Will Guild Wars be around for 5+ years?

The question is this: Will Guild Wars/Arena Net still be around in 2012 & beyond or will it make a new game or just die out?

Well, according to the Mayan calendar, none of us will be around after 2012... so I am guessing it will be a moot topic then.

I'd say it's unlikely. There aren't many innovative ways which the game can improve (feel free to prove me wrong). That's when the future looks brim for an MMORPG. ArenaNet can't put out lasting content quickly enough.

Unless ArenaNet can successfully revamp PvP, I don't think Guild Wars will last past Chapter 4. If the latest enhancement turn out to be a bust, many dedicated players may end up leaving GW. (for WoW, incidentally, which promises an organized play arena.)

For PvE, how long will you really play a game when it can be beaten in a week? (in the case of Factions and Nightfall)

As Zing said Anet is showing a lack of creativity and if they don't start adding new elements to the game and stuff rather than just new chapters and profs and not giving it a little "Pizzaz" then they're going to fall out of the game race quickly

They really need to add new features and interface to the game but still mantain it's gameplay style. Factions did that with the new arenas and skills, etc. but Nightfall didn't really do anything. It added Heroes but nothing good for PvP.

Guild Wars is a competative game for player-vs-player gameplay, and that's what they need to focus on.

Nightfall introduced very strong skills into the PvP metagame which damaged, in my opinion, the PvP meta. As this is a PvP orientated game, Anet needs to be very careful what elements/skills they introduce come chapter 4. I personally believe that if Anet does a good job in modifying PvP in chapter 4 many players will return/start playing more GW.

Saying that, PvE is still rather popular (at least farming is) so that needs to be taken into account.

But lets hope!!!

When i think of GW i think of a 5 year life, however this of course can be extended or shortend by actions from Anet.

If you are making 5-year video game plans, it's over for you anyway.

wait wait, i dont mean ill waste 5 years on GW lol.
I mean i expect GW to live 5 years.

You all seem to think that PvE pales into insignificance compared to PvP...

This is a pvp minded game, but pve has a larger player base from what I have seen. Nightfall made big changes to pve but not pvp, this is because nightfall is a pve focused chapter. Factions was a PvP focused chapter. I think guild wars has a good chance of lasting for 5 years, I know I will be playing it for quite a while longer.

There's so much more to Guild Wars than 'Beating the Game'. If that's all your interested in you might as well buy Neverwinter Nights, or even something that's totally offline.

Guild Wars offers so much to do, I can't understand how people can say Anet need to add new features and interface to keep the game interesting... every chapter new stuff is added, let alone the changes that are made betwen chapters (Sorrows Furnace, Observer Mode, Material storage, skill updates, Domain of Anguish etc). Beaten the game? Fine. Beaten Domain of Anguish? Completed every quest? Got your favourite armour? Got that title you wanted? Been to all the treasure spots? Unlocked all skills? Tried all the PvP arenas (and got top Rank if you enjoyed it?)? Explored all the areas?

Yeah you done all that? With ALL your characters?

I agree. There is so much more to this game then just beating the story. There is even more then just PvP. And to say Nightfall did nothing for PvP is an insult to the hero system and the coming hero tornament.

My predeiction is that anet will make a total of 6 chapters of guild wars. After that, who knows, they may make GW2 or they may move on to a diffrent project.

But one thing is for sure, the servers will be kept running for several years after new chapters are no longer being released.

On a side note: the Mian calander ends on exactly Dec 21, 2012. The same day as the winter sulstice, the day our sun will meet the galactic equater, and the same day our planet will complete its "orbital swivell" around the sun. Its also the day after my 31st birthday....the day i turn 31 will be the last full day on earth.

Sure would be wierd if EVERYONE moved on to other things and it left me being the only person in ALL of Guild Wars after 5+ years. I guess it would be sort of lonely, but then again....yelling at heroes for being idiots can sure pass for some amusement. Yep...I can see it now. Going to LA d1 or KC and talk in local chat and get the "No one hears you message", owning Cavalon with 1 faction, never being able to reach Rank 12 because there will be no one to fight. It sure would be wierd.

Anyways, I think with any MMO-type game, GW will have its peak and sort of fade off due to new games coming out. Whether that will be in 5 years or not, I don't know. I sure hope not. There is plenty to do and GW . I think ANet is to a degree....holding back a bit. I like to think of it like at the end of the "Karate Kid" movie when Daniel is about to give Johnny a swift kick to the face via the Crane Technique. Daniel waits and waits and waits and BAM!!! I'm hoping it will be like that for Guild Wars. GW has a lot of potential and hopefully ANet realizes it as much as the GW players do and I think everyone is waiting for the best to still come. This is one reason why I think a lot of people will stay around even if it is after 5 years. On another note, the game is just plain fun and addictive. People still play D2 and that has been out for a billion years (I think it was created before fire was discovered). People will continue to play the game as long as its fun and their are new things to do. That is just my 1 plat on the subject.

I'd like for GW to be around for more than five years. Thing is, if they make a new chapter every year, that's a lotta chapters. Meaning more data stored on our computers and more for us to keep track of. I'm sure there's a limit to how many chapters we can be expected to have in one account.

I'm gonna agree with Linsys here. But also, GW has been around for two or three years already. They don't have spawn camping issues, and the game is free to play. Support is great, as well. So they've made it this far, and created a succesful game, either they'll be around for a long tiem, and just keep making a chapter every year, or what will happen is they'll make another mmorpg game that is free, hopefully. Either way, GW is not something that you need to worry about them giving up on.

GW going to die in 5 years fast :/

It easy i cant tell you how much people quitted GW and dint even hitted lv.20 lol,they said it sux and allLol try to figure that at least like 100 people from my MSN list stopped when they beated the game or else :/

That the problem whit GW,that a lot of MMO's dont have,in most MMO's you do PvE to rox at PvP,we lvl up lvl up till we get a decent level(lv.60 for most game) and then have tons of fun PvPing whit new patches and all!Now whit that 60 lvls to do,you dont get bored!Not saying that farming is better but in some MMO's that have the 60 lvls system have a nice PvE still(nice quest and all)

I'l say to something i miss from other MMO's,reputation...yea that right if you were a really good Pker people will fear you,like omg *InsertName* comming runnnn!That was cool!And GW you'r guild won GvG OR HoH,well just another guild of the millions that won a GvG/HoH big deal :/

My 2 cents

It is a possiblility though that it still would be around in 5+ years. Think of Everquest. Thats a decently old MMORPG.

everyone on this forum seems to think anet is screwing up and the game is going bad.... numbers are good with each new chapter.... this game is a huge success and each chapter is also... so get over the fact that they didnt add something targetd for your game demo or fix a problem you feel affected by in chapter 3, just have faith that chapter 4 is a new ball game... and 5 and 6 7 8 9 10.....

This same stuff happened with Magic back in the day people were all this game wont last long they cant do anything new itll just be old cards over and over with new names.... the game is still very much alive and very new things are done every set.... if you ask me this game is on a path to being around 10+ years minimum...IF

They do graphic upgrades mixed into the current per 6 month cycles...
They eventually make it cheaper to own...

I know they gotta make money but if I like a game I would like to own all the expansions.... It's gonna be 200 dollars soon to do that... And I buy CE...

New gamers to GW get alot though... You complaine about the content being to short... It's not to short they have another game near to being out.. Don;t get greedy there is SOOO much in the game right now....

Nobody really know, neither them. The thing that they must have in mind is that they have to innovate such as any company out there really.

You've been listening to too much Coast to Coast....

I expect GW to be around for a while. I hope they revamp the game completely in a GW2 or something like that where you truly have to start over with nothing. No import of existing characters, no import of money, but truly start over. I think a lot of the fun of the first GW is that everyone started with a blank slate and it was a lot tougher to progress, but you still felt like you were getting somewhere all the time. This would also level the playing field in a lot of ways.

Nightfall was fairly easy to blow through with Heros and all the resources of your account even with a new character.