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Tahlia Tane · Apr 28, 2013, 03:55 PM // 15:55

It seems difficult to get the word out on this because this forum, much like the game, looks pretty dead but here goes.

There's a good chance many players haven't played the original Guild Wars for a while. Maybe a login every once in a blue moon, but none of the regular play like the good old days.

I think Guild Wars 2 didn't live up to expectations, too put it mildly, and disappointed many. *cough*

There are no good MMO's on the horizon. IMO.

Guild Wars is still good. So why not replay Guild Wars?

The trouble is that it's dead. I tried to replay it a few weeks back, but almost immediately I quit and deleted the game files after seeing how deserted pre-searing Ascalon was. Now I know post-searing (ew) and beyond is where it's at.
But I wanted to begin anew, you see. And I figured it was going to be a lonely journey so I sadly reconsidered.

Later I thought a replay would work if lots of people agreed with me. A relaunch, if you will. The best case scenario for this, is for it to be official; all players play on a new account or new servers, starting with no wealth and no account-wide (storage) items. This might also reset the economy (although I have no idea what the economy is like now).

I'd like to mention real quick: I prefer WoW more as a social MMO. I like the Guild Wars combat much more, but in pretty much every other aspect I like WoW more. The reason I have a Guild Wars relaunch in mind and not a WoW relaunch is that the early game content for WoW has been mangled by Blizzard to have you quickly level to 40 and beyond.
The early game Guild Wars content still works. However, you could do things now you couldn't do before. For example, race to level 20 with that Eye of the North brawling game to to make all missions easier for your character. But I imagine you would also want to do the character-bound Tyrian achievements and do all bonus missions, so why bother race to level 20 when doing the bonus missions will give you enough bonus exp anyways? It's not an ideal situation, but the content isn't as ruined as WoW's early game content, and so I reckon it will still work. (It's also easier to do a relaunch with Guild Wars because Guild Wars is dead and WoW isn't. I couldn't imagine a WoW relaunch working without official support from Blizzard, i.e. a new server.)

The only major flaw in this plan that I can foresee is the account-wide achievement stuff. So, it would be better to replay with a new account, and have all other players that participate in the relaunch, also play on a new account.

A new account seems cumbersome though, not to mention the original Guild Wars is still pricy at 20 bucks.

An official relaunch seems highly preferable, but it's not something in our control. So I make this thread instead and lay my proposal here.

An unofficial relaunch would mean:

Starting afresh in Guild Wars Prophecies, level 1, pre-Searing
Deleting all characters (no previous characters) or new account
No account-wide (storage) items
New guilds
No character creation until relaunch day
A relaunch date! I propose a tentative date now to prevent things from being too vague
Relaunch date: May 11
Date can be moved depending on how many people we can get on board for this initiative

I AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE FELLOW ADVENTURER

Cuilan · Apr 29, 2013, 04:39 AM // 04:39

I'm all for starting a character up with someone, but this would be herding cats. Even if it's players that don't play often, your list is extreme. Someone may also not want to start in Prophecies, as they may have started playing later or might not enjoy that area of the game as much.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tahlia Tane

An unofficial relaunch would mean:

Starting afresh in Guild Wars Prophecies, level 1, pre-Searing
Deleting all characters (no previous characters) or new account
No account-wide (storage) items
New guilds

Age · Apr 29, 2013, 07:16 AM // 07:16

When I go into presearing it is alive and not to bad.It could be the time you logged in as there are many still working on ldoa title.

P I X E L · Apr 29, 2013, 07:35 AM // 07:35

I am up for this also.

Have a fresh new account without any characters.
May 11 is ok with me and all others request is fine.

I would be very happy if this project saw the light of the day.

Cheers

Tivoko · Apr 30, 2013, 01:32 AM // 01:32

I would enjoy very much doing a restart to have people to play with, though I personally would like to make a Factions character for appearance reasons. My only problem is that I'll be moving near the end of May so it'll be a busy month for me.

Pride of ChunJae · May 01, 2013, 07:20 PM // 19:20

ye pre-searing is alive on american district.

ShilohStarbourne · May 03, 2013, 03:53 PM // 15:53

I have a second account as well and would be willing to begin again with that account, it does not have eye of the north but it has everything else.

Bristlebane · May 03, 2013, 05:17 PM // 17:17

While I do play on American districts, I live in Europe and might not be able to join in on this because of it

Any idea how to get this thing going not just catering to 3 time zones?

king cougor · May 04, 2013, 05:02 PM // 17:02

I Would most definitely be interested in this. It Could be what guild wars needs to get going again. Try putting this idea on Guild Wars Facebook and twitter?

Bristlebane · May 11, 2013, 09:18 AM // 09:18

Bump, it's May 11th.
Any more words about this?

Dundron · May 11, 2013, 10:11 PM // 22:11

Well, I read this a little late, and have made it to Frost Gate from scratch...I'm not deleting my old chars, due to nostalgia, but did start a new char...Anyone wanna join me?

IGN: Mula Padma

The Freaker · May 14, 2013, 12:53 PM // 12:53

I totally agree.

While i havent been playing gw 1 since launch, I do feel the nostalgia. I always like new beginnings and i think that gw 1 should have one too. Though i could imagine some ppl feel too attachted to their old characters. Perhaps an option to save those?

Id like to roam in ascalon again (post and pre) and slowly build up my capital, play with friends and feel the thrill of skill based gameplay (as opposed to much of gw 2's content imho)

Hope Arenanet hears this!

Bristlebane · May 14, 2013, 07:00 PM // 19:00

Still working on a simple website to help organize things.
In search for a calendar module/extension for Joomla or other CMS or forum that can let me do the following:
* Show upcoming events on main page.
* Let users create events based on custom templates (ie. choose type like vanquish/mission etc, and map). Calendar then fills in the defaults for that map (ie. max 12 signups for Deep etc along with a brief preset description).
* Let other users click signup or put on reserve.
Anyone who got a good suggestion, please PM me. If not then I'll have to create my own in JQuery Mobile.

Dundron · May 17, 2013, 07:45 PM // 19:45

I really like the prospect of 'creating events', and I'm sure others will too

We've got a nice little group already! Can't wait! Keep it updated

Kiayin · May 28, 2013, 12:41 PM // 12:41

Hello ^__^. I'm new to GW and I'd be really interested in playing with you guys, if you're still going to do this!