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Age · May 10, 2013, 10:47 PM // 22:47

I would say it is possible.It would be sort of like kickstarting a TV series from 2005 eg. ThirdWatch it all depends if the cast is willing.

Stealth Assassin · May 15, 2013, 06:25 PM // 18:25

@MaxBorken: Your attitude is terrible, if everyone in the world was like you, nothing would get done. We have had people exist on this planet, that, with the proper support, have successfully fought an entire GOVERNMENT to get something done. In the video game sense, look at Runescape. The devs reverted the game to it's 2007 state, and made separate servers for the people who wanted to play that. That happened because enough people opened their mouths and said they liked the old school Runescape better!

Thank you to those who are trying to make efforts to bring a new expansion to Guild Wars. I'm a supporter on FB/twitter

MaxBorken · May 15, 2013, 08:40 PM // 20:40

Lets wait and see then.

If this scheme actually works, I'll eat my words and apologise.

If it doesn't then I won't

Max

fadekill · May 24, 2013, 02:52 PM // 14:52

I'm not on FB or Twitter (and I won't make an account) so I can't support it that way. But I would definately in for a kickstarter campaign.

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Originally Posted by Wannagotoheaven

I wish something could come out of this as I'm one of those who played gw2 and found it lackluster compared to gw1.

Also why do people keep on comparing gw1 sales to gw2 sales? GW2 build itself on what gw1 achieved. If gw1 never existed it wouldn't have had as much succes.
Just look at diablo 3. I sold extremely well because diablo 2 was such a big hit.
So of course gw2 has sold a lot of copies, but looking at all their updates I doubt it will continue. I wish we had numbers to units sold over the past few months to see how things are really going.

2 Weeks ago there was a report of NCSoft that they are not satisfied with the GW2 sales and the money they are getting out of it and pressing for a new Addon. While it's pretty normal that a sequel sells out more int the first few month it sounded more like that the sell rates dropped way more than expected.

Zahr Dalsk · May 24, 2013, 06:56 PM // 18:56

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Originally Posted by fadekill

2 Weeks ago there was a report of NCSoft that they are not satisfied with the GW2 sales and the money they are getting out of it

Well I think we all saw that coming miles away.

WoW clones fail. It's just the way things are. Anet shoves persistent areas in their game, what a surprise, people who like persistent areas would rather just stay in WoW and the GW audience feels alienated. Same with killing off focused roles like the Monk and trying to make everyone a jack of all trades.

The cluttered art style didn't help either.

MithranArkanere · May 25, 2013, 03:56 PM // 15:56

If you created any sort of crowd-funding project, or made it F2P, people would go for it, definitely. With all its shortcoming it's still a great game.
And there's way older games that had less players before going F2P with some attention given to them for now.

But the it's highly unlikely they'll ever complete the last Beyond chapter, or Utopia, or make it F2P.

I would recommend revisiting this in some time years. When the game is 9 years old.

I think it would be really nice having Elona's beyond and GW2's Elonian expansion happening at the same time, in some sort of 10th anniversary celebration.

own age myname · Jun 03, 2013, 12:10 AM // 00:10

Anyone remember GWLP? That project was even approved by Gaile, it's a private server type of deal. If some talented developers would take up that open-source project again maybe we could be on to something. ANet is going to do anything, that's a cold hard fact that we learned 4 years ago; it's not changing. Use the freedom of open-source is the way to go.

Hanok Odbrook · Jun 24, 2013, 02:50 PM // 14:50

While admirable, I just don't see this happening. NCSoft shut down CoX regardless of the player and fan backlash. Ultimately it comes down to this - how many people are willing to start from scratch, because NCSoft and Anet are not going to suddenly pull people away from the new baby to take care of grandpa. I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but Kickstarter is not a valid sustainable business model. At best, the only hope is for something like SWGemu.

Why do WoW clones fail? Well, the reasons are many, but one of the biggies is having to start from scratch in a brand new game. Why do we want to ensure the future of Guild Wars? Because of the time we have invested playing this game. All the time is for naught if, regardless of the iteration, we have a Guild Wars game that sets us back to square one.

Unless I can import all my characters, Items, and progress into a new GW game and be assured of being able to play it whenever and for as long as I want (a la a single-player off-line version), then I have no interest in supporting or playing anything else. I can start from scratch in any new MMO (and have already). I have no interest in doing so for a game I have already invested 8+ years of my life. I would just rather move on and continue playing my new games of choice.

tw1tchdp · Jun 24, 2013, 09:52 PM // 21:52

An interesting thing to me would be for these week events to be a little more, interesting? I mean come on going thru the list of the 2 months or so of events it has been a nightmare other than AB and kinda sorta HA.. I dont see why they need to be so expansive and try and cover all aspects of the game [this weeks event set me off]

fadekill · Jun 25, 2013, 06:56 AM // 06:56

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Originally Posted by tw1tchdp

An interesting thing to me would be for these week events to be a little more, interesting? I mean come on going thru the list of the 2 months or so of events it has been a nightmare other than AB and kinda sorta HA.. I dont see why they need to be so expansive and try and cover all aspects of the game [this weeks event set me off]

I think it's just you. You don't have to be hooked up for the event every week. I especially like how the events try to cover every aspect of the game. RA shortens the waiting time (though it was not really long before) and free UW/Riss means enjoying solo farming there once again (just for the fun).