Last Update - June 12th?

So...who here thinks something big might be in the works? Or who thinks Anet is just getting lazy as !$@# and don't feel like balancing or doing...anything.

I'm hoping it is something big to keep players interests a bit longer...

-Discuss-

We already know they're working on a major HoM overhaul. Probably that along with a skill balance with more PvE/PvP split. What we're waiting two (or more) weeks for is probably the former.

Not to mention probably working on implementing the timed Dragon Festival quests.

3 things are known to be causing a little hold-up with the updates.
1. HoM revisions.
2. PvE/PvP skill updates *takes a while to figure out all the nerfs that occurred due to PvP in order to "fix" skills in PvE*
3. Dragon Festival (hopefully they will actually add some unannounced new stuff, but thats just wishful thinking).

There could also be other things going on but we don't know. Start the speculation!

the "big one" aka the last one that they "think" about to try and last there game updates untill gw's2 comes out. some new ha maps have been found in the gw's .dat file so it might be them as well as all the HoM reworkings ect ect

I guess they'll update thursday;
- Add the Dragon Festival Preparations
- June's mAT reward points
- July's Everlasting Tonic
- HoM revision
- Skills balances, perphaps a decision on the "we're looking in to SF"-note.

LOLZ

Sorry, I mean I wish... but that is highly doubtful. ANet has never been good about getting the mAT reward points to the players quickly. It probably won't come till the 2nd or 3rd week of July. The others are a good possibility though.

Made me lol.

The next update is probably the HoM overhaul + a major skill balance.

They should tell us they are working on X and it will arrive in the near future so we have something to look forward to (X being something new).

The old wait and see bs doesnt cut it.

You mean how they told us they were updating the HoM, which many, many players have been waiting for, right?

Well the Dragon fest wont be holding things up as they'll just be rolling out last years just with a new mask (I wouldnt hold my breathe for new quests).
I am thinking the HoM update and skill balance might not happen until after the dragon fest (got to analyse the mAT to see what they are going to nerf after all). :P

That alone isnt going to sustain interest for 6-12+months. A minor tweak that should have been done from the start, it'll distract us for about a day

Or the game's dying

bah, theres been longer dry spells than this, and oddly they usually always tend to arrive round this time of year too.

Just went back to check up on this, the 1st July the game was out, only 2 updates total in that month, 1st on on July 13th (the one before that was on June 30th) and the other on the 22nd. Then if u go further in that year, look at October, the 1st update for October back then was on the 20th, with the last update in September being Sept 30. Theres another 2 week difference in December as well (Dec 1st to Dec 15). Thats just a lil 1st year history lesson for ya.

Dragon Festival will have the HoM update, after the mAT will be the skill update. So possibly both at the same time.

Calling it.

It'll be like when the Wintersday update came and added so much crap.

I wouldn't expect HoM update any sooner than a couple months from now. They need to get the 1 programmer to work exclusively on GW1 first...

They should just do a skill update now.

maybe at Anet they go outside more in the summer, which explains the historical slowdown of updates.


maybe some of this forums users could use some more time outside.......

lol how hard do you think those HoM changes are. They have a really good code base, so it's probably already done. There is new HA maps in the gw.dat file, possibly they'll update that. :O

So much dumb "WAHH the game is dying" crap. This is not the longest period of time the game has gone without an update. What exactly do you guys want... updates every other day? It's not like changing a skill is "new content" (and besides, if skill balances happened that quickly, they'd have no time to evaluate the effect of the update). They could probablly change a skill every day for a year if they wanted too (I doubt altering a couple of values for the damage or duration of a skill is THAT hard), but they choose not to in order to let us play the game without having to relearn it every time something is altered.

The fact that this program is stable enough to run without needing weekly updates to avoid crashes is a good thing.