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Pretty sure it’s exactly the opposite. As I understand it, Anet wanted to add Cantha and NCSOFT said no because they thought the fans wouldn’t want it. So if you want Cantha, continue letting people know you do.
It’s not that NCSoft felt that fans didn’t want it, but that Asian markets would find the Canthan style offensive (which may or may not be true). Arena.net was told they pretty much had to start over.
Rebuilding a continent from the ground up (bear in mind, it might not be JUST the buildings. Sprites could need remodeling, mobs might need to be completely redone). Think of how long it took to develop GW2 from start to release. You could be talking about a similar amount of time invested to redo Cantha.
Which is why I suspect we will see Elona or the Far North before Cantha this time around.
I just find it kind of funny that NCsoft only urged them about the potential for Cantha to be “offensive” to the Eastern market now rather than, you know, before they started working on Guild Wars: Factions. Nothing about that argument really adds up to me.
I do, however, agree on seeing other continents being implemented before Cantha since it seems to be such a hush-hush topic with ANet (though, that may be more indication that they’re actually working on Cantha since they tend to shush up when they’re making content).
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