Info about future beyond April '09

Hi all!

Note: I am not QQ about GW2 launch (comes when it comes), GW1 end of life span (still got things to to) or whatever so, pleeeease dont flame me for thaat without read. Ty iA.

According to Zaishen reward calendar (tonics calendar) on http://www.guildwars.com/competitive...ishencalendar/
we only get Tonics till april '09 (15th of april or so on when the last tonic appears).
There's any info about what will happen beyond that date? I mean, we will get another calendar just copy-paste? we would get no updates of that kind? No events?

Additionally (bit OT), I heard about some new quest a few months ago, discussed here from an interview with a member of GW staff that will add some lore (there was a "discussion" about "hum...lore" or "explore" in the transcription here, cant find the right thread now). I though that they were planned to be launched on january '09 (now haha). No sign of life from those quests?

Ty for your time a/o answers :P

After April, so in May, tonic will repeat again, means Z chest will be dropping phantasmal tonic again

they are gonna repeat the previous tonics again

What a ... cr#p, isnt it?

Nowadays we got some... "surprise" as the new tonic is revealed. If repeated... bah, not the same.

Not a surprise to me if anet does that.

Lame... but I guess they, ANet, can only be so creative.

From the official site:

Sorry if I missed something here but when did ANET say that they were going to repeat the tonics when April came around again? I was lead to believe that, that was mere speculation on the forums.

Can anyone provide links to where this was said?

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Ah, thanks a lot.

I expect a dissapointed bunch of people that hope for something when they read the title of the thread lol
I wasthinking when the calander was first announced that something will be released on April. I thought it would be nice as its a sorta anniversary to when they announced it. It also will be funny as April the first is April fools.
the way ive always thought things would happen is that a charr tonic is left aswell as the final which would be a sylvari.

They should "tweak" the new tonic (make the character a different color or something) so that the "old model" tonics retain some uniqueness.

I wouldn't be surprised if they came up with another similar year-long scheme a few months after the cycle repeats.

ftw lol was stated from the frist month , way to look it up op

I believe the post 2 above has it put best. Since this months was a Asuran I figure febuary's tonic will be a dwarf marches tonic to be a charr then aprils to be a sylvarie and in april the open beta release of gw2. a 6 -8 month beta on gw 2 would give anet ample time to A. Make the game more appealing after the community is involved or b. Mess it up. But I beleive they are leading up to a release. I have always though that the last 4 tonics would be playable races in gw2 just to show the community what chars can look like in gw2 and I even speculated on another forum topic when tonics first came out that the last 4 tonics would be asuran, dwarf, charr, sylvarie and as of right now it has been/

I do not believe that GW2 will be ready for Beta before 2010.
I do not believe that GW2 will be ready for release before 2011, probably even 2012-13.

It has been in development for (most likely less than) one and a half year.
A proper MMO needs 3-5 years of development.

We can be glad if we get first screenshots or info by the end of 2009. But the beginning of Beta in 4 months is nothing but wishful thinking.

Although I agree with parts of what you said there is still some major speculation there.

NCSoft's guild wars representative already said in the NCSoft investor conference call (which you can listen to if you go to the ncsoft site) that they are aiming for a holiday 2009 release.

They also said they were aiming for late 2008 beta and early 2009 release

You're making a lot of assumptions there. When most game companies announce a game, it's generally several months, sometimes a year or more, after they've started development on the game. We have no honest idea how long GW2 has been in development or when it'll come out. Period.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if we get the "it'll be done when it's done" slogan as many Anet founders are former blizzard employees.

If so, it will be rushed/recycled/incomplete/unbalanced. Spaced Invader is right that 3-5 years is a good range of time for the development cycle of an MMO, or a game that closely follows that paradigm. I'd lean towards 4-5 myself. Two years is a little too thin.

If they want a Holiday 2009 release then closed Beta should have started sometime around yesterday. Open beta may-july then fixits until, maybe a handfull of the closed betas coming back in the few months before release for more testing and bug fixes.

Late and short betas = effed up game at release

Only, GW2 HAS been worked on for nearly 3 years apparently, hence the original schedule that ANet had 'announced'. So they've been working on it for a long time....but without actually producing anything....