Curse

Tullzinski · Jan 30, 2009, 02:49 PM // 14:49

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Originally Posted by Cacheelma

At what was? If by buried you mean this:

Then you actually have a point. Otherwise, no.

Good one!

Like I said before this is where the next announcement will be from with the slyvari mini this time.

LemmonHead · Jan 30, 2009, 10:27 PM // 22:27

Ok I'm going to try to hit each one of your points all very valid points btw. (side note, i hate quote wars, i hate forum wars, I'm not a forum master, you can tell that by my join date vs my post count.)

They had less funding when GW was being developed
Well yes... I would hope so I know I have invested my share to their banking accounts.
less confidence from their publisher (NCSoft)
I'm not so sure about this one, the 3 guys that started Areanet (aka Triforge) didn't lack confidence.
less staff
Well this is a given
Not to mention they had to design the GW engine from scratch
yup
GW2 Team larger than GW1's Team
Again, at the beginning sure.. but about 2004 I would guess they have the same staff size.
NCSoft giving them more cash
Yup, but keep in mind they didn't announce GW1 until after NCsoft had them in house, I'm thinking NCSoft knew that Anet was going to be making a great game and gave them money then.
Old Engine (Heavily Modified One)
really you think so... I don't recall them saying this but they really haven't said much.. LOL. I don't see them using the same graphic engine

Keep in mind, this is going to be ANET's second game.. Factions, Nightfall, are just nothing more than expansions, just like Eye.. they're stand alone expansions, but still expansions.

GW2 is going to be the second (real) game for Areanet, they are not going to be putting out junk, god i hope not, for the second time at bat. They're going to be trying to hit a homerun, because that what everyone except from them.

If anything they have a lot more pressure on them than they did for GW1 to get it done right.

No they are taking the same amount of time the most game developers take for sequels, like diablo 3, remember it was just unveiled in 2008 but it was in development since 2005, that 3 years folks. Its hasn't even been 2 years for GW2 yet.

But then again I could totally off base, then again I'm not going to call it vaporware or anything like that until its been a few more years.

Will GW2 happen? Sure, it will. Do I have any info to support this from Anet? Nope....

DarkWasp · Jan 31, 2009, 12:19 AM // 00:19

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Originally Posted by LemmonHead

Ok I'm going to try to hit each one of your points all very valid points btw. (side note, i hate quote wars, i hate forum wars, I'm not a forum master, you can tell that by my join date vs my post count.) ...

You're very well organised though.

I think all of what you said had good logic behind it. There are a lot of positive things to look at concerning GW2.

We don't have much information, but that does not mean the game is going to suck. We might get some soon though. I know ArenaNet loves to come up with radical ideas and i'm sure some plans end up being unstable, but i'm assuming they've settled on a lot of them by now.

Klem Da Aussie · Jan 31, 2009, 01:15 AM // 01:15

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Originally Posted by the Puppeteer

wuts GW2?

what is it?

dread slayer · Jan 31, 2009, 01:23 AM // 01:23

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Originally Posted by Klem Da Aussie

what is it?

It's a money making way for Anet to keep there customers in GW1 *sarcasm*

I'm pretty sure they didn't create this hype for nothing.... Did they?
Anyways, when it is going to come out, I'll buy it. If there's a delay, no problem!
I'm concentrating on my studies anyways.