"In the Year 2525 ...

... will Guild Wars still survive?"

What will GW1 be like, say, a year into GW2 launch (in the Year 2018)? Dust and tumbleweeds ripping through towns, even in the Far Shiverpeaks. The sound of crickets long gone. The yaks escaped and roaming free throughout Tyria in wild packs, brazenly attacking any who dare cross their path.

How 'rich' will the few people left be? And what will they do with their stacks of Armbraces? When Gray Dye costs 30 Armbraces to buy at the Merchant. When even spamming in Kamadan becomes - pointless.

What will happen when there is only one person left in all the world. He/She has it all available to them. The treasures of many lands become meaningless and burdensome. Until the world shrinks as servers are decommissioned. When all that is left is but one town - Yaks Bend. Where the perpetual roasting of a pig which none can eat becomes the only sound in the world, that besides the everlasting scream of that one ... last ... person.

Who will it be? Will it be you?


Now seriously, I wonder how wealth will be accumulated and utilized as the population dwindles. There will certainly be many, many people who will simply stop logging in and their items and gold will be frozen in stasis until the final server is turned off. Just simply looking forward, I wonder what GW1 will look like 2-3 years after GW2 comes out, especially since there will be no comprehensive transfer between the two (unfortunately, and the ambiguous HoM notwithstanding). How long will GW1 survive? A long time, I hope.

What will life in GW1 be like in the years to come?

you scare me.

Won't be me, Guild Wars was my first and last MMO. I'll most likely go back to playing RTS games.

As for what life will be like, dunno, I'm not psychic.

As long as the servers are up people will be playing. Weather or not anet decides to add/change things in 2-3 years we wont know. There will be SEVERAL people who will hate GW2 but love GW1 and continue to play. I for one will always be playing as long as the servers are up. Diablo 2 servers are still up . People still play that and thats been out for nearly 10 years!

The servers will be shutoff and the odd's of anet allowing people to have their own servers is ridiculos to none. So no onewill be able to play.

I'll be there and all will be more relaxed, more friendly and the few players will be grouping together and do all the elite missions with no rage quitting people!
Items will be shared and nobody will care about the value of them and merchants will go broke!
It will be the real Utopia and everybody will be playing in harmony and happiness will be all around us!

Perhaps not, but it's nice to dream!

/Me

like all other worlds, tyria will suffer thermal death

ANet will come out with a new deal for the trilogy retail, and people will continue to buy the game. Others will continue to work towards their HoM rewards for Guild Wars 2. And of course... there will be a lot fewer players.

Everyone with money will probably be playing GW2, so the economy will go through a rollercoaster as people sell all their valuables for minis and the like.

Agreed on this one. I recently reactivated my Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot accounts. Since most of the tool crowd has gone to that MMO of which we do not speak, the populations are very small, yet very friendly.

If ANet takes down the servers people will be pissed. We will get to hear about it here on Guru. GW is a online only game, there is no offline play. So the servers are a must to be able to play GW. I think ANet will keep them up so long as someone is playing but skill updates or any kind of upgrades are out of the question. They will have 1 or 2 people left to maintain the server for GW1 and that is it.

Why would you keep up the servers (which isnt cheap) to please 1-2 people when you could close it and save yourself alot of money?

I can see GW1 servers going as long as GW2 will be alive, that is long long years. The game will never be the same again, but some players will never find a better game or even want to find one, and they will like to stay.

But no hardcore, don't expect the last remaining players to be rich, thats highly unlikely. The greatest treasures, priceless one of a kind items and stacks of valuables will just rot on inactive accounts, while the players who enjoy amassing virtual wealth will do that all over again in GW2 or somewhere else.

Every smart scientist and evangalist knows the world ends Dec 21st 2012 anyways so no need to worry about those long dates ahead. Heck you may barely get to play GW2.

new game comes,old game goes,learn to deal with it,it's just the way it is.People will end up playing and enjoying guild wars 2 and heck before u know deja vú ,guild wars 3 will come and so on,like i said best thing to do is to adjust to the situation.

Because there are going to be more then 1-2 players playing. Just because GW2 comes out does not mean everyone will upgrade. As stated before it could be a huge flop. People may like GW1 way better then GW2 and stay with it. ANet will not be dumb enough to close down GW1 servers anytime soon.

there will be people left playing it and while the GW1 community will be much smaller it will also be far friendlier and more enjoyable to play (at least for the h/h PVE meisters out there). XD

Nox's servers closed down after a while, I remember. Another company took up the task of hosting them, though admittedly regular games are user-hosted (aside from Morden's arena faggotry, but those don't count because they aren't Quest mode). There are about sixty people total who still play, maybe less, and usually only around 14 online at any given time.

Anyways, yeah, I hope that even if ArenaNet does close down GW, we're left with some way to continue accessing it. Even a small community can still be quite active.

lol, will the human race still be around in 2525 is a better question ;-) and no, gw will not be around, lol. gaming will be taken to virtual 3D games where it feels like ur actually in the game. (can u say Matrix gaming? everyone will know ur a gamer because u will be walking around with a thing on the back of ur neck.) =D

Sorry, I've been watching a lot of "Millennium" on the Chiller network lately.

I like your vision! One can hope for such a Utopia. As it was in the Beginning. And I think We'd hear Louis Armstrong singing "What a Wonderful World".

I agree with your comments, as well. One Server, over in the corner, still running that old game. The Techies wondering when they will be allowed to shut it down for good. And the rare antiquities lost to the sands of virtual time ...

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha....
Operator: Captain !!
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.