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Guild Wars 2 Reveals Newest Living World Chapter, “The Icebrood Saga
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Guild Wars 2 Reveals Newest Living World Chapter, “The Icebrood Saga
Announced via press release, Guild Wars 2 is set to receive the newest collection of episodic content, dubbed The Icebrood Saga.
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No expansion.
No Cantha.
No elite specs.
More PvP-locked cosmetics.
At least they didn't have the nerve to announce a fucking mobile spinoff.
Not sure why they are doubling down on 10 man content...
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
I still can't believe he started the event with saying how much content they added to the game since PoF released and how great that they added 500 cooking as the last example of these content releases. Why did they think it was a good decision to hype the community for a disappointing announcement like this?
Reddit and official forum are furious rn. If you didn't have anything to announce just make a damn trailer, like you always do, for the new season and get over with. What is the purpose of this event!?
Arenanet is still producing content for it and looks like it will continue to do so for quite sometime.
However today's announcement was quite disappointing for the hype.
..Cake..
If people are really disappointed with what they said, I understand. But they did say many times, this is a living story update. Which is exactly what it was, with some extra added updates like build templates and strikes etc.
Most people are upset mainly over no announcements of new fratcals, raids, spvp updates, and WvW updates. However, its been confirmed that swiss pvp is coming as well as spvp events, continued WvW events similar to the events they had before with no down state and getting skills of other classes after you defeat them.
There is a large portion of the community that want hardcore/ more endgame. But gw2 doesn't cater that much to those groups of people. Its mainly casuals. And thats why you'll continue to see more vets being dis-grunted or angry. But then again, what else is new? This whole casual vs hardcore can be found in almost all games outside of single player games.
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Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
I imagine all of this community discontent created a little panic internally, and they rushed together a big "announcement" event, trying to appease fans. Inevitably, this backfired, because they really didn't have enough content in the pipeline to fill out such an event. It felt like the team was pushed out in front of the cameras.
It's tough to say where the game is really going. As a long time player, I think some of the new content ideas announced (strike teams for example) sound interesting. However, it does seem like the company is really just holding it together after the big layoffs earlier in the year. I've worked at game companies for over a decade and a half, and I know this kind of thing is a big hit to morale. Kudos for them for actually pushing out something in the near future at all.
To answer the above questions, there is a healthy amount of people in-game, but I personally feel it is in a very uncertain spot right now. If the new content pushes out of the regular formula, the game will probably keep going and gain some population back. If it is just more of the same living world stuff we usually get between expacs, then I think there will be a slow decline.
The last few years have felt like a waste for me. I always felt like Elona and the Maguuma Jungle were the worst parts of their world.
It's free to play. STFU. Entitled ass people.
Even my "entitlement" is wanting a reason to support them again. Not that you are capable of understanding that.