Guild Wars 2

I don’t know how many people have gotten a chance to watch this, but it is definitely worth a listen. The real meat of the PvP design philosophy and future features occur at 21 and 31 minutes with concern about the “dwindling” player base addressed at 47.

Full stream: http://youtu.be/hByqoWsnz-I
Upcomming features: http://youtu.be/hByqoWsnz-I?t=21m20s
Upcomming patches: http://youtu.be/hByqoWsnz-I?t=30m43s
Playbase retention: http://youtu.be/hByqoWsnz-I?t=46m

Obviously all the credit for the stream goes to GW2Guru, and I can’t thank them enough for putting it on. I was about start discounting the possibility of returning to the game in the next few months, but now I find myself eagerly awaiting the progress Anet seems well on their way to accomplishing.

There is a lot more valuable stuff in the video besides the areas that I outlined (it was just what grabbed me the most), like good conversation on balance for pros vs. for newbies (matchmaking will do a great job mitigating a lot of this), the map-loading bug fix timeframe, downed state balance (ele zero-to-hero), etc.

I think this is the most information Anet has ever given out about their plans and they chose a really good venue for it (with the top teams represented). I think there should be a better effort made to unify the community and advertise/communicate that something like this is going on and how important it is for the community to be engaged in it.

Obviously most of the things mentioned in the video can’t happen fast enough for us players, but thanks again Johnathan for the great communication!

This was already posted here.

Zeke Minus.5720:

This was already posted here.

Yep, and by Xeph too. I figured it probably was, but I searched for 5 or so minutes and didn’t find it in a couple topic where it said it would be linked (like this)

Oh well, I don’ think the stream can be given too much attention =).