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Wow, so all you humans are heading back to your own world? Great news, I thought the gods forgot you when they left!

Yeah, Fractals give us the chance to time travel without the whole "what if I travel back in time and killed Bonfaaz Burntfur?" kind of temporal anomalies. Similarly the Scrying Pool in the Eye of the North allows us to "see" the past.

They stopped developing GW to develop GW2 despite the fact that people were still happily playing that game. They will put their development resources where they think it'll be most profitable. I never said I wanted people to stick around for my own enjoyment. That's frankly daft. As for the rest thanks, Captain Obvious.

Hopefully, however GW1 is incredibly efficient in terms of the server resources it needs. I can't imagine that GW2 with it's shared, persistent world is anywhere near as efficient. That means it will cost more to run GW2. Anyway, people are not just concerned about if the servers will be running. They're concerned about when the game stops receiving updates and the quality of those updates.

🙄 Won't somebody please think of the children!

I bought the medium armour set. It unlocked the heavy skins which were needed for the achievements.

Some find the idea of a fresh start very appealing and MMOs at launch are fantastic and exciting! But many are not thrilled because they fear the game they love, GW2, is being replaced by an entirely new, unknown quantity, GW3. ArenaNet will shift their focus and their developers to GW3 from GW2 because that's where the money will be. If the lower quality of SotO is any indication then I'd say they already have. After GW3 launches the servers for GW2 will run until it looks like the gemstore sales won't pay for the servers (and those AWS servers are expensive). With a dwindling player base due to lack of resources and player migration to GW3 it won't take long. If people are excited then good for them. However, I think that SotO is a mediocre expansion. That alone has dampened my enthusiasm for the next half expansion. This news, confirmed our not, real or not, further dampens it.

Not quite confirmed the chairman of NCSoft said in a pretty hostile investor meeting that ArenaNet were working on it but later did clarify that “the Guild Wars 3 project is in the review stage, and the start of development has not been finalized.” (translated by google translate so maybe not exactly word for word). They apparently want ArenaNet to "focus" on GW2 expansions for now. I don't think that SotO and other mini expansions is a good example of them "focusing" on GW2 so who knows what that really means.

Thank you purp, so GW3 is not even what's diverting resources from GW2 right now.

Yeah, I'm 50 and I really doubt I ever will.

I think it's the worst expansion so far. The only saving grace is that they added open world PVE legendary armor. In my opinion that was the last great "carrot" for open world players. The first two maps were OK, breaking the third map being into three releases spread it too thin. Anyway, we'll see if the next expansion is as hollow.

It would be a fantastically bad idea to try to cram half baked ideas ripped from another entirely different genre like this into an existing game with a clunky engine and limited resources. The fact that you're even comparing tencent, a massive multinational conglomerate, with ArenaNet in any way is ridiculous. I don't know where you heard the idea that they were looking to take ideas from palworld but if they are then I'm sure they will have one of their many studios try something new with those ideas rather than cram them into an old game.

Given that it would be made by the same people what would make you think that a new GW game would be better maintained or have better content than GW2?

You can't do the same lantern on more than one character as lighting the lanterns, like all achievements, is account wide and not character specific.

Yeah, the drop rates for uncommon, rare and super rare are confusing, the chest tooltip says 10% chance but the odds for uncommon or better add up to 5%.