Guild Wars 2

I’d be very happy if this is the case. We could certainly use more development in the lore (Cantha, also other races) and going back to the original dragon-threat.

Remember how we heard NCsoft made Arenanet quit on Cantha? Well I think this is ****kitten (kitten lol, rly guys? your rewrite the thing that comes out of our bottoms to kitten? xD).

Why?

Because Cantha is such a huge part of the Guild Wars universe it would be a stupid move, not only lore-wise, but as a business move too. Every idiot knows you should play your strengths and not discard them.

Cantha will be in GW2, sooner or later. And I agree, the living story is a perfect way to ease the transition and build up hype for a new (first) major expansion.

Kovac.4372:

Cantha will be in GW2, sooner or later. And I agree, the living story is a perfect way to ease the transition and build up hype for a new (first) major expansion.

It is a good way, but I hope Cantha isn’t first. Not that I didn’t enjoy factions, but I know I didn’t enjoy it as much as most of you. Personally I hope we resolve more things on Tyria first. I can’t wait for another Elder Dragon fight, maybe fighting alongside the stone dwarfs, go back to the ring of fire, etc. Once again I am excited to go to Cantha and Elona again but they’ll add even more threats (Possibly an isolationist emperor and Palowa Janko) without resolving any of the numerous ones we already have.

When I saw the concept art, Kaineng City was the first thing I thought of, too.

All of us over at the Cantha thread (linked in my signature) are certainly eager to see some kind of Cantha connection here. If you want to see more Canthan elements in the game, and you haven’t already posted there, please join us! The devs are following the thread so it’s a great way to give your shout out in favor of Cantha.

We did hear originally that negative feedback mixed architectural styles led NCSoft to veto the Canthan district (ffw to ~1:43:00) in Divinity’s Reach. (Since it was the 11th hour and there was no time to modify it to address the concerns, the devs simply had to take it out.)

The rumors that NCSoft vetoed all Canthan content forever, though, was a rumor based on an unsubstantiated YouTube comment.

Devs have more recently said that Cantha is definitely not gone from the game. Josh Foreman wrote in our thread that a Canthan expansion could be a long time in coming but we should keep asking for it if we want to see it.

So we are left to wonder if we will see more and more Cantha being organically added through Living Story, with the eventual possibility of getting back to the continent proper in a future expansion. That’s what I’m hoping for, anyway!

You guys may already know all this but if not, I wanted to share some of the latest Cantha-related news.