think quality over quantity is great, but there’s so much quantity of land that it’s hard to imagine ever getting back to unexplored territories and previous contents with only a few zones appearing in each expansion.
And I can’t imagine that every zone is going to be able to have this amount of content without suffering from ‘needing players’.

How will the Silverwaste events get done once people move on? The same goes for Maguuma areas, and future areas. What if we go to Regions like North Ascalon which are free from Dragon influence. Will we return to more peaceful, leveling-type zones, or are all future zones destined to be ‘progression-type’ content made exclusively for level 80s?

Well, in Guild Wars 1, they talked about how they wanted each campaign to do something different. I wouldn’t expect the same kind of vertical zone design to the same level anywhere else. They’d come up with something new. I’d really love to see Kaineng City use the vertical gameplay though.

Didn’t they say a few months ago or something that there’d never be Elona or Cantha in the game?

Celtic Lady.3729:

Didn’t they say a few months ago or something that there’d never be Elona or Cantha in the game?

source? O_o

Well, I peronally wouldn’t mind one giant map the size of the whole maguuma area instead of multiple zones…
I always wanted Tyria to be just one big area you could travel without loading screens

There isn’t much reason to go to Cantha or Elona right now, as five of the six dragons are focused around or nearby our current playing area, and the deep sea dragon isn’t a threat right now.

Edit: Really? Filter censored the number five?

I hope they don’t make all the maps into mazes. Sometimes a maze map is ok, but having to take circuitous routes all the time gets old quickly.

Wanderer.3248:

I hope they don’t make all the maps into mazes. Sometimes a maze map is ok, but having to take circuitous routes all the time gets old quickly.

Agreed.

Lazaar.9123:

There isn’t much reason to go to Cantha or Elona right now, as five of the six dragons are focused around or nearby our current playing area, and the deep sea dragon isn’t a threat right now.

Edit: Really? Filter censored the number five?

I believe it censored it when preceded by “as.” Since people will use numbers instead of letters to try to avoid filters.

I don’t have any vested interest in Cantha or Elona. I’ve barely seen the latter, never the former, in my sporadic GW1 forays in search of HoM points. Still it seems to me that one day we should have more of the world available, should have a more global sense of things. Maybe that’s just the modern Terran in me talking, unaccustomed to mindsets that look no further than the next village. Even so, I feel the more rich and complex the world is, the more intricate the politics and disparate the cultures, the more fun it will be to explore.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Didn’t they say a few months ago or something that there’d never be Elona or Cantha in the game?

They also said that there will be no paid expansion

Awaltir.5302:

They also said that there will be no paid expansion

They have never said that.

Darmikau.9413:

How will the Silverwaste events get done once people move on?

Well they probably won’t. Just like Orr.

But Anet is working with a new AI guy so besides just enemy stuff, maybe they’ll make better NPCs that can handle participation.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2tj2d9/dave_marks_ai_consultant_work_will_be_in_heart_of/