New Map Idea
There’s a rumour that an anet artist let out that they have no current or near future plans on making anything based on Cantha, saying that want to stay away from cultural regions or something.
We all think this is a bad idea as I know a lot of us were hoping to see more of Tyria as a planet, but it now seems we will only see the Tyria continent for now with new content added to it; which is a shame.
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There’s a rumour that an anet artist let out that they have no current or near future plans on making anything based on Cantha, saying that want to stay away from cultural regions or something.
We all think this is a bad idea as I know a lot of us were hoping to see more of Tyria as a planet, but it now seems we will only see the Tyria continent for now with new content added to it; which is a shame.
It’s not rumor. It was confirmed by Josh Foreman in an interview that there was a Canthan District in Divinity’s reach that included a blend of Asian architectures. But it got negative feedback from China and Korea because since those gaming markets prefer a uniform design (i.e. no mixing of their own cultures). So it was nuked and was replaced by the Great Collapse (a link to the interview can be found under the wiki entry for the Great Collapse http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Great_Collapse#Trivia).
However, all hope may not be lost….
Cantha was my favorite GW1 region to work on. And I worked on every GW release. I know a lot of the dev team loved it and would love to revisit it. I kinda agree with critickitten about the negative aspect of tight corridors. Most of that came from hitting technological limits while trying to keep the epic quality of the concept art. I think we could do some really amazing things with those themes in our new engine. Certainly nothing is ruled out. I certainly encourage anyone to express your desire for a Cantha region in GW2 in a positive and friendly way. It could be years away, but it’s worth asking for.
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Way to take out one of the most beautifully designed pieces of guild wars Arenanet but I suppose its all good, to be fair trebs wouldn’t start launching pandas