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viper11025 · Aug 13, 2008, 09:12 PM // 21:12

(I HAVE no clue if this topic belongs here or not but here it goes)

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6195840...stnews;title;2
Someone explain what that mean for Guild Wars.
Slower releases?
Bad servers?
Holy mess, GW2 going to be delayed?

PLZ explain!!! TY!!

Maybe I'm over-thinking things, but I'd like to know anyways.
TY for your time!

Alexandra-Sweet · Aug 13, 2008, 09:20 PM // 21:20

That article doesn't even have the words "Guild Wars 2" in them so there won't be a delay unless Arena Net screws up somewhere along the line of production.

viper11025 · Aug 13, 2008, 09:21 PM // 21:21

Okidokie....but.....these?

" Slower releases?
Bad servers? "

Sry if I'm over thinking........just been kinda bored when that kinda shocked me when I read it.
XD

N1ghtstalker · Aug 13, 2008, 09:22 PM // 21:22

it's an article about profit
this is kinda interesting tho

Quote:

"In order to maintain our ongoing development cycles and a diverse game portfolio, multiple games are in development currently across all NCsoft studios," commented NCsoft chief financial officer Jaeho Lee. "We anticipate publishing these new titles within the next two to three years, during which we believe we'll maintain NCsoft's status as a leader in the global on-line game market."

talking about their new titles within two to 3 years
so this will kinda give you a small lead on when GW2 will be released
even tho you can only guess at a year and no specific time

mr_stealth · Aug 13, 2008, 09:23 PM // 21:23

I assume the future game projects mentioned in the last paragraph are NCSoft's in-house developed games. Developement for GW2 is in the hands of Anet, NC is the publisher.

Gift3d · Aug 13, 2008, 09:24 PM // 21:24

Bad servers i think is just irrelevant to all of this.. and slower update releases could be, but i think some of the people who work on gw1 updates and the developers for gw2 might be different people. I have no idea on that though.

This could very well mean an even later release date for GW2, because with all those competitors mentioned it's got to put extra stress on the team to make a clean cut game, and to make it the absolute best they can. Or maybe it'll mean a faster release to be in time as far as release dates to be out there while the competitors release also... there is really no telling o.O

viper11025 · Aug 13, 2008, 09:26 PM // 21:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gift3d

Bad servers i think is just irrelevant to all of this.. and slower update releases could be, but i think some of the people who work on gw1 updates and the developers for gw2 might be different people. I have no idea on that though.

This could very well mean an even later release date for GW2, because with all those competitors mentioned it's got to put extra stress on the team to make a clean cut game, and to make it the absolute best they can. Or maybe it'll mean a faster release to be in time as far as release dates to be out there while the competitors release also... there is really no telling o.O

Thus I am confused..........XD
I'm thinking the same thing though, this could be BAD or nothing at all. I really wish we had some confidince from a GM or something...we need it.
XD
Thoughts, Please?
O.o

mazza558 · Aug 13, 2008, 09:42 PM // 21:42

NCSoft != Anet.

Coraline Jones · Aug 13, 2008, 09:43 PM // 21:43

People are trying to find the hidden message in the article when there isn't any. Here's the summary of the article:

* We didn't make as much profit this quarter but sales are up.
* We blame the cost of developing new games as the reason why we don't have as much profit.
* These new games are expected to be released in two or three years.

All you can vaguely interpret from that is that Guild Wars 2 won't be released until two or three years from now... Which is what everybody on here knew anyway. How are you extrapolating that Guild Wars 2 is going to be "delayed" from such a vague article?

viper11025 · Aug 13, 2008, 09:48 PM // 21:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coraline Jones

People are trying to find the hidden message in the article when there isn't any. Here's the summary of the article:

* We didn't make as much profit this quarter but sales are up.
* We blame the cost of developing new games as the reason why we don't have as much profit.
* These new games are expected to be released in two or three years.

All you can vaguely interpret from that is that Guild Wars 2 won't be released until two or three years from now... Which is what everybody on here knew anyway. How are you extrapolating that Guild Wars 2 is going to be "delayed" from such a vague article?

I got no clue......I'm not looking for the "hidden" message.
Just seeing what people think.
Yes, it's very vauge....indeed.

Corwin_Andros · Aug 13, 2008, 10:24 PM // 22:24

Anet is a wholly own subsidiary of NC Soft. Therefore they are one of the studios referred to. On the other hand, NC Soft owns or supports several studios.. Just look at the plaync website to get an idea.

They haven't made as much lately as they'd like for various reason, a large part of which that a lot of their studios are in the middle of developing new games. They are effectively spending money here and not making yet, but expect all the currently developing titles to be published and hopefully making profit in the next couple years or so. GW2 is only one title out of the lot.

Aion, for example, has been in development for ages now, and will only start actually making money by the end of this year, after who knows how much has been invested over the last several years.

Basically it all boils down to, things are ok, if not great, but we should be just peachy in a few years after all these titles get published.

DutchSmurf · Aug 13, 2008, 10:27 PM // 22:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coraline Jones

People are trying to find the hidden message in the article when there isn't any. Here's the summary of the article:

* We didn't make as much profit this quarter but sales are up.
* We blame the cost of developing new games as the reason why we don't have as much profit.
* These new games are expected to be released in two or three years.

All you can vaguely interpret from that is that Guild Wars 2 won't be released until two or three years from now... Which is what everybody on here knew anyway. How are you extrapolating that Guild Wars 2 is going to be "delayed" from such a vague article?

Basically this indeed. Nothing really spectacular in it, unless it must be that there are people worth $4.9 million still buying GW. Which is a drop from the $9 million in the first quarter, but still more then I expected.

Kanyatta · Aug 13, 2008, 10:44 PM // 22:44

How would this make GW2 be delayed? This would make it released earlier, if anything, although I doubt it will have much of an effect, if any.

TheHaxor · Aug 13, 2008, 11:01 PM // 23:01

nice descriptive thread title

i was able to tell what this thread was about easily by the thread title

Zahr Dalsk · Aug 13, 2008, 11:36 PM // 23:36

Quote:

"In order to maintain our ongoing development cycles and a diverse game portfolio, multiple games are in development currently across all NCsoft studios," commented NCsoft chief financial officer Jaeho Lee. "We anticipate publishing these new titles within the next two to three years, during which we believe we'll maintain NCsoft's status as a leader in the global on-line game market."

I wasn't aware they had such a status to begin with.

Dr Strangelove · Aug 13, 2008, 11:42 PM // 23:42

FTA: those games greatly outpaced the publisher's remaining offerings, with City of Heroes/Villains pulling in KRW 5.7 billion ($5.5 million), Guild Wars churning out KRW 5.1 billion ($4.9 million), and Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa posting a mere KRW 2 billion ($1.9 million).

It's pretty pathetic when Guild Wars, a 3.5 year-old game with no subscription fees is bringing in more than double the revenue of Tabula Rasa, a relatively new game with subscription fees.

1 up and 2 down · Aug 14, 2008, 12:46 AM // 00:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Strangelove

FTA: those games greatly outpaced the publisher's remaining offerings, with City of Heroes/Villains pulling in KRW 5.7 billion ($5.5 million), Guild Wars churning out KRW 5.1 billion ($4.9 million), and Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa posting a mere KRW 2 billion ($1.9 million).

It's pretty pathetic when Guild Wars, a 3.5 year-old game with no subscription fees is bringing in more than double the revenue of Tabula Rasa, a relatively new game with subscription fees.

Yes it is pretty pathetic.

DarkFlame · Aug 14, 2008, 03:49 AM // 03:49

Article gives some credence to the other thread in Off Topic, but I see no other relation to GW2 or anything about delays.