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Shyft the Pyro · Apr 08, 2013, 01:45 AM // 01:45

My guess is there was no fake update for April Fools because all the holidays are being automated. What I mean is the current dev team is making the "final" versions of each holiday event so that there's no more need to alter the code. Since new holiday items won't be introduced, the various "turn this in for previous years' rewards" quests will work regardless of what year it is.

Leot · Apr 08, 2013, 05:13 AM // 05:13

Yep, they've made everything automated which implies that they don't intend to do any updates from now on.

Mintha Syl · Apr 09, 2013, 05:20 PM // 17:20

So, Massively just published this.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Returning to a simpler time in Guild Wars
I still have to read it, but wanted to point it out since at least someone is still talking about our beloved game, out there in the massive mmo industry network.

**cosyfiep** · Apr 09, 2013, 08:09 PM // 20:09

well that's something even if its possible a half truth. Remember they said they couldnt revert accounts? (they have, though its no longer working), they couldnt do cosmetic changes like hair and face? .....see a pattern here?

sooooo I would say that as long as people are playing (and bugging them about the game) we stand a pretty good chance of it still being online.

jayson · Apr 09, 2013, 09:33 PM // 21:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mintha Syl

So, Massively just published this.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Returning to a simpler time in Guild Wars
I still have to read it, but wanted to point it out since at least someone is still talking about our beloved game, out there in the massive mmo industry network.

They're not just talking about it. They're playing through it.

http://www.twitch.tv/massivelytv/c/2120950

It was actually nice to watch it. Makes me want to make yet anoter Pre toon.

Zahr Dalsk · Apr 09, 2013, 10:38 PM // 22:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by cosyfiep

well that's something even if its possible a half truth. Remember they said they couldnt revert accounts? (they have, though its no longer working), they couldnt do cosmetic changes like hair and face? .....see a pattern here?

Oh yes, I remember they were adamant about not raising the hero limit to seven, then they did. Felt good.

Although when I look at the state of the game today I've actually come to feel that heroes were ultimately bad for the game. Not because of letting people play alone, that was their redeeming quality.

I feel they were bad because players could choose their builds, because we came to a point in the meta where people had simply refined hero teams enough that players became superfluous, PvX's scale became distorted to treat only the most utterly powerful builds as good and disregard everything else, etc, because if a build wasn't the most utterly powerful, it didn't matter - three optimized heroes and a few decent henchmen could handle everything anyways, once the necro-exploiting builds like Sabway and Discordway showed up.

It was too easy to coordinate a team. Too easy to test out team builds and run them "just so". In retrospect, heroes should never have been added. Henchman AI should have been improved, perhaps henchman builds should have been improved (not copied right from the meta, but made with a bit of thought put into them), and the ability to micro their skills by hand implemented as it was with heroes, so people could still play alone, but actually letting players do the heroes' builds themselves was a problem. Really, the only problem, I think, and the main reason GW became such a cakewalk.

Anyways, my rambling aside, yes, Anet goes back on things all the time, hence I still keep up hope that some time they'll cave and unban me :P Despite that, I think they'll keep to the "we'll leave GW running" claim, because with such a low number of players it's unlikely GW's really costing them much to keep running. For all we know the game is running on the same physical servers as GW2.

Mintha Syl · Apr 10, 2013, 07:40 AM // 07:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by jayson

They're not just talking about it. They're playing through it.

http://www.twitch.tv/massivelytv/c/2120950

It was actually nice to watch it. Makes me want to make yet anoter Pre toon.

Even better then! I hope many watch it and feel a push to return/come to the game!

**cosyfiep** · Apr 10, 2013, 11:15 AM // 11:15

I read the article, (didnt watch the vid--dont do that on this computer).....its interesting the points they bring up of the inconsistencies between the 2 games--the lack of plat, the extinction of the gargoyles (and probably other species)...etc.
Hope it brings more people back to the bett---original

game!

ruk1a · Apr 10, 2013, 11:39 PM // 23:39

ANet said themselves (not GMs, not support, but devs) that they plan to keep GW servers up as long as people still play the game. So if we have a healthy, even if small community we should be fine... just don't ever expect new stuff.

The quote is floating around out there somewhere.

We all know how ANet loves to go back on their word, though. *shudder*

Age · Apr 30, 2013, 11:54 PM // 23:54

They could add heros to Prophecies and Factions camps.

fadekill · May 01, 2013, 09:58 PM // 21:58

The article is very nice. On the gargoyles: I have a feeling that they will release the matter of that someday in the feature. Maybe about 10 years from now considering the actual pace of the...uhm...so called "story".

Quote:

Originally Posted by Age

They could add heros to Prophecies and Factions camps.

Ugh, no.

Age · May 05, 2013, 12:33 AM // 00:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by fadekill

The article is very nice. On the gargoyles: I have a feeling that they will release the matter of that someday in the feature. Maybe about 10 years from now considering the actual pace of the...uhm...so called "story".

Ugh, no.

Ugh Yes.There are still some making new accounts to this day.These were two campaigns that don't have heros.

It also helps with PvP by unlocking them which you can use in the Zaishen arena.