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 by Lipton, Level 54
Last updated at February 23, 2009, 1:03 pm
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NCsoft has pushed the launch of Guild Wars 2 back to "TBA 2010/2011".
Word comes from financial 2008 roundup papers (spotted by Voodoo Extreme), although there's no reason for the hefty delay. Yet.
Guild Wars 2 had, once upon a time, been penciled in for launch last year. So far, however, we've seen nothing of the sequel, just heard tidbits of projected features and word there will be no early-days beta - ArenaNet feels there's much more riding on Guild Wars 2.
Whether that means the game design has changed from the level limit-less original concept ideas, we don't know. But all we do know can be found on our Guild Wars 2 gamepage.
Interestingly, the same NCsoft financial report shows Guild Wars 1 has 5.8 million active account as of December 2008. The MMO is free-to-play, however - the only costs involved are buying the game/expansions.
source - eurogamer.net
The only other MMO I played as much as WoW was the original Guild Wars, which to me was the epitome of what 'could' have been a new genre of eSports. However due to release changes it wasn't to be. My 1 hope is that the next Guild Wars will have a more competitive approach. It was a fun and great experience to be a part of the first alpha test, and only time will tell if I will be able to get into the next. However whenever new GW2 news pops up, I'll be posting it here in my Guildfeeder blog...
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My hope is that small guilds are still able to easy to manage for GvG I think the optimal competitive Guild number is 12-16 members...
According to ArenaNet, they never actually set a firm release date, so the delay wasn't really a delay, but rather a speculated date that got changed...
Fast expansions with new classes, skills etc... puts a the competitive community to keep up, also I feel that complete balance testing will suffer (unless they balance all the classes before the launch of the first game)
I remember back in the days of old Asheron's Call when paying a monthly subscription equated to monthly ongoing content, with a persistent storyline and a changing, evolving environment.
A lot of new MMORPGs have attempted to change the rules by offering nothing in exchange for subscription. Chief among them would be Hellgate: London and its horse**** 'quarterly' content that would be released 2 months late or not at all, as the case proved to be. They took us for a ride.
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