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own age myname · Jan 14, 2009, 01:24 PM // 13:24

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Originally Posted by R.Shayne

Actually GW2 could have been in development well before Nightfall was released.
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I remember a friend of mine PMing me during the NF preview weekend awhile back. He said that a game called "GW2" was going to come out in the future, I said "Do you mean another expansion?" or something along the lines of that.

So for all we know it could of been in development BEFORE Nf was released...?

BenjZee · Jan 14, 2009, 02:03 PM // 14:03

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Originally Posted by daraaksii

They have Izzy to BALANCE the game and put in so frickin' good events like this week's! Yeah!

Also they have some men who presses "Reset" if something goes really wrong at the servers.

which they have to press evert 108 minutes or the island blows up....
or something bad....

Gigashadow · Jan 15, 2009, 12:04 AM // 00:04

Increasingly people have been treating MMO betas like release, and if a game has problems or bugs in that beta, even if release is 6-12 months away, it gets a bad rep fast. Also, the sooner you show anything at all, the sooner competitors (wow, war, etc.) will be able to start the process of copying the best bits of it, whether that is a new class design, a novel set of class skills, a cool graphics technique not seen before, a type of loot design, story concept, quest, battleground design, or anything else.

They've already stated they want players to be blown away by their first impression, so I think we aren't going to see anything until it's extremely polished and basically done, and they just need stress testing.

The real question is, how close is it really from release? Their statement in the ncsoft conference call "We'd like to have something out by that time" [holiday 2009] was stated in a very evasive and carefully worded tone of voice, and doesn't actually mean they are planning on that release date, it only means they plan for the game to be out BY then. NCSoft did also say in the call that they were looking at a bunch of release dates, whatever that means.

If it were a brand new MMO, it would take 3-5 years to start from scratch (according to Mark Jacobs, WAR took 3 years, although I'll admit that game sucks), but GW2 isn't brand new. I'll bet most of the architecture and design decisions such as the geo-distributed data centers, blades, database interface code, reliability/monitoring/watchdogs, server code deployment, client update download servers, authentication servers, probably aren't being scrapped.

They get to re-use all that stuff, and have their 2-3 years to put in totally re-redesigned classes, skills, mechanics, loot system, update the graphics engine, and world persistence (which in another interview I read they said was much easier than they thought it would be).

Dante the Warlord · Jan 15, 2009, 12:26 AM // 00:26

I would rather they release all tonics at once based on demand now so low end tonics drop more frequently and high end ones drop rarely

Regina Buenaobra · Jan 15, 2009, 12:31 AM // 00:31

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Originally Posted by Gigashadow

NCSoft's guild wars representative already said in the NCSoft investor conference call (which you can listen to if you go to the ncsoft site) that they are aiming for a holiday 2009 release.

The discussion on the call did not commit to a launch date, and I would like to continue to reiterate that we've not announced a release date for GW2.

Age · Jan 15, 2009, 12:32 AM // 00:32

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Originally Posted by Miss Drops Az

To quote Regina from her journal page on wiki (a post dated 9th Jan 2009)
"We're going to be releasing some news to give you an idea of what we have in store for GW1 this year. Look for that soon. I think people will be very excited about what we're working on..."
So to use a poplar saying "the news(truth) is out there"... just got to wait a few more days

It would be nice to get on The GWWiki yeah lots of tonics.

Ravious · Jan 15, 2009, 12:39 AM // 00:39

Interesting enough, and I know that ArenaNet makes their own decisions about GW2, but NCSoft said they might not want a beta for Aion in the U.S., instead they want a few weekend preview events.

slowerpoke · Jan 15, 2009, 01:01 AM // 01:01

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Originally Posted by Regina Buenaobra

The discussion on the call did not commit to a launch date, and I would like to continue to reiterate that we've not announced a release date for GW2.

So GW2 is not going to appear in 2009?