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XoVeR · Mar 03, 2008, 03:43 AM // 03:43

Hey this might be a fun little game we can all play, to see what Arenanet will do once GW2 becomes close to being released. Now We know that is a little ways off, but we can use past history of games. Stuff companies do to get people to play the newer game to pad their bottomlines. So here we go

Stuff I would like Anet to Do
*Start To Make the titles in Guild Wars 1 easier to obtain so they can transfer over to Guild Wars 2 Via Hall of Monuments
*Lower the Price for all the GW1 games and campaigns to Draw more people into the Guild Wars World
*Add little nuances and NPCs to start pumping up GW2 such as introducing the Sylvari in Towns and do quests for them to introduce their lore a bit.

Stuff that will probably Happen
*Start to do stuff in GW1 which makes it impossible to fully Enjoy Guild Wars 1 making people Buy Guild Wars 2 (such as what Blizz did with Diablo 2, making a patch that made the game virtually impossible to play the Game without purchasing Lord of Destruction before the expansion was even released)
*In Game Support will be neglected and the game economy will go to crap

Neo Nugget · Mar 03, 2008, 03:45 AM // 03:45

Aww another one of these?

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Originally Posted by XoVeR

game economy will go to crap

If you mean items getting cheaper, then i'm fine with that.

XoVeR · Mar 03, 2008, 03:50 AM // 03:50

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Originally Posted by Neo Nugget

Aww another one of these?

If you mean items getting cheaper, then i'm fine with that.

Knaw I mean everything getting much much much more expensive

Redfeather1975 · Mar 03, 2008, 03:51 AM // 03:51

I can see them shortening grind elements in the original GW games when GW2 comes out. So that people who never played GW would want to grab that too and work on HoM stuff for their GW2 character.

Maybe they will have an event in GW1 right before GW2 comes out to promote it.

They might add some quests or elements in GW1 after GW2 comes out to advertise elements in GW2, directed at players who haven't considered trying GW2 yet.

**cosyfiep** · Mar 03, 2008, 04:39 AM // 04:39

by then the servers for gw will have shut down due to their inability to do any upkeep to them because they have been spending too much time working on gw2....and by then all of the players will have been soo pisssssed off they wont buy gw2, it will fail and anet will wonder 'wtf'???.....

another gw2 thread, will be happy when the dang thing comes out just so we can get rid of the threads!

Songbringer · Mar 03, 2008, 04:39 AM // 04:39

Make titles easier to get in HoM. None of them are hard just time consuming. /notsigned Make Hardmode HARD for a change.

Buddhaofwar · Mar 03, 2008, 04:42 AM // 04:42

they will probably do something like they did with GWEN, and have strange things roam around towns to subtly advertise, without actually telling you what its for. Or maybe they'll just flood Lions Arch early =D

Vilaptca · Mar 03, 2008, 04:43 AM // 04:43

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Originally Posted by XoVeR

*In Game Support will be neglected and the game economy will go to crap

I always knew they were secretly in control of our economy.

Felixious · Mar 03, 2008, 06:20 AM // 06:20

Yeah you know, just think about what they did when Factions was anounced, that Luxon/Kurzick thing in Kryta. I guess something like that might happen, but ince GW2 is anentirely new game using newer mechanics, i don't think they'll recreate parts of GW2 into GW1. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Nemo the Capitalist · Mar 03, 2008, 06:30 AM // 06:30

oh man grinding all that mummy was for nothing oh well

guess i can FAIL at life more fun than faliling in Gw

bungusmaximus · Mar 03, 2008, 06:35 AM // 06:35

I hope they get skill balance right before releasing GW2. THat way I could enjoy GW1 for quite a while. Imho what happens to GW1 (especially PvP) is hoing to depend on how good GW2 will be.

Yoshikuni Mahsu · Mar 03, 2008, 07:18 AM // 07:18

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Originally Posted by Vilaptca

I always knew they were secretly in control of our economy.

I sense sarcasm.

But yea, of course they're in control of the economy (nosrsly)

pretty common sense isnt it?

Pleikki · Mar 03, 2008, 07:20 AM // 07:20

WTF D2 is from Gw makers :f

but yeah game prices allready low i think everyone probably has money for em just they dont wanna buy em so we wouldnt get more players for that.

Then titles. they shouldnt be made easyer most of em allready pretty easy and we dont know does they even have any meaning in gw2 so why bother?

zwei2stein · Mar 03, 2008, 07:54 AM // 07:54

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Originally Posted by Pleikki

but yeah game prices allready low i think everyone probably has money for em just they dont wanna buy em so we wouldnt get more players for that.

Then titles. they shouldn't be made easier most of em already pretty easy and we don't know does they even have any meaning in gw2 so why bother?

Anet could make titles easy-ish to get to increase sales of GW1 at time GW2 is released: Many players who would be attracted to GW2 are unlikely to have played GW1 extensively.

Wanna-be hardcore Gw2 player probably would get Gw1 to get titles and stuff to get status thingie. And if whatever needs to be done would be doable quickly and painlessly, much more people would buy Gw1 copies along with Gw2.

Also, easy pimped out HoH would help to convert more people to GW2: a) nothing left to do in gw1, b) geez, now i will get those gw2 thingies (and be leet like Pleikki!), lets try it out!

Its good financial call which would only hurt game that people would not play much anyway.

I have no illusions about that.

cthulhu reborn · Mar 03, 2008, 08:12 AM // 08:12

Uhhmm, why would they want to make titles easier to get? The whole point of the HoM is that you can show history with the game. If they were to make it easier then any new player can go buy the old games for 5 bucks a pop, rush some titles and have the same benefits as people who spent years on this.

I THINK NOT!!!!!

Unless they really want to turn the HoM around and use it to piss their original fan base off.

Curse You · Mar 03, 2008, 08:30 AM // 08:30

I think it's best to leave this as a "we'll find out when it happens" since speculation never leads anywhere useful.

Also, did the title make anyone else think of Calculus Limits? Now I want to start writing equations.

Yoshikuni Mahsu · Mar 03, 2008, 08:33 AM // 08:33

As GW2 gets Closer, GW1 will...........

Explode.

Redfeather1975 · Mar 03, 2008, 08:55 AM // 08:55

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Originally Posted by Yoshikuni Mahsu

As GW2 gets Closer, GW1 will...........

Explode.

Wha?!
Who told you about that?
Or did you also hear the ticking sound when passing dungeon_texturea0b.png?
I know it wasn't my imagination.

Sirius-NZ · Mar 03, 2008, 11:26 AM // 11:26

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Originally Posted by XoVeR

*Start to do stuff in GW1 which makes it impossible to fully Enjoy Guild Wars 1 making people Buy Guild Wars 2

Why would they do that? The example you gave of D2x happened because they shared parts of the executable/data and Blizzard didn't care too much about keeping original balanced any more. GW2 is not going to be compatible with GW1, so there isn't an issue there. The only reason to cripple GW1 would be to intentionally annoy their customers.

baltazar knight · Mar 03, 2008, 11:27 AM // 11:27

heh all abadonned like a desert except people that don't got gw2 and still upgrading their hom