Guild Wars 2

So, recently there was a Korean firm that all but garaunteed based on NCSoft financial projections that Guild Wars 2 would be coming out with an expansion in Q3 of this year (which clearly coincides with Anet’s philosophy of creating expansions rapidly due to the lack of a sub model).

So, I have a question: Is PvP currently being developed for that? If this expansion is to be released in August or September (speculation) then clearly at Anet’s production pace, they HAVE to be actively working on content for the PvP portion of it.

Why is this significant? Currently we are getting patches that are coming at a snails pace with little to no content. We know that PvP has a limited number of DEVs. We have a new map in this “GIANT PVP PATCH”, but even JSharp once stated that “creating new maps take almost no resources and can be done with just me and a map designer”. Are we getting strung along with actually fixing the game because they are working on content that will net them profit? Are we being strung along because they are actively working on expansion content for them dollar bills? Will we get an expansion that we have to pay for that will finally fix all these issues?

I think these are legitimate concerns coming from a community member that is quite letdown.

The idea I get is that the pvp team, much like the wvw team, had to delay some of their plans for March. I also think that the devs’ current goal at taking a look at every single aoe skill in the game might be slowing down their balancing pace.

Nonetheless, we know that spectator mode and custom servers are currently in the works, and should they (and the aoe fixes) pop up in March’s patch, the devs will have plenty of time to implement new stuff before any expansion comes late year (IF it comes).

DiogoSilva.7089:

The idea I get is that the pvp team, much like the wvw team, had to delay some of their plans for March. I also think that the devs’ current goal at taking a look at every single aoe skill in the game might be slowing down their balancing pace.

Nonetheless, we know that spectator mode and custom servers are currently in the works, and should they (and the aoe fixes) pop up in March’s patch, the devs will have plenty of time to implement new stuff before any expansion comes late year (IF it comes).

Again, my question then is: did we get delayed because you have all hands on deck and yet still couldn’t meet the deadline? Or, did we get delayed because the current PvP patches and updates are being done while also having some of the same team working on expansion content.

The first one is not great, but mildly acceptable, the second one would be an outrage.

that would be like saying they split their dev team up since the first day of release because the rate of content hasn’t changed

I’m not paying ANY money before proper PvP is in place. Not even a penny.

If they introduced a 50 EUR expansion tomorrow with the best PvP on Earth, I wouldn’t even consider buying it.