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fenix · Oct 22, 2008, 12:53 AM // 00:53

True, but usually a company puts out a whole BUNCH of concept art really early on. ANet hasn't, which leads me to believe that they really haven't done much of anything on GW2. They DID delay it a year, after all...

aTT!kus · Oct 22, 2008, 01:33 AM // 01:33

i can't recall any other game where it has been announced and then no further info/art/details following within a year. O wait, yes i can, but those games are ones that were canceled.....

wind fire and ice · Oct 22, 2008, 01:36 AM // 01:36

No real news,atleast it will be a good game(maybe)..any thing you spend this much time on has to be decent.

Luminarus · Oct 22, 2008, 01:38 AM // 01:38

This is Anets biggest stuff up. They shouldnt have announced gw2 so early. They should have released eotn then mentioned gw2 coz its been 18 months since announced and nothing new has come out. Unless they are going to surprise us with beta in early 09 they are pretty much gonna have no client base left.

HawkofStorms · Oct 22, 2008, 02:33 AM // 02:33

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Originally Posted by fenix

If you look at all the stuff they've released/shown/etc for Diablo III and Starcraft 2, wtf are ANet doing? Do they even know how to make games any more?

GW2 just obviously hasn't been in development as long as Diablo III and SC2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_III
Diablo III has been in development for 3 years. Of course they are going to be on a more advanced time table then GW 2. I mean, GW 1 was only out for a few months. You seriously think A.net was working on the sequel before they even released the first game and found out it would be a huge success?

A.net made one major mistake. They said that they would release new stuff every 6 months. When they decided to stop doing that, they had to come up with an excuse to justify thier actions. Their answer was annoucing GW2. However, that annoucenemnt came WAY to early (relatively speaking compared to the time tables used by most MMOs).

Honestly, if A.net HADN'T announced GW2 and was still keeping it a secret, everybody right now would be complaining about how "ZOMG GW is DEAD, a.net doesn't care, why didn't they release Utopia, they don't care about us, they butchered/raped/spit on MY precious video game (*cough* which they created). Blah blah blah you melodramtic people.

I mean, maybe it has something to do with the fact that there are more NEW games coming out that people might be interested in. You honestly think teenagers have a long enough attention span to not be drawn into the next new thing. It has nothing to do with THIS game, and everything to do with the fact that this game exists in a COMPETITIVE market.

And finally I leave you all with this link http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanDumb

fenix · Oct 22, 2008, 02:49 AM // 02:49

Actually I remember Gaile saying that they had been working on GW2 already for at least a year before they announced it, much like they had been working on Nightfall 2-3 years before release, etc etc.

Kerwyn Nasilan · Oct 22, 2008, 03:08 AM // 03:08

Obviously GW2 was announced to help hype EotN, and they have not yet begun work on it.

Zinger314 · Oct 22, 2008, 03:14 AM // 03:14

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Originally Posted by wind fire and ice

No real news,atleast it will be a good game(maybe)..any thing you spend this much time on has to be decent.

I hope this isn't a serious post.

germanturkey · Oct 22, 2008, 03:31 AM // 03:31

^^ hopefully not.. generally, things that spend this long in development in the video game world falls flat

heck when PCGamer did that feature however long ago it was now, i was so hyped for the game. now, a year later? i've beaten the 3 campaigns (bought factions and nightfall over the summer.. haha, 32 months proph only for me) and things are getting stale because i'm in a small clan that doesn't do elite areas...

something new has to come out. like, screenshot or even concept art.

Operative 14 · Oct 22, 2008, 04:02 AM // 04:02

Actually, I think if they had released EotN (or dare I say Utopia) without simultaneously announcing GW2, I think the customer base would feel a bit more secure. Yes, after 6 months people might have been wondering what was going on. But that would have been the time to let slip that GW2 was in development and left it at that. Or just said "We're working on a big project" and let us speculate ourselves to death for another few months until they released their first piece of concept art. It certainly would have been more exciting than more than a year and a half worth of recycled information.

It seemed like they really over hyped GW2 for a while. For about 2 months it was almost as if every site you went to had a new article about GW:EN and, in conjunction, GW2. That's fine, but it seems like they made a big deal out of it and just dropped it for more than a year without any new information. If nothing else, they could have made a bigger splash about what concept art they have released, like this piece for Divinity's Reach.

Pleikki · Oct 22, 2008, 04:12 AM // 04:12

Only thing i've heard about gw2 lately is rick roll'd

germanturkey · Oct 22, 2008, 04:16 AM // 04:16

to be honest, if tarnished coast was utopia, that would have been pretty crappy..

SpiritThief · Oct 22, 2008, 04:24 AM // 04:24

Would be stupid for them to put out info. Things change over time, ideas and plans might not work out, if any or at all. They are right to keep their mouth shut.

Doesn't anyone remember Fable? He kept running his mouth about it, showing this and that and then when we finally get the game. Its NOTHING like he was saying it was gonna be.

Shayne Hawke · Oct 22, 2008, 04:35 AM // 04:35

I probably wouldn't care so much about them releasing info on what they were doing with GW2 if I saw them trying to get feedback about things that they're doing with it.

Then again, that would require them to tell us something about it.

O, sh-.

Blessed Winds · Oct 22, 2008, 04:37 AM // 04:37

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Originally Posted by SpiritThief

Would be stupid for them to put out info. Things change over time, ideas and plans might not work out, if any or at all. They are right to keep their mouth shut.

Doesn't anyone remember Fable? He kept running his mouth about it, showing this and that and then when we finally get the game. Its NOTHING like he was saying it was gonna be.

Don't forget Spore.

Avarre · Oct 22, 2008, 05:00 AM // 05:00

Oh, Avarre, your letter was too dramatic! ANet doesn't really need to communicate with the playerbase, they'll keep giving out money!

ARE YOU SO SURE?

Ah, but I'm just inciting feelings. Now, who wants to go make disintegration wizards in D3 and shoot lasers?

Lordshonsu · Oct 22, 2008, 05:01 AM // 05:01

I think they should atleast tell us wat they have so far because im getting really anxious with news about GW2. I mean some of the history of GW2 makes me want to learn more but since they havent updated their status im very sad

Snow Bunny · Oct 22, 2008, 05:09 AM // 05:09

In all great honesty....

Anet, you're a bunch of marketing failures.

By the time your half-baked, unbalanced product comes out in 2012, I won't be buying it, because I stopped caring in 2008.

Sorry, I'll be playing zerg against some funny kid from Singapore (HI AVARRE) who doesn't realize that A+click isn't the way to win games. SCII, HERE I COME

Avarre · Oct 22, 2008, 05:10 AM // 05:10

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Originally Posted by Lordshonsu

I think they should atleast tell us wat they have so far because im getting really anxious with news about GW2. I mean some of the history of GW2 makes me want to learn more but since they havent updated their status im very sad

They could, but they're more interested in extracting precious monies from their playerbase.

Lordshonsu · Oct 22, 2008, 05:16 AM // 05:16

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Originally Posted by Avarre

They could, but they're more interested in extracting precious monies from their playerbase.

ya i should have said that the books looked interesting but since the holidays are coming soon they need to start giving out more info